The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a football coach who conducted prayers in the 50-yard line.
You read it here first: This case may be a prelude to overturning the Supreme Court’s ban on prayer in schools, a decision that evangelicals have complained about since it was issued. As we have seen in the past week, this Court is indifferent to precedent. They are rightwing ideologues who want to redraw the well-understood rights, freedoms, and boundaries of American life. No one knows what to expect: Will they outlaw contraception? Will they outlaw same-sex relationships and marriage? Will they outlaw interracial marriage? Will they overturn Brown v. Board of Education? Will they restore the power to impose racial segregation to the states? The Trump three plus Alito, Thomas, and Roberts are a supermajority; they are appointed for life. They will do whatever they want, with no accountability.
Peter Greene writes that the Court has no understanding of the duties of a school official.
It has become increasingly clear—blindingly obvious—that this Court will always favor religious expression over all competing claims. Six justices have completely abandoned the Founding Fathers’ explicit belief in separation of church and state and their determination to avoid any “establishment” of religion.
Greene writes:
I am absolutely gobsmacked. I expected that SCOTUS would okay school prayer via Kennedy v. Bremerton School District. I did not expect that their decision would be based on a disconnecting themselves from reality.
The result is here. I’ll walk you through the highlights (sputtering as I go). Sorry. I don’t have time to make this short.
This is the case of the football coach who wanted to pray at the 50 yard line after games, and when the district told him to stop, decided he’d get his fifteen minutes of holy fame out of it. Full summary here.
Justice Gorsuch wrote this one, and he’s in an alternate reality in the very first paragraph.Joseph Kennedy lost his job as a high school football coach because he knelt at midfield after games to offer a quiet prayer of thanks.
Nope. Joseph Kennedy decided not to put in for the job for another season.
Mr. Kennedy prayed during a period when school employees were free to speak with a friend, call for a reservation at a restaurant, check email, or attend to other personal matters.
This line of reasoning will be followed throughout. If you’re on the clock, but can get away with dividing your attention, that counts as personal time. Not for the last time, Gorsuch and the berobed conservative activists of the court will demonstrate no understanding of how school jobs work. As a teacher, if I’m on my computer or phone while I’m supposed to be supervising students, I’m asking for trouble. And if I’m a coach or activity advisor, and my students have not officially left the building for home, then I had better be doing my job, which is keeping an eye on them.
What follows is a glowing version of Coach Kennedy’s history with the school, putting emphasis on how quiet and personal and totally not while performing his duties as a government employee Kennedy’s praying was. We will have to wait for the dissent to get the full story from this planet. What Gorsuch gets semi-right is that this practice stayed below the radar for a while, until Kennedy had expanded it enough that word got back to district officials, who had a church-and-state-separation freakout.
But Kennedy had an epiphany driving home one night, and felt “compelled” to do the prayer, and send a big letter to the district, in which he offered to do the prayer quietly “while students were busy with other activities–whether heading to the locker room, boarding the bus, or perhaps singing the school fight song” which–no! The offer of “I’ll just slip a prayer in when I’m supposed to be doing my job” is not a great offer!
On October 16, “some members of the community” joined him and “this event spurred media coverage.” Well, yes– as the dissent points out, Kennedy spurred, courted, welcomed and recruited media coverage, as well as (not for the first time) participation from the other team. The district continued to put pressure on, feeling that to not do so would suggest they were endorsing a school prayer, and that their understanding of the Constitution would be that such an endorsement was wrong. How very old school of them.
The district noted in their evaluation that Kennedy failed to supervise students after games and failed to follow district policy regarding religious expression. Kennedy decided not to put in for the job for the coming year….
Please open the link and read Greene’s post in full. Will students now have to put up with teachers opening and closing their classes with a prayer?
We have a Supreme Court that will privilege every form of prayer, in every setting, and will allow those with religious convictions to discriminate against those who do not share their views.
Is theocracy the right word?
Thomas Jefferson must be rolling in his grave.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I just read about the results of a recent NPR poll that shows Democrats that weren’t considering voting in 2022 are being galvanized to vote by the decisions of US Supreme Court’s conservative militant Junta.
Since the Fascist Republican Party has been using a fear/hate carrot to lure many of their voters to the polls for decades over issues such as:
The right to own firearms and shoot anyone you want legally – they already had that in stand your ground states, now thanks to the Supreme Fascist Junta, they are so close to turning the US into a shooting gallery and anyone and anything can be a legal target to shoot at.
The right to be born even if it kills your mother or she doesn’t want a baby for any reason like being raped by her father, brother, an uncle, someone with the last name Trump, a GOP Senator or Congress Freak, or even by a conservative justice of the Supreme Fascist Junta,
And prayer at any time, anywhere – in the classroom, a programed fundamentalist child of nine gets the urge to pray to their god of hate and vengeance to get rid of the teacher because he/she didn’t “give” him/her the grade they wanted, so they drop out of their seat to their knees and start praying for devine intervention loud enough so everyone else hears. Then another child takes out their Glock from it’s shoulder holster and shoots the teacher dead, because that nine year old felt threatened, and they live in a stand-your-ground state so all they have to do is tell the police, “I felt threatened”, and they get to go home a hero knowing full well that the Supreme Fascist Junta would find them innocent if that murder case went to court..
Censorship of books someone don’t want anyone to read because they do not fit in the narrow confines of what they want everyone else to think because that’s what they think.
Now those voters may not have a reason to vote anymore since they are finally getting everything they wanted.
If that NPR pole turns out correct… well, use your imagination.
Lloyd, have you ever wondered how many abortions Trump has paid for? For decades in NYC, he was the town’s playboy.
Trump is the best argument for abortion going.
If Trump’s mother had aborted him, it would have saved everyone a lot of grief, not least of all her and Donald’s siblings.
Thinking of that many times, Diane.
The equal protection clause of the 14 th amendment, what you do for one religion you must do for all religions. Even Taliban
There you go again. Accurately conveying the meaning of a part of the Constitution. How passé in this day and age! As we now see, equal protection will be for some, but it will also be enshrined in the law to look like it covers everyone.
De jure may never be de facto again.
My father was an episcopal priest who had his children sent to the library when bible was taught in the classroom. I used to love it because I got to read books about dinosaurs, the ones that didn’t exist with humans. Yes, in the South we have basically ignored the separation of church and state. I always found it laughable when southern politicians railed about the collapse of America that came from our inability to pray in schools. The fact that there was actual prayer around the flag pole or before, during, and after athletic events could be evidence that prayer has not prevented said collapse. In the Gospels, Jesus actually tells us to not be boastful with our faith. He even goes as far as to tell us to pray in private. The sham of this coach’s behavior is not that he exhibits profound piety, but that he is a showboat. It looks like the grand inquisitors in the Supreme Court are model pharisees.
“Baptists don’t recognize each other at the liquor store.”
While we “Whiskypalians” proudly keep said stores in the black. Many Baptists in the South left the Southern Baptists so they wouldn’t
have to wear disguises at such establishments anymore…
“I like beer…and by the way, in case anyone asks, you never saw me here”– Brett K.
Beer did not make Brett a jolly good fellow.
He might like beer but I bet those around him when he is drinking don’t.
Based on what I have seen and heard, I’d guess it makes him beerligerent.
Please watch the 1/6 hearings.
Fascinating.
Just showed clip of General Mike Flynn, asked if he believes in the peaceful transition of power. He took the 5th.
The U.S. may borrow the method of smoke to announce the transition among theocrats.
I can’t believe he tried to grab the steering wheel. I didn’t think I could be shocked anymore. I am.
Paul: I have always wondered how “when you pray go into a closet” plays in a game which is governed by the rule of biblical literalism
I know I keep saying this, but Christian Sharia law is coming our way. And if that isn’t bad enough, technically, I’m Jewish, and you know, eventually they’ll be coming for us. Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Atheists (that’s me too) are all in trouble.
Maybe that’s the right term for the current Supreme Court.
The Christian Sharia Court
I think the right term for this current Supreme Court is that it is a junta — just like they have in many South American countries.
And, Romney’s religion won’t be safe either.
Nope. I tell members of my faith this. If they support these decisions, know that this group WILL come for us, because we are considered Christians.
This is one of the things that perplexes me about certain sects of some religions. You are both quite correct that the so-called evangelical right does not consider Mormons to be Christian, but they will tolerate them in the short- to medium-term. Same thing with Jews in Israel. How can their government be so cozy with right wing evangelicals? Both Mormons and Jews will be among the first to be discarded when their Rapture happens.
It’s when formal religions play these pragmatic power games that causes a lot of us to not take them seriously. This kind of behavior doesn’t jibe with their stated morals and beliefs.
I can think of no better way to start an exodus from red states than allowing prayer in public schools.
For 7 years this so-called COACH strong-armed his players into post game 50 yard line prayer fests. A shameless spectacle! The School District offered him an off-field prayer location which he refused. Paid leave, suspension and finally a firing followed.
The right-wingers bankrolled his lawsuit all the way to SCOTUS. They were waiting for him with Open Arms.
Any religious among those right wing funders? Any amicus briefs from say, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty on behalf of the USCCB?
Btw- Ravitch commenters, the Catholic church would like continued
support as they work, as the most powerful right wing religious group involved, to take away civil rights, put women’s lives in jeopardy and to rob us of freedom from religion. But, keep it on the down low. Their immunity card guarantees their politicking will not be publicly exposed or criticized. As example, read the comment threads that follow posts about Roe, Espinosa, Makin, Biel, and praying at football games.
What we have here are Religious Exhibitionists who get their jollies shoving their Religious Dictates in other people’s faces.
Nailed it
Kennedy wanted to be a test case for the new Christian Sharia Court. He got what he was after.
It’s the branch of Christianity that broke off to follow Jesus’ twin brother: Jesus S Christ.
In Catcher in the Rye, that was Jesus H. Christ. Preceded, of course, by a ripping fart in the middle of an assembly. Still makes me laugh.
Allow me to explain
Yes, Jesus H. Christ is the well known Christ, normally referred to as simply Jesus Christ
But what is not widely known is that he had a twin brother, Jesus S Christ
Where S stands for ” Sharia”
Hence the response to the comment about the Christian Sharia Court
There is a climbing wall in Utah (Big Cottonwood canyon) called Jesus H. Christ On a Bicycle Wall.
Word has it that Jesus was spotted there riding a bicycle, but I doubt it because it was pretty steep.
But then again, it us Jesus we are talking about.
And when you have to explain a joke, it kinda loses it’s punch.
Religious Exhibitionists – brilliant. I had been thinking for a while that this coach didn’t want to pray – he wanted to SHOW he was praying. He wanted his players to pray with him as a show prayer.
It’s not meaningful. Meaningful prayer by those who actually are believers instead of exhibitionists is not for other people. It is for yourself.
It’s like so many right wingers who are patriot exhibitionists. They aren’t patriotic, but they do like exhibiting themselves to others to have them admire their patriotism.
If I actually believed the nonsense believed by the supermajority on this Extreme Court, then, in fact, U.S. democracy would be way, way down my list of priorities. One of the essential, defining characteristics of Christian belief is contemptus mundi: contempt for matters of this world, which simply lack importance compared to eternal matters. So, there is a fundamental disconnect here between democratic values and Christian ones.
It’s not just democratic values that are at stake with this Court.
It’s the fate of Earth’s climate and the ability of the EPA to regulate any pollutants whatsoever.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/27/looming-us-supreme-court-climate-decision-could-doom-hope-livable-future
And given the corporate sychophancy of these Just-asses, I am not optimistic.
Only a direct beneficiary of their rulings or a complete moron would willingly afford so few individuals such extreme power.
Unfortunately, our country is full of both types.
Particularly the latter
The Praying Mantis
Praying Mantis
Crouched in prayer
Waits to draw
The district fire
Traps it’s prey
In legal jaws
Prayer in school
Was basal cause
Cowering is always ugly- kids made to kneel before Coach Kennedy’s white God of patriarchy who brings condemnation on gay people.
Make no mistake: the Supreme Majority knew full well what was going on and chose to ignore the facts of the case.
They chose to simply go with the “story” provided by those bringing the suit (Kennedy’s lawyers and to ignore the overwhelming evidence that it was , in reality, what a court of appeals judge had previously called a “deceitful narrative”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/27/supreme-court-takes-wrecking-ball-separation-church-and-state-prayer-ruling
But cherry picking to “prove” ones case is standard practice among lawyers. I think they must take courses on how to do it in college
I can’t wait to see how they cherry pick the EPA case linked above to get the result they want.
Of course, even when they aren’t cherrypicking , having a bunch of lawyers ruling on an environmental (or any sort of health or safety critical scientific matter) is downright frightening.
To me, this excerpt from Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent is telling: “In the process, the Court rejects longstanding concerns surrounding government endorsement of religion and re- places the standard for reviewing such questions with a new ‘history and tradition’ test.”
A “history and tradition test” is the basis for fascist thinking. It elevates age old prejudices to relevant precedent.
Exactly. And for a reason. The Supreme Court asks: Was this done when only privileged white men could vote? Then it is precedent.
It is a sign of the media’s failure that this is not called out for what it is.
If the right wing “elite” who Adam Liptak at the NYT loves to quote said a bare naked Trump had the most beautiful outfit in the world, I would expect Liptak to write “Trump had on a beautiful outfit, says the respected and admired William Barr. Trump-haters disagree.”
It is not surprising that the Supreme Court could say what happened centuries ago is “precedent” but what happened for the last 50 years is not. They know they can do so with impunity with Liptak at the NYT, fawning over Amy Coney Barrett during her hearings and giving his “both sides equally valid but the right wing justices are especially brilliant with unimpeachable integrity” coverage.
There were two nuggets in the Dobbs dissent, by Kagan, I believe:
“Of course, the majority opinion refers as well to some
later and earlier history. On the one side of 1868, it goes
back as far as the 13th (the 13th!) century….Second–and embarrass-
ingly for the majority-early law in fact does provide some
support for abortion rights.”
Each far right Supreme Court decision is based on “precedent” and “original intent” that is ENTIRELY based on whatever date in history — 300 years ago or 5 years ago — corresponds with the far right white-supremacist-friendly outcome those far right justices want.
It’s nonsensical, but still the right wing normalizing journalists like Adam Liptak will ignore now nonsensical it is. If a far right justice says a naked Trump is clothed,that makes it a valid opinion. If the far right justices invoke the 13th century and ignore the 12th century and 14th century onward in one opinion, and then invoke the 18th century and ignore the 17th century and the 19th century onward in another opinion, no doubt Litwak will still admire the brilliant legal argument that supports the majority right wing opinions.
That’s not following the law. It is cherry picking random judges from history, no matter how reprehensible those men are, and citing them as precedent to justify a far right opinion. And they do this knowing that cowardly reporters at the NYT will always normalize and legitimize their opinion by their non-stop “both sides equal” reporting.
That is the sad outcome of the lack of real journalism among reporters like Litwak. The Republicans realized that no matter how outrageous and fact-free their opinion is, the NYT will always say “it’s the Republican opinion, so we need to present it in every story as being equally valid as the Democrats’ truth and we cannot tell readers that it is a lie but we can meet our journalist standards by including a quote that informs readers that some partisan democrat disagrees.”
Once the Republicans started realizing that there was no point in stretching the truth, because the Republicans realized that so-called “liberal” newspaper would treat their blatant lies the same way as their stretching the truth — presenting their blatant as just as valid as anything the Dems said — the Republicans went full out Big Lie. Nothing was holding them back but their own integrity and they had none.
This extremist SCOTUS is doing the exact same thing the anti-CRT extremists do, throwing out history.
The founder of the 1776 PAC that funds the campaigns of school board members opposed to CRT is Ryan Girdusky. He has a 2014 interview posted at Pat Buchanan’s site. It references a watershed moment- the selection of Justice Scalia as it related to the objectives of the religious right.
I actually think Roberts was important because he was disarming.
People got complacent because they figured as long as he was in control, he would not allow any justice to do anything that would threaten the credibility of the court.
I think we have seen that both assumptions were wrong.
First, he is clearly no longer in control and arguably has not been for some time now.
And second, he has actually sided with several majority rulings based on naked ideology that quite clearly showed no concern (if not utter contempt) for the reputation and credibility of the court.
Roberts will now go down in history as having overseen the demise of the credibility of the Supreme Court in the public eye. They will still have the power but they won’t garner any respect.
Roberts might as well resign because he is washed up.
I suspect even his colleagues on the court are probably saying as much behind his back.
Agree- Poet
Unfortunately, no matter how good the liberal, dissenting voices on the Court are, they are tarred by the association.
The first thing Roberts did as chief justice was side with Citizens United. Ruling that corporations are people and money is speech cast serious doubt about his decision making. Then, he spent some time doing damage control. He was never moderate. He was just guilty and afraid.
LeftCoast
In my opinion, they are not throwing out history as much as they are rewriting it.
Along with rewriting the “interpretation” of the Constitution to fit their ideology.
Roberts’ Constitutional law professor at Harvard, Lawrence Tribe must be just despondent over what his student and his pals have done to the Court and to the Constitution.
They have literally torn up the latter.
Here’s what Tribe just wrote on Twitter:
“I’m old enough to remember when “alternative facts” weren’t a thing Supreme Court Justices would invent in order to drive a religious and political results-driven agenda they took with them to the Court. With religion, abortion, and guns this bunch has.”
And he linked to an article about the Kennedy ruling that was based on lies:
The Supreme Court hands the religious right a big victory by lying about the facts of a case
Kennedy v. Bremerton School District is a big victory for the religious right, but only because Gorsuch misrepresents the facts of the case.
https://www.vox.com/2022/6/27/23184848/supreme-court-kennedy-bremerton-school-football-coach-prayer-neil-gorsuch
Lies, damned lies, statistics and Supreme Court rulings
Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics and Supreme Court Rulings”
There’s several kind of lies
And some are worse than others
But when it comes to prize
Supreme lie has no brothers
These clowns are very inspiring (sadly)
I think it’s lies, damn lies and republican talking points.
I think the entire Ivy League should take the entirety of their endowments and give women reparations. They’re the ones who have developed all of these justices and right wing politicians like Cruz, Hawley and the like.
One lie from the Supremes can affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
Or even billions if (when) they lie about the EPA ruling they are about to hand down.
Thank you for the information, SomeDAM. Two things slightly off topic I’ve been thinking about: I do not think you are Hysterical Poet (I don’t like the hystory of the word hysterical. It’s related to hysterectomy.); I think you are Harrowed Poet.
Also, I was thinking about the misuse of HB-1 visas to fill positions that U.S. citizens are plenty qualified to fill that you reiterated the other day. My district hired a whole bunch of teachers on HB-1s a few years ago to teach Mandarin. When we went on strike, the district tried to threaten the Mandarin teachers with rescinding their visas if they supported our strike. That didn’t work out. But they tried.
It turns out there was actually a strategyy/plan put together by government and industry to use h1bs to control wages of scientists and engineers in the US.
I kid you not. Our tax dollars at work to hurt our own scientists and engineers.
Eric Weinstein studied the issue and summarizes the basic findings here
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/how-why-government-universities-industry-create-domestic-labor-shortages-of-scientists-high-tech-workers
I never did a study, but his findings comport with my observations made when I worked in the tech industry.
Years ago, Silicon Valley company officials were charged with colluding to keep the salaries of the top IT guys down.
And Steve Jobs, celebrated and almost worshiped by the public as some sort of God, was behind it. He was so greedy that he just couldn’t let the people who actually made Apple a success — the engineers — get what they deserved.
Jobs was a dishonest piece of crap. For years he even denied paternity of his own daughter.
But despite their singleminded pursuit of money — or maybe because of it — people like Jobs and Gates and Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg and Page and Cook are treated like Royalty by the American leadership and public nonetheless.
I hope they keep appearing before Congress and in cowboy hats next to rocket spaceships to dampen their propaganda inspired personas.
Senator Ted Kennedy was behind a lot of the propaganda about the supposed STEM shortage and supposed need to address it via a flood of H1B visas.
I was living in Massachusetts at the time and simply could not understand why otherwise very intelligent people never questioned a word the guy said. Massachusetts is a good example of the fact that that education level does it necessarily correlate with good decisions.
Paul
Elena Kagan is also a product of the Ivy League (Harvard). But she is definitely in the minority — and not just on the Court.
And I agree with your proposal to use of the hundreds of billions collective endowments to pay reparations to all of the people exploited over the centuries by these elite schools.
To top it all off and add insult to injury, We the People (American taxpayers) fund these mostly private universities to the tune of billions of dollars in research grants every single year. Harvard alone takes in over half a billion dollars of our tax dollars every year, which is effectively used to grow their endowment, since its money they would otherwise have to take from the endowment and/or interest made thereon.
Every public dollars granted to private schools like Harvard is one that is taken away from publicly funded schools that could just ss easily do the research.
Truly public schools, eg state universities
Long past time to put an end to this gravy train for private schools
One major correction
I referred to Elena Kagan above as a “product of the Ivy League (Harvard)”
But that implies Harvard is responsible for how she turned out.
Every indication is that just the opposite is true. She turned out the way she did despite having gone to Harvard — not because of it.
And don’t even get me going on Harvard law grad and “Constitutional Scholar” Barack Obama, who told a reporter in public that (then Bradley, now Chelsey) Manning “broke the law” at a time before Manning had even had a day in court.
Obama obviously believed (and probably still believes) that being charged with a crime is the same as being guilty( of breaking the law). Guilty until proven innocent, right? Isn’t that what the Constitution says?
I wonder if he learned that from his Constitutional law prof at Harvard, Laurence Tribe.
Sure , Obama eventually commuted Manning’s sentence but only after she had to endure years of what one UN official described as psychological torture in jail.
But in fairness to Tribe, I have to say that maybe his students Roberts and Obama just slept through and/or skipped all his classes at Harvard while Elena Kagan paid diligent attention. And who knows, maybe Roberts and Obama had a legitimate excuse: the need to party and stay out late the nights before early classes. Everyone knows that real Ivy men need to do that.
Tribe also criticized the Supreme Majority (which included his student Roberts) for creating alternate facts (known as “lies” among the nonHawvid grads (aka uneducated unwashed masses) to support their dishonest (and undoubtedly unlawful) Kennedy ruling.
So there’s that going in his favor.
re: ineteconomics link: OMG, SDP. I finally have a “proof of the pudding” article to pair with my 2014 IEEE article “The STEM Crisis is a Myth.” Thank you!
You can thank Eric Weinstein who did the sleuthing.
My own evidence from personal experience is just anecdotal, but was enough at the time to convince me that the claims being made by companies at the time of a severe lack of qualified American applicants and hence need to greatly increase H1B allotments simply didn’t jibe with reality.
Among other things, I had worked with a large number of highly competent software developers who lacked Computer “Science” (sic) degrees (which many companies were — not coincidentally — demanding of applicants. It was one of their ploys for claiming a lack of qualified American applicants)
The competent folks I worked with had degrees in a wide array of STEM related areas (mechanical, electrical, chemical, industrial, nuclear, engineering, biology, geology, physics, chemistry, math, and even philosophy) and in many cases (like mine) had essentially picked up programming skills on the fly. They had all the skills, just not the CS degree.
Ironically, I also worked with a lot of CS grads, but often found them inferior to the others at problem solving. The CS grads were generally good at writing code, but that’s actually one of the later tasks in any decent software development process. When it came to doing all the thinking and analysis that should — must — necessarily precede the coding, they just were not as good as engineers and real scientists. In fact, I’d have to say that the CS grads were all too often gung ho to jump into coding before they had sufficiently considered the other aspects of the process like specification, design, etc.
The latter type are known as coding monkeys (because you could train a monkey to do what they do)
When I taught, we were told if you wanted group prayer on school grounds, it had to be done before school. So, groups that wanted to prayer for whatever cause, “Met at the Pole.” No one was forced, but not during the regular school day as a group. I have always loved a cartoon where they football coach said, “God was on our side today.” Meanwhile, God was watching hockey.
The one time I might have liked Dylan better than a cover .
Great version of this.
After today’s Jan. 6 hearing, one thing about which we can all likely agree – 2016 should be the last year that we let God choose the President of the United States.
The odd thing is, I can actually visualize the Idiot lunging at the Secret Service agent. That would be an impossible visualization with any other president.
I had a hard time reconciling the lunch-throwing tantrum by the leader of the free world.
Barr, Cipillone, Pence etc. were on board with Trump’s behavior pattern for some time. I guess men behaving badly is a norm in GOP homes which would explain a lot about voting.
Mary Trump in her book told the family story about the time her father, the older brother, picked up a bowl of mashed potatoes, and dumped it on his brother Donald’s head. I’ve had the same impulse but never the opportunity.
Ketchup on the White House walls. Not grownup food, ketchup. That child needed a nap.
Ketchup on the walls. Toddler in the house. Clearly.
Dumping a bucket of steaming raw sewage on the Dump’s head would be more fitting and more satisfying.
But seriously, folks. How much does it say about a person’s (I use the term loosely here) sense of entitlement, unaccountability, selfishness, and sheer lack of any sense of decency to throw a plate against a wall in a fit of rage? A whole lot about how little is there, I think.
Throwing your plate with food against the wall says man-baby, spoiled brat, sore loser.
Diane is right. In other Republican homes, men like Trump punch holes in the walls.
Making it hard for me to keep my Global Entry.
Karin Yates poses this fascinating question:
Is there a major crime that Trump hasn’t committed?
IKR? Tough one.
The crime of decency, the worst crime of all in America.
PARENT: What are you doing, Coach Shepherd?
COACH S: Drawing sigils.
PARENT: Signals, as in signs between players?
COACH S: No, sigils, as in magical symbols from Grimoires.
PARENT: What on Earth?
COACH S: Thanking the Dark Lord for our Victory over Father Coughlin High.
PARENT: Are you allowed to do that?
COACH S: SCROTUS decision, Kennedy v. Bremerton. This is a private prayer.
PARENT: But you are doing it on the 50-yard line in front of reporters and parents and students
COACH S: You might want to stand back. This is now a manifestation zone. I’m calling up a demon.
PARENT: How do you do that?
COACH S: You write the name backward, like this [writes R E L L I M N E H P E T S; hands chalk to PARENT]. Here: you try one [spells out name as PARENT writes]: N O N N A B E V E T S
SCOTUS and Scrotums
SCOTUS
And Scrotums
Both of them sacks
See* men
And semen
Leaving their tracks
*The Holy See (the Pope)
Utah Republican lawmaker Karianne Lisinonbee’s advice to women “To control the intake of semen” is also critical to avoiding the need to abort the Supreme Court
We got where we are today because the US Senate failed (miserably) it’s duty to control the intake of See men
“Senators, put a condom on it, for Lard’s sake!”
Senate Condomation
A condom for the Senate
The Kavanaughs to quench
An honest See men edit
To keep them off the bench
Partial Birth Abortion
A partial birth abortion
Is what the task would be
Impeaching Justice portion
That follow Holy See
AOC, among others has proposed abortion/impeachment (for lying) but I am not optimistic, which is to say it has no chance of succeeding.
See of Liars
A Holy See of liars
That flood the current bench
A See with lying priors
That emanate a stench
Godless Constitution —
America’s Constitution is a Godless Constitution — and that’s the way America’s Founding Fathers wanted it to be, and the way it should be to protect personal freedom.
America’s Founding Fathers refused to include God in the Constitution. At the very start of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, deist Benjamin Franklin asked whether or not to begin the Convention with a prayer — that was rejected by the delegates. When the writing of the Constitution was finished, Constitutional Convention Delegate Benjamin Rush got up and asked if it was intentional that God — let alone Jesus and Christianity — was left out of the Constitution. He received an affirmative response from our Founding Fathers and the other delegates. Founding Father John Adams said “the government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” Progressives didn’t remove religion from schools or anywhere else — our Founding Fathers did that because they knew our nation would be torn apart with battles over which religion would be “America’s religion” and which religion people would be compelled to belong to, just as our Founding Fathers had been compelled to join the official government Anglican religion of England.
Instead, our Founding Fathers gave us the First Amendment that allows us freedom to belong to any religion we choose or to not belong to any religion. Their wisdom has worked very well for America, but now our Founding Fathers’ wisdom is under attack — as is so much of our Constitution — by “conservatives” who can’t stand that other Americans have the freedom to not share their ideology or religious beliefs.
Thanks.
Your posts offer very pertinent and interesting historical background.
It’s clear that you are very knowledgeable of the history .
Are you an historian?
A teacher of US history?
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OK, thanks for this, SCOTUS. You do have a sense of humor after all. This decision was so sloppily argued—so blatantly fraudulent—so out there on Planet 9– that by just one day later, I am ROFLMAO. Bless Justice Sotomayor, a picture [newspaper photo] worth 1000 words is paperclipped to her dissent. I thought immediately– before even reading Peter Greene’s blog post & its first comment– about how the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster needs to stage the first protest. At a 50yd-line after a hisch football game somewhere in America, with a Pastafarian in colander helmet leading prayers.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Your last comment brings Mate Wierdi to mind. Wasn’t your former picture (on your comments posted here), Mate, of you wearing an upside -down colander on your head? (I always loved that, along w/your comments.)