Tom Toles for April 25, 2016

Pretty accurate description of how they are going to enforce this cute little law. Either that or stand your ground.

Oooh. Very good.

“Yes, a government that wants to be privy to your “business.””As bad as the General who always wants to inspect his privates?

Even in the 19th no one held bathrooms sacred.

SMALL GOVT?!?!? Indeed.

Theocracy?" …51% of North Carolinians think the new state law, which overwrites the Charlotte Bathroom Ordinance, is a good idea. 40% say the new state law is a bad idea. Republicans, conservatives, evangelicals, pro-life voters and regular church goers are more likely to like the new state law. Democrats, liberals, pro-choice voters and those who almost never attend religious services are more likely to think the state law is a bad idea. Voters in all 4 regions of the state support the state law – especially so in greater Greensboro. … "" http://www.twcnews.com/nc/triangle-sandhills/politics/2016/04/4/exclusive-poll-majority-of-voters-approve-of-hb2—but-worry-it-hurts-state-business—-image.html"

Soiling oneself in defense of a stupid law does sound stupid. Also unsanitary, messy, and, well, stupid.

Transgenderism is a mental illness and should be treated, not indulged.That approach had a 50 year history of failure with many tragic suicides by transgendered being “treated”.

All the old Democrats are dead. When I lived there, I heard one elderly gentleman say to another, “Ah’ve bin votin’ Democratic all mah life, and Ah’m not abaout to change naow!”

Try looking it up in Wikipedia and you will find that there are real physical and mental causes for the condition. They are only a few tenths of a percent of the population and there is little evidence they preditors. Many have been treated but mother nature doesn’t always get it right. Luanaphile is right, the condition is quite serious and the suicide rate is high.

So who changed their icon to itisme? Never seen that individual post before. Donald, is that you? Or maybe Franklin Graham?

Triple homonym: peaked, peeked, piqued.

This bill would accomplish two main objectives. First, private schools, restaurants, stores and businesses are free to discriminate against gender when it comes to mother nature, and access to government bathrooms will be discriminating against transgendered citizens. Second, it says that NC will have one discriminatory policy for the entire state for keeping transgendered out of bathrooms and cities will not allow any one region to not discriminate. North Carolina should enact policies that best serves all the people of the state – not the special interests with selective morality. What Americans need now is strong political leadership to stand up to the hatred and bullying and do what is best for the American people.

TSA will be opening inspections in front of all North Carolina restrooms. You will either have to have your birth certificate and another piece of valid identification from the TSA website or undergo a full visual inspection. No peeing on the inspector..There is always the other alternative..

Of course its the religious right wing anal retentives that just had to make this into an issue.

“Ever been to a roadside rest area bathroom near a big city late at night?”Lots of times & didn’t notice a thing. Big cities have these places called "bars"that I’ve heard are much more enjoyable places to meet than public bathrooms.The only people who seem to be unaware that there are better options are Republican closet cases. Hmm…

A man takes his date to a western themed restaurant. She has to excuse herself, but comes back in a couple minutes and whispers:“Am I a steer or a heifer?”

Anyone else remember “potty parity”? Someone thought it was unfair that the womens rooms had one pot, but the mens room also had a “standup” This was unfair!So, in respone have you noted that most service stations now have just one room for everyone? That way everyone is equal!

I find it interesting that the people who claim so loudly to hate “big government” and love “personal freedom” are the very same people who demand government pass laws restricting other people’s “personal freedom”. You have to wonder why that is.

PainterArtAll religions, including atheism, which is under thee delusion they are not a religion despite being based on a faith statement with even less factual basis than any of the others. Ignorance does not prove a negative. .exturkI have often wondered about those terms. A steer is a castrated male bovine, bringing in yet another factor to cloud up this artificial issue, as well as leaving out bullocks and bulls (which, by analogy, most potential users would be). Heifers are immature female bovines, creating only slightly less numerous problems for mature females. Is North Carolina going to check these matters at the door, or outlaw steak houses? Travelers should be warned.

Sueamarlucan: The “Indian schools” were specifically run by Christian church folks to destroy Native American language, religion, and culture and “Americanize” them to be good Christians. BTW: the majority of Cherokee thrown off THEIR homeland and shipped off on the trail of tears were Christian, and well educated, better educated in fact than the Congress under Andy Jackson.

Just as Christian missionaries killed off those they couldn’t convert in Polynesia, by forcing them to dress in clothing that killed them, just as it did more than a few missionaries in those hot and humid climates.

The best place for missionaries has always been in stew pots.

So if I understand you correctly, you believe that the first woman sprung fully formed from the rib of a man, and then she spoke to a snake and ate a forbidden apple which caused her to realize she was naked, and she then gave birth to children who then mated with whom? Am I correctly or incorrectly stating your beliefs?

Excellent usage of the language.

…republicans “happened” with their “pinched uptight narrow” minds…

The right simply has an obsession with other people’s genitals: who they share them with, where they go with them, and even what kind of personality is supposed to go with them.

dtroutma Some of those wagons in the Trail of Tears were carrying the printing press and type for the “Cherokee Phoenix”, a bilingual newspaper with three columns in English and two in Cherokee (the one character, one phoneme of English takes up more space than the one character, one syllable of the Cherokee ). At that time, the Cherokee had an adult literacy rate of 90%, the “civilized” oppressor had 30% – about the Cherokee literacy rate in English.

Now we have a gadfly “Christian” from Ohio, Dave Daubenmire, getting in the face of a Target manager (who had no say in corporate policy) and asking if he "self-identified then he could use the women’s restroom.He’s the same guy who was fired as a football coach at a public high school for, among other things insisting on leading ALL team members in a pre-game prayer.He also ran, and was defeated for State BOE, believes in teaching creationism, etc.I agree with Suemarlican on this. If HE shows up, give him a swift kick as well as a poke in the eye!