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  1. Latt22 can attest - Had a fraternity brother whose standard pickup tended to revolve around the statement
     
    "Of course, I come from that kind of money" .. tended to work

    Yeah it did. And now at 40 something I won’t even think about someone unless they do alright.
  2. Glad others agree. I politely brought it up to the other coach after the game. I told him I thought that wasn’t cool to do to an 8 year old. He was a little defensive, but I could tell he knew it was wrong. 
    Oh, and they were up by ten at the time late in the game. 


    Total bs move on his part. Some of these kids aren’t ever going to be playmakers and even those that are will fade by middle school while only a few will move on to HS ball and yet everyone of these kids has a chance for awesome memories and that needs to be one of the primary goals and his bs move coulda made that kiddo feel like shit.
  3. 14 hours ago, futureman said:

    guy clark is a legend but you’re wrong.  

    How can I be wrong about what I like more or less ?  

    I love Townes but his soul was dark and had little hope in it.  Guy was a hellion but his songs anyway had the hope I seek in a song like that one, hence I like his version better.  His hope and positive outlook comes through in his cover of To Live is to Fly in a way Townes just couldn’t pull off.  It’s the only Townes cover I like better than the original and it’s for a very specific reason.  

  4. I went to Texas Church of Christ churches for my first 30 years and Baptist for my last 11.  And when I was c of c that was 3 times a week — Wednesday night and two times on Sunday.   I’ve never heard anyone preach against evolution.  But apparently some congregations must.  Because every liberal non church goer I know — and me being a lawyer that’s a lot — automatically assumes I am some young earth creationist because I believe in God.  

    Went to more than one church that had special bible studies on young earth creationism. Science to disprove carbon dating and evolution and position statements that evolution is a liberal conspiracy to attack the sovereignty of God and shit like that. These were southern baptist churches of suburban Austin.
  5. I don't think Pence avoids private meetings with women for any nefarious reasons...quite the opposite.  And I think it's smart for multiple reasons... It's a reality that there are no shortage of women who would throw themselves at a man with power, influence, money, or position.  To deny that is a fools errand to defend.  Even if Pence resists the temptation...it doesn't mean he can't be accused of it regardless.  Which we also know happens.  And we all know who will be believed...and it's not Pence or any man in that position.   It also removes others from insinuating that is what happens..."Oh, she got a promotion all right!  And we all know how that happened!"  Women are their own worst enemy on this front...how many times have you heard that in a work environment?   There's always gossip and it doesn't matter if it's true or not.

    The funniest part about this is the bitching comes from leftists that don't believe Pence has anything to teach or offer...yet are highly offended and sure he's denying someone opportunity by not meeting with them one on one in private.  

     

     

     

      His primary reason is to “avoid temptation.” I was raised in religious circles similar to the one he still runs in. It’s degrading to women and it’s a form of sexual objectification. And the fact that it’s still okay to have his views in 2018 is unreal.

     

     

    This approach is exclusionary to women when a one on one meeting is appropriate. If men won’t meet with me one on one I lose business, period. It’s a fucked up antiquated approach to professional relationships.

     

     

     And if you do go down this line a little further it’s the women who are much more likely to be victims and yet women can’t afford to avoid meeting with men one on one in professional settings. 70% of my clients are men, if I said no to them out of fear I’d be out of business.

     

    And there’s nothing to say a two guy one woman meeting isn’t sexual either. She says she got trained and you boys collude and say no way. Seems absurd right? So is excluding women from dozens of scenarios where one on ones are appropriate. Men have casual one on one convos all the time, lawyer client, account management convos, performance reviews, confiding with one another about a difficult situation, etc. telling women the fear of wanting to fuck you is too much we can’t meet without a witness is professional horseshit.

     

     

     

  6. 1 hour ago, burntorangebongos said:

    Well you're not a psychopath. I think he self-diagnosed himself correctly. Really telling how he dropped his tran friend who was going to go through getting ostracized by family and friends for her transition. Instead of empathizing with someone who was going through the difficulty of living their truth and standing by them. He dropped her. What a loser.

    Exactly.  The guy was a socio/psychopath first and foremost.

  7. You wanna talk about back to work programs vs food stamps and the like fine. But exclusionary discrimination is not part of our DNA even though our imperfect union was started with its cancer all through our culture, and it’s imperative we call it out when we see it. That’s what sets us apart.

    Be loving exclusionists in your church on Sunday but do not think for one minute those views are part of the American ideal. We are an inclusive secular society not a Zionists project to perfect as a Christ like led King State.

  8. Love Jesus all you want but lay off the hate, read the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Beatitudes and the early revelations Moses received and you’ll be better for it. Loving God and your neighbor is a bad ass theology and if pence thinks avoiding meetings with women one on one lifts them up in love then he’s delusional because all it does is perpetuate a men’s only club of power. It’s active and real discrimination. And it’s absolutely ok to call it what it is - a clear and present danger to many.

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  9. When your outspoken legitimate beliefs - accepting your homosexuality and/or your transgender nature is a sin and we don’t warrant equal treatment under the law - cause others to kill or discriminate against my people in basic fundamental areas of living like housing, insurance, healthcare and employment - I will speak out about the hate you espouse.

     

    I don’t hate pence but his beliefs, those that believe like him are a clear and present danger to the lives of many.

     

    That’s a god damned fact.

     

     

     

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  10. My coach pitch kiddo went 3-4 with two singles and another legit/no error home run! He caught an outfield fly in the last inning to help save an uncertain win. His team is 3-0 in a double elimination tournament!! Unbelievable! So much fun !!

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  11. You know you can be for helping people help themselves and not assuming someone with a severely disabled child is mooching off the system, or that Medicaid expansion is a bad thing. That’s the thing here - if you want both there’s zero room at the table in the republican Christian party.

  12. Republicans claiming the exclusive moral high ground is the most infuriating. Especially when you look at the poor, healthcare disadvantaged and the disabled and the narratives R’s use to justify fucking them over.

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  13. I was an evangelical, still have strong Christian leanings but realize it’s a tricky deal being LGBTQ .... and I think living a Christian life without hypocrisy is damn hard. So I dialed it all the way back to the parable of the good Samaritan. The Pharisees were shocked to find out the really bad dude was the good guy because despite his heritage and label as the bad dude he inconvenienced himself with his time, money and plans to go out of the way to meet the practical needs of another human. Jesus then said that was just about it — love god and love your neighbor like that bad dude did.

     

    So that’s me, I do suck at it often but I try my best.

     

    Now to where I left ... a truly fundamentalist evangelical set of churches - lots of heady discussions and emotional pleas and belief in an almost zionistic ideal. Comparisons to the kings of the Old Testament and the Nation of Israel of old. American leaders become torchbearers for God or not. Fallible leaders who don’t profess evangelical values are considered like the kings of old that were bad those that took Israel captive. Those kings, I mean American leaders that profess Christian values and do things like roll back LGBTQ equality or appoint anti abortion justices are seen as fallible but malleable to God’s voice. Pence and Trumps pandering - and choosing pence was the greatest move of pandering - do it for these politically active Christian zionists. They see past the sexual failings of trump unlike Clinton because trump will appoint certain justices and agree the gays and trannies are a scourge. So trump is like the king who wasn’t that great but God used him for good anyway. By praying for fallible leaders we get to see how god can use anyone for his sovereign plans. makes me wanna puke.

     

    Taxes and other non religious issues get wrapped up in it too which is odd to me. As though rugged independence and reliance on self and not government is a Christian value

     

     

     

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