Random Politics & Religion #34

Women's March mocked for pre-written press release opposing Supreme Court nominee 'XX'

One tip for making your protests not look like manufactured outrage? Don't leave obvious evidence that you pre-manufactured your outrage.

Sounds obvious, but then again, it's not like we haven't noticed the man behind the curtain for years now. It really isn't worth the effort anymore.

When you March to solve problems that don't exist, you have no reason to ever stop!

I did a fair amount of marching in my youth but it was always to protest something, not to solve anything.

The only thing marching for anything solves is inactivity.

I did a fair amount of marching in my youth but it was always to protest something, not to solve anything.

The only thing marching for anything solves is inactivity.

President Donald Trump pardoned two men on Tuesday who were involved in a dispute with federal authorities over federal land usage that sparked the takeover of a wildlife refuge in Oregon.

Dwight Hammond Jr. and his son Steven Hammond were granted executive grants of clemency by Trump, according to a White House statement. The father-son duo are cattle ranchers and were convicted in 2012 of committing arson on federal lands in Oregon....

The Hammonds said they started a fire on their property in 2001 to protect it from wildfires and reduce the growth of invasive plants, but that the fire got out of hand, CNN affiliate KTBZ-TV reported. Prosecutors said in 2016 they set fires to cover up evidence of poaching.

"The jury convicted both of the Hammonds of using fire to destroy federal property for a 2001 arson known as the Hardie-Hammond fire, located in the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area," Department of Justice said in a statement in January 2016.

The perceived unjust sentence for the Hammonds inspired Ammon Bundy to lead an armed standoff in early 2016, when a group of armed men broke into the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.

At the time, Bundy told CNN that he wanted the federal government to relinquish control of the wildlife refuge so "people can reclaim their resources." He also wanted an easier sentence for Dwight and Steven Hammond, who had both previously rejected his assistance....

Chanti is trying hard to outdo Donny.

Trump Will ‘Defecate All Over Everything’ In Europe

That's what happens when you let Taco Bell cater a NATO summit.

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"The rule transforms the Internet by imposing common-carrier obligations on Internet service providers and thereby prohibiting Internet service providers from exercising editorial control over the content they transmit to consumers," Kavanaugh wrote....

Trump’s Supreme Court pick: ISPs have 1st Amendment right to block websites
Net neutrality violates ISPs' right to edit the Internet, judge wrote.
Ars Technica

It's the end of the internet oh no !

*** Kavanaugh. I hope someone forces him to chug a gallon of Clorox.

Great intelligent perspective CJ. I learned a lot from that.

*** Kavanaugh. I hope someone forces him to chug a gallon of Clorox.

Apparently Rav just made up a SCOTUS opening that no one else knows about.