I live in the district and Kelly is the worst.  He refuses to have face to face meetings with constituents unless its a very tightly controlled photo op.  He put a crap-ton of stipulations around debates with DiNicolla. 

Prosperity Gospel drives me nuts. Mtw 19: 24" Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” as well as Mtw 16:25 “For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.” pretty much…

I’ve always like “Blessed are the cheesemakers.”

Pumpkins or big cups or GTFU.

We’re a white family living in northern PA. When the Megyn Kelly incident came up, we had to explain to 12 year old daughter what blackface was because it just hadn’t come up yet. As I was explaining what a minstrel show was for background she blurted out “that’s horrible!”  Without being told why its’ bad, she…

The thing that scares the shit out of me on this is, where do we go from here? If we start with only children of US citizens or legal immigrants are citizens, what’s the next group we cut out? What other undesirables don’t get citizenship?  What new threshold do we add?  This action is the first step down a very…

The verses you are citing are getting at the same issue the ministers are raising.  To be a Christian means you may have to split with members of your own house.  When your boss tells orders you to split up families, you must take up your own cross and refuse that orders.  You will be cast out of the (White) house,…

I’ve eaten brains once. I was in China for a business trip, I usually tell the host just to order what they like for me and I’ll be adventurous from there. My host was up front about the brains, and I noped it for the main course, but I said I’d give some a try if someone else ordered it.

Our thoughts and prayers need to go to the victims here. We shouldn’t rush to make laws at this time. We can’t use this crisis to write legislation to single out law-abiding citizens. The guy was just a normal neighbor, no one would have thought he could have done it. It’s just an isolated incident, we can’t use it to…

MacCallum: So if shot at, they would shoot back?

So much this. Once our kids were good to hook on solid food, we started them on the same things we were eating. When their friends come over, it’s always an adventure getting newbies to try tagine, jerk chicken, or fish tacos.  I travel internationally for business, so I bring back pictures of very exotic dishes that…

I’m kind of rooting for a “Wrath of Khan” fakeout death. We have a funeral episode, the audience relaxes, then WHAM - Phil drops dead of an annuerism.  

As a conservative suburban white kid 25 years ago, I had a friend show up in blackface for a Halloween party.  Everyone gave him the side eye and a number of people told him he had gone too far and needed to go wash the makeup off.  If a group of teenagers in the 90's can figure out it’s a bad idea, how the hell can a…

My daughter went to preschool three full days each week. Some of her friends went five days (more for daycare than anything else). We didn’t want or need to pay for the extra days. We told her if she worked really hard, we’d let her go to kindergarten all five days. Everyone go to go to five day kindergarten. This lie…

Yeah, but who’s river caught fire on more than one occasion?

While I agree with your point that freedom of expression doesn’t mean freedom from consequences, in the case of the far/alt-right, its closer to yelling “FIRE!” in a crowded building. With modern communication tech, it’s so easy for them to get their message out to a huge audience with the click of a mouse. There’s no…

As a born and bred Detroiter, there’s some bad sports years on the horizon. The Tigers and the Wings both hung on to aging stars for too long and have a lot of awful losses coming as the go through rebuilds that are five years overdue. The Pistons ray of hope is Blake freaking Griffin, so no hope there.

Of course they’re more efficient, never mind the heat islands they create, the pollution that is centralized there, the runnoff from industrialism that’s created, higher incidences of diseases, and the impact on wildlife - cities are much better. I’m not saying the burbs are perfect but to say city living is the only…

I’m genuinely curious- why is it such a bad thing for you?  I know everyone has different ideas of theirs life, and yours sounds very City-centric. You can see from my posts I’m pretty comfortable in the burbs, what do you have against them?  I’m not trying to start a beef, just get a different perspective?

Technology isn’t displacing labor, it’s changing it. You’re making the same argument the buggy whip manufacturers made when the car came along. 20 years ago, how many people could make a living as a network engineer or an YouTube celebrity? Those same people would have been the CNC operators or cash register repairmen …