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They were great at putting huge scores on bad teams.

1982 Penn State Yeah I get that Texas fans hate SMU and certainly have no sympathy for the Express teams, but here’s the deal: Penn State got fucking whacked by an 8-4 Alabama 42-21 in the middle of the year. SMU then decides to opt for a tie against Arkansas because it gave them the outright conference title (Texas wins the SWC if Arkansas wins that game), and yet they were punished for that in the polls the following week as PSU jumped over them? Nah fuck all that. Not at all saying that was worse than some of the aforementioned in the thread, but they belong in the conversation.

Only if it’s being orchestrated by Jimmy. Fuck Jerry

I’m gonna demonstrate how stupid we’ve gotten as a society. Snob! Socialist! Beta Socialist! Oh goddamn there they go with them “roads” again! Commie! Go move to France, faggot Devil worshipper! Tree hugger We have that already! Theres no racism here. No nepotism. This is a meritocracy! He’s trying to steal elections! Tax-and-spend democrats! This is the one you’ll get little to no resistance on, yet this is the one Republican political candidates believe most in, and there are so many who both 1) do not agree with the idea of corporate personhood and 2) cannot wait to vote for candidates who do. Well ya have book learnin’ but no common sense.

Doesn’t everyone know that the Silk Road has very long bridges…made from silk?

He probably will file, but will subsequently withdraw just like he did with Bill Maher.

I literally know people who insist that “freedom of religion” as read in the first amendment is supposed to be interpreted to mean “freedom to choose between denominations of Christianity.” They won’t say it out loud, but whenever they say “freedom of choice,” that’s supposed to mean “freedom to choose between the choices I give you.”

Dude, they believe in bullshit and they need to constantly validate that belief so as to not shake their fragile “confidence” in it. Every fallacy that can be used to justify this behavior has been used, and every argument that has been used to justify this behavior is fallacious. The biggest ones they use are false equivalence and projection wherein they make believe that they’re the victims of persecution. They pretend “evolutionism is being forced down our throats against our will,” “prayer in school is illegal,” “conservative political thought isn’t allowed,” etc…all while simultaneously trying to force “intelligent design” into biology courses, reintroducing the nation to compulsory prayer in public schools, and passing all sorts of laws banning the teaching of so-called “critical race theory.”

In the words of Chibatta Mitch, if I had to do anything, I wouldn’a did that.

I would imagine that if they were in a group discussion of 3+, they’d be going like: ”Guys we need to be supportive of one another and we shouldn’t disparage each other with derogatory comments and nasty epithets that accomplish nothing but to divide us, which allows the homophobes to have an easier time in marginalizing us.” ”Even guys like Christian Walker?” ”No, he’s a total fag.”

My bad, you’re correct. So to answer your amended question, I’m sure there may be this or that Jewish person who believes that life begins before breath, but that’s not what their religious text tells them and I would assume that by and large, that’s not what they believe.

Yes. I could cite this again (way upthread), but Jewish law holds that for the first 40 days of gestation, what’s growing inside the woman is mere fluid (most commonly referred to as water). After that and until it has breathed the breath of life (day 41-birth), it’s considered to be a part of a woman’s body (most commonly referred to as a “thigh”). And speaking of the thigh, that’s exactly why that passage about the Test of the Unfaithful Wife in Numbers 5 is sometimes mistranslated to say that if the wife has been unfaithful, got pregnant, and drinks the potion “her thigh will rot and fall away.”

And why would anyone think Donald Trump, of all people, was the person to be trusted to end all of it?

As to this NC shit: Except it isn’t. In fact there’s not a single OB/GYN that would argue this. Historically speaking, religious fanatics and republicans haven’t been very good at the whole science thing and really should stop using definitive phrases like “indisputable scientific fact,” especially when the less disputable a scientific fact becomes (i.e. Darwinian evolution, anthropogenic climate change, etc), the more they resist accepting them. Yeah? And what’s gonna happen to that “baby” when it’s only in its 12th week of gestation and its mother just got blown away by an AR-15? See even blue states have laws that say when you murder a pregnant woman (or injure her to the point where she has a miscarriage) when she has the intention of carrying the child to term, that’s double murder (or manslaughter if the mother survives the attack). So if this “defense killing” kills two people, do you charge him with one count of homicide or two? And if they charge just for the mother and he’s able to argue defense of others…what’s the legal status of the fetus at that exact point? I mean it’s either a person or it’s not. I have my own take on that issue, but you can’t go back and forth like that without looking like total idiots and/or hypocrites, not that they’re likely to care at this point. And if it is the case that the murderer would only be charged with the killing of the mother and can argue defense of others (i.e the unborn fetus he killed while defending it), congratulations NC, you just took a softer position on murdering pregnant women than blue states have!!!

He never misses an opportunity to look like an absolute dick.

It’s typical Dershowitz. Nullify the investigator/judge/jury/prosecution/whatever with an illusion of bias on their own part. I would encourage anyone curious about the first sentence I just typed to watch, or re-watch, his “debate” (more like his execution) against Chomsky back in 2005. At one point, he attempted to undermine the ICJ’s 2004 advisory opinion on the West Bank wall by whining about the fact that “Israelis aren’t allowed to serve on the ICJ!!!” Putting aside the fact that bias of a judicial institution does in fact zero to preclude the findings (unanimous, I must add) of its judges who do not make such rules…yeah Israelis are not allowed to serve because they’ve categorically refused to accept jurisdiction. That’s like bitching that the POTUS never nominates a “sovereign citizen” to serve on the SCOTUS. It’s just another example of pure confusion on his part, which is a greater symptom of what he is: a pathological liar. And with this Epstein business, I have no doubt the same dynamic Finkelstein described is at work. I have no doubt that Dershowitz 1) believes he never raped a 14-year old that was provided to him by Jeff Epstein and 2) knows full well that he did. And the same is true of Trump. His main argument at Impeachment: The Sequel was “you can’t impeach a president after his term is up,” when there’s literally no provision in the constitution that prevents that from happening. He knows full well that the Senate faces no penalty for trying such an impeachment, and yet he believed it all the same. If Al said “the sky is blue,” I wouldn’t trust him even if his tongue were notarized. He’s one of those characters that would rather climb up a tree and tell a lie than stand on the ground and tell the truth.

It’s not like this guy didn’t have a point…

Abandon. Do not engage. The only way those people stand a snowball’s chance in hell in coming back to reality is isolation from friends and family members. They’re like drug addicts.

No way because it’s not really an abortion if an 11-year old terminates a pregnancy via voluntary inducement of a miscarriage.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!!

Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration’s legacy in as few words as possible.

Yeah it was never about states rights. That was always known to be a pretext to accomplish phase 1: repeal Roe, and it was always understood by every smart person who follows this that there was a phase 2: criminalize nationally. They’re the most dishonest people on the face of the planet.

That gives “people” a bad name. We need to stop playing with kid gloves and start referring to “people” who think like this as what they are: morally inferior cretins