Grio meaning

Bud

2023.04.17 16:33 DontAtmey Bud

Intro

Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy is really bad in a lot of areas. Almost every section of it's incomprehensible plot can be criticized to hell and back, but there is one specific area that this game fails in a singlehandedly game ruining way. The infamous chapter 4.

The Hunt for the Eggs

Layton games are built on slowly moving through relatively simple mysterious settings and explaining how it was all possible with the help of absurd sci-fi. The setup is always way too underdeveloped, leading to absurd mystery deduction scenes, but the game goes long enough for it to justify itself somewhat. Sometimes dinosaurs are just still alive apparently.
Azran Legacy throws that out entirely in favor of an absurd series of mini-mysteries for Layton to resolve. There are 6 of them and they are dragged out way too much, making them feel like endless chores where there should be plot progression. None of the settings really get to feel developed or interesting either. The only tenuous connections these stories share are that there is an egg there and any incomprehensible phenomenon was actually just the Azran doing that. Apparently they built a machine that can just summon tornadoes all of the time somehow. There are other problems within each of the individual sections but that's not what this is about. This is about Bud, a character from the San Grio section.

San Grio

San Grio is. Surprisingly fine? I mean it's not great and it doesn't really justify it's existence but it feels like an average Layton middle chapter. There's no real insane mysteries or incomprehensible lore, it's just living up to the chapter's name. A hunt for an egg. It passes by fairly smoothly and uneventfully and then you get to move on.
Bud himself is the one who holds the solution to this subplot, the original popoño, aka the Azran egg. He is not a character in any significant sense, but he allows the plot to progress in San Grio. There is nothing to say about him beyond general statements about this section of the game.
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2023.03.24 12:30 readingrachelx Housewife highlights/Daily shit talk - March 24th, 2023

ATLANTA
NEW JERSEY
ORANGE COUNTY
NEW YORK
For Dorinda Medley's Gel Manicures
Olivier Nail Spa, 1324 Lexington Ave.; 212-289-7175
This tidy Lexington Avenue mainstay has a straightforward slate of offerings: manicures, pedicures, waxing, and foot reflexology massage. The clientele is, per regular Dorinda Medley of The Real Housewives of New York City, “All Upper East Side gals. The women that live on Park Avenue.” She stumbled upon the place about 20 years ago and has booked with it almost every week since for gel manicures ($46) and every two weeks for a separate pedicure (from $39) with callus removal (an additional $18) and a 20-minute chair-massage appointment ($32). Olivier’s technicians do a consistently solid job, says Medley, but the main draw is the privacy and quiet: It’s always calm, and patrons are tacitly encouraged to stay off their phones. “I love it because you can’t talk and you’re not listening to other peoples’ conversations,” she says. “It’s my time to check out.”
BEVERLY HILLS
MIAMI
POTOMAC
BRAVO
SYDNEY
CHESHIRE
WYNLANDE
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2022.10.19 13:30 readingrachelx Housewife highlights/Daily shit talk - October 19th, 2022

POTOMAC
SALT LAKE CITY
BEVERLY HILLS
NEW JERSEY
ORANGE COUNTY
ATLANTA
NEW YORK
DUBAI
BRAVO
DURBAN
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2022.08.21 17:42 AGoodenough The Black News Channel (BNC) has merged with OTA Network TheGrio, which now airs on FAST services.

The Black News Channel (BNC) has merged with OTA Network TheGrio, which now airs on FAST services.

The logo of the short-lived Black News Channel
After declaring bankruptcy on March 25, 2022, the Black News Channel has recently been acquired by Allen Media Group and merged with existing OTA network TheGrio with plans to add news and commentary to the network's existing programming.
This would normally be a detriment to cord cutters, especially African-Americans, because they have lost a 24/7 news network. However upon recent discovery, it also means that the new TheGrio network now also airs for free on FAST services like FreeVee, Pluto TV and Tubi. This effectively allows for more consumers to enjoy the black-oriented programming offered as the network only reaches 33% of Americans over the air.
This change even benefits consumers who live in these markets as they have a reliable way to watch TheGrio programming in full HD without the need for an antenna. I am one of those people, as TheGrio airs at 480i widescreen on my low-powered MyNetworkTV affiliate WBGT-CD, which I often have difficulty picking up on even the best of antennas.
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2022.07.06 03:32 Afoolfortheeons O: Part 014 - Angel and Baneon

'General, we're nearing a small island!'
Yelled a minion who decisively manned
A periscope on the bridge of the Praxis.
Grio cursed. He was hoping for a massive
Continent full of vile, demonic monstrosities
Because it was one of his highest priorities
To test out his ship's ultimate weapon,
Whose name is too special to mention
This early, as it's only fired when Grio
Realizes he's the real bad guy of the trio
Of this story about the Fool, the Tiger, and the Queen.
But in the present, his ship immediately careened
Towards a tiny, troubled place on the outside
Of the free state of Fortuna, where a farmer tried
To raise his family with the wisdom he gained
When he married a woman who had trained
Under two bishops and a myriad of laymen
I sent her way over the years she spent
Poor after she heard voices driving her insane.
The farmer wanted to create a domain
That prospered under the guidance of God,
So while he tilled away in the fields, the real plot
He tended was the minds of his two sons:
Fraternal twins named Angel and Baneon.
The pair might have learned from the same book
Their parents wrote for their future family to look
At and learn from after they had long passed
Because they wanted their legacy to last.
But, the devil of this world, Egoren, corrupted
The meaning of those words that instructed
The reader how to be a good human being.
Listen well because this is how the meaning
Of those good words got grossly distorted:
When Angel read and listened to his parents
He would spend the time trying to rinse
His hands from the serpent tempting him,
While Baneon instead interpreted the hymns
To say be a vessel for the lowest desires
That his master Egoren could infinitely sire.
So, when Angel did something for his mother
It was because he was thinking of another.
On the other hand, Baneon was of service
To others simply because it would influence
His own status, which allowed him to invite
Egoren to indulge himself in his own light.
This is what led to a division in the farmer's
Garden when the self-serving snake charmer,
Baneon, set off to create a cult in his image.
I've already told you of the terrible damage
This caused in the northern of two towns,
But you will get to see the ways of both Rown
And Mathers in their respective mysticism
With the impending arrival of the cataclysm
That is Terra's most powerful sky vessel
As both its leader and crew try to wrestle
With what is good in the eyes of the monarch
That can see what is illuminated and what's dark
From a perspective that is greater than human,
As their judgment is all part of my divine plan.
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2022.05.21 17:10 david_k_robertson food for thought on - religion good christians and moderate republicans, so are they? read below and answer that yourself

Joel Osteen got a $4.4 million PPP loan — good for him
Gene Marks, Opinion Contributor
Do you think it's right that a company owned by Tom Brady, who is reportedly the second highest paid NFL player in history, received almost a million dollars? Or that the famous Napa Valley restaurant Fresh Laundry received a $2.4 million loan? Is it ethical that dozens of charitable foundations - such as San Francisco-based Walt Disney Family Foundation and New York-based Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, each with hundreds of millions in assets - were able to get PPP loans? Or that pastor Joel Osteen's famous Lakewood Church in Houston got a $4.4 million loan?
It doesn't really matter. Nor does it matter that organizations affiliated with Kanye West, Guns N' Roses, The Eagles and Pearl Jam also got loans. Or that the Church of Scientology, the Ayn Rand Institute and companies that included shareholders like Nancy Pelosi's husband and Mitch McConnell's wife got funding.
OK, I'll admit that Ayn Rand - who once said that "government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution" and that "the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off" - may be turning over in her grave. But as for the rest...good for them. Good for all of them.
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Joel Osteen's church received $4M in PPP loans - TheGrio _ TheGrio
Lakewood Church gained funds through the federal COVID-19 stimulus package despite ocials previously stating they did not apply.
DeMicia Inman
A new report reveals that Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch was the recipient of millions of dollars in federal funding intended to aid businesses suffering through the coronavirus pandemic.
“Believing the shutdown would only last a few weeks, Lakewood did not initially apply for PPP assistance during the first half of the program,” Iloff said in a statement according to the outlet. “However, as the shutdown persisted month after month, given the economic uncertainty, Lakewood finally applied for the PPP loan and has been able to provide full salaries and benefits including health insurance coverage to all of its employees and their families.”
He continued “It is important to note that, since 2004, Pastors Joel and Victoria Osteen have not received salaries from Lakewood Church, and the PPP funds do not provide any personal financial benefit to them, whatsoever.”
In October, in-person worship services resumed at 25% of of the church’s normal capacity which Iloff said is around 16,000 people.
Still, according to the outlet, the famed church was not the only one to receive PPP funding. The Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston was approved for a $4M PPP loan, First Baptist Church of Houston was approved for a $3.1M PPP loan, St. Luke’s United Methodist Church was approved for a PPP loan of approximately $2.2M, and more.
The Houston Business Journal reported that over 1,000 religious organizations in the greater Houston area, including churches, synagogues, mosques, and faith-based schools, were approved for PPP loans.
Lakewood’s PPP loan was originated by Bank of America, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration data, the Business Journal reported. As for Osteen, the Business Journal reported his net worth as $60M as of 2017. Lakewood Church is the largest megachurch in the United States.
Osteen faced social media backlash after the news of the PPP loan spread.
see, its this typsa shit that makes me think the whole church & state separation thing isn't working right
Closed church doors to people trying to survive.
Took far more than he should have been able to receive for paycheck protection. Weren't these intended for small bsuinesses?
You got $4.4 million in #PPE loans while 12 million people are about to be evicted, so maybe you should kick that down to those in need,
As theGrio reported, in the spring, the church celebrated the Easter holiday with a star-studded virtual event including Mariah Carey and Tyler Perry.


Jesus Wants Me to Have This Jet - The Daily Beast
03.14.15
Olivia Nuzzi
Pastor Creflo Dollar has spoken to God, and God wants him to buy a $65 million private jet. His congregation, thus far, has obliged his every whim.
God wants Pastor Creflo Dollar to have a $65 million private jet, according to paid spokesman for God, Pastor Creflo Dollar.
On Friday, Dollar’s website unveiled Project G650, an “airplane project” that he claims has something to do with “Understanding Grace” and “Empowering Change.”
You may be wondering, What could this mysterious, holy airplane project be? Probably something related to charity, you must think, like air-dropping food into famine-ravaged countries, or flying sick children to doctors, or lifting two of every animal out of a flood.
Not quite.
Dollar was once the proud owner of a pretty baller private jet, but now it’s old and, naturally, he wants a new one. He also wants his followers to pay $65 million for it. As Jesus intended.
On his website, Dollar made his case: “The ministry’s current airplane was built in 1984, purchased by the ministry in 1999 and has since logged four million miles. Recently on an overseas trip to a global conference, one of the engines failed. By the grace of God, the expert pilot, who’s flown with Creflo for almost 20 years, landed the plane safely without injury or harm to any passengers.”
Dollar claims the private jet allows him to “safely and swiftly share the Good News of the Gospel worldwide” in a way that commercial aircrafts no doubt just couldn’t.
“The mission of Project G650 is to acquire a Gulfstream G650 airplane so that Pastors Creflo and Taffi (his wife) and World Changers Church International can continue to blanket the globe with the Gospel of grace,” Dollar’s website said. “We are believing for 200,000 people to give contributions of 300 US dollars or more to turn this dream into a reality—and allow us to retire the aircraft that served us well for many years.”
Then, on Friday afternoon, the post was removed. Dollar wouldn’t say why. Repeated calls to his assistant were met first with a claim that a PR person for Dollar would call me back to provide answers, and then with voicemail. A request to interview Dollar received a similar response.
Dollar’s Bronx church was closed. Multiple attempts to reach Dollar through prayer proved unsuccessful.
Dollar (he claims it’s his real name, though it was once reported that he was born Michael Smith) is the televangelist host of Changing Your World. In 1986, he founded a non-denominational church, World Changers Church International. There, he preaches “prosperity theology”—a gigantic scam that convinces the vulnerable and the stupid that by giving ten percent of their income to the church, they will eventually increase their own material wealth.
Testimonies from Dollar’s followers are hard to come by, but there’s no denying the World Changers Church International system, whereby Dollar takes and God is supposed to act like an ATM, has worked out well for Dollar.
Besides the aging private jet, Dollar and his wife, Taffi Dollar, have two Rolls Royce’s and multiple multi-million-dollar homes (they sold one New York City apartment for $3.75 million in 2012.) Mr. Dollar wears gaudy pinstripe suits and crocodile shoes, and Mrs. Dollar has a side-career as a record label CEO and gospel singer.
“Money by itself cannot define prosperity,” Dollar told The New York Times in 2006. “When you say, ‘prosperity,’ people think money. they are not incorrect, but they are incomplete.” Dollar explained to the publication that what he was really preaching was “total life prosperity,” which extends to physical well-being and a successful family life.
But perhaps Dollar himself needs to donate more of his salary to… himself.
Chuck Grassley certainly doesn't think so. In 2007, the Senator and Twitter savant, then a ranking member of the Committee on Finance, launched an investigation into the financial records of six televangelists, including Dollar. Dollar did not cooperate, but he ultimately evaded punishment.
Dollar’s salary is not known, but according to The New York Times, Dollar’s New York church rakes in $4 million annually and his Atlanta operation has an $80 million annual operating budget.
“About $800,000 of it goes toward renting the theater in Madison Square Garden; an additional $84,000 pays for the church’s rented office space nearby; only about $120,000 is spent on the salaries of three people who are on staff," Michael Luo wrote in the Times. "The bulk of the rest, according to church officials, is designated for the church’s building fund. The church hopes to raise $200 million for a complex in the city.”
Dollar came out unscathed from the Grassley investigation. Grassley declined a request for comment about Dollar’s private jet dreams.
Dollar has also had troubles at home. In 2012, he was arrested for beating his then-fifteen year old daughter and charged with battery and cruelty to children. Dollar denied the claim, and the charges were eventually dropped.


Jerry Falwell Jr_, Who Publicly Endorsed Trump, Tells Pope Not To Mix Christianity And Politics - The Intellectualist
From Right Wing Watch: "I really believe that anybody on the left or the right that tries to invoke the teachings of Jesus to say they should vote for this candidate or that candidate, I think they’re stretching Scripture."
From Right Wing Watch:
‘…A New York Times profile today of Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell Jr., heirs to their respective fathers’ evangelical dynasties, included one very surprising line.
Falwell Jr., who is Donald Trump’s most prominent evangelical endorser, took issue with criticism of his preferred candidate:
I really believe that anybody on the left or the right that tries to invoke the teachings of Jesus to say they should vote for this candidate or that candidate, I think they’re stretching Scripture.
Then, this afternoon, as Trump engaged in a war of words with Pope Francis over the GOP presidential frontrunner’s hardline anti-immigrant policies, Fallwell Jr. — who has compared Trump to Jesus — told CNN:
Jesus never intended to give instructions to political leaders on how to run a country.
With these remarks, Falwell Jr. is denying the very premise of the Religious Right movement … which was shaped in large part by his father, Jerry Falwell.
Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority with the explicit goal of pressuring politicians to follow what he believed were the Bible’s dictates, holding up a Bible at events and telling his audience:
“If a man stands by this book, vote for him. If he doesn’t, don’t.”
Falwell engaged in battles over the social issues generally associated with the Religious Right, harnessing his “moral majority” of voters to “turn back the flood tide of moral permissiveness, family breakdown and general capitulation to evil and to foreign policies such as Marxism-Leninism…’


Jeb Bush In 1995 Unwed Mothers Should Be Publicly Shamed
Laura Bassett
Posted: 06/09/2015 10:31 am EDT Updated: 06/09/2015 12:59 pm EDT
Public shaming would be an effective way to regulate the “irresponsible behavior” of unwed mothers, misbehaving teenagers and welfare recipients, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) argued in his 1995 book Profiles in Character.
In a chapter called "The Restoration of Shame,” the likely 2016 presidential candidate made the case that restoring the art of public humiliation could help prevent pregnancies “out of wedlock.”
One of the reasons more young women are giving birth out of wedlock and more young men are walking away from their paternal obligations is that there is no longer a stigma attached to this behavior, no reason to feel shame. Many of these young women and young men look around and see their friends engaged in the same irresponsible conduct. Their parents and neighbors have become ineffective at attaching some sense of ridicule to this behavior. There was a time when neighbors and communities would frown on out of wedlock births and when public condemnation was enough of a stimulus for one to be careful.
Bush points to Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, in which the main character is forced to wear a large red "A" for "adulterer" on her clothes to punish her for having an extramarital affair that produced a child, as an early model for his worldview. "Infamous shotgun weddings and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter are reminders that public condemnation of irresponsible sexual behavior has strong historical roots,” Bush wrote.
As governor of Florida in 2001, Bush had the opportunity to test his theory on public shaming. He declined to veto a very controversial bill that required single mothers who did not know the identity of the father to publish their sexual histories in a newspaper before they could legally put their babies up for adoption. He later signed a repeal of the so-called "Scarlet Letter" law in 2003 after it was successfully challenged in court.
Bush's ideas about public shaming extended beyond unwed parents. He said American schools and the welfare system could use a healthy dose of shame as well. “For many, it is more shameful to work than to take public assistance -- that is how backward shame has become!” he wrote, adding that the juvenile criminal justice system also "seems to be lacking in humiliation."
In the context of present-day society we need to make kids feel shame before their friends rather than their family. The Miami Herald columnist Robert Steinback has a good idea. He suggests dressing these juveniles in frilly pink jumpsuits and making them sweep the streets of their own neighborhoods! Would these kids be so cavalier then?
It's worth pointing out that the kind of public shaming Bush described has come under fire recently in response to the growing trend of parents humiliating their children on social media to punish them. A 13-year-old girl committed suicide last month after her father posted a video of himself cutting off her long hair on YouTube because she had disobeyed him.
YouTube and social media, of course, did not exist when Bush wrote his book in 1995. But the former governor makes clear that "society needs to relearn the art of public and private disapproval and how to make those to engage in some undesirable behavior feel some sense of shame."
Bush did not respond to a request for comment.


John Kasich Proposes Federal Agency To “Push Christianity” On the Middle East
By Rmuse on Tue, Feb 16th, 2016
Kasich subscribes to the Republican delusion that the road to peace depends upon forcing extremist Christianity down Muslim throats
It is interesting that Republicans were irritated with television celebrity Donald Trump for telling the truth about George W. Bush’s catastrophic religious crusade to reshape Iraq in his America’s image. Trump, of course, was spot on and Bush’s brand of American exceptionalism and hubris created a decade-long catastrophe. A catastrophe Americans will pay dearly for over the next generation, at least.
It was that “hubris of American exceptionalism” pushed on the world by Bush’s neo-con cabal that killed three-quarters of a million innocent Muslim civilians, destabilized the Middle East, created the Islamic State and a civil war in Syria. Bush also decimated any credibility America may have once had. Add to the human costs of Bush’s crusade the trillions of dollars the people will suffer paying for a generation, and one would think Republicans would avoid even talking about any policy remotely similar to W. Bush’s.
It is fortunate for America that President Obama has made significant headway to restore some prestige and respect for America around the world by cooperating, using diplomacy, and negotiating with foreign powers instead of a dictatorial crusade. Republicans just fail to comprehend that the reason most foreigners hate America is not because of its guarantee of freedoms, but because it insists on interfering with sovereign nations’ internal affairs. It is exactly what the self-professed “moderate” GOP presidential candidate plans to enact if he is elected.
Ohio Governor John Kasich placed 2nd in the New Hampshire Republican primary and bills himself as some kind of moderate, small government Republican, but a proposal he made proves he is just another typical Republican extremist and a hypocrite. Kasich’s plan to create a new federal government agency informs, besides his hypocrisy and extremism, that he subscribes to the typical Republican mindset that has only created death, destruction and Islamic extremists across the world. In fact, that Republican mindset is the primary reason Middle East Muslims really “hate us;” it is not now or never has been because of our freedoms.
As much as Kasich loves to tout his “small government” bona fides, it is hypocrisy that he proposed a bright idea to use Americans’ tax dollars to create a new federal agency, but not to help Americans. Kasich’s plan is to help the evangelical movement “export and ‘push’ America’s Judeo-Christian belief system across the world.” Seriously, a federal department to proselytize and push Muslims into the Judeo-Christian religion(s) so they can be “exceptional” just like Americans.
Forget that such an agency is in violation of the Separation of Church and State, his plan is a continuation of the George W. Bush “crusade and conquer” ideology that destabilized the Middle East and created the Islamic State. It is also likely that Kasich’s theocratic plan is, among other things, a conservative Christian response to Saudi Arabia’s theocracy that “exports and pushes Saudi Wahhabi Islamic ideology across the Middle East.” For the uninformed, the Saudi Wahhabi ideology is the founding belief system of extremist Islamic groups such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIL, Daesh, ISIS).
It is apparent that like George W. Bush’s neo-conservative Christian administration, Kasich subscribes to the Republican delusion that the road to peace (read American dominance) in the world is predicated on forcing the religious rights’ particular brand of extremist Christianity down Islamic populations’ throats.
Governor Kasich failed to give his federal government agency a theocratic name, but he does know that its only purpose and mission is to “promote the Jewish- and Christian-based belief system to four regions of the world: China, Iran, Russia and the Middle East.” No matter what Kasich or any American theocrat names the new agency, based on its mission statement it will be America’s Department of the Judeo-Christian Crusade and Inquisition.
Kasich thinks everyone in the Middle East will become Americanized if the government will just “beam messages around the world about the freedoms Americans enjoy! It means freedom, it means opportunity, it means respect for women, it means freedom to gather, it means so many things.” What it means is that the alleged “moderate” Kasich holds the same extremist religious conviction that the Bush administration embraced to set America on a destructive path in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. Dissatisfied with the current effects of Bush-imperialism, the so-called “moderate” Kasich wants to expand the crusade with theocratic vengeance.
The problem with Kasich and his “beamed messages” about America’s greatness is that he opposes everything he touts as “exceptional” about the United States and his personal “Judeo-Christian values.” Like all religious Republicans, these are the kind of Christian values that demanded Kasich reject Syrian refugees fleeing death and destruction. The hypocrite “moderate” touting America’s “respect for women” did not choke on his words after supporting sixteen anti-women laws in Ohio; including “stripping $1.4 million from rape crisis centers and Planned Parenthood.”
It is likely that Kasich’s new theocratic agency will push the kind of American Judeo-Christian “opportunities” he provided Ohio residents; slashing taxes on the rich and shifting the burden to the middle and lower classes. In fact, Kasich cut taxes so deeply to give the rich an opportunity to get richer that the state is “denied any revenue for education, infrastructure, and public safety” as part of Republicans’ Judeo-Christian values.
There are a lot of lessons in Kasich’s proposal that prove he is no more of a “moderate” than any of the extremist Republicans seeking the presidential nomination. He is pushing the same W. Bush religious crusade to force “America” on Middle East nations, and hypocritically proposes expanding the federal government for the sole purpose of evangelizing his religion on the rest of the world at American taxpayers’ expense.
It turns out that “Mr. Moderate” John Kasich is every bit of an evangelical extremist as Texas Ted Cruz and maybe more because even Cruz did not propose a federal agency to oversee the religious Republican crusade. A religious crusade George W. Bush started and one that all Republicans are Hell-bent on perpetuating to conquer the world using those “exceptional American Judeo-Christian values.”
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2022.02.06 00:21 david_k_robertson food for thought on - religion articles part 2

food for thought on - religion articles part 2
Discovered In The Vatican_ ‘Unprecedented’ Amount Of Child Porn!
Social Consciousness
Monday, July 17, 2017

Evangelical group wants gays removed from anti-lynching bill
Jan. 9, 2019, 3:55 PM CST
By Brooke Sopelsa

Evangelical Pastor to Greta Thunberg_ Don’t Worry, God Promised Not to Flood Earth Again
Newsweek
BY K THOR JENSEN ON 9/25/19 AT 11:58 AM EDT

Father Forced 14-Year-Old Daughter To Marry Her Rapist _ Michael Stone
MAY 26, 2016 BY MICHAEL STONE

Florida Christians Want to Kill Women Who Have Abortions
Church and State
By Tim Peacock 27 September 2016

Former Flint-area priest faces new rape charge for second victim - mlive.com
Updated Sep 17, 2019; Posted Sep 17, 2019

Former Gaylord Church Teacher Charged With Sex Crimes - 9 & 10 News
June 28, 2019 by 9and10news Site Staff

Georgia councilman says interracial marriage is ‘just not the way a Christian is supposed to live’
DAVID EDWARDS
06 MAY 2019 AT 10:15 ET

GOP Lawmaker Who Promotes ‘Biblical Law’ Caught Planning Violent Attacks _ Michael Stone
APRIL 23, 2019 BY MICHAEL STONE

How corporate America invented ‘Christian America’ to fight the New Deal
By Ron Briley 23 March 2016

How the prosperity gospel convinces poor people to give everything to grifty millionaire preachers
By Rob Beschizza 30 May 2019
Boing Boing

Hundreds gather at church for blessing ceremony featuring AR-15s - CBS News
UPDATED ON: FEBRUARY 28, 2018 / 3:48 PM / AP

It Turns Out Christians Have More Abortions Than Any Other Religious Group In America - MTV
KRISTINA MARUSIC
12/03/2015

It’s Time to Start Calling Evangelicals What They Are_ The American Taliban
Church and State
By J.C. Weatherby 24 February 2017
Medium

Joel Osteen got a $4.4 million PPP loan — good for him
The Hill
Gene Marks, Opinion Contributor

Joel Osteen’s church received $4M in PPP loans - TheGrio _ TheGrio
DeMicia Inman

Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church received $4.4M COVID-19 loan
By Lia Eustachewich
December 15, 2020 11:25am December 15, 2020 1:41pm

Kavanaugh Would Advance DeVos’s Religious Agenda for Schools
Common Dreams
Published on Sunday, July 15, 2018 by Education Opportunity Network
by Jeff Bryant

Louisiana public schools will display ‘In God We Trust’ beginning this school year - ABC News
By BRENDAN RAND Aug 13, 2019, 3:02 PM ET

Mega-church leader Joaquin Garcia arrested for major sex trafficking crimes - Story _ KTTV
By Oscar Flores, FOX 11
Posted Jun 04 2019 11:14PM PDT
Video Posted Jun 04 2019 11:12PM PDT
Updated Jun 05 2019 02:19PM PDT

Miami preacher raped young girls, cops say _ Miami Herald
BY CARLI TEPROFF AND MARTIN VASSOLO
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 08:23 PM

Missouri Rep. Calls Pregnancy By Rape God’s ‘Silver Lining’ _ Michael Stone

NY Priest Embezzled $1 Million For ‘Drug Fueled Sex Romps’ With Male Escort _ Michael Stone

Oklahoma Lawmaker_ Men Must Approve Abortion; Women Are ‘Hosts’ _ Michael Stone

Oklahoma Lawmaker_ Rape and Incest are the ‘Will of God’ _ Michael Stone

Oklahoma Missionary Sentenced to 40 Years for Raping Nairobi Children, Underscoring the Harm Done by Some Foreigners in Africa
Atlanta Black Star
By David Love - March 8, 2016

Oregon Construction Worker Fired For Refusing To Attend Mandatory Bible Study _ Michael Stone

Organized Religion_ A Tool for Ignorance, Power and Control
Church and State
This post by Allen Clifton originally appeared at Forward Progressives.

Pastor at a homophobic church had an ‘affair’ with an underage boy _ Barry Duke

Pastor brags about punching ‘dangerously bright’ kid _ Michael Stone

Pastor Charged with Stealing Over $600,000 from AIDS Charity
Out
BY SERENA SONOMA
AUGUST 03 2019 12:56 PM EDT

Pastor Compares Child Rape To Theft, Says ‘It Takes Two To Tango’ _ Michael Stone

Pastor Kristi Tells Everyone to Pray and Fast on May 4 – Dakota Free Press

Pastor Rapes Teen, Church Asks Victim To Apologize To Pastor’s Wife _ Michael Stone

Pastor Robert Jeffress_ God’s Rainbow Means Climate Change Is ‘Imaginary Crisis’ _ Michael Stone

Pastor says he wishes ‘every homo would die’ at Make America Straight Again
Pink News
LILY WAKEFIELD JUNE 17, 2019

Pastor_ Public Schools Violating God’s Law Should Be Burned To The Ground _ Michael Stone

Pat Robertson tells 80-year-old woman to get a job because Jesus needs money _ Michael Stone

Pat Robertson_ To Destroy “Powerful Witches,” Bind Satan & His “Forces of Evil” _ Hemant Mehta _ Friendly Atheist _ Patheos

Pentecostal Christians Are Burning Australia’s Sacred Aboriginal Objects _ Michael Stone

Pompeo says God may have sent Trump to save Israel from Iran - BBC News

Pope admits abuse & sex slavery of nuns by priests… but insists it’s ‘under control’ — RT World News

Priest found guilty of raping dozens of children and a sled dog _ Michael Stone

Protest to be headlined by Milo Yiannopoulos, Steve Bannon at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor can proceed, judge rules - Baltimore Sun

Report_ Plan To Force God Into Public Schools Released _ Michael Stone

Republican Governor_ Conservatives are Ready to be Crucified to Oppose Gay Rights
By Allen Clifton 1 June 2016
Forward Progressives

Republican Nominee_ God Is A White Supremacist, Jews Come From Satan _ Michael Stone

Rev. Natasha buys private jet, says Jesus would do same if he was still preaching - Pulse Ghana
Pulse

Rick Santorum_ Separation Of Church And State A Communist Idea, Not An American One
By Brian Tashman 1 December 2014
Right Wing Watch

San Diego synagogue shooting_ Suspected gunman was churchgoer who allegedly used faith to justify attack _ The Independent

SD Complicit National Christofascist Legislative Push – Dakota Free Press

Senate Confirms Dangerous Religious Extremist Allison Rushing As Federal Judge _ Michael Stone

Should 11-year-old girls have to bear their rapists’ babies_ Ohio says yes. - Chicago Tribune

Southern Baptist scandal_ Convention leaders react to investigation detailing sexual abuse - The Washington Post

Tennessee Pastor Who Repeatedly Raped Daughter, 14, Gets Light Sentence Because Jesus _ Michael Stone

Tennessee school bans Harry Potter books after pastor warns they could ‘conjure evil spirits’ – DeadState

The Christian converts who are setting fire to sacred Aboriginal objects - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The Fall of Jimmy Swaggart _ PEOPLE.com

These Florida Christians Think Their Prayers Will Stop Hurricane Dorian _ Hemant Mehta _ Friendly Atheist _ Patheos

U.S. Bishops Gravely Disappointed with Equality Act, Support Trump’s Anti-Transgender Guideline - New Ways Ministry

U.S. churches are costing tax payers $71 billion a year – DeadState

U.S.’s Biggest Christian Charity Reportedly Channeled $56.1 Million to Purported Hate Groups

US evangelical leaders held meeting with Saudi crown prince on eve of 9_11 - The Christian Post

US pastor runs network giving 50,000 Ugandans bleach-based ‘miracle cure’ _ World news _ The Guardian

We don’t do gay because of our Christian beliefs,’ says wedding venue

With tears, Lakewood Pastor John Gray defends $200K Lamborghini anniversary gift to wife _ wtsp.com
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2021.07.10 17:30 Bettingflea95 Aeches and hate

Hate is a vanta black substance used by only 2 people ever, john "Guillotine", and james grio. This substance came from the blood of the previous demon of hate: m8, who was killed by the angel of happiness: m9.
Hate has near infinite uses and can be summoned almost anywhere too. Hate can be summoned through means of places that are dark enough (ie, really dark places at night, inside dark clothes, really dark shadows, the insides of anything with organs, etc)
Image of an aech and james grio
Uses:
Tentacles- hate can be used to summon tentacles of varying sizes. These tentacles are indestructible and has literal infinite strength to them, making anyone able to control them instantly one of the most powerful people ever. These tentacles also possess the ability to rapidly increase and decrease in temperature
Portals- when a certain space is dark enough, the hate user can turn that space into a portal to the void, and open another door to their desired location. These have also been used to cross dimensions and even times.
omniscient knowledge- since portals can be made virtually anywhere, the user would also know everything about what they want to know. So far, only james grio has this ability, and has used it to hunt down Guillotine and his friends.
Aeches:
Their names come from the letter: H. The first letter in H.I.H (meaning hate infected human). They are, in fact, infected by hate. When a human during revelations became overwhelmed with hate, they automatically get infected by having tentacles transform them into aeches (note: james grio can manually turn people into aeches, but Guillotine does not have enough control over hate to preform this action)
transformation
•the tentacles will wrap themselves around the body, slowly squeezing their blood out and crushing every bone, muscle, and organ in their body
•during all of this, they will be blinded with rage, not feeling any other emotion during or after transformation, being reduced to nothing but hungry, savage, monsters
(Though, james grio can give an aech their mind and memories back, but their emotional state would remain the same)
•after this, they would let out a loud, blood curdling roar that causes their mouths to fly open, only to hate stitches made of hate sew them up. Leaving a permanent smile on them
side effects
•aeches have great durability, being resilient against most low-calibre bullets, blades at low speed, fire, low force physical attacks, etc
•aeches have a major increase in strength, having the strength of 20 men or more
•in addition to strength, their speed is also especially increased, gaining an average of 70 mph on all fours
Any questions?
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2021.05.28 03:39 misterjay78 I NEED to see the Dream Suites in Azran Legacy

I’m emulating Azran Legacy and found out about these Suites in the hotel in San Grio which apparently unlock some hidden episodes featuring some characters from Curious Village, Pandora’s Box and Lost Future? The thing is these can only be unlocked through coins earned via Streetpass and since I don’t have a 3Ds I think that means I’m pretty much screwed. I’ve been searching all over the internet in both English and Japanese for visuals of something, anything that could give me a glimpse of what is inside these rooms but everybody seems to at best only briefly touch upon it in conversation, or maybe I’m just incredibly bad at browsing.
Does anyone have screenshots or any kind of visuals for the three suites at all? I know this is just fan content and probably nothing too much to expect but I just can’t sleep soundly without seeing them man I can’t
Any help would be appreciated thanks ;)
Edit: Got it! Link to some videos below🙌🙌🙌
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2021.04.17 16:01 racebannon65 Adios Amigo Movie last night on The Grio Channel had GME Power Buttons.

Did anyone else happen to catch Adios Amigo/Richard Pryor movie and notice GME power buttons added into it? I saw two during a stagecoach scene later in the movie. I haven’t found any thing on this yet. It was on around midnight on The Grio Channel. If it was DFV the title is obvious for meaning but what else was added ? My first post so I expect shit because I’m a Twitter man(which brought me to WSB in January) but have been here for years. I posted to @roaringkitty last night but now it’s down. I hope someone else was watching. Did DFV say Adios Amigos during that last vid he posted yesterday?
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2021.01.08 09:01 spatial_interests Yes Means Yes

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2019.06.30 03:57 finnagains Warren Is No Hillary. She’s Also No Bernie. - By Liza Featherstone (Jacobin) 26 June 2019

The feud between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren supporters is getting ridiculous. Warren isn’t Hillary and Bernie is no sexist.
Elizabeth Warren is not a neoliberal.
Characterizing Warren as a “neoliberal” or, even more stupidly, a “Clintonite,” some misguided online Bernie Sanders supporters seem to be trying to cast her as the archvillain in the sequel to 2016’s horror flop, Hillary. With Warren’s advocacy for aggressive government regulation, her support for redistributive programs, her sharp critique of antisocial corporate behavior, and her rejection of individualistic folklore (remember “You didn’t build that”?), she’s emerged as a relatively mild but nevertheless quite serious opponent of neoliberal ideology — the worldview in which markets can solve everything and, in Margaret Thatcher’s words, “There is no such thing as society.”
If Bernie Sanders weren’t running, an Elizabeth Warren presidency would probably be the best-case scenario. Warren is a “good liberal,” a species that nearly went extinct after Jesse Jackson’s 1988 campaign and has only recently been spotted again roaming the savannahs of Washington, DC. Left and socialist organizing has been at least partly responsible for the resurgence of this highly vulnerable political animal; we should claim credit for such creatures, not misclassify them.
However, while Warren isn’t a neoliberal, Sanders supporters aren’t the only ones making shit up. Her own supporters have been spinning a series of fictitious narratives rooted in classic neoliberal identity politics, using feminism and anti-racism to discredit Sanders’s socialist agenda.
There is, of course, nothing inherently neoliberal about opposition to race and gender oppression or struggles for full social rights and inclusion for LGBTQ people, immigrants, the disabled, the indigenous, or any other group. But the term “neoliberal identity politics” refers to the way the politics of identity can be — and often are — abused by those in power, to undermine the very politics of collectivity upon which the liberation of all oppressed groups depends.
One of these curious neoliberal narratives is that only sexism could explain why people support Sanders over Warren, since the candidates are exactly the same politically. Earlier this year, Moira Donegan, writing in the Guardian, asked, “Why vote for Sanders when you can have Elizabeth Warren instead?” While Warren calls herself a “capitalist to my bones,” Sanders is a lifelong socialist. Warren was a Republican until she was in her mid 40's. Donegan dismissed that distinction, writing, “this point has the quality of a post-hoc rationalization. It is cited by those seeking an acceptable reason to vote for a man and not for a woman — those who would vote for this man, and perhaps not any woman, no matter what.”
That “perhaps” is doing a lot of work here, considering the outpouring of money, volunteer energy, and enthusiasm from Sanders supporters for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Tiffany Cabán, Rossana Rodríguez-Sanchez, Julia Salazar, and other socialist women who have newly run for office within the past two years. Neoliberal identity politics is a kind of Etch A Sketch into which socialism instantly disappears.
Yet that narrative has (forgive me) nevertheless persisted. The Twitter feeds of liberal feminist journalists are obsessed with the supposed sexism of Bernie supporters. And in April, when Warren’s campaign was failing to take off, Irin Carmon wondered in New York magazine, “I wonder where all the ‘but I love Elizabeth Warren’ guys are now.”
Of course, Bernie Sanders surely has some sexist supporters. Given the prevalence of knuckleheads in the population, if he lacked any appeal to such people, he’d probably still be hanging out in Burlington, Vermont. Yet at a time when health-care and pharma profiteering are killing people and capitalist greed threatens the existence of the human species, the idea that there is no other reason to choose a lifelong socialist over an agreeably indignant liberal is simply not serious.
It’s not only bearded men at DSA meetings (or Jacobin writers) who find the distinction meaningful. The ruling class and its pet thinkers do, too.
Politico reported this week that for establishment centrists, Warren was emerging as an acceptable alternative to Sanders. Third Way, a proudly centrist think tank that has drawn donations from some of the same hedge funders who backed Mitt Romney — its board is made up of bankers and other Wall Street executives — once vilified Warren’s economic populism as “disastrous.”
But one of the group’s cofounders recently praised her as a “Democratic capitalist,” in contrast to Sanders, a socialist. (Although Warren calls herself a capitalist, it’s uncharacteristically imprecise for her to do so; clearly she means that she favors capitalism over any other system, as she doesn’t actually own any companies.) This is probably one reason her campaign, which was flagging just a few weeks ago, has recently seen a flurry of media coverage, much of it emphasizing that she is taking votes from Sanders, and using words like “surging.”
For people who prefer to discuss issues — most voters are not especially ideological — Sanders is better on those policy areas where he and Warren differ. That’s because rejecting capitalism affects the way a person thinks about everything.
While it’s true that Warren supports Medicare for All on paper, she has recently waffled on the matter. Relatedly, Sanders’s view that abortion should be part of a full reproductive health-care plan offered under single-payer is stronger and more specific than Warren’s pro-choice position. She talks a lot about a “strong military” and “military readiness,” while Sanders has been doggedly leading the fight to end the devastating war in Yemen. Warren is a committed fan of American global power, one of the most destructive forces on earth; Sanders has been an enemy of imperialism all his life, growing even more outspoken over the past year, hardly the typical trajectory for a presidential candidate.
A second myth is that Sanders is sexist and dismissive toward his female opponent. This is a revival of a fairy tale from 2016, popular at that time with the media and professional class. It appears to be based on the fact that Sanders, who emphatically points his finger a lot, did not stop doing this when his opponent, Hillary Clinton, was present. (The claim doesn’t appear to make any more sense than that.)
This myth has recently been repackaged: now it’s allegedly Elizabeth Warren he’s disrespecting, despite the fact that the two senators are friends and colleagues.
Vanity Fair reached new levels of mendacity with its headline last week: “Sanders: Warren is Surging Because She’s Got Ovaries.” The lede of the article, by Bess Levin, summarized Sanders’s comments in the most tendentious way possible: “she has two X chromosomes and voters are all eh, you’ll do.” But, as the article itself makes clear, Sanders said nothing of the kind. Rather he acknowledged that “there are a certain number of people who would like to see a woman elected, and I understand that.”
What kind of oblivious, sexist monster would have failed in this context to say that? If he hadn’t mentioned the desire of progressive voters to see a woman become president, the media would have rightly nailed him. He also noted that there are “a lot of factors” and that “she’s running a good campaign.” Of course, the headline and lede writers belong in Fake News jail, but the fact that so many liberal media hacks were sharing this on Twitter shows their enduring attachment to the myth of Bernie’s sexism.
A third, equally peculiar story is that Warren has been widely embraced by black voters, in contrast to Sanders, who, according to the same corporate media, black people supposedly don’t like. She was a big hit at a recent “She the People” forum, where candidates addressed an audience of women of color. Warren wrote an op-ed for Essence. Media coverage makes much of the idea that black women are attracted to her concrete approach to issues like black maternal mortality, free college, student debt, and child care. A Grio headline on her “She the People” appearance read, “Elizabeth Warren building unlikely connection with Black women voters.” Her proposal to support minority-owned businesses has been widely reported.
It’s good that Warren is addressing these important matters. But there’s a problem with the narrative that black voters prefer Warren over Sanders: It isn’t true.
A Hart Research poll in late May found 58 percent of black voters “enthusiastic” or “comfortable” with Sanders, while only 37 percent felt that way about Warren. Sanders is more popular among black voters than any candidate except Biden, who benefits from his association with President Obama.
Warren supporters and the media have no business peddling these neoliberal identity fables. Those of us who support Bernie Sanders should also stop tarring Warren with the “neoliberal” and “Clintonite” epithets, since they’re equally inaccurate. And while we’re on the subject of accuracy, Elizabeth Warren should probably stop calling herself a “capitalist” — though we’re not responsible for how she chooses to identify herself.
https://outline.com/4aGrXc
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2019.06.30 03:56 finnagains Warren Is No Hillary. She’s Also No Bernie. - By Liza Featherstone (Jacobin) 26 June 2019

The feud between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren supporters is getting ridiculous. Warren isn’t Hillary and Bernie is no sexist.
Elizabeth Warren is not a neoliberal.
Characterizing Warren as a “neoliberal” or, even more stupidly, a “Clintonite,” some misguided online Bernie Sanders supporters seem to be trying to cast her as the archvillain in the sequel to 2016’s horror flop, Hillary. With Warren’s advocacy for aggressive government regulation, her support for redistributive programs, her sharp critique of antisocial corporate behavior, and her rejection of individualistic folklore (remember “You didn’t build that”?), she’s emerged as a relatively mild but nevertheless quite serious opponent of neoliberal ideology — the worldview in which markets can solve everything and, in Margaret Thatcher’s words, “There is no such thing as society.”
If Bernie Sanders weren’t running, an Elizabeth Warren presidency would probably be the best-case scenario. Warren is a “good liberal,” a species that nearly went extinct after Jesse Jackson’s 1988 campaign and has only recently been spotted again roaming the savannahs of Washington, DC. Left and socialist organizing has been at least partly responsible for the resurgence of this highly vulnerable political animal; we should claim credit for such creatures, not misclassify them.
However, while Warren isn’t a neoliberal, Sanders supporters aren’t the only ones making shit up. Her own supporters have been spinning a series of fictitious narratives rooted in classic neoliberal identity politics, using feminism and anti-racism to discredit Sanders’s socialist agenda.
There is, of course, nothing inherently neoliberal about opposition to race and gender oppression or struggles for full social rights and inclusion for LGBTQ people, immigrants, the disabled, the indigenous, or any other group. But the term “neoliberal identity politics” refers to the way the politics of identity can be — and often are — abused by those in power, to undermine the very politics of collectivity upon which the liberation of all oppressed groups depends.
One of these curious neoliberal narratives is that only sexism could explain why people support Sanders over Warren, since the candidates are exactly the same politically. Earlier this year, Moira Donegan, writing in the Guardian, asked, “Why vote for Sanders when you can have Elizabeth Warren instead?” While Warren calls herself a “capitalist to my bones,” Sanders is a lifelong socialist. Warren was a Republican until she was in her mid 40's. Donegan dismissed that distinction, writing, “this point has the quality of a post-hoc rationalization. It is cited by those seeking an acceptable reason to vote for a man and not for a woman — those who would vote for this man, and perhaps not any woman, no matter what.”
That “perhaps” is doing a lot of work here, considering the outpouring of money, volunteer energy, and enthusiasm from Sanders supporters for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Tiffany Cabán, Rossana Rodríguez-Sanchez, Julia Salazar, and other socialist women who have newly run for office within the past two years. Neoliberal identity politics is a kind of Etch A Sketch into which socialism instantly disappears.
Yet that narrative has (forgive me) nevertheless persisted. The Twitter feeds of liberal feminist journalists are obsessed with the supposed sexism of Bernie supporters. And in April, when Warren’s campaign was failing to take off, Irin Carmon wondered in New York magazine, “I wonder where all the ‘but I love Elizabeth Warren’ guys are now.”
Of course, Bernie Sanders surely has some sexist supporters. Given the prevalence of knuckleheads in the population, if he lacked any appeal to such people, he’d probably still be hanging out in Burlington, Vermont. Yet at a time when health-care and pharma profiteering are killing people and capitalist greed threatens the existence of the human species, the idea that there is no other reason to choose a lifelong socialist over an agreeably indignant liberal is simply not serious.
It’s not only bearded men at DSA meetings (or Jacobin writers) who find the distinction meaningful. The ruling class and its pet thinkers do, too.
Politico reported this week that for establishment centrists, Warren was emerging as an acceptable alternative to Sanders. Third Way, a proudly centrist think tank that has drawn donations from some of the same hedge funders who backed Mitt Romney — its board is made up of bankers and other Wall Street executives — once vilified Warren’s economic populism as “disastrous.”
But one of the group’s cofounders recently praised her as a “Democratic capitalist,” in contrast to Sanders, a socialist. (Although Warren calls herself a capitalist, it’s uncharacteristically imprecise for her to do so; clearly she means that she favors capitalism over any other system, as she doesn’t actually own any companies.) This is probably one reason her campaign, which was flagging just a few weeks ago, has recently seen a flurry of media coverage, much of it emphasizing that she is taking votes from Sanders, and using words like “surging.”
For people who prefer to discuss issues — most voters are not especially ideological — Sanders is better on those policy areas where he and Warren differ. That’s because rejecting capitalism affects the way a person thinks about everything.
While it’s true that Warren supports Medicare for All on paper, she has recently waffled on the matter. Relatedly, Sanders’s view that abortion should be part of a full reproductive health-care plan offered under single-payer is stronger and more specific than Warren’s pro-choice position. She talks a lot about a “strong military” and “military readiness,” while Sanders has been doggedly leading the fight to end the devastating war in Yemen. Warren is a committed fan of American global power, one of the most destructive forces on earth; Sanders has been an enemy of imperialism all his life, growing even more outspoken over the past year, hardly the typical trajectory for a presidential candidate.
A second myth is that Sanders is sexist and dismissive toward his female opponent. This is a revival of a fairy tale from 2016, popular at that time with the media and professional class. It appears to be based on the fact that Sanders, who emphatically points his finger a lot, did not stop doing this when his opponent, Hillary Clinton, was present. (The claim doesn’t appear to make any more sense than that.)
This myth has recently been repackaged: now it’s allegedly Elizabeth Warren he’s disrespecting, despite the fact that the two senators are friends and colleagues.
Vanity Fair reached new levels of mendacity with its headline last week: “Sanders: Warren is Surging Because She’s Got Ovaries.” The lede of the article, by Bess Levin, summarized Sanders’s comments in the most tendentious way possible: “she has two X chromosomes and voters are all eh, you’ll do.” But, as the article itself makes clear, Sanders said nothing of the kind. Rather he acknowledged that “there are a certain number of people who would like to see a woman elected, and I understand that.”
What kind of oblivious, sexist monster would have failed in this context to say that? If he hadn’t mentioned the desire of progressive voters to see a woman become president, the media would have rightly nailed him. He also noted that there are “a lot of factors” and that “she’s running a good campaign.” Of course, the headline and lede writers belong in Fake News jail, but the fact that so many liberal media hacks were sharing this on Twitter shows their enduring attachment to the myth of Bernie’s sexism.
A third, equally peculiar story is that Warren has been widely embraced by black voters, in contrast to Sanders, who, according to the same corporate media, black people supposedly don’t like. She was a big hit at a recent “She the People” forum, where candidates addressed an audience of women of color. Warren wrote an op-ed for Essence. Media coverage makes much of the idea that black women are attracted to her concrete approach to issues like black maternal mortality, free college, student debt, and child care. A Grio headline on her “She the People” appearance read, “Elizabeth Warren building unlikely connection with Black women voters.” Her proposal to support minority-owned businesses has been widely reported.
It’s good that Warren is addressing these important matters. But there’s a problem with the narrative that black voters prefer Warren over Sanders: It isn’t true.
A Hart Research poll in late May found 58 percent of black voters “enthusiastic” or “comfortable” with Sanders, while only 37 percent felt that way about Warren. Sanders is more popular among black voters than any candidate except Biden, who benefits from his association with President Obama.
Warren supporters and the media have no business peddling these neoliberal identity fables. Those of us who support Bernie Sanders should also stop tarring Warren with the “neoliberal” and “Clintonite” epithets, since they’re equally inaccurate. And while we’re on the subject of accuracy, Elizabeth Warren should probably stop calling herself a “capitalist” — though we’re not responsible for how she chooses to identify herself.
https://outline.com/4aGrXc
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2019.06.30 03:37 finnagains Warren Is No Hillary. She’s Also No Bernie. - By Liza Featherstone (Jacobin) 26 June 2019

The feud between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren supporters is getting ridiculous. Warren isn’t Hillary and Bernie is no sexist.
Elizabeth Warren is not a neoliberal.
Characterizing Warren as a “neoliberal” or, even more stupidly, a “Clintonite,” some misguided online Bernie Sanders supporters seem to be trying to cast her as the archvillain in the sequel to 2016’s horror flop, Hillary. With Warren’s advocacy for aggressive government regulation, her support for redistributive programs, her sharp critique of antisocial corporate behavior, and her rejection of individualistic folklore (remember “You didn’t build that”?), she’s emerged as a relatively mild but nevertheless quite serious opponent of neoliberal ideology — the worldview in which markets can solve everything and, in Margaret Thatcher’s words, “There is no such thing as society.”
If Bernie Sanders weren’t running, an Elizabeth Warren presidency would probably be the best-case scenario. Warren is a “good liberal,” a species that nearly went extinct after Jesse Jackson’s 1988 campaign and has only recently been spotted again roaming the savannahs of Washington, DC. Left and socialist organizing has been at least partly responsible for the resurgence of this highly vulnerable political animal; we should claim credit for such creatures, not misclassify them.
However, while Warren isn’t a neoliberal, Sanders supporters aren’t the only ones making shit up. Her own supporters have been spinning a series of fictitious narratives rooted in classic neoliberal identity politics, using feminism and anti-racism to discredit Sanders’s socialist agenda.
There is, of course, nothing inherently neoliberal about opposition to race and gender oppression or struggles for full social rights and inclusion for LGBTQ people, immigrants, the disabled, the indigenous, or any other group. But the term “neoliberal identity politics” refers to the way the politics of identity can be — and often are — abused by those in power, to undermine the very politics of collectivity upon which the liberation of all oppressed groups depends.
One of these curious neoliberal narratives is that only sexism could explain why people support Sanders over Warren, since the candidates are exactly the same politically. Earlier this year, Moira Donegan, writing in the Guardian, asked, “Why vote for Sanders when you can have Elizabeth Warren instead?” While Warren calls herself a “capitalist to my bones,” Sanders is a lifelong socialist. Warren was a Republican until she was in her mid 40's. Donegan dismissed that distinction, writing, “this point has the quality of a post-hoc rationalization. It is cited by those seeking an acceptable reason to vote for a man and not for a woman — those who would vote for this man, and perhaps not any woman, no matter what.”
That “perhaps” is doing a lot of work here, considering the outpouring of money, volunteer energy, and enthusiasm from Sanders supporters for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Tiffany Cabán, Rossana Rodríguez-Sanchez, Julia Salazar, and other socialist women who have newly run for office within the past two years. Neoliberal identity politics is a kind of Etch A Sketch into which socialism instantly disappears.
Yet that narrative has (forgive me) nevertheless persisted. The Twitter feeds of liberal feminist journalists are obsessed with the supposed sexism of Bernie supporters. And in April, when Warren’s campaign was failing to take off, Irin Carmon wondered in New York magazine, “I wonder where all the ‘but I love Elizabeth Warren’ guys are now.”
Of course, Bernie Sanders surely has some sexist supporters. Given the prevalence of knuckleheads in the population, if he lacked any appeal to such people, he’d probably still be hanging out in Burlington, Vermont. Yet at a time when health-care and pharma profiteering are killing people and capitalist greed threatens the existence of the human species, the idea that there is no other reason to choose a lifelong socialist over an agreeably indignant liberal is simply not serious.
It’s not only bearded men at DSA meetings (or Jacobin writers) who find the distinction meaningful. The ruling class and its pet thinkers do, too.
Politico reported this week that for establishment centrists, Warren was emerging as an acceptable alternative to Sanders. Third Way, a proudly centrist think tank that has drawn donations from some of the same hedge funders who backed Mitt Romney — its board is made up of bankers and other Wall Street executives — once vilified Warren’s economic populism as “disastrous.”
But one of the group’s cofounders recently praised her as a “Democratic capitalist,” in contrast to Sanders, a socialist. (Although Warren calls herself a capitalist, it’s uncharacteristically imprecise for her to do so; clearly she means that she favors capitalism over any other system, as she doesn’t actually own any companies.) This is probably one reason her campaign, which was flagging just a few weeks ago, has recently seen a flurry of media coverage, much of it emphasizing that she is taking votes from Sanders, and using words like “surging.”
For people who prefer to discuss issues — most voters are not especially ideological — Sanders is better on those policy areas where he and Warren differ. That’s because rejecting capitalism affects the way a person thinks about everything.
While it’s true that Warren supports Medicare for All on paper, she has recently waffled on the matter. Relatedly, Sanders’s view that abortion should be part of a full reproductive health-care plan offered under single-payer is stronger and more specific than Warren’s pro-choice position. She talks a lot about a “strong military” and “military readiness,” while Sanders has been doggedly leading the fight to end the devastating war in Yemen. Warren is a committed fan of American global power, one of the most destructive forces on earth; Sanders has been an enemy of imperialism all his life, growing even more outspoken over the past year, hardly the typical trajectory for a presidential candidate.
A second myth is that Sanders is sexist and dismissive toward his female opponent. This is a revival of a fairy tale from 2016, popular at that time with the media and professional class. It appears to be based on the fact that Sanders, who emphatically points his finger a lot, did not stop doing this when his opponent, Hillary Clinton, was present. (The claim doesn’t appear to make any more sense than that.)
This myth has recently been repackaged: now it’s allegedly Elizabeth Warren he’s disrespecting, despite the fact that the two senators are friends and colleagues.
Vanity Fair reached new levels of mendacity with its headline last week: “Sanders: Warren is Surging Because She’s Got Ovaries.” The lede of the article, by Bess Levin, summarized Sanders’s comments in the most tendentious way possible: “she has two X chromosomes and voters are all eh, you’ll do.” But, as the article itself makes clear, Sanders said nothing of the kind. Rather he acknowledged that “there are a certain number of people who would like to see a woman elected, and I understand that.”
What kind of oblivious, sexist monster would have failed in this context to say that? If he hadn’t mentioned the desire of progressive voters to see a woman become president, the media would have rightly nailed him. He also noted that there are “a lot of factors” and that “she’s running a good campaign.” Of course, the headline and lede writers belong in Fake News jail, but the fact that so many liberal media hacks were sharing this on Twitter shows their enduring attachment to the myth of Bernie’s sexism.
A third, equally peculiar story is that Warren has been widely embraced by black voters, in contrast to Sanders, who, according to the same corporate media, black people supposedly don’t like. She was a big hit at a recent “She the People” forum, where candidates addressed an audience of women of color. Warren wrote an op-ed for Essence. Media coverage makes much of the idea that black women are attracted to her concrete approach to issues like black maternal mortality, free college, student debt, and child care. A Grio headline on her “She the People” appearance read, “Elizabeth Warren building unlikely connection with Black women voters.” Her proposal to support minority-owned businesses has been widely reported.
It’s good that Warren is addressing these important matters. But there’s a problem with the narrative that black voters prefer Warren over Sanders: It isn’t true.
A Hart Research poll in late May found 58 percent of black voters “enthusiastic” or “comfortable” with Sanders, while only 37 percent felt that way about Warren. Sanders is more popular among black voters than any candidate except Biden, who benefits from his association with President Obama.
Warren supporters and the media have no business peddling these neoliberal identity fables. Those of us who support Bernie Sanders should also stop tarring Warren with the “neoliberal” and “Clintonite” epithets, since they’re equally inaccurate. And while we’re on the subject of accuracy, Elizabeth Warren should probably stop calling herself a “capitalist” — though we’re not responsible for how she chooses to identify herself.
https://outline.com/4aGrXc
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2019.06.30 03:36 finnagains Warren Is No Hillary. She’s Also No Bernie. - By Liza Featherstone (Jacobin) 26 June 2019

The feud between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren supporters is getting ridiculous. Warren isn’t Hillary and Bernie is no sexist.
Elizabeth Warren is not a neoliberal.
Characterizing Warren as a “neoliberal” or, even more stupidly, a “Clintonite,” some misguided online Bernie Sanders supporters seem to be trying to cast her as the archvillain in the sequel to 2016’s horror flop, Hillary. With Warren’s advocacy for aggressive government regulation, her support for redistributive programs, her sharp critique of antisocial corporate behavior, and her rejection of individualistic folklore (remember “You didn’t build that”?), she’s emerged as a relatively mild but nevertheless quite serious opponent of neoliberal ideology — the worldview in which markets can solve everything and, in Margaret Thatcher’s words, “There is no such thing as society.”
If Bernie Sanders weren’t running, an Elizabeth Warren presidency would probably be the best-case scenario. Warren is a “good liberal,” a species that nearly went extinct after Jesse Jackson’s 1988 campaign and has only recently been spotted again roaming the savannahs of Washington, DC. Left and socialist organizing has been at least partly responsible for the resurgence of this highly vulnerable political animal; we should claim credit for such creatures, not misclassify them.
However, while Warren isn’t a neoliberal, Sanders supporters aren’t the only ones making shit up. Her own supporters have been spinning a series of fictitious narratives rooted in classic neoliberal identity politics, using feminism and anti-racism to discredit Sanders’s socialist agenda.
There is, of course, nothing inherently neoliberal about opposition to race and gender oppression or struggles for full social rights and inclusion for LGBTQ people, immigrants, the disabled, the indigenous, or any other group. But the term “neoliberal identity politics” refers to the way the politics of identity can be — and often are — abused by those in power, to undermine the very politics of collectivity upon which the liberation of all oppressed groups depends.
One of these curious neoliberal narratives is that only sexism could explain why people support Sanders over Warren, since the candidates are exactly the same politically. Earlier this year, Moira Donegan, writing in the Guardian, asked, “Why vote for Sanders when you can have Elizabeth Warren instead?” While Warren calls herself a “capitalist to my bones,” Sanders is a lifelong socialist. Warren was a Republican until she was in her mid 40's. Donegan dismissed that distinction, writing, “this point has the quality of a post-hoc rationalization. It is cited by those seeking an acceptable reason to vote for a man and not for a woman — those who would vote for this man, and perhaps not any woman, no matter what.”
That “perhaps” is doing a lot of work here, considering the outpouring of money, volunteer energy, and enthusiasm from Sanders supporters for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Tiffany Cabán, Rossana Rodríguez-Sanchez, Julia Salazar, and other socialist women who have newly run for office within the past two years. Neoliberal identity politics is a kind of Etch A Sketch into which socialism instantly disappears.
Yet that narrative has (forgive me) nevertheless persisted. The Twitter feeds of liberal feminist journalists are obsessed with the supposed sexism of Bernie supporters. And in April, when Warren’s campaign was failing to take off, Irin Carmon wondered in New York magazine, “I wonder where all the ‘but I love Elizabeth Warren’ guys are now.”
Of course, Bernie Sanders surely has some sexist supporters. Given the prevalence of knuckleheads in the population, if he lacked any appeal to such people, he’d probably still be hanging out in Burlington, Vermont. Yet at a time when health-care and pharma profiteering are killing people and capitalist greed threatens the existence of the human species, the idea that there is no other reason to choose a lifelong socialist over an agreeably indignant liberal is simply not serious.
It’s not only bearded men at DSA meetings (or Jacobin writers) who find the distinction meaningful. The ruling class and its pet thinkers do, too.
Politico reported this week that for establishment centrists, Warren was emerging as an acceptable alternative to Sanders. Third Way, a proudly centrist think tank that has drawn donations from some of the same hedge funders who backed Mitt Romney — its board is made up of bankers and other Wall Street executives — once vilified Warren’s economic populism as “disastrous.”
But one of the group’s cofounders recently praised her as a “Democratic capitalist,” in contrast to Sanders, a socialist. (Although Warren calls herself a capitalist, it’s uncharacteristically imprecise for her to do so; clearly she means that she favors capitalism over any other system, as she doesn’t actually own any companies.) This is probably one reason her campaign, which was flagging just a few weeks ago, has recently seen a flurry of media coverage, much of it emphasizing that she is taking votes from Sanders, and using words like “surging.”
For people who prefer to discuss issues — most voters are not especially ideological — Sanders is better on those policy areas where he and Warren differ. That’s because rejecting capitalism affects the way a person thinks about everything.
While it’s true that Warren supports Medicare for All on paper, she has recently waffled on the matter. Relatedly, Sanders’s view that abortion should be part of a full reproductive health-care plan offered under single-payer is stronger and more specific than Warren’s pro-choice position. She talks a lot about a “strong military” and “military readiness,” while Sanders has been doggedly leading the fight to end the devastating war in Yemen. Warren is a committed fan of American global power, one of the most destructive forces on earth; Sanders has been an enemy of imperialism all his life, growing even more outspoken over the past year, hardly the typical trajectory for a presidential candidate.
A second myth is that Sanders is sexist and dismissive toward his female opponent. This is a revival of a fairy tale from 2016, popular at that time with the media and professional class. It appears to be based on the fact that Sanders, who emphatically points his finger a lot, did not stop doing this when his opponent, Hillary Clinton, was present. (The claim doesn’t appear to make any more sense than that.)
This myth has recently been repackaged: now it’s allegedly Elizabeth Warren he’s disrespecting, despite the fact that the two senators are friends and colleagues.
Vanity Fair reached new levels of mendacity with its headline last week: “Sanders: Warren is Surging Because She’s Got Ovaries.” The lede of the article, by Bess Levin, summarized Sanders’s comments in the most tendentious way possible: “she has two X chromosomes and voters are all eh, you’ll do.” But, as the article itself makes clear, Sanders said nothing of the kind. Rather he acknowledged that “there are a certain number of people who would like to see a woman elected, and I understand that.”
What kind of oblivious, sexist monster would have failed in this context to say that? If he hadn’t mentioned the desire of progressive voters to see a woman become president, the media would have rightly nailed him. He also noted that there are “a lot of factors” and that “she’s running a good campaign.” Of course, the headline and lede writers belong in Fake News jail, but the fact that so many liberal media hacks were sharing this on Twitter shows their enduring attachment to the myth of Bernie’s sexism.
A third, equally peculiar story is that Warren has been widely embraced by black voters, in contrast to Sanders, who, according to the same corporate media, black people supposedly don’t like. She was a big hit at a recent “She the People” forum, where candidates addressed an audience of women of color. Warren wrote an op-ed for Essence. Media coverage makes much of the idea that black women are attracted to her concrete approach to issues like black maternal mortality, free college, student debt, and child care. A Grio headline on her “She the People” appearance read, “Elizabeth Warren building unlikely connection with Black women voters.” Her proposal to support minority-owned businesses has been widely reported.
It’s good that Warren is addressing these important matters. But there’s a problem with the narrative that black voters prefer Warren over Sanders: It isn’t true.
A Hart Research poll in late May found 58 percent of black voters “enthusiastic” or “comfortable” with Sanders, while only 37 percent felt that way about Warren. Sanders is more popular among black voters than any candidate except Biden, who benefits from his association with President Obama.
Warren supporters and the media have no business peddling these neoliberal identity fables. Those of us who support Bernie Sanders should also stop tarring Warren with the “neoliberal” and “Clintonite” epithets, since they’re equally inaccurate. And while we’re on the subject of accuracy, Elizabeth Warren should probably stop calling herself a “capitalist” — though we’re not responsible for how she chooses to identify herself.
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2017.11.13 21:10 agow Hello People of CraftStudio!

We've gone back to our roots, and are back to being a vanilla (spigot) server! We are greylisted, which means you need to apply before you can build.
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2016.12.08 05:02 SabrielMalar Goodbye Civex

So to start off this is kinda a "goodbye for now" post rather than me leaving and not looking back. But anyway onwards with my wall of text.
So I started playing on civex about a year and a half ago, because of pressure from skrylfr . We made the Ganf, a dinky little nation that consisted of a group of friends holed up in a desert oasis. I was a Civ-server virgin. Well to keep y'all from having to read a full on nostalgia post i'll skip everything I did.
But basically I loved Civex 2.0, it was a blast, I met some of my best friends and my boyfriend. (For those of you who don't know Manic and I are dating; 4 months now!!!!!)
After the Valhalla incident and I was pearled by MLK I largely stopped playing on Civex and went over to Sov, always hoping to play on Civex 3.0 when/if it was released. Well now I'm in that waiting place. And while waiting for 3.0 to come out I found myself without a server.
So long story short, I found a new community, and now its looking more and more like Civex is not going to be released for a few months. Over the time of waiting I have kinda lost the hype for my once beloved server.
So sorry this is a bit rambling, but basically. I've started doing other things in Blender (See some of my renders or pm me and I can send you some of em) as well as designing giant builds and sets for a new animation community. I am guessing that I will most likely not be playing much on 3.0 once it comes out.
I hate to be one of those people who say "I'm leaving" and then comes back. Thats why this is kinda a "goodbye for now" because I've put so much time into this community and formed some real friendships with a lot of you guys I felt like I needed to say thank you to everyone.
Not gonna make a giant list but basically,
Thanks to the ganf guys, you were the ones who got me on here. Thanks to everyone in Mandis, you guys were my favorite nation, and I'll never forget the times I spent with y'all.
Thanks to everyone who I hung out with throughout the time, whether in game, or just in teamspeak. I'm still on the Discord if you want to keep in contact there, or want another way to contact me pm me on here or on there.
So, this is a photo I took on my last day on Civex staring over my beloved Grios wheat fields that I tended daily.
Goodbye for now Civex. o/ its been a good one.
Edit To clear up some confusion, I am choosing to quit Civex, which for me at the time means I don't plan to play on the server at all when it launches. I just really don't like dealing in absolutes so its not a firm "goodbye i'll never see you again" kinda thing. I've grown and moved on, feel like i've lost my purpose and reason to play Civex and even stopped checking and reading the sub (which I used to do every day to stay in contact with my friends)
So really. I'm really quitting. I think I'm done with Civ Servers, but I'm not completely leaving the community.
Purpose of the Post To let a large number of people know at once that I am choosing to not return, if you personally don't give a rats ass keep scrolling. This is being put out there for those who I played with and I hope at least to some degree care that I'm choosing not to return.
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2016.03.30 18:46 TheWritingSniper Final Goodbye

[WP] In the far future you have been diagnosed with a terminal illness. With only a year left to live you purchase a ship and head out into space, looking for one last adventure.
"Fuel loss imminent. Reserves at zero-point-zero-one percent. Current advisory is to find nearest fueling station," the onboard AI spoke over the light hum of the engine, "At current fuel depletion rate, you will reach the fueling station in ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN--"
"Disable proximity alerts from this moment onward," I coughed, "Authorization code; Foxtrot-One-Four."
"Authorization code accepted," the voice soothed me these days, the faint whisper of a women long past her life, "proximity alerts now disabled."
The engines hummed again, I could feel them against the chair, the slight vibration as the ship pushed in the last fuel reserves. My last jump landed me in some quadrant a few lightyears from the nearest civilized outpost, another ten lightyears from a civilized planet. Although, the things I did get to see in this quadrant were quite beautiful.
Eriandus II has some of the biggest, and best, waterfalls I have ever seen. My flyby of that planet was well-worth the last jump. That old smuggler from three months sure wasn't lying in that regard.
"Martha," I leaned forward and stared into the vastness of space. My fuel clock was at an end, and I knew, so was my own biological one. "Open a new audio journal."
"Designation Required."
"Final Goodbye."
"Recording now..."
I took a few deep breaths, I had done this a hundred times in my twelve-month journey. Documenting my trips from planet to planet, but this one, it seemed so hard just to get the first few words out. "Well, the fuel is finally at an end." I chuckled, "almost twelve months to the day. Just like the smuggler said."
I shrugged, "No sense in putting it off now. I mean who wants to hear a terminally ill guy at the end of his life talk about it all? I don't have some profound message from my travels, or even a quote that I found. No."
I took a deep sigh, knowing full well that the audio would pick it up, "No, I have nothing to say anymore. I've seen the worlds I've wanted, said goodbye to the ones I loved, and did what any sensible man would do." I laughed, "I flew away in a goddamned space shuttle."
I flipped a few switches, dimming the interior of my cabin to blackness. Only the silent hum of the engine and the dim light of the space shuttle controls could be seen. "I will say this, it's one of the most luxurious ships I've ever been in." I leaned back in the seat, "Martha, cool the cabin. I think I'm going to sleep now."
"Cooling the cabin will result in a sharp drop and potentially bring it to leth--"
"Override code, Foxtrot-One-Four-Alpha."
"Accepted. Goodnight, sir."
I flipped another switch and the engines sputtered their last breath. And my ship started to drift, the eerie blackness of the world around me grew darker, and the cold overtook me. I started to sleep.
The hum grew louder. Louder than the engines had ever hummed before. They rattled and clanked and sputtered and spat. And my eyes began to open, slowly, then as the light overtook me, all at once.
"Boss, he's waking up," the voice was foreign to me. It was a deep, cruel voice. Not Martha's soothing robotic one.
Then the footsteps, another voice, "Good. He should be coming to any moment now."
My ship had a single cockpit, no one could walk around in it.
The air was stale, almost tasteless as my dry mouth reached out for anything. Anything that these strange voices would give me. A cold cup hit my lips, followed by a rush of water. It reminded me of the Waterfalls on Eriandus that looked like mouths, continuously gushing out water, instead of sipping it in slowly like I did.
My vision came to me slowly at first, but within a few minutes of drinking the water, I saw the voices. A strange, burly man with red hair and eyes as cool as the forests of Earth herself. The second, a smaller man with a bald head, his only hair being the red mustache which twirled around his nostrils. They both looked at me, before smiling.
"Welcome back," the small man said, "I'm Rael."
"Grio," the burly man said.
I choked on my own words, wondering who these people were, where I was, and more importantly, why I wasn't dead.
"My Captain's heart-rate is spiking," the soothing voice of Martha filled my ears. It started to feel like I was back in that ship again, even though I knew I wasn't.
"Martha?"
"Hello, Captain."
I tried to lean forward, but my muscles were weak, they ached with pain. And not the pain I was used to, this was new pain, as if every joint in my body was frozen together before being thawed out through bone-breaking procedures. Rael placed his arm on me, it was warm. "Easy there, you've been through a lot."
"Who-who are you?"
"Didn't we just say that?" Grio said.
"Oh, don't mind him," Rael continued, "he's cranky."
Grio snorted and turned away from the two of us.
"You're safe, a lot safer than when we found you. In our outpost, a few sectors from a civilized planet."
Rael looked strange to me; I knew he was human of course, but there was something off about him. As if he was something more than human, but less human at the same time. "Where did you find me?"
"In your space shuttle, packed like an ice cube," Rael laughed, "You were on the verge of death when we found you, adrift in undocumented space."
I shook my head, "Ice cube?"
"You were frozen. To the point that it actually slowed down your metabolic rate," he laughed again, "you basically saved yourself."
"No, no," I shook my head again, "I can't save myself. Myself is killing me."
"Oh," Rael said, "You mean that old disease? We took care of it."
My eyes widened, "What?"
"Your cancer," he said, "haven't seen a case like that in what? Grio, when was Teni here?"
"Twenty years!" Grio said from another room.
"Twenty years, yes," he looked back to me, "quick clean up."
"No, I was terminal."
"Well, whoever made that diagnosis clearly messed something up." He slid away from using a chair, but it seemed to bounce and hover off the ground instead.
I stood up a bit more, feeling my bones crack under their use again. It hurt, it hurt like all the hurt in the world, but I knew I needed answers. Something here wasn't right. The atmosphere, the people, the idea that my cancer could up and be cured like that.
"I hope you don't mind," Rael said as he plucked a hefty black box from a container, "In order to save you, I had to dig into your journals. Fascinating stuff in there."
I sighed deeply, it wasn't fascinating at all. Surely this was God, playing some practical joke on me.
"Up until you, Earth had been all but lost to us."
That hit me more than the pain of my own bones. Earth being lost, "How do you lose a planet?"
"Through war of course!" He dropped the black box on a floating table and smiled, "Hundreds of years of it."
"What?"
He smiled such an intense smile that I swore I was looking at a sun and not teeth. "That's the other fascinating thing. Your little act of cryopreservation in your, might I add ancient, ship, kept you alive for a few hundred years. Martha here sent distress signals, but Grio and I were the only two insane enough to go after something so old."
"Hundreds of years?"
"According to your journal, your final entry was 2134, before the war." He seemed to do some math in his head as fumbled with the numbers, "That would put your frozen state at just over three hundred and forty-six years. Which means, with your star calendar, you are in year 2480." He smiled again, "Welcome to the future, Captain."
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2016.03.22 02:53 Sirboss001 Mandis Government Changes and Announcements

Greetings everyone, Sirboss here with some news from the Mandis inner-circles in regards to our government. After some political discourse in the past few weeks, largely hidden from the public, and restructuring efforts, we're moving ahead with a few new changes to Mandis. We're hoping that these can improve the Mandis community, and put us back on the right path. These actions will take immediate effect.
All forms of MandisAid are hereby suspended. All requests will be put on hold until such time as we say otherwise, and all shipments that are currently either being processed or considered are hereby cancelled. Additionally, the Mandis JumpStart Initiative is no longer in effect.
I am suspended as Governor of Grios, Minister of Tourism and the Environment, and Minister of Foreign Relations for a period of two weeks, until Tuesday, April 4th. This means that I do not currently hold a government role in any capacity, and cannot make decisions in regards to Mandis Government starting today. All posts I make on the subreddit during this time period will be my personal opinion, and should not be viewed in any fashion as official.
During this time period, Defense Drills will be suspended, and the National Threat Assessment System will be left to the responsibility of others. Any ongoing negotiations or diplomatic discussions that I was leading are deferred to someone else. The following taglines are suspended as well, as I was the only one to use them, including:
The Government of Mandis.
Mandis Ministry of Foreign Relations
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Mandis International Criminal Court will still function, however it will be directed by someone else. Newfriend handling will also be directed towards another person, as I will not have the ability to add citizens as a Governor. Please do not come to me with citizenship requests, etc. for the next two weeks. Current ongoing land acquisition plans are deferred to someone else.
The Olympics are still scheduled for April 2nd, and will be held as planned.
I do so hope that I can learn from this experience, and help advance Mandis towards the future. I'm deeply sorry for what I've done.
 Sir Boss 
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2015.12.25 06:57 Sirboss001 A Civex Carol

A Civex Carol
By Sirboss001
It was a foggy night, one of the darker ones of the year, and the sun was just commencing its descent into the hills behind the little villiage. Hard at work, Devonmartino and Walkers were busy cobbling together the last parchment shipment to be sent to Arcation by nightfall through express (jewish) carriers. They had made little progress however, and the pile of raw materials seemed to still dwarf them in the corner.
Walkers was beginning to grow weary. Twas the twenty-fourth of December, and he had horses to feed back at his ranch. "Please sir, may I go home now? I know this shipment is due, but I have a family to get to, and if I'm not back soon, I'm sure some of them will be murdered by those lousy owls." "Humbug!" shouted Devon "You ask not only for the twenty-fifth of December off, a perfectly reasonable working day, but you also ask for a shortened day this evening? I have never heard of such unprofessionalism in the workplace. We shall work until the job is done!" He exclaimed, ending the sentence sharply, like a python.
The two workers left approximately five minutes after they were scheduled to, the pile of work still mostly undone. "I shall tend to it in the morning" snapped Devon, "but sir, it's Christmas, you can't work then!" protested Walkers. "Ha! Christmas! Bah Humbug." The two went their separate ways, and each disappeared down the many alleyways and cross streets of the little villiage their shop was in.
Devon walked briskly, ignoring the holiday advertisements for the TinyEmperor Resort, promising half off specials, and the Mandis Shelters, providing food to the hungry. He even ignored the UOS weapons salesman, a person who would occasionally spark his interest. The cubist cathedral in the distance had a large gathering, but he plowed his way through the crowd gathering in front.
Once home, Devon sipped his traditional sake, a recipe he had obtained himself through illegal means, and shortly after took himself to bed. He read his favorite erotica (Bonkill & Gogyst, the lost stories), and shortly fell asleep.
With a tremendous bang he was awake! The sound of a hundred trumpets seemed to burst out in front of him, and a thunderous clash, like a thousand thunderstorms, pierced the air around his four poster bed. A spirit appeared before him, with white streams of whispy light flowing in several directions around it. It was Zefmiller, the deceased miner who was rumored to haunt the server at the darkest of nights. His torso was surrounded by diamond chains, tangled up like a straitjacket.
"Devon Martino!" the spirit yelled, "you must change your ways! You strike down the hungry, the sick, and further make farming difficult! You must embody the spirit of Christmas! Make the people happy, change your ways, or you will find no happiness! Heed my warning!" He left as quickly as he had come, leaving behind nothing more than a few whisps of smoke and the smell of broccoli.
"Humbug!" announced Devon, "it was merely a bug in the system. Two players must have been trying to log in from the same IP!" He then drifted back asleep.
Awoken once again, Devon found himself facing Macrat7, only in a younger form. "Greetings," he pronounced, dressed in a white sheet with gold trim. "I am here to show you the past, a server where the ravages of massive hunger are not yet apparent." The two walked in single file until a path began to appear in front of them, then paving stones, then grass, then trees. No just kidding, they were in Mandis so there were no trees.
"Behold Devon, Grios farm!" In front of them were several fields of wheat and carrots, and a picnic was being setup on one of the grassy knolls in the distance. It was Thanksgiving, and people from around the server had gathered for the food. "This used to be the norm, plentiful and bountiful harvests were abundant, and food was as cheap as stone! This is the way it should be." Then the surroundings disappeared, and the spirit as well.
There was a loud crash, and then Devon found himself in a tavern of sorts, with people around him, but not taking notice. Spruce columns supported the ceiling, and there was a slight creaking coming from somewhere in the upper levels. "Hello Devon" bellowed Poulet, with a voice as loud but hearty as a giant, "I am here to show you the present that you are blind to!" Poulet led Devon around the room, there was a crowd at the tavern that appeared to obviously be in Braquesburg, but he noticed little food. "The people are barely getting by, what food they have is immediately eaten, and they stay in these cities so that they're close to their crops. The inns no longer server it, spirits and wines are the only commodities available here." The faces oblivious to their presence were skinny, but still healthy, these people had some source of food, but it didn't look adequate.
Then another loud clash, and in an instant all that was around him was gone. Devon was just in darkness now, but a darker, blacker mist seemed to be spilling in. The specter of Bonkill stood immediately before him, cloaked with a large grey sheet and tall black boots. "I am here to show you the world that has yet to come, the world of your design" he stated. The blackness faded away to a jungle scene. They were on a beach, but it was a dirtied and littered beach. Taking a few steps, Devon accidentally stepped on an iron helmet, with an Eagle and the letters "Fremk" still visible. In the distance he saw the remnants of a firefight, with smoke billowing through the trees. To his left were patches of armor inhabited by only motionless skeletons, some with a large Red A on them, some with a black eagle, even one with a classy penguin waddling somewhere.
"If you do not change your ways, food will become more scarce!" stated the spirit. "Wars will be fought over what food there is, and in the process the remaining few, precious resources will be wasted in the pursuit of these wars. You must put an end to your policies, or face Armageddon itself!
In an instant it all faded away, the spirit, the surroundings, the sirens, everything. Devon jolted from his bed, "It must have just all been a dream. No, it was more than that, I have to change my ways, I have to make a stand." he stated "I must make food once again a resource, not a luxury. Melons, wheat, carrots, potatoes, it all must be made accessible once again!" In an instant, Devon's door was slammed open, and Tassadar came flying in. "Did someone say potato?" she said, half drunk.
Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas!
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2014.09.30 20:09 jordan_carter23 Cuffing Season is Upon Us. Time to Check the "Car Fax" or is it?

UNDER REVIEW: TO CAR-FAX OR NOT TO CAR-FAX?
BY CORY TOWNES - via www.theSTASHED.com
October: the month of fall’s beginnings. Completely filled with football, pumpkin spice everything, and homecomings nationwide, the 10th month of the year is our seasonal introduction to “put your shorts away, and grab that varsity jacket, G” weather. Another key aspect to the month of October that has gotten popular over the past couple of years (mostly because of our good friends at Twitter) is “#CuffingSeason.” More than just a hashtag, #CuffingSeason has crept into the nooks and crannies of popular culture and attacked its nervous system in an almost parasitic nature. But we’re here for it. We want it. We love it. I mean, come on, who REALLY wants to be laid up all alone when the temperature reaches 45 degrees and there’s a Martin marathon on during your dreary Saturday? Not me, I tell you. But in thinking about how my #CuffingSeason roster looks as slim as the upcoming 2014-15 Philadelphia 76ers roster (WE STILL REALLY OUT HERE, THOUGH!), it made me think of something, a time-tested tool that sees its use triple, maybe quadruple during this time of year. No, I’m not talking about those 4am Uber X’s back to your crib after the last #lituation (cause you know, you only got the X to show baby girl that you’re with it and bout it, you know?). I’m talking about the ever-popular, world-renowned, show-stopping, jaw-dropping “Car-Fax.”
Now if you’re not familiar with the Car-Fax, or at least what it is in this case, it is the referral system used when inquiring about a potential partner, whether the reasons are because of potential emotional interest, physical interest, or both. If you don’t know what it is, that also tells me that you’ve been a subject of the Car-Fax and didn’t even know it, which could’ve turned out either good or bad for you. The Car-Fax can be and has been used in a number of situations, whether it was for preemptive strikes or for that moment when you’ve gone way too deep and you have to find out if you should pull up (or out) or not, no puns intended. It has given the green light to many a good situation, as well as prevented train wrecks, but regardless, the Car-Fax is here, the Car-Fax is king, and the Car-Fax is essential.
Or is it? I mean, at this point, finding out insider information is key to setting your #CuffingSeason up all proper-like, making the right waiver wire pickups before the weekend hits. But at the same time, are the thoughts of someone you obviously trust enough worth more than the feelings that you’ve already started to acquire for this person? You honestly have to ask yourself that. Fellas, walk with me. You met this woman and you instantly started digging her. You subtweet her on occasion (or you send a sub out that’s extremely generic and YOU know who it’s for and hope she gets it). You text her and instantly swipe to her Instagram account to see what she looks like again. Face it, my guy, you like her. Are you really going to put all that on the line because your man’s heard that she had “some fun” in college? Or that he heard something from his man’s cousin’s niece’s barber (yes, I said that right) about your prospective shorty? Or ladies, that guy that you’ve had your eye on from Twitter that you actually see out at a Grits & Biscuits or Hennypalooza or a similar event and he actually isn’t that bad and he IS that tall. Now you’re texting with him and you like his way with words. He makes you smile at your phone and you call him annoying because of that. You send your own subtweets his way and hope he catches them like Randy Moss on a go route from Randall Cunningham. You going to ask your friend who hasn’t had a man pull up on her since Amber was having Kanye lick her forehead about what she’s heard about him, and she tells you “he gets all the girls,” and that “he’s popping,” or the doomsday phrase of 2014, “he’s mixxy.” You both have to think smarter. Sometimes ignorance is bliss, and in this case not knowing what someone’s past may be may land you in the green garden of your choice. Just because you hear she doesn’t “wanna be a freak no mo” (word to Quavo), as a man, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t see where things go, folks. Ladies, just because your hating friend told you the guy you’re feeling is a hot boy and has all the women, that doesn’t mean that you don’t pay him any mind. Do yourself the favor and take the chance.
We’re at a point in our lives where nine times out of ten, we all have some sort of history. And that’s ok, it’s something that we’re going to have to deal with, at one time or another. I can say I’ve let the wrong Car-Fax impede my progress with a young lady before, and I’m man enough to say that was a mistake. I try to write most of my pieces with some sort of personal experience in there, only so the good people realize that blocking your blessings is never the move. Finding out for yourself is the best report that you could get from anyone else. I’m not saying abandon ship on all usage of the Car-Fax, but know the right and wrong times to pull that trigger. Who knows, you might realize you’ve been sleeping on the one you’ve been dreaming about.
By Cory Townes via www.theSTASHED.com
Cory Townes is born and raised from Southwest Philadelphia, PA and lives in Brooklyn, NY. When he’s not cheering for his Philly sports teams and laughing at the misfortunes of the New York Knicks, he’s the Social Media Manager for EBONY Magazine, as well as a contributing writer for theSTASHED, Vibe, The Grio, and more. Talk to him nice, or don’t talk to him at all, but if you’re looking for conversations about music, culture and the like, reach him on Twitter. His name is his name.
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