All dogs DO go to HEAVEN! It’s not just some trite cartoon movie title from before most of the Millennials were born. It’s true. The new pinko pope said so!
It’s as calm as fresh death outside right now. But last night’s windy antics knocked out power to thousands—and fouled up roads in Portland, but especially so in the hills.
Demonstrators held a die-in outside Portland State University’s trustees meeting yesterday. The trustees semi-indelicately stepped over the students lying on the ground and voted to provide deadly weapons to the university’s security forces.
Senator Jeff Merkley has shifted his tack on expanding federal non-discrimination protections to LGBTQ Americans—hoping a wider bill might fare better, even in a conservative Congress, than one focused solely on employment.
“I’m doing this because I love Washington County. I don’t want to see it become a little urban Portland.”
The CIA’s director’s “fervent hope” is that everyone will get over findings that his agency sanctioned things like water-boarding, sexual humiliation, and scientifically impossible “rectal feeding” for detainees. He also says it’s “unknowable” whether torture helped avert plots or lead to further arrests.
A $1.1 trillion federal spending bill that also waters down campaign finance limits and hands Wall Street a victory by repealing financial protections squeaked through the House of Representatives last night after the White House and a handful of Democrats cut a deal with GOP leadership. The whole awkward mess, with liberal Democrats accusing the White House of caving on principles, now heads to the Senate.
The percentage of non-employed American men ages 25 to 54 has more than tripled since the late 1960s. This wouldn’t be so bad, if it meant robots were doing all the work while we painted and read literature and enjoyed the sun and fresh air. But let’s be honest—and I hope you’re sitting down before you read this—that’s not been the case.
Congressional staffers walked off their jobs for a rally yesterday in honor of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and other unarmed black men killed by police. They also “can’t breathe.”
The undercover California highway patrolman who pointed a gun at protesters and photographers after he and his partner were outed during a march told his bosses he feared for his life. (Magic words that would have kept him out of trouble if he’d gone ahead and actually shot someone.) His boss, meanwhile, dared anyone to prove that the two undercover cops had been acting as provocateurs, per reports on social media. And he also promised to continue infiltrating marches by sending in beefy officers wearing discount clothing and face bandanas.
After wasting 22 years of her life on death row, an appeals court ordered charges dismissed against an Arizona woman falsely prosecuted in the death of her 4-year-old boy. Her attorneys had been never told that a detective in the case against her was known for lying and misconduct.
Britain has banned 10 “harmful” sex acts from its pornography. (Read for yourself and decide how harmful or not these acts are.) And now sex workers have gathered outside Parliament to protest—by pantomiming one of those sex acts in particular: face-sitting.
BEHOLD! THE HISTORY OF WALL-TO-WALL CHRISTMAS MUSIC ON THE RADIO AND WHY YOU HEAR THE SAME DOZEN-PLUS SHITTY SONGS EVERYWHERE YOU GO.
PSU Safety Patrollers have nothing but contempt for students, and do not demonstrate any understanding of student culture. When the guards at PSU were student jobs, that is when they had a genuine understanding. Student employees as guards, were friendly and helpful. Whenever there was an emergency, they would call the police. Arming the current abusive PSU Public Safety force is a declaration of war against students and anyone who sets foot anywhere near Campus.
Dogs do indeed have souls or they couldn’t be alive. However, they can’t receive the Holy Spirit, which is necessary in order to go to Heaven. When dogs pass away, they likely go to Paradise in Hades, not to be confused with Torments, the other side of Hades. When saved souls go to Heaven, I suspect that they will have the option to visit their animal friends in Paradise, as often as they wish. You don’t get to choose your friends in Hell.
Mosquitoes are alive, guess they’ll go to Paradise too? All the trillions of them that have ever existed? Must be a fun place.
Hey dipshit, better read that story about Milke again if you believe that her life was wasted. She got a gift.
In Paradise, Mosquitoes don’t bite. The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb, etc.
I guess you could call someone you’ve never met a “dipshit” for thinking it’s unfortunate that someone spent 22 years in prison on charges that were eventually dismissed.
Or you could civilly disagree.
But that would mean we lived in a world without anonymous internet comments.
Is it really “unknowable” whether torture helped to avert plots or lead to arrests Mr. Brennan?
I can think of a few ways we might try to get a less, how do you say . . . “horseshit” answer.
Now. I’m going to ask you one more time . . .
If Debra Milke were in fact guilty, it’s too bad that the detective had to cheat. He needs to be prosecuted now, himself, for that. It’s just like with OJ and Robert Blake, where the police fabricated evidence because they believed that the defendants were guilty.
“Is an enemy so execrable that, though in captivity, his wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed? I think not. It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible. The practice, therefore, of modern nations, of treating captive enemies with politeness and generosity, is not only delightful in contemplation, but really interesting to all the world, friends, foes and neutrals.”
–Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Henry, 1779. ME 4:54, Papers 2:242
“[We endeavor] as far as possible to alleviate the inevitable miseries of war by treating captives as humanity and natural honor requires.”
–Thomas Jefferson to Benedict Arnold, 1781. ME 4:400, Papers 5:227
I’m calling you dipshit because I believe that you have children and yet you think that Milke’s awful life was wasted. The woman got out on a technicality, not due to innocence. She dressed her child up and told him he was going to see Santa, and had two guys take him to a desert and kill him. Dipshit is being nice, no matter who I am.