Sodomites always view these verses in a light most favorable for that position.

To tell the truth, I'd tase Skip Gates just because he strikes me as a bit of a prick. Hell, when it comes down to it, I'd like to tase Obama as well. Maybe even a coupla times. Just to see if there's any part of him left that responds like a human being.

It's...

Geez Trope, sounds like you live in the neighborhood I grew up in (Jerry Springer land before Jerry Springer existed.) Your examples remind me to be grateful (and proud) that my current Bronx neighbors do not lead lives like that, despite probably being of similar socio-economic levels and with...

This explains much.

Thanks, it's going well. Last week I swam two days of 500m warmups with 5x100 sets of crawl, breast and back and 5x50 sets of crawl and breast. All my crawl repeats were 1R/1L bilateral and felt very fluid. Last Saturday, after the expo, several 50m lanes were...

I would point to my response to NCD below.  Because the state cannot just walk into people's homes (for good reason), the traffic stop does become one of the significant ways that the state is able to intervene.  Personally, I think being pulled over because one did not use one...

I happened to scroll down to this post, Donal, and noticed no one had commented. In case you're disappointed (it shows lots of care and effort), I found it very informative. 

This year, decades after I ostensibly learned to swim ...

I think one could safely improve on that by omitting some of the specifics. You shouldn't tase anyone just because they refuse to sign a school zone traffic ticket. I do agree that the pregnant bit just makes it that much dumber, however. I just can't fathom how anyone,...

Uh... whoops!  Guess I'm still writing 1912 on my checks... and, uh... writing checks.

Agree 100% with Donal. Republicans will never change, they have never shown any motivation or tendency to change ideology, except to become more 'severe' and in the wrong direction.

Given what's happening in Europe, I don't think they have that much time Donal.

The austerity agenda of the minister's daughter Merkel has failed.  The winds of political change are blowing, and victory is going to go to those people who sense the direction in which they...

If Romney wins, they'll implement their Etch-a-Debt strategy: Incur debt, cut taxes on the rich, shake things up with a war, forget about debt, repeat.

Out of unbridled admiration for the moderators of this blog, this will be my final blogpost on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  I don't think we've gotten anywhere and I certainly do not wish to heighten tensions on a tense issue. ...

So, without reading or listening to what they have to say you conclude and assert that Mandy Pitinkin and Paul Woodward are "heinous" purveyors of "filth". And, while you welcome me to share the heinous filth with anyone else [gee, thanks for that] you righteously...

Somebody should go make an absurd amount of money casting him in the Blue Ivy biopic.

Bruce, I'm not sure if you meant to call Lulu anti-semitic, but this last comment is particularly accusatory. Please be advised that such accusations violate the ToS. If you have a problem of that nature with a comment, please contact the moderators. We may not agree with you, but we will...

A: Obviously, you don't understand how politics works. The sheer thought of another exciting debt standoff is sufficient to send voters racing to the polls.

(Plus, it makes Boehner look like a Tea Party dude)

Q:  Didn't Timothy Geithner say that it won't matter because the U.S. is not even going to reach the limits of its borrowing authority before the end of the year?

A: Timothy who?

I hereby render unto you some such or other prize until Richard Day shows up to do it.

I've often thought that it would have been best to be wealthy in the time of Sherlock Holmes. You could tramp anywhere in your deer stalker hat, be treated like a Lord at the nearest public house and haughtily drop a few coins in payment. No one but Professor Moriarty would dream of...

Sugar doesn't make you stupid.  High fructose corn syrup does.

Debate Over Blue Clay Highlights Battle Between Players And Owners

The billionaire Tiriac ... said. “We know that a new court is never good, even if we...

Maybe someone who has more knowledge about the realities of actual court rulings can answer this, but I don't think it is far fetched to believe some lawyers have gotten their clients off because the cops couldn't produce a signed document, in spite of video evidence etc. ...

If you track the history of the legal system, uneducated, unskilled Black males will always fall prey to police powers. Drug laws will be replaced by vagrancy laws or other harsh measures. We want the unemployed out of sight.

Read "Slavery By Another Name" to see how police,...

Indeed.  Peracles writes

"I don't care what they say,"  they being the legal jurists who evaluated the legalities of the Israeli blockade (which is less than 10 years in the making contrary to what Peracles just asserts...

If I'm seriously goofy, then doesn't that just corroborate the futility of discussing things with me. 

And what I see as goofy is that you, like so many like-minded thinkers in the circle-jerk of irrational Israel hatred, just make shit up.  Remember the alleged Jenin...

As this comment seems to have passed like ships in the night, let me give it a shout out.

Yes, people who were arguing racism in the case of Skip Gates - where he was being uncooperative to police investigating a report of him actually breaking into his own house, and where he *was not*...

So more taxpayer dollars should go for education targeted to Blacks?

You're right, of course. You don't have to be a sadist to follow order. However, have you seen footage from the Milgram experiment? Many of them clearly enjoyed delivering the shocks (while many others clearly did not).

I think that we need a higher standard than simple nonviolent disobedience to warrant use of force.

As Donal says, she should not have resisted arrest. (However, she does have the right to remain silent, and in my opinion that includes refusing to sign anything.)

I have...

Really? I don't think I've discussed where I stand on the Jewish State.

And seeing as the occupied territories aren't part of the Jewish State, I don't see a comment about settlers as tipping my hand.

If I make a comment about drones in Pakistan or Yemen, does that...

There are two strands to the issue here:

1) the use of tasers in any situation (is it torture or a legit tool for law enforcement)

and

2) the use of tasers in this particular situation (was the use of tasers appropriate, and if so, was it used excessively).

What I...

Some choice excerpts from the David and Jonathan saga (the other excerpts are more easily understood as a very strong friendship, which these could be as well, if one were so inclined):

1 Samuel 18: 1 After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit...

There was a major debate re: Sojourner Truth's clan & blacks re: that very point. Women's suffrage was put off for 50 years or so.

Don't buy the crabs theory even though it sounds pleasant. There's been a lot of progress for gays since Stonewall. Compared to the old...

Well, you are a well-known conformist…

No response.

Hey Peter, so nice to hear from you.  I absolutely have no idea about the specific reasons that any one individual has been administratively detained.  Of course, that's the problem with administrative detention.  

And I don't even...

Are you arguing that physical punishment and street mistreatment of homosexuals will disappear?

All things 'can' be done. So do it. Find a scripture-based argument for why anti-homosexuality canons should be dropped, see if anyone buys it.

But in any case, the legal hurdles for homosexuals including marriage will be dropped long before racism & physical punishment &...

Is Gaddafi or Assad as violent as Netanyahu?

If following law, the police can ask her to get out of the car and if she doesn't comply, can force her to.

That of course doesn't give them the right to fire a gun at her head, and considering the number of people who have died from tasers, and in general the high level of...

You obviously have no interest in a career in American politics.

We've been through this before with Sinn Fein and hunger strikes, though arguably the British had much more legal claim to be in Northern Ireland than settlers have to be in Palestinian territory.

Nor do I recall the British razing Irish tenement houses in revenge or that a Sunday...

Lovely. If I say that the cops wore blue and not pink, I must be defending them, right?

What we need are better "use of force" rules for our police.  I don't think we can count on the courts for that because, as previously noted, the courts tend not to like to second guess officers in the field.  Indeed, the courts sadly see the officers as an arm of their...

Here is a post by a Muslim quoting the Koran and it's  rejection of homosexuality. He objects to Obama's stance on Gay marriage. The responses to the post are still early, but many point...

Actually I said the officers were dumber than the civilian, but go ahead and have your fun.

Two for the cops. Trope and PP.