Merry Generic Winter Day-Off With No Religious Content

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Let's retire this before the new year, shall we?

TM

Inside jokes in their entirety or referring to them in a footnote?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
are the vine grown out behind the projects?

Nice. Yeah, because Thurgreed is black, he must only know about ghetto wine. Your friends in the Detroit suburbs may enjoy your racist humor, but that shit does not fly around here. I was right to warn Penske about you.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/us...=1&oref=slogin

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 — In a letter sent to hundreds of voters this month, Representative Virgil H. Goode Jr., Republican of Virginia, warned that the recent election of the first Muslim to Congress posed a serious threat to the nation’s traditional values.

Mr. Goode was referring to Keith Ellison, the Minnesota Democrat and criminal defense lawyer who converted to Islam as a college student and was elected to the House in November. Mr. Ellison’s plan to use the Koran during his private swearing-in ceremony in January had outraged some Virginia voters, prompting Mr. Goode to issue a written response to them, a spokesman for Mr. Goode said.

In his letter, which was dated Dec. 5, Mr. Goode said that Americans needed to “wake up” or else there would “likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran."
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The fracas over Mr. Ellison’s decision to use the Koran during his personal swearing-in ceremony began last month when Dennis Prager, a conservative columnist and radio host, condemned the decision as one that would undermine American civilization.

“Ellison’s doing so will embolden Islamic extremists and make new ones, as Islamists, rightly or wrongly, see the first sign of the realization of their greatest goal — the Islamicization of America,” said Mr. Prager, who said the Bible was the only relevant religious text in the United States.

Fucking disgusting. And no, I'm not going over to politics. That's all I have to say on this one.

TM

Why should Virginia voters care about the swearing in ceremony for a Minnesota Rep? The bible is the only relevant religous text? Fuck, the ignorance in this country astounds me.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Do not speed or you will be shook down. If you do and get caught, $50 is the standard let-me-go-on-my-way Federale fee.

TM

thanks!!!!

[Replaced_Texan]

I think it's a good thing that people are taking this threat seriously. Lord knows we geeks have been howling into the wind for years on the subject:

UK report says robots will have rights
By Salamander Davoudi in London

Published: December 19 2006 22:01 | Last updated: December 19 2006 22:01

The next time you beat your keyboard in frustration, think of a day when it may be able to sue you for assault. Within 50 years we might even find ourselves standing next to the next generation of vacuum cleaners in the voting booth.

Far from being extracts from the extreme end of science fiction, the idea that we may one day give sentient machines the kind of rights traditionally reserved for humans is raised in a British government-commissioned report which claims to be an extensive look into the future.

Visions of the status of robots around 2056 have emerged from one of 270 forward-looking papers sponsored by Sir David King, the UK government’s chief scientist. The paper covering robots’ rights was written by a UK partnership of Outsights, the management consultancy, and Ipsos Mori, the opinion research organisation.

“If we make conscious robots they would want to have rights and they probably should,” said Henrik Christensen, director of the Centre of Robotics and Intelligent Machines at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Those of us who keep an eye on such things just knew that this report wouldn't have come out of the US. I mean, for christsakes, we sent two rovers to Mars. Thanks to that, by the time humans get there, the whole planet will have been populated with the offspring.

This report makes me much more confident in my decision not to get a roomba.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/us...=1&oref=slogin

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 — In a letter sent to hundreds of voters this month, Representative Virgil H. Goode Jr., Republican of Virginia, warned that the recent election of the first Muslim to Congress posed a serious threat to the nation’s traditional values.

Mr. Goode was referring to Keith Ellison, the Minnesota Democrat and criminal defense lawyer who converted to Islam as a college student and was elected to the House in November. Mr. Ellison’s plan to use the Koran during his private swearing-in ceremony in January had outraged some Virginia voters, prompting Mr. Goode to issue a written response to them, a spokesman for Mr. Goode said.

In his letter, which was dated Dec. 5, Mr. Goode said that Americans needed to “wake up” or else there would “likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran."
_______

The fracas over Mr. Ellison’s decision to use the Koran during his personal swearing-in ceremony began last month when Dennis Prager, a conservative columnist and radio host, condemned the decision as one that would undermine American civilization.

“Ellison’s doing so will embolden Islamic extremists and make new ones, as Islamists, rightly or wrongly, see the first sign of the realization of their greatest goal — the Islamicization of America,” said Mr. Prager, who said the Bible was the only relevant religious text in the United States.

Fucking disgusting. And no, I'm not going over to politics. That's all I have to say on this one.

TM

Frankly, I have an equal objection to using the Bible, the Koran, the Torah or any other religious text in this sort of thing. I think the whole idea of swearing on a religious text is misguided and wrong.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
are the vines grown out behind the projects?

I don't get the joke. Is this "you're a black guy, the ghetto is funny" joke?

TM

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Frankly, I have an equal objection to using the Bible, the Koran, the Torah or any other religious text in this sort of thing. I think the whole idea of swearing on a religious text is misguided and wrong.

Well, look who just came along and took a big shit in the creche. But not until after she used the Baby Jesus figurine as a sex toy. And what a surprise . . . it's the Godless Canadian. Where are we on getting that border wall erected?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Inside jokes in their entirety or referring to them in a footnote?

Forget retiring inside jokes entirely. They're stupid (especially when only the poster and one other person gets it), but they'll always be around. I meant the ridiculous footnote trend that fringe started and you picked up.

TM

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
You're welcome.

See? It really is the spirit of the holidays. I know you don't much like me and yet, I come to your aid.

ew.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Frankly, I have an equal objection to using the Bible, the Koran, the Torah or any other religious text in this sort of thing. I think the whole idea of swearing on a religious text is misguided and wrong.

I don't disagree. But I think the larger issue is the fact that these assholes don't think any Muslim should be eligible for office.

And the official swearing-in ceremony does not use religious text. It's the private ceremony where it was used.

"They noted that the Constitution specifically bars any religious screening of members of Congress and that the actual swearing in of those lawmakers occurs without any religious texts. The use of the Bible or Koran occurs only in private ceremonial events that take place after lawmakers have officially sworn to uphold the Constitution."

TM

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I don't get the joke. Is this "you're a black guy, the ghetto is funny" joke?

TM

no. I would have done it if Taxwonk had posted it. It was a bad joke on the name. Carini........Cabrini-

obviously a missed mark.

[SEC_Chick]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I think it's a good thing that people are taking this threat seriously. Lord knows we geeks have been howling into the wind for years on the subject:
Those of us who keep an eye on such things just knew that this report wouldn't have come out of the US. I mean, for christsakes, we sent two rovers to Mars. Thanks to that, by the time humans get there, the whole planet will have been populated with the offspring.

This report makes me much more confident in my decision not to get a roomba.

It's all well and good until they rebel. And they have a plan.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
no. I would have done it if Taxwonk had posted it. It was a bad joke on the name. Carini........Cabrini-

obviously a missed mark.

I would have gotten it if you had changed the name to Carini Green.

TM

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
no. I would have done it if Taxwonk had posted it. It was a bad joke on the name. Carini........Cabrini-

obviously a missed mark.

Now that I understand what your intended joke was, I am thinking maybe you should have let us stick with the racist interpretation.