And notice that the Federal nor State Government cannot legislate tolerance.

On the one hand, I believe that a business should be allowed to discriminate/Refuse Service against anyone they choose to. Gays, blacks, whites, chinese,Muslims, Catholics  martians, single women, single men, Women with short hair, CisBiGenderQueersWhatever with(or without) purple hair, Fuzzies, dogs, unshaven men (or women), cats, sheep (especially sheep),  etc…..Camels too.

Now, if they go out of business because someone objects to that discrimination and tells everyone about it on Social Media, and people stop buying at their business or decides not to use those services….then tough shit for them.

But they get the choice to be stupid and Walk their Talk, be it religious, bigotry, stupidity,  or just plain muleishnes.

So, on the one hand, I find this Court of Appeals decision good.

On the other hand, the law has a bunch of language that essentially makes Christianity the State Religion, which I object to.

And the law allows public servants to choose to use a “Religious Objection” as a reason to not do their job….such as City and County clerks to choose to NOT issue marriage licenses. Which is wrong. If you are a Clerk, and you object to something your job requires, you can quit, but you can’t just not do your job.

So this is a halfway win for freedom, but a fail for Constitutionality and for making certain Public Servants do their job…

I’d expected better from the 5th Court…..

So we have, at least, a First Amendment issue, and at least a Fourth Amendment issue.

Yet, we get “Qualified Immunity” once again.

At what point are officers gonna be held personally liable for their actions? Until they are, then we will have cases like this.

I get it. A noise complaint. Then they want to use that as an excuse to search, because that is what cops do. Then they mock and verbally abuse a woman, because bullies…(Which a lot of cops are, and a lot more aren’t, so don’t tell me in comments how cops are pigs and all that shit, ok?) AND THE COURT SAYS IT IS WRONG BUT LETS ‘EM GET AWAY WITH IT ANYWAY!
Until the courts begin punishing cops for this, our Constitution is, indeed, just a piece of paper. And our Constitutional rights are just words. And the cops oath is just so many words as well.

Businesses damaged in riots in Baltimore sue city, Ex mayor, Top Cop for damages. 
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Bout time this started happening. Failing to protect those who are forced to pay taxes for that “Protection” should be punishable. Those officials in positions of who give the orders to “Stand Down” and to “Give them the space to destroy” should be liable for damages….Not for their failure in their attempt to protect but for choosing not to even try.

Individual cops were not given the resources nor backup to be able to prevent the looting and rioting.

Their commanders failed both them and the city. The Mayor failed everyone.  
They should be PERSONALLY liable for the damage they allowed, by their inaction, to occur. 

I mean, there have been some things that looked “fishy” in the past, and some stuff that was obviously just politically motivated….

But really?

The gunman who shot a top House Republican and four other people on a Virginia baseball field didn’t have any concrete plans to inflict violence on the Republicans he loathed, FBI officials said Wednesday…They said he acted alone and had no connections to terror groups. But they said they had not yet clarified who, if anyone, he planned to target, or why, beyond his animus toward President Donald Trump and the Republicans he felt were ruining the country…“At this point in the investigation, it appears more spontaneous,” Slater said.  Hodgkinson had a piece of paper with the names of six members of Congress written on it, Slater said, but the note lacked any further context and there was no evidence from his computer, phone or other belongings that indicated he planned to target those officials…He also took pictures of the baseball field where he would later fire more than 60 shots. “The FBI does not believe that these photographs represented surveillance of intended targets,” the FBI said 

I can no longer believe anything the FBI or it’s agents tell me.

Move along, Nothing to see here, Citizen.

In other news:  “We have NEVER been at war with EastAsia”.

ETA: (found via INSTY)  P much what I said, only written better:retty


There’s no reason to beat around the bush here: what the FBI is claiming is mind-boggling when they claim the shooter had no target in mind. Consider the number of accidents of circumstance you would have to believe were going on here to not have the shooter doing what seems obvious from every piece of evidence we have: researching and planning for an attack on Republicans of some kind, particularly looking for an opportunity when security will be low and vulnerability will be high. This was an attack, not an “anger management” problem.


Step back, though, and think on the institutional conclusions here. Considering how ludicrous the FBI’s conclusions are as it relates to an attack on the third ranking member of the House of Representatives, you might reconsider whether to trust the FBI’s conclusions in other areas, as well. And this is how our faith in institutions is degraded: steadily, gradually, with incident after incident where men in suits stand in front of microphones and make claims we know are not the whole truth.

At least not in Europe:

German Police raid homes of 36 people:


German police have carried out a series of raids, targeting people suspected of posting hate content on social media.

While I never thought that GOP Congressmen and Senators were incredibly intelligent, one would think that they can tell the difference between ObamaCare Lite and REPEAL.

I know 4 year olds that have that much cognitive ability.

So either they really like the idea of Socialized Medicine, or they are Rilly, Rilly Stupid.

And this bill really doesn’t fix any of the significant failures of BarryCare.

I stand with the GOP Senators that will vote against their Party and against this legislation. 

Now with Solar Panels.

Which means he has now conflicted at least 25% of the opposition.

If he’d put windmills every 100 yards, he’d get even more support from the other side…..

Add in “Fair Trade” timbers and “Sustainable” netting and he’d have at least 5/8 of the opposition demanding the wall….. 

Of when Trump Derangement Syndrome and “Journalism” cross paths.

A total loss of rationality. And objectivity too.

It is amazing that anyone can find someone to publish this sort of shit drivel. 

When the Democrats were jamming ObamaCare up our ass:

Now they want a place at the table on Trump’s revision of ObamaCare. One that removes some of the freebies and some of the waste.

One that (supposedly, we don’t know) will make it a viable plan.

Guess they’ll have to “Pass it to find out what’s in it”, just like 8 years ago.

(actually, I don’t like it, and I want to see what is in it before the vote is taken. But innit interesting how, when their tactics are used against ’em, that the DNC types get a pissy? Sauce/Goose/Gander, and all that.

And the Democrats and the Media (but, again, I repeat myself) keep conflating “Health Care” with Health Care Insurance”….they are either stupid or deliberately lying to keep their socialist program alive…..

Hell, yer gonna laugh.