“…both have their advantages, ‘heaven for climate, hell for company’…” – Mark Twain’s Notebooks and Journals, vol. 3
Meta. On occasion we get comments which our system holds for approval. At times, when we’re particularly bored, we’ll take a comment that we wouldn’t normally remove from moderation and post it separately to mock it.
Today:
The thing is, is people want to go to hell then that’s their choice! Religion isn’t forced upon anyone! But christians are forces to deal with lots and lots they shouldn’t have to because non Christians rights appear more important! The Bible commands Christians to walk about the land spreading the Word! Telling the Good News!! So we do! Not our fault you’d rather not go to heaven!
We rest our case.
You’re not a particularly convincing representative. We want to be wherever you’re not.
– Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s (r) anti-mask public school complaint email address: illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov
On December 9, 2021 we asked the office of Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (r) via a RSMo § 610 (Missouri Sunshine Law) request for the submitted contents of the illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov email address set up by the Attorney General to solicit complaints about mask wearing in Missouri public schools.
Our original request:
[….] Under RSMo § 610 I am requesting the following from your office:
All emails and attachments submitted to the email address – illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov [….]
The response from the office of Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (r), on December 14, 2021:
[….] Due to the dates and the volume of records to be searched, the earliest we expect responsive records, if any, to be available is December 23, 2021. In the event they are available earlier, we will provide them as soon as they are available. [….]
We gave it another week. Yesterday, we asked for an update:
December 9, 2021 – Missouri Sunshine Law Request
Michael Bersin [….] Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 1:25 PM
To: [….]@ago.mo.gov
[….]
This is to inquire about the status of my Missouri Sunshine Law Request submitted to your office on December 9, 2021. Please advise.
Michael Bersin
[….]
We’re still waiting.
Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].
So far the absence of alacrity from the office of Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (r) to our RSMo § 610 (Missouri Sunshine Law) request is…disturbing.
“…in over an hour standing at the entrance with a camera and a 400 mm lens to help me keep my distance I counted only four individuals, including me, out of the many attending who were wearing masks.
Attorney General Eric Schmitt @AGEricSchmitt
ICYMI: We’ve received more than 7,500 emails from concerned parents. We’ve sent 52 cease and desist letters to school districts. We will continue to fight these mask mandates and quarantine orders and enforce the law.
[….] 3:53 PM · Dec 17, 2021
Don’t be fooled by the zealot. #MaskUpMO #COVID19
[….]
How many emails did you receive telling you to stop trying to endanger our children
We’ve been wondering about that, too.
Not the law. You are misinterpreting a ruling and endangering kids.
He doesn’t care.
Yes, bc that’s not a feckless waste of your time & state resources. Ensuring child, teachers, staff are open & ready to get sick.
Concerned of what exactly?
ICYMI: you’re a lunatic
Thank you for protecting our freedoms. For those individuals still afraid of the virus, they can continue to mask up, vaccinate, social distance, or whatever other measures they choose fit. For the majority that aren’t afraid, business as usual!
We received a response tonight from the office of Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (r) to our December 9th RSMo § 610 “Missouri Sunshine Law” request for the contents of the illegalmandates@ago.mo.gov email address set up by the Attorney General to solicit complaints about mask wearing in Missouri public schools.
RSMo § 610.023. Records of governmental bodies to be in care of custodian, duties — records may be copied but not removed, exception, procedure — denial of access, procedure.
[….]
3. Each request for access to a public record shall be acted upon as soon as possible, but in no event later than the end of the third business day following the date the request is received by the custodian of records of a public governmental body. If records are requested in a certain format, the public body shall provide the records in the requested format, if such format is available. If access to the public record is not granted immediately, the custodian shall give a detailed explanation of the cause for further delay and the place and earliest time and date that the record will be available for inspection. This period for document production may exceed three days for reasonable cause.
[….]
Just in time.
They responded:
[….]
Bersin Sunshine Law Request
[….]@ago.mo.gov> Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 8:23 PM
To: Michael Bersin [….]
Your records request was received by our custodian of records. Due to the dates and the volume of records to be searched, the earliest we expect responsive records, if any, to be available is December 23, 2021. In the event they are available earlier, we will provide them as soon as they are available.
Please note that we reserve the right to close responsive records in whole or in part pursuant to law, including but not limited to §§ 610.021 and 610.035 RSMo.
Thanks,
[….] This email message, including the attachments, is from the Missouri Attorney General’s Office. It is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information, including that covered by § 32.057, RSMo. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you.
We get comments. Every once in a while one of those aggregation sites posts a link (or something) to one of our posts. We’ll get a significant traffic spike and, with that, a few comments from lunatic fringe individuals who think we give a shit about what they think.
We’ve been in this blog thing since 2007. Posting content is a constant – and people can read it, or not. We call the process “feeding the content beast”.
Comments here are held for approval by an admistrator. In general we don’t allow lunatic fringe/right wingnut comments, but, we will mock them at our discretion in a subsequent meta post. Like this one.
The longest response:
I honestly cannot believe how many Evil & Murderous People have come out of their dens since the 2020 election!! Were there certain people left responsible for leaving the front door open to every mental home in the United States last year?? Unbelievable!!
I would consider myself “Pro-Life” with stipulations. I am against abortion for the most part, however, would agree to them for certain reasons. Those reasons being pregnancies caused by rape, child molestation, unsurvivable medical / mental disease, illness or condition with the baby, the mother or both, stillborn and those similar in circumstances.
I do NOT, nor will I ever, agree to abortions being performed as a form of birth control, for grown ass women who were careless and didn’t take the necessary precautions, girls of the ages 13 to 17 who felt they were old enough to act like an adult and have sex, but then NOT feel they are old enough to face the consequences of thier actions and I DAMN SURE do NOT agree with or support in any way, at any time or at any place the murdering of full term babies!! How can ANYONE in the entire world believe that it is okay to pull apart a tiny “PERSON” limb by limb, breaking every bone in their little bodies in order to make smaller pieces that will deliver easier??
WHAT THE HELL is wrong with you people??? There is definitely a special place in Hell for people like you and I hope that if reincarnation IS real, that each and every one of you evil people come back as one of those full term aborted babies so that you can feel the exact same pain as they felt!! Then try to preach that it’s not Inhumane!!
“…I honestly cannot believe how many Evil & Murderous People have come out of their dens since the 2020 election!! Were there certain people left responsible for leaving the front door open to every mental home in the United States last year?? Unbelievable!!…”
That’s really not a nice thing to say about MAGA people.
“…I am against abortion for the most part, however…”
You’re either against abortion or you’re not. You just want to make the decision for someone else.
Uh, how many third trimester abortions occur each year in Missouri? We’ll wait.
“…There is definitely a special place in Hell for people like you…”
That’s very Christian of you.
Another response:
The unborn have rights! The right to life! Abortion should never be used as a birth control method, but that is what has happened. Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers should be giving out birth control pills or devices instead of doing abortions day after day. Preventing unwanted pregnancies should be their goal, not how many lives can be destroyed each and every day!
You can make a contribution to Planned Parenthhod for women’s health care. You seem interested in doing so.
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