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washparkhorn

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  1. “The current Court is textualist only when being so suits it. When that method would frustrate broader goals, special canons like the ‘major questions doctrine’ magically appear as get out-of-text-free cards.” - Kagan dissent
  2. There is no doubt Congress is a gang of slackers and unwilling to rock the boat while they gorge on payoffs from wealthy patrons intent on purchasing Congress Critters, but . . . these decisions by the Court only enhance the power of the Opulent Minority. Vote or perish.
  3. Ugly equities as the Fed signals willingness to allow the economy to fall into recession in order to fight inflation. Pain on the rise.
  4. TFG Physically tried to grab the wheel.
  5. I will never not blame marketers: Profit from post-structural analysis distorts truth, if such a thing exists.
  6. Horrible. Nightmarish. Utter depravity.
  7. I like the subject matter of the backstory. Dark. Well written. I’m in.
  8. “Non-hearsay” under 801(a)(statement to prove effect on listener and legally operative fact/verbal act), imho.
  9. Ginny Stroud: “One more thing before you celebrate America on July 4th, the modern anti-abortion movement was started by a racist marketer who wanted to create a movement that would assure an all-white Bob Jones University in perpetuity. He knew he couldn’t rally fundamentalists on overt racism, so he created a “moral majority” scam that self-righteous fundies lapped up. Prior to the marketing ploy, conservative Protestant churches believed abortion was a personal decision between a believer and God - protected from government interference.” “When the Roe decision was handed down, W. A. Criswell, the Southern Baptist Convention’s former president and pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas—also one of the most famous fundamentalists of the 20th century—was pleased: “I have always felt that it was only after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person,” he said, “and it has always, therefore, seemed to me that what is best for the mother and for the future should be allowed.” The more you know . . . https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/
  10. I wouldn’t go that far. Deplorable for sure, but fonferer pashudrik should be saved for those responsible for producing the deplorable
  11. News alert: Southern Baptists were pro-abortion until Paul Weyrich created the Moral Majority narrative for the Christian Right. https://billmoyers.com/2014/07/17/when-southern-baptists-were-pro-choice/ “Conventional wisdom holds that the rise of the religious right as a political force to be reckoned with during the 1970s and 1980s was driven by conservative Christians’ intense opposition to the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade. But Dartmouth College’s Randall Balmer writes that “the abortion myth quickly collapses under historical scrutiny.” He notes that “it wasn’t until 1979 — a full six years after Roe — that evangelical leaders, at the behest of conservative activist Paul Weyrich, seized on abortion not for moral reasons, but …. because the anti-abortion crusade was more palatable than the religious right’s real motive: protecting segregated schools.”
  12. Thomas: “please don’t throw me in that briar patch. But if you insist, well, . . . bye.”
  13. The roadmap for future action by our religious clerics:
  14. Moderates are a greater impediment to justice than Kluxers and their ilk. ~MLK in a letter from the Birmingham jail
  15. The economics of the decision are disastrous. With the Republican gutting of the safety net that existed in 1971 - there are going to be a lot of hungry mouths to feed - if they get fed at all. Unwanted children create unfunded negative externalities.
  16. The owners of the system disagree.
  17. PMI (US and Europe) flashing demand destruction well underway.
  18. If you guys don’t stop buying shit, the Fed will deliver maximum pain until you do.
  19. WSJ fanning the housing bust flames. https://apple.news/AyCy-e0i7Th-3LyUqpVBeSQ
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