Deuteronomy 19:21
Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Discuss.
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Don’t forget Deuteronomy 69:96 – Penis for Penis.
Sounds like something Muhammed and his crew would be into. Islam never did get out of the Dark Ages.
Oh yeah. Right. The Dark Ages.
Republicans are child molesters.
Trump won. Everything changed. Elections have consequences.
This is who they are now.
No, I was thinking more along the time of about 1,500 years ago, not Catholicism of the past 100 years.
@4 How did you miss Trump? I thought God sees everything.
Party of Personal Responsibility Dep’t
“Four months after abruptly quitting Congress amid a sexual harassment scandal, former Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) still doesn’t think he did anything wrong. In fact, the former GOP lawmaker says he ‘took a bullet for the team’ by resigning. He insists he’s right not to repay $84,000 in taxpayer money he spent on a sexual harassment settlement. He ripped the House Ethics Committee for not caring about facts. And he blames ‘f-tards’ and the Me Too movement for driving him out of a job.”
Oh, and in case you’re wondering what happened to him after leaving Congress in disgrace, a Texas port authority quietly created a $160,000-a-year lobbyist job for him without any public notice.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/blake-farenthold-sexual-harassment-me-too_us_5b75ae0ae4b0df9b093d8857
Farenthold is a perfect example of how being born into a wealthy and prominent family enables a complete moron who’s never worked in a real job for a single day of his life to acquire power in our society — and the ridiculous sense of entitlement that often accompanies inherited influence and position.
4,
Really? Are you sure you weren’t just trying with all your feeble might to forget what you said 2000 years ago?
Something about stones and sin?
Fuck you, you child molester. More than three hundred of your holy anointed having sex with more than 1000 children in just one state out of fifty. You might also try remembering something you said about motes and beams you degenerate hypocrite.
Where’s Doctor Dumbfuck this morning? In church atoning for his sins?*
* Alternative scenario: Stalking little boys, although based on what we know right now, that’s more of a priest thing and he ain’t no priest.
Of course you could check out the set of laws that who ever wrote Deuteronomy plagiarized. Some are even word for word.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.a
The Code of Hammurabi is from a stele dated roughly 1745 bc, while Deuteronomy was written in aprox 7th Century BC. All examples of laws from this area from closely related people are all harsh by modern standard. Forgiveness and mercy were just not part of the law in the cultures of the middle east. Then as now you probably had judges that were more lenient and others we would call hanging judges.
One of the Roman objections to Christianity was the perception that Christians were weak in that they allowed for mercy and forgiveness. Though they managed to become the church of Rome after some 4 or 5 hundred years. So the whole Catholic church stuff really has nothing to do with Deuteronomy as the Church was under the laws of Emperor Justinian. Still pretty brutal, but these were the laws the early Christian church followed, and not anything written in the first five books of the bible though that would influence the parts of the law during the middle ages that were church law (usually what we would call domestic law, and organization of the Roman Catholic church). So you all really need to pick on the Code of Justinian for much of what you are bitching about on here so far today.
9,
Looks like he’s detoxing in an Orlando jail cell.
4,
re 10, did you get that there, Jesus.
According to Shortbus you plagiarized the wrong text when you were setting up your little child molestation cult.
Fix that first. Then you can worry about Islam, Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, etc. you pathetic lying pervert.
@11 “I did it on purpose … I’m a conservative Republican, I’m a Trump guy.”
No further explanation of his behavior needed.
“Conspiracy theories are for losers.” — Prof. Joseph Uscinski, Univ. of Miami, academic expert on why people believe conspiracy theories
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/conspiracy-theories-are-for-losers_us_5b71a03be4b0dc832d8ce4b3
Wherein Trump defends conspiracy theories and those who market them (which, of course, includes him although he was specifically bemoaning certain social media companies’ banishment of Alex Jones).
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/trumps-implicit-defense-of-alex-jones-is-an-echo-of-birtherism/567871/
14,
“Conspiracy theories are for losers.”
Sure. At least they always have been before.
Trump’s triumph over the Roypublican Party represents a radical shift. Just look at it. They’ve won. They control all aspects of the federal government, all legislation, all court appointments, all agencies, all federal law enforcement, etc. They do so with complete impunity. And yet this administration and this Congress have spent more than a year and a half devoted to first ginning up and then tracking down imaginary Derp State conspiracies.
The investigation they spend so much time and energy complaining about is entirely of their own making. Democrats, or whoever the fuck it is they believe their invisible enemies to be, were, are, and will continue to be utterly powerless to do anything like launch such an investigation, much less sustain it. From its inception the OSC investigation has been a creature of the Roypublican Party. Obviously so. Initially authorized by Roypublicans, appointed by Roypublicans, staffed by Roypublicans, funded and sustained by Roypublicans. And yet PornSweat, Roypublicans, and most of the corporate media continue to feed and nurture the idiotic pretense that there is partisanship involved.
Roypublicans run the table. And yet they are almost completely dependent on sustaining these paranoid conspiracy delusions to keep their mewling herd of re-programmable idiot meatbags following each other’s assholes into the chute.
8
No, fuck YOU, you child molester!
It turns out conservatives’ favorite economists weren’t fans of democracy. (Who would’ve guessed?)
Ludwig von Mises admired Mussolini.
Friedrich Hayek embraced (and worked for) Pinochet.
Milton Friedman supported the Goldwater backlash against civil rights laws. And Adam Smith? Of “Wealth of Nations” fame? He wasn’t a free-market guy at all.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/racists-classical-liberalism-classic-rock-fraud_us_5b6b232ee4b0fd5c73dff019
Yep, conservative economics is easier to understand when you put it in its proper authoritarian context.
17,
You’re “all seeing” so I suppose that means you were watching all those years as thousands of your innocent children were being raped by your priesthood.
Does that get you off? Is that your thing?
That’s some hobby you got.
“For decades, affluent homebuyers in search of coastal vacation property gravitated to the ocean …. But this summer – as rising sea levels increasing change the way people think about waterfront real estate – wealthy enclaves on both coasts are fighting the same desperate battle against erosion and rising tides. From New England to California, some of America’s most prized waterfront real estate is disappearing into the ocean ….” — Seattle Times, Aug. 29, 2018, p. D2
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Who would’ve thought a multimillion-dollar beachfront mansion would wash away into the sea? Certainly not some deep-pocketed Republican who doesn’t believe in climate change. Pity.
Show me a Republican congressman whose beachfront house is washing away and I’ll show you a freeloader looking for a government bailout.
Isn’t this the standard Facebook is using?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPKVcDn36bQ
@12 Could be the Vatican is the surviving public institution of the Roman Empire. It used to be priests and Popes were married and of course there were sex scandals, and even claims of a female pope. The Vatican is much more the creation of Paul than of Jesus and his rock Peter. In fact initially it is a cult with 12 churches. Augustine tried to create a church for the Roman world, but he was more concerned with the coming city in heaven, the one here being, but a shadow, and he would give a shrug over your concerns of todays scandals. And point out hey it is good to be a sovereign nation state. (A state theoretically with 1.2 billion citizens, and certainly capable of creating enough divisions that Stalin might become concerned.
The fact Rome adopted Christianity as the state religion invalidates the book of Revelation seems to escape those Christians and Islamists needing an apocalypse to push forward their agenda. It is an inconvenient truth hidden in the open.
@14 and @15
Conspiracy theory is very American and Patriotic
“He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”
from US Declaration Independence, depends on ones point of view, and it helps when you actually win the Revolution, as the state usually wins. Heck as it turns out we end up helping GB win two world wars, and are way into the royals….rather than cheering when American divorcees or wives causes waves for the royals interrupting the placid royal wave. No Queen giving the finger in a Cuomo moment, but just maybe she wants too.
Brexit continues, remains to be seen if May’s government survives the process.
@18 In 1927 Mussolini and the fascists were rock stars, in spite of being on the winning side of WWI the war was not kind to Italy. Hey Hayden had bills to pay and Pinochet was paying for advice. d Mao’s little green book
And Libertarians have problems with “The Wealth of Nations” they prefer to gloss over and the more mercantile they are the more gloss, which is partly why it is a tough book to find in China, and you really do not want to be found with a copy, unless it’s annotated properly by your copies of Marx and Mao;s Little Green Book which is more in vogue of late. with debate on how much more or purer capitalism the communist party will allow.
@20 And they will likely consult the experts in the Netherlands and Venice who have battled these things for centuries, and they will get taxpayers to pay hundred of millions when the proper solution maybe allowing property to suffer the natural circumstances with minimal mitigation.
Then there are folks trying to read the tea leaves on the Manafort Jury.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/8-experts-on-why-the-paul-manafort-jury-doesn’t-have-a-verdict-yet-—-and-what-it-might-mean/ar-BBM8bx9?ocid=spartanntp
I thin the only conclusion is the prosecution did not score a slam dunk. Then again this could be a Republican frat boy jury. On the government dole for another week, and they were not forced to deliberate over the weekend, as a judge of Deuteronomy would require. Should the defense win on all or on all but the most mild charges RR ill present a conspiracy theory and claim it was a runaway jury with Russian intrigue. Of course all the jurists have to survive until back in court later this morning.