Saturday, July 05, 2014
OK so maybe now we can all hate the SCOTUS
For decades now conservatives have hated the Supreme Court because of the Roe vs. Wade decision among other things. There are other things of course but that was/is primary. NOW liberals including feminists and the New York Times hate the SCOTUS because of its recent Hobby Lobby decision even though for the longest time liberals have counseled accepting Roe as the Law of the Land mainly because the SCOTUS said so. Here's a thought though, maybe the Supreme Court shouldn't be the most powerful branch of government in the Land. If it takes the various cycles of the political pendulum to see that so be it.
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You pretty much nailed it. Tis what SCOTUS does; the Dredd Scott decision of
ReplyDelete1857 "The United States Supreme Court decided 7–2 against Scott, finding that neither he nor any other person of African ancestry could claim citizenship in the United States," pretty much lit the fuse for the Civil War.
That's my whole point, we treat the SCOTUS like God. Conservatives have been nailed by it and now libs are being nailed by it.
ReplyDeleteI have to say Hobby Lobby is an arts & crafts chain not a dildo maker. We expect too much. If they're really preventing YOU from using bc gosh they're more powerful than we think.
ReplyDeleteAs I understand it, that is their intent. So JWs are enabled to feel good about their beliefs when their corporations won't cover transfusions. There
Deleteare a lot of 'religions' out there, and we can only hope one of them is against
providing colonoscopy coverage, ya know?
Of course I won't reprise my whole Theory of Sex here, goes over people's heads. Suffice to say a blood transfusion may be necessary, your affair may not be. Liberalism fosters social irresponsibility and yes Saty they don't like Christians very much.
DeleteIf I were real religious and real macho, I would like a God that prohibits birth control
ReplyDeleteand promotes Viagra. But, I ain't & I ain't.
Nor can I get a handle on the biblical admonition that we were made to procreate, yet that is banned by the same hierarchy that promotes it, forbidding marriage to its professionals. Is there a disconnect, or am I missing some theological legerdemain here?
DeleteGod needs his armies BB.
DeleteOnward Christian Soldiers?
DeleteBTW this all goes back to peyote and Antonin Scalia. I had thought Hobby Lobby's main agenda was turning a profit. When I go on a job interview it's a potential agreement on future services rendered and not the cost of rubbers. Libs have a different mentality, call it sex entitlement.
ReplyDeleteIMO, where the wicket gets sticky is that there are over 1600 Christian religions +
ReplyDeletebeacoups other religions worshipping (perhaps) the same God. Each has a bit different of theological morality, enough so that many think that the other religions
are false, mistaken or out to lunch. In that even, each of these may have certain
beliefs they wish the government to impose on its citizens...sort of like here in Idaho
where a couple of gun nut college students got the NRA to sponsor and pass a law
requiring college campuses and classrooms to allow concealed carry. Sure, we have to protect the rights of minorities, but at what price? (Some professors are leaving the state, others will go to jail for forbidding carrying heat in particle physics,
and the university has cancelled a number of majors...to buy extra security. Its like
some county park having to install handicapped access to the base of Chagrin Falls,
ya know?
On the other hand legal abortion greatly facilitates social irresponsibilty. Choicers make it sound like Romeo & Juliet can't afford a kid whereas just as often it's covering up affairs and one-night stands just to round out the picture. Ditto for mandating bc coverage.
ReplyDeleteSome one once said you can't legislate morality. But, I suppose you could
Deleteif you defined each immoral act. Then the problems start: some think it is
immoral to fight wars, some think it is immoral not to..and the litany starts.
Yes to all that but my larger point is that many liberals don't acknowledge abortion is problematic, mandated bc coverage is problematic. It makes adultery easier for example. It's not so much about codifying morality in law but that liberals never discuss these other matters so they gain an amoral reputation.
DeleteMy visceral view - liberalism is a canker ruining this country and ultimately needs to be defeated. At least Christians can offer a countervailing influence to the Culture.
ReplyDeleteThe Pope seems a bit liberal, IMO.
DeleteHe's still not fond of childless couples. I think his problem is he opines too much instead of simply running the Church. Opiners can be annoying after awhile.
DeleteFrancis eschews the bullet proof pope-mobile and seems to take a lot of the mystery
ReplyDeleteand secret Vatican protocols away. No 'DaVinci Code' when he is around. Meanwhile in the heath coverage wars, have you noted that the Insurance companies themselves are leery of bankrolling some things...like lyme disease ?
I recently had a Lyme Disease test done for what I considered valid reasons. Insurance didn't cover it and I had to cut a check for $298 the cost of the test. If there is any reason on God's green earth for insurance not to cover something they won't.
DeleteAgain though I think the difference between the parties is if the Republicans talk too much about morality the Dems don't talk enough about morality. Both might be a turnoff to some voters.
ReplyDelete2nd amendment gets a lot of votes, although a majority are not comfortable
Deletewith armed and primed menfolk shopping through Target & Bed, Bath & Beyond. Wouldn't be too surprised if most voters are single issue folks:
taxes, ACA, abortion, public schools, immigrants, etc. on the right: college
tuition/loans, environment, wage stagnation, Kocks, etc on the left. Morality?
Next year is my 50th wedding anniversary...now don't be callin' me no Huckabee.
Lately I've been reading alot about people abusing the right to carry pepper spray. Enough idiots abuse something there will eventually be a law, a license needed to carry mace around. Leave it to the assholes.
ReplyDeleteGuess you will have to join NPSA. Seems safer than lugging your glock
Deletearound.
Legalized pot stores and guys wandering around packing heat, and you think we are
ReplyDeleteoppressed? News around here involves rivers this week: a train derailment along
Clarks Fork spilled 6 Boeing 737 fuselages into the bottom of the canyon (they make the things in Wichita and haul them to Boeing in Seattle), up along the Snake River
in the bottom of Hells Canyon, a rafting group stopped and went up and down along
the banks to fish. They got back and a woman who stayed behind had disappeared
leaving only her dog and sandals. Search is going badly-cellphones don't work there. Up in the Bitteroots some family went off the highway into the flood running
Lochsa. Ended up in a rapids, the guy got sucked out, the wife and kid are still in the car, underwater search teams cannot operate in the flooded rapids and they
may get to the bodies in a couple weeks. Ma Nature still plays it her way.
60% of women use birth control for other than contraceptive reasons. I was one of those women. It was not covered under my insurance. There are dozens of different kinds of birth control formulations and the one I was prescribed (which was non-interchangeable with other, cheaper formulations) was so expensive that I was unable to afford it. Therefore I had no option but to go without needed medical intervention for a medical condition.
ReplyDeleteHobby Lobby covers vasectomies and Viagra, yet they and other companies refuse to cover birth control. Women like myself who could not/cannot afford the medication they need to treat conditions like endometriosis (which can be disabling as well as lead to infertility) and PCOS (which has systemic metabolic effects and can also lead to infertility) are SOL. And people somehow are okay with this. SIX out of TEN women are not using birth control for contraception. It's somehow still okay to deny those women the medical care they need.
If Hobby Lobby refused the cover the Big 3 (vasectomies, Viagra and bc) I've no issue with that. It'd be more consistent and would keep costs down.
ReplyDeleteI'm fascinated by this though. At what point during the evolution of our thinking has the idea emerged that it is morally obligatory, morally incumbent for an employer to provide you health insurance? It's nice don't get me wrong, I'd rather work for such an employer than not but why is it an Ethical Obligation? Secondly how did it evolve in our thinking that it is ALSO morally incumbent for said employer to pay for the birth control needs of women??? Yeah it's nice don't get me wrong but some sort of societal obligation? Take me through this:)
ReplyDeleteFrom Wiki
ReplyDeleteHospital and medical expense policies were introduced during the first half of the 20th century. During the 1920s, individual hospitals began offering services to individuals on a pre-paid basis, eventually leading to the development of Blue Cross organizations in the 1930s. The first employer-sponsored hospitalization plan was created by teachers in Dallas, Texas in 1929. Because the plan only covered members' expenses at a single hospital, it is also the forerunner of today's health maintenance organizations (HMOs).
In the 1930s, The Roosevelt Administration explored possibilities for creating a national health insurance program, while it was designing the Social Security system. But it abandoned the project because the American Medical Association (AMA) fiercely opposed it, along with all forms of health insurance at that time.
Employer-sponsored health insurance plans dramatically expanded as a direct result of wage controls imposed by the federal government during World War II. The labor market was tight because of the increased demand for goods and decreased supply of workers during the war. Federally imposed wage and price controls prohibited manufacturers and other employers from raising wages enough to attract workers. When the War Labor Board declared that fringe benefits, such as sick leave and health insurance, did not count as wages for the purpose of wage controls, employers responded with significantly increased offers of fringe benefits, especially health care coverage, to attract workers.
President Harry S. Truman proposed a system of public health insurance in his November 19, 1945, address. He envisioned a national system that would be open to all Americans, but would remain optional. Participants would pay monthly fees into the plan, which would cover the cost of any and all medical expenses that arose in a time of need. The government would pay for the cost of services rendered by any doctor who chose to join the program. In addition, the insurance plan would give a cash balance to the policy holder to replace wages lost due to illness or injury. The proposal was quite popular with the public, but it was fiercely opposed by the Chamber of Commerce, the American Hospital Association, and the AMA, which denounced it as “socialism.”
Foreseeing a long and costly political battle, many labor unions chose to campaign for employer-sponsored coverage, which they saw as a less desirable but more achievable goal, and as coverage expanded the national insurance system lost political momentum and ultimately failed to pass. Using health care and other fringe benefits to attract the best employees, private sector, white-collar employers nation-wide expanded the U.S. health care system. Public sector employers followed suit in an effort to compete. Between 1940 and 1960, the total number of people enrolled in health insurance plans grew seven-fold, from 20,662,000 to 142,334,000, and by 1958, 75% of Americans had some form of health coverage.
Still, private insurance remained unaffordable or simply unavailable to many, including the poor, the unemployed, and the elderly. Before 1965, only half of seniors had health care coverage, and they paid three times as much as younger adults, despite having lower incomes. Consequently, interest persisted in creating public health insurance for those left out of the private marketplace.
The 1960 Kerr-Mills Act provided matching funds to states assisting patients with their medical bills. In the early 1960s, Congress rejected a plan to subsidize private coverage for people with Social Security as unworkable, and an amendment to the Social Security Act creating a publicly run alternative was proposed. Finally, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare and Medicaid programs into law in 1965, creating publicly run insurance for the elderly and the poor. Medicare was later expanded to cover people with disabilities, end-stage renal disease, and ALS.
That's good as a kind of history of liberalism esp. when you throw in Roosevelt and LBJ but it doesn't help me understand why employers should be forced to provide coverage which is what I was getting at esp. for bc. Heather decides to become a secretary for Mr. Barker and all of a sudden he has to subsidize her sexual lifestyle. This whole philosophy of liberalism is ruining the country, this coercive entitled mentality.
ReplyDeleteI really feel like you're venturing into some melodramatic hyperbole here.
ReplyDeleteHardly. Consider how many criminals have been released before their time to commit mayhem again all because of liberal parole boards and liberal judges. Look at the borders. Look at the record number of people on food stamps under Obama. Look at...
DeleteWonder if Z-Man joined Bristol Palin's counter boycott of HobbyLobby the anti
ReplyDeletebirth control pill folks called HobbyLobby Love Day . ?
I wonder how many libs have already forgotten about Boko Haram and those Nigerian schoolgirls. They're still missing right?
DeleteIn 1992, George W. Bush appointed Richard G. Kopf as a Federal District judge.
ReplyDeleteWhat does this GOP judge think of the HobbyLobby BC decision?
"To most people, the decision looks stupid ’cause corporations are not persons, all the legal mumbo jumbo notwithstanding. The decision looks misogynist because the majority were all men. It looks partisan because all were appointed by a Republican. The decision looks religiously motivated because each member of the majority belongs to the Catholic church, and that religious organization is opposed to contraception." Looks, smells and walks like a duck. I agree you Z-Man that the country is going to hell in a handcart: but for the opposite reasons.
That's one man's opinion. Liberals are obsessed with phantom menaces. Not that long ago it was Chick Fil-A.
DeleteNaw, it isn't liberals. " Contraceptive use is common among women of all religious denominations. Eighty-nine percent of at-risk Catholics and 90% of at-risk Protestants currently use a contraceptive method. Among sexually experienced religious women, 99% of Catholics and Protestants have ever used some form of contraception." Which, IMO, means that the SCOTUS decision that HobbyLobby is
ReplyDeletea person, a citizen with rights, just a simple soul like the rest of us, has decided to
do what religion's argument has failed at: stop the use of birth control. Reminds me of Saint Boniface and his conversion of the Saxons: convert or die by the sword,
fellows! If ya can't sell it, force it...ya know?
Just to let some fresh air into this hyperbolic chamber I recall reading that the Hobby Lobby "policy" oks 16 forms of contraception but excludes 4 forms of abortifacients. You'd also be hard-pressed to make the case that Anthony Kennedy is, what's the word again? misogynistic. If judicial memory serves he's not too anti-abortion.
ReplyDeleteI just read your comment twice, could've been written by Shaw. It's kinda circular, if Hobby Lobby and Sam Alito are holding all the contraceptives hostage how can 90% of religious folk be contracepting? We need Jack Bauer on the case!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I sort of think like Shaw: not quite as dogmatic. Hell, I live in Idaho,
Deleteya know. The argument is not circular, IMO. It's more negative spiral: if
SCOTUS can arrange it the 90% of religious folk will be SOL. Tis the goal,
is it not? BTW, I can imagine your frustrations at having a blog that attracts
opposites. At least Abu Bakr el Baghdadi hasn't posted yet!
But you're leaving out the most important component the RFRA which was passed during the Clinton years by a strongly bipartisan Congress. This law is to protect religious freedom from the heavy hand of gov't which can only use the least restrictive means of furthering a compelling gov't interest when there's a clash with religious liberty. SCOTUS ruled as they did because Hobby Lobby is not stockpiling all the nation's bc but left Obama's contraceptive mandate largely intact.
DeleteWhere was the 'heavy hand of government' when the Jim Jones affair
Deletenegated 'life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness..especially the 'life part
for his loyal congregation? Wouldst thou permit Baal worshipers to
throw their first born into the fire pit? It was an important part of their
religion. Hmm, what if there were 5 Baal worshipers on SCOTUS?
What about the heavy hand of gov't at Waco TX where children died because of Janet Reno? Wait you're equating Hobby Lobby not being down with four forms of abortifacients with Baal worshippers?
DeleteTrue, Waco was a sad affair. Koresh had been accused of abusing his
Deletewomen and children by expatriots as well as having a cache of illegal
weapons. After 51 days of negotians, an attempt to storm the compound
was made using tear gas. Didn't turn out well. Timothy McVay took revenge 'where children died'. Not equating HobbyLobby with Baal, just
my usual 'argumentum ad absurdum'..you know, where could the spiral
devolve to, etc & etc. BTW we are in an over 100 degree week here and even the rattlers are seeking shade.
Have to be careful though, government should not impose its views on religion.
DeleteDon't worry either, I got plenty of MB on my phone. I can go all night:)
ReplyDelete& yes I've been in a crisis of late as to whither this blog is going. When I post about Abortion they say stop talking about it, when I DON'T post about abortion my erstwhile critics who wanted to talk about Other Things are nowhere to be found.
ReplyDeleteBTW the Church of the Sub-Genius believes all their followers are descended from the Yeti. Whatever floats your boat. So where are you at McDonald's now?
ReplyDeleteDescended from the Yeti? Must be a hairy bunch. The local Taco Time is
Deleteopening at 5 AM. A link sausage, 2 scrambled eggs & cheese and a biscuit
with gravy. I burned off the calories reading the local paper (which my overachieving paperman delivers between 3-3:30 AM. Are you familiar with
the religion known as the Brethren Of The Pitbull? The Holy Vicious Dog
Attack: see Luke 16:21 - And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
So saith the gospel.
Yeah somewhere over in Nepal or those parts. If they the Yeti descendants were over here Obama would force them to pay for bc pills, the SCOTUS would find in their favor and Josh Earnest the new presidential spokesman would declare it a War on Women.
DeleteGiven the Yeti population figures, my guess is that they are bigtime into
DeleteBC pills.
You know there's a subgenre of porn devoted to hirsute women. Dunno if the subgenres ever mix or fuse like S&M dwarves. The yeti is even more elusive than Bigfoot, don't remember ever seeing any real footage. The Church of the Sub-Genius actually has Scriptures where the yeti is some kind of sacred figure. Me? I'm a fan of religious liberty. Keeps things interesting, don't want the gov't involved blanding it down ya know?
DeleteOH..its coming back to me. Since my name is Bob and I smoke a pipe, a personal back in the day thought I was some sort of subgenius apostle,
DeleteHaven't heard of it since. BTW, spent half an hour this morning with some
Jehovah Witnesses arguing about 'original sin': my take is that it is in
Genesis and since Genesis is a Hebrew book and the Jews don't believe
in original sin it is just another Paulian construct. JWs are pretty patient,
but you can make them mad. A pipe smokin Bob can do that, right?
My pastor has a different take on the JWs, he says they're willing to suffer ridicule for their faith by going door to door. I don't quite agree with him. I like the more moderate JW at Woodlands Lake in Ardsley, just wedges his lit in the park benches.
DeleteA bank in Kentucky terminated a woman teller who was apparently offending customers with her militant Christianity. She says all she said
Deletewas "have a blessed day"-they said she informed a customer that taking the Lord's name in vain offended the Lord and the customer would rot in hell. A couple other folks were offended when she enquired, "Have you found the Lord yet?" They say the customer is always right and the teller had been repeatedly warned...dunno, seems harsh.
I'm around... just mildly obsessed with my favorite phone game and my favorite doctor. Between the two of them they kinda take up a large proportion of my time.
ReplyDeleteKim Kardashian - Hollywood? I'm currently reading Oscar Wilde's "De Profundis", a Bob Bork wet dream where ole Oscar was sent to prison for two years for certain acts.
ReplyDeleteSo what's up with Harry Reid? He seems a little unstable.
ReplyDeleteHairy Reed? You talking about the Nevada species Hirsutius Vegas
DeletePhragmites or that congress dude? They are similar enough to be confused.
Stability-wise, most of those characters are questionable Remember John F. ? While John-John & Caroline were frolicking in the pool, the pres was
frolicking with Miss Monroe...they say.
So Mr. Daffy has proposed new legislation to rectify the Hobby Lobby decision. But wait you don't think that will be struck down too?
DeleteSome prostitute has been charged in the seamy death of a Google executive.
ReplyDeleteIronically, you can google it. Say, did they meet through 'Christian Mingle.com'?
Ironically too you can google how many malicious apps are in the Google Play Store despite their 7 layers of security. I have as yet to come across a clean Alex Jones app.
DeleteWell the Little Sisters of the Poor just made NOW's "Dirty 100 List." I don't think the Left realizes how they come across.
ReplyDeleteI think the nuns on the left realize how they come across-persecuted by their church:
Delete"On April 18, the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith—the modern-day vestige of the Holy Office of the Inquisition—released the conclusions of an investigation begun in 2008 into the sins of our sisters. The congregation issued what amounted to a takeover decree to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, a move that “stunned” the organization. With over 1,500 members, all heads of religious congregations, LCWR leans liberal and represents 80 percent of America’s 57,000 nuns." I guess nuns come in all flavors.
Not to change the subject or anything...
DeleteHave to say out of all the presidents I can remember I think Obama has done the most to stoke the culture wars. I don't recall Jimmy Carter or Gerry Ford talking about a war on women.
ReplyDeleteTook an online test about things in the old days. Got 25 out of 25. it said, "Congratulations- you're older than dirt." Yeah, I chewed Black Jack gum
ReplyDeleteand had a one speed bike.
The Port-o-San truck is here early. Habitat for Humanity is refurbishing some old houses for veterans. So the company logo on the side of the truck says Call-A-Head and their motto is "we're #1 at picking up #2."
ReplyDeleteHave you noticed the extreme water shortage in Texas
ReplyDeleteis being addressed by recycling sewer water to drinking water? Not blaming GW
per se, but what do they call the stuff? Soylent Tinkle?
What about the people in Detroit undergoing a humanitarian crisis because the city has shut off their water to prepare, I think, for privatization? Kind of like a third world country, we maybe need to do airdrops of pallets of water. Boehner is making a complete ass of himself with this impeachment stuff, it sounds like he's fishing in the dark just to find some kind of a charge. The Exec order stuff isn't going to fly... O has made fewer exec orders than like any president in the history of presidents. I still can't believe you won't acknowledge the war on women, but I guess everyone has some bit of insanity they buy into. Me, I have firsthand UFO experience and I refuse to believe you can fly two commercial airliners into the most watched airspace in the world and have no one notice.
ReplyDeleteI'm still obsessed with my game. I won 2 tournaments (first place out of 200) which I guess gives me some serious nerd cred, but I can tell you it's better than freakin Candy Crush that everyone is so hooked on. I play it, but maybe only once a week. My game is called Marvel Puzzle Quest Dark Reign. You can get the game free on Google apps and play for free but eventually I did decide to invest a little into it. I don't think it's really necessary for enjoying the game, it was just that I was getting really into it and I wanted to expand my capabilities. Anyway I'm totally into it.
We're doing end of life care (again) at work and this one has been particularly tough because this one is my fav doctor's patient. His entire experience has been in the ER and so managing someone's terminal care is foreign to him as a doctor as well as a person so I have been doing as much to help him as to get what needs to be done, done. It's amazing to see how different people's perspectives are on death and how that impacts care.
JWs, I admire them for their courage. It takes a lot to go up to strangers who are almost definitely going to be hostile to you and try to share what you believe. I give them a lot of credit for that determination. Mormons send their kids out for mission trips generally around the time they finish up highschool. They are so ridiculously cute, the guys go out in pairs with little white dress shirts and ties and nametags, and they are so wholesome and cookies and milk looking with their copies of the Book of Mormon. I used to sit and talk to them a lot. Of course the HKs, we don't go door to door but we are all about getting out in the public to share the mahamantra. I am not particularly good at the whole book distribution and public kirtan type thing. Not everyone can do it and not everyone really likes it. It's not my thing. On another note, I have huge respect for the Muslim ladies who go out in hijab. You know they must take a lot of abuse just going through their daily chores without even trying to convert anyone or distribute the Quran. I think it must take a lot of courage to go out dressed like that. The environment is hostile. I saw that even one time dressed in a sari (which isn't Muslim) where some guys came at me very aggressively forcing me to jump in my Jeep and leave a little rubber in the parking lot. It scared me to death and I wouldn't wear a sari out in public for a long time after that. Where I live there is no Indian community but once you go about 50 miles south you come to the Triangle and there is a HUGE Indian population so it's common to see people traditionally dressed. Up here I will usually get stared at a little but I'm never sure whether it's because of just the clothes or the clothes plus me being white.
Apart from that, I have this idea to make women's sleepwear from that Dri-Star fabric they use to make active sportswear. It would sell hugely to menopausal women, but I'm not sure how to begin.
That's quite a bit there. Only BB would debate a Jehovah, I just politely shut the door.
ReplyDeleteI do acknowledge the war on women. I do posts on radical Islam all the time. There will always be these stark cultural fault lines on bc coverage, abortion and human sexuality in general. That's reality and I think most presidents accept that and move on to other more pressing matters like foreign affairs. Obama seems to highlight these differences and implies one side is evil. Don't agree with his contraception mandate then you have an animus towards women. A very polarizing and non-unifying leader. Meanwhile the Middle East is going up in flames.
ReplyDeleteThe Middle East has been going up in flames since Biblical times. Do you really think anyone can seriously do anything to stop it?
ReplyDeleteIs it just my imagination or does the NY Times skew their Mideast coverage in favor of the Palestinians?
DeleteAmerica has a love affair with Israel because the Christians have a vested interest in Jerusalem. They want it whence cometh the Rapture. They don't particularly care about the Jews... they will all be going to hell if they don't become Christians.. but they are all about Israel. It's amazing how no one seems to mind the atrocities the Jews commit but when the Palestinians do something it's almighty hysteria.
DeleteAnd honestly? There is a war on women in America whether you choose to admit it, sugarcoat it, ignore it or get all Fox News about it. It is a war. When Fox is putting out segments teaching women how to behave so their husbands won't leave them and when we can't get equal pay, much less birth control, we have a cultural problem.
ReplyDeleteNothing new under the sun. 1 Timothy 12-14:
Delete" A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner."
Since Paul was known to travel with women missionaries such as Junia,
who he referred to as 'among the first apostles' and Pricscia who bankrolled him, many biblical scholars suspect the misogynistic verses to have been
added a century of so later as orthodoxy trended patristic. Dunno, take your pick.
FOX News isn't making women get breast jobs because of sexual insecurities, that's sisters doing it to themselves or maybe it's a Cosmo thing.
DeleteBB every week at Mass there's a reading from St. Paul and often they're beautiful. Maybe you're right there's the original Paul and then corrupted elements.
DeleteThe gospel readings are mostly Paul, since he wrote 2/3 of the New Testament: he laid the incipient structure of Christianity. A consequence is that there is something there for everybody: even the Calvinists got
Deletetheir predestination ideas from Paulian sources. Some say he merged
Hebrew and Greek thought as he became the Apostle to the gentiles.
Kind of like the Barry Goldwater of early Christianity - Conscience of a Misogynist.
DeleteNo, Fox is busy telling women how to dress and not to raise their voices. You know, because it might upset men.
ReplyDeleteI honestly think liberals watch Fox News more than I do. They also listen to Limbaugh more than I do. Probably have the apps.
DeleteI am re-reading Susan Jacoby's The Age Of American Unreason again. I read it once a year to keep my head clear in the current
ReplyDeleteatmosphere of the US..
I'm taking a wild guess here that she's a liberal. You like to read books more than once. After Atlas I broke myself of this habit.
DeleteYou ordered your Great American Conservative Women Calendar yet?
DeleteI'm reading the Magnalia Christi Americana for the second time. It's worth it. I have some books I have read so many times that they get literally destroyed (all my Lovecraft books and one full set of the LOTR/Hobbit) and have to be replaced. Most of Lovecraft's stories I know literally word for word and I am HELL to watch LOTR with because I will tell you which lines of dialogue are and aren't verbatim. I've also read Lewis Carroll so many times I can recite huge chunks of his poetry (Phantasmagoria, The Hunting of the Snark, Jabberwocky) and good pieces of his prose. There isn't a lot of fiction I'm willing to read, but the ones I will, I do over and over again. Also, Gone With The Wind. Another movie you don't want to watch with me, because I know the book so verbatim. I will say it was VERY closely followed, probably better than any other book to movie ever.
ReplyDeleteThe Rev. Dr. Matther went to his grave believing he was doing the right thing during the Salem witch trials. (these days, they are called Senate Hearings, BTW
DeleteSaw an interesting article about the rabbis of the Hasidim protesting the whole thing going on in Gaza. They make the important distinction that Zionism is not Judaism. A lot of people don't know that there's a difference, or what the implications of that difference are. They're right. It's the Zionists that are the problem.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: the human brain is like a tablet. How much knowledge can it hold? Can you use an SD card? How do I delete my Kardashian files?
ReplyDeleteThe human brain issort of like a tablet. In a sense, computers were build based on the human brain, but the
Deletecomparisons of cybernetics vs neuroscience
are still fairly enigmatic.
My thing is if I haven't read a book or watched a movie in years and years I forget major and important parts. I blame all my junk files (Kardashian, Bieber, Spears etc.). I need a sweeper/cleaner for my brain.
DeleteIt is thought that one of the functions of sleep involves the cataloging, arrangement, storage, sorting and deleting memory..."the hippocampus plays a role in short to medium term memory whereas the cortex plays a role in long term memory, have led to the hypothesis that the hippocampal neocortical dialog might be a mechanism through which the hippocampus transfers information to the cortex. Thus, the hippocampal neocortical dialog is said to play a role in memory consolidation" Don't know about your noggin, but mine can recall the universal gas constant in either liter-atmospheres per degree per mole, or in ft-lbs per lb degree Rankine, the king list of the Hittites and most all of my campsites from the 60s, but damn if I can remember my anniversary.
DeleteToday is Bastille Day. Guess I'll have French Fries.
ReplyDeleteAnd today in Tennessee the first woman was arrested for crimes against a fetus... no, there's no war on women...
ReplyDeleteBut if the fetal parts were sold that would have been copacetic in the eyes of liberals. Keep a part or two in a jar and it's all good.
DeleteLet me ask you is it ok for a woman to smoke and drink during the pregnancy or even smoke crack? After all it's her body.
DeleteApparently alcohol is worse than crack:
Delete"Surveys by the Department of Health and Human Services in 2006 and 2007 found that 5.2 percent of pregnant women reported using any illicit drug, compared with 11.6 percent for alcohol and 16.4 percent for tobacco." according to studies. I saw where some very pregnant woman
competed in an iron man contest, and I've seen female factory workers
break their water while sweating on the line. It seems a game of statistics, some crack mamas have normal newborns (after the tyke goes
through withdrawal). Certainly, things which go through the placental
nurture process can affect the developmental pre-birth stage: we routinely removed pregnant women from working with known placental
toxins, like lead and mercury compounds. Is it OK for a woman to be exposed the thalidomide, diethylstilbestrol, fracking agents, tetraethyl lead, an abusive husband, smog, etc? IMO, most women are careful
during pregnancy: some are so careful that they refuse to have their
youngsters vaccinated. Is that OK? Just opining.
& throw in according to reports some iPads may cause an iRash. Seems there's a nickel alloy on the outer surface of some of them. Just sayin'
DeleteYa got me on that one. Wasn't in my repertoire. A quick look reveals-
Delete"Nickel allergy is commonly associated with earrings and other jewelry, particularly jewelry associated with body piercings. But nickel can be found in many everyday items — from coins to zippers, from cellphones to eyeglass frames". Trade ya five nickels for a quarter. Was at a swank outdoor Art show one time and stopped at the Chinese booth looking for
a bit of oriental. The Chinese guy in the food both he shouts at me, "Hoi
chin mou ichi!" I took a guess and said, "Yeah it is a nice day" He continues haranguing me in Mandarin, and a few art folks gather. Finally,
his wife, who knew a bit of English came out and said, "He say you zipper
open, sir!"
The conservative teabaggers have been in hysterics over this immigrant children. With teabagger’s, everything is a crisis.
ReplyDeleteCount on the baggers to always be on the wrong side of an issue. Just business as usual for TEABAGGERS! Just lie lie lie, and call it a crisis, or a scandal!
While we're on the subject of tea does anyone know where I can find some kinkeliba?
ReplyDeleteFascinating: Critter's Crap started posting on July 17 (Always on Watch) (Shaw Kenawe). The real and original Critter's Crap is a blog run by Jerry Critter, who
ReplyDeletehas a legitimate profile. The imposter's says 'profile unavailable. Gee, Z-man,
you need an ephemeral imposter app, or maybe some help from Edward Snowden.
Just sayin. I'm glad I've never been imposterated.
Do ppeople really have so much time they can impersonate other people? I barely have time to be me.
ReplyDeleteI barely have time to take a dump in the morning. Churchill probably crapped in his pants.
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