Virginia GOP lawmaker withdraws support for own bill that too many Democrats support

As a counter-protest against Democrat-supported efforts to accommodate cities' removal of Confederate statues from public property in the state of Virginia, Republican lawmaker Wendell Walker submitted a bill calling for the removal from the capitol grounds of a statue of historical Virginia state governor and senator, and at-the-time Democratic Party leader, Harry Byrd.

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With all of the talk about taking down statues, Walker decided to file his bill about Byrd. He acknowledged it was more tit-for-tat rather than about a statue memorializing Byrd, who is well-known for his painful role in Virginia’s history. Byrd is considered the architect of Massive Resistance, a set of policies that aggressively pushed back against racial integration of public schools following the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. “If we’re going to do this, then I’m going to request to remove the Harry Byrd statue,” Walker said. “He was a Democrat and advocated for Massive Resistance.”

Although it was clear Walker had (somehow) intended the bill to be as objectionable or offensive to state legislature Democrats as the removal of Confederate icons had been and continues to be to Republicans, the stunt failed when Democrats actually widely supported the bill and announced intentions to vote for it, leading Walker to quickly push to remove his own bill from consideration, a move which was then rejected by the Rules Committee. Although the bill has been temporarily tabled, on an upcoming date Walker is now going to have to make a case before the committee for why the bill should be withdrawn.

Moderate conservative group slams Martha McSally in new ad

The Lincoln Project is an organization of moderate Republicans aiming primarily to turn their party away from their support of Donald Trump. It is lead by prominent Trump opponents and moderate conservatives like George Conway, Rick Wilson, and Steve Schmidt.

Here's one of their ads from last week attacking Martha McSally (R-AZ). I think it hits pretty hard.

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It's a shame someone as respected as McSally became a total Trump chump.
I hope Mark Kelly replaces her!

Democratic caucuses and primaries

The voting for Democratic nominee officially kicks off tonight in Iowa, and I'd like to have a thread in which we try to game out how it all shakes out on one side of the aisle, preferably in quantifiable terms.

Personally I think Bernie is going to finish very strong tonight, probably taking the plurality of the initial vote and perhaps state delegate equivalents awarded as well. I'll be surprised if Biden isn't right behind him. I'd love to be surprised by an Elizabeth Warren surge or a fabled Amy KlobuCHARGE, but that's not in the cards. :(

Your spouse in Heaven

Many Christians (and, I presume, believers of other religions) believe or hope that they will somehow get reunited in Heaven with their family and other loved ones after they die and get the thumbs-up by their god.

I have often wondered how they will recognize each other. Will they meet the child person, adult person, or perhaps the demented old-age person?

Today, another question popped into my otherwise unoccupied mind:
When your spouse dies and you then marry someone else (and perhaps your new spouse also dies and you marry a third time...), and when you all have died and made it to Heaven, will you have two (or three or more) spouses then? Isn't that polygamy?

What does practical theology suggest here?
What do the common religious folks think?
What about girl friends or boy friends who died before they could get properly married?

A suspicion creeps upon me that says that the believers haven't thought this all quite through, or perhaps the thought of being 100% preoccupied with praising god and not having any time or concern for private time with your risen loved ones is appealing to them...

How much does it cost to check your privileges? For white women it's 2500$

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Freshly made pasta is drying on the wooden bannisters lining the hall of a beautiful home in Denver, Colorado. Fox-hunting photos decorate the walls in a room full of books. A fire is burning. And downstairs, a group of liberal white women have gathered around a long wooden table to admit how racist they are. “Recently, I have been driving around, seeing a black person, and having an assumption that they are up to no good,” says Alison Gubser. “Immediately after I am like, that’s no good! This is a human, just doing their thing. Why do I think that?” This is*Race to Dinner. A white woman volunteers to host a dinner in her home for seven other white women – often strangers, perhaps acquaintances. (Each dinner costs $2,500, which can be covered by a generous host or divided among guests.) A frank discussion is led by co-founders Regina Jackson, who is black, and Saira Rao, who identifies as Indian American. They started Race to Dinner to challenge liberal white women to accept their racism, however subconscious. “If you did this in a conference room, they’d leave,” Rao says. “But wealthy white women have been taught never to leave the dinner table.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...y-racism-women

Proper ladylike ladies know not to leave the dinner table until it's time take away the dishes...

SGU forum MIA?

Since about midday yesterday I get the following message when I attempt to log into the SGU website:

“Table 'sguforum_sgutalk.smf_messages' doesn't exist”

I’m just typing “https://sguforums.com/” into the address bar.

Anyone have insight as to what’s going on?

Mick Jagger the Child Rapist

Mick Jagger seduced me when I was 15: Actress Rae Dawn Chong reveals how she spent night with Rolling Stone when she was underage and he was married to Bianca

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Originally Posted by Daily Mail As she opened the front door, she instantly recognised the swaggering figure before her with his tousled hair and 'rock star grin'. 'You're cute,' said legendary Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger – to which she cheekily replied: 'You're cuter.' It was the moment the 33-year-old rock idol met 15-year-old budding actress Rae Dawn Chong, who last night sensationally revealed she and Sir Mick had a two-day fling in 1977 while he was still married to first wife Bianca. Rae Dawn, best-known for her role in the 1985 action film Commando, met the womanising rocker during a trip to New York. After their brief introduction, he whisked her to a recording studio before the pair spent the night together. In an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday last night, Rae Dawn, now a thrice-divorced, 58-year-old grandmother, said: 'He never asked me how old I was and I never told him. It never came up. I remember thinking he was really cute. He had tousled hair. I thought, 'Oh man, he is beautiful.' 'He said, 'What are you doing right now?' I said, 'Nothing really.' 'He grabbed my hand and we jumped in his limo and went straight to a recording studio. The Stones were there, I was in the background. I remember being in there for hours and hours. 'Then I slept over at his apartment. I knew what I was doing. I was experimenting with Mick. I was having fun.' Rae Dawn, who says Jagger did not know her age, recalls waking to find Jagger's bandmate Keith Richards staring at the pair... ...Sitting down with The Mail on Sunday last night in a hotel overlooking the bright light's of LA's infamous Sunset Strip, the B-list actress insisted Jagger should not be vilified because their fling took place 'in a different era' to today's #MeToo culture. She says she is only speaking out to 'own' the story after accidentally blurting out during a podcast that she had sex with Jagger when she was two years under the age of consent. The podcast is due to air today. Speaking on tape to showbiz 'bible' The Hollywood Reporter, she was asked how she landed the Commando role: 'I got it because I'd been in a Jagger video and then they asked me how I knew Mick and before I knew it I'd blurted out that I'd had sex with him when I was 15. It just slipped out. 'I feel incredibly bad about it. It's me and my big mouth. My family and friends knew about it but it's not something I have ever dined out on.' Last night, Sir Mick declined to comment... ...She says that her own family will be 'disgusted' by her decision to go public and believes Jagger himself will be angry and devastated: 'He's probably going to lose his **** because I was a minor. He's going to be so mad at me.'... ...'Mick was very beautiful, very shy, very self-absorbed,' she recalls. 'He had great lips, he was a great kisser. He wasn't that much older than me in my brain. He was 33 and young and gorgeous with a nice body. It wasn't a bad thing, it was fabulous. Totally rock 'n' roll. He didn't make me do anything I didn't want to do, but he was very vain, always looking in the mirror.' The age of consent at the time was 17, but Sir Mick cannot face criminal charges as the statute of limitations for reporting second-degree rape is 20 years – not that Rae Dawn would ever want him to be prosecuted... ...'He did nothing wrong. He didn't make me do anything I didn't want to do,' she said. 'It was the 1970s, a different era. I wasn't a victim. 'I don't want him to get into trouble about this. It wasn't traumatising. I knew what I was doing. I wasn't an innocent schoolgirl. I always acted a lot older than I was. I was a grown-up at 15. At 15, I was definitely a Lolita,' she said. 'I knew I had the power to pick and chose whatever man I wanted. I was keen to have every experience I could. Mick was part of that.'...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-married.html

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