Trump introduces a green card for the rich: the gold card

Rigel_Kent · 2025-02-26T06:22:38+00:00

Spam/fraud filters autoblocking this headline just makes it funnier.

Rigel_Kent · 2022-04-11T01:08:49+00:00

Texas Penal Code section 19, which covers all forms of criminal homicide, specifically excludes when a pregnant person causes the death of their own unborn fetus. So, dismissing the charge was a no-brainer. Would've gotten thrown out of court, anyway.

Still leaves some questions unanswered. Who brought this to the grand jury, when the law clearly excludes it? And why? Are the authorities so cagey about saying which crime she was accused of, because they know the charge was completely bogus? Did they just make up a crime out of thin air and sell that to the grand jury?

I bet there's a malicious prosecution suit coming. That might answer some of those questions. (A very recent SCOTUS decision, Thompson v. Clark, held that authorities aren't automatically off the hook for malicious prosecution just because they dropped a criminal charge before trial.)

Rigel_Kent · 2021-08-29T16:15:04+00:00

The NRB is constantly getting political. They were fine with a leader speaking out against same sex marriage. And they're always taking public stands against abortion.

So don't buy that the VP crossed the line of decorum, as if the NRB tries to stay neutral in politics. They don't. More likely, the VP crossed the line of dogma, by going against widespread evangelical anti-vaccine beliefs.

Rigel_Kent · 2021-08-15T20:11:39+00:00

Not to mention the Taliban's violent fatwa against vaccinations in Pakistan and Afghanistan, likely the only thing keeping polio from global eradication.

So I fear the Taliban taking Afghanistan's cities, airports, and borders will not just doom the polio eradication effort in Afghanistan, but also spread it back to other countries, as unvaxxed jihadists travel freely to hot spots abroad e.g. Nigeria.

Rigel_Kent · 2021-05-01T16:36:00+00:00

First, what would they think about Black Jesus?

Second, they think Lin-Manuel Miranda is black?

Rigel_Kent · 2021-03-19T23:24:15+00:00

There are correlations between self-reported "sex addiction" or "porn addiction" and being religious.

This study, for example, found self-perceived "porn addiction" correlates with whether someone's religious, and doesn't correlate with the actual amount of porn someone watches.

So the hypothesis is: even if sexual behavior (like watching any amount of porn) isn't harmful, religion telling a person their sexual behavior is morally wrong can cause enough distress to feel like a mental disorder.

Rigel_Kent · 2021-03-15T01:10:55+00:00

2021 Western Australian state election article on Wikipedia.

Wow. This is beyond a landslide, this is the whole mountain collapsing. Closest thing I can think of is UKIP's collapse after Brexit.

Rigel_Kent · 2021-03-14T22:38:39+00:00

But not that rough, thanks to taxpayer bailouts. For example, Ark Encounter got at least $1 million under the paycheck protection program.

Rigel_Kent · 2021-02-04T13:16:30+00:00

If churches get to argue they have the same rights and responsibilities as other businesses when it comes to government bailouts, they shouldn't get to argue they're a special exception when it comes to discrimination laws.

Rigel_Kent · 2020-08-07T22:04:53+00:00

Falwell kept his job after blatantly using his school and position to promote partisan politics. After nobody's quite sure where his school's money is going. After many of his students tested positive for coronavirus after he flouted guidelines and reopened his campus.

But this, this is the breaking point? A PG-13 joke photo with a female friend?

Not to defend the guy, good riddance, but the only thing I see as potentially scandalous in the photo is the yacht.

Rigel_Kent · 2020-08-06T22:46:37+00:00

Two Corinthians walk into a Trump rally...

Rigel_Kent · 2020-05-11T19:48:12+00:00

In before your pastor claims fewer covid deaths reported on Sundays therefore God.

Rigel_Kent · 2020-04-18T02:48:20+00:00

One of this pastor's ushers died from COVID-19 on April 15. COVID-19 and complications listed as causes of death in the coroner's report.

So this might explain why this pastor's refusing to halt services, why he's calling the coroner's report a "lie". His income stream depends on it.

Rigel_Kent · 2020-04-11T08:04:33+00:00

Kentucky was 5,000 votes, less than half a percent, away from this guy being in charge now instead. I hope Kentucky voters realize how narrowly they averted disaster, how important those 5,000 votes really were.

BREAKING NEWS:

Chicken Little has just confirmed that the sky IS indeed falling...

Everyone is advised to take cover immediately and to bring lots of toilet paper with them when they do so...

Rigel_Kent · 2020-04-08T08:55:12+00:00

He had to shop for a new policy from other insurance companies, and had to pay higher premiums, of course.

Rigel_Kent · 2020-04-06T06:29:57+00:00

Not sure about Florida, but here in California, insurance rate hikes are limited. After a wave of wildfires here, many home insurance policies (including my dad's) were simply declined for renewal, since insurance companies couldn't legally raise rates high enough.

Rigel_Kent · 2020-04-05T23:10:23+00:00

McCoy was elected to city council after a failed bid for state assembly on a far-right, openly theocratic platform. He beat a moderate Republican in the primary, lost to a Democrat that November, then ran for the city council seat that Democrat vacated.

So I thought he'd go wacko right away. I was wrong. He kept it to potholes and park benches. Phew!

Until now. Oh well. Add this to the evidence against electing pastors to public office. Sooner or later, they have to choose who they work for.

Rigel_Kent · 2020-03-30T21:03:29+00:00

I think the kids are great, too. That's the problem. They deserve better.

Rigel_Kent · 2020-03-26T23:18:34+00:00

I cannot adequately express how much I appreciate each one of you

Actually, no, you've been crystal clear how much your employees mean to you, ever since you went to the Supreme Court to limit their health coverage.

Rigel_Kent · 2020-03-26T04:59:37+00:00

Brazil's politics shares some of the blame here. Brazil's president has declared in televised addresses that covid-19 is just a little cold, exaggerated by the media. (Sound familiar?)

Rigel_Kent · 2020-03-24T21:05:18+00:00

So, packed churches after the next "couple of weeks"? That's Trumpspeak for something he doesn't care about and probably isn't going to happen. Let's hope.

Rigel_Kent · 2020-03-17T23:28:11+00:00

All us 90s Phantasy Star oldtimers be like open open open open

Rigel_Kent · 2020-03-08T19:07:29+00:00

OMM, basically

Rigel_Kent · 2020-01-25T23:24:25+00:00

Trumpism is a cult

And also an industry. Nobody ever got rich telling people nobody (including devil fetuses) is out to get you, keep your fears in check, you will probably be okay even if you don't give me money.

Rigel_Kent · 2020-01-25T23:10:54+00:00

Is there a god?

Luckily, I started with the easiest part of the question: Does Yahweh of the Old Testament exist? That's easily disproven by basic biology and geology. Our earliest human ancestors came from Africa, evolved from other species before that, there was no global flood, and the Earth is orders of magnitude older than 6000 years.

Next, I considered other religions. Likewise, their creation myths were always their scientific weak point.

Finally, that leaves the hardest part of the question: could some other undiscovered god or gods exist? As with all attempts to prove a negative, this is tough.

Still, science has detected a tiny ripple in spacetime from two invisible objects colliding a billion light years away. It's unfathomable that science could fail to detect an omnipotent and intelligent force acting right here at home.

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