our Fed money hard at work...

Oh, come on man... everyone knows Target and Walmart are more important and "essential" than a house of worship! It's right there in the Constitution.. wait, it'll just take me a while to find that paragraph...

Justices side with religious challenges to health limits in Colorado, New Jersey

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/530264-justices-side-with-colorado-new-jersey-church-challenge-to-health-restrictions?amp

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with religious groups in Colorado and New Jersey that sought carve-outs from their state's COVID-19 limits, the latest in a series of recent orders favoring religious challengers to health restrictions.

The court ruled 6-3 in favor of a Colorado church that sought an exemption from state health orders. The ruling broke along familiar ideological lines, with the court's six more conservative justices backing the church's bid over a dissent by the three liberals.

Justice Elena Kagan, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, argued in a dissent that the case should be considered moot because Colorado has already lifted its attendance restrictions at places of worship.

"Absent our issuing different guidance, there is no reason to think Colorado will reverse course [haha... like these idiot Democrat governors haven't changed the Cult rules half a dozen times already...] - and so no reason to think Harvest Church will again face capacity limits," Kagan wrote.

In a second case, the court sided with a New Jersey reverend and rabbi who sued over health orders put in place by Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and state officials that imposed capacity limits at places of worship. There were no noted dissents from that ruling.

In both cases, the justices ordered the lower courts to decide the disputes in line with a 5-4 ruling they issued on Thanksgiving eve in a New York lawsuit. That case saw the court bar authorities from enforcing attendance restrictions at churches and synagogues that New York had put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19.

The legal rationale behind the recent rulings is that limits on gatherings at houses of worship cannot be more restrictive than those placed on businesses that governments have deemed essential. Critics say [The Hill's way of editorializing] the recent rulings favoring religious carve-outs point to an alarming trend of the conservative justices substituting their own judgment for that of public health experts [as if the public health "experts" haven't already been wrong almost all the time].

Good thing religion doesn't teach about evolution and natural selection 

Good thing religion doesn't teach about evolution and natural selection 

you're a total douche

our Fed money hard at work...

What? You don't think lining the pockets of the good ol' boys club members with our tax money for producing virtue signaling imbecilic non-scientific bullshit is productive? They're gonna flush it down one toilet or another...

you're a total douche

That and a total moron who is uninformed about the belief systems of the various religions, many of which acknowledge evolution and natural selection.

Plus, I'd venture that one strong argument against natural selection is that dimwits like him exist, and apparently may have the capacity to pass along the low IQ genetics.

[If you guys are gonna keep responding to him I'm gonna end up seeing what I am trying so hard to avoid by "ignoring this user".]

That and a total moron who is uninformed about the belief systems of the various religions, many of which acknowledge evolution and natural selection.

Plus, I'd venture that one strong argument against natural selection is that dimwits like him exist, and apparently may have the capacity to pass along the low IQ genetics.

[If you guys are gonna keep responding to him I'm gonna end up seeing what I am trying so hard to avoid by "ignoring this user".]

Bounce right back at ya.  I just fail to see the reason why a group of people want to try so hard to go against science again and again.  This time putting themselves and their families at risk. 

Yes religion now acknowledges but it is not in any of their original teachings and their original teachings go against "science".   You can't truly believe in evolution if God created you and the whole garden of eve thing etc, same applies to most religions just using a popular example here.

you're a total douche

So are you so I stopped trying extra hard to be nice back.  Wasn't targeting you or anyone specific at all not sure why you took offense. It was a generic statement.

Safety Cult member violating his own precious "social distancing" "rules" to harass a virulent deadly dangerous unmasked woman shopper.

Video embedded in tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/1338888227277709312

From the comment thread:

"She should have pepper sprayed him then kicked him in his mangina"

Great information here Puna. Thanks for keeping this thread alive with the facts and real science.

That's not what you said.  You said, "They built the better product."  You did not say "Microsoft is good."  Suddenly, you don't think they are better?

There has never been a MS O/S that could keep up with any of the flavors of UNIX.  With the advent of Linux being open source, and Red Hat becoming a commercial version, MS has been competing as a workstation O/S and home PC platform, but servers have been running *NIX for decades.

I had to reboot all of my Windows servers at work before they'd been up for 4 days, or they were subject to freezing.  Known issue.  To have to reboot 24/7/365 operational servers is not a minor inconvenience. 

At the same time, our administrative HPUX machine had been up for 5 years without a reboot.  As long as the OS didn't need to be reinstalled, and updates could be applied by simply restarting the processes affected, it could have (could of?   ) stayed up indefinitely or until the hardware or power failed.

Windows is not "better".  It's just what people are forced to use at work or are comfortable with at home and school.  Plenty of people today are using Mac and Linux as their primary machines while running Windows in a VM for compatibility.  The REAL IT people hate MS windows, but I'm sure it's all you know how to use.

Please prove me wrong by listing all your real world operational experience with *NIX O/S systems.

I wonder if you realize that more servers that comprise "The Cloud," which you are such an expert in, are running Linux or a Linux-based virtualization (bare metal) application.

Varsity IT vs. Intermediate IT (got demoted) 

Not really get a conviction in court and you are set.   Or have majority opinion of respectable sources .   Like a consensus of scientists,  doctors,  reporters, etc.  Those are my two main ways I satisfy my truths.

All of which can be had for the right price or political affiliation.  Good to know where you stand.
 

Vehicle of a member of a subset of the Safety Cult, the Branch Covidians:

News was reporting that Caldwell wants to exclude prison covid counts from the daily covid counts because its " hindering us from moving to the next tier".

What a bunch of non sense. 
Suddenly it doesn't fit their agenda/ narrative

News was reporting that Caldwell wants to exclude prison covid counts from the daily covid counts because its " hindering us from moving to the next tier".

What a bunch of non sense. 
Suddenly it doesn't fit their agenda/ narrative

Clearly denying equality and equal rights to criminals and blatant felonist prejudice. How dare you!

Vehicle of a member of a subset of the Safety Cult, the Branch Covidians:

that made me for real LOL

Safety Cult member violating his own precious "social distancing" "rules" to harass a virulent deadly dangerous unmasked woman shopper.

Video embedded in tweet: https://twitter.com/i/status/1338888227277709312

From the comment thread:

"She should have pepper sprayed him then kicked him in his mangina"

that captures the true nature of these mask mandates - conform or else!

I really enjoyed this article, and I believe it is germane to the Safety Cult discussion. Plus, who wouldn't love the term "Hygiene Socialism"?

Tyranny During Its Reign Is Unrecognized by Its Victims

https://www.aier.org/article/tyranny-during-its-reign-is-unrecognized-by-its-victims/

How does tyranny arrive and survive?

A juvenile answer is that devilish persons somehow seize the levers of power while the nation’s people are innocently going about their business. Wearing sinister smiles and twirling the tips of their moustaches in dastardly fashion, the tyrants unilaterally impose their criminal wills upon the populace.

....

Tyrants Are Always Believed

These past and distant regimes are indeed tyrannical. Yet the popular attitude toward them is dangerously immature. Every tyrant convinces large numbers of the people under his rule that he uses force exclusively for the greater good. Tyrant wannabes who fail to convince The People of these wannabes’ noble purposes never grab the power they crave. Too few of The People submit.

Each actual tyrant points to some problem – perhaps real or perhaps fabricated yet unfailingly exaggerated – the persistence of which will inflict on his beloved People unprecedented harm. He persuades The People to obey him in his pose as a courageous and caring visionary unafraid to use whatever powers he must in order to save his People from the terrible perils that otherwise await them. And he insists that his exercise of power must be broad and bold, unchecked by legal or ethical niceties which would only prevent him from saving his flock.

Quaking in fear of these terrible perils and hopeful for the promised salvation, The People submit. Sheeplike.

that captures the true nature of these mask mandates - conform or else!

Also note in the very opening second he (the Karen mask nazi) has his mask below his nose, and then he touches it several times, contaminating it, in the course of just the few seconds of the video... what a fucking asshole.

Be aware of the one with back toward the camera

MSNBC’s Dr. Gupta: Just Because You Get Vaccinated Doesn’t Mean You Should be Traveling or That You’re Liberated From Masks

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/msnbcs-dr-gupta-just-get-vaccinated-doesnt-mean-traveling-liberated-masks-video/

It was never about a virus.

MSNBC’s Dr. Vin Gupta on Tuesday said that just because you’ve been vaccinated doesn’t mean you’re allowed to travel or walk around without a face mask on.

“There’s a source of confusion…one of the misperceptions out there is just because you get vaccinated with that second dose does not mean you should be participating in things like traveling in an out-of-control pandemic or that you’re liberated from masks,” Dr. Gupta said. “Everything applies until all of us [Seriously? What a dumb ass.] get the two dose regimen and we don’t think that’s gonna happen until June or July.” [1. Nowhere even remotely close to 100% of the population is going to get vaccinated, and 2. I'm betting people in Hawaii will be required to wear masks long after June or July. Any takers?]

“We don’t know if vaccination prevents serious illness or does it also prevent you from getting infection entirely?”

The “out-of-control pandemic” Gupta is referring to has a 99.9998% survival rate for most people.

Video embedded in tweet of MSNBC klowns: https://twitter.com/i/status/1338917618808475648

Never got a good look while moving of the solo Tesla driver driving while wearing a mask, but this would seem to fit in with that mind-set.

Vehicle of a member of a subset of the Safety Cult, the Branch Covidians: