Catholic Church spends nearly $11 million on LOBBYISTS to fight sex abuse lawsuits

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2019:

Almost bad enough to make me wish there was a Hell for these fuckers to go to.

US government is running out of money faster than expected, Mnuchin warns - CNNPolitics

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2019:

Well, well, well,

Pence shows his poor intelligence

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2019:

An exercise in Plausible deniability... Pence portrait of a man trying desperately *Not* to notice the people on the other side of the fence.

Catholic bishop to rain down ‘holy water' from helicopter in ‘mass exorcism' over city - Story |...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2019:

This story has been doing the rounds for a couple of months now

In the beginning..

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2019:

Love Douglas Adams

Ya. Like Sheryl's she shed...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2019:

It's Cheryl's not Sheryl's My daughter Cheryl really freaks out when it is spelled incorrectly.

Negative personality traits?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2019:

It seems I often come across as confrontational and or condescending regardless of my intent. Something I have had to deal with all my life, but something I have had to come to terms with being not my problem or something I can do anything about.

"How Dare They Take Away My Right to Education.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2019:

A truly inspiring story of a genuine hero.

I do pretty well at getting questions on Jeopardy right.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2019:

One of the few benefits of my hyper religious upbringing is that I know the Bible and the scriptures inside out. Really pisses of Missionaries and theists when I know the bible better than they do.

[facebook.com] It is getting more and more difficult to distinguish between fact and satire

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2019:

Reality is becoming a satire of history. "Hyperreality is the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality, especially in technologically advanced societies." Jean Baudrillard When the simulation of reality becomes instead a simulacrum ( a copy or imitation of a perceived reality that does not actually exist) history is no longer what it used to be and nostalgia takes on a whole new meaning.

[yahoo.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2019:

Maybe he fancies some green moon cheese for his supper?

Rejoice! UK Survey Finds That Christianity is More Unpopular Than Ever ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2019:

And yet we still by law give Bishops seats in the House of Lords, which technically makes us a theocracy.

[yahoo.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2019:

To quote my favourite Drag Queen Latrice Royale "What is with all this unprofessional romper room f__ckery?"

Don't delay.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvOoJnKlO0A

HARRUMPH.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN99jshaQbY

I thought this was funny.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Lol it is funny

[alternet.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 11, 2019:

The sheer depth and breath of the network that this beast of human was the public face of is terrifying, it will never be clear just how much leverage he has on the legal system charged with bringing him to justice. The mention of the Maxwell family in the article is chilling, for a time in the UK Maxwell (known colloquially in the UK as the bouncing Czech) was second only to Murdoch in media power. His supposed "death" and actual disappearance is still a matter of great controversy and the information he took with him is a matter of lamentation for his victims. Therefore Epstein's revelations if he choses to capitalize on them could cause repercussions globally, so much is now creeping toward the light of public scrutiny that only a matter of years ago would have been seen as the wildest of conspiracy theories that the fabric of society is about to be shaken from its roots to its highest branches. I see only two outcomes, a gross miscarriage of justice and another escape and exile for the monster, or his death, by convenient accident, assassination or suicide.

[heyalma.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 11, 2019:

My late writing partner once described to me the dangers of revisionist history as a blight on the collective memory of the world. The fact that there are people who against all reason and evidence claim the holocaust never happed place themselves in the historical cannon, and as the events move in to evermore distant history, out of living memory then all that remain are the testimonies of the witnesses and historians among who will be the deniers seeding doubt for the remainder of time. For every thousand historians who tell th truth, there is and always will be one who says it was all a lie, diluting the facts. We all know Princess Diana died in he tunnel in Paris in 1997, but there are those who claim it was faked, she lived on elsewhere, in 100 years time reports from 1997 and 2017 won't seem that far apart, and some of those guys made a pretty good case and of course there is no proof she did not fake it.... etc, etc etc. Fake doubt is the cancer of history, and it must be a great comfort to the modern Fascist to think he is being unjustly blamed for a holocaust that never happened in the war years, propagate by people who just have it in for his ideology and want to silence his "truth".

[yahoo.com] Colin Kaepernick's skin disgustingly darkened in GOP ad. For shame!

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Why? Maybe I am being thick, but what does this do? What are they hoping to achieve?

(The pit and the pendulum) [youtu.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Personally I prefer the Corman/Price version

Why is this not in the news

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Bias based on expediency.

If you don't watch out, I'll get loquacious as well.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 11, 2019:

I would disagree with "the gift of the gab" being included here as a synonym since the expression refers to the persuasive quality of loquacity, rather than the quantity of words used.

[theguardian.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 11, 2019:

WT(actual)F?!!!!

Christian Sharia.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Even assuming his "reason" are sincere, why does he simply not take his wife with him when he is being interviewed? Better yet not do one on one interviews? I call Bullshit, he is at best frightened of abuse allegations coming at a later date (true or false) or cannot control "little Robert" enough to stop him jumping up and saying hello when alone with a woman

[alternet.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 11, 2019:

And yet captain combover has resorted to his usual defense of "I hardly knew him/her/it and it was years ago"

Maquis The Maquis (French pronunciation: ​) were rural guerrilla bands of French Resistance ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Excellent post, very informative thank you

Sad this is.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 11, 2019:

The difference between a *policed state* and a *Police state* 😢

The further a society drifts from the truth... Be strong my fellow fighters!

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 11, 2019:

"Fake News!" DJ Trump Sorry could not resist 😅

Which Jump between levels did you find the hardest? Are the gaps fair? I want there to be a 7.5.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Been stuck on 8 for longer than all the other levels put together

[aol.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 10, 2019:

He has also forced the British Ambassador to resign after a leaked private email from the Ambassador to a friend was taken offense at by the Pussy Grabber in chief, as the ambassador hinted at the fact his orange-ness was a less than perfect President. Trump immediately disinvited him from all diplomatic functions and claimed he would never speak to the ambassador again so the British government needed to fire him immediately and replace him with some one more "respectful" forcing Sir Kim Darroch to metaphorically fall on his sword. Just the time to be alienating your allies

que·nelle /kəˈnel/ Learn to pronounce noun noun: quenelle; plural noun: quenelles a small ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 10, 2019:

as in F 'Kin'ell that looks tasty

People can die from giving up the fight | EurekAlert! Science News

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 10, 2019:

There are reports of American Indians, especially medicine men, being able to call death down on themselves like this right up to the 1970s.

FOXING.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 10, 2019:

I knew the second definition, but not the first, thank you

I have noticed that some folks will use the phrase "amen" , not in an apparent religious sense, but ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2019:

Amen is often explained to mean so be it in Hebrew, it does not, there is a similar Hebrew word, with a guttural stress on both vowels sounding rather like Ach-mench which actually means Verily or Certainly. The word Amen actually predated Judaism and the Hebrew language by millenia, it is found in ancient Egyptian text, Babylonian and Sumerian, similar words are also found in Arabic, Aramaic, Hindi and Urdu, there are even similar words used for ending prayer in the mesoAmerican ancient tongues and Chinese. However there is a much repeated theory that Amen is the name of the Sun God Amun, this is not true as the god Amun's name is distinct in the written prayers to him ending in Amen, to claim other wise is to say in English that you can legitimately call Jesus the *Lard* and Saviour and say it's okay because Lords are made from blocks of Lard.

Jordan Peterson We recently had a debate about Peterson and I made a comment but I didn't really ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2019:

Peterson is a brilliant orator, and a fine rhetorician, that however is not any indication that he has anything worthwhile to say, only that he says it well. Peterson has a knack for drawing attention to himself, for stating controversial opinions in ways designed to provoke both the overly sensitive and the media. He is also a fine strategist planning his interviews and debates to be three steps ahead of his interlocutors by basically anticipating how he would destroy his own arguments if in their place, and then calculating facetious Ad hominem or mockeries to bring the audience on to his own side. His demolition of Cathy Newman on channel four news was a master piece of "forewarned is forearmed" knowing exactly her technique and having prepared counter measures.

Spirituality

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2019:

You need to define it first, and good luck with that, as it is one of those words that can mean what ever is expedient to the speaker at any given point in time.

This is what we have to watch out for attempts to violate civil rights long standing republican ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2019:

Gerrymandering is a fine old political tradition all over the world. To paraphrase the old adage If at first you don't succeed...Cheat!

fu·nic·u·lar /fyo͞oˈnikyələr/ Learn to pronounce adjective 1.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2019:

There is a beautiful hydraulic funicular railway at the seaside town of Saltburn by the sea, a popular holiday venue close to my home. It has been running for well over a century and is recognized as a fine example of Victorian Engineering.

Photo of team's Border Patrol costumes at golf tournament sparks outcry

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2019:

so funny I could just throw up. No, scratch the first two words.

[dailykos.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2019:

Question asked and answered they are heartless

[yahoo.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2019:

It is not new, many activists have been pointing out for years the suspicious nature of FEMA camps standing unused but maintained for immediate activation, stockpiling of black plastic "coffin shaped" containers at these sites, the buying up of abandoned wal-mart facilities by the government and their conversion in to "administration" centres complete with fences and cages that look all to familiar. Underground networks of transportation tunnels not open to the public. Of course all of that was just the rantings of conspiracy theorists.

[yahoo.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2019:

More evidence that Trump lives in a reality of his own making with no connection to the actual world whatsoever.

Is it correct that Nietzsche was Hitler's inspiration?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2019:

NO not exactly. Hitler was an admirer of Nietzsche writings, but after the philosophers death, Nietzsche's money hungry sister who was on friendly terms with "Der Phooey" published and gifted to Hitler a series of writings of her brothers older writings (most later contradicted by actual published works) that Nietzsche had long since dismissed as the "rantings of youth" These works were Hitler's professed inspiration and passed off by Hitler as "new" writings by Nietzsche, the last thoughts of a genius, when they were no such thing, but rather inferior ideas rejected and dismissed decades before.

Attorney General Barr has recused himself from anything to do with accused child molester/sexual ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2019:

The whole of the Epstein horror show has been an open secret for years, it is very telling that the charges against him relate ONLY to his main land American homes, which is going to allow them to skip over the "Lolita Express" and his Private Caribbean Island nightmare factory. A lot of rich and famous people must be heaving a huge sigh of relief that none of the charges relate to the regular jaunts in that plane to that particular "Holiday" local.

Okay, so probability.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 8, 2019:

The purpose of a coin toss is to have one of two outcomes, the third "possible" outcome is irrelevant to the purposes of a coin toss and so is generally disregarded, under such circumstances. As a purely mathematical or statistical experiment then yes it should be counted.

This made my day!

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 8, 2019:

Luv it

Perfect for your door

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 8, 2019:

Want one

Watched an exceptional anime film last night.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 8, 2019:

This one of those odd Japanese/French collaborative anime's I'll see if I can find a subbed version anywhere though, thanks.

wis verb \ ˈwis \ wised; wising; wises Definition of wis archaic : KNOW First Known Use...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 8, 2019:

From the protogermanic root Iwis (To know with certainty) hence Wisdom, Wise and Wizard

How many here feel like this

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 7, 2019:

yup

Friend of Presidents and Rock Stars: 3 Things to Know About Jeffrey Epstein Amid New Charges - ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 7, 2019:

Its about time

I'm looking for songs which have a saxophone line. Do you know some interesting ones?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 7, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ02zCMoxCo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH8jtXQ4HPg

I'm looking for songs which have a saxophone line. Do you know some interesting ones?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 7, 2019:

You might like this https://soundcloud.com/enazell/saxy-stories-from-take-it-easy alt link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xs25ruPYLc&t=23s

Since I made my break from religion I’ve asked myself “Why do people feel it’s so important ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 7, 2019:

There is a scene in the movie "They Live" where Nada tries to persuade his friend Frank to put on a pair of glasses that show the world as it really is. Frank refuses and it takes a twenty minute fight before Nada can force him to wear the glasses and see the truth that he is nothing more than cattle. This scene is exactly what it is like coming out of religion for many people, they will fight to keep their comfortable delusion, they do not want to see, and resent anyone who even makes them think they might possibly have an inkling of a doubt that they have been a bloody gullible fool there whole life.

CREPUSCULAR.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 7, 2019:

As opposed to ***Crapuscular*** and item or individual that, when the shit hits the fan, becomes very active in unintentionally making things much, much worse!

President Trump’s Revolutionary War quiz - The Washington Post

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 6, 2019:

Oh this has made my night https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-48880867

John 9:39 (NRSV) - Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment so that those who do not see ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 6, 2019:

It is worth remembering that st. John supposedly lived on the Island of Patmos while writing his Gospel and his Revelations. An Island that then as today is notable for the amount of hallucinogenic mushrooms and other fungi that grow there in abundance.

Has someone posted this already? Either way, i think it's funny enough to share.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 6, 2019:

Proof

I know this group will know ALL these words!

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 6, 2019:

Bad advice, biasing brevity over punctiliousness is never an efficacious choice.

Just heard of the passing away of John McCririck.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 5, 2019:

As a presenter he was amusing. In the latter years of his life he made an utter fool of himself bringing frivolous law suits against his former employers for age discrimination that opened him up to court testimony by character witnesses of his dismissal being in fact based on his behaviour as a person, he was revealed as abusive to his colleagues and his wife, was an outspoken and unrepentant sexist and misogynist and a self righteous prig with personal hygiene issue.

Tutankhamun's head auctioned for $6m in UK despite Egypt's outcry | Egypt News | Al Jazeera

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 5, 2019:

What amazed me was reading the headline I was perfectly willing to believe someone had stolen and sold the ACTUAL head of the mummy of the boy king. After all during WW2 the tomb was plundered by occupying soldiers, when the kings jeweled burial neck piece was found to be stuck to his ribs by the Natron used in the mummification the robbers cut off the entire rib cage, it has never been recovered.

MAD magazine, a 67-year satirical touchstone, will disappear from newsstands

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 5, 2019:

What me worry? Mmmm I'm afraid so, what a shame.

The words aren’t all that unusual, but that all were people’s names is news on several for me.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 4, 2019:

Christians were responsible for the reintroduction of the term Mesmerism as opposed to the more popular Hypnotism, Since Hypnos was the pagan god of sleep and so the practice was thought to be black magic.

Amphibology (noun) A sentence that is grammatically ambiguous, i.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 4, 2019:

There is term in English for this which is a Colemanballs, named after the late sports commentator David Coleman who had a habit when in the thrall of sporting excitement, of putting his foot in his own mouth by stating to opposing facts in one sentence or pointing out the glaringly obvious and then using a mixed metaphor to contradict himself. eg "Here they come, every colour of the rainbow: black, white, brown" "There were 150 drug-related deaths in Glasgow last year, an all-time high" "Stronsay is an island surrounded by sea" "Brendan Foster wins, by himself, with 20,000 people" "When your back's against the wall that's the time to turn round and fight" "He's pulling him off. The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off!" “This game could go either way… there’s no two ways about it!” “I’m not going to stand here and say it could have been better, but it could have”

It has now been put to me that it is wrong to post the same article in multiple groups.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 4, 2019:

People do object to cross posting yes, but when it is done as you say for point whoring, however if a post has relevance to say two or three specific groups, say in my case some thing that relates to spirituality generally and Mormonism specifically I will post versions in two groups, or pages and see nothing wrong with it.

Pediatricians share migrant children's disturbing drawings of their time in US custody - CNN

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 4, 2019:

Heartbreaking

Alabama prosecutor drops charges against woman who lost fetus after being shot

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 4, 2019:

I posted about this fiasco this morning. Unbelievably stupid situation, maybe they want to charge her for stealing the bullet too?

Help!! All you wordsmiths out there.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 4, 2019:

The word you are actually seeking is flibbertigibbet, fibberdegibbit is a deliberate mispronunciation used for comic effect. A flibbertigibbet is a gossipy person, some one who talks too much. It comes from Bert to be a Bright or vigorous person as in Albert and Flighty, again a bright or careless person and Gibbit a gallows. So a flibbertigibbet is is some one whose reckless personality will one day get them hanged.

Boffola (noun) a joke or a line in a script designed to get a laugh.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 2, 2019:

Boffola is an odd word that seems to have come about in the 1940s derived from Boffo which was Italian slang for "really good or popular" (same root as Boffin for a clever person). Boffo was popular in circus' for hundreds of years (especially in Italy, nb. In Latin Bo fo mean so be it) as a clown name for a carefree fellow. Bofo (sic) appears in the writing of of an anonymous contemporary of Chaucer in "the most lamentable tragedy of Titus Andronicus" written in middle English and one of Shakespeare's sources where it used as a comedy name for backside or Buttocks. How ever I feel the most like derivative in this sense is the Italian slang Boffo La "There's Good/best Bit (here)"

Passenger Farted So Bad During Flight, That It Caused An Emergency Landing - CeePix World

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 2, 2019:

Before smoking was banned on flights, the air in the fuselage was changed every ten minutes or so, as smoke was visible this could be seen to be done. However since smoking was banned airlines have be decreasing the regularity of air replacement as a cost saving measure (air is stored on board in very expensive super cooled liquid form and heated before being placed in to the Ventilation system). Some airline only change the air once every two hours, leading to a large ratio of methane and carbon dioxide building up in the air, leading to headaches, jet lag, air rage and nausea. I think this might be the case here

OCCIDENT, n.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 2, 2019:

A word once popularized by the Cinematic Japanese detective Mr Moto played by Peter Lorry whose catch phrase when asked if he was Chinese was "I am not an oriental, I am an occidental"

Canadian artist fired after viral Trump cartoon "This is a false narrative which has emerged ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 1, 2019:

It seems we truly do live in a post joke era.

Read all of the instructions:

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 1, 2019:

Reminds me of the Douglas Adams character, Wonko the Sane, a man who diagnosed the whole world certifiably mad after finding a set of instructions for use inside of a packet of toothpicks. To this end he placed a sign on the inside of his front door reading "To the asylum"

Buy one large pizza and get a medium free....

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 1, 2019:

Ah that brings back memories, only we didn't get the Pizza, just tea and biscuits.

Anyone who thinks that women in Islam don't get a fair crack of the whip should watch this: ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 1, 2019:

rationalizing apologetics. dehumanizing Bullshit. Neither partner should ever raise a hand in anger to their significant other and if they do so, there is no love there, only the desire to control, dominate and rule by fear.

How to get two over 6 ft tall teenagers to do chores around the house?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 1, 2019:

If understand you correctly your daughter is 43 years old. She has made her life choices and is presumably happy with them. You may not agree with them, but honestly it is none of your business, unless the slob actually physically assaults your daughter, then be there to offer her a bolt hole. If you interfere, you will not be thanked for it and if you daughter wants to see you, have her come and visit you, tell her at your age you are not willing to camp out for the privilege of being ignored. If she wants to visit you tell her there is no room for her boys, they will have to fend for themselves for a few days. Just my suggestion.

I may have said this before: I am who my brain says I am.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 30, 2019:

This is the very reason morons cling to the notion of an afterlife, the idea of oblivion terrifies them. Personally I think of it as natures great mercy, the idea of immortality is repugnant to me.

What does Religion fear?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 30, 2019:

You might add truth, education and independent moral conscience to that list.

Mother Teresa's Sad, Disturbing Legacy Isn't What You Think It Is

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 30, 2019:

She was a foul horror of a human being.

Ezekiel 14:9 (NRSV) - If a prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the Lord, have deceived that ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 29, 2019:

I love the way "learned theologians" try to waffle their way around this one, basically by saying because it is simple to understand, it cannot possibly mean what it says, because if it did it would mean God was a right bastard and though the rest of the bible seems to back that up, ITS NOT TRUE!. So it is one of those verses that mean exactly the opposite of what it says, because.... it has to.

Has others seen the news, that trump wants to seal off the Lincoln Memorial and just have friends, ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 29, 2019:

You say that as if it is something surprising. Captain comb-over will settle for nothing less than being declared unelected president / living God for life.

I firmly believe this

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 29, 2019:

I am so stealing this

Just posted this in British Music and Comedy.....Who Remembers Harry Worth?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 29, 2019:

Yes a huge influence on my sense of humour, "The King of Confusion" a forgotten genius of British comedy. Harry Hill claimed his stage name to be a contraction of Harry Worth and Benny Hill, I can well believe it.

I can highly recommend the remake of Pet Sematary, which I streamed yesterday.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 29, 2019:

Thanks, I will probably see it soon, but will miss Fred Gwynn, however John Lithgo is a great actor too and may be able to carry it off.

Humans are not the only heros in the military

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 29, 2019:

Thank you for that 💕💗💓

I am just.saying

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 28, 2019:

Best definition of capitalism I have ever read

TITIVATE.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 28, 2019:

From the Latin titillare "to tickle,"

Shirikodama: A mythical ball that according to Japanese folklore is said to contain the soul and ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 28, 2019:

Perhaps the origin of the expression "your arse is mine!"?

Not for the faint hearted but what a time saver - 10 minutes instead of 4 hours! ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 28, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6n6X7bHAqc

Did any one watch Harris destroy Biden during the debate? It was a beautiful moment!!

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 28, 2019:

Yes a moment of poetic history.

Tory leadership. Which do you think is/are the most important of quality(ies) for a leader.?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 28, 2019:

It depends upon from which perspective you are coming to the question. The requisite qualities for being a Tory leader are totally different from those required to be a competent leader of a country. For example in order to be a Tory leader one must by necessity hold certain views and priorities that are completely at odd with being humane, since right wing political philosophy is entirely pragmatic, materially based and denies rights to the individual when they come into conflict with the financial, economic or the state. Like wise much Tory doctrine is based upon the idea of trickle down economics theorizing that the financia well being of the elite will result in financial well being of all. This is a proven fallacy but is no the less an almost "sacred" doctrine of right wing political thinking along with the idea that people are a near infinite resource however money and property are not and so should be given superior legal status. Left wing thinking begins with the general doctrine that the well being of all citizens will by necessity result in a better society for all, that life outweighs property and that there is no default criteria to define a social elite other that achievement for the benefit of all. Therefore a "good" Tory leader will offer a package of policies and assure it is what you want and expect you to trust him/her. A "good" leader will look at what is needed and provide it and then will bring about a situation where your wants may be earned fairly.

Playing through

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 27, 2019:

And yet according to the Cheeto in chief this tragedy was the fault of the democrats who prevented his building of the wall. What an arsehole

Hello to all my Agnostics friends.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 27, 2019:

Happy Anniversary 😊

Bishop plans to spray murder-plagued city with holy water from helicopter to 'get rid of the devil' ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 26, 2019:

Reminds me of the line from American Dad when Stan claims to spend Saturday evenings doing drive by baptisms at the synagogue with a super soaker.

How do you teach your teenagers ethics and values?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 26, 2019:

It has been my experience that you can provide examples both theoretical and practical, but the ultimate source of your child's moral and ethical system will that which they decide on for themselves. My child was the product of two free thinking, liberal old hippies (one atheist and one pagan), he is a non smoking, teetotal slightly right wing atheist intellectual with powerful moral code and a generous disposition.

Who here has read the Berenstain Bears books?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 26, 2019:

Prolific horror novelist Graham Masterton's first two books were sex education books, apparently homicidal dead red Indian medicine men were more profitable.

You agree?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 26, 2019:

It is subjective, if you have something to offer that only a few others can do, you can be as unsociable or socially inept as you like and you will still do well in life. On the other hand you can be the most likable, calm person in the world, if you are illiterate, or a moron you will never raise past the level of society you were born in to.

DAMN YOU ABC... airing a show like this is just,, UN AMERICAN!!! [youtube.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 26, 2019:

In the UK most restaurants and retail outlets display a sign that say "The management reserve the right to refuse service" If this sign is displayed and some one is asked to leave they must do so or the police may be called NO reason should be given. If a reason IS given and that reason is illegal (prejudicial) then it may be contested later in court unless the objection is withdrawn, but if NO reason is given it is perfectly legal for an owner to ask anyone to leave their premises so long as it is not designated a public space.

Trump Was 'Cocked And Loaded' To Strike Iran - YouTube

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 26, 2019:

I'm afraid that this expression "Cocked and loaded" is NOT a mistake, though I doubt Trump knew that. It is a musketry term, to be cocked and loaded was the response give by musketeers when demanded of by their bombardier "Phalanx Ready?" Three ranks One standing and loading with powder and shot having just fired One kneeling waiting to fire loaded but not cocked (Pulling back the spring load flint striker) One kneeling ready to fire cocked and loaded on the command "Volley"

Does anyone else worry that they're dumb and just don't realize it?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 26, 2019:

The Dunning–Kruger effect