#1 2024-05-23 09:47:09
Shine your shoes, light your fuse
Can you use them old U.S. Blues?
I'll drink your health, share your wealth
Run your life, steal your wife
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high
Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my
There is that, from the highest pole in the land.
Another provocative flag flown at Samuel Alito residence
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#2 2024-05-24 14:45:32
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#3 2024-05-24 18:41:14
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
Well, OK, but remember it was your idea.
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#4 2024-05-26 20:33:15
Well, OK, but remember it was your idea.
Shoot, I didn't think of that.
And it seems others aren't thinking about it the same way the founders originally intended such a rallying cry.
“This is my new favorite flag,” says Dion Cini, who is holding a flag that says “Trump or Death” outside Trump Tower on Monday morning. “It doesn’t necessarily mean my death; it could mean your death.”
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#5 2024-05-29 17:34:29
This is spot on, kinda cuts through the argument.
Nobody in this world enjoys hearing that they are the salmon.
But that is why we don’t allow the salmon be the sole arbiter of whether they are the salmon. Let’s please stop framing this issue in terms of “ethics” and “friendships” and “honor.” It is a big-game safari for access to powerful people, and this game has been played since power was first invented. Naming this as an influence scheme clarifies the rules and it clarifies the stakes, and most of all, it clarifies the stench.
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#6 2024-06-11 15:15:50
vergogna. V-E-R-G-O-G-N-A. Vergogna.
I guess V is for "Aggrieved" now.
“You know what I want?” she said in Windsor’s recording. “I want a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag, because I have to look across the lagoon at the Pride flag for the next month.”
She then ruminated on other flags she might hoist to taunt her ideological adversaries – including one bearing the Italian word for shame.
“‘He’s like, ‘Oh, please don’t put up a flag,’” she said, in apparent reference to her husband. “I won’t do it because I am deferring to you. But when you are free of this nonsense, I’m putting it up and I’m gonna send them a message every day, maybe every week, I’ll be changing the flags
“They’ll be all kinds. I made a flag in my head. This is how I satisfy myself. I made a flag. It’s white and has yellow and orange flames around it. And in the middle is the word ‘vergogna’. Vergogna in Italian means shame – vergogna. V-E-R-G-O-G-N-A. Vergogna.’”
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#7 2024-06-11 16:59:09
I'm tired of these people playing the victim when they can't be their absolutely most horrible.
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#8 2024-06-14 12:18:13
Happy Flag Day!
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#9 2024-06-14 15:29:29
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#11 2024-06-27 14:41:16
Who says there are no coincidences? Well, that was an easy fix. We are after all, a nation of laws. And quite timely too!
Supreme Court wipes out anti-corruption law that bars officials from taking gifts for past favors
By sheer coincidence, this ruling concerns the sort of generous ‘gifts’ and ‘gratuities’ that justices have been known to accept
In the case, which was divided along ideological lines, the court held that “gratuities” – that is, post-facto gifts and payments – are not technically “bribes”, and therefore not illegal. Bribes are only issued before the desired official act, you see, and their meaning is explicit; a more vague, less vulgarly transactional culture of “gratitude” for official acts, expressed in gifts and payments of great value, is supposed to be something very different. The court has thereby continued its long effort to legalize official corruption, using the flimsiest of pretexts to rob federal anti-corruption statutes of all meaning...
Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
“Officials who use their public positions for private gain threaten the integrity of our most important institutions,” Jackson wrote in dissent.
She said the mayor’s “absurd and atextual reading of the statute is one only today’s court could love.”
The law as written “poses no genuine threat to common gift giving,” she said, but it “clearly covers the kind of corrupt (albeit perhaps non-quid pro quo) payment [the mayor] solicited after steering the city contracts to the dealership.”
The ruling could have a broad impact. About 20 million local and state officials are covered by the federal anti-corruption law, including officials at hospitals and universities that receive federal funds.
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#12 2024-06-27 16:16:21
I keep looking back to see how far down that slippery slope we've slid but I can't see the starting point anymore.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
--William Butler Yeats
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