Because neither one of us is a Christian ;) Pretty straightforward answer! I mostly just like twinkly lights, which I put up, but my husband is anti-tree. Haha.

About to host some small children for a “pancakes and pjs” Christmas party. There will be rum in my egg nog.

i ordered a pizza. but yesterday i roasted a nice piece of salmon with allspice cauliflower and lemony kale. my go-to is roasted chicken with trader joe’s garlic-mustard aioli and crispy roasted potatoes. fool proof and so tasty.

hello wonderful friends

I have a huge daybed/couch but my cat’s uncompromising desire to sit in the middle of it means I’m on the verge of falling off. Hold me, SNS.

Happy Saturday Social, all! After several months away, I’m slowly coming back to the Jez community. I’d love to hear what everyone has been up to!

I’m moving out. I have not lived on my own for eight years. It will be my first time to be on my own with my son as a single mom. I am so excited and so terrified. We got the cutest little apartment and I am spending lots of time thinking about how I’m going to decorate to make it cozy!

Ho ho hooooooo, from my house to yours!

Most have been informative and civil! I think I might have my own credentials after firehouse education on standing

You can’t file suit to contest a law until somebody tries to apply it to you. Said suit will be filed by a woman who has an abortion in Texas. Random people can’t go filing suits, they have to have standing. Meaning, a specific person whom the law affects has to be involved. And Satanic Temple as a religious group…

First, he didn’t save anything... he had Pence force the Indiana taxpayers to subsidize those 800 jobs (which works out to about $9k per job), which is quadruple the incentive given to them last time (which led to hundreds of jobs being lost/automated anyway), simply because he didn’t want to look bad.

That’s not really Texas’s fault or the Satanist church’s fault. In order to file a lawsuit you have to have standing to do so. You typically can’t, as a private citizen, sue the government over a law until that law has actually effected you in a manner that fits the basis for your claim. If their claim was more along…

It’s all bullshit. Those jobs will just disappear next year. It’s still 750 people unemployed after El Cheato said he’d save them all. I’ll bet the remaining jobs get shafted with a pay cut too.

We should all be pleased he’s set a precedent that we have to pay companies (that make millions, even billions in this case) a ransom to keep a handful of their jobs here in the US. Okay. How is this not corporate welfare? What happened to the crushing tariffs that would FORCE companies to stay that he promised…

How’d he save those jobs exactly? Did he rescue them from the well Lassie style?

He won’t walk. A mistrial just means they have to do it all over again.

The issue here is standing. I have a feeling that he would be more than happy to challenge it before a member of his church gets denied the exemption, but he knows that it would be immediately thrown out because he wouldn’t have standing since he can’t file anything on behalf of a non-member. He *has* to wait for a…

To equate anything she does to the work that the Satanists have been doing for years is an affront to their accomplishments.

The Satanic Temple has a large number of atheists who use their “church” as a very effective means to challenge religious encroachment. Atheists have no legally defensible rights (believing in God is protected, not believing is not protected) so they organize under a faith and can fight this crap.

There’s something going on with him, right? He looks fucking miserable. Does he always look this miserable? Up to now, I had managed to avoid seeing Mr. Bieber in action.