use of translations that they say have been discredited

New International Version? It's known to be shite, where translations of some sections are distorted to fit pre-conceived fundie superstitions rather than being faithful to the original texts.

I mean, the KJV is full of errors, often due to errors in the source documents used, but at least it was translated by people who were literate.

That's not negotiating, that's extortion. And he's not even good at that.

I'm just imagining the Iranian negotiators bombarding Bowman with an incessant barrage of hockey-player trash talk, until he curls up in a ball and cries. "I've seen your mother's pussy. It's you, ya loser. Does your mouth bleed once a month?"

Then playing Plastic Bertrand in his hotel room, especially the part with "I am the king of the divan."

But as @Modern_medicine_isnt says, let's see how it plays out. My personal view is that Vance can't even fart without asking Orangeman's permission, adheres to a morally bankrupt, imbecilic ideology, and even if he were free to act, which he isn't, he's too spineless to actually decide anything.

Vance’s beard

Usha? What do you mean "glued on"?

Where I come from, son, we ranch fucks, we don't farm 'em.

They're much better free-range.

Or they'd pull a rotten arm off.

Well, Colombia's fucked.

He seems cranky. It must be about time for him to get another feelgood shot.

Sweet reason is a wonderful thing. But without those stupid power games, it doesn't matter if you have the more convincing factual argument, you'll still be marginalized.

The ancient Greeks taught logic, but they also taught rhetoric. You have to be right, and you have to be able to convince others that you're right. Two separate skills.

I certainly don't give a feck about Vance.

If Scalia's against it, it must be good.

Fellow atheist here. It's not so much the text, it's the critical thinking that you do when you read it, and the self-knowledge needed to keep yourself rational. It's the fanatics' belief in their own infallibility (the sin of Pride) that makes them such obnoxious, pushy assholes. Also their failure to engage with the fact that the source texts are a mess of copying errors, paraphrases, lacunae, interpolations, mistranslations, compounded over generations of hand-copying. Ancient and medieval document management was a dog's breakfast.

So, how is Trump getting a kickback for this?

It was always about states' rights to deprive other states of rights, especially when it came to depriving certain people of rights.

Lots of psyops besides the ones the CIA does.

Influencers are cancer. Film at 11.

All right then, in which bin should I put that unexploded Luftwaffe 500-pounder, then?

Very near my house, a few years ago, someone uncovered one of those in a brownfield site that was being redeveloped, leading to some specialists evacuating the neighbourhood and doing a controlled demolition that rattled my windows and could be heard a couple of miles away.

The odd mortar round in Newton Scabbott is small potatoes compared to that.

The problem with snap traps is that rats are clever little bastards. If there's more than one rat, the survivors quickly learn to avoid the traps if one of their peers gets its neck snapped.

I own a big old house in a place where there are rats in the woods nearby. Closing off every potential rat entry point was a time-consuming pain in the ass, but it was pretty effective once it was finished.

They want to release it a week or so before the election, then use that as an excuse for draconian voter suppression measures, leaving no time to appeal.

Someone needs to FOIA that stuff ASAP.

I thought Burnham already promised Chancellor to Shabana Mahmood.