The Omnibus Good Guys Thread
Thanos @ Tue Nov 13, 2018 5:54 pm
Save the hate for one of your hate threads, wankers. And Roseanne never apologized, at least not a sincere sorry, and never had the guts to get in the same room with Valerie Jarrett. All she did was double-down on being a shithead, MAGA-style.
Strutz @ Tue Nov 13, 2018 7:53 pm
llama66 llama66:
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Ran into a guy who had a horse trailer filled with some fifteen dogs. He was fleeing the fires and he hooked up his trailer to get his horse into it and the horse bolted and ran off. So he threw some stuff into the trailer and started making his way out of harm's way. He stopped to pick up four dogs that were faithfully sitting at the end of a driveway. Then he took a dog from someone else who was being evacuated on a bus. The bus would not take dogs. Then as more people came to the bus he took their dogs. The bus went one way and he went another.
They live in the same neighborhood so he's confident that he'll get the dogs back to their families.
No idea what happened to his horse.
They live in the same neighborhood so he's confident that he'll get the dogs back to their families.
No idea what happened to his horse.
This story makes me both happy and sad.
Me too.
I'm sure the dogs will have a good time hanging out together and waiting for the day when they can be reunited with their humans.
rickc @ Tue Nov 13, 2018 10:48 pm
Thanos Thanos:
Save the hate for one of your hate threads, wankers. And Roseanne never apologized, at least not a sincere sorry, and never had the guts to get in the same room with Valerie Jarrett. All she did was double-down on being a shithead, MAGA-style.
So pointing out facts equals hate? You just proved my point. Only the left can act like total assholes without repercussion. Roseanne made a joke on her own time, (not company time) and got fired. Davidson made his joke on the clock at work,representing the company. That is ok because he is a lefty and the person whose appearance he was mocking is a straight white man. Anyone with any sense of fairness can see it for the double standard bullshit that it is.
stratos @ Tue Nov 13, 2018 11:38 pm
come on lets keep this a positive thread. 
llama66 @ Wed Nov 14, 2018 7:37 am
Do we not literally have 5 other threads devoted to bashing either Trump, the Right or the Left? Can we fucking keep the partisan horse shit off this thread? I just want one fucking thread where people don't bitch and moan about the right, the left, Trump or Hillary. FUCK.
To make myself happy, here is an adorable kitten
DrCaleb @ Wed Nov 14, 2018 7:48 am
I see your kitten, and raise you puppies.
Puppies rescued from cliff after '4 days of whining'
llama66 @ Wed Nov 14, 2018 7:52 am
I see your puppy and raise you a kitten with an adorable pitbull (murderdog). Look how vicious the pitbull looks.
DrCaleb @ Wed Nov 14, 2018 7:56 am
Here is a pitbull, likely to be eaten by a kitten. It doesn't stand a chance.
DrCaleb @ Wed Nov 14, 2018 7:59 am
How about the forbidden love of a Donkey and an Emu?
https://www.wral.com/bond-between-donke ... /17978730/
llama66 @ Wed Nov 14, 2018 8:04 am
Llama and a Dog, Jesus, guys... get a room
DrCaleb @ Wed Nov 14, 2018 8:04 am
RCMP tackle 'border jumpers' before they can carry out their dastardly plans:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... n-refugees
bootlegga @ Wed Nov 14, 2018 9:19 am
rickc rickc:
Wait a minute now. You seem to be all for fence mending and forgiveness when some left wing douchebag like Davidson majorly crosses the line (on company time no less). No fines, no suspension, no public reprimand, no firing, no repercussions whatsoever for Davidson. Just some clowning around with the war hero who he insulted, and a forced insincere apology, and everything is back to normal for Davidson. Lets all get along right?
Thats funny because you did not seem to be nearly so conciliatory a few months back when it was someone from the right (Roseanne Barr) who had crossed a line. You were all fire and brimstone then. She HAD to be fired!!! There was no other recourse. She supports Trump, she has to be fired!!! No other punishment would do. You did not want any debate or discussion whatsoever. Never mind that she was on her own time and talking about a public figure.
We on the right are always being asked to accept a double standard. When one of ours speaks out of turn, the world is supposed to stop spinning. Every time some leftwing snowflake gets offended by something said from someone from the right, the person on the right HAS to be fired! They have to lose their job, and everything that they ever worked for. Whenever someone on the left speaks out of turn, its a "misunderstanding". We on the right are supposed to let it go. We are supposed to hold hands with the snowflakes and sing Kumbaya together. Well I am calling bullshit on the double standard.
Thats funny because you did not seem to be nearly so conciliatory a few months back when it was someone from the right (Roseanne Barr) who had crossed a line. You were all fire and brimstone then. She HAD to be fired!!! There was no other recourse. She supports Trump, she has to be fired!!! No other punishment would do. You did not want any debate or discussion whatsoever. Never mind that she was on her own time and talking about a public figure.
We on the right are always being asked to accept a double standard. When one of ours speaks out of turn, the world is supposed to stop spinning. Every time some leftwing snowflake gets offended by something said from someone from the right, the person on the right HAS to be fired! They have to lose their job, and everything that they ever worked for. Whenever someone on the left speaks out of turn, its a "misunderstanding". We on the right are supposed to let it go. We are supposed to hold hands with the snowflakes and sing Kumbaya together. Well I am calling bullshit on the double standard.
I won't speak for Thanos, but there is a very clear difference in these two cases.
Donaldson said something stupid and callous, but it wasn't racist or all that mean-spirited. Crenshaw did not ask for or even appear to want an apology, yet he got a very public and personal one from Donaldson, not some generic PR statement from a 'representative' as is usually the case. I don't agree with what Donaldson said, but at least he had the guts to own up to it.
On the other hand, Roseanne said something overtly racist and then dismissed accusations said it was a 'joke.'
https://twitter.com/therealroseanne/sta ... 8632481793
Then she blamed Ambien for her tweet. She finally apologized AFTER her show was cancelled.
PluggyRug @ Wed Nov 14, 2018 10:11 am
Don't know if llama will appreciate this..... 
llama66 @ Wed Nov 14, 2018 10:13 am
How did you get my High School yearbook photo?!
Thanos @ Tue Apr 30, 2019 12:09 pm
Good story here, a reminder that even in the face of sheer madness and runaway cruelty at the top of the food chain that basic American decency can still shine through even in the heart of Trump country:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/ ... grant.html
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On a rainy spring day in 2002, Alex Garcia jumped off the slow-moving freight train, hungry for a meal. He’d been traveling for two weeks, alternately riding on the outdoor platform at the rear of a railcar and walking alongside the tracks. He hadn’t eaten in three days.
Garcia’s journey originated in Honduras, and he first hopped a train after crossing the border in Laredo, Texas. He wandered down a road, carrying a plastic bag with an extra set of clothes. “I thought I was in Houston,” he told me. He’d planned to meet a friend there. In fact, he was in Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
Bruce Peterson, a contractor who owns several rental properties, vividly remembers the sight of a drenched, noticeably gaunt man coming up the road. He looked Hispanic, unusual in Poplar Bluff, and he looked lost. Peterson beckoned him over, out of the rain, under a metal car canopy he and a friend were dismantling. Though Garcia spoke no English, he was able to convey that he’d help the two men with the job. Peterson suggested he rest first and gave him a can of soda and an apple, which Garcia devoured. Garcia then picked up a screw gun and gestured to the top of the canopy. “Next thing I know, he was on top taking it apart,” Peterson said.
Once they were done, Peterson signaled to Garcia to get into his pickup, that they’d get something to eat. Garcia, who said he intuitively trusted Peterson, didn’t hesitate. They drove to Peterson’s in-laws, who made dinner for the young man. Afterward, Peterson gave him $50 and a bag of food, then drove him to a Mexican restaurant where he knew the manager. There Garcia consumed yet another meal.
“I’m a good judge of character,” Peterson told me. “I didn’t want to throw him to the dogs.” Peterson, a burly man with thick forearms and deep-set eyes, gets choked up talking about this moment. “Garcia changed me,” he said.
Poplar Bluff is located 130 miles south of St. Louis on the edge of the Ozarks. The town of 17,000 is neither struggling nor thriving — it’s managing. The downtown looks forlorn, with boarded-up storefronts and cobblestone streets. But the main thoroughfare has in recent years exploded with retail, including a new Starbucks, which, like it or not, often suggests that a place has a future. Most people in Poplar Bluff work in retail or farming (soybeans and rice) or at the local hospital or one of several manufacturing plants. Garcia did construction, usually for the town’s biggest developer, renovating two malls. He was by all accounts a hard worker and highly skilled. What he didn’t know how to do he would teach himself through YouTube videos, including how to bowhunt. His former co-workers speak of his kindness. One told of how Garcia would mow the lawns of elderly homeowners for free after work. “I didn’t grow up around people like him,” another said of Garcia. “But if the world had a few more people like him, the world would be a better place.”
People talk about Garcia, who is now married and the father of five, in the past tense because he no longer lives in Poplar Bluff. Facing deportation to Honduras, he has for the past 18 months been holed up in the basement of a church outside St. Louis. ICE, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has a long-standing policy of not entering places of worship. In the 1970s and ’80s, more than 500 churches gave refuge to immigrants fleeing the civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala; under Trump, an estimated 38 churches are doing the same.
In the 2016 election, 80 percent of Butler County (Poplar Bluff is the county seat) voted for Trump. That includes virtually all those who want Garcia “home” — home being Poplar Bluff, not Honduras. Garcia’s allies are an unlikely collection of mostly working-class people, the very ones who Trump insists “pay the price for mass illegal immigration — reduced jobs, lower wages, overburdened schools and hospitals, increased crime, and a depleted social safety net.” This is as much their story as Garcia’s. For some, coming into contact with the now-37-year-old Honduran immigrant has changed their view of Trump and of people who enter this country illegally. Others are still wrestling with competing loyalties: to Garcia and to a president who has denounced immigrants as rapists, murderers, and animals, and who, in recent weeks, has turned up the rhetoric even higher, declaring that “our country is full” and threatening to shut down the border.
Some five years after he left Garcia at the Mexican restaurant, Peterson threw a family party at the same place. When the group was done with dinner and margaritas and beers, the waitress told Peterson that the bill had been taken care of. Then Garcia emerged from the kitchen, where he worked as a dishwasher. Peterson did a double take — he hadn’t seen him since their first encounter. They hugged, and Garcia, who now spoke some English, thanked Peterson for his help. Telling me this story, Peterson shook his head. “The rules are the rules, but it’s just weird when you know someone. It’s just
Garcia’s journey originated in Honduras, and he first hopped a train after crossing the border in Laredo, Texas. He wandered down a road, carrying a plastic bag with an extra set of clothes. “I thought I was in Houston,” he told me. He’d planned to meet a friend there. In fact, he was in Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
Bruce Peterson, a contractor who owns several rental properties, vividly remembers the sight of a drenched, noticeably gaunt man coming up the road. He looked Hispanic, unusual in Poplar Bluff, and he looked lost. Peterson beckoned him over, out of the rain, under a metal car canopy he and a friend were dismantling. Though Garcia spoke no English, he was able to convey that he’d help the two men with the job. Peterson suggested he rest first and gave him a can of soda and an apple, which Garcia devoured. Garcia then picked up a screw gun and gestured to the top of the canopy. “Next thing I know, he was on top taking it apart,” Peterson said.
Once they were done, Peterson signaled to Garcia to get into his pickup, that they’d get something to eat. Garcia, who said he intuitively trusted Peterson, didn’t hesitate. They drove to Peterson’s in-laws, who made dinner for the young man. Afterward, Peterson gave him $50 and a bag of food, then drove him to a Mexican restaurant where he knew the manager. There Garcia consumed yet another meal.
“I’m a good judge of character,” Peterson told me. “I didn’t want to throw him to the dogs.” Peterson, a burly man with thick forearms and deep-set eyes, gets choked up talking about this moment. “Garcia changed me,” he said.
Poplar Bluff is located 130 miles south of St. Louis on the edge of the Ozarks. The town of 17,000 is neither struggling nor thriving — it’s managing. The downtown looks forlorn, with boarded-up storefronts and cobblestone streets. But the main thoroughfare has in recent years exploded with retail, including a new Starbucks, which, like it or not, often suggests that a place has a future. Most people in Poplar Bluff work in retail or farming (soybeans and rice) or at the local hospital or one of several manufacturing plants. Garcia did construction, usually for the town’s biggest developer, renovating two malls. He was by all accounts a hard worker and highly skilled. What he didn’t know how to do he would teach himself through YouTube videos, including how to bowhunt. His former co-workers speak of his kindness. One told of how Garcia would mow the lawns of elderly homeowners for free after work. “I didn’t grow up around people like him,” another said of Garcia. “But if the world had a few more people like him, the world would be a better place.”
People talk about Garcia, who is now married and the father of five, in the past tense because he no longer lives in Poplar Bluff. Facing deportation to Honduras, he has for the past 18 months been holed up in the basement of a church outside St. Louis. ICE, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has a long-standing policy of not entering places of worship. In the 1970s and ’80s, more than 500 churches gave refuge to immigrants fleeing the civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala; under Trump, an estimated 38 churches are doing the same.
In the 2016 election, 80 percent of Butler County (Poplar Bluff is the county seat) voted for Trump. That includes virtually all those who want Garcia “home” — home being Poplar Bluff, not Honduras. Garcia’s allies are an unlikely collection of mostly working-class people, the very ones who Trump insists “pay the price for mass illegal immigration — reduced jobs, lower wages, overburdened schools and hospitals, increased crime, and a depleted social safety net.” This is as much their story as Garcia’s. For some, coming into contact with the now-37-year-old Honduran immigrant has changed their view of Trump and of people who enter this country illegally. Others are still wrestling with competing loyalties: to Garcia and to a president who has denounced immigrants as rapists, murderers, and animals, and who, in recent weeks, has turned up the rhetoric even higher, declaring that “our country is full” and threatening to shut down the border.
Some five years after he left Garcia at the Mexican restaurant, Peterson threw a family party at the same place. When the group was done with dinner and margaritas and beers, the waitress told Peterson that the bill had been taken care of. Then Garcia emerged from the kitchen, where he worked as a dishwasher. Peterson did a double take — he hadn’t seen him since their first encounter. They hugged, and Garcia, who now spoke some English, thanked Peterson for his help. Telling me this story, Peterson shook his head. “The rules are the rules, but it’s just weird when you know someone. It’s just
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But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
- Leviticus 19:34
- Leviticus 19:34
