tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post31592137675090411..comments2023-09-06T22:30:02.061+10:00Comments on The Knight & Drummer: Monstrous Regiment of Wimmin (2)Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-60388630731638778302017-01-27T14:31:35.295+11:002017-01-27T14:31:35.295+11:00They seem busy bringing Hell all by themselves.They seem busy bringing Hell all by themselves.Amfortashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-2908999447896096052017-01-27T11:01:34.540+11:002017-01-27T11:01:34.540+11:00I guess women come in all sizes just as men to. Th...I guess women come in all sizes just as men to. There are good ones and bad ones; ones who do well and ones that don't The bad are always jealous of the good. I look forward to clearing a table for you to sit at and speak.Amfortashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-65775464783784503162017-01-27T10:56:26.123+11:002017-01-27T10:56:26.123+11:00Yes, still OK. Lots of drinks to serve. Will Trump...Yes, still OK. Lots of drinks to serve. Will Trump turn out to be the 'saviour' or the 'wrath' is anyone's guess but I am less inclined to think he is appointed from above. He has been sitting on the Throne (he didn't build that. Obama did) for less than a week issuingthe Decrees that Obama made so popular and we usually give a new leader 100 days to sort out his washing. A decree a day will keep destruction away. Hopefully.Amfortashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-43241476029931876812017-01-27T10:04:37.248+11:002017-01-27T10:04:37.248+11:00Great post my dear friend:). They never cover wome...Great post my dear friend:). They never cover women like us because according to the leftists women we aren't really women. We may have a post with more of my views soon:). I am working on it! <br />The southern girlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-71714241152391185602017-01-27T07:19:23.687+11:002017-01-27T07:19:23.687+11:00Nice thing is that the Donald is giving em hell ov...Nice thing is that the Donald is giving em hell over this.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-53093559727193795312017-01-27T05:48:34.618+11:002017-01-27T05:48:34.618+11:00Golly - people must have a licence to sell real es...Golly - people must have a licence to sell real estate, yet those women are permitted to procreate at will and the methodology they choose to employ in raising their children is deeply disturbing. Logic is not subject to any law of diminishing returns - it just seems to be unfashionable - especially for women. Perhaps it's the absence of a silly wog label and no obvious price tag. On the other hand, stupidity is forever - there is no remedy - but it's really fashionable at the moment. I wonder if any of those women know how to cook - I'm sure they all know the nearest junk food drive through - lucky off-spring! Peter H.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-19243447191221785362017-01-27T02:28:35.587+11:002017-01-27T02:28:35.587+11:00I'm listening :) (I always do, because I'd...I'm listening :) (I always do, because I'd prefer to read your perspective more than some others on your side, believe me. But I think both sides need to start listening to each other, rather than propaganda about each other :) <br /><br />Having said that, the EPA issue isn't my 'case' dear lol. As I said, I saw the articles, found it curious they were very similar to what my friend told me hours before, went to fact-checkers to verify. I prefer Politifact but they haven't reported yet. Doesn't mean I believe them, either, I just weigh their arguments. <br /><br />As for Clinton support, I'm sure all fact-checking site contributors vote (or at least I hope they do) and we all have bias, try as hard as we can to remove them. But I have seen Snopes contributors verify conservative stories. For instance, the story about Obama releasing money to the Palestinian Authority right before he left? <br /><br />Deemed "mostly true" by Snopes. "Mostly" because the part of the story left out was Congress voted on it 2 years ago and approved it, he just didn't release it until he left. Presidents have to ask Congress for money, they don't have it lying around to give. <br /><br />Not sure I agree with supporting the PA, but at the same time, if we're stopping all refugees in, I don't mind giving money out to help, public or private, but ya never know who it really goes to either way. <br /><br />As for Obama, didn't agree with everything. I'm a left libertarian, I don't believe government needs to be involved in too much. However, there is also such a thing as cutting back things too far. Governor Snyder from Michigan proved that. His style was reward your inexperienced political cronies with high-paying gov jobs and cut funding back to govt. programs. That ended in Flint's water crisis. And I think people are scared because Trump has followed that pattern.<br /><br />IMO, just because Trump is against abortion doesn't make him moral or even Christian. Muslims are against abortion too. There's a bit more to being a Christian than that, IMO. And there was a bit more to the Women's March than abortion. Some of the marchers didn't get that themselves. <br /><br />We've seen Trump's nasty live many times and from Twitter account. Ain't nothing else Christian coming off him BUT anti-abortion.<br /><br />However, as I said in my last comment last night that apparently didn't take regarding my friend being Catholic, I'm in no place to judge, I'm not Catholic. And I typically worry about my own sin unless others' sin harms me, others or themselves. Not much I can do about it though. <br /><br />As for company kept, Jesus' own disciples were sinners, he preferred them to the self-righteous pharisees. <br /> <br />He never said shun the sinner - that was Paul. (Paul said/did a lot of things to please the Pharisees Christ refused to and Christ trumps Paul IMO.) <br /><br />Christ said "shake the dust off your feet" to those who won't listen. The worst sinners listened, self-righteous Pharisees refused; thus, Christ chose worst sinners as disciples. Doesn't mean he didn't love the Pharisees or was shunning them, it just meant he's was better off talking to a brick wall. .<br /><br /><br />And that's the beauty of discussion with other Christians who self-examine in Christianity rather than use to as a righteousness measuring stick - we don't have to agree on everything, but we both want to do what Christ wants and double check.:)<br /><br />Speaking of which, appreciate the good discussion with you. At least I thought it was, but your last comment leaves me wondering if we're still okay, so I'll scoot away and just say good day to ya, <br /><br /><br />~ ChrystalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-18235404261152050002017-01-26T20:53:53.782+11:002017-01-26T20:53:53.782+11:00By the way, you do your case little good quoting S...By the way, you do your case little good quoting Snopes. They were busted a while back for being run by an unqualified and amateur Clinton supporter. Hardly a 'fact-checker' and more like a shill.Amfortashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-62431379379404515822017-01-26T20:50:34.831+11:002017-01-26T20:50:34.831+11:00Such a lot of pannicky talk going around that it i...Such a lot of pannicky talk going around that it is hard to discern the true from the false. As far as I can tell ALL Government Departments are on tenterhooks expecting a hose pipe or a diverted river through them. Time will tell and we shall see. <br /><br />American Government Departments operate differently from most Anglophile countries in that there are many, many 'political' appointments. Obama installed well over 4000 people to bring the 'change' part of hope and change, much to the dismay of the many who were 'replaced'. They too will go and no doubt try to push through a wrecking ball before they are found.<br />Amfortashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-71732472539179831472017-01-26T20:42:41.324+11:002017-01-26T20:42:41.324+11:00You think I am wrong sometimes? Don't believe ...You think I am wrong sometimes? Don't believe everything you think, m'dear. Dream instead. Sleep tight.Amfortashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-66271280456702810482017-01-26T19:37:06.834+11:002017-01-26T19:37:06.834+11:00PS - On Catholicism, oh, I'm in no position no...PS - On Catholicism, oh, I'm in no position no judge who's a good Catholic and who isn't, not being Catholic. I guess it's also not my place to judge who's a Christian and who's not or who should be "allies" with whom. Again, I don't look at my countrymen as enemies or allies - I look at them as having different opinions and sins compared to mine. <br /><br />The moment I start down that "who's a true Christian" road, I remember someone could just as easily say the same about me, using different evidence. I try to remind myself of this verse every day, some days go better than others :)<br /><br />James 4:12: "There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?"<br /><br />~ ChrystalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-64458993030655080792017-01-26T19:31:16.171+11:002017-01-26T19:31:16.171+11:00Well, there also wasn't any pronouncement that...Well, there also wasn't any pronouncement that he ever supported the DAPL pipeline and was going to force the issue with an EO (probably because people on both sides were against it. In fact, a Trump-voting friend of mine is really mad about him never mentioning that).<br /><br />In fact, he didn't tell us about any of these EO's, we were under the impression he would sign Congressional votes on them.<br /><br />As for my friend at the CDC, I can't verify, I don't work there. All I know is what my friend said her boss told her (her boss is a Trump voter btw), which was similar to what EPA employees later reported on social media and to the press the same day - funding freezes, gag orders. In fact, she had asked me to use her private email because of it from now on and it was hours before those articles about the EPA. <br /><br />Here's what snopes.com (fact-checking site) says on the subject:<br /><br />http://www.snopes.com/2017/01/23/epa-grants-frozen<br /><br />Snopes ends the entry by stating they have reached out to EPA officials to verify, so they haven't labeled it true or false yet. <br /><br />Interesting, that my friend told me the exact same story about the CDC hours before those articles about the EPA were published, though, isn't it?<br /><br />Could just be "what if" panic. Time will tell...<br /><br />~ ChrystalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-84666503783827174562017-01-26T19:12:53.915+11:002017-01-26T19:12:53.915+11:00Perhaps that's something we have in common, we...Perhaps that's something we have in common, we're both the expressive sort (downright wordy, in my case). We both like to pour out all thoughts on a subject at once, editing later in hopes of creating better flow or perhaps just for brevity, when perhaps the 1st draft was the gold! (Thus why my 1st comment doesn't flow, I edited too much for length :) )<br /><br />I'm quite wrong sometimes? How DARE you?!;)<br /><br />Hahaha - I'm just kidding! Of course I'm wrong sometimes. In fact, I'm wrong a lot. If I wasn't, I'd have a lot more to show for my 48 years of life than I do lol. But ya know, you learn as you go, if you're the sort that can admit you're wrong and learn from your mistakes :) <br /><br />And of course I HAVE to add, here, that I think you're quite wrong sometimes too ;) But that's okay, we don't always have to agree, one doesn't have to be right and the other wrong, and who says either one of us is right?<br /><br />But did you ask "When am I wrong, for instance?" ;)<br /><br />Well, I'll tell you, thank you for asking ;) lol. <br /><br />Like the Qu'ran verses quoted above. That isn't what those verses say at all. But I digress in the interest of discussion rather than argument and encourage you to look those versus up/read the Qu'ran in full context and compare them to the meme ;)<br /><br />Now would be a good time during this conversation for that drink, I think? lol. But I'll just have a glass of chamomile tea this time, thanks, as it's bedtime here :)<br /><br />I think we're more alike/agree more than you may think, we just have different ideas on how to reach the same goal. In fact, I think that's actually the only difference between the right and left, different ideas, same goal. <br /><br />Unfortunately, all of this "leftists are all this" and "rightists are all that" nonsense has gotten in the way of that truth, in recent years. I don't pay any attention to that propagandic nonsense from either side. That kind of thinking is causing the hatred and divisiveness on both sides, that the other side is our "enemy" rather than our fellow countrymen with different ideas. And people are individuals before the groups they belong to anyway and there are variances within groups, IMO.<br /><br />Having said that, it is pretty hard to have a friendship with people who've been indoctrinated to believe you're the enemy and that they can't trust you because you're a lefty. I don't find that to be the mindset of all conservatives, but I have to admit, I've run into that extreme "enemy" mentality more with Trump voters this last election. <br /><br />As for your question about marches, didn't/won't be attending either - unfortunately I can't afford the time off!<br /><br />Well, it's off to bed with me now, good to see you, Amfortas :) <br /><br />~ Chrystal<br /><br />PS - BTW, agreed about the kids with signs, totally disgusted. And I admit, I laughed at the meme of the near-naked women holding a sign demanding that she be desexualized. I'm pretty sure the sign didn't accomplish men desexualizing her, but her blatant lack of self-awareness and hypocrisy may have done the trick.<br /><br />I'm thoroughly convinced what is lacking most in today's society is the inability to look in the mirror before we speak and point fingers. <br /><br />Now if you'll excuse me, rather than exemplify that myself, I must go and create a sign about it, then yell at other people to do as I say rather than what I do, to make my world more comfortable for me ;) <br /><br />(Kidding again lol)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-3893144683398415452017-01-26T18:11:01.210+11:002017-01-26T18:11:01.210+11:00Will be cut, eh? That would be dreadful, but I do ...Will be cut, eh? That would be dreadful, but I do not recall any pronouncement that such funding would be cut by Mr Trump. Perhaps that was an Obama thing or the nasty folk in the Health Department that Trump has yet to put a hose through. So far Trump has only put a stop to Planned Parenthood funding, and as we all know from them themselves, 93% of their work is in killing babies not trying to cure disabilities.<br /><br />I would suggest - clearly with little impact - that your friend might choose better allies. As for her being a Catholic, hmmmmm, there are 'Church of Nice', outright socialists, and Traditionalists and a lot in between. I hope she is a good Catholic woman. There are 'infiltraitors' too. The emphasis is on the 'traitors' there: traitors to the Faith. I am reminded that a Catholic Priest was a member of Congress who voted FOR abortion.Amfortashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-63278683024474933372017-01-26T17:59:17.105+11:002017-01-26T17:59:17.105+11:00Chrystal, dear lady, so good to see you back. :) ...Chrystal, dear lady, so good to see you back. :) There are things that you and I can agree on even if there are some things, sometimes, that you are quite wrong about. Still, better a shared glass than a bitter one, eh? <br /><br />I am pleased that you added to this post. You are quite right to point out the men involved in the violence. I had made a mention which went missing in the editing. I even had a couple of videos of men rioting and of women rioting. One can deal with only so much before one drifts off from the point. As you know I interject only so much and let the customers do most of the talking.<br /><br />I too think that peaceful assembly is a fine thing, while blocking traffic, cursing and getting one's kiddies to hold filthy signs isn't. I do hope you can make it to the March for Life tomorrow. <br /><br />What can I get for you to drink, m'dear?<br /><br />Amfortashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-22831958368431320362017-01-26T15:13:55.187+11:002017-01-26T15:13:55.187+11:00Forgive me, a correction. (I tried to shorten/edit...Forgive me, a correction. (I tried to shorten/edit my 1st comment and ended up taking out a bit too much, here and there, I hope you can still follow). <br /><br />Most important is a correction to the second sentence. It originally and should've said: "The press only seems to report on the "ratbags" of both conservative and liberal protestors, but I guess it wouldn't be newsworthy and boring if they reported on the rules, rather than exceptions to the rules."<br /><br />~ ChrystalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-52329498296719943862017-01-26T14:27:44.713+11:002017-01-26T14:27:44.713+11:00PS - My friend who works for the CDC is Catholic a...PS - My friend who works for the CDC is Catholic and does not support abortion. However, she was marching because she is on the Zika research team and funding for it will be cut. Zika is know to cause birth defects, particularly microcephaly. So the main reason she was marching was against funding cuts because they only have the preliminary research done and there is no assistance yet in place for children with these birth defects nor their families. <br /><br />~ ChrystalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-84707961769002614672017-01-26T14:20:54.835+11:002017-01-26T14:20:54.835+11:00http://marchforlife.org/
Yes, conservatives do ma...http://marchforlife.org/<br /><br />Yes, conservatives do march and I support them - i.e., MFL has been marching every year since 1974. The press only seems to report on the ratbags of both, but I guess it wouldn't be newsworthy if they reported the rules rather than the exception. And perhaps press does that to make things appear more rampant than it was to people who weren't there, to stir people up so they can get more ratings/readers ;)<br /><br />Regardless, I don't think peaceful abortion protestors care for being automatically lumped in with abortion clinic bombers any more than peaceful women march protestors care for being automatically lumped in with rioters. <br /><br />Speaking of which, the window-smashing events occurred the day before women marches, and they were performed by men, as this video shows: <br /><br />https://youtu.be/KjMHXwi1hYE<br /><br />I'm not blaming men for violence - I personally don't believe men are any more prone to violence than women. I'm just saying in this particular case, it happened to be men the day before.<br /><br />Lastly, the meme above with Bank of America's windows being smashed says that those businesses were anti-Trump is incorrect. Here's BoA's CEO on Fox Business Insider, singing Trump's praises:<br /><br />http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/01/25/bank-america-ceo-says-trump-brings-renewed-optimism.html<br /><br />Otherwise, I can tell you that I personally know 7 couples that went to the marches (which included their eager husbands) and all of them said they were peaceful and positive and saw no violence whatsoever. <br /><br />They did see some inappropriate signs and nastiness like above, but it was not common, and both those signs and the prior day's violent acts were denounced by my friends and other non-ratbag protestors :)<br /><br />Regardless, the women's march happened 4 days ago. Much has happened since. And though I agree with you on defunding Planned Parenthood for abortions (but not for general female healthcare provision for low-income women, especially with Obamacare going), and a few features of other EO's, that is not the only issues at stake, nor is that the point. The point is abuse of executive privilege. <br /><br />An executive order has also been issued to continue DAPL on Lakota Sioux Federal Land grant, which both conservatives and liberals supported the peaceful protests on, after paid local law enforcement on behalf of DAPL tear-gased them, let loose attack dogs on them and shot at them with rubber bullets for refusing to leave their own land. These are American citizens who will lose their land - again. <br /><br />Trump also made a Twitter threat yesterday at 6:30 p.m. to bring in "the feds" if Chicago didn't "fix it's gun violence problem" - not only insulting his biggest voters, cops, but threatening to do exactly what gun owners feared Hillary would do - send in federal troops to take their guns away/fight them.<br /><br />Regardless of whether we like or agree with a president, there is no reason to have a Congress at all if we give a president this much power. Had Obama abused his EO's in this manner rather than waiting for Congress, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul would've threatened to shut down the govt again led the charge to impeach. Considering I'm sort of a left-libertarian, I'm inclined to agree with them on limited government.<br /><br />I'm just wondering where those same voice are now, when one of their own is in power. Because IMO, abuse of executive power, government overreach and unconstitutionality is never okay, lib or conservative. <br /><br />And the fact that no one from the right is challenging that abuse of power from one of their own is what at least appears to be hypocritical, especially because "laissez-faire" government is the entire foundation of their party platform?<br /><br />Regardless, the constitutional right to peacefully assemble should be supported rather than condemned, and I think we all could be a bit more careful not to confuse them with ratbags and condemn them ;)<br /><br />~ ChrystalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com