We also don't suffer frequent earthquakes, multi-year droughts, annual mudslides and forest fires, etc...
But when you go outside your house, you're in the Chicago suburbs.
Don't get me wrong. I'm a lifelong Chicagoan, currently living in Houston, but eager to go back. I love Chicago like a family member. But if you're going to live in the Chicago area, and brave the miserable winter, the miserable mayor, and the Chicago Bears, you at least ought to live closer to downtown, where accessibility to a decent Italian beef somewhat ameliorates the misery.
I wouldn't take a job in the Bay Area for even a $100k/yr raise, since my comfortable six figure salary in the Chicago suburbs gives me a 2500 sq ft house with a nice yard and public schools that rival the best private schools.
Just a hunch, because I find it hard to believe that anyone can be so idiotic and can not comprehend the basic purpose of a paragraph. The Muslims, Christians, and Jews all have Religious doctrine which says that being homosexual is a sin. They also have doctrine that states A Man must Marry a Woman.
And not one of them have any doctrine that says you shouldn't make a motherfucking cake.
That's not being against cake, it's being against homosexuality.
Nobody's forcing bakers into homosexuality. If you're baking cakes, then bake cakes. Don't discriminate against people for nothing more than an indiscriminate grouping.
Unfortunately Government mandates by fiat (AKA allows lawsuits against people exercising their Religious beliefs) the effect is negative. Demand that a Jewish or Islamic store purchase and sell pork products. People normally shopping there would be offended and not shop there. So the store loses business by following the State Mandate. (see below)
Muslims and Jews have a religious objection to pork. Please show me which religious scripture sets out a prohibition against cake.
It's the difference between, "I cannot carry certain products" and, "I cannot serve certain classes of people". Your entire argument is bogus, both from a religious standpoint and a social/legal one.
Muslims, Jews, Christians, Buddhists, and anyone else should be able to _exercise_ their Religions as long as they do not interfere with other people's Rights under the Constitution.
This one's already been decided by the Constitution and upheld by the Supreme Court. You can't discriminate indiscriminately because someone is a member of a specific class. If you're a kosher deli, you can't put up a sign saying, "If you're Christian, you cannot buy pastrami from us".
Bringing this back to the Twitter argument above, it's pretty much the same thing. Right-wing asshats haven't been barred from Twitter. Nazis haven't been barred from Twitter. The alt-Right hasn't been barred from Twitter. But if you're a right-wing nazi alt-right asshat and harass people, you may be barred from Twitter.
I'm sure you'd agree if they were banning people based on race or sex instead of expressing political opinions that clash with left wing doctrine.
That you think harassment and hate speech are merely "expressing political opinions that clash with left wing doctrine" says everything about why nobody takes you seriously.
It wouldn't be that shocking would it ? It's one of the most obvious sets of stars in the sky. Even if you don't know constellations.
You bring up an interesting point. Yes, Orion is a recognizable constellation, but think about the kind of advanced surveying and measuring techniques it would take to replicate the constellation with gigantic structures, as some claim was done with the pyramids at Giza.
A further question is, "why go through all the trouble?"
Are you trying to argue that Twitter doesn't need to participate in a homosexual "wedding" if they don't want to?
Twitter has to allow homosexuals to make accounts. They'd have to bake a cake if homosexual customers came in and asked for a cake (and if twitter were a bakery). But they don't have to host the wedding on their site or be the maid of honor if they don't want to.
Now this is where you get to pretend you don't see the distinction. Proceed.
You naively believe that there's a separation between those who control the media and those who the media controls.
Nobody controls the media. You are welcome to go over to Breitbart or Stormfront or gab.ai or whatever fetid underbelly of the Internet the alt-right is currently using.
Breitbart is media. They even have a White House correspondent. You are welcome there and have the same potential to be heard there as you would on twitter, except there's no character limit.
I don't really care for the content of that post to be protected, but I know that if I start drawing lines, it will only encourage people to draw lines that endanger speech that I think should be protected.
Oh, it's protected. It's just not protected in my fucking house. Or in Twitter's fucking house.
And the person posting that does not have a right to demand there are no consequences. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.
Stupid smelly indo-chimps and sand n1ggers are parasites that suck all juice out of america.
These monkeys didn't care to build their own countries and now they migrate to not build america. Fucking common sense. Exterminate indo-chimp parasites.
This is the kind of freeze peach that alt-right snowflakes want to protect. Their right to tip the punch bowl, molest the family dog, and shit on the floor without being told that they're not welcome at the party any more until they know how to behave.
And when someone makes a social media platform that promises that it's OK to tip the punch bowl, molest the family dog, and shit on the floor (gab.ai), they say, "No, we want to be at the Twitter party, or nothing, because shitting on the floor isn't fun unless someone gets upset". This is why nobody gives a good goddamn about their complaints.
Statistically speaking, Stonehenge has _fewer_ astronomical alignments then would be expected by chance.
I'm not sure, but I thought that was kind of the point. It's not how many times the stars (or the Sun) align with Stonehenge, it's when they do, and with which heavenly bodies they align with.
I also don't know what to think about the claim that a number of these structures align closely with Orion, but I guess some people are persuaded. For now, I'm going with, "aliens did it".
I'm too high to read the summary, but I'm hoping scientists aren't really planning to eradicate New Zealand. There are people there, right? Those guys that play rugby and do those war chants and stick their tongues out. It would be a shame to lose them. These are the guys I'm talking about.:
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You've never been to Naperville.
Racist against whom? Chicago has black suburbs and white suburbs. They're both suburbs.
Me, I like places that have sidewalks, but you'd probably say that makes me a racist, too.
Atlanta is nice.
Aurora and Naperville might as well be Kentucky.
You need to talk to someone who owns property in Chicago and ask them about their taxes.
But when you go outside your house, you're in the Chicago suburbs.
Don't get me wrong. I'm a lifelong Chicagoan, currently living in Houston, but eager to go back. I love Chicago like a family member. But if you're going to live in the Chicago area, and brave the miserable winter, the miserable mayor, and the Chicago Bears, you at least ought to live closer to downtown, where accessibility to a decent Italian beef somewhat ameliorates the misery.
On the downside, you're in the Chicago suburbs.
Good try, but no. Here's an article from a year ago about Twitter shutting down 120,000 ISIS accounts.
https://www.theatlantic.com/in...
Their religion prohibits depictions of two men standing in tuxedos?
And not one of them have any doctrine that says you shouldn't make a motherfucking cake.
Nobody's forcing bakers into homosexuality. If you're baking cakes, then bake cakes. Don't discriminate against people for nothing more than an indiscriminate grouping.
Muslims and Jews have a religious objection to pork. Please show me which religious scripture sets out a prohibition against cake.
It's the difference between, "I cannot carry certain products" and, "I cannot serve certain classes of people". Your entire argument is bogus, both from a religious standpoint and a social/legal one.
This one's already been decided by the Constitution and upheld by the Supreme Court. You can't discriminate indiscriminately because someone is a member of a specific class. If you're a kosher deli, you can't put up a sign saying, "If you're Christian, you cannot buy pastrami from us".
Bringing this back to the Twitter argument above, it's pretty much the same thing. Right-wing asshats haven't been barred from Twitter. Nazis haven't been barred from Twitter. The alt-Right hasn't been barred from Twitter. But if you're a right-wing nazi alt-right asshat and harass people, you may be barred from Twitter.
That you think harassment and hate speech are merely "expressing political opinions that clash with left wing doctrine" says everything about why nobody takes you seriously.
Yes, Jim Hoft and Alex Jones are in the White House press corps now.
Any other questions?
Jesus wept.
You bring up an interesting point. Yes, Orion is a recognizable constellation, but think about the kind of advanced surveying and measuring techniques it would take to replicate the constellation with gigantic structures, as some claim was done with the pyramids at Giza.
A further question is, "why go through all the trouble?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Twitter has to allow homosexuals to make accounts. They'd have to bake a cake if homosexual customers came in and asked for a cake (and if twitter were a bakery). But they don't have to host the wedding on their site or be the maid of honor if they don't want to.
Now this is where you get to pretend you don't see the distinction. Proceed.
Nobody controls the media. You are welcome to go over to Breitbart or Stormfront or gab.ai or whatever fetid underbelly of the Internet the alt-right is currently using.
Breitbart is media. They even have a White House correspondent. You are welcome there and have the same potential to be heard there as you would on twitter, except there's no character limit.
Oh, it's protected. It's just not protected in my fucking house. Or in Twitter's fucking house.
And the person posting that does not have a right to demand there are no consequences. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.
But at least there wouldn't be any more Nickelback, so I'm thinking it might be worth it.
Maybe we could just vanish all the white men until we can figure out what's going on. Like maybe a 90-day ban.
Here you go, home-school:
http://voices.nationalgeograph...
Maybe you should come back when Twitter starts passing laws, or at least when you have a through understanding of the word, "oppress".
This is the kind of freeze peach that alt-right snowflakes want to protect. Their right to tip the punch bowl, molest the family dog, and shit on the floor without being told that they're not welcome at the party any more until they know how to behave.
And when someone makes a social media platform that promises that it's OK to tip the punch bowl, molest the family dog, and shit on the floor (gab.ai), they say, "No, we want to be at the Twitter party, or nothing, because shitting on the floor isn't fun unless someone gets upset". This is why nobody gives a good goddamn about their complaints.
I'm not sure, but I thought that was kind of the point. It's not how many times the stars (or the Sun) align with Stonehenge, it's when they do, and with which heavenly bodies they align with.
I also don't know what to think about the claim that a number of these structures align closely with Orion, but I guess some people are persuaded. For now, I'm going with, "aliens did it".
Earthworks can definitely be astronomically aligned. And I don't know if you've ever visited any, but they are also quite stunning.
http://www.dispatch.com/conten...
https://advancedtrainingassoci...
I'm too high to read the summary, but I'm hoping scientists aren't really planning to eradicate New Zealand. There are people there, right? Those guys that play rugby and do those war chants and stick their tongues out. It would be a shame to lose them. These are the guys I'm talking about.:
https://youtu.be/yiKFYTFJ_kw
I mean, if I'm on a rugby team and I show up for a game and the other team starts doing that shit, I'm forfeiting and going right home.
I'll just hope the headline is misleading and the crazy rugby dudes and the hobbits and shit that live in New Zealand are gonna be alright.