Chamomile Tea Party Posters

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Pub, well when they're not drunk with power they have an unquenchable thirst for it...

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Yeah, but "Republican" is actually pronounced "Rethuglican"....

[Aggie]

That has mass appeal, as well.

[Swatopluk]

In Rome the publicani were the tax farmers, i.e. the private people/companies that collected (i.e. extorted) the taxes for the state for profit. They payed the sum in advance to the state and then got their's back with interest from the taxpayers.
Privatizing the IRS would be the wet dream of GOPsters and their paymasters. In other words, they want to re-publicanize the US.

[pieces o nine]

Privatizing the IRS would be the wet dream of GOPsters and their paymasters. In other words, they want to re-publicanize the US.

Don't forget: Jesus hung out with the prostitutes and the publicans, and if it was good enough for Jesus, by God, it's good enough for God's Own Party.

[Swatopluk]

We are just not told, whether it was upper-class hetairas or low-level whores (and whether they did drugs too)

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

They do use prostitutes, but are far away from legalizing the profession or protect them in any way.
--
The Ferengi (from Star Trek) are more honest in their intentions.

[Swatopluk]

That would shift the power relations.
Btw, I was talking about the biblical ladies of negotiable affection not the GOP camp followers

[Griffin NoName]

Btw, I was talking about the biblical ladies of negotiable affection not the GOP camp followers

Yes, I was a little concerned when Zono started using the present tense

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Publicans -> whores or hetairas
Republicans -> prostitutes or escorts?

Where did I stray?

[Swatopluk]

Btw, I was talking about the biblical ladies of negotiable affection not the GOP camp followers

Yes, I was a little concerned when Zono started using the present tense

Well, we live in the End Times, don't we?

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Well, we live in the End Times, don't we?

LOL!

Indeed we do... only, it's not what the religious people think at all.

We've reached the age of information-exchange.  What that will end up doing to us as a global culture?  Remains to be seen.  But it won't be slow...

[Griffin NoName]

The million dollar question has to be: will there be enough evidence in a million million years that it was homo sapians that caused this cycle of global warming?

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

The million dollar question has to be: will there be enough evidence in a million million years that it was homo sapians that caused this cycle of global warming?

Well, even concrete only lasts a few hundred years-- a bit more, if the conditions are very dry.

So, by a thousand years post-humanity, there'll be nothing left of us to study.   What is even more ironic?  The earliest writing used stone-- the longest-lasting media.  The latest stuff?  Doesn't even use material things-- electrons "stored" in an electronic memory-bank....

... those future archeologists may conclude we never made it out of the stone age at all ...

[Swatopluk]

Roman concrete is still there after two millennia and there are wooden artifacts from the stone age that preceded the Roman age by a few years ( )
The archaeologists will hve to dig a bit but there will be enough remains of modern stuff to at least conclude that there once were stored electrons in use here. But they will be spared celebrity sex tapes which should count as a plus.
There is that hypothesis that we cannot make contact with aliens because they got our broadcasts first and concluded that they would not have anything to do with us based on the 'quality'of that.