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The ultimate guide to talking to a woman with headphones on

I feel so bad for the men that sign up for the seminars. Google is failing me right now but i remember reading an article where a journalist did an exit poll of men leaving a PUA seminar and most of them are looking for love and a relationship. Not just anonymous sex. And it made me so sad. These PUA guys are preying on both sides! The women they instruct others to harass and their students! Hilariously a coworker and i walked through a swarm of 20something proto PUAs once. They were doing a bl…

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Bay leaves are a lie

Obligatory “Um, no, they aren’t a lie.” from J. Kenji López-Alt

Non-religious woman who refused judge's order to meet with Christian counselor loses her sons

Are the cases really comparable? The story here is about a woman forced by a judge to get Christian counseling, while Davis enforced her religion as an official state actor.

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"Free hug man" in Times Square punches woman for not paying him

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"Free hug man" in Times Square punches woman for not paying him

Late stage capitalism…

"Free hug man" in Times Square punches woman for not paying him

you are delusional

"Free hug man" in Times Square punches woman for not paying him

Wrong. Obama campaigned on universal healthcare in 2008. He tried to pass the public option America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. But he only had a majority of Congress supporting it, not the required supermajority. What you describe is what came after, in late 2009 and 2010, once that public option battle was lost in mid-2009. Once it was clear that Democrats could never pass a public option by themselves.

"Free hug man" in Times Square punches woman for not paying him

Absolutely. That’s essentially their gameplan in general: to prevent any possible progress whatsoever that might help people, whether it’s healthcare, veterans’ benefits, equal pay for women, medical aid for 9/11 first responders, aid to victims of the water crisis in Flint Michigan, etc, in order to make Obama as ineffectual a president as possible. Their stated goal is to destroy his legacy by preventing anything whatsoever from getting done.

"Free hug man" in Times Square punches woman for not paying him

Bay leaves are a lie

Ok, ok, but no true bay leaf has any flavor.

Bay leaves are a lie

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Bay leaves are a lie

Similar to the “Oh hell, do I need to call 911? Or right, beets” game.

Non-religious woman who refused judge's order to meet with Christian counselor loses her sons

It makes me wonder if the judge isn’t getting a little kickback from these counsellor-specific referrals.

Non-religious woman who refused judge's order to meet with Christian counselor loses her sons

There’s a lot of problems with AA besides the god-talk. For instance, the whole angle that you as a wretched addict are an evildoer who must necessarily hurt others as part of the additiction, will never “be okay”, and have no personal agency. “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol and that our lives had become unmanageable.” Bullshit. If that were true, then nobody would ever get sober. It only encourages people to embrace learned helplessness and engage in AA’s cycle of codependent f…

Non-religious woman who refused judge's order to meet with Christian counselor loses her sons

I think the difference we’re having here is that while I’m okay with a counselor offering religiously-based services as part of a private practice, I’m completely intolerant of the court ordering someone to go see such a counselor who can’t do their job in a secular manner. Basically I think both the court and the counselor are in hot water, but in this specific case I’d rather focus on the court’s abuse of authority, rather than the counselor’s petty criminality of conducting business in a lib…

Non-religious woman who refused judge's order to meet with Christian counselor loses her sons

So. . . she’s an “exorcist” then? OK, let’s see here. . . the counselor is demanding that someone believe in god as part of a court-ordered counseling, clearly unconstitutional (imagine if the reverse were going on, that the counselor demanded a religious person renounce god as part of the program), I’m not sure what having a parent write an essay on “What God is to me” is except very obvious (court ordered) proselytising. she is illegally using a public library to do her job on the chea…

Non-religious woman who refused judge's order to meet with Christian counselor loses her sons

I once had a guy knock on my door asking if I wanted to go to church with him that Sunday (he wasn’t JW or Mormon, I think his parish priest just asked the parishioners to try and increase the flock), I replied: “Sure, but I’m actually a Satanist, I’ll go to church with you tomorrow if you come to a Black Mass with me tonight up in the woods near Salem, you don’t even have to get naked your first time!” He got visibly embarrassed, stuttered something and left.

Non-religious woman who refused judge's order to meet with Christian counselor loses her sons

This is completely off topic, because as has been pointed out before, the mother in this case is having her legal rights trampled, while Kim Davis was trampling other people’s legal rights. However… No. Davis put herself into that job, as an elected official. No one needs to “find her a new job” - she either carries out the job that she actively campaigned to do, and stops preventing her charges from carrying out their job, or she removes herself from the position she was elected into, whic…

Archibishop of St Louis says Girl Scout Cookies encourage sin

Ah yes, my old former hometown in the news again for truly regrettable reasons. Behold, a St. Louis institution, on Chouteau Avenue: [image] Still quite the thing, apparently–even these days. Perhaps that church dude is simply upset that St. Louisans have upgraded over the years from the local swill of Anheuser-Busch products (yeccchhh!) and brain sandwiches. I sense that eating a lot of bovine brains and other animals’ brains in sandwiches can’t possibly be good for you cumulatively, w…

Archibishop of St Louis says Girl Scout Cookies encourage sin

I remember a parent giving a presentation at a scout meeting where she stated, “You can’t be an atheist and a Boy Scout.” “Oh, really?” I silently thought to myself, making eye contact with the speaker during her point. (also I was frequently the person who would break up fights when one denomination member began bulling a different denomination member)

Archibishop of St Louis says Girl Scout Cookies encourage sin

[quote=“LDoBe, post:20, topic:74168, full:true”]Why waste all that time telling the supposed creator of the universe how awesome he is when we could just enjoy that universe instead. [/quote] Although I don’t believe in or worship any gods, if I did, that is how I’d do it. Want to show your reverence for creation? Go climb a mountain. And take your trash with you when you leave.

Archibishop of St Louis says Girl Scout Cookies encourage sin

It’s my personal, atheistic opinion that you can tell a bullshit religion by how much it focuses on trivia. Girl scout cookies, masturbation, swearing, etc. I call bullshit.

290 I did not need to attend this meeting.