AdamSmith

Axiom, very happy we have corrupted you! More pathways to pleasure are always good.

Shh. Ladies don't speak of one anothers' multiple personalities in public.

BIG HACK NEWS -- I found that you can UNLIKE old posts that you had Liked, and the liberated Likes immediately become available for you to use again, on any post! Go way back to old posts though, so that whoever posted the thing you just un-Liked will not be looking that far back, and get offended by your un-liking them.

There, I gave you one of mine. BIG SECRET HACK -- I found that you can go back and UNLIKE old posts that you had Liked, and the Likes immediately become available for you to use again! Hopefully whoever posted it will not be looking way back at old posts and get offended by your un-liking them.

Speaking as a Democrat, goody. GOP 2016 contenders agree: Indiana's 'religious freedom' law is just that Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz and Bobby Jindal pile on in support of controversial law they say includes the right to discriminate against LGBT Americans Republican presidential hopefuls may be seeking to distinguish themselves, but contenders from the moderate establishment favorite Jeb Bush to the social-conservative evangelist Ted Cruz seem to agree on the hard-right controversy of the week: religious freedom includes the right to discriminate against the LGBT community... http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/31/gop-2016-contenders-indiana-religious-freedom-law

WOW

GOP Mayor of Indianapolis Issues Executive Order Defending Gay Rights http://gawker.com/gop-mayor-of-indianapolis-issues-executive-order-protec-1694684520 "...many states with an RFRA, including neighboring Illinois, also have statewide bans on discrimination based on sexual orientation, alongside other protected classes such as race, sex and religion. Indiana has no such protections. And it explicitly prohibits local human rights ordinances from being exempt from the RFRA." http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/30/ballard-council-address-rfra-today/70674176/

The one step in the process you can always count on.

That, and "How the project was documented."

A friend reposted it on Facebook from, I think, GLAAD's Facebook page.

* BOROWITZ * BOROWITZ * BOROWITZ * Although this piece is entirely believable.

An article in The Atlantic explores why the new Indiana law is more egregious than most of the existing state and federal laws in this area. The essence: ...the Indiana statute has two features the federal RFRA—and most state RFRAs—do not. First, the Indiana law explicitly allows any for-profit business to assert a right to “the free exercise of religion.” The federal RFRA doesn’t contain such language, and neither does any of the state RFRAs except South Carolina’s; in fact, Louisiana and Pennsylvania, explicitly exclude for-profit businesses from the protection of their RFRAs. The new Indiana statute also contains this odd language: “A person whose exercise of religion has been substantially burdened, or is likely to be substantially burdened, by a violation of this chapter may assert the violation or impending violation as a claim or defense in a judicial or administrative proceeding, regardless of whether the state or any other governmental entity is a party to the proceeding.” (My italics.) Neither the federal RFRA, nor 18 of the 19 state statutes cited by the Post, says anything like this; only the Texas RFRA, passed in 1999, contains similar language. What these words mean is, first, that the Indiana statute explicitly recognizes that a for-profit corporation has “free exercise” rights matching those of individuals or churches. A lot of legal thinkers thought that idea was outlandish until last year’s decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, in which the Court’s five conservatives interpreted the federal RFRA to give some corporate employers a religious veto over their employees’ statutory right to contraceptive coverage. Second, the Indiana statute explicitly makes a business’s “free exercise” right a defense against a private lawsuit by another person, rather than simply against actions brought by government. Why does this matter? Well, there’s a lot of evidence that the new wave of “religious freedom” legislation was impelled, at least in part, by a panic over a New Mexico state-court decision, Elane Photography v. Willock. In that case, a same-sex couple sued a professional photography studio that refused to photograph the couple’s wedding. New Mexico law bars discrimination in “public accommodations” on the basis of sexual orientation. The studio said that New Mexico’s RFRA nonetheless barred the suit; but the state’s Supreme Court held that the RFRA did not apply “because the government is not a party.”... Full article: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/what-makes-indianas-religious-freedom-law-different/388997/

So long as he keeps me supplied with underage trannies.

L. Ron Hubbard: The First Tea Partier? Bill Schulz, The Daily Beast HBO’s brutal Scientology take down, 'Going Clear', and Ted Cruz’s presidential talking points have made one thing, well, clear: Both the Tea Party and Tom Cruise’s religion have a lot in common. My two takeaways from Going Clear—HBO’s searing look at scientology dropouts (“searing” means “lots of blurry reenactments,” yes?)—were thus: A ) Tom Cruise’s ramrod posture should make chiropractors weep with admiration. And B ) L. Ron Hubbard hated paying taxes almost as much as he loathed gays. L. Ron’s oft repeated (by detractors) and disputed (by E-Meters) line of, “If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion” is a behind-the-curtain explanation of why he turned his self-help rip-off of Aberactive Therapy into something ten times more profitable once he stopped giving a percentage of prescribers’ payments to Uncle Sam. (Looking at you, federally-exempt title of “religion”!) Sadly for Chub Hub, that dream would only be realized ten years after his “death.” While LRH was still carrying around his earthly, ascot-accessorized human form, he developed the Sea Org. This Dianetics-fueled special force encompassed three of LRH’s favorite things: true-believers earning 'slave labor wages', juvenile, naval uniforms that harkened back to the WWII career LRH always lied about, and—thanks to the watery wall of international waters—a get-out-of-jail-free card with the tax man. Conversely, today's Tea Partiers prefer military themed garb of an earlier vintage and choose to avoid funding the Republic via the more legal route of, well, moving to Texas. Speaking of Glenn Beck, the media/Mormon face of these Revolutionary War reenactors—he believes that his founding father, Joseph Smith, has the final say over whether you get into heaven, and that the always gossipy Jesus visited America shortly after His resurrection to talk shop with the Native Americans. In his book, don't forget, sexual deviations are akin to murder, and—since the Holy Spirit goes to bed at midnight—all teen dates must end at roughly the same time. Whereas L. Ron Hubbard, Clearwater, Florida’s gift-shop face of Scientology, believes that 75 million years ago, intergalactic ruler/scamp Xenu dumped a bunch of his +++own, exterminated citizenry into Earth’s volcanoes, due in part to a tax audit (!), which unleashed their pesky souls (i.e., “Body Thetans”, or “BTs” to those in the abbreviated know) who finally found a home on us humans and plague us to this day. But the even more prevalent belief is that celebrities are not like us. And while Ted Cruz wants to build a wall to keep illegal Mexicans out, Scientology’s tiny emperor, David Miscavige, supposedly runs an on-campus gulag to keep poorly behaved adherents in. In conclusion: This column has assured the fact that I will never work at The Blaze or in Hollywood. Thanks, Daily Beast! In a more conclusiony conclusion: Don’t Tread On Me*, avoid SPs**, KSW*** and ****KJTS. *Tea Party-ese for “F you, Government”. **Scientologese for “Suppressive Person” *** Ditto for “Keeping Scientology Working” ****Ditto, ditto for “Keeping John Travolta Straight” (Okay, I made that one up.) http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/29/l-ron-hubbard-the-first-tea-partier.html