If the Left is anything, it’s scared of an openly gay Latino with immigrant parents. Yup, that’s us.
Remind me, which side spent 4 years pretending to build a wall to keep people from Latin America out?
Which politicians have been actively and loudly anti-LGBT?
Yep. Complete and total con artist an liar. An ideal Republican.
Well you’ve gotta believe old Joe Murray, who graduated from the 133rd best law school in the country… (CUNY). And he did have the luck to represent noted rapper “Boi Bean”. No I am not making this up.
And does anyone have a source on that Churchill “quote”? It sounds less like the words of one of the greatest Prime Ministers in British history than those of an '80s action movie hero.
This says Victor Hugo, more or less.
So it’s misattributed AND it’s a paraphrase.
I expected no less from what stands for source-checking on the right.
Using a bullshit, made up quote to try to distract from the bullshit that your client is peddling. Sounds about right.
He’s planning on running for Queens County District Attorney, and is making pejorative comments about the current DA, whom he ran against in 2019.
I’m pretty sure he graduated from the Eric Stratton School of Law:
“Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be brief. The issue here is whether or not my client bounced a few checks, failed to pay his rent, misrepresented his resume several times or pocketed charity money. He did.” wink “But you can’t hold a political party responsible for the behavior of some amoral sociopaths who happen to comprise a small percentage – in the 95% range – of the party’s membership. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole political party system? And if the whole party system is guilty, isn’t this an indictment of our entire political process? I put it to you, Nancy: isn’t this an indictment of our entire form of government?? Now, you can do what you want to us. But we won’t sit here, and listen to you bad-mouth the United States of America!! Gentlemen!!”
“Good day to you! I said, good day!”
I thought it was the School of Medicine.
What’s the difference?
Speling.
Really! I somehow expected better from you. I grew up in “one of those religions”. We still follow “one of those religions”.
Vajra shares the same Proto-Indo-European root as Vasara (meaning hammer in Finnish)
Ukon-Vasara , is the symbol and magical weapon of the Finnish thunder god Ukko,
It is just like Thor’s [Mjölnir] weapon is the hammer (Mjölnir - Wikipedia).
They are all hammers in different languages.
So it is okay for celebrating Thor’s stories where the hammer plays a big part, but a Vajra wielding character becomes - “one of those religions.” ?
Cite : According to Asko Parpola, the Sanskrit vajra- (वज्र-) and Avestan vazra- both refer to a weapon of the Godhead, and are possibly from the Proto-Indo-European root *weg’- which means “to be(come) powerful”. It is related to Proto-Finno-Uralic *vaśara , “hammer, axe”, (whence Ukonvasara , “Ukko’s hammer”)
The Vajra isn’t a hammer. It’s a stylized lightning bolt. It actually closely resembles the Keraunos, the lightning bolt used by Zeus (usually represented as a double-ended short trident. The Vjra just sort of “fleshes it ouit” in three dimensions). In statues, they leave off the two outer prongs on each side, so it looks more like a spindle or weaver’s shuttle.
The Keraunos was carried by the Roman empire (who equated Zeus with Jove/Jupiter) over the entire Roman world. At the same time the Vajra was carried over central; Asia by Hinduism, but was adopted as part of Buddhist symbolism, as well, which spread it over much of Asia. So the Keraunos/Vajra became the religious symbol of the lightning bolt from the Iberian peninsula to Japan. (Those depictions of zigzag lightning bolts in the ancient world and in Roman art are simply wrong. That zigzag is a relatively modern invention, only a couple of hundred years old.)
( I wrote an article about this in Parabola magazine, ages ago.)
Damn, I love this board…
Oh, yeah. Any time @CalMeacham posts about mythology qnd related issues, you’re in for a treat.
I thine that the “one of those Religions” comment was pretty clearly meant sarcastically, and rather than represting his own views was an indication his derision of Republican’s bigoted viewpoint that clumps all non-JudeoChristian religions as “other”.
Especially when it’s about mythological death rays.
So Marge Greene and Lauren Boebert are feuding. I don’t have enough popcorn.