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No, no, Mike, I think we do have to say it. In fact, I think it’s important that we hear you say what you say is so important not to say.
Say it, Mike. Say it.
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And, yet again not trans, not drag. MAGAt, the absolute worst of the worst of the worst.
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Reminds me of a line I read somewhere, attribution lacking because I’m too lazy to look it up:
“Children need stories. Not because they need to believe in monsters. They already know monsters are real. They need to believe that monsters can be defeated.”
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“Pratchett wrote:
One of the great popular novelists of the early part of this century was G.K. Chesterton. Writing at a time when fairy tales were under attack for pretty much the same reason as books can now be covertly banned in some schools because they have the word ‘witch’ in the title, he said: “The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.””
“ So what was the original quote? it’s from “The Red Angel,” Chapter XVII of Chesterton’s Tremendous Trifles (1909):
The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it–because it is a fact. Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.”
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A friend of mine couldn’t understand my love of classic horror movies, until I explained to him that it’s the same reason I loved fairytales as kid; there might be some suffering and/or loss to be endured, but in the end, evil can be defeated.
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If the results of this survey are anywhere close to being accurate, this country is even more messed up than I thought:
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/22/trump-mass-deportation-immigrant-camps
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Hmm, what does the big book say?
Leviticus 19:34: The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
(That God guy sounds woke)
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It even keeps making that point, over and over…
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I think I can guess what his idea of “an American way of life” would be. And freedom, liberty and justice have absolutely no part in it.
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Based on the laws set down in the Constitution and subsequent Amendments, I would argue that he is an example of someone who will not assimilated into the American way of life and thus should be deported.
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Kentucky state Sen. Johnnie Turner, known for his staunch support for the coal industry and other causes in his Appalachian district, has died after being injured at home last month when he plunged into an empty swimming pool while aboard a lawn mower. He was 76.
Turner, a Harlan Republican, was known for his folksy manner that endeared him to constituents and colleagues alike. Turner died Tuesday evening after his “hard-fought battle” with injuries sustained in the accident, Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers said in a statement Wednesday.
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Awful, no matter who it happened to.
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Yes, but…there are laws about blocking residential swimming pools (to protect children, mainly) which involve having a lockable fence around it and/or a strong enough cover that even falling ‘in’ means merely falling on.
So what I take from this story is that a state senator refused to follow a common and reasonable safety law, and paid the price for his hubris.
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But if I, say, watched a video of him and his mower plunging into an empty pool, I wouldn’t take any joy in it.
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