Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread

[Professor Tiger]

Both religion and man made global warming are faith based. It's just that religion acknowledges it.

More evidence that global warming isn't happening. Here's an article with photos of the polar ice cap growing 544,000 square miles last year:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -year.html

[Professor Tiger]

Not to mention that ship of hapless global warming scientists who sailed down to the antarctic to study the disappearance of ice. Their ship got stuck in that "disappearing ice" caused by climate change and had to be rescued.

[Toemeesleather]

President Barack Obama played golf Sunday on a private California course owned by supporter Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder of the Oracle software company.

Ellison ranks third on Forbes' annual list of the 400 richest Americans, with an estimated $41 billion fortune.

His 249-acre desert property in Rancho Mirage came with a 19-hole private golf course. The extra hole is available for playoffs.

The White House said Obama's foursome included childhood friends Bobby Titcomb, Greg Orme and Michael Ramos.

Obama spent the weekend in California after meeting Friday at a resort with Jordan's king. His wife and daughters are skiing in Colorado.....


Everyone must sacrifice, well unless you are Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama, her kids and entourage arrived in Aspen, and shut down the airport. People were pissed off, and the media just shrugged. The media has been silent about Michelle Obama’s lavish ski trip to Aspen, and shutting down the airport for her entourage. It’s been just three weeks since Michelle Obama returned from a 24 day vacation in Hawaii. But with Hussein in California golfing and flying in pals from Hawaii, Michelle Obama didn’t want to get cheated out of her own vacation. So she took the kids and her entourage to Aspen Colorado for a skiing trip.


No doubt they'll be lecturing us on income inequality and what a great job they're doing on the economy within a few days.

[Jungle Rat]

Get over it already. You lost to a negro.

[Jungle Rat]

Twice

[bluetick]

And next comes the PAH

[bluetick]

Actually, she's had better hair days.

For example:

[hedge]

"The White House said Obama's foursome included childhood friends Bobby Titcomb"

He has a childhood friend from Kentucky?

[Owlman]

Kinda like Wesley Snipes in New Jack City

That was a cool movie.

So North America was Columbus' Carter projects. Sounds like a doctoral thesis title waiting to be written.

not quite. He barely made it to North America mainland in 4 visits. Missed Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Miss, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas. Not even Costa Rica. So I'd say Panama only is the Columbus' Carter projects

[10ac]

All part of the "New World".

[hedge]

I would like to live in a "new world" without you in it...

[Owlman]

Wasn't new.

[hedge]

O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!

'Tis new to thee.

[Toemeesleather]

From California....

[Dr. Strangelove]

Arizona business leaders urge Governor Brewer to veto a law passed in Arizona that, very similar to the failed Kansas law, would make it legal for business owners to refuse service to gays on 'religious grounds'

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow ... z2u9ZPOVs7

[aTm]

Is there a religion out there that says gays should be shunned? Are the gonna ask for a law permitting them to follow their religious rites of stoning people?

[Jungle Rat]

The heat makes peoples crazy.

[Owlman]

Right now, gays are not a protected class. The Court (SCOTUS) has gone through great pain to say that they aren't a group deserving of heightened scrutiny. This was eventually going to change simply looking at the difference in the view of gays of those over 50 and those under 30. 5 years ago, I can remember telling my class that it'll take 20 years. Now, I think it'll be 5 or less. Why? Because the more Conservatives pass special laws targeting gays, the more likely that the Courts will have to step in to protect them. Laws like this will backfire in the long run.

[innocentbystander]

Is there a religion out there that says gays should be shunned? Are the gonna ask for a law permitting them to follow their religious rites of stoning people?

I don't believe that there are any religious books that mention the word "homosexual" or "homosexuality." There are religious books that discuss the sexual acts of men fucking other men (and men fucking animals) but there isn't much on the concept of "sexuality."

The act of sexual congress between the same gender (or beastiality) is shunned.

[Johnette's Daddy]

So, getting away from gay sexuality . . .

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/crime/ ... 224702.php

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes said Tuesday the state intends to appeal a federal judge's decision that struck down key parts of the state's polygamy laws.

Officials had been saying the decision was pending. But on Tuesday, Reyes confirmed his plan is to challenge the December ruling.

The Dec. 13 ruling was a victory for the polygamous family that stars in the TLC reality TV show "Sister Wives." Kody Brown and his four wives sued Utah in 2011 after a county prosecutor threatened to charge them under the state's bigamy law. They live in Las Vegas.

Reyes said he's waiting for the judge to issue a final order on the ruling before he makes his final decision. The ruling isn't in jeopardy of being changed, but it has yet to become official because of several unresolved, procedural issues.

It's too soon to say whether his office would seek additional funds or outside attorneys for the appeal, Reyes said. The state is already spending up to $300,000 to bring in outside attorneys to defend its same-sex marriage ban before a federal appeals court.

One of the procedural issues holding up the case has been settled now that the Browns have decided it won't ask the courts to be paid back for costs incurred when they fled Utah to Nevada.

Jonathan Turley, the Browns' Washington, D.C.-based attorney, said the family only wants a federal judge in Utah to finalize the ruling. The family reserved the right to ask for attorney's fees.

Turley said having to leave their homes in Utah cost the family at least $200,000. That includes money lost by having to leave jobs and the costs of health care and moving, he said. But Turley said in an email that the Browns didn't want to make the case only about them or their personal sacrifices.

"Plural families across Utah have faced losses under the threat of this law," Turley said. "This was never about money for them; it was about principle."

The Dec. 13 decision by U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups was a landmark decision and a victory for the Browns, who sued Utah in 2011 after a county prosecutor threatened to charge them under the state's bigamy law. Waddoups said a provision in Utah's bigamy law forbidding cohabitation with another person violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees the freedom of religion.

The ruling decriminalizes polygamy, but bigamy — holding marriage licenses with multiple partners — is still illegal. Utah's law was considered stricter than the laws in 49 other states because of the cohabitation clause.

If the ruling stands, Utah's law would be identical to most other states that prohibit people from having multiple marriage licenses. In most polygamous families in Utah, the man is legally married to one woman but only "spiritually married" to the others.

Kody and his wives — Meri, Janelle, Christine and Robyn — said they hope the landmark ruling stands and enables other polygamous families in Utah to live openly without fearing prosecution.

The family's decision not to ask to be paid back was first reported by FOX affiliate KSTU in Salt Lake City.