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SCOTUS Day open thread!

Celebrate your lifeydoodleness!  Or curse the Man!  And his greedy capitalist cabal!

Isn’t it great to live in a country where we know that, a couple times a year, one freaking Justice can, oftentimes with nothing more than obvious sophistry, essentially tell 300 million people how they have to live?  Just like the Framers intended?

God Bless America!

42 Replies to “SCOTUS Day open thread!”

  1. DarthLevin says:

    As I understand it from my Twitter feed, today SCOTUS required all women to submit to their husbands, and lacking said husband were to be interred in rape farms with no recourse to healthcare of any kind.

    That, and they banned all organized labor, decreed the 5-day work week a Pomp of the Devil, and required each 12-hour work day begin with the Pledge of Allegiance followed by forced baptisms and branding with Leviticus 18:22

  2. Jeff G. says:

    That seems rather harsh. I mean, the Pledge of Allegiance? That’s written by a socialist. And Ecclesiastes is so much more 60s-esque.

  3. George Orwell says:

    Proggs declare this the worst decision since Dred Scott. Worse, in fact.

  4. Parker says:

    However, you are allowed to make contraceptives as a craft project, as long as the supplies come from the Hobby Lobby.

    Possibly my copy of the decision PDF had some corruption, but I’m pretty sure that was the gist…

  5. Parker says:

    One caution – glitter can cause problematic chafing.

    The more you know!

  6. Blake says:

    I’m quite sure the Progs will be clamoring for Obama to ignore the law with his pen and phone.

  7. Blake says:

    “ignore the ruling” I mean.

  8. George Orwell says:

    How does any of this address the rampant rape culture at Hobby Lobby?

    I found hotbeds of rape culture in my broom closet, my glove compartment, and my refrigerator. I don’t know how Dick Cheney managed this.

  9. Blake says:

    Obamacare is an unmitigated disaster and somehow this ruling is a problem?

    The left is truly insane.

  10. Physics Geek says:

    I thought the ruling required women to become impregnated and give birth in the glitter aisle at the closest Hobby Lobby. I might have misread the ruling, but I have it on good authority from the Lover of Truth ™ on the left.

  11. Drumwaster says:

    Proggs declare this the worst decision since Dred Scott. Worse, in fact.

    LAW OF THE LAND! (Exeunt Omnes, laughing)

  12. leigh says:

    Facebook, by way of Politico commentators, has deemed this decision to be the first step toward an American Christian Taliban.

    Burqas, hijabs and loss of driving privileges are up next because that’s the way Christians roll.

  13. Dana says:

    Planned Parenthood estimated that birth control costs between $15 and $50 a month; most of that are in cash transactions. If it has to be covered with a no-copay insurance plan, the costs of pharmacies checking insurance cards and billing insurance companies, and insurance companies paying the pharmacies — along with a payment lag time — then he costs of birth control have to increase, because all of those things cost money.

  14. sdferr says:

    A decent theocracy would see to it five J. Ginsburg clones be appointed to fill the seats currently held by those conservative male devils, whereupon the nation could delight in a confident satisfaction with unanimous 9-0 decisions ever after. Who will keep us from our perfection?

  15. George Orwell says:

    List of things to do today
    1. Buy glitter and scrap booking stuff at Hobby Lobby
    2. Have lunch at Chik-Fil-A
    3. Lynch a random homosexual
    4. Laundry

  16. McGehee says:

    the costs of pharmacies checking insurance cards and billing insurance companies, and insurance companies paying the pharmacies — along with a payment lag time — then he costs of birth control have to increase, because all of those things cost money.

    It’s okay if all those things cost money, because it’s all coming out of Scrooge McKoch Brothers’ money bin.

  17. Dana says:

    I can see why some corporations might want to have contraception covered: fewer pregnancies amongst their employees and employees’ wives means lower expenses for maternity coverage, and fewer days missed due to maternity leave and child care problems; such insurance could help productivity. And if they want to include that in their insurance plans, they are perfectly free to do so.

    What the left want is to force everybody to comply; they are the borg.

  18. Dana says:

    Mr McGehee wrote:

    It’s okay if all those things cost money, because it’s all coming out of Scrooge McKoch Brothers’ money bin.

    Well, maybe, but not quite yet.

  19. George Orwell says:

    So does this mean Hobby Lobby doesn’t have to pay for the Pill if a she-male employee needs it?

    H8Rs!!

  20. George Orwell says:

    Spiffy Keen @SpiffyKeen
    Follow
    FUCK THE SUPREME COURT! FUCK HOBBY LOBBY!
    7:29 AM – 30 Jun 2014

    With a handle like “Spiffy Keen,” you would only expect the pithiest of bons mots.

  21. bgbear says:

    I am surprised “spiffy” didn’t want to “f” the Catholics on the Supreme Court.

  22. Jeff G. says:

    Hobby lobby provided contraceptives. It didn’t provide abortifacients.

    Let’s not let the left conflate the two.

    Lib lady: “Thanks for the free contraceptives. But I went and got knocked up anyway because I forgot to bring them with me to Starbucks that one day, then met some guy at a club and, well, you know. Which, that’s just wrong. I mean, I barely even know him!”

    Hobby Lobby: “Uh, sorry…?”

    Lib lady: “Thanks. Now pay me to kill this stupid thing, would you? Or else I’m going to have to scream rape.”

  23. McGehee says:

    What, doesn’t everyone to the right of Harry Reid get Koch payola?

  24. George Orwell says:

    It seems the more cute and fluffy the handle a proggtard uses, the more spiteful and ugly he* is.

    *insert alternative pronoun as needed, i.e. Ne, Ze, spivak, etc.

    I’m serious.
    http://genderneutralpronoun.wordpress.com/tag/lgbt/

  25. George Orwell says:

    Hobby lobby provided contraceptives. It didn’t provide abortifacients.

    True. However, a proggtard called in to Dennis Prager with a novel theory. HL is “hypocritical” because while they don’t want to pay for abortifacients, he declared women working at HL are routinely exposed to abortifacients in the workplace as part of their job.

    Which made me wonder why HL needed to provide them in the first place. Then my head started hurting.

  26. RI Red says:

    George, your “to-do” list missed “buy ammo”.

  27. Eingang Ausfahrt says:

    The Supreme Constitutional Lawyer of the land chimes in:

    JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE: Well, as the constitutional lawyer who sits in the Oval Office would tell you is, he would read the entire decision before he passed judgment in terms of his own legal analysis. insert laughter hereWhat we have been able to assess so far … is that there is a problem that has been exposed, which is that there are now a group of women of an indeterminate size who no longer have access to free contraceptive coverage simply because of some religious views held, not by them necessarily, but by their bosses… We disagree and the constitutional lawyer in the Oval Office disagrees with that conclusion from the Supreme Court.insert more laughter

  28. sdferr says:

    None of the dutiful press that I’ve heard or seen makes the careful articulation between abortifacients and contraception, always and only saying “contraception” while using some circuitous euphemism to alluded to while avoiding saying the former. Can’t be done, y’see. It’s all the propaganda, all the time.

  29. I Callahan says:

    DarthLevin – comment of the day, and you win the internets!

  30. leigh says:

    Other than in passing, none of the press has mentioned that Hobby Lobby and Conestoga are both closely held corporations. The implication being that this ruling, rather than being very narrow, is slamming the door on employer health coverage from GE to GM and everything in between.

    It’s the same stupidity that leads morons like Shep Smith to crow about grossly inflated stock market numbers rather than referring to the Volatility Index’s alarming climb into self-destruct.

  31. bgbear says:

    I assume the left (at least those that are trying) is making a “slippery slope” arguments that maybe not HL but, some even more conservative business can choose not to cover any birth control.

    Actually, I don’t care about the difference between a contraceptive and an abortifacient. Not paying for something is not the same as preventing.

  32. DarthLevin says:

    George, your “to-do” list missed “buy ammo”.

    Fuck that noise, RI Red. My employer better damn well pay for all the .45ACP I want, or I’ll SUE! It’s in the Constitution!

  33. Dana says:

    Mr Levin wrote:

    My employer better damn well pay for all the .45ACP I want, or I’ll SUE! It’s in the Constitution!

    Uhhh, only if your employer is not a closely-held family corporation. GE, yes; Hobby Lobby, no.

  34. McGehee says:

    Yeah, I think that’s been mentioned.

  35. dicentra says:

    today SCOTUS required all women to submit to their husbands

    Does it also require husbands to sacrifice themselves for their families the way Christ sacrificed himself for the church?

    Thought not.

  36. dicentra says:

    Obamacare is an unmitigated disaster and somehow this ruling is a problem?

    The left is truly insane.

    Obamacare = egregious power grab
    SCOTUS ruling = pries a skosh of power from their greedy little fists

    So no, they’re being 100% consistent.

  37. palaeomerus says:

    Megan Kelly got the Suffragette “here’s David Bowie’s forehead” City hairstyle only in a bad “skip the roots” bleach blonde, with rigid frosted sides.

    So it’s sort of a faux-scandi version of the ‘mid 80’s a little new wave/japan but not too far please” do…

    I guess she wants her bangs protecting the top of her head.

  38. palaeomerus says:

    “How does any of this address the rampant rape culture at Hobby Lobby?”

    I bought a plastic intermediate difficulty model of a WW2 US army truck at Hobby Lobby once, and I wanted it to be 1/48 but when I opened the box it was a 1/35. It was exactly like being raped.

    And I don’t even want to talk about the time :TRIGGER WARNING!: I bought a low-end corded Dremel kit and it didn’t come with all the tool heads I would have wanted, expecting me to buy them separately.

    #YesAllDisappointedHobbyStoreCustomers

  39. leigh says:

    Her hair is styled like Elizabeth Montgomery’s in “Bewitched.”

    I don’t like it.

  40. DarthLevin says:

    today SCOTUS required all women to submit to their husbands
    Does it also require husbands to sacrifice themselves for their families the way Christ sacrificed himself for the church?

    Proggtard understanding of the godbuk doesn’t extend to 1) reading the whole passage or b) understanding what was intended. Not surprisingly, the same applies to their understanding of SCOTUS rulings.

  41. RI Red says:

    Megan Kelly has a hair style? I must have overlooked it.

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