Voltaire

(((shudder))) 52 is the Same age as me and he's a former player on my FF team. RIP

Green Bay has had their fair shar of injuries. They really have improved markedly since around week seven or so.

Lock is playing acceptably well but they need more than he can give them against a team this good.

It's been a fun ride for the Lions but all the missing starters on defense takes its toll. That plus Goff turning the ball over so much lately, going into the year he'd had a long streak of passes without an interception, well once broken, it's not come close to being reestablished and has mixed in fumbles as well. When the season started, I thought going 11-6, winning the division, and a home playoff game would be about what to expect. By week seven, I'd gotten Super Bowl aspirations, but ever since the Chargers game, the string of injuries on defense have just mounted as have the turnovers and its become clear they're not a contender. We're back to settling for 11-6, winning the division and a home playoff game but this team isn't ready for the next step and Both Philly and SF are much better. It'll be challenge enough to hold off Green Bay and Minnesota.

This is what you're upset with him for wanting removed from school libraries. Know that the book is illustrated. Now that you know the context of what he's talking about, do you still feel he has no point in wanting to make it unavailable to children in a school library? Or would you agree that such a book should not be available in a school library?

You were on a roll until the last sentence. I don't want to kill leftoids. I just want them to live happy and fulfilling lives far away from us, dodging drugged out zombie trannies and stepping around piles of sh*t, getting mugged by illegal aliens in crime-ridden blue state paradises with nice weather, power outages on days when the wind doesn't blow, and burned out police stations.

What's left of the Lions defense is awful and Justin Fields shredded them on the first drive. He made it look easy. Both injuries and defensive coordinator are the problem. Offense needs to carry the team. Have a hole on the O-Line though.

No, Skokie was not a right wing cause but any taint of "Nazis" or KKK makes the decent conservative right cut bait and head for the hills. See Nick Fuentes (we'll get back to him), David Duke, the non-KKK faction of Charlottesville protesters that were only there to voice opposition to the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue, Steve King, Alex Jones, the Q-Anon or Pizzagate conspiracy people. You can go too far to the right and be persona-non-grata at conservative events. The left doesn't have this issue, well maybe that's finally changing with the emergence of the Hamas terrorist sympathizers in the last month. Communism has gone mainstream, there are a lot of Che Guevara t-shirts out there. I noticed that Al Sharpton ran for president, the BLM still all live in mansions, that Anthony Anderson doesn't have any problem finding work in Hollywood and that Ibrahim X Kendi still has his foundation at Boston College despite both being a flaming racist. Trannies are displacing women in sports competitions with the tacit approval of most feminists while a movie that pokes fun of that phenomenon is banned from theatres. ----- Anyway.... your question of where the ACLU could be helpful on First Amendment protections but is not. Well. Nick Fuentes is on a no-fly list, obviously singled out for his beliefs. These January 6th protestors that never assaulted any officers nor damaged any property, the FBI investigating school board parents and conservative Catholics, government pressure on Big Tech to sensor, the harassment and overzealous removal of anti-abortion protestors. Any number of things, were they treated even-handedly would maybe restore faith that the ACLU still cared about first amendment prtotections.

Those Skokie Nazi marchers are/were repugnant to all decent people of conscious, including their ACLU lawyer, who saw their rights being undermined and went to bat for them as a matter of first amendment principal. Were I a fake lawyer rather than a fake astronaut, I would not have wanted to take the case to defend them, although I do agree that they have a right to a legal defense and that someone should. Somebody else. That the ACLU did so is commendable and further that it was a Jewish lawyer, from a population that has a worse history with Nazis than any other, was particularly remarkable and I've always respected the guy for it. Obviously the man is an ACLU legend as well as committed liberal. At his lifetime award ceremony he had some interesting insight into the organization: worth noting: Here are the cases the ACLU highlight for end of year 2023. No doubt you support most all of them because you are a left winger and everything here is in your wheelhouse anyways. No doubt you support them for those reasons. I just want to alert you to the fact that they only do left wing causes anymore and that any charade of even-handedness is completely absent. This NRA case may well be one of the last ones. https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/2023-aclu-our-year-in-stories-eoy-moments The cut-and-paste Goldberger celebratory luncheon snip is from the NYTimes article I linked above. If you want to read the full thing, here it is again: https://archive.is/deO59

"Over the years" isn't today. The ACLU you're 'talking about is dead. Whatever was great about them, meaning free speech advocacy, is ending with the old timers exiting. The hardcore leftoids have taken over and this NRA case is the swan song, it will be the last vestigial case of the former ACLU. The free speech faction has lost control of the organization to the activist faction. Please check and see if I'm exaggerating and if I'm not. update your talking points.

Well, if they get to that point, they won't have had a primary. The Democratic Party would have a hard time coming together to back a non-Biden candidate since they are an umbrella political organization housing a wide collection of different flavored turd factions all vying for power: the insider crony crooks, Communists, terrorist sympathizers, race hustlers, feminists, degenerate perverts, cop-haters, environmental fanatics, work-averse human lumps, and self-hating unamerican human scum. So, things would be messy. Avoiding their constituencies and having the party elders appoint a candidate may not go over very well.

This NRA case is the one vestigial counter-example that was mentioned in the article I linked. It may well be the last hurrah for the old timer free speech defenders in the organization. The younger member in the organization are leftoid activists who intend to hollow it out.

Wow, the ACLU use to take on cases of political opponents frequently due to their commitment to free speech. I know there was an internal fight over such things and I'd thought all those people with first amendment principals had gotten old, lost control and were routed out of the organization. https://archive.is/deO59 Yet here is this case...

Wordle 904 4/6 🟨 🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 3x5 for fifteen letters and then getting it right on four is as exciting as unbuttered bread and water. Thus it has been two days in a row. Just can't get anything going but not a disaster.

That's lovely. You deal with something similar playing "The Last of Us" which is set in a zombie apocalypse similar to Merkel's Europe.

This is the best two-way pitcher/batter since Babe Ruth. He dominates in both aspects. If the 2nd Tommy John surgery doesn't work out well, the Dodgers are paying for what he did with the Angles, not what he'll do for them. But what he did for the Angles is focking incredible. He's been the best player of our lifetime.

Check your privilege and live your life accordingly.

Well that's a helluva fine and unique athlete. I won't be forgetting how he pitched a complete game one hit shutout against the Tigers in the first game of a doubleheader then hit two HRs in the second this year. You knew he was going to follow where the money came from. Hopefully for the Dodgers his pitching returns to form.

Congrats Didi. Have you decided which Fortune 500 corporation you want to take over yet?

Thankfully, the people who run Biden show no intention of having him step aside. Hopefully this polling situation is accurate and remains so for eleven more months.

I just love the scene in Dr, Zhivago when Yuri finally returns home after the war the Communists had kidnapped to join. I've posted it a few times over the years. Our wise leftoid leaders could solve it the same way their Communist forebearers solved the housing crisis in the early days of the Soviet Union.

There were like a half dozen words yesterday for that third guess. I plugged in 'sharp' because the p would identify "spark" wheras 'shard' and 'shark' weren't going to be helpful. There was another word, probably 'scarf'' that might have been there had nothing popped up.

Would have been an excellent starter word today.

Wordle 903 4/6 🟨🟨 🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Meh... 3X5 and the correct guess on 4 is lame.