So the other side of the story is what happens to the commenters. There is a process used on these people. Once their identity is known, they can be referred to political allies. Private reputati...
Kasich looks like ass if he throws the bible at me I'm a say you ugly
Click on over where, nk? Love you, man, in the most manly way. But you must provide links. Manfully. Just saying.
Or I see storm clouds on the horizon and I say, "Christians, start your engines." That sort of thing.
Click on over there and check out the last ten or so comments. I love potheads.
You don't need a pinkie promise from me, Mr. feets. But what I will promise you is when the likes of Kasich or Hillay! throw the Bible at me and assert that I must be for big government, I will u...
As I said, I’d rather leave God out of public policy. me too let's make a pinkie promise to leave god out of the public policy
But in general, the TOPIC of someone having murdered George W Bush while in office is designed to APPEAL to the Bush haters, so is almost certainly NOT being created or promoted by ri...
You are correct, IGotBupkis, and that was exactly Hitchen's reaction. I've met a few British atheists, and I'm amazed at how many of them had Bibles and had read them. While they didn't believe w...
I don’t believe in the doctrine of atonement (that Jesus died for our sins, for example)Then you aren't a CHRISTIAN. You are just someone who CALLS yourself a...
The creator’s a euro, and he’s a media person. BOTH lean strongly to the left. The intersection of the two even more so. If every movie in existence is to be presumed...
If Ralph claimed to be Ben Franklin, and walked around dressed up like Ben Franklin and hung out at the City Tavern in Philly, we would likely be polite to him and call him Ben to his face. But w...
the new netflix Sense8 show from the wachooskies is all trannied up and it's got disgusting tranny strap-on sex and me i do not want to watch this when i come home from work and unwind i...
Aphrael - do you draw a distinction between the name and the gendered pronouns?
“!” Come the Revolution, we shoot all bureaucrats and hair-dressers.
How bad could it get without the fixed public official?
we have to be more like the cow?
An interesting article at American Thinker. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/06/lies_about_sex.html
woodchipper lol
Kevin M, at 220 - I would find the behavior of those who did not use his new name to be rude, and *at the same time* I would be highly impressed, and deeply respect, your friend for not taking of...
Most people took the woodchipper comment as nothing more than a reference to the movie Fargo. Not a threat.
By the way, the woodchipper comments are kind of funny. I get offended mainly at the comments whose content consists of: "!"
Sex is physical and psychological. Gender exists only in speech. Words can say anything. Bruce=Caitlyn=woman:Fire=ice=cold We have not always been at war with Eurasia. Freedom is not slavery. 2 o...
236. Steve’s position is that sex determines gender, that physical determines mental, that there is a definite necessary linkage. kishnevi (91d5c6) — 6/11/2015 @ 9:59 pm
My optical mouse made a few unfortunate highlight-and-delete errors that I didn't catch (they happen fast as I'm typing along) to my previous comment, but I'll leave it alone. I think everyone wi...
the left is blinkered, so where like minds like the late R.D Laing,
Sex is biology, gender is psychology. Sex is physical, gender is mental. Steve's position is that sex determines gender, that physical determines mental, that there is a definite necessary linkag...
233. ...*Think a moment. Your arguments against SSM are always one of two types–either explicitly based on the Bible and therefore automatic losses when your interlocutor does not b...
if biology is not objective, then what is, what you are talking about is subjective, propensities to certain practices,
, but I know that I don’t merely believe in it because of Christianity, coercion, and inertia. You obviously do not respond well to coercion, and only a fool would accuse you of inerti...
229. ... You say it does. I say neither claim is validated by the current state of evidence. There is objective truth, but the objective truth is unknown to us at the current time... ...
230 I assume you have read Mark Twain on the German language. Trot out the old memnonic Lee is me. Me is who Hu is he. He is she. She is who, which and that. Word in the left is a Hebrew pronoun ...
I renewed my drivers license yesterday and it says "gender". The one I had from four years ago said "sex". I say, "Bite me". Sex is nature, gender is grammar. This joke is as old as Attic Greek: ...
The XX and XY chromosomes determine not only differences in physiology but also brain function (perhaps even configuration) Which is a function of physical sexual identity. Gender is a ...
well I don't know if i'd go that far, but when you 'socially construct' reality, one finds reality has the last word,
Commentators from the transgender community were verbally abusive towards Finch for his desertion of the cause…As I've noted previously, regretters like Finch are trea...
'it's mad house' http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/06/tamir-rice-case-cleveland-tries-out-baltimore-justice-ignores-facts-in/
nk, Rabbis are married, so the jokes are different. If you want advice, ask the rabbi. If you want the answer, ask his wife.
A lot of what you think of as objective truth is merely the intellectual and cultural conformity of European society in the Christian era, in part coercively imposed and in part gener...
I am honest enough with myself to acknowledge my reasons are derived solely from the Torah Mine are from rude Greek villagers who casually refer to Bishops as "geldings" as they're not a...
I thought that rude — if you don’t own your name, what do you own?Your reputation, Kevin M. You own your reputation. Which apparently by his name change meant very ...
As for these judges: Snicker-snack.
Aphrael, I have had this experience. Someone I knew casually converted to Nation of Islam and took a new name. Others continued to speak of him, and address him, by his former name and he was gra...
To: The Dana who knows how to push our buttons (with a little help from Patterico) Bravo!
Col. @ 216 But I bet you do not want to be called late for dinner.
I am going to be disputatious. A monopoly that requires as a prerequisite that no standards, no “truth” outside of what these public institutions subjectively declare to be the “truth....
Okay then... my name is Raymond J. Johnson, Jr. Now you can call me Ray, or you can call me J, or you can call me Johnny, or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me Junie, or you can call me Ju...
I couldn't care much less about the Silk Road case. What I do care about are the actions of the DoJ. Taking the opinion of Patterico, Popehat and others that no true threats were issued in those ...
Mr. Feets I blame those outtgrabing mome raths.
Beldar...in a way, Billy Jack the movie character is a good fit for you. Just not in the way the bullies wanted.
these toves, they are too slithy
"Not a good approach, particularly in context. Just A Guy (08458e) — 6/11/2015 @ 1:47 pm" Frankly, I am surprised it took one of the mendoucheous trolls this long to take this utterly predictab...
A comment like “Its judges like these that should be taken out back and shot” may not be illegal, but I have no desire to associate with people who make comments like that.
201. I agree with you that if someone in your personal life — someone you know well — asked you to call them by a different name, it would be rude to refuse to consider doing what...
A last tidbit: Most legal name changes are done as part of divorce decrees. They're very rarely controversial. Most, but not all, reflect the divorcing wife's desire to return to her maide...
To complete the overlong and off-topic anecdote: I also remember being very confused as a small child by the fact that the President of the United States was named "John," but he was also called ...
I think anyone's generally entitled to be called what he or she prefers, as a matter of courtesy. DRJ's right that there are indeed legal procedures available to those who want to formally change...
but I have no desire to associate with people who make comments like that. I have already deleted one comment in this thread to that effect (by happyfeet), and I ask JD to keep an eye out for...
As Steve57 points out, the left has been manipulating and distorting language for decades in order to fulfil it's goals. I think at times some distortions have been described as "defining devianc...
We require people to legally change their names for many reasons, including that it is a practical and useful convention. If Bruce Jenner wants everyone to call him Caitlyn, there is...
“George Lakoff is the progressive movement's Jedi master of language. The Little Blue Book tells us how to say what we need to say to bring about the policy changes Americans need.�...
aphrael, I agree with you that if someone in your personal life -- someone you know well -- asked you to call them by a different name, it would be rude to refuse to consider doing what s/he asks...
nk:
Who agrees with me?I agree. I don't think these commenters are real threats. I think they are being used as political tools, but that scares me almost as mu...
191. ...From my perspective, what you’re saiyng is “calling people by the name they prefer to be called by requires that I accept totalitarian socialist indoctrination”, which i...
felipe, it's also because they are relentless. It is the thin end of a wedge. I see it with my friends in England. They no longer refer to husbands and wives; too oppressive, it's always partner....
Count me in, too, Gazzer. I'd rather be right than polite.
I'm with Hoahie and Steve57 on all this. I am reminded of John Cleese' last line in the Loretta scene. "Symbolic of his struggle against reality."
According to his Senate colleague Mark Kirk, Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is a “bro with no ho.”
Who agrees with me? nk (dbc370) — 6/10/2015 @ 10:50 am I do.
I agree with you Steve57. About all of it. And using the Bruce Jenner example also. Bruce can change his name to Catlyn, it's up to him. But He will never, ever be a she. He was born male and no ...
> Which is why I’m defending the right of these Libertarian @$$holes to make their idiot comments free from government harassment. As am I; I think they're rude assholes, AND I think they have ...
Steve57, at 186: In comment #141, said that "unjustifiably rude is what you call someone when you know you won't get any traction with 'transphobic', 'homophobic', 'sexist', 'bigot', etc". While ...
narciso (ee1f88) — 6/11/2015 @ 8:32 am Here is a thought: These many recent hires many of whom have not received security clearance but were allowed to work anyway, prolly scan ideologically - ...
R.I.P. Dusty Rhodes, TV wrestling legend
i hope his agent appreciates him he's really a trooper
http://izquotes.com/quote/235676
"I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among ...
150. nk, at 141: I believe my demeanor here over the long period of time that I’ve been commenting demonstrates that I place a high value on what I perceive as politeness. Given tha...
R.I.P. Christopher Lee, ac•tor R.I.P. Ornette Coleman, jazz saxophonist
Milhouse, really man. You gotta stop beating every last word to death. You're taking the fun out of commenting. Geesh.
If there is a special place in the criminal codes for those who violate the law under "color of authority," why not a special place in hell for moral breaches under color of authority? How in the...
*bad guys
happy-- In his biz, you never ever say no to a role.
well I didn't want to belabor the point, but yes,
narciso-- In the oughts you had a succession of presidents on "24" who, excepting for a noble "first" African-American who the ad guys wanted to kill, you had a progression of incompetents and we...
Milhouse, I am done for now. You argue a lot like a troll -- assert, deflect, ask for more detail, and ignore arguments at will. You never quite seem to engage, always looking for a new way to ma...
Instapundit (Glenn Reynolds) often appends comment to news links with an allusion to 18th century protests, of the form "Corrupt bureaucrat. Tar. Feathers. Some assembly required." Given that the...
Independence Day also had James Duval in it who's been working like an absolutely insane person
Deport d.c.
Independence Day was not about a crime it was about mean-spirited aliens what blow up the White House and a tunnel but the dog survives
in the Clinton era, you had heroic presidents, like Harrison Ford, and Bill Pullman's characters, in the 00s, you had the horrible Manchurian remake, and fare like this Canadian import, yes there...
Was Independence Day wish fulfilment? What about every other crime movie ever made? Why would it need an element of wish fulfilment to play globally, when most crime movies don't? It's jus...
it was a revisiting of 'war of the worlds' back when Roland Emmrich wasn't a sky dragon worshiper, of 2012 the lest said, the better,
Kevin M - agreed. Intentional.
a lil bit of both i would imagine cause of the film had to play globally
A fantasy as in "not real", like Independence Day, or a fantasy as in wish fulfilment?
all is well:You'd think 0bama would be more careful with his own safety.
because it was clearly a fantasy
Why don't you try explaining it, then, Kevin? What exactly can anyone see as threatening in this movie, even someone so paranoid as to see threats in the Reason comments?
it was clearly a fantasy not unlike independence day where the white house goes boomAnd did the Secret Service take an interest in that? Not as far as I know.
all is well: http://freebeacon.com/national-security/new-secret-service-hires-working-despite-lack-of-security-clearance/