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Friday, December 27, 2013 1:49 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


And I, for one, applaud his opinion!
Quote:

WASHINGTON —Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia lashed out at the cable network A&E today, calling its decision to suspend Phil Robertson, the star of the TV series “Duck Dynasty,” unconstitutional, and demanding that it be overturned at once.

Speaking at a press conference with fellow Justice Clarence Thomas, a visibly angry Scalia told reporters that Robertson was “exercising his First Amendment right to express an opinion—an opinion, I might add, that many other great Americans agree with.”

He warned that the suspension of the “Duck” star would have a “chilling effect” on freedom of speech in America: “If Phil Robertson can be muzzled for expressing this perfectly legitimate view, what’s to prevent the same thing from happening to, say, a Justice of the Supreme Court?”

He added that, while he was a huge “Duck Dynasty” fan who never misses an episode, his objection to Mr. Robertson’s suspension was “purely on Constitutional grounds.”

Declaring that A&E’s decision “will not stand,” Justice Scalia said he would ask the Supreme Court to meet in an emergency session to overturn it: “This offensive decision by A&E is a clear violation of the Constitution, and I’m not the only one on the Court who feels that way. Right, Clarence?”

Justice Thomas had no comment.


http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/12/scalia-ca
lls-duck-dynasty-decision-unconstitutional.html


So if I work in a Catholic hospital, I can voice pro-abortion opinions w/o worrying about getting fired. Or if I'm broadcast by FOX news I can make pro-gay statements to my heart's content. Gone the days when your employer could muzzle your free speech!

Right, Antonin?

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Friday, December 27, 2013 2:00 PM

M52NICKERSON

DALEK!


I seriously had to look and make sure this was not fake.

How can a Supreme Court Justice not have a basic understanding of the first amendment?


...edit, DAMN FOOLED AGAIN!

I do not fear God, I fear the ignorance of man.

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Friday, December 27, 2013 2:59 PM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT


I thought the First Amendment started off with the words, "Congress shall make no law..." Even under an "activist, interventionalist" judicial opinion, I don't see how a private business suspending, or even firing, an employee for comments he made publicly, can be unconstitutional. The government, no government, no branch of government, no level of government didn't do it. ( oops, got my negatives mixed up there for a moment. But the gov't didn't.) Ol' Phil can sue, and then the courts COULD rule that his rights had been violated; the decision ordered to be reversed.

E-T-A: I fergot. The FCC might have some jurisdiction: they do regulate the airwaves. But it's been a neat debating point for some years now: that applies to the broadcast networks and channels, not necessarily to cable networks, which are quasi-private, quasi-public services, not subject to the same standards or regulations. Sometimes it do, and sometimes it don't.

But that's pretty sloppy use of language for a Supreme Court justice, and a guy who gets to set binding legal precedent for the entire country as his everyday job. Might make ya wonder just how good a legal scholar, or even lawyer, he is. Hell, he might be the Robert Bork or Helene Myers who slipped thru the system for political reliability rather than smarts or a sense of justice.

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Friday, December 27, 2013 3:53 PM

FIVVER


Read the very last line from the article:

Quote:

Declaring that A&E’s decision “will not stand,” Justice Scalia said he would ask the Supreme Court to meet in an emergency session to overturn it: “This offensive decision by A&E is a clear violation of the Constitution, and I’m not the only one on the Court who feels that way. Right, Clarence?”

Justice Thomas had no comment.

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KEYWORDS HUMOR; POLITICS



It's satire people.


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Friday, December 27, 2013 5:43 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Yeah, who didn't figure that out after the first couple of sentences?!?! I'm actually kind of ashamed of you, Nick and NewOld, you're smarter than that! Sig, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and figuring you knew it was satire when you posted it, but be honest if you didn't... ;o)


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Friday, December 27, 2013 5:49 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Although, aside from the obvious satire, it might not be all that far from how he THINKS:
Quote:

Scalia told Senior that he believes in heaven and hell and like "every Catholic," believes that the devil is "a real person." The devil isn't as conspicuous in society as he once was, Scalia said, because "he got wilier" and now advances his agenda by "getting people not to believe in him or in God."

Scalia bemoaned the "coarseness" of modern society, particularly when it comes to manners.

"You can't go to a movie--or watch a television show for that matter--without hearing the constant use of the F-word--including, you know, ladies using it," he said. "People that I know don't talk like that!" http://www.cbsnews.com/news/scalia-talks-about-the-devil-duck-dynasty-
and-knowing-when-to-retire/




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Friday, December 27, 2013 6:02 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Oh, I'm sorry! I laughed my ass off thru the post!

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Friday, December 27, 2013 7:52 PM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT


Well, yup, I missed it.

It was mostly reported with a straight face, and I misread "NewYorker" as "New York ___", something or other . I took it as a right wing newspaper.

Careless of me.

And enough right wingers have stuck up for Ol' Phil. And Scalia -- that's exactly the sort of dumbth I would have expected out of him.

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Friday, December 27, 2013 8:09 PM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT


Aw, Hell, my second post vanished.
Over on

news.Yahoo.com/opinion/


are columns by Mona Charen, Michelle Malkin and Pat Buchanan defending Ol' Phil, and I saw one on CNN.com about "you gotta respect Phil because he's SINCERE in his beliefs."

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Friday, December 27, 2013 10:48 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


What would a pro gay statement be, and why would FOX news have any issues with it ?

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

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Saturday, December 28, 2013 12:33 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Obviously you don't get the joke.

Well, no point in explaining it to you.


It's a FACT! Rush Limbaugh is a blue pill addict!


As evidence of "rape mentality"

Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:11 PM
MAL4PREZ
And just remember, according to Rappy, the term befitting a women who wants the insurance she pays for to cover medications affecting her reproductive organs is

whore

Wednesday, July 31, 2013 4:23 PM
little rappy
The term applies.



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Saturday, December 28, 2013 7:03 AM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki:
Obviously you don't get the joke.

A&E retracted its suspension of ‘Duck Dynasty’ star Phil Robertson with the explanation that Duck Dynasty is not a show about one man’s views. It resonates with a large audience because it is a show about money… money that A&E has come to love. -- www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2013/12/27/phil-robertson-b
ack-on-duck-dynasty-as-ae-lifts-suspension
/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Saturday, December 28, 2013 9:10 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


"...because it is a show about money… money that A&E has come to love..."

Yup. What was the title of that other thread? Something about who didn't see this coming?


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Saturday, December 28, 2013 9:20 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


On the other hand, some of those columns are pretty amazing, and would make good satire, only they're NOT:
Quote:

Pope Francis' call for a truce notwithstanding, the culture war rages on in America.

Last week, a Utah judge struck down part of the state's anti-polygamy law, clearing the way for men to marry multiple spouses.

Methodist pastor Frank Schaefer, defrocked for officiating at the same-sex marriage of his son, refused to recant, and joined a Dupont Circle congregation, declaring from the pulpit to repeated ovations Sunday, "Change is coming" to the United Methodist Church.

Major media stories both.

Yet these were skirmishes alongside the culture war clash last week over the remarks to GQ magazine of Phil Robertson, patriarch of the clan of "Duck Dynasty," the wildly popular show on A&E.

Using crude terms, but biblically correct arguments, Robertson told GQ what he thought of homosexuality and moral relativism. Said Robertson:

"Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong. Sin becomes fine. ... Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men. ...

"Don't be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexuality offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers — they won't inherit the kingdom of God. Don't deceive yourself."

The homosexual lobby GLAAD swiftly demanded that Robertson be purged from "Duck Dynasty." And A&E suspended him indefinitely.

The backlash was swift and huge. Followers of "Duck Dynasty," Evangelicals, politicians and free-speech champions arose to defend Robertson's right to speak without punishment. Millions endorsed his views on what the Bible says and Christianity professes and promises.

The battle revealed an immense and intense hostility in Middle America to the moral agenda being imposed by our cultural elites.

While defenders of Robertson invoked the First Amendment, that is not the issue here. No one is denying Robertson his right to speak.

What GLAAD wants to do is to blacklist Robertson, to punish him by taking away his podium, "Duck Dynasty." The gay rights militants cannot silence him, but they do have the power to cost him his job and take away his megaphone so that his vast audience can no longer hear him.

The blacklist of the Truman era did not deny the Hollywood Ten their right to produce movie scripts. It was an agreed-upon Hollywood policy not to commission or to use the work of unrepentant Communists as writers, producers or directors.

Who were the Hollywood Ten? They were closet Communists, secret members of a Communist Party USA, then a wholly owned subsidiary of the greatest mass murderer in history, Joseph Stalin.

And of what were the Hollywood Ten guilty?

When Stalinists were eradicating freedom and exterminating Eastern European Christians and overrunning China and murdering millions, as President Truman tried to rally the forces of freedom, the Hollywood Ten took the Fifth Amendment. They refused to repudiate Communism or name names of fellow Communists who were still reshaping the thinking of America from their upholstered perches in the film industry.

Today, however, the Hollywood Ten are regarded as martyrs, moral heroes. Had they been secret Nazis rather than secret Stalinists in those years, they would likely not be so beloved of the Hollyleft.

Contrast if you will the sins for which Phil Robertson is being blacklisted with those of the Hollywood Ten.

He is a fundamentalist Christian professing his belief in what he holds to be Bible truths about sin, homosexuality, heaven and hell. For so doing, he is being censored by elites who wish to deny him access to the medium they largely control — television.

And what were the comparable sins of the Hollywood Ten?

They were witting collaborators in a 70-year Communist conspiracy responsible for the murder of millions, which, in the 1940s, looked on the United States of America as the last impediment to world conquest.

In that era, we were agreed that Communism and Communists were the enemies of America and mankind and should be regarded and treated as such.

To our modern moral and cultural elites, it is those who condemn the values of GLAAD who are the enemies of decency and progress who ought to be fired and blacklisted to prevent their poisonous views from being disseminated.

In the Hollywood of the late 1940s, Communism was persona non grata. In the 21st century, biblical Christianity is persona non grata.

No, this is not the America we grew up in. And it is becoming less so.

According to a CNN poll last week, while belief in God and the divinity of Christ is still shared by two-thirds of Americans, that share — older, more Republican, less educated — is falling.

Worldwide, too, Christianity at Christmas 2013 seems in a long retreat. Receding slowly in America, and moribund in Europe, Christianity is undergoing merciless persecutions in Africa and the Middle East — from Nigeria to the Central African Republic to Egypt, Syria and Iraq.

Compared to these folks suffering martyrdom for the faith, we have it easy here.

So, Sursum Corda. Lift up your hearts. And Merry Christmas. http://news.yahoo.com/39-duck-dynasty-39-blacklist-080000473.html



No, seriously, that's NOT satire. Of course, it IS Pat Buchanan, who at this point IS kind of "walking satire", but really...!

...gives me the shivers, it does...


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Saturday, December 28, 2013 9:30 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


One could only WISH that this was satire:
Quote:

Alabama Lawmaker To Introduce Resolution Honoring Gay-Bashing 'Duck Dynasty' Star


Alabama State Sen. Jerry Fielding (R) announced Monday that he will introduce a resolution honoring "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson, who was suspended from the A&E reality television show after making controversial anti-gay comments in an interview with GQ magazine, the Daily Home reported.

"Phil Robertson's family values are shared by the vast majority of Alabamians, who are rightfully concerned by the vitriol aimed at his Christian stance," Fielding said in a statement. "There's a clear double standard in the media favoring a liberal worldview. When it's used to silence and punish Christians for stating their beliefs, that's when we must defend the rights of individuals to exercise their free speech without fear of politically-motivated repercussion. I join thousands across Alabama and our country by standing with Phil Robertson, and urge A&E to reverse their action against him."

The senator will introduce the resolution on Jan. 14 when the state Senate convenes for the next session.

In the resolution, Fielding lauds Robertson and his family as "ambassadors of the love and grace of the Heavenly Father through their exemplary lives on and off the camera." http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/duck-dynasty-phil-robertson-alab
ama-resolution





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Saturday, December 28, 2013 11:49 AM

MAL4PREZ


I admit it, I skimmed the OP and thought it was serious, but then I find this whole thing so ridiculous that anything could happen with it.

I'm so glad I live far from middle America with no broadcast tv. I'm so blessedly isolated from these nuts! The only place I encounter it is here, and that's only by choice. :)

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Monday, December 30, 2013 2:47 PM

M52NICKERSON

DALEK!


Quote:

Originally posted by Niki2:
Yeah, who didn't figure that out after the first couple of sentences?!?! I'm actually kind of ashamed of you, Nick and NewOld, you're smarter than that! Sig, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and figuring you knew it was satire when you posted it, but be honest if you didn't... ;o)




Everyone get to be an idiot for fifteen minutes a day. The trick is not going over that time allotment.

I do not fear God, I fear the ignorance of man.

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Sunday, January 5, 2014 12:28 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
Aw, Hell, my second post vanished.



That's kind of scary, isn't it NOBC?

I know I posted here.

It's gone......



Never had that happen before. Unless there is a VERY legitimate explanation from HAKEN and/or a re-post of our missing posts, I think it might be time to move on.

It's bad enough to be a part of a forum that will censor posts, but if they're just "vanished" as if they've never been posted, that's even more Orwellian to me.


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Sunday, January 5, 2014 12:41 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


OOPS......

Crisis averted.

Nothing to see here folks......

http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57138

Haken and FFF are just as awesome as ever......



My apologies for speaking before knowing the facts (just like CNN, MSNBC or FOX)......

At least I did my due diligence after the fact and fessed up to it though, right?


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Sunday, January 5, 2014 1:27 PM

BYTEMITE


You still need to think before you speak. But yes, you do get consolation points for that.

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Sunday, January 5, 2014 1:34 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Kisses :)



(Wanted a GREAT/SHORT video to accompany that, but after several youtube searches I surprisingly came up with nothing relevant. I did however find that video of a 2-3 year old boy or girl that I thought was too cute to not show here).

I know "spys like us" don't smile a whole lot Byte. Hope that video made you at least chuckle. :)


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