AllenG: Actually, Oprah would make a good VP for Apprentice: Cabinet Position edition. It's not like the VP has any actual power...
As Prof Brown would say, tenther, you're not thinking fourth-dimensionally. When President Trump, dreaming he was wolfing down a large plate of angel-hair pasta, chokes to death on his hairpiece one night, we would be left with... President Oprah. O_o Nooooo!
ThunderB: What has Trump said that is not true?
"Oprah would make a good VP"?
Vic's bouquet of weeds for the morning starts in the ONT at #600.
(jump to middle of the morning)
Morning, Glories!
Just finished reading the stale tail-end of the ONT, so of course now there's a morning thread. Well, okay.
Vic (last thread, on Okla defying SCoOK on the Commandments monument): "So is it starting? Open defiance of the black robes?"
Oh, I hope we're going to do even better than Obama-like court defiance: There has been, since before this latest ruling, a serious movement afoot to replace those Okla Supreme Court judges who seem to the citizenry of the state to be a tad out of touch with the sentiments of the people. A tad. Not sure how that works, but it's ongoing.
Obama's Daughter Scores Internship With Notorious Sex Offender
MTF, last thread: Who willingly signs their daughter up with an admitted pedo sexual predator?
Someone raised with pedo sexual predators?
TrivialPursuer: The dalai lama disappoints.
If only he could be more like the Pope! 
TrivialPursuer: ...If you can interpret the scriptures to mean whatever you want/need them to mean at any given moment in time, then they mean nothing at all...."
The Lama is clearly taking his cues from SCOTUS.
If not modern "liberal" churches.
Ah, h.. well, they all are derived from the Commie Social Breakdown playbook.
Thought this bit of understatement bore repeating; orphaned at the end of the last thread, regarding death-by-firecracker guy:
Muldoon: ...I am certain that this was not a man who was making excellent life decisions up until that fateful moment.
Bruce With a Wang!: How come the Dalia Lama gets a [past?
When you achieve Existentiality, there is no past, or future, there is only the Now.
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Kids in the back seat: Are we here now? Are we here now? Are we here now? Are we here now?
Ollie Boxoffer: Sore loin, in other words.
Holy cow! I'd steak a bet that well-done remark was almost Muldoon-worthy.
Note to webmaster: Ads in the left column consistently sill over into the center content column.
Somebody goofed.
Vic's Early Report late on the ONT
http://bit.ly/vic-news-2015-07-07
This post is microaggressively triggering to non- and proto-citizens.
We can't have a morning thread until the ONT reaches the diabolical number.
Oh, wait, there it is.
I am really beginning to suspect vote fraud in key States.
As the saying goes, what was your first clue, Sherlock?
Well, now, let's see. IIRC, in the last election, all the states that had voter ID via paper ballots with dedicated poll watchers went Republican, while all the states that let anybody vote (early and often) via electronic ballots with Democrat-only poll watchers went Democrat.
Nope, can't see any possibility of fraud there.
...The mother of a 22-year-old Maine man who tried to launch a firework off the top of his head for July Fourth and was killed instantly says she's advocating for stricter controls about who can use the explosives....
From "How Darwin Award Winners Are Created," vol 3.
Federal fireworks purchase authorization form...
7. Is your mother an idiot who raised you stupid?
8. Do you consume mass quantities of alcohol regularly?
9. Have you ever said the line, "Here, watch this"?
10. Doesn't matter. Who cares. 'Merica. Here's your fireworks. Have a day! Try not to kill yourself!
Morning, Glories!
Vic's news is posted and there's still no morning thread? This is getting bad. I blame global warming.
We were supposed to get clobbered by a storm last night. All day we hear about the gullywasher heading our way.
Late in the evening I saw on radar the storm line forming west and north of us, saw it getting bigger and scarier-looking, and heading toward us fast.
Suddenly, I saw the scary-looking part develop a gap - a gap which ended up sailing right over us.
We got enough thunder to disturb the dog a little, but so little rain that the pavement is already drying off this morning.
Cooled down nicely, though. I'll take it.
I blame solarcentric global climate dynamics.
Pharq! Wish WordPress let me edit my comments.
If some wizard wants to get in and change the <blockquote> after "without state approval. …" to </blockquote> it would make my comment look better.
Hiya, folks! Hope alla y'all had a good Independence Day weekend.
I wrote about government and marriage once upon a time. (Shuffles through archives.) Ah, here 'tis.
In 1980, my spouse and I married each other. We were not married by the State. We were not married by a pastor or a justice of the peace. We were not married "by" anybody. We did not even seek our families' approval. As free people, we chose to marry one another, and quite intentionally chose to marry each other here because, despite so many other tyrannical notions, Oklahoma law permitted free people to marry one another (at least if they were heterosexual and monogamous). …
That which it is unnecessary for the state to do should not be done. [We] have been married for over twenty [now 45] years, legally, without recourse to State or Church, and since such liberty is feasible, it is not our burden to suggest why it would be a "hardship" to register with the Gummint, but the Gummint's impossible burden to prove why private marriage contract should not be valid without State approval. …
Ex-urps from "Free to Marry," 1997 Mar 7, written in response to a state rep who as much as called common-law marriages illegitimate.
As with so many things, it is other bad laws which "require" State recognition of marriage. For recent example, Alabama has proposed getting out of the marriage business.
…While leaving the complex matter of marriage up to two consenting adults and their community is undoubtedly the best option in a libertarian utopia, the unfortunate reality is that doing so in the American legal system today would put a couple at significant disadvantage. To be specific, the federal government has a number of tax and entitlement benefits earmarked specifically for married couples, and Alabama’s failure to recognize a couple’s nuptials — gay or straight — could lead to a bureaucratic headache.…
Alabama’s marriage license abolition would be a bureaucratic nightmare by Casey Given, Rare
(h/t TJ Martinell, Tenth Amendment Center)
