The Frankish Reich

Not just some random religious leader. The guy who made the Southern Baptist Convention a conservative political force when he wasn't otherwise preoccupied with boys and young men. Groomer. “Paul Pressler will go down as the biggest hypocrite in Baptist history. He split the Southern Baptist Convention and decimated the ministries of countless seminary professors, denominational workers and pastors, all the while preying upon young men who believed his sanctimonious tripe,” said Marv Knox, former features editor for Baptist Press and later editor of the Texas Baptist Standard. “Thank God, Pressler lived long enough for the truth of his malevolence and debauchery to be known across the SBC and beyond.”

I sure hope it's not any of those 4. Awful choices, like Kamala awful. Burgum? Whatever. Old school Republican. May be able to keep Trump a little bit more stable than otherwise.

The GM/Management spot: Buddy Nix. He sounded dumb and well past his prime in his first media events. His decisions lived up to those impressions. The Old Days spot: Gary Marangi. For a long time he held the record for Worst Starting QB (minimum 4 starts) Ever. 0-7 record, 30.8 QB rating. The New School spot: Nathan Peterman, who arguably managed to surpass Marangi as Worst Starting QB Ever. 32.5 QB rating as a Bill. Then got one Game 17 start with the Bears to vault him well past Marangi on the career loserboard. (what are the chances that one franchise - the Bills - would have the 2 worst ever NFL QBs?) The Coaching spot: a close one. Oh, the names: Kay Stephenson (10-26). Hank Bullough (4-17). Chan Gailey (16-32). And the special Ruined a Team that Appeared Ready to Make the Playoffs Rex Ryan Award that goes to none other than ... Rex Ryan. But when I look back there's really one name that stands out. He was the coach when I first started paying attention to football as a kid. Harvey Johnson. 1-10-1 in 1968 (I don't remember that one), inexplicably brought back as HC in 1971 (that's the one I remember) when he led the Bills to a 1-13 record. (Why on earth did that season make me a lifelong Bills fan?) His wiki page includes this bit of trivia: "It was speculated that Johnson's love of thoroughbred horse racing, a passion he shared with owner Ralph Wilson, allowed him to stay on the Bills payroll despite his poor performance in coaching." Yeah, that must explain it. Not sure any other franchises can match Nix-Marangi-Peterman-Johnson.

Addictive. At least to the weak. That came later. The way "Hamlin" handled that fake punt last year ... I'm not so sure anymore.

Hah! Belongs in the latest Deep State thread. That's nothing. One of the former posters on here ate up this stuff and actually found himself followers. Hey, so did Jim Jones and Charles Manson.

Not surprising. There were huge loopholes even in the policy as announced. This may explain why I haven't heard about any litigation challenging it yet - the immigration advocacy groups may be thinking they'll just leave it alone and assume that the exceptions will swallow the rule. EDIT: Never mind. Here it is - https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/immigrants-rights-groups-sue-biden-administration-over-new-anti-asylum-rule My assumption has always been that the Biden Administration put this new rule out for messaging reasons, knowing (hoping?) that a court would strike it down, thereby allowing them to shift blame back to Congress for not passing the Lankford-Schumer bill. That is actually kind of true.

What's next? The Dollar Store becomes the Two Dollar Store? Hamburger Helper becomes Ground Chicken Helper? Hot Pockets become Pockets of Gold? When will this gouging end?

Six minutes later: Seven minutes after that: Five minutes after that:

ahh, no wonder ... I thought it was something that my well-trained ear could detect

The only shocking thing is that a 3-judge panel of a federal appeals court actually found that these doctors had standing.

Agreed. It's a trash organization.

Clarification - George said this: When asked by CNN host Abby Phillip on Monday night what the “most important question” for both candidates should be in the June 27 debate moderated by the network, Stephanopoulos responded that it should be “very simple.” “Who won the last election?” he said. “Let’s discuss and debate.” Trick question! You might as well be asking "Did you finger bang E. Jean Carroll?" or "Did you actually have sex with Stormy Daniels?" Asking a candidate this kind of Almanac fact is just plain unfair.

Hmm, I know all aboot the first one, but what is the sneaky S? (and I'm proud of being a Canuck spotter ... more than once out here in Colorado I've surprised a tourist by jumping straight to, "so what part of Canada are you from?")

So Mifepristone remains available. Unanimous decision on standing grounds. This was the biggest "standing" stretch we've seen, so no surprise. The idea of the group representing anti-abortion doctors argued: - we know we don't have to prescribe Mifepristone if we don't want to - but we're still harmed because some other doc may prescribe it, some woman prescribed it may have complications, that woman may come to an emergency room where I happen to be working at the time, and I may be required (as part of emergency care) to complete the "abortion" that the Mifepristone initiated.

So today is a gay day?

Resentence them to more prison time!

I trust Sean Davis will blow the lid off all that "could you hoist that Stanley Cup up again so we can get a good shot of you holding it" photos. Fake! Deep Gay Fake!

I'm all for it. On a related point:

I see the little "Truth Social" brand on this. Funny how Mr. Operation Warp Speed now panders to the anti-vax morons.

Ooh, busted! That Sean Davis is right on top of the story. It appears that a local new photographer missed the actual painting and suggested that one of the crew should do a little reenactment. Not just Fraud! Gay fraud! Kind of like the fake "Trump gives a thumbs up to nonexistent fans" posts we've been seeing here ...

Sandy Hook kids - the surviving ones - just graduated from high school. Maybe a good time to recall which side - the mainstream media or the Alex Jones alt media - got that story right.

I have no idea. Can this guy get on a plane? He'd have to go to Mexico, illegally enter, get a court hearing notice, and use that to fly ...

Voter ID fraud! State Republican Chairman voted by showing his home-made ID. Really. https://www.al.com/news/2022/09/alabama-gop-chairs-family-said-voter-id-was-mark-of-the-beast.html He believes biometric IDs are the sign of the beast. Really. Alabama. No need to say "really"

Perhaps Mr. Edward Snowden should be scrutinizing the Kremlin's record of reliable economic statistics.

I had forgotten all about that classic bit.