Tootired,
BS. How does not wanting to serve a black person constitute freedom of speech? Now substitute gay/lesbian for black.
Posts by DJS
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112Supreme Court ruling- refusing to photo gay wedding is discrimination
by SadElder inaccording to bloomberg news:.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-04-07/wedding-photographer-rebuffed-by-top-court-on-same-sex-ceremony.
"the u.s. supreme court turned away an appeal from a new mexico wedding photographer found to have violated a state anti-discrimination law when she refused to take pictures of a commitment ceremony for a same-sex couple.. the photographer, elaine huguenin, argued unsuccessfully that she was being unconstitutionally forced to convey a message conflicting with her religious beliefs.
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Supreme Court ruling- refusing to photo gay wedding is discrimination
by SadElder inaccording to bloomberg news:.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-04-07/wedding-photographer-rebuffed-by-top-court-on-same-sex-ceremony.
"the u.s. supreme court turned away an appeal from a new mexico wedding photographer found to have violated a state anti-discrimination law when she refused to take pictures of a commitment ceremony for a same-sex couple.. the photographer, elaine huguenin, argued unsuccessfully that she was being unconstitutionally forced to convey a message conflicting with her religious beliefs.
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DJS
Haters,
You will like yourself a lot more - and the world around you - if you can learn to give up your bigotry, prejudices, biases and hatreds. You really will. And your digestion will likely improve. And you might even make a friend. Giving up my pre-judgments from my days in the Borg is one of the single most treasured aspects of leaving it all behind.
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Supreme Court ruling- refusing to photo gay wedding is discrimination
by SadElder inaccording to bloomberg news:.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-04-07/wedding-photographer-rebuffed-by-top-court-on-same-sex-ceremony.
"the u.s. supreme court turned away an appeal from a new mexico wedding photographer found to have violated a state anti-discrimination law when she refused to take pictures of a commitment ceremony for a same-sex couple.. the photographer, elaine huguenin, argued unsuccessfully that she was being unconstitutionally forced to convey a message conflicting with her religious beliefs.
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DJS
Lambsbutt,
I hear a lot from those like you who speak of the gay rights band wagon. Is that the same as the civil rights movement and the blacks pushing their agenda in the '60s, which so many white people despised and resisted? Be proud. And arrogant. It's America. Those die-hard racists from the '60s are just that. Dying. And good riddance to them. The world is changing, and those who hate gays and discriminate against them - or are glad they are being discriminated against - are becoming fewer and fewer. Thankfully. They are 'dead men walking" and won't be around in another generation.
I've never felt a gay agenda being forced on me, isn't that amazing? And even if there is a small vocal and active group 'pushing' gay rights, that isn't any different from all of the other rights' movements, for women, blacks, immigrants, etc.
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Supreme Court ruling- refusing to photo gay wedding is discrimination
by SadElder inaccording to bloomberg news:.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-04-07/wedding-photographer-rebuffed-by-top-court-on-same-sex-ceremony.
"the u.s. supreme court turned away an appeal from a new mexico wedding photographer found to have violated a state anti-discrimination law when she refused to take pictures of a commitment ceremony for a same-sex couple.. the photographer, elaine huguenin, argued unsuccessfully that she was being unconstitutionally forced to convey a message conflicting with her religious beliefs.
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DJS
Freedom has consequences, yes. Just how do you think that applies in this instance? A gay person and a black person are both born that way. How is a gay person being gay or a black person being black supposed to have consequences? Am I missing something?
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Supreme Court ruling- refusing to photo gay wedding is discrimination
by SadElder inaccording to bloomberg news:.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-04-07/wedding-photographer-rebuffed-by-top-court-on-same-sex-ceremony.
"the u.s. supreme court turned away an appeal from a new mexico wedding photographer found to have violated a state anti-discrimination law when she refused to take pictures of a commitment ceremony for a same-sex couple.. the photographer, elaine huguenin, argued unsuccessfully that she was being unconstitutionally forced to convey a message conflicting with her religious beliefs.
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DJS
For a long time, many used religion as the basis for discriminating against blacks, and courts and judges for a while upheld such discriumination. So from what some of you are saying using religion to descriminate based on race is now un-acceptable but it is still acceptable to use relgion to discriminate based on sexual persuasion??? Or do you believe using relgion to discriminate against blacks, for example, is also still acceptable?
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Which Conspiracy Theory Should You Believe?
by metatron inhttp://www.buzzfeed.com/katieheaney/which-conspiracy-theory-should-you-believe-in.
it's a quiz to help you pick a conspiracy theory that fits you.
i ended up with "moon landing was faked" which doesn't exactly apply.. .
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DJS
From the 'Net this weekend. Zakaria is saying the same thing I'm saying. Incompetence (and maybe a coverup) isn't the same as a conspiracy.
April 5th, 2014 11:37 AM ET
Why we believe conspiracy theories
By Fareed Zakaria
For those of you tired of the coverage of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, I want you to try an experiment. When you're with a group of friends – whose eyes might roll over when you even bring up the issue – ask them what they think happened to the plane. Very quickly you will find yourselves in the midst of a lively discussion – with many, different, competing theories, each plausible, each with holes. The plane was hijacked, someone will say. But then why were there no demands? It was an accident, someone else will say. But then why were there no distress signals? This mystery of what actually happened is at the heart of the fascination with this story. And the mystery has now morphed into an ever increasing number of conspiracy theories about what actually happened that fateful day last month when the aircraft disappeared.
There are YouTube clips suggesting that aliens are involved, blog posts accusing the Iranians of hijacking the plane, and many who believe that the passengers and crew are still alive, perhaps on an island somewhere – like in the television show "Lost”. I was thinking about some of these theories the other day as I was looking at a new book by Harvard law professor and former Obama official, Cass Sunstein. It's titled, Conspiracy Theories – and Other Dangerous Ideas. The lead essay in the book explains why conspiracy theories spread – and Flight 370 is a perfect example of his logic. Sunstein treats conspiracy theories seriously, by which I mean he doesn't assume that people are crazy to believe them.
In fact, he argues that so many people in so many countries believe such theories that we need to understand why and how. A key condition that helps fuel conspiracy theories is a lack of information. When information is scarce, conspiracies abound. And we don't actually know a lot of things about what happened to that plane. Now, the trend is heightened where there is distrust of politics, politicians, and people in authority. One can see that in somewhat opaque political systems like Malaysia and China. But one can also see that in the United States, a country famously distrustful of its government.
Sunstein points out that when a triggering event produces intense feelings and emotions, people – in a state of fear or rage – find it easier to believe in far-fetched ideas. An assassination like that of John F. Kennedy, a terrorist attack like 9/11, or an airline crash all tend to produce high emotions and a search for something or someone on which to put the blame. Group-think also takes over. When the people who are affected or interested tend to gather, talk to one and other, and communicate in isolation, their convictions tend to get hardened. So, if everyone you talk to – and listen to and watch – believes that President Obama is hiding his birth certificate, you get even more sure about this secret plot over time.
But the most important, overriding reason, suggests Sunstein, is that we human beings don't like to believe that things happen for arbitrary reasons. We search for a pattern and, if we see one, no matter how implausible, we prefer that to the idea of randomness. Sunstein points out that the philosopher Karl Popper said that human beings like to believe in intention – that an event is caused by specific human intention and action. So we exaggerate the competence of people or governments or big banks because someone must have directed things. Now, sometimes there are conspiracies. But my own sense of the world is that things often happen because of mistakes, bad information and unintended consequences. Or as Hanlon's Law puts it: never attribute to malice what can be better explained by incompetence. Perhaps the biggest driver of events is something truly mysterious – chance. Things go well or badly because of luck – sometimes good luck, sometimes bad luck – much more than we would like to admit. And the combination of chance, ignorance, and incompetence often produces something that looks like a mystery and feels like a conspiracy.
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Which Conspiracy Theory Should You Believe?
by metatron inhttp://www.buzzfeed.com/katieheaney/which-conspiracy-theory-should-you-believe-in.
it's a quiz to help you pick a conspiracy theory that fits you.
i ended up with "moon landing was faked" which doesn't exactly apply.. .
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DJS
MyName,
Of course the gov. isnt always honest with us. Selling guns to Mexico was a lamebrain decision by a mid level manager who thought it an effective strategy.. The NSA was playing fast and loose with the Patriot Act as predicted. They included lots of people in their game, such as goggle, yahoo, the president (Bush and Obama and the Congressional leaderes) etc., so as a conspiracy, which is supposed to operate in secret for nefarious reasons, it doesn't exactly meet the critera. I think Snowden to this point is a hero, but what the NSA did has been deemed illegal by some courts and not illegal by others.
There is a big difference between stupid lamebrain decisions made by government officials at various levels and pre-planned criminal or illegal conspiracies such as those swirling around Sandy Hook and 9/11. If every lamebrain, stupid bad management decision made by gov. is deemed a conspiracy then the definition means nothing. The lack of response at the Libyan embassy, IMHO, in one of the worst failures of our government, at so many levels, in our country's history. It is a travesty. But it is gross mismanagement. Now the cover-up? That's different. Did you read the 3 examples I posted?
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Which Conspiracy Theory Should You Believe?
by metatron inhttp://www.buzzfeed.com/katieheaney/which-conspiracy-theory-should-you-believe-in.
it's a quiz to help you pick a conspiracy theory that fits you.
i ended up with "moon landing was faked" which doesn't exactly apply.. .
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DJS
I wasn't looking for this; it's on CNN right now. Get a grip people.
Drugs for the dying: Compassionate use
By Elizabeth Cohen, Senior Medical Correspondent updated 10:47 PM EDT, Sat April 5, 2014 (CNN) --
At first, Sandy Barker decided to behave nicely and sit silently in the audience as an official from the Food and Drug Administration extolled the virtues of a program to get experimental drugs to desperately ill patients. Then she couldn't take it anymore. Barker's hand shot up.
"I've been sitting here for the past hour trying to be quiet, but I want to tell you what happened to my son," she said. Barker looked down at a picture of Christian on her lap. She started to cry, but regained enough composure to describe how her son was diagnosed eight years ago with a rare form of leukemia when he was 13. A bone marrow transplant was supposed to help, but instead the donor's cells attacked Christian's body.
Christian's graft-versus-host disease was quickly getting worse. His life was on the line. Nothing was working. The Barkers searched for studies he could join but found none. Christian's doctors desperately wanted to try an experimental drug, but first the FDA had to give its blessing.
The Barkers and their doctors begged the agency to allow Christian to use the medicine. By the time permission was given, more than three weeks had passed, and the graft-versus-host disease had moved to stage 4, the most severe stage. Christian died two months later.
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Remember!! THE SLAVE says , " GO DEEP!! EVEN WHEN IT HURTS!! IT'S GOOD FOR US TO LET THE SLAVE GO DEEP..."
by suavojr indatadog just mentioned this on his thread about the special ass day.
so just don't forget that for this year's rc they are going deep inside........ they are going to tell us how we all are just a long and same generation and therefore we cannot determine how close the end is by observing the lifespan of humans.. but do not worry, we have the signs!!
the signs of the end.... .
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DJS
But wil they call me in the morning?
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Which Conspiracy Theory Should You Believe?
by metatron inhttp://www.buzzfeed.com/katieheaney/which-conspiracy-theory-should-you-believe-in.
it's a quiz to help you pick a conspiracy theory that fits you.
i ended up with "moon landing was faked" which doesn't exactly apply.. .
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DJS
BOTR,
It aint easy being green. Or bringing a vaccine into the market. From the FDA's website:
Following FDA's review of a license application for a new indication, the sponsor and the FDA may present their findings to FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC). This non-FDA expert committee (scientists, physicians, biostatisticians, and a consumer representative) provides advice to the Agency regarding the safety and efficacy of the vaccine for the proposed indication.
Again, it strains credibility to think all of these professionals are stupid, incompetent and on the take. From what little I know, this is a time consuming process. Makers of vaccines can expect years to pass before their vaccine is accepted for wide use. Snare?????