It’s “chickenshit“. He turned away volunteers who were delivering petitions to defend Planned Parenthood, which he has promised to defund…because anti-choicers are all chickenshit.
You should read this series of comics about Planned Parenthood. It’s an unblemished good that ought to be supported by our government as a worthy service to our people.
When are they revoking the 13th Amendment?
Typical rethug response. They’re there to tell us what we
should[will] think. They don’t need/want to listen to actual people….I think that Funny or Die had a good take on the Republican evils of Planned Parenthood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8yEntVb7PM
“Nothing in the First Amendment or in this Court’s case law interpreting it suggests that the rights to speak, associate, and petition require government policymakers to listen or respond to communications of members of the public on public issues.”
Minnesota Board for Community Colleges v. Knight 1984
By the same token, that doesn’t mean that we can’t call out leaders ignoring voter views or even calling them out for cowardice for calling armed security to prevent the delivery of a petition. That is especially true when one’s right to petition is blocked by said leadership.
Now, just where did I put that pitchfork…?
The torches are ordered from Amazon.*
*Actually, I did order a new flashlight from Amazon, as my Maglite power switch is failing and I don’t want to do without a nice, bright LED flashlight.
Don’t actually own a pitchfork though, no use for one.
Perhaps, I should show up to a protest with a Maglite and dinner fork instead. ;)
Said with much greater elegance, albeit a bit more wordily by Edmond Burke about 110 years earlier. I suppose one should be grateful for the paraphrase. I don’t remember if he won the election.
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch13s7.html
flashlight == torch in Brit Speech so you are half-way there but ignition may be a problem. You may want to see if you have any wooden sticks, parafin or beeswax, tar, old cloths or whatever lying around.
Pitchforks are quite versatile implements; no household should be without one.
They can be used to fend off medium to relatively large rodents, pin snakes to the ground for disposal and in a pinch can be used to pin down a dog (apply tines on either side of dog’s neck–not through neck) when removing porcupine quills from dog’s nose.
I believe I even have a rather horrible memory that they can be used to do something with hay, straw and grain.
Indeed, avoidance of that horrible memory is why I’ll do without that tool.
I’ll have to acquire some beeswax soon, I have some furniture that I want to refinish and a beeswax/mineral oil mixture is perfect for a finishing sealant. I think I’ll avoid trying to ignite my Maglite, it’d be a dreadful waste of a high quality light and it does have a lifetime warranty.
It’d also tend to drive animals back, due to the intensity of the beam (around 624 lux, as I recall). Our other bright LED flashlight is a Rayovac unit that pushes 900+ lux.
Just about bright enough to consider sunscreen. ;)
Aging eyes prefer greater illumination, although I’m hoping to retrieve some low light vision again on Tuesday.
Posterior lens capsule opacification behaves very, very like a cataract, but is easily treated with a blast from a YAG laser.
I’ve been replacing the CFL lamps around the house with LED based units, they draw around 4 watts less power and they’re quite bright (I picked up a box of 8 LED lamps for $15.00 at the local home improvement center (5000 K, 840 lumen light bulbs), much to my wife’s delight. Three nine watt bulbs in the ceiling fan light the dining room equally with that of a bright new 80 watt fluorescent fixture!
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Those are not saying the same thing. Unless there is broader context missing, that quote from Minnesota Board for Community Colleges v. Knight says that it is okay for representatives to ignore constituents. Burke specifically says “To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men; that of constituents is a weighty and respectable opinion, which a representative ought always to rejoice to hear; and which he ought always most seriously to consider. ” Burke’s point is that a representative’s duty to the common good outweighs local desires.
My youngest has moved to Madison, WI with plans to go to graduate school there. They are presently establishing residency while figuring out if they can live where the temps goes into negative degrees in Fahrenheit. I sent them the Teen Vogue article with a plea to write their congress critters, and to add the representative south of their district (Paul Ryan). They are very cognizant of female and LGBTQ issues.
I just wrote my congress critters about the Affordable Care Act because it has bits that directly affect another child who is disabled (which I now need to deal with, since their are being removed from our state’s Medicaid Apple Health, because they now have SSI benefits. We were only informed by a deposit into their checking account… and a notice from Apple Health on their website dated on Friday (checking once a week is golden). Tomorrow my schedule includes going to the local Social Security office to deliver the statements for his Special Needs Trust account, and ask if we need to provide each week (it does not accrue interest, it actually does not become pertinent until we, the parents, both die), and what do we do since their surprise deposit boosted their assets to more than the max of $2000… a number that has not changed in over fifty years.
I “love” going to my local SSA office. While the folks are very friendly, including the guy who inspects the bags on those that enter, it still includes a big chuck of time. At least I just checked out three good books from the library, I plan to start reading Trevor Noah’s autobiography Born a Crime.
Correction: “(which I now need to deal with, since they are being removed from our state’s Medicaid Apple Health, because they now have SSI benefits.”
Ignore the bad parentheses use. I am also older and trying to work with learning how to deal with children’s neutral gender grammar both for privacy issues and at their request. So typos will happen.