Sounds more like they didn’t even know it was there. Looks like Trump’s sycophants decorated the booth on their own initiative.

Personally I say props to the company for not merely ‘chastising’ or complaining but immediately withdrawing completely from the fair once they found out about the flag.

They’re referring to the ‘one-drop rule’, which was a real law here for way, way too long, and is still used by too many Americans as a basis to judge others.

Yes, but you live in reality. In the land of Fox News, God-Emperor Trump had the pool redone perfectly by a loyal servant, and then the evil Antifa LGBTQ saboteurs snuck in disguised as normal tourists and ruined everything!

Update: most likely Quartz, Azurite, and Malichite, all mixed together to get that weird crystal and color pattern.

Finally got around to talking to a gemologist.

Huh. How the heck do they justify that?

Including what he actually says?

Maybe, but you’ll notice how the Republicans were able to take over their party and turn it into exactly what they wanted; a loony tunes racist circus. Don’t see why Democrats can’t do the same.

My old stray boy was so smart. One time he wandered into the kitchen looking for me, and my sister said, ‘oh, I think she’s in the living room’, and he nodded his thanks and went into the living room to find me.

I miss him so much.

I’m pretty sure it’s mostly his tone of voice and presumptuous attitude. But all that aside, given how many people in this country have said they want to see me and mine dead lately, I will be hanging on to my firearms, thank you very much, and if that makes me a ‘gun-toting readneck’ then so be it.

I guess that’s kind of like dozens…

Thank you!

I preface this by saying that I’m just a very amateur hobbyist, and even an expert would never 100% call a stone without physically seeing it, so if you really, really want to know I’d ask a gemologist. The ones in my area throw fairs a few times a year, and I’ve found many jewelers can actually be quite helpful about id-ing a stone, especially if you approach them on a slow day.

But to me the crystals look entirely wrong for agate and don’t seem quite the right shade of green for Prasiolite. The crystals don’t seem quite right in color or shape for Brochantite either.

Aurichalcite is a possibility for the stones in the second pic, although the crystals don’t look as orderly as Aurichalcite usually does.

The left stone in the first pic looks a bit like low-quality beryl, actually. Although I might see banding? Which would be more a calcite or fluorite thing. It’s hard to tell in the photo if it’s actual banding or just light play off broken crystal.

The right stone in the first pic might be chrysocolla, although usually it forms nodules rather than crystals like that. Calcite or fluorite might make more sense for that one too.

I do see some quartz in there. I keep trying to zoom in but then imagur switches me to some bullshit about net neutrality.

Their ‘Christianity’ says that as long as you go to the proper church and agree with everything the pastor says, you have an automatic ‘get into Heaven free’ card, so you can be an evil, mouth breathing cunt and it doesn’t matter.

No surprise, it’s popular among the lazy set that prefer to be told they can be as evil as they like, rather than being told they have to improve themselves.

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lol

Don’t those laws have caveats for tipped jobs, so the businesses don’t have to pay their employees minimum wage?

Seriously. I wish people would stop posting shit like this. It’s obviously written just to be left-leaning copium.

And yet you made a comment…

Man, and after all that work we put in destroying those countries’ governments so we could grow those bananas…

On the contrary, their morals are very foundational; and they’d often rather die than deviate from them. It’s just that they know their actual morals are reprehensible, so they claim different morals as the winds blow to hide the truth.

Which is, simply, to have an in-group that the law protects but does not bind, and an out-group the law binds but does not protect, and then to plop themselves firmly in the first group and as many people as they can get away with in the second.

They’re fine having some people in the in-group with them, as long as those people think, look, and act like they do; anyone else is a dangerous ‘other’ that must be dumped into the second group immediately.

He was always an ass. But as he got older he definitely slid from ass into full-on shithead.