Posts made by hubrys

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"In response to questions sent by The Reporter after the meeting, district spokeswoman Christine Liberaski said Monday that “All Boys Aren’t Blue” was in the Oak Park library for five months during the 2020-21 schoolyear, but was never checked out by a student.

“Through investigation of the matter, it was found that the book was ordered after being researched and recommended as reading material helpful for students struggling with identity. After review of the book in August, it was removed from circulation (not last week as incorrectly reported) at the elementary school due to it not being developmentally appropriate for that age group. It was never read by the librarian to students,” she said."

[https://www.thereporteronline.com/2021/10/26/north-penn-parents-bash-board-over-books/](link url)

So, it was in AN elementary school, never checked out by a student, and then removed from the shelves after an investigation by the school district. This is your big evidence?

@raphjd said in Oklahoma Governor Signs Law Banning Abortion From Moment of Conception:

When individual states where starting to give marriage equality and civil unions to us, the right argued that it was not legal under federal law, but the left argued that it was states' rights.

Pretty sure that they were predominantly arguing that the federal DOMA act was a violation of Equal Protection, and that states and the federal government allowing some states to refuse recognition of marriages performed in other states as a violation of the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the US Constitution (again, not a states' rights argument).

You'll have to do better than that.

@raphjd said in Gay Florida student says school stopping him from running for senior class president:

You called me an asshole and liar about that teen porn book being in Florida school libraries. Remember that?
Once I found the name of the elementary school that had it in their library, you ran away from the thread. So, using your rules, you are the asshole and liar since you have yet to admit that teen porn book was available in school libraries from K-12.

I don't even remember what you're talking about, but if you link to the discussion thread, then I'll try to make a special point of going back and reading your ramblings on the subject. If you've made cogent arguments that were responsive to the arguments I made, then I'll respond there. Frankly, I don't agree with the assertion that any book which discusses sexual events as a "porn book." By that definition, the Bible in the elementary school libraries is also a porn book.

@raphjd said in Oklahoma Governor Signs Law Banning Abortion From Moment of Conception:

What I find comical, is that during the "gay marriage" (I call it "marriage equality") argument, liberals where all about states' rights, but now they want a federal law.

What was the "states' rights" argument made by the advocates of marriage equality? I only recall marriage equality advocates attacking the federal Defense of Marriage Act on 14th/5th Amendments due process and equal protection grounds (i.e., definitely not states' rights arguments). And the marriage equality advocates leading up to the Obergefell were explicitly working against state-passed bans on same-sex marriage.

So, please remind me of the predominate states' rights arguments that you think the marriage equality movement was based on.

@raphjd said in Gay Florida student says school stopping him from running for senior class president:

So, as an "expert", why did you not include the whole thing?

So you don't understand how quoting works? Your critique of my argument is that I did not post a 20+ page SCOTUS decision; therefore, I don't understand the case.

@raphjd I seem to recall calling you a liar for posting a photoshopped photograph and refusing to acknowledge that you posted a fake photograph. Remember posting that fake photograph? Remember when you lied about it and refused to retract it?

@raphjd As an attorney that has practiced Constitutional Law, I appreciate @raphjd explaining it to me. I will inform Professor Erwin Chemerinsky that he needs to consult with you on the next edition of his Treatise.

Tinker v. Des Moines - Students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

More specifically:

In our system, state-operated schools may not be enclaves of totalitarianism. School officials do not possess absolute authority over their students. Students… are possessed of fundamental rights which the State must respect, just as they themselves must respect their obligations to the State. In our system, students may not be regarded as closed-circuit recipients of only that which the State chooses to communicate. They may not be confined to the expression of those sentiments that are officially approved. In the absence of a specific showing of constitutionally valid reasons to regulate their speech, students are entitled to freedom of expression of their views.

Let people be Cake gendered if they want.

It's just applying Deconstructionism to the word/concept of "gender," which is an artifact. Artifact in its correct usage, meaning something created by human beings.

@raphjd This is how your side's logic looks:

You've been diagnosed with terminal cancer. In response, you've Googled a bunch of stories about people impersonating doctors or practicing medicine without a license. And you've concluded that because some doctors aren't real, you don't have cancer. And not only don't you have cancer, but you're now immortal.

Biden was declared the President. In response, you've proven some amount of voting irregularities (which have always been present in all American elections). Conclusion, Biden didn't actually win the Presidency. Not only that, but also now we must declare Trump the President.

TLDR; is this post just @raphjd, again, being ironically trans-supportive, to highlight what a transphobic ass he really is?

@raphjd said in Fairfax County VA public schools to suspend students who misgender:

It forbids discussing sexual matters with kids below the 4th grade and requires schools/teachers not to keep secrets about what is being taught in class.

As an attorney that has read the entire piece of legislation as enacted, I can tell you with certainty that if you sincerely believe that your quote above adequately summarizes this law, then you have been bamboozled. Even the section you're trying to reference goes way beyond how you've tried to summarize it, and that section isn't even the major section of the piece of legislation.

Leftists suspend students for misgendering ---- "They're trying to control how we think!!!"

Florida's legislature forbidding teachers from saying "Gay" or discussing gender ------- "Nope, nothing to see here folks."

For equalities sake, I think it only fair for @raphjd to go thru Twitter right now and see some of the things that conservatives are saying about Nancy Pelosi and how they hope she dies after her COVID test came up positive.

Liberalism doesn't have a monopoly on stupid assholes.

[https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/04/trump-social-media-staff-exodus-00022706](link url)

Looks like former President and current comb-over floor model Donald Trump is having a bit of trouble getting his new social media empire off the ground. After an explosive debut (consisting mostly of people trying to join the site to mock the Circus Peanut), Truth Social has seen a 93% drop off in web traffic. Even the would-be American Fuhrer has only managed to make a single post on the supposed Twitter-killer app.

From what I've heard from folks that managed to get onto the app (there's a waitlist because the system cannot handle even a modest amount of users), the whole app is just troll bots and regurgitated content automatically reposted into the app by an RSS feed.

Looks like Truth Social might join Trump Airlines, Trump Beverages, Trump: The Game, Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Entertainment Resorts, Trump Style magazine, Trump World magazine, Trump Mortgage, Trump Steaks, GoTrump.com the travel site similar to Travelocity, Trumpnet telecommunications, Trump University, Trump Vodka, Trump Ice bottled water, etc. in the heap of failures for this sad, sorry excuse of a businessman.

I agree it's kinda douchey for him to wish Clarence Thomas death.

However, to your second point, that's an oversimplification of what happened at UVA. In all likelihood, Perkins was pressured by the FBI to recant his story (during an interrogation that they allowed the accused police officers to participate in) and threatened to continue to contact his friends, family, and his employer law firm after he graduated. Basically, they presented him with two options: (1) recant and it all goes away, or (2) we will open a civil rights violation investigation and pester everyone around you, including your employer, until we turn you into a pariah.

And the UVA intimated that it would oppose his Bar Fitness (the investigation done on all lawyers prior to them being allowed to practice after graduation) if he didn't recant.

He was tried by the school's Honor Committee in closed session, and they determined that he hadn't done anything wrong, which tells me that there was a lot of evidence that the public didn't get to see.

I don't understand why so many gays here on this site have such hatred toward trans people. It's just silly.

@bi4smooth said in US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is hospitalized:

I agree @hubrys was a little hyperbolic in his depiction of Justice Thomas believing that the US should have a religion (after all, he is an originalist) - but he certainly DOES think religion (and specifically christian beliefs) should play a larger role in US law and policy.

Justice Thomas notoriously does not believe in the Incorporation Doctrine, i.e., the judicially created legal framework that interprets the 5th and 14th Amendments as having incorporated the Bill of Rights against the states. In Thomas's judicial philosophy, the First Amendment applies only and exclusively to the Federal Government, not state governments. If Georgia wants to make Baptist its official religion, then it can do so under Thomas's interpretation of the Constitution. If Utah wants to make Mormonism its official religion, then it can do so. You can Google and read for yourself his dissent in Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow.

As an attorney that has both studied Constitutional law as well as practiced it, I have no doubts about what Thomas's judicial philosophy is. You can Google it yourself. It shouldn't be hard to find explanations. His perspective is unique amongst his fellow justices. It is why he so often concurs with the results reached by the Conservative majority, but does not agree with their reasoning.

As for believing gay should be illegal, he dissented in Lawrence v. Texas which struck down anti-gay sodomy laws (previously upheld by the SCOTUS in Bowers v. Hardwick).

I don't like him because of his stances against right to privacy, gay marriage, abortion, freedom of the press, and the separation of church and state. If Thomas had his way, then a state could not only adopt an official religion, but also make being gay a crime.

I don't wish upon him calamity, but I also don't wish good health to him.