DL Open Thread Monday, July 11, 2022
Why must we amend the Constitution to ban religion’s exalted place among non-rational belief sytems: The lobbying outfit called the Family Research Council is now considered a religion by the Internal Revenue Service. So is Scientology. So basically religion is nothing but a tax dodge and an opportunity to put bigotry into practice under cover of a constitutionally protected activity. I wasn’t there at the time, but I’m pretty sure that wasn’t what Jefferson had in mind.
Ron DeSantis has taken another step towards proclaiming himself God Emperor of Florida, installing a right-wing kook as elections chief. My question is, why would anyone want to be God Emperor of Florida. Or of Amerika, for that matter?
Still lots of Democratic in-fighting about the tepid White House response to the end of Roe. Critics can always say Biden should do more because no matter what he does it will always be true — he always could have done more.
What’s on your mind? The floor’s yours.
President Biden will emcee the reveal of the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope in a 5pm event tonight:
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/first-james-webb-telescope-photo-unveiled-biden-rcna37549
NASA had planned the reveal for tomorrow morning, but it turns out that would conflict with the J6 hearing, so in a smart move it was moved up a day and Biden was tapped for a prime-time presentation.
Tonight’s preview is a “deep field” which will show galaxies never seen before. This is the first (and probably the best) of the first set of public images. The few images released previously were test/calibration images. NASA will reveal the rest of the set tomorrow morning.
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1546621144358391808?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
I’m an Atheist, as such I could not agree more about religion, it is a tax scam. A tax scam that is getting it’s fingers into the government in a big way, it was religion that toppled Roe vs. Wade. And with a compliant supreme court their going to get what they want, and it will let the red states ban a lot more then Roe. It will be a massive over reach that should remind us all that the court is unchecked in it’s destructive power.
Frank Burns just filed for RD 21 running against Ramone.
Hot Lips his campaign manager?
Actually, I think it’s this guy. The collective IQ of the General Assembly would rise were he to be elected:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-burns-919a139
Radar Love for campaign song. Klinger for background dancer!