So, for non-practitioners, the big takeaway appears to be that Satanists, while not abjectly harmful or “evil”, are not inclined to do anything for others unless there is some measurable benefit for them? That, in a crisis, they may turn on you or sell you out for their own ends, but on the other hand, it won’t be a…

With a big side-helping of “every one for themselves” apparently, but, yeah.

I never miss an opportunity to remind tragically misinformed Polanski apologists what a piece of filth he is, usually by pulling up the link to the victim’s grand jury testimony and letting them read it. Somehow I was unaware of this poem, and I am indebted to you for introducing me to it!

“Yes sir, the polycarbonate lens functioned exactly as specced out, and did not crack or shatter despite being impacted by a 9mm parabellum round at a distance of less than 10 feet. Likewise, the carbyne-graphene composite frames suffered no structural damage to speak of.”

Let me save you a trip: http://www.spigames.net/PDFv2/AirWar.pdf

Came here to look for an AirWar reference, cheers!

“I can make far better deals with foreign countries than Congress.”

For my two cents, Dunkirk is a brilliant piece of filmmaking, but barely a ‘war movie’. War movies, for my two cents, are centered on the conflict, and are usually focused on the outcome, whether defeat or victory.

Ooh, or a belted stretcher with a comfy pillow, and they can stack you like, three high to keep the fares down,

This has been my vision for years! You change out of your street clothes, put on a comfy airline onesie and take your seat. The nice attendant comes by with a try of those little paper cups, smiles and asks, “Grape or orange?”

My gay minister certainly seems to think so...

as the average religious institution, particularly the Judeo-Christian sort, will not accept that their presence and/or belief in their Lord is not necessary in order for good to be done in the world,

Sure, it’s foolish and borderline delusional to believe in things that cannot be empirically proven. Those who live their lives committed to the irrational are hard to trust. People committed to things like “good”, or “love”, or perhaps most laughably “justice” are modern day Quixotes, tilting at cynical windmills…

Lack of professional judgement notwithstanding, the complete absence of empathy on display here would leave me gobsmacked even if this so-called joke was perpetrated on adults.

Bedbugs.

Does the image in that top GIF remind anyone else of an apparently prescient arcade game from the 80s?

Your compassion runs through the entirety of that post; you are far too good a human to have undergone such tragedy, but thank you for the lesson.

I hear you; we recently astonished my sister-in-law when we took a 4-person sofa home in our 2010 Flex, and got the old sectional off-premises with it too.

I think it’s his trading on that day on an almost constant-basis ever since and his more reprehensible acts (like leveraging 9/11 to stoke racialist fears and encourage an insular and xenophobic mindset) in the interim that have caused the resentment.

Prepare yourself for a blurry backstage photo of Kevin Spacey in the makeup chair with a nasty facial cut revealing either a metal endoskeleton or a scaly reptilian underskin; it’s nearly the only way they can outpace the madness of 2017 political coverage.