Guns, race, religion, terror, wingnut thread

[bannination]

I think they're actually blocking people from linking to their images.

I was going to take the image and upload to imgur, but it's blocked there too.

https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/pics/do ... elFlag.jpg

[O Really]

It looks fine to me. In my post. Anyway, it's just a house with a confederate flag in the front. But in upstate NY along the Canal.

[Vrede too]

That's funny, I could see it in my post at first but not now. I can also copy the link to a new window and see it.

[rstrong]

That's funny, I could see it in my post at first but not now. I can also copy the link to a new window and see it.

When you load a web page, the browser sends HTTP requests for any images to the servers where they reside. And just like clicking on a link, that request includes the URL of the page .

You can set a web server to refuse requests for images when the referrer in the request isn't on the same server. This stops other sites from stealing your bandwidth by using your images in their pages.

Like you, I just copied the link to a new browser window and was able to view the image - because now the request didn't include a referring page. After refreshing the forum page it shows up, because now the image is in the browser cache.

[Vrede too]

Ah, there it is.

[rstrong]

Kentucky Republican state Senator: the First Amendment protects my right to receive bribes

Taking Citizens United a step further, Republican Kentucky state Sen. John Schickel is suing to overturn the state's ethics laws. He claims that the campaign contribution limit of $1,000 and a ban on gifts from lobbyists violates his 1st and 14th Amendment rights.

"Kentucky’s ethics laws were passed in 1992 after an FBI investigation exposed a number of local politicians selling their votes."

[O Really]

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/ ... mandering/

At the Republican Party of Florida’s recent quarterly meeting, Rep. Janet Adkins (R-FL) suggested that the secret to unseating Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL) is prison gerrymandering — the practice of packing prisons into a congressional district to boost the population without boosting the voting power.
First, Adkins attempted to make sure her comments would not be published, saying: “Let me give you inside ball game. Are there any reporters in here? Any reporters? OK. So, inside ball game.”
She continued: “You draw [Brown’s seat] in such a fashion so perhaps, a majority, or maybe not a majority, but a number of them will live in the prisons, thereby not being able to vote,” she said.

[Vrede too]

It's not just votes. A host of subsidies and grants are dependent on a locale's population. I've heard the argument made that prisoners should be counted as living where they did before getting busted for voting district and other purposes, not sure if anywhere does that.

[O Really]

It's not just votes. A host of subsidies and grants are dependent on a locale's population. I've heard the argument made that prisoners should be counted as living where they did before getting busted for voting district and other purposes, not sure if anywhere does that.

Why count them at all for any of those purposes? They can't vote, don't pay taxes, don't (voluntarily) use resources, other than being a cost.

My guess is that it would be difficult for say, Tampa, to keep up with people who no longer really live there but are house guests in Starke. I'm sure something could be done, but I doubt anybody finds it a priority.

[Vrede too]

It's not a matter of a locale keeping up with individuals. It's that the Census mandates that every American be counted as living somewhere and that so much depends on those Census results. With prisoners it's just a matter of what gets put in the "residence" box. If the prison, it means that prison locales have arguably inordinate power in many ways, wielded by non-prisoner, typically pro-prison citizens and their pols. That affects all of us, but it especially disadvantages the poor communities where most prisoners come from. That's how the argument goes, I don't know enough about it to understand all the comparative implications.

[Vrede too]

Confederate Flag Supporters Charged With Terrorism After Storming Black Child's Birthday Party

[Boatrocker]

Confederate Flag Supporters Charged With Terrorism After Storming Black Child's Birthday Party

Classy bunch, ain't they? Glad it was another "baptist shithole in deepest, dumbest, backwater Georgia," rather than Alabama, for a change.
Makes you proud to be a Southerner, don't it?

[Vrede too]

No, but it is pretty cool that "the Douglasville Police Department and the Douglas County District Attorney's Office initiated an investigation into the incident" in this "baptist shithole in deepest, dumbest, backwater Georgia," and these serious charges are the result. There is hope, but we'll see if there are convictions.

[Boatrocker]

Indeed. Maybe even Georgia has a threshold of embarrassment. We shall see.

[Boatrocker]

Mississippi Dude Worries Removing Confederate Flag Is Bad For The Jews

Mississippi, on the other hand . . . I guess you have to understand some quantum peculiarities of the South; time and dimension work differently down here. You'll find rural pockets- some of them pretty large- down here where time slows waaaaaaay down, even though some anachronisms from our reality sneak in at the edges. Much of south Alabama, for example (where I went to school) is still existing in a weird sorta alternate timeline. Think of it as 1968, but with cell phones

[Vrede too]

If they’re offended I question their motivations because the blue in the Confederate battle flag represents St. Andrew who was an apostle of Jesus Christ and he was Jewish and makes me wonder if they’re anti-Semitic.

[rstrong]

If they’re offended I question their motivations because the blue in the Confederate battle flag represents St. Andrew who was an apostle of Jesus Christ and he was Jewish and makes me wonder if they’re anti-Semitic.

[JTA]

If they’re offended I question their motivations because the blue in the Confederate battle flag represents St. Andrew who was an apostle of Jesus Christ and he was Jewish and makes me wonder if they’re anti-Semitic.

Why is it all these dumbfuck rednecks have a certain look to them? I see it around here in SC. These people all have this weird retarded look to them, like that dude in that picture. I can't quite explain it but I see it. For real.

[Vrede too]

Why is it all these dumbfuck rednecks ... look ... retarded?

Ummm . . .

[Boatrocker]

If they’re offended I question their motivations because the blue in the Confederate battle flag represents St. Andrew who was an apostle of Jesus Christ and he was Jewish and makes me wonder if they’re anti-Semitic.

I wonder who fed him that line. I also wonder if he asked what "anti-Semitic" means.