in the fort worth area you have me, inflatablevagina, drax and alternating weekends brain is up from houston we're all buddies and meet regularly on my porch.... i also go to houston a lot... where my boyfriend (brain) and his brother are old sifters. the boyfriend would go, his bro wouldn't. choggie lives there, i bet he'd be down. also ctrlaltbleach is in htown but ive never met him. austin is smack in the middle of the two cities and has the best bar scene by far and at least four of us are usually down for a weekend trip to austin, given enough notice. oooh and geesussfreak is somewhere in the hill country area... near austin. >> ^dag:

Tempting. Especially the baked goods. What's the best city for a Texas Sift up and how many Sifters / permanently banished Sifters could you rustle up?>> ^peggedbea:
wtf? no texas sift up???? you don't want to smoke a joint with me and choggie and listen to our beautiful coon ass poetry and eat our delicious baked goods??? also, we give amazing hugs.
we might be abrasive on the internet, but it's totally a front to how soft and cuddly we are on the inside. >> ^dag:
What the hell! Where's your dedication? Where are you at MG? I may be swinging by Austin on my travels. >> ^MarineGunrock:
. Six hours (one way) is a long drive for drinks. Maybe next time!

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Tempting. Especially the baked goods. What's the best city for a Texas Sift up and how many Sifters / permanently banished Sifters could you rustle up?>> ^peggedbea:

wtf? no texas sift up???? you don't want to smoke a joint with me and choggie and listen to our beautiful coon ass poetry and eat our delicious baked goods??? also, we give amazing hugs.
we might be abrasive on the internet, but it's totally a front to how soft and cuddly we are on the inside. >> ^dag:
What the hell! Where's your dedication? Where are you at MG? I may be swinging by Austin on my travels. >> ^MarineGunrock:
. Six hours (one way) is a long drive for drinks. Maybe next time!

wtf? no texas sift up???? you don't want to smoke a joint with me and choggie and listen to our beautiful coon ass poetry and eat our delicious baked goods??? also, we give amazing hugs.
we might be abrasive on the internet, but it's totally a front to how soft and cuddly we are on the inside. >> ^dag:

What the hell! Where's your dedication? Where are you at MG? I may be swinging by Austin on my travels. >> ^MarineGunrock:
. Six hours (one way) is a long drive for drinks. Maybe next time!

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww you've melted this old coon's heart

Which is part of the story behind Colonel Sanders and the racism behind KFC.


>> ^Zifnab:

@ant, they toss fried chicken into his case. Here is some info from Wikipedia on fried chicken and it's relationship to African American stereotypes.
Since the American Civil War, traditional slave foods like fried chicken, watermelon, and chitterlings have suffered a strong association with African American stereotypes and blackface minstrelsy. This was commercialized for the first half of the 20th century by restaurants like Sambo's and Coon Chicken Inn, which selected exaggerated depictions of blacks as mascots, implying quality by their association with the stereotype. Although also being acknowledged positively as soul food today, the affinity that African American culture has for fried chicken has been considered a delicate, often pejorative issue. While the perception of fried chicken as an ethnic dish has been fading for several decades, what with the ubiquity of fried chicken dishes in the US, it persists as a racial stereotype.

>> ^Zifnab:

@ant, they toss fried chicken into his case. Here is some info from Wikipedia on fried chicken and it's relationship to African American stereotypes.
Since the American Civil War, traditional slave foods like fried chicken, watermelon, and chitterlings have suffered a strong association with African American stereotypes and blackface minstrelsy. This was commercialized for the first half of the 20th century by restaurants like Sambo's and Coon Chicken Inn, which selected exaggerated depictions of blacks as mascots, implying quality by their association with the stereotype. Although also being acknowledged positively as soul food today, the affinity that African American culture has for fried chicken has been considered a delicate, often pejorative issue. While the perception of fried chicken as an ethnic dish has been fading for several decades, what with the ubiquity of fried chicken dishes in the US, it persists as a racial stereotype.


Thanks.

@ant, they toss fried chicken into his case. Here is some info from Wikipedia on fried chicken and it's relationship to African American stereotypes.

Since the American Civil War, traditional slave foods like fried chicken, watermelon, and chitterlings have suffered a strong association with African American stereotypes and blackface minstrelsy. This was commercialized for the first half of the 20th century by restaurants like Sambo's and Coon Chicken Inn, which selected exaggerated depictions of blacks as mascots, implying quality by their association with the stereotype. Although also being acknowledged positively as soul food today, the affinity that African American culture has for fried chicken has been considered a delicate, often pejorative issue. While the perception of fried chicken as an ethnic dish has been fading for several decades, what with the ubiquity of fried chicken dishes in the US, it persists as a racial stereotype.

Why thank ye ma'am. Sweetness and kindness and beguiling too. Wonderful combination.In reply to this comment by LadyDeath:
*promote

The Coon is back in town!

LOL @ calling your own grandmother a BAM!
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Absolutely...Save for the federal regulation violation we would be apprised of when...if not some domestic terrorism statute on the books or, if not, they would invent for us.

Semper Fi (Not a former Marine but raised by one. Hell, my son is three quarters Marine and one half coon ass. One grandmother was a BAM.)
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Nevermind t-shirts. We should just start putting up prints of this over TSA signs.

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Absolutely...Save for the federal regulation violation we would be apprised of when...if not some domestic terrorism statute on the books or, if not, they would invent for us.

Semper Fi (Not a former Marine but raised by one. Hell, my son is three quarters Marine and one half coon ass. One grandmother was a BAM.)
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Nevermind t-shirts. We should just start putting up prints of this over TSA signs.

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>> ^EMPIRE:

A bit of the ultra violence heh?
Good. Especially after a glass of the good stuff at the Kurova Milk Bar. I prefer Vellocet.

I'm watching my calorie intake so I enjoy Diet Drencrom.

Maine coon's are my favorite breed.

Friends have had a 36 pound and a 32 pound coon cat. Not fat either.

"Government shall make no establishment of religion." - Chris Coons

Wow! That actually ISN'T in the 1st Amendment. The "bearded Marxist" is wrong, and the "witch" is correct.
I know some would like it to be so, but congress is not the government, and "establishment" does in no way imply a separation. A "separation" of "church" and state would prohibit Muslim lawmakers breaking for prayer 5 times a day and so possibly missing a potentially crucial vote. The "free exercise" words specifically allow for this. Would help for folks on both sides to educate themselves before expressing an uninformed opinion.

Two points of clarification here.

First, Christine O'Donnell never said the word "phrase". Had she said "the phrase 'Separation of Church and State' isn't in the Constitution" she'd have been right, but it would've been a total non sequitor, since the larger conversation was about whether public schools could legally teach creationism. To address that, you have to talk about the legal principle of Separation of Church and state, which Coons and the audience correctly note derives from the 1st amendment.

Second, this is the law of the land, according to several Supreme Court decisions, and honestly, according to even the most basic understanding of the words that make up the 1st amendment itself. Even arguments about "original intent" (which are questionable to begin with) fall flat here, since we have plenty of historical evidence that shows the framers intended that there should be a separation of church and state.

If you want to watch the longer, unedited version, you can see her asking the moderator for what the 14th, 16th, and 17th amendments did, because she didn't "have them memorized". To emphasize that, she didn't need help with the exact wording, she was at a basic loss to be able to describe in any way what those amendments did.