
A Christogram buffeted by booze.
The hotel used to be a monastery.
That comfortable majority supports Quebec’s secularism laws, about to be reviewed by the Canadian Supreme Court cuz ain’t it unfair to be secular? Shouldn’t all Canadian provinces be compelled to have identical laws governing things like the wearing of hijabs by public sector employees? “Last year, three judges from Quebec’s Court of Appeal unanimously upheld the [secularism] law,” and it’s “rare for the [Canadian] Supreme Court to take on cases when a lower court of appeal has come to a unanimous decision,” but allons-y! Let’s see if we can go against the will of Quebeckers.
Yeah. Well. UD ain’t no expert, but the two highly dangerous pathetic idiot killers stopped at our northern border last week sure sound like Al Qaeda or similar jihadists. After the 21 year old female killed a border patrol agent, and her bf died trying to kill others, police found all manner of terror equipment in their car.
Plus her story, to the extent we know it, jibes well with other mentally challenged squirts seduced by thoughts of sugarplum fairies and carrying out their very own beheadings.
The idiots were too excited by dressing all in black and brandishing huge guns to hide what they were on about, so every Vermonter who got a load of them called the authorities.
UD figures officials aren’t saying anything because they’re trying like hell to get some worthwhile intelligence out of the surviving idiot. Good luck to them.
Whatever happens on Monday, Jan. 20, is not akin to the redemption offered by Jesus Christ.
In 2022, the church began to require that clergy vouch for new [Brigham Young University] hires’ agreement with [church] leaders [on all faith matters] and affirm the candidate hasn’t used pornography recently.
What’s the procedure for proving to a clergyman you haven’t used porn recently?
UD thanks Frances for the link.
D.E.I. Official at University of Michigan Is Fired Over Antisemitism Claim
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She’s gonna sue all those rich fucking Jews.
Gevalt. When the concept of personal liberty makes its way into the mullah population, you can bend over and kiss your theocracy goodbye. All self-respecting religious states want to lead people to paradise by force — it’s what they do. Going to paradise isn’t, like, a travel choice, one destination among others, in theocracies… It’s not like people in theocracies read Conde Nash Traveler and say hm Bali yes Melbourne no Paradise maybe… It’s more like Gershwin —
I’ll build a stairway to Paradise
With a new step ev’ry day!
I’m gonna get there at any price;
Stand aside, I’m on my way!
Any price! Which definitely includes the price of your basic freedoms. It’s an effing theocracy!
But now it begins to look as though the Iranian government is losing its commitment to forcing paradise down peoples’ throats, which means among other things it’s actively considering not beating non-hijabis to death.
[S]cam culture thrives amid the insecurity our health care system creates! One thing alternative medicine does is make people feel like their needs are being seen and addressed, even if they’re being addressed in bogus ways. There’s a direct link between people’s disgust with the health care system and the dangerous rise of R.F.K. Jr.
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[S]ince when did a troubled young American man need a coherent political theory to start shooting?
A scandal-magnet, it’s always sandblasting the names of generous scummy alumni from its buildings, firing degenerate coaches, and, as of yesterday, watching as an assistant law school dean is escorted to prison for three years for stealing the shit out of the place over ten – count ’em! ten! – years.
‘A number of administrators departed Seton Hall after the embezzlement was uncovered. Kathleen Boozang stepped down from her post as law dean but remains on the faculty.’ Why all the departures? Because they appointed as a dean a person who under their noses for a decade stole – with two additional employees – the school’s money. And all of this also under the close eye of the Catholic church (read Seton’s pretentious and – in context – hilarious holier than thou thing here).
UD‘s thing is go ahead and be Yeshiva University, run by Madoff, Merkin, Wilf, and Rennert; be Liberty U under Falwell Jr; be slimy Seton Hall. But don’t try to snow me with your piety.
The alarms are beginning to go off — “With the increase in vaccine hesitancy that has been going on since the Covid-19 pandemic, we’re seeing [whooping cough] outbreaks occurring in kids who are not vaccinated.” — but no one’s listening, and with our incoming HHS secretary we can expect the return of a rather wide spectrum of painful and sometimes lethal childhood disease.
Essentially, our country is about to assume the ethos of ultraorthodox Jews – no or few vaccines, and if you have a problem take it up with yahweh – in its approach to contagious illness. What to do?
Remember this mantra: NOTHING BUT NORTHEAST. The northeast states have the highest rates of vaccination; the death-adoring dummy states in the south and west have the lowest. If they don’t kill their kids via the Beretta left on the bed, they’ll do it bacterially.
But you and your kids don’t have to live in Disease Vector RFD. The entire northeast territory of this vast land remains polio and rubella free. Get thee thither.
Benjamin Allen Wemp … is not a student at [Clemson] University.
[Officers on campus] handcuffed Wemp and took [a] loaded revolver off of Wemp’s hip … [They also] removed a fixed blade hunting knife from Wemp’s possession. [University police also] found that he was wearing body armor, an ammunition belt containing several rounds and … was keeping a second loaded revolver in his pants pocket… Wemp was at Mell Hall with “Visions for the World,” a religious group…
He’s a deep-dyed Louisianan, with a French name (deGravelles), total LSU education, and parents who practically founded the modern Luzianne Republican party.
Yet despite spending a lifetime in the nation’s second dumbest state, Judge deGravelles has been able to learn about America’s separation of church and state, and even apply it in his daily life. Bless him.
Silly police lieutenant John Rodgers has not been listening in church! His announcement to the Ohioans in his district that he’ll let them die if they’re Democrats overlooks the fact that, as a saved Christian, his job is not to help Satan’s spawn SURVIVE the Rapture: God has decreed that he need only enjoy his own transport to Heaven. Recall the old verse:
We are the pure and chosen few, and all the rest are damned.
There’s room enough in hell for you — we don’t want heaven crammed.
The biblical mandate from Walters
Now faces a lawsuit and falters.
“But I ain’t forlorn.
My obsession with porn
Sustains me against all assaulters.”
Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
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George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
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