vxbush 1/25/2023 6:12:31 AM

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Who forms their eggs into a cone like that? I've never seen anything like it. 

Would any Catholic priest worth his salt be willing to go to Nancy Pelosi's house and do an exorcism? Wouldn't that be breaking some rule about fraternization, given that she isn't supposed to be able to get communion? I'm not Catholic, so I don't quite understand how the rules work in this case. 

CyberSimian 1/25/2023 6:19:05 AM

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In #1 vxbush said: Who forms their eggs into a cone like that? I've never seen anything like it.

Would any Catholic priest worth his salt…

…be willing to go to Nancy Pelosi's house and do an exorcism?

vxbush 1/25/2023 6:28:13 AM

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In #2 CyberSimian said: It didn’t work. She’s still there.

Good point. 

Occasional Reader 1/25/2023 6:40:53 AM

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In #1 vxbush said: Wouldn't that be breaking some rule about fraternization, given that she isn't supposed to be able to get communion?

AFAIK, the San Fran archbishop has banned Pelosi from receiving communion in his district (because of her support for abortion), but that's it.  It's not that she's excommunicated from the church, or anything like that.

This story is deeply weird (if true); calling for an exorcism to banish evil spirits, because of her her husband's rentboy quarrel (or whatever it was)?  If she were a Republican, this would be top of the hour news, with the mockery, relentless.  

CyberSimian 1/25/2023 7:16:51 AM

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In #4 Occasional Reader said: If she were a Republican, this would be top of the hour news, with the mockery, relentless.  

If she were a Republican, she would have been mocked out of office years ago.

JCM 1/25/2023 7:45:23 AM

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Seattle couple explains why they're building a home in the median of I-5 on-ramp

Not a tent mansion.

Not a cardboard fort.

Not a packing crate.

buzzsawmonkey 1/25/2023 8:02:36 AM

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Reply to JCM in 6:

It's a Seattle-ment!

Occasional Reader 1/25/2023 8:24:42 AM

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Reply to JCM in 6:

Affordable housing!  Yay!

JCM 1/25/2023 8:38:18 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 7: Reply to Occasional Reader in 8:

You would think the time and effort put into that they could hold down a job.

buzzsawmonkey 1/25/2023 8:47:06 AM

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In #9 JCM said: You would think the time and effort put into that they could hold down a job.

Possibly.  But consider---if there is no place where they can get clean (who wants to hire someone who's filthy and stinking?), and they have no fixed address, getting a job is a difficult proposition.  

Some time ago, I suggested that what "the homeless" who actually are capable of attempting to overcome their condition really need is not "shelters," but a revival of public baths---with the addition of mailboxes and lockers.  If someone can get physically clean, has an "address" in the form of a mailbox, and a locker where they can store their few possessions securely, they will be much more able to get a job than someone who's walking around reeking, caked with grime, and trundling their possessions behind them.  

There are, admittedly, many security problems that would need to be addressed when running such a facility.  But similar security issues exist in the "shelters" which manifestly do not work.  

JCM 1/25/2023 8:56:51 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 10:

Three missions downtown provide lockers, bathing facilities, basic cell phone, mailing address. Most of the homeless don't use the missions because they have "rules".

City provides a couple of places like that manifestly without the rules, and those the homeless avoid because of the anarchy in the that you mention.

Given the direct and indirect costs of homelessness, I think the most cost effective approach would be involuntary treatment get them stable, then transitional housing. For those that don't have mental and or drug issue, and choose to be homeless, the incarceration.

lucius septimius 1/25/2023 9:15:33 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 7:

I'm soooo stealing that.

buzzsawmonkey 1/25/2023 9:19:44 AM

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vxbush 1/25/2023 11:05:02 AM

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Oh, the Irony: Penn Biden ‘Think Tank’ Reportedly ‘Inactive’ and ‘Seemingly Leaderless’

Who could have expected this? 

/so much sarc

Occasional Reader 1/25/2023 11:07:42 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 14:

"Biden Think Tank"... the jokes just write themselves. 

Kosh's Shadow 1/25/2023 4:42:58 PM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

I like the Babylon Bee's take on it:

After Priest Exorcises All Demons From Her Home, Pelosi Becomes A Republican