CONGRATS !!! NOW STFU !!!

HuskyInAZ said:

First the executive branch is making laws. Now the judicial branch is making laws. Hell, let's do away with the legislative branch, the ones who should be making laws. It'd save a ton of money and they don't get much done anyway.

Of the people, by the people, for the people.....highly overrated.

Gotta love the trajectory of our once great nation.

It is interesting to see how we're in a position where the federal government is once again dictating policy across the nation for all states ...

It is also interesting that today's decision is coming at the same time as the outrage about the Confederate flag is once again ramping up ...

I suspect that if you poll most people, they would say that the Civil War (and by default, the Confederate flag being representative of) was to end slavery. Most forget that a leading reason that the Civil War took place, and the reason that the South seceded was because of the growing differences between the growing industrious Northern states and the more rural/farming Southern states and that the balance of power resided with the Northern states and most policies were benefiting the Northern states at the expense of the Southern states. Most don't realize that the Civil War started in 1861 and that the Emancipation Proclamation wasn't until 1863. There's no doubt that slavery was involved in the underlying reasoning. But the Civil War wasn't a difference of opinion that was tied to the issues surrounding slavery and only that.

Bottom line is that throughout the history of this country, there has always been a delicate balance between the Federal government trying to dictate law to ALL states ... which flies in the face of the concept of the rights of the individual States and their ability to govern in a way that best represents the needs and desires of the people within their State. That's true today as much as it was 150 years ago.

*Note: In no way are my comments supportive of the Confederate Flag. I understand why many in the South have strong feelings for the flag (and not all of those feelings are tied into the concepts of slavery and racism). I also completely understand what the flag represents for the vast majority of people. Retiring the flag is the right decision. Nobody should forget the events of the Civil War (the before, during, or after). But at this point in our society, the damage that the flag causes is far too great.

haie said:

OZONE said:

Yes, because everything is fine now.

I like to focus on the minority of religious people who are fucking retards instead of the majority of religious people who would give the shirts off their backs and food for fucking drug addicts, atheists, and homeless people just because. I'm OZONEFS from pos Libfield College living in a house boat.

You have those ratios reversed. Otherwise, good memory about Linfield.

oh god, my future eyes....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yr_PGbtRrY

haie said:

OZONE said:

haie said:

OZONE said:

Yes, because everything is fine now.

I like to focus on the minority of religious people who are fucking retards instead of the majority of religious people who would give the shirts off their backs and food for fucking drug addicts, atheists, and homeless people just because. I'm OZONEFS from pos Libfield College living in a house boat.

You have those ratios reversed. Otherwise, good memory about Linfield.

And you, Fremont, and APAG would know about that how? Because you read Christopher Hitchens books? Because Fremont and APAG still can't get over the hillbillies in Red Square?

Thanks for your honesty about Libfield. It's almost as big of a pile of shit as UO's campus.

I know about it because I grew up attending a Lutheran church and have numerous "christian" relatives and childhood friends. Never saw any of them give the shirts from their backs for anybody -- but a good number of them (the Eastern WA contingent) have extremely bigoted views -- one went so far as to not invite our mutual cousin to his wedding -- because that cousin is gay (he was the only cousin not invited). This bigot is a serious christian though -- and will tell you so, any chance he gets. He works construction, loves Rush L, played FB for WSU (until he flunked out). This is the epitome of the american conservative christian in my mind -- loves Rush L, dumb as shit, and a bigot.

Christians like this (the majority in the US I'd say) don't help others. They just want to live what they think is a "righteous" life so that they can get to heaven after they die. Very similar to ultra conservative Islamists.

As to Linfield -- one of my dorm mates (who played TE for the Wildcats on their 82 national championship year) is now an associate AD at the UW. I guess coming from a "pile of shit" college is good enough to land a associate AD job at the UW?