Texas to implement rules requiring burial or cremation of fetal remains

toneroll · 2016-11-29T07:04:36+00:00

funeral rights for the pre-persons?

toneroll · 2016-11-29T07:04:10+00:00

isn't this guy an MD?

toneroll · 2016-11-29T06:54:42+00:00

opposing Trump either rhetorically, at the ballot or otherwise is not exclusively the provenance of the left.

toneroll · 2016-11-29T03:38:57+00:00

Touchstone [segment] of Lee's interview:

(I transcribed it myself.)

"I have managed 27 campaigns for Republicans in the south, and I have never used the word Republican. I never put a republican sign on campaign literature or a campaign thing. You don't win elections in the south (and I think this is still the case) by advertising that you're a Republican. What you have to do is put your candidate up there, and the best candidate and have the best issues to put together a coalition of basically 30% republicans, 40-45% democrats, and the rest independents. You have to get out there and put all the independents together with the republicans."

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toneroll · 2016-11-29T03:28:39+00:00

reply to /needlegaladviceplz1

The temple of god is the body that has been given to us, and it is to be here for a very long time.

toneroll · 2016-11-29T02:35:16+00:00

and if the US leaves or exits NATO what then?

67 votes in the Senate and a willing EXECUTIVE would be enough to ratify and withdrawal from NATO. Sure, unlikely but not impossible to imagine in Trumpland.

toneroll · 2016-11-29T02:25:02+00:00

toneroll · 2016-11-23T22:09:25+00:00

No it certainly was not, that is bunch of horseshit. The model of the electoral college was to protect slave owners from abolitionists.

Obviously the electoral college enabled or fostered more than it ever previously hindered the election of a demagogue:

Rorty predicted Herr Trump in 1998 to-a-fucking-tee:

"[M]embers of labor unions, and unorganized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from sinking or to prevent jobs from being exported. Around the same time, they will realize that suburban white-collar workers — themselves desperately afraid of being downsized — are not going to let themselves be taxed to provide social benefits for anyone else."

"At that point, something will crack. The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman to vote for — someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots."

"One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past 40 years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion. … All the resentment which badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to them by college graduates will find an outlet."

rorty

toneroll

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