Mrebo

yhwx said:

Mrebo said:

Papa John’s

I’m so sorry.

(wink emoticon)

Yeah so what if I’m jealous of the pizza you had.

The nation’s highest military court has thrown out the 2012 rape conviction of a Coast Guard enlisted man because admirals and prosecutors packed the seven-member jury with five women, four of whom held jobs as advocates for victims of sexual assault.

Due process?

Papa John’s, pepperoni slices and a pineapple heart-shaped pizza.

Unfortunately they won’t let this dog on the ballot for Kansas governor.

TV’s Frink said:

Mrebo said:

The believe all women/all women are liars dichotomy is idiotic.

So is hyperbole but we still all use it.

Anyway I’m done like I said.

That sounds like hyperbole.

chyron8472 said:

Mrebo said:

Just because Trump occasionally talks about due process or brushes his teeth don’t mean we should stop doing those things.

I’m not sure I want to brush Trump’s teeth.

No amount of money.

TV’s Frink said:

Mrebo said:

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

You do realize you’re now making the same argument that Trump is currently making in defending men accused of abuse and harassment, right?

Am I?

Not really.

The White House is wrong to defend Porter but is right to not make a judgment on the matter and to emphasize the importance of due process. Validating the mob mentality is more dangerous than Trump’s statements.

Yeah tell that to all the women who are ignored…which is generally all of them. “The mob mentality” doesn’t exist unless it’s the mentality where women are liars.

How did that mob mentality work out for all the women who have accused Trump?

Increased awareness and pressure on law enforcement to do their jobs is great. The problem by-and-large has not been a belief that women are liars. It’s that powerful people have had the means to protect themselves and people with business or political interests abetted them. The believe all women/all women are liars dichotomy is idiotic.

Mob mentality is fine and dandy for political figures who are in office because we put them there.

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

You do realize you’re now making the same argument that Trump is currently making in defending men accused of abuse and harassment, right?

Am I?

Not really.

The White House is wrong to defend Porter but is right to not make a judgment on the matter and to emphasize the importance of due process. Validating the mob mentality is more dangerous than Trump’s statements.

On the Darren Wilson matter, after a full investigation, the evidence strongly supported his version of events.

The key here is to wait for more information and not jump to conclusions.

Just because Trump occasionally talks about due process or brushes his teeth don’t mean we should stop doing those things.

TV’s Frink said:

Mrebo said:

something for everyone

#pigmenneverforget

Like the pigmen I had great aspirations.

New HISHE video on TLJ, something for everyone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCB8DUGpYQQ

Jeebus said:

http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/35967817/officers-kill-man-with-no-active-warrants-at-wrong-house?utm_content=buffer43649&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

I’d quote a section of the article, but the entire thing is so insane that I can’t pick just one part.

Aside from the officers going to the wrong house tragically ending in death there’s not enough information to know if the officers acted wrongly. The family’s lawyer says he didn’t have a gun. Officers say he did. We’ll see what an investigation/lawsuit turns up.

SilverWook said:

I don’t think anyone is that desperate to win a reality show. Morgan hates Star Wars, so nuts to him anyway. 😛

I thought reality shows are based on shameless desperation.

Good response chyron. This shouldn’t become a debate about religious doctrine but I think chyron’s response is important because traditional Christian doctrine is perfectly reconcilable with coffee finding happiness. There are mistaken views about sinfulness within and without religion. As others have said, if you need human support, we’re here. Also, not sure what your moniker signifies but as a coffee addict I like it.

paja said:

Mrebo said:

Making my way through Season 2 of The Shannara Chronicles. It’s trash but I’m watching it anyway.

Is Season 1 good?

It had John Rhys-Davies but I think it was worse than Season 2. The 1st was produced by MTV, the 2nd by Spike, now they’re looking for a new outlet. There’s enough fantasy trappings to keep me going. I haven’t read much fantasy but the couple modern fantasy books I have read kept me appalled and enthralled. I read “Wizard’s First Rule” and “The Queen of the Tearling” in the last year and after I was finished didn’t have a burning desire to read more in those series. Kind of similar feeling about this show. I think if you like those sorts of books and can put up with (or like) CW-style romance/drama wrapped up in fantasy, then you might like this show.

The good thing, like LZ says, is that others have gone through the same thing. And I agree parents tend to put their love ahead of their discomfort.

suspiciouscoffee said:

We attend a church that preaches anything outside of heterosexual monogamy is “in contempt against the will of God,” and they’re both in agreement.

That’s traditional Christian belief. Many gay people come from religious families. It makes your choice to tell them more difficult, but if they are generally understanding and sympathetic people, it may not be bad as you imagine. What brand of church?

suspiciouscoffee said:

I don’t know, but it doesn’t matter. I can’t hurt them by telling them what I am: and no matter what I might tell myself, I’ll never shake the feeling that they were always right and my existence is an affront to God.

Some parents are more understanding than their kids realize. Might that be the case with your parents? At least they can take the hurt better than you.

suspiciouscoffee said:

LordZerome1080 said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

My mother began pressing me to talk to her tonight. She seems to think I’m still depressed (I am, but I can’t let her know that I’m too bad). She tried to convince me to stay home at a local university this fall, but I don’t think I can make myself stay. Then again, if I leave, I don’t think I’ll survive. My gay ass deserves to rot. I don’t see what the point in living is, I’m never truly going to be happy, I’m never going to let myself for one reason or another.

Don’t give up. Hang in there and tell your mom the truth, you won’t regret it.

Can’t. She’d want to know why I’m so distraught, and the only reason I’ve got left to say is that I’m a fag and that my only options in life are to life sad and alone or go to hell. At least, according to the fundamentalist view she and my father raised me in.

What do you believe?

LordZerome1080 said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

My mother began pressing me to talk to her tonight. She seems to think I’m still depressed (I am, but I can’t let her know that I’m too bad). She tried to convince me to stay home at a local university this fall, but I don’t think I can make myself stay. Then again, if I leave, I don’t think I’ll survive. My gay ass deserves to rot. I don’t see what the point in living is, I’m never truly going to be happy, I’m never going to let myself for one reason or another.

Don’t give up. Hang in there and tell your mom the truth, you won’t regret it.

Agree. Get all the support you can. Forgive yourself for whatever is holding you back.

Making my way through Season 2 of The Shannara Chronicles. It’s trash but I’m watching it anyway.

Senator Manchin’s office says that the Senator will pose for photographs with any of his constituents and that any signs he holds bear no relation to his policy positions.

I like to imagine what signs we could get him to pose with…

I wager this was discussed with South Korea and State Department officials with knowledge of Korean affairs and culture weighed in on the appropriate action to take and how the message would be understood. There’s a lot going on that we’re not privy to.

There’s always this divide between thinking (1) if we’re nice the bad guys will change and (2) the bad guys will change if we hold a hard line and proceed fearlessly. I think it’s great we’re trying option 2. When we think of success in combating the USSR and bringing about peace with Russia (until the 2016 election), we think of the hard lines and provocative policies taken by presidents like Kennedy and Reagan. There were major risks in what they pursued but they were successful. Hate to think where the world would be today had we been solicitous. Instead of a blockade or an arms race, we have Pence sitting in a chair. I’m all for that kind of pressure.

Not standing does not mean peace is out of the question. The only lacking peace is from the North Korean government. There is no valid excuse for what the Kim regime does. Maybe only Pence can inspire apologetics on behalf of North Korea. Not sure what that says.

If American athletes who kneel when the Anthem plays were to stand for the North Koreans, I likewise wouldn’t call that hypocrisy. These are obviously different situations. If you want to hate Pence and think he’s totally misguided in his perception of the Anthem protests, fine.

Here, Pence is refusing to stand in mock respect of a horrible country. The idea that if only we are solicitous toward the country by standing at the Olympics they will stop building nuclear weapons and brutalizing its people is absurd. The idea is to force North Korea to enter real diplomatic negotiations, something that appears impossible as the government is constituted and the measures it takes to control its population.

An empty symbol if North Korea doesn’t radically change. There’s no peace without that change. There is a chasm of difference between the anthem protest and this protest of North Korea.

The North Korean athletes represent a brutal dictatorship and the brutal dictator’s sister, who plays a significant role in the government, is there behind the Pences. Standing on ceremony holds no positive value and wouldn’t be taken as a non-event. Not standing sends a direct message that we’re not going to make believe North Korea really belongs to the civilized world. The athletes from both Koreas came out together but that doesn’t change anything. A good cop/bad cop routine has value. That routine has contributed to the Koreas showing some friendliness. I don’t see a valid comparison with athletes refusing to stand for the pledge, even if they do it for a noble reason.