If you are a connoisseur of Wingnut insanity like I am you know that there is no other people on the internets that is as batshit insane as World News Daily aka Wing Nut Daily. They live in their own little bizarro universe where up is down, black is white, and Obama is a Muslim atheist terrorist that burns the flag and eats babbys. In fact, you can find an article every single day that is the guaranteed to be the stupidest thing you have read all day. So, without further ado let us document their massive FAIL.
For instance, today we get Pat Buchanan telling us that Charles Darwin was a Nazi and a Communist AT THE SAME TIME!!! And he was a liar and a thief that hated Baby Jesus.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102589
Quote"Karl Marx loved Darwinism," writes Windchy. "To him, survival of the fittest as the source of progress justified violence in bringing about social and political change, in other words, the revolution."
"Darwin suits my purpose," Marx wrote.
Darwin suited Adolf Hitler's purposes, too.
"Although born to a Catholic family, Hitler become a hard-eyed Darwinist who saw life as a constant struggle between the strong and the weak. His Darwinism was so extreme that he thought it would have been better for the world if the Muslims had won the eighth century battle of Tours, which stopped the Arabs' advance into France. Had the Christians lost, (Hitler) reasoned, Germanic people would have acquired a more warlike creed and, because of their natural superiority, would have become the leaders of an Islamic empire."
I dunno...I might have to become a murdering psychotic if I read that shit too often, Iason.
QuoteBy the theory of natural selection all living species have been connected with the parent-species of each genus, by differences not greater than we see between the varieties of the same species at the present day; and these parent-species, now generally extinct, have in their turn been similarly connected with more ancient species; and so on backwards, always converging to the common ancestor of each great class. So that the number of intermediate and transitional links, between all living and extinct species, must have been inconceivably great. But assuredly, if this theory be true, such have lived upon this earth.
Enjoy Hell you newly indoctrinated Commie-Nazis
Just in case you thought that no one was still buying into the Birthers conspiracy theories, WND has an entire subheading of their site dedicated to this shit:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98546
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I was going to go through the article Iason, but to be honest there is nothing in there that hasn't been debunked a million times
except this dozy of logical thinking
Hilter like reading Darwin, so that makes Darwin a Nazi
best logic ever!
Can't argue with that
:lulz:
Exactly! That is why Hitler instituted a ban on all books on Darwinism
http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/burnedbooks/documents.htm#blacklist
And why Hitler said: 'From where do we get the right to believe, that from the very beginning Man was not what he is today? Looking at Nature tells us, that in the realm of plants and animals changes and developments happen. But nowhere inside a kind shows such a development as the breadth of the jump, as Man must supposedly have made, if he has developed from an ape-like state to what he is today.'
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on July 03, 2009, 02:14:05 AM
Exactly! That is why Hitler instituted a ban on all books on Darwinism
http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/burnedbooks/documents.htm#blacklist
And why Hitler said: 'From where do we get the right to believe, that from the very beginning Man was not what he is today? Looking at Nature tells us, that in the realm of plants and animals changes and developments happen. But nowhere inside a kind shows such a development as the breadth of the jump, as Man must supposedly have made, if he has developed from an ape-like state to what he is today.'
:lulz: Yeah, it doesn't get much easier than the "nowhere inside a kind[read: types are immutable]" talk. :lulz:
Hitler was obviously just using reverse psychology.
Chuck Norris (yes, THAT Chuck Norris) thinks that Obama is Jimmy Carter 2.0 since he refused to send planes over to bomb the shit out of Iran.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103144
QuoteThe White House has offered what amounts to diplomatic dribble in response to their plight for liberty. I'm not saying our president should send militia to muscle the mullahs, but shouldn't he at least show stronger solidarity for the protesters? Isn't it time his actions superseded his rhetoric?
Is it just me or is anyone else experiencing a Carter déjà vu?
Carter didn't do enough to support an Iranian popular revolt. Carter's foreign policy was ridiculously idealistic. Carter believed that he could negotiate his way out of anything. Carter tried to pacify every party. Carter believed international thugs and terrorists could be swayed from extremism by simply presenting them what he thought was a better way.
Negotiating with extremists has never worked. Trying to reform them only morphs them into different monsters. And who can prove that more in the 20th century than President Jimmy Carter?
BTW, the fact that Reagan did, in fact, negotiate with extremists was not mentioned once in the article.
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on July 07, 2009, 02:33:18 AM
Chuck Norris (yes, THAT Chuck Norris) thinks that Obama is Jimmy Carter 2.0 since he refused to send planes over to bomb the shit out of Iran.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103144
QuoteThe White House has offered what amounts to diplomatic dribble in response to their plight for liberty. I'm not saying our president should send militia to muscle the mullahs, but shouldn't he at least show stronger solidarity for the protesters? Isn't it time his actions superseded his rhetoric?
Is it just me or is anyone else experiencing a Carter déjà vu?
Carter didn't do enough to support an Iranian popular revolt. Carter's foreign policy was ridiculously idealistic. Carter believed that he could negotiate his way out of anything. Carter tried to pacify every party. Carter believed international thugs and terrorists could be swayed from extremism by simply presenting them what he thought was a better way.
Negotiating with extremists has never worked. Trying to reform them only morphs them into different monsters. And who can prove that more in the 20th century than President Jimmy Carter?
BTW, the fact that Reagan did, in fact, negotiate with extremists was not mentioned once in the article.
Um, wait. Does the retard know that the popular revolt in Carter's time was AGAINST the US-backed Shah?
This is Chuck Norris. HISTORY BENDS TO HIS WILL!!!
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on July 07, 2009, 05:27:51 AM
This is Chuck Norris. HISTORY BENDS TO HIS WILL!!!
He lost all his cool. He's strictly Art Bell material, now.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on July 07, 2009, 04:44:26 AM
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on July 07, 2009, 02:33:18 AM
Chuck Norris (yes, THAT Chuck Norris) thinks that Obama is Jimmy Carter 2.0 since he refused to send planes over to bomb the shit out of Iran.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103144
QuoteThe White House has offered what amounts to diplomatic dribble in response to their plight for liberty. I'm not saying our president should send militia to muscle the mullahs, but shouldn't he at least show stronger solidarity for the protesters? Isn't it time his actions superseded his rhetoric?
Is it just me or is anyone else experiencing a Carter déjà vu?
Carter didn't do enough to support an Iranian popular revolt. Carter's foreign policy was ridiculously idealistic. Carter believed that he could negotiate his way out of anything. Carter tried to pacify every party. Carter believed international thugs and terrorists could be swayed from extremism by simply presenting them what he thought was a better way.
Negotiating with extremists has never worked. Trying to reform them only morphs them into different monsters. And who can prove that more in the 20th century than President Jimmy Carter?
BTW, the fact that Reagan did, in fact, negotiate with extremists was not mentioned once in the article.
Um, wait. Does the retard know that the popular revolt in Carter's time was AGAINST the US-backed Shah?
NO WAI! ALL REVOLUTIONS ARE TO BE MOAR LIKE US. WHY ELSE WOULD THEY REVOLT?
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Also, Jimmy Carter sent Ollie North in to rescue the Americans in the embassy! I mean, how could a mission fail with a man like that in charge?
:lol:
FINAL PROOF THAT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA HATES AMERICA!!! He wrote a paper 26 years ago calling for America to freeze it's nuclear arsenal!!
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103320
QuoteMy convictions that Barack Obama is hiding a virtual treasure trove of personal papers and documents that would cast his life in a different light than his self-serving autobiography did have been confirmed by the first leak of his college writings.
Not only my convictions have been confirmed – so have my worst fears.
Back on March 10, 1983, Barack Obama, minus the Hussein, published a bylined screed in the Columbia University Sundial that denounced U.S. defense policies and claimed that calls for a nuclear freeze might lead to peace.
Quote"Generally, the narrow focus of the freeze movement as well as academic discussions of first versus second-strike capabilities suit the military-industrial interests as they continue adding to their billion-dollar erector sets," Obama wrote.
In other words, in Obama's eyes, the Soviet apparatchiks working on behalf of this cause weren't going far enough. He preferred to see deep unilateral disarmament by the U.S. – a cause that would have ensured the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall would still be around today.
:fresh:
:lulz: Wait, I just found the funniest article ever. Apparently Sarah Palin is an evil evil feminist who needs to go back to her kitchen and make Todd a sammich.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103324
QuoteAs America prepared to celebrate Independence Day, Sarah Palin declared her own independence – as a woman. By announcing she was resigning as governor of Alaska 18 months before the end of her term, Palin shocked adversaries and friends alike. While the media fireworks temporarily pushed Michael Jackson coverage off the front page, Palin naysayers like NBC's Andrea Mitchell opined that perhaps she was missing family life after a tiring stint of politics.
Fat chance of that.
Palin is an avowed feminist. As such, her husband and children have to fall in line behind her career goals. If everyday actions speak louder than words, then she holds more affinity with her pro-abortion feminist sisters than with her conservative sisters nursing babies at home.
When John McCain introduced Palin as his running mate last September, she praised both pro-abortion Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton, saying, "It was rightly noted in Denver this week that Hillary left 18 million cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America, but it turns out the women of America aren't finished yet and we can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all."
QuoteDo we have no men who can match her intelligence, charisma and leadership skills? To the contrary, we have better.
Have conservatives become so desperate for a passionate leader that they forsake their most basic values of home and hearth? Yes, but it's more than that.
Sarah Palin represents the empirical self of millions of women working outside the home. They live vicariously through her supposed success. Seeing such a woman extolled gives credibility to their frantic lifestyle juggling job, children, husband, church, and housework.
It has been said that part of Palin's appeal is that her family is like so many other families. She is today's American woman, who works outside the home and does it all. Whose daughters get pregnant out-of-wedlock. Whose husbands wear the aprons.
Have we gone insane? Is this something to celebrate?
There are certainly some valid reasons to support Sarah Palin. Her passion for the unborn is refreshing. Her strong support of Second Amendment gun rights is vital to our personal and national security. But her easy dismissal of the value of being at the center of a home and her children's lives seems antithetical to true, conservative "family values."
Our society has so twisted the distinctiveness of womanhood that we no longer recognize it. If our Founding Fathers could see their country now, what would they say about women fighting in combat overseas? What would they think about a mother of a young baby being the commander in chief of America's military? What would they say as she walked the line exchanging salutes with soldiers? They would hang their heads in shame.
There was a time when society understood that some responsibilities are best handled by men and others best handled by women. It has nothing to do with equality and everything to do with cherishing our differences. Diversity is in vogue everywhere except when considering the innate distinctions between a man and a woman.
Allegedly written by a woman, btw.
In other breaking news: Ron Paul discovered to be secret communist, after the group he was lunching with decided to split the bill evenly between them.
:facepalm:
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on July 08, 2009, 10:42:05 PM
:lulz: Wait, I just found the funniest article ever. Apparently Sarah Palin is an evil evil feminist who needs to go back to her kitchen and make Todd a sammich.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103324
QuoteAs America prepared to celebrate Independence Day, Sarah Palin declared her own independence – as a woman. By announcing she was resigning as governor of Alaska 18 months before the end of her term, Palin shocked adversaries and friends alike. While the media fireworks temporarily pushed Michael Jackson coverage off the front page, Palin naysayers like NBC's Andrea Mitchell opined that perhaps she was missing family life after a tiring stint of politics.
Fat chance of that.
Palin is an avowed feminist. As such, her husband and children have to fall in line behind her career goals. If everyday actions speak louder than words, then she holds more affinity with her pro-abortion feminist sisters than with her conservative sisters nursing babies at home.
When John McCain introduced Palin as his running mate last September, she praised both pro-abortion Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton, saying, "It was rightly noted in Denver this week that Hillary left 18 million cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America, but it turns out the women of America aren't finished yet and we can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all."
QuoteDo we have no men who can match her intelligence, charisma and leadership skills? To the contrary, we have better.
Have conservatives become so desperate for a passionate leader that they forsake their most basic values of home and hearth? Yes, but it's more than that.
Sarah Palin represents the empirical self of millions of women working outside the home. They live vicariously through her supposed success. Seeing such a woman extolled gives credibility to their frantic lifestyle juggling job, children, husband, church, and housework.
It has been said that part of Palin's appeal is that her family is like so many other families. She is today's American woman, who works outside the home and does it all. Whose daughters get pregnant out-of-wedlock. Whose husbands wear the aprons.
Have we gone insane? Is this something to celebrate?
There are certainly some valid reasons to support Sarah Palin. Her passion for the unborn is refreshing. Her strong support of Second Amendment gun rights is vital to our personal and national security. But her easy dismissal of the value of being at the center of a home and her children's lives seems antithetical to true, conservative "family values."
Our society has so twisted the distinctiveness of womanhood that we no longer recognize it. If our Founding Fathers could see their country now, what would they say about women fighting in combat overseas? What would they think about a mother of a young baby being the commander in chief of America's military? What would they say as she walked the line exchanging salutes with soldiers? They would hang their heads in shame.
There was a time when society understood that some responsibilities are best handled by men and others best handled by women. It has nothing to do with equality and everything to do with cherishing our differences. Diversity is in vogue everywhere except when considering the innate distinctions between a man and a woman.
Allegedly written by a woman, btw.
Wow. :lulz:
Alan Keyes makes sense for the first time in his life.
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=103521
QuoteIn her speech, Sarah Palin refers to a "recent trip to Kosovo and Landstuhl, to visit our wounded soldiers overseas" and "what we can all learn from our selfless troops ... they're bold, they don't give up and they take a stand ..." Here words are an apt reminder of what the faithful performance of duty requires. Soldiers take a stand in the very teeth of enemy fire, even though it means certain death or grievous wounds. There is a word for soldiers who quit their posts because the enemy is shooting at them. It is not intended as a compliment, especially when it's their own bad judgment that has put them in the way of enemy fire in the first place.
Sarah Palin calls to mind our wounded soldiers in the very moment when she fails to follow their heroic example. In the process, she acknowledges that, thanks to the provision of Alaska's taxpayers, she has successfully evaded the cost-free political attacks allowed by "the ethics law I championed." She won! Had Custer won the battle at Little Big Horn, I doubt that anyone would have questioned the money expended for the guns and bullets required to do so. He had a duty to defend his command, especially after his own mistakes exposed it to danger.
Of course, resignation would have been in order once he acknowledged and took responsibility for those mistakes. But Sarah Palin has done no such thing. She claims Alaska is being damaged by the attacks against her, but that the fault lies entirely with the bad motives and actions of others. She says her tenure as governor has been successful; her judgments and actions sound; her record all for the good of the state and its people. But if this is true, it makes no sense to deprive the state of the governor duly elected by the people simply because bad folks attack her. In that case, resigning simply lets the (political) assassins finish their work. How can letting the duly elected governor be taken out in this way be consistent with her sworn duty to defend the state?
If she is without fault or blame, then Palin's explanation makes no sense except as a clear dereliction of duty. She swore faithfully to perform the duties of her office. She claims to have done so. Others have abused the law to attack her. She successfully defended against them. If, as she contends, she has simply been performing her duties, her defense of herself is in fact simply a defense of her office, in the literal sense. To preserve that office with integrity is one of her duties as governor. By resigning, she fails in the performance of that duty. She encourages the "politics of personal destruction" in much the same way that allowing terrorists to succeed encourages further acts of terrorism. This cannot be good for Alaska, and it does not keep faith with the people who elected her. They rightly expected her to defend the integrity of the office, which obviously means standing firm against those who attack its occupant without good reason.
If her stated explanation makes no sense, we are forced to look for an alternative that does. Absent that, we are forced to conclude that her decision to resign is, like championing the law used to harass her, just another example of her bad statesmanship.
ZOMG!!! GOOGLE IS BLOCKING SOMEONE'S BLOG JUST BECAUSE THEY DON'T LIKE THE GAYS!!!
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103902
QuoteGoogle's blog hosting service, Blogger.com, admits that in the name of "free speech" some of its blogs are "offensive, harmful, inaccurate," but when one of its clients blogged in opposition to a transgender rights bill, Google drew the line.
A day before the Massachusetts Legislature plans to review a controversial gender identity bill, Blogger.com blocked the blog of MassResistance, an organization that exposes the increasingly open agenda of the homosexual movement in Massachusetts, with a warning that some of the content may be "objectionable," requiring readers to confirm their intent to visit.
"Some readers of this blog have contacted Google because they believe this blog's content is objectionable," the warning reads. "In general, Google does not review nor do we endorse the content of this or any blog. For more information about our content policies, please visit the Blogger Terms of Service."
That's right, putting up a slightly inconvenient warning page is now fascism. :weary:
:lulz:
funny how wingers equate "transpeople getting equal protection under the law" to "gay men having anal sex on your front lawn"
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on July 08, 2009, 10:30:20 PM
Quote"Generally, the narrow focus of the freeze movement as well as academic discussions of first versus second-strike capabilities suit the military-industrial interests as they continue adding to their billion-dollar erector sets," Obama wrote.
He preferred to see deep unilateral disarmament by the U.S. – a cause that would have ensured the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall would still be around today.
We nuked the Berlin Wall?
:?
Being able to destroy the world only seventy times over, as opposed to several hundred times, would've sent a message to the Soviet Union that we were weak!
Quote from: Kai on July 15, 2009, 03:05:53 AM
:lulz:
funny how wingers equate "transpeople getting equal protection under the law" to "gay men having anal sex on your front lawn"
GODDAMMIT! I WANT GAY MEN TO HAVE ANAL SEX ON MY FRONT LAWN!
That's better than cable TV, that is.
Borrowed from Ed Brayton:
(http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/worldnetdaily%20headline17.jpg)
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Quote from: Iason Ouabache on July 20, 2009, 02:28:28 AM
Borrowed from Ed Brayton:
(http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/worldnetdaily%20headline17.jpg)
:tinfoilhat:
I love how they've finally stopped pretending to be a news source.
Pat Boone thinks that waterboarding is super keen!
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=104951
QuoteIt's a harmless-sounding word in itself. Until a couple of years ago, "waterboarding" sounded like some kind of fun at the beach.
But after 9/11, after American and allied forces invaded Iraq and made incursions into Afghanistan hunting for Osama bin Laden, and after our homeland intelligence apprehended and arrested known and suspected jihadist terrorists bent on killing more Americans, the word took on a more ominous meaning. Thanks to much media exploitation, politically motivated accusations, certain criminally leaked classified information and of course some actual facts, the word "waterboarding" became synonymous with heinous, barbaric torture.
Since America became a nation, torture has never been identified with our policy or procedure. Investigative techniques and interrogation, yes, but always within humane limits – never the torture racks, lashings, beatings, burnings, nail-pullings, starvation, or sadistic mutilation practiced by so many other cultures and adversaries. We've expected our military to extract and obtain essential information through intelligent, often covert, sometimes even psychological means.
What happened? Something almost unprecedented. We were completely blindsided, attacked on our own soil, in our own airplanes and towers, and even in the Pentagon, in broad daylight. It was devastating, and after the first shock, it was obvious that if we did not act quickly and with almost no thought of normal restraint, it would happen again, and even more violently, and with even more catastrophic results.
We were at war, against an enemy with absolutely no moral compunction and with a demonic bloodlust to destroy us, our homes and families and way of life – and with even a religious desire to die while destroying us! It was a relentless waking nightmare, and it was real.
Those charged with the responsibility to protect this country – the president, the administration, the military, our intelligence agencies – quickly mobilized to do anything and everything possible to avert the next attacks. As captives were taken, they were subjected to every method of interrogation we'd ever tried, and because of the extreme urgency and unimaginable danger, when captives wouldn't divulge information that would save American lives, in some instances some interrogators went further than they had before.
They didn't kill, they didn't maim, they didn't inflict permanent injury, but they sure made the captive feel as if he were about to drown. They tied him down inclined, head a bit lower than feet, covered his face with towels, poured water on and through the towels and into his face, sometimes in his nostrils, and let him know this frightening and extremely uncomfortable experience could end if he would tell what he knew about the plans to wreak more devastation and kill more Americans. This procedure, unsettling as it is, came to be known worldwide as "waterboarding."
It came to be known worldwide because liberal media, abetted by a few political and military figures who didn't seem to grasp the urgency of stopping the maniacal plots against innocent civilians, revealed classified information and screamed "TORTURE!" Having no clue about how to get to the essential information some other way, but perhaps imagining themselves in the position of the captive, they just condemned those who were actually getting the job done at least in part.
:facepalm:
You know what, I fucking give up on being a decent human being. From now on I'm just going to waterboard people until they agree that its torture and wrong.
Interestingly enough, this is actually a proven method -- there have been a few naysaying journalists and pundits who immediately changed their minds about waterboarding after they agreed to be subjected to it to prove it wasn't torture.
Also there is a proven way to get information out of a terrorist - subvert his belief that America is made up of Islam hating Crusaders whose "humanitarian" and democratic beliefs are a cover for a brutal policy of imperialism and murder.
Funnily enough, torturing them only seems to confirm this belief they have about America. And treating them as a (severely, to say the least) misguided person with legitimate greivances and concerns tends to throw them off balance.
Terrorism is a rational, communicative strategy. Open the channel and treat the concerns seriously, with intent to be an honest actor, and you'd be surprised how many start offering up information of use.
Being humane to terrorists means THEY WIN!
Quote from: Cain on July 31, 2009, 05:48:33 PM
Also there is a proven way to get information out of a terrorist - subvert his belief that America is made up of Islam hating Crusaders whose "humanitarian" and democratic beliefs are a cover for a brutal policy of imperialism and murder.
Funnily enough, torturing them only seems to confirm this belief they have about America. And treating them as a (severely, to say the least) misguided person with legitimate greivances and concerns tends to throw them off balance.
Terrorism is a rational, communicative strategy. Open the channel and treat the concerns seriously, with intent to be an honest actor, and you'd be surprised how many start offering up information of use.
Okay - but how many years before this becomes common knowledge to the point that when someone even suggests the thumb-screws approach, they are immediately dismissed as a moron?
Sooner rather than later, I hope.
The great thing about psychological interrogation is that even when you know they're using it, it's incredibly hard to resist.
Cross reference with the "domesticating humans is easier than dogs" thread drift in the Scienceism and Techmology subforum.
Oh Pat Boone, stfu. Jesus.
That guy came and performed for us while I was in h.s. He was an ass then (he PRAYED with us), he's a washed-up has-been ass now.
Quote from: fictionpuss on July 31, 2009, 06:26:25 PM
Quote from: Cain on July 31, 2009, 05:48:33 PM
Also there is a proven way to get information out of a terrorist - subvert his belief that America is made up of Islam hating Crusaders whose "humanitarian" and democratic beliefs are a cover for a brutal policy of imperialism and murder.
Funnily enough, torturing them only seems to confirm this belief they have about America. And treating them as a (severely, to say the least) misguided person with legitimate greivances and concerns tends to throw them off balance.
Terrorism is a rational, communicative strategy. Open the channel and treat the concerns seriously, with intent to be an honest actor, and you'd be surprised how many start offering up information of use.
Okay - but how many years before this becomes common knowledge to the point that when someone even suggests the thumb-screws approach, they are immediately dismissed as a moron?
Its been common knowledge for decades.
If you look back to WWII, the procedure for interrogating PoWs, German spies and other people working for the Axis powers is exactly as I have described. Treat them in a respectful manner, win their confidence, subvert their expectations and they will spill the beans.
Doesn't work on everyone. Not the most fanatical, or those who know they've been caught in actions for which there is no going back. But among the vast majority, it yields results, and has done for 70+ years now.
Obama wants to kill your grandma!!!
:omg:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=105525
Quote"The health care bill that Obama proposes has this theme at its core and has in its crosshairs the Baby Boomer engine that is pulling the derailed economy as it takes its final lap toward retirement. In less than two years, Baby Boomers will begin retiring in multitudes, expecting to reclaim the hard earned money they have been paying into Social Security. But this Health Care Bill, HR3200, has other plans for them," she wrote.
"Those 65 and older will be required to undergo mandatory 'end of life' counseling to determine if they are worthy to continue to not only live, but take much needed resources from those who are younger and more worthy to receive them. Counselors will be trained to discuss how to end life sooner, how to decline nutrition and hydration, how to go into hospice, etc.," she said.
"This will not be done without coercion. For those who have amassed assets enough to take care of themselves in their old age will have these assets confiscated in the name of fiscal responsibility, because by this time, every citizen will be entered into a national database under the guise of improved efficiency. This database will be run by a type of 'star chamber,' appointed by the president, that will determine whether or not you deserve the much needed operation your personal doctor thinks you need," she said.
Irony: GOP wants MANDATORY counseling for pregnant girls but against VOLUNTARY counseling for aging seniors
:argh!: :lulz:
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on August 05, 2009, 05:41:40 PM
Obama wants to kill your grandma!!!
:omg:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=105525
Quote"The health care bill that Obama proposes has this theme at its core and has in its crosshairs the Baby Boomer engine that is pulling the derailed economy as it takes its final lap toward retirement. In less than two years, Baby Boomers will begin retiring in multitudes, expecting to reclaim the hard earned money they have been paying into Social Security. But this Health Care Bill, HR3200, has other plans for them," she wrote.
"Those 65 and older will be required to undergo mandatory 'end of life' counseling to determine if they are worthy to continue to not only live, but take much needed resources from those who are younger and more worthy to receive them. Counselors will be trained to discuss how to end life sooner, how to decline nutrition and hydration, how to go into hospice, etc.," she said.
"This will not be done without coercion. For those who have amassed assets enough to take care of themselves in their old age will have these assets confiscated in the name of fiscal responsibility, because by this time, every citizen will be entered into a national database under the guise of improved efficiency. This database will be run by a type of 'star chamber,' appointed by the president, that will determine whether or not you deserve the much needed operation your personal doctor thinks you need," she said.
Irony: GOP wants MANDATORY counseling for pregnant girls but against VOLUNTARY counseling for aging seniors
Goddammit.
I went to church with my parents Sunday, and they had a guest preacher that said basically the same thing.
FYI: It's because of abortion.
Apparently, we don't have enough people now to support the social security system because we murdered them all in the womb.
:horrormirth:
Christians opposed to providing health care for the poor and sick. I would comment on how ironic it is but I've come to expect this kind of thing now.
It's the ourobouros of the Religious Reich.
not an article but it's great
hxxp://www.rr-bb.com/showpost.php?p=1366543&postcount=1
QuoteAfter homeschooling our two eldest children, people at our church told us that we should send them to a "Christian" college so that they could engage further in their faith.
Well... our first sign should have been that the college was not very homeschool friendly but it was one of the best Christian liberal arts colleges in the country, and our kids were excited to go, so away we went!
Folks, we are now reaping the rewards of that. Our eldest son got placed with an openly gay roommate who introduced him to the dark side. This led him to come out himself and to walk away from his faith upon graduation.
We began to notice troubling signs in our daughter as well. We have always held and taught our children very traditional Christian beliefs, including that a woman should be a keeper at home with her children. Well, in one of her classes some of the girls were making fun of her because she wants to be a housewife! And to make matters worse, her teacher sided with the girls by saying that a woman should have a career first before marriage and that to not "follow your dreams" (by this he obviously meant working 9-5) was stupid. My daughter was in tears when she talked to me on the phone that night!
Luckily, there is hope for my daughter she is going into her sophomore year next year and she will not be returning. I don't know what to do and I feel so betrayed. My husband and I are at our wits end, when we attended college, the fact that it was "Christian" meant something!
We have lately held family talks where I feel that it is time that we sent our daughter to a fundamentalist school. I feel like they are slightly legalistic in a few respects, but I have met many graduates of these schools who clearly love the Lord and who do not struggle with such matters as modesty or manners because it was drilled into them. PLUS all the female graduates of these colleges are happily married with children and they teach respect for the god-ordained role of women and they celebrate it and expect all their female students to live by it (which is something my daughter's roommate needed, poor girl didn't know how to do her own laundry or cook and was always struggling with modesty!).
I am sorry for the rant. But like I said before, I feel so betrayed that a "Christian" organization would so blantantly violate basic Christian beliefs. It boggles my mind!
that hurts to read, especially the bit about the gay son. I feel for him.
Fuck these sort of people.
"struggling with modesty"...? WTF does that mean? She was a compulsive flasher?
She had flashes of pride and self-belief, likely.
Modest = don't speak back to your betters.
Sexting, probably.
Quote from: Jenne on August 07, 2009, 09:10:49 PM
"struggling with modesty"...? WTF does that mean? She was a compulsive flasher?
More than likely it means that she showed off her ankles.
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on August 07, 2009, 09:32:02 PM
Quote from: Jenne on August 07, 2009, 09:10:49 PM
"struggling with modesty"...? WTF does that mean? She was a compulsive flasher?
More than likely it means that she showed off her ankles.
This is the correct "came straight from the compound" motorcycle.
Janet Porter decided to take every single right-wing meme talking point of the last 9 months, throw them in a pot and make some good old-fashioned Crazy Stew
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106559
http://jobview.monster.com/getjob.aspx?JobID=82289279&brd=1&q=internment&cy=us&lid=316&re=130&AVSDM=2009-07-16+09%3a18%3a00&pg=1&seq=1&fseo=1&isjs=1&re=1000
wut?
Quote from: fomenter on August 11, 2009, 09:06:20 PM
http://jobview.monster.com/getjob.aspx?JobID=82289279&brd=1&q=internment&cy=us&lid=316&re=130&AVSDM=2009-07-16+09%3a18%3a00&pg=1&seq=1&fseo=1&isjs=1&re=1000
wut?
Looks like an ad to be a prison guard at Leavenworth or other military prisons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._military_prisons). I don't like their use of "internment facility" though. That is what riles the crazies up.
Job Title: Corrections Officer – Internment/Resettlement Specialist
the word resettlement doesn't inspire a lot of calm non riled up feelings either!!!
Quote from: fomenter on August 11, 2009, 09:23:54 PM
Job Title: Corrections Officer – Internment/Resettlement Specialist
the word resettlement doesn't inspire a lot of calm non riled up feelings either!!!
Well, the job description says it all:
Quote
As an Internment/Resettlement Specialist for the Army National Guard, you will ensure the smooth running of military confinement/correctional facility or detention/internment facility, similar to those duties conducted by civilian Corrections Officers. This will require you to know proper procedures and military law; and have the ability to think quickly in high-stress situations. Specific duties may include assisting with supervision and management operations; providing facility security; providing custody, control, supervision, and escort; and counseling individual prisoners in rehabilitative programs.
By joining this specialty, you will develop the skills that will prepare you for a rewarding career with law enforcement agencies or in the private security field.
So, join Chino prison-like conditions or Blackwater.
Choice is yours!
the only words missing from the job title are re-education and camp
Doublespeak:
Quoteand counseling individual prisoners in rehabilitative programs.
:horrormirth:
No where does it say that that job is inside the United States. :wink:
Heh. Neither does it.
Afpakistan, here you come!
I just want to know if Work equals Freedom yet.
Ok, it's been awhile but this one is worthy of a bump:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107095
QuoteWhile it may be an overstatement to compare Obama with Hitler, it is even more far-fetched to characterize his political opponents as Nazis and fascists because they very clearly want to limit the size and scope of government – preferring that people be free to govern themselves to the greatest extent possible.
Obama has power. His opponents, for the most part, do not. Furthermore, Obama seeks to use his power to impose policies that have, like it or not, a striking resemblance to those Hitler promoted in the 1930s.
Like what?
* Abortion
* Infanticide
* Government deciding life-and-death issues in dispensing medical care for both older people and those with serious illnesses;
* Unfair treatment of Jews, in Obama's case, with regard to Middle East conflict;
* So-called public-private partnerships – blurring the line between government responsibilities and the private sector. This is one of the definitions of fascism;
* Picking winners and losers among corporations and the dispensing of government favors and punishments to them;
* Hiring and firing of supposedly private corporation executives;
* Attacking free expression;
* Secrecy
* Using taxpayer funds for the hiring of political partisans to "organize" communities and sign up new voters;
* Demonizing political opponents;
* Encouraging citizens to "rat out" friends, family members and others who oppose his policies;
* Keeping tabs on political opponents;
* Filling top government posts with like-minded political extremists who would normally be regarded as internal security threats;
* Ignoring the Constitution;
* Blaming his predecessor and the fundamentals of the American political and economic system for all the problems besetting the country;
I mean, I could go on and on. George W. Bush and other predecessors in the White House had their faults. Some of them did terrible things, showed incredibly bad judgment, made horrible mistakes. But I can think of no precedent for someone in the White House doing all of the above at once – all of which bear striking parallels to the leadership of infamous fascists such as Benito Mussolini and Hitler.
Bolded part is the single most ironic thing written on the internet EVER!
QuoteWhile it may be an overstatement to compare Obama with Hitler, it is even more far-fetched to characterize his political opponents as Nazis and fascists because they very clearly want to limit the size and scope of government – preferring that people be free to govern themselves to the greatest extent possible.
Obama has power. His opponents, for the most part, do not. Furthermore, Obama seeks to use his power to impose policies that have, like it or not, a striking resemblance to those Hitler promoted in the 1930s.
Like what?
* Abortion
* Infanticide
* Government deciding life-and-death issues in dispensing medical care for both older people and those with serious illnesses;
* Unfair treatment of Jews, in Obama's case, with regard to Middle East conflict;
* So-called public-private partnerships – blurring the line between government responsibilities and the private sector. This is one of the definitions of fascism;
* Picking winners and losers among corporations and the dispensing of government favors and punishments to them;
* Hiring and firing of supposedly private corporation executives;
* Attacking free expression;
* Secrecy
* Using taxpayer funds for the hiring of political partisans to "organize" communities and sign up new voters;
* Demonizing political opponents;
* Encouraging citizens to "rat out" friends, family members and others who oppose his policies;
* Keeping tabs on political opponents;
* Filling top government posts with like-minded political extremists who would normally be regarded as internal security threats;
* Ignoring the Constitution;
* Blaming his predecessor and the fundamentals of the American political and economic system for all the problems besetting the country;
I mean, I could go on and on. George W. Bush and other predecessors in the White House had their faults. Some of them did terrible things, showed incredibly bad judgment, made horrible mistakes. But I can think of no precedent for someone in the White House doing all of the above at once – all of which bear striking parallels to the leadership of infamous fascists such as Benito Mussolini and Hitler.
Bolded for everything republicans did or tried to do first. 'blaming his predecessor' I'll give them, since thats probably older than writing.
I wish there was an easier way to cut out all the filth and lies and reach the kernel of reality that exists somewhere beyond the political muddle.
OBAMA IS EXACTLY LIKE OJ!!!
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=108703
QuoteFootball legend and actor O.J. Simpson was a truly beloved American icon. The quintessential American success story, he projected an amicable, wholesome, larger-than-life figure. His triumphs were even more noteworthy because he was a black man who had risen to fame and fortune during the Civil Rights Movement era.
In 1995, Simpson was put on trial for the murders of Nicole Brown (his second ex-wife) and a male friend. As a result, authorities and the press were able to delve into his affairs as no one had previously done. Only then did Americans learn that he was a beast and a brute, an obsessively controlling, chronic wife beater, emotional abuser and philanderer. In short, he was a pathological narcissist for whom whimsy, pleasure and image were paramount. Worse, his behavior had been validated and reinforced by the fact that he had been catered to by those around him, personally and professionally, for decades. After beating the murder rap, Simpson continued to manipulate and bully those around him. Twelve years later, his capricious conduct earned him a lengthy prison sentence for numerous firearms charges, robbery, burglary, assault and kidnapping.
Many Americans, and even a few trained in behavioral science, have identified President Obama as a deeply pathological narcissist. He has also managed to masterfully control his environment. While his detractors contend that his façade has been maintained by a complicit press, this may only be partially true. According to experts, the profoundly narcissistic frequently astonish casual observers when the extent of control they have been able to maintain over their environment (primarily, people close to them) is finally revealed ... Given the determination with which our president has hidden certain other personal information, it is probable that there are a few aspects thereof that he perceives might damage him politically, if not personally or even legally.
Like the close friends of Nicole Brown and O.J., there may indeed be distressed, conscientious individuals who are privy to the truth of these matters. Ironically, it may wind up being the effects of Obama's narcissism itself that eventually give them away.
Quote from: Kai on August 19, 2009, 06:43:45 PM
I wish there was an easier way to cut out all the filth and lies and reach the kernel of reality that exists somewhere beyond the political muddle.
The political muddle IS reality.
Obama's speech was unconstitutional!!!
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108915
QuoteA lawyer whose work has included myriad civil rights disputes and who has practice before the U.S. Supreme Court is accusing President Obama of trying to push his social agenda by reaching out directly to young children, bypassing parents who may challenge his statements.
And what Obama plans to do on Sept. 8 with a planned speech directly to students in public schools across the United States may even be illegal, according to Mathew D. Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel as well as dean of Liberty University School of Law.
"Obama has pushed his political agenda to the extreme by forcing himself on America's children," Staver said in a statement today. "Obama's political agenda on healthcare and his expansive vision for government is being rejected by the American people. Now Obama is after our children, who, like some socialist members of Congress, have not read the healthcare bill. Americans do not appreciate the president's attempt to use our children as political pawns in his game of chess. Mr. President, you must abide by the rule of law and stop this illegal activity. Our children do not belong to you."
Staver's critique cited 20 U.S.C. § 3403, which regards the Department of Education and states, "No provision of a program administered by the Secretary or by any other officer of the Department shall be construed to authorize the Secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system."
:weary: Matt Staver, America's Shittiest Lawyer.
Staver probably doesn't even exist. That's World Nut Daily you're quoting, there. "Staver" is probably some guy on an internet forum that claims to be a constitutional lawyer. WND is infamous for "sources" like that.
For added fun, kids, google "Liberty University".
:lulz:
I just got done with that.
Apparently they'll pay you to go to school there. :lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 08, 2009, 09:28:44 PM
Staver probably doesn't even exist. That's World Nut Daily you're quoting, there. "Staver" is probably some guy on an internet forum that claims to be a constitutional lawyer. WND is infamous for "sources" like that.
Sadly Staver and Liberty Counsel really do exist. He's even been before the Supreme Court. His arguments are always this shitty. I don't know how he hasn't been disbarred for gross incompetence yet.
He apparently usually wins. LC has an 89% win rate :kingmeh:
WND's readers aren't exactly what you would call "sane"
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=109484
QuoteDear Mr. Farah:
I'm unsure what constitutes a letter to the editor, but I know what I think and feel concerning the mind-control diatribe called a presidential speech Wednesday evening.
It is my opinion what Rep. Joe Wilson did and said was necessary. It was necessary for God to disrupt the demonic subliminal communication that manifests from Obama and his entourage and shake the 111th United States Congress from their complacency (and probable altered states of consciousness).
To me, it gave new meaning to: "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord; Make His paths straight.'" And I do believe that in the moment "You lie!" came forth from Wilson's mouth, judgment was declared upon the chosen man, the pawn who constitutionally should not be the president of the United States.
Further, I believe the holy "ripple effect" of the outburst will bring forth good fruit in the days to come. (May the Lord God of Hosts protect this congressman and show him truth.)
I'm reminded of the New American's fairly comprehensive narrative concerning the formation of the Illuminati. :fnord: According to the article, many years ago, a courier on horseback carried documents purported to progress the development and growth of global governance in Europe. At some point during the journey, the courier was struck by lightning. His body and the documents were found and the plot exposed.
Wednesday night's outburst wasn't quite as good as that, yet the outworking of God's power may just change my stated opinion.
May the Lord God of Israel give you exactly what you need to fulfill the works that have been preordained for you to accomplish, Mr. Farah.
Susan
Reminds me of the Fresh Air epi I heard yesterday. Will post separate topic on it though, methinks.
The debate has been reframed as being between the crazy and the absolutely batshit it seems. :lulz:
Yay! Ray Comfort is back!!!!
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109887
QuoteBest-selling Christian author Ray Comfort says there are such huge holes in evolutionary arguments that he's giving away 50,000 copies of a special edition of Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species" that includes an introduction not only revealing the theory's many hoaxes but also Darwin's own thoughts on the existence of God.
Comfort, whose new book "Nothing Created Everything" elaborates on the evidence against the theory of evolution, said he's had many conversations with avowed atheists as follows:
Comfort: "So you are an atheist. Do you then believe that nothing created everything, which is a scientific impossibility?"
Atheist: "No."
Comfort: "So you believe that something created everything?"
Atheist: "Yes."
Comfort: "Then you're not an atheist."
Ex-atheist: "OK."
:banana: :bsex: :banana:
Janet Porter is pulling out the "nucular option":
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=111349
QuoteCongress has tuned out the town halls and record-breaking tea parties. They've turned a deaf ear to our switchboard-jamming calls and deleted our e-mails.
All the while, socialized medicine is on a fast track to ration our health care and bill us for baby killing. Cap-and-trade has already passed the House to tax us for driving to work and heating our homes. Thought-crime legislation is sitting in a conference committee threatening to Criminalize Christianity. And more trillion-dollar spending bills are on the way.
How can we possibly fight all these attacks effectively with a Congress that isn't listening?
I believe we've found a way.
What is it that members of Congress care about most? It's not their hostile agenda. It's not even their liberal leaders. The three things members of Congress care about most are: 1) getting re-elected, 2) getting re-elected, and 3) getting re-elected.
That's nice, but we can't wait until 2010 – if they keep going at this rate, we may not have a country or any freedoms left to protect.
It's time for a "nuclear option" of our own. We must deliver a message they can't ignore on the issue they care about most: keeping their jobs.
That "nuclear option" is officially launched. I announced it at the How to Take Back America Conference to hundreds in a sold-out crowd in St. Louis and to a hundred thousand watching online. We are going to put Congress on notice with a personalized pink slip delivered to their door by Fed Ex.
With one click of a button we can now send all 535 members of the U.S. House and Senate a personalized pink slip – reminding them that they work for you. They'll also get the message that if they vote for government health care, cap-trade, hate crimes, or any more spending, their "real pink slip" will be issued in the next election. Signed by you, their employer. It also asks them to write and inform us of what they intend to do.
Oh noes!!! She is going to give them a piece of paper! Everyone run!!!!
:omg:
Would that be the same take back America conference where Mike Huckabee came up with the ever so practical idea of cutting the UN headquarters off from the mainstream USA and somehow towing it to Saudi Arabia?
This is a rhetorical question by the way, of course it is. Great job Janet Porter, I'm sure if your group keeps repackaging the same tired and old issues in new hysterical and impractical packaging, then you're sure to win back Congress. Almost certainly.
They should have hired Ben Mack. I'm sure he would have come up with some amazing marketing plan.
Quote from: Cain on September 30, 2009, 10:36:30 AM
Would that be the same take back America conference where Mike Huckabee came up with the ever so practical idea of cutting the UN headquarters off from the mainstream USA and somehow towing it to Saudi Arabia?
One and the same. Right Wing Watch did a good job covering the conference with lots of video. From that conference we learned that Obama is an evil dictator that is an "enemy of humanity" and wants to reenact slavery. And that we should abolish Medicare and Medicaid. And if a government employee tries to give you a vaccine to stop a swine flu epidemic then it is ok to shoot them.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/subjects/how-take-back-america-conference
QuoteThis is a rhetorical question by the way, of course it is. Great job Janet Porter, I'm sure if your group keeps repackaging the same tired and old issues in new hysterical and impractical packaging, then you're sure to win back Congress. Almost certainly.
You underestimate the number of raving loons we have in this country. Remember that we elected Bush twice.
IMPEACH! IMPEACH! IMPEACH!
\
:jihaad:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=112098
QuoteA political activist who was behind the famous Willie Horton advertisement that left Gov. Michael Dukakis' candidacy for president floundering and was among the first to sound the alarm on the need for Bill Clinton's impeachment says the United States is collapsing around its citizens right now, but there is a defense.
"Make no mistake. We're now in the middle of a bloodless coup – the takeover of an entire nation by the hate-America crowd – a cold-blooded gang that despises America's prosperity, our standing in the world, our trust in God and our generosity and goodness," says political activist Floyd Brown in a post on the new Impeach Obama Campaign website.
His suggested defense is nothing more or less than a strike at the emperor, plans which are detailed on the website.
"Like so many on the far-left before him, going all the way back to Karl Marx, he [Obama] believes that it's his mission to promote 'equality of outcome' over 'equality of opportunity' even if Americans must learn to live in chains to make it happen," Brown said. "That worldview makes Barack Hussein Obama a very dangerous man and one of the greatest threats to your personal liberty today."
Brown said that view also explains why Obama "has already gobbled-up major banks and why the government now controls more and more of our money – yours and mine. And if you wake up one day to discover you're broke, don't be surprised. Barack Hussein Obama is Bernie Madoff with the political power of the presidency at his disposal."
"That dangerous worldview explains why his attorney general, Eric Holder, despises the 2nd Amendment... And that dangerous worldview explains why Obama intends to take away your freedom to choose your own doctor .... Your own treatment," he said.
Brown said the only one solution to the problem he described as a "monomaniac."
"Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution reads: 'The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.'"
QuoteAccording to the Impeach Obama Campaign, Obama already has:
* Lied to the American people when he said people could keep private insurance, knowing full well that his legislation would inevitably drive private insurers out of business.
* Vindictively fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin, who investigated Kevin Johnson, a buddy of the president, for misuse of funds from an AmeriCorps grant.
* Supervised the effective takeover by government of banks, the largest insurance company (AIG), and General Motors (GM) and Chrysler... the bulk of the U.S. auto industry, thus depriving bondholders, shareholders, and others of their property.
* Pursued cap-and-trade legislation. It would in a manner of speaking tax the very air people exhale and give the government unprecedented control over the economy and American businesses.
* Added a trillion dollars to the national debt in just a handful of weeks.
* Appointed "Czars" to oversee everything from the closing of Guantanamo to the nation's food.
* And finally, Obama has consistently refused to approve the release of his actual birth certificate, college transcripts and his medical records.
They took every single shitty right-wing talking point, smashed them together and think that that will be enough to throw him out of office. :lulz: It would probably help them if any of those were actually a "high crime" or a misdemeanor.
The only thing I like about The Smiler is how much these nutjobs hate him.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 08, 2009, 04:41:24 PM
The only thing I like about The Smiler is how much these nutjobs hate him.
The are starting to sound like a broken record already. If you want to know what tomorrow's talking points are going to be just look at what Obama is doing today, then think of the most batshit insane excuse for not liking what he is doing. Boom! That's what tomorrow's WND looks like.
For instance, last night there was a big astronomy part at the White House. Obvious right wing talking point: "Obama is trying to indoctrinate our children with the evil idea that the universe is older than 6000 years old!"
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on October 08, 2009, 05:56:51 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 08, 2009, 04:41:24 PM
The only thing I like about The Smiler is how much these nutjobs hate him.
The are starting to sound like a broken record already. If you want to know what tomorrow's talking points are going to be just look at what Obama is doing today, then think of the most batshit insane excuse for not liking what he is doing. Boom! That's what tomorrow's WND looks like.
For instance, last night there was a big astronomy part at the White House. Obvious right wing talking point: "Obama is trying to indoctrinate our children with the evil idea that the universe is older than 6000 years old!"
And thanks to NCLB and Faith-Based initiatives, this is only to get funnier in 10 years.
:lulz:
Was researching making soymilk and tofu and came across this.
Soy is making kids 'gay'
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53327
:horrormirth:
Soy is a health food?
I thought it was a horrible junk food addition that makes the shit even more fattening and addictive. :lulz:
I guess it depends on your definition of health food, and what you compare it to. It is used as cheap filler in a lot of foods, but I don't know that it is bad for you per se.
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on October 10, 2009, 04:22:12 AM
Was researching making soymilk and tofu and came across this.
Soy is making kids 'gay'
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53327
:horrormirth:
:lulz: Yeah, that one is a classic. Stuff like that tempts me to turn off AdBlock when I'm on their site so I can see all the shit that they advertise. Then I remember how horrific it would be to see Ann Coulter's face everywhere.
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on October 10, 2009, 04:47:00 AM
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on October 10, 2009, 04:22:12 AM
Was researching making soymilk and tofu and came across this.
Soy is making kids 'gay'
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53327
:horrormirth:
:lulz: Yeah, that one is a classic. Stuff like that tempts me to turn off AdBlock when I'm on their site so I can see all the shit that they advertise. Then I remember how horrific it would be to see Ann Coulter's face everywhere.
The text ads are:
Quote
A Soy Nutritional Drink
A delicious way to enjoy the many health benefits of soy nutrition.
Soy Myths About Children
Learn About the Positive Effect Soy is Having on Health Issues Today
Soy really does have estrogen though, I can't see how that would make somebody gay, and it isn't feminizing except in very large dosages, but it encourages fat growth and can have weird effects on people's behavior.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 08, 2009, 06:52:50 PM
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on October 08, 2009, 05:56:51 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 08, 2009, 04:41:24 PM
The only thing I like about The Smiler is how much these nutjobs hate him.
The are starting to sound like a broken record already. If you want to know what tomorrow's talking points are going to be just look at what Obama is doing today, then think of the most batshit insane excuse for not liking what he is doing. Boom! That's what tomorrow's WND looks like.
For instance, last night there was a big astronomy part at the White House. Obvious right wing talking point: “Obama is trying to indoctrinate our children with the evil idea that the universe is older than 6000 years old!”
And thanks to NCLB and Faith-Based initiatives, this is only to get funnier in 10 years.
:lulz:
They're "dropping" NCLB, as a catchword, etc. Interestingly enough. I forget what the dude on The Daily Show said was the "new replacement"--this is Obama's Ed Czar I'm talking about--but it was kinda funny the way he smirked as he said it.
ZOMG! An Obama nominee once said something positive about polygamy!!!
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=112002
QuotePresident Obama's nominee to become commissioner for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission signed a manifesto praising polygamy and arguing traditional marriage should not be privileged above other forms of union.
Chai Feldblum, an outspoken homosexual rights activist and Georgetown University law professor, is a signatory to an online petition entitled "Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision For All Our Families and Relationships."
The organization defines itself as "a diverse group of nearly twenty LGBT and queer activists [who] came together to discuss marriage and family politics as they exist in the United States today."
The manifesto, first noticed by the Catholic News Agency, calls for a "new vision" for securing governmental and private institutional recognition of "diverse kinds of partnerships."
Among the stated "partnerships" the petition seeks to protect is "households in which there is more than one conjugal partner."
The petition laments what it claims are conservative attempts to push for "abstinence-only sex education, stringent divorce laws, coercive marriage promotion policies directed toward women on welfare, and attacks on reproductive freedom."
:lulz: Looks like someone hasn't read their Bible. Polygamy is traditional marriage. Just ask King David or Solomon.
There are other issues with contractual polygamy (IOW, marriage as a state supported contract) though.
Not that I have a problem with it. Just that legal issues of inheritance can make it difficult for the courts.
That and its been used in the past to subjugate people, mostly women.
Historically speaking, the subjugation of women is not a topic of interest on World Net Daily, unless they are white and the subjugators are not.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28608.html#
QuoteThe chairman of the House Republican Conference says it's "hogwash" that GOP leaders are worried about what Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and the Tea Party movement are doing to their party's image.
In a story headlined "Conservatives Roar; Republicans Tremble," POLICO reported Thursday that "many top Republicans are growing worried that the party's chances for reversing its electoral routs of 2006 and 2008 are being wounded by the flamboyant rhetoric and angry tone of conservative activists and media personalities."
But House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.) says it's not so.
"You know, the American people cherish their freedom of speech and a free and independent press. That's why I found this morning's headlines so troubling," Pence said Thursday. "Goaded on by a White House increasingly intolerant of criticism, lately the national media has taken aim at conservative commentators in radio and television. Suggesting that they only speak for a small group of activists and even suggesting in one report today that Republicans in Washington are 'worried about their electoral effect.'
"Well, that's hogwash.
"To suggest that men and women that are taking a stand for fiscal discipline and traditional values in the national debate today only speak for 'grassroots activists' is absurd. As evidenced by the hundreds of thousands that filled town hall meetings this summer and the nearly a million Americans who gathered here in Washington in September. Millions of Americans, Republicans, Democrats and Independents are worried about liberal social policies and runaway federal spending, deficit and debt.
"So to my friends in the so-called 'mainstream media' I say, 'conservative talk show hosts may not speak for everybody but they speak for more Americans than you do.'"
Mr. Pence, that's exactly what I'm worried about. So fuck the rest of America that thinks that those racists speak for them. They deserve the government they get.
Damn right Obama is intolerant of criticism, why, next thing you know he'll start putting people on the no fly list for going to protests. :lulz:
Quote from: Requia ☣ on October 22, 2009, 09:15:29 PM
Damn right Obama is intolerant of criticism, why, next thing you know he'll start putting people on the no fly list for going to protests. :lulz:
Or for being an English teacher. No shit.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/34990_Obama_Thesis_-_a_Hoax
http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2009/08/obama-college-thesis-constitution-is.html
As an aside, its nice to see that Charles Johnson of LGF has stepped back from the edge of insanity. For a while he has struck me as a fundamentally decent fellow, who fell in with a bunch of lunatics after 9/11 drove him a little crazy, for several years. But then, he started to look around and see the type of people his fellow "counter-jihadists" were shacking up with (ie; European Nazis) and decided to turn against such people, and decry the wingnuttish conspiracy theorism that permeated the community.
I still don't agree with his position on the threat of Islamic fundamentalism (he thinks it is far worse than I do), but he's pretty harsh on other forms of fundamentalism too, and hates Nazis. So, not all bad.
basically some singer from some British boy band i never heard about, or even care to know about died of a heart condition...
but luckily Jan Moir (lol) from the Daily Mail (lol) was able to use this death to override modern medical thinking and find a course an action that will save hundred of thousands of people
yes, apparently deaths from heart conditions aren't natural at all but are caused from being gay, and even worse entering in a civil union... brilliant. I have no idea how the doctors who did the medical examination missed this. I mean it was so clear and obvious right?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1220756/A-strange-lonely-troubling-death--.html
also Fox news, eat your heart out
:lulz:
Yeah, that was pretty blatant homophobia, even by the Mail's low standards.
Charlie Brooker has probably the best ever response to it, here http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/16/stephen-gately-jan-moir
QuoteThe funeral of Stephen Gately has not yet taken place. The man hasn't been buried yet. Nevertheless, Jan Moir of the Daily Mail has already managed to dance on his grave. For money.
It has been 20 minutes since I've read her now-notorious column, and I'm still struggling to absorb the sheer scope of its hateful idiocy. It's like gazing through a horrid little window into an awesome universe of pure blockheaded spite. Spiralling galaxies of ignorance roll majestically against a backdrop of what looks like dark prejudice, dotted hither and thither with winking stars of snide innuendo.
On the Mail website, it was headlined: "Why there was nothing 'natural' about Stephen Gately's death." Since the official postmortem clearly ascribed the singer's death to natural causes, that headline contains a fairly bold claim. Still, who am I to judge? I'm no expert when it comes to interpreting autopsy findings, unlike Moir. Presumably she's a leading expert in forensic science, paid huge sums of money to fly around the world lecturing coroners on her latest findings. Or maybe she just wants to gay-bash a dead man? Tragically, the only way to find out is to read the rest of her article.
She begins by jabbering a bit about untimely celebrity deaths, especially those whose lives are "shadowed by dark appetites or fractured by private vice". Not just Heath Ledger and Michael Jackson. No: she's eagerly looking forward to other premature snuffings.
"Robbie, Amy, Kate, Whitney, Britney; we all know who they are. And we are not being ghoulish to anticipate, or to be mentally braced for, their bad end: a long night, a mysterious stranger, an odd set of circumstances that herald a sudden death."
Fair enough. I'm sure we all agree there's nothing "ghoulish" whatsoever about eagerly imagining the hypothetical death of someone you've marked out as a potential cadaver on account of your ill-informed presumptions about their lifestyle. All she's doing is running a detailed celebrity-death sweepstake in her head. That's not ghoulish, that's fun. For my part, I've just put a tenner on Moir choking to death on her own bile by the year 2012. See? Fun!
Having casually prophesied the death of Robbie Williams and co, Moir moves on to her main point: that Gately's death strikes her as a bit fishy . . . "All the official reports point to a natural death, with no suspicious circumstances . . . But, hang on a minute. Something is terribly wrong with the way this incident has been shaped and spun into nothing more than an unfortunate mishap on a holiday weekend, like a broken teacup in the rented cottage."
That's odd. I don't recall anyone equating the death with "an unfortunate mishap on a holiday weekend". I was only aware of shocked expressions of grief from those who knew or admired him, people who'd probably be moved to tears by Moir likening the tragedy to "a broken teacup in the rented cottage". But never mind that – "shaped and spun" by whom, precisely? The coroner?
Incredibly, yes. Moir genuinely believes the coroner got it wrong: "Healthy and fit 33-year-old men do not just climb into their pyjamas and go to sleep on the sofa, never to wake up again. Whatever the cause of death is, it is not, by any yardstick, a natural one."
At this point, I dare to challenge the renowned international forensic pathologist Jan Moir, because I personally know of two other men (one in his 20s, one in his early 30s), who died in precisely this way. According to the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (c-r-y.org.uk), "Twelve apparently fit and healthy young people die in the UK from undiagnosed heart conditions" every single week. That's a lot of broken teacups, eh Jan?
Still, if his death wasn't natural "by any yardstick", what did kill him? Moir knows: it was his lifestyle. Because Gately was, y'know . . . homosexual. Having lanced this boil, Moir lets the pus drip out all over her fingers as she continues to type: "The circumstances surrounding his death are more than a little sleazy," she declares. "Cowles and Gately took a young Bulgarian man back to their apartment. It is not disrespectful to assume that a game of canasta . . . was not what was on the cards . . . What happened afterwards is anyone's guess."
Don't hold back, Jan. Have a guess. Draw us a picture. You specialise in celebrity death fantasies, after all.
"His mother is still insisting that her son died from a previously undetected heart condition that has plagued the family." Yes. That poor, blinkered woman, "insisting" in the face of official medical evidence that absolutely agrees with her.
Anyway, having cast aspersions over a tragic death, doubted a coroner and insulted a grieving mother, Moir's piece builds to its climax: "Another real sadness about Gately's death is that it strikes another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships. . . Gay activists are always calling for tolerance and understanding about same-sex relationships, arguing that they are just the same as heterosexual marriages . . . in many cases this may be true. Yet the recent death of Kevin McGee, the former husband of Little Britain star Matt Lucas, and now the dubious events of Gately's last night raise troubling questions about what happened."
Way to spread the pain around, Jan. Way to link two unrelated tragedies, Jan. Way to gay-bash, Jan.
Jan's paper, the Daily Mail, absolutely adores it when people flock to Ofcom to complain about something offensive, especially when it's something they've only learned about second-hand via an inflammatory article in a newspaper. So it would undoubtedly be delighted if, having read this, you paid a visit to the Press Complaints Commission website (www.pcc.org.uk) to lodge a complaint about Moir's article on the basis that it breaches sections 1, 5 and 12 of its code of practice.
Mychal Massie discovers a thesaurus:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=114770
QuoteAs I watched a clip of Barack Obama saluting the casket of one of our fallen heroes, I was reminded of just how narcissistic he is. Other presidents have performed said act in private without cameras and/or reporters – but Obama had to make it about him.
Offended and outraged by his display, I wanted to tell him that while America's enemies may view him as pusillanimous or as the equivalent of that which a jester's liripipes factually represent (i.e., two ears and a tail) – I viewed him as a cheap pettifogger who feigns qualities that conceal his true incertitude. I wanted to tell him that he was reducing the office, which should have been his ne plus ultra for good – to a sinister darkness that rivaled Erebus himself.
...
I would also remind him that there is "One" greater than he and the agenda he shares in compliance with his handlers. And the faith of us believers persuades us that he is but the penultimate ephemera preparatory to the zeitgeist that must exist prior to the unveiling of the ultimate evil. In the final analysis, he is potentially the next to the end before that which our Scriptures call the Tribulation Period begins – either way, as an ephemera he is a matter of no lasting significance.
This is just a recycled New Republic article by Marty Peretz, from a couple of weeks ago, with God thrown in:
http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-spine/rio-1-chicago-0-the-politics-narcissism-and-general-mcchrystal
QuoteWhat I suspect is that the president is probably a clinical narcissist. This is not necessarily a bad condition if one maintains for oneself what the psychiatrists call an "optimal margin of illusion," that is, the margin of hope that allows you to work. But what if his narcissism blinds him to the issues and problems in the world and the inveterate foes of the nation that are not susceptible to his charms?
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on November 03, 2009, 05:33:02 PM
Mychal Massie discovers a thesaurus:
We should write her some needlessly complicated letters.
And the award for first person to blame the Ft. Hood shootings on Obama goes to Jerome Corsi:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=115230
QuoteMaj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged shooter in yesterday's massacre at Fort Hood, played a homeland security advisory role in President Barack Obama's transition into the White House, according to a key university policy institute document.
The Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University published a document May 19, entitled "Thinking Anew – Security Priorities for the Next Administration: Proceedings Report of the HSPI Presidential Transition Task Force, April 2008 – January 2009," in which Hasan of the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine is listed on page 29 of the document as a Task Force Event Participant.
Hasan received his medical degree from the military's Uniformed Services University School in Bethesda, Md., in 2001.
Noting that the Obama administration transition was proceeding, the GWU Homeland Security Policy Institute report described on the first page the role of the Presidential Transition Task Force as including "representatives from past Administrations, State government, Fortune 500 companies, academia, research institutions and non-governmental organizations with global reach."
While the GWU task force participants included several members of government, including representatives of the Department of Justice and the U.S Department of Homeland Security, there is no indication in the document that the group played any formal role in the official Obama transition, other than to serve in a university-based advisory capacity.
Daniel Kaniewski, deputy director of the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University affirmed to WND in a telephone interview this morning that the Nidal Hasan listed as attending the meetings of the HSPI Presidential Transition Task Force was the same person as the alleged shooter in the Fort Hood massacre.
Kaniewski said Hasan attended the meetings in his capacity as a member of the faculty of the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, not as a member of the HSPI Presidential Task Force.
Kaniewski believed Hasan applied on the institute's website to attend the meeting and was accepted because of his professional credentials.
Kaniewski could not tell WND whether or not Hasan made comments from the audience that influenced the task force recommendations or not.
He further confirmed Hasan had attended several meetings held by the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University and that the institute is currently searching conference records to see if it is possible to determine what additional institute conferences he attended.
Except for, you know, the fact that just about anyone could have attended that meeting if they asked:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/06/iwndis-jerome-corsi-claim_n_348461.html
QuoteEssentially, what the HSPI did (and all of this is spelled out explicitly in this document's executive summary) is convene a giant group of security wonks and academics, heard some briefings, made some "internal deliberations," and generated a set of priorities and recommendations. Then those recommendations got published, and maybe someone at the White House read them, but it's more likely that the content ended up as material to cite in the middle of further security-wonk discussions.
And at some point in the process, Nidal Hasan might have sat in a room while this was happening, with a few hundred other people.
But none of this constitutes formal advice given to the president on homeland security during the transition of power. This was a university panel that has sod all to do with the White House, generating ideas, and calling it "advice" for the president. If two or three of you wanted to meet up with me at the Au Bon Pain on Pennsylvania Avenue this afternoon and chat today, we will have accomplished basically the same thing.
To be fair, this is Jerome "I post on Freerepublic" Corsi, I would expect no less.
Just in case you forgot, Pat Buchannan is still a xenophobic asshole:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=115552
QuoteAmerica is unraveling. No longer are we one nation and one people. Tens of millions have come and tens of millions are coming whose first loyalty is to the kinfolk and country they left behind, and to the faith they carry in their hearts. And if, in our long war against "Islamofascism," we are seen as trampling on their nation, faith or kinsmen, they will see us, as Hasan came to see us, as the enemy of their sacred identity.
There is no American Melting Pot anymore. It was discarded by our elites as an instrument of cultural genocide. Now we celebrate America as the most multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural country on earth, the Universal Nation of Ben Wattenberg's warblings.
And, yet, we are surprised by ethnic espionage in our midst, the cursing of America from mosques in our cities, the news that Somali immigrants are going home to fight our Somali allies, and that illegal aliens march under Mexican flags to demand American citizenship.
Eisenhower's America was a nation of 160 million with a Euro-Christian core and a culture all its own. We were a people then. And when we have become, in 2050, a stew of 435 million, of every creed, culture, color and country of Earth, what holds us together then?
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on November 10, 2009, 11:39:45 PM
Just in case you forgot, Pat Buchannan is still a xenophobic asshole:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=115552
QuoteAmerica is unraveling. No longer are we one nation and one people. Tens of millions have come and tens of millions are coming whose first loyalty is to the kinfolk and country they left behind, and to the faith they carry in their hearts. And if, in our long war against "Islamofascism," we are seen as trampling on their nation, faith or kinsmen, they will see us, as Hasan came to see us, as the enemy of their sacred identity.
There is no American Melting Pot anymore. It was discarded by our elites as an instrument of cultural genocide. Now we celebrate America as the most multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural country on earth, the Universal Nation of Ben Wattenberg's warblings.
And, yet, we are surprised by ethnic espionage in our midst, the cursing of America from mosques in our cities, the news that Somali immigrants are going home to fight our Somali allies, and that illegal aliens march under Mexican flags to demand American citizenship.
Eisenhower's America was a nation of 160 million with a Euro-Christian core and a culture all its own. We were a people then. And when we have become, in 2050, a stew of 435 million, of every creed, culture, color and country of Earth, what holds us together then?
Wow. What a fucking racist. And so /open/ about it.
Oh hey, a new branch of revisionism. Eisenhower was a racist asshole and not one of the key figures in the civil rights movement now. :lulz:
Quote from: Kai on November 11, 2009, 01:25:59 AM
Wow. What a fucking racist. And so /open/ about it.
The really really funny part is that if you go back 150 years it was his family members getting this treatment. Irish Catholics were hated as much as Hispanics are now, if not more.
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on November 11, 2009, 07:19:24 AM
Quote from: Kai on November 11, 2009, 01:25:59 AM
Wow. What a fucking racist. And so /open/ about it.
The really really funny part is that if you go back 150 years it was his family members getting this treatment. Irish Catholics were hated as much as Hispanics are now, if not more.
Well, yeah. If we let them take over, the next thing you know the Irish Pope will be king of America!
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114547
QuoteIn time, it seems to happen to all older houses, no matter how well tended they may be.
All manner of parasites, vermin, roaches, rats, worms and termites find their way into the building. Long before they're detected, they infiltrate the walls, the floors, the roofs – and then chew their way into the structure, the supporting beams and the very foundation of the house itself. Silently, surreptitiously, whole communities of invaders make places for themselves, hidden but thriving, totally unknown by the homeowner.
Then, in time, tell-tale signs are seen. Little droppings, discolored trails, proliferating piles of residue appear in corners, on tabletops, little hanging sacs from ceilings – alarming evidence that the grand old dwelling has been invaded. Decidedly unwelcome creatures have made this place their home, and by their very existence will eventually destroy the house and bring it to ruin.
What can be done, when you learn that your house has already been invaded?
Well, the tried and true remedy is tenting.
Experts come in, actually envelope the whole dwelling in a giant tent – and send a very powerful fumigant, lethal to the varmints and unwelcome creatures, into every nook and cranny of the house. Done thoroughly, every last destructive insect or rodent is sent to varmint hell – and in a day or two, the grand house is habitable again.
I believe – figuratively, but in a very real way – we need to tent the White House!
For reasons only he can explain, the current occupant has purposely brought a whole flock of social and political voracious varmints with him into our House. He doesn't own it; he hasn't even rented it; we the people have simply given him the keys and invited him to live there for four years, making it convenient to serve us better, to carry out our expressed wishes for our country.
To the dismay of millions of us, this occupant seems to think we need an emperor. Even though all polls show that the majority of Americans don't want a whole new government-run health-care system, detest the trillions of dollars in un-payable debt he has foisted on us, question the whole "global warming" scare and disagree with him on many other issues, he boldly announces: "We're going to fundamentally transform America!" And he makes it clear that he is going to cram things down our throats whether we want them or not.
QuoteNo, he wants people who think like this, in order to "radically transform America," as he has pledged.
And they will do just that, drastically ... unless we act, decisively and powerfully. Our White House is being eaten away from within. We urgently need to throw a "tent" of public remonstration and outcry over that hallowed abode, to cause them to quake and hunker down inside. And then treat the invaders, the alien rodents, to massive voter gas – the most lethal antidote to would-be tyrants and usurpers.
We must clean house – starting with our own White House.
Remember kids, landslide victories make you a usurper and tyrant, whereas having a narrow recount (marred by electoral violence) in a state where your brother is the reigning governor, and where the fact that several thousand votes for the opposition were discarded, is the normal and stable transfer of power.
Or something. Anyway, Barry The Kenyan needs to be put down with gas, you know?
Oh, holy fuck.
HAW HAW!
And because I have never heard of Godwin's Law....
http://www.richardwebster.net/print/xofratsandmen.htm
Quote from: Cain on November 13, 2009, 08:37:02 PM
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114547
Pat Boone has gone downhill fast in the last decade. He has turned into a crank in both meanings of the word.
God loves the death penalty.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116304
QuoteMore alarming to me is what appears to be an increase in people saying that capital punishment doesn't square with their "Christian faith."
Let's get something straight: There are few things the Bible is more clear about than the fact that God commands us to put murderers to death.
Not only does he command it, but he says that failure to do so results in the land being "polluted." God doesn't care about carbon dioxide emissions. He doesn't believe in "man-made catastrophic climate change." He doesn't fret about recycling. But he does care about the pollution that comes from failure to heed His commandments.
God prescribed capital punishment for murder 100 percent of the time after the Flood. You can read about it in Genesis 9:6 in His instructions on governance to Noah: "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man."
That was a key part of what we call the Noahic Covenant – God's rules for governance of the post-Flood world.
One thing you will notice about that covenant is how few rules there really were. It seemed the basis for all the law given to Noah was not killing your neighbor. And if someone did, he needed to be put to death. Pretty simple. Pretty reasonable. Especially when you consider God's reasoning, which He offers – "for in the image of God made he man."
The reason capital punishment was necessary, God explained, was because human life was so special. There had to be a blood atonement for the death of an innocent man or woman.
I bet the writer of this piece has been near a pregnant woman, or eaten prawns, which the Bible also forbids.
I love how they forget that Christians have a New Covenant through Christ.
He also forgot that we have a bad habit of occasionally killing innocent people. Oh well. Let God sort it out, I suppose.
What are you talking about Iason? Smudgy people are never innocent.
Quote from: Kai on November 19, 2009, 06:49:28 PM
What are you talking about Iason? Smudgy people are never innocent.
Yeah, they're guilty of being smudgy. Probably lots of others stuff too, let's bomb first and ask later.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/18/fox-crowd-shot-palin/
sorry if im late with this
I just kinda take it for granted Fox lies, and leave the particulars to others.
Hell, it was set up with the intention of being a conservative propaganda machine, and hires on the basis of ideological purity for the most part. Even most other networks aren't that corrupted by the political process (they're just corrupted by the more usual "I don't want to upset my sources!" pant-wetting school of journalism).
I saw no reason to create a new thread, but...
THIS JUST IN!
The temperature at the Earths Core is around a MILLION DEGREES!
Al Gore said so, thus it must be true.
CONAN O'BRIEN, HOST: Now, what about ... you talk in the book about geothermal energy...
AL GORE, NOBEL LAUREATE: Yeah, yeah.
O'BRIEN: ...and that is, as I understand it, using the heat that's generated from the core of the earth ...
GORE: Yeah.
O'BRIEN: ...to create energy, and it sounds to me like an evil plan by Lex Luthor to defeat Superman. Can you, can you tell me, is this a viable solution, geothermal energy?
GORE: It definitely is, and it's a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy - when they think about it at all - in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, 'cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot ...
I got a giggle outta that.
don't giggle at Al gore he speaks the truth... he is the man that invented the Internets and if he said the the core of the earth is a million degrees it is, and the humans are going to drowned from rising sea levels then it must be true...
Inner core is usually estimated somewhere from 5500 to 6000 K (C is just K - 273) - estimated using the melting temperature of iron at the pressure of the core
I think Gore is talking about using hot-dry rock geothermal (not the conventional geothermal). The problems are, as with conventional geothermal it's limited to where you could use it. The rocks have to be hot enough where your able to drill. In reality we can't drill that deep. For example the geothermal gradient (rate which the temperature increases with depth) in the east portion of North America is lower then that in the West. Also you need huge amounts of water to pump into the cracks and in the US (Im not sure with Canada as there is no need to resort to geothermal) the states where the gradient is sufficient enough (Nevada, New Mexico, ect.) aren't really known for their abundance of water. As well as you need bedrocks with good porosity. Also as far as I know the technology is "there", but how efficient is it?
I'd be interested to know what the gradient is in Europe, but I don't know and the few books I have up here all deal with North America.
Ok, most of this article is just "GAYS!!!!!1!!!1 :argh!:" But this one line is really really interesting:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=116595
QuoteIn fact, I think Christians are the new Negro – but that's an issue for a follow-up column.
I can't wait for that column. I want to hear all about this new opressed majority.
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on November 20, 2009, 11:36:20 PM
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=116595
My advice to the columnist...
If you don't like that way a certain church operates
go to a different church!
TI: solving everyone's problems, one post at a time
But then they couldn't stick their noses in other people's business.
Hey, they can always start their own church. happens here all the time, they just tack another pseudo biblical word on to the name.
Meadowbrook Baptist Church
Meadowbrook Biblical Baptist Church
Meadowbrook Biblical Baptist Church of Prophecy
Meadowbrook Biblical Baptist Church of Prophecy in Christ
Meadowbrook Biblical Baptist Church of Prophecy in Christs' Revival
Meadowbrook Biblical Baptist Church of Prophecy in Christs' Revival; End Times
(Ad Infinitum, Ad Nauseum)
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on November 20, 2009, 11:36:20 PM
Ok, most of this article is just "GAYS!!!!!1!!!1 :argh!:" But this one line is really really interesting:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=116595
QuoteIn fact, I think Christians are the new Negro – but that's an issue for a follow-up column.
I can't wait for that column. I want to hear all about this new opressed majority.
Ok, since I was bored I have taken the liberty of altering Mr. Sowell's words ever so slightly. Just pretend that we've gone 60 years into the past:
Quote"Interracial marriage is not a local issue but a national issue because maintaining the rule of law – or what is left of it – is a national issue of historic importance if we are not to see America degenerate into the world's largest banana republic, or worse.
"The time is long overdue to start impeaching judges who think their job is to veto laws they do not like or condone lawlessness that they agree with. An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution from which they derive their power or independent of the laws that they are sworn to uphold."
And now for Mr. Hutcherson:
QuoteThe voters will have the last word. When we go to the polls, we will not forget the public servants who think they are above the law...
Interracial couples and their supporters insist that marriage is a fundamental right, and that to deprive them of this right is the most vicious form of discrimination. They also believe that to deny them this right makes them second-class citizens.
QuoteI think the church should stop being "evangelly-fish," with no "spiritual vertebrae." Our battle cry, from here to eternity, should be, "We are not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ."
The Bible teaches in the Old and the New Testaments that Miscegenation is wrong; there is no place where Miscegenation is ever talked about in a positive light...
Do we believe that the Bible is the word of God, or not?
Yeah, no similarities there at all.
That was 169% WIN.
Quote from: LMNO on November 21, 2009, 03:53:34 AM
That was 169% WIN.
The scary part is that I changed a total of 4 words.
Hey, wanna see Kai's head explode?
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116601
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on November 24, 2009, 12:38:02 AM
Hey, wanna see Kai's head explode?
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116601
I read down to "DNA Disagrees with Darwin" and stopped. Aside from the bit about Fitzroy, which made me laugh (he wasn't much of a thinker, that one), I am appalled. And I hate you. :argh!:
ATTN ALL FUNDIES
Darwin did not come up with the idea of evolution, he explained one of the mechanisms. Evolution was established well before Origin was published,
Sarah Palin: Birther
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117956
Quote
The public is "rightfully" making questions about Barack Obama's eligibility to be president into an issue, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin declared yesterday.
"Would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?" Palin was asked in an interview on the Rusty Humphries national radio show.
"I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue. I don't have a problem with that. I don't know if I would have to bother to make it an issue, because I think that members of the electorate still want answers," she replied.
Humphries asked: "Do you think it's a fair question to be looking at?"
"I think it's a fair question, just like I think past association and past voting records – all of that is fair game," Palin said. "The McCain-Palin campaign didn't do a good enough job in that area."
Palin said it was legitimate to question Obama's eligibility, referring to "the weird conspiracy theory freaky thing that people talk about that Trig isn't my real son – 'You need to produce his birth certificate, you need to prove that he's your kid,' which we have done.
"Maybe we can reverse that, and use the same [inaudible] thinking on the other one," she added.
:lulz:
So because Andrew Sullivan (the commie!) and some Daily Kos diarist think her daughter might really be her grandaughter, its OK for OVER 50% OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY to suggest Obama is a Kenyan terrorist.
That is basically Palin's point.
Damn I cant wait to start her book.
Now that she doesn't have Steve Schmidt keeping a lid on things, it's ALL coming out.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on December 07, 2009, 07:02:25 PM
Now that she doesn't have Steve Schmidt keeping a lid on things, it's ALL coming out.
Ain't it cool? :lulz:
So, since the guy Huckabee let off the hook went and killed those police officers, it would make perfect timing for Fox to give him the heave ho and give Sarah a show. Please, oh please!
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on December 07, 2009, 07:21:24 PM
So, since the guy Huckabee let off the hook went and killed those police officers, it would make perfect timing for Fox to give him the heave ho and give Sarah a show. Please, oh please!
It's the only thing I can think of that would make this shit funnier.
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on November 20, 2009, 11:36:20 PM
Ok, most of this article is just "GAYS!!!!!1!!!1 :argh!:" But this one line is really really interesting:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=116595
QuoteIn fact, I think Christians are the new Negro – but that's an issue for a follow-up column.
I can't wait for that column. I want to hear all about this new opressed majority.
Ask and you shall receive.
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=118459
QuoteToday, my constitutional right of freedom of religion is being eroded again by laws such as the Hate Crimes Bill and repeated attacks by the politically correct crowd. Threats that came along as a result of an African American wanting to get out from under Jim Crow laws were formidable and scary and designed to keep African Americans quiet. The same thing is happening to Christians today.
That's right. Not letting Christians beat the shit out of homosexuals violates their freedom of religion.
QuoteAnother way secular society is trying to control Christians is by the fallacy of the separation of church and state. That establishment clause was intended to protect the church from the state, not to keep the church from participating in the state. Christians' ignorance of the meaning of the establishment clause has allowed us to be controlled just like the African Americans were in the 1950s and '60s.
This doesn't sound like a Wall of Separation so much as a door that one side can open anytime they want but the other can't.
QuoteMany may question why I'm writing this article because they can't see the fight in our society and world concerning the overt attack on Judeo-Christian values.
If you don't believe one could be attacked for their stand on Judeo-Christian beliefs alone, take the case of Miss California, Carrie Prejean. Look at her refusal to compromise her Christian values. She has been vilified, demonized and lost her title simply because of her constitutional right to freedom of religion. What is so encouraging is that she will not compromise; she will not give up her values and would rather please God than take what the world has to offer her.
I didn't realize that making solo sex tapes was now a Christian value. I need to go to church more often, obviously.
QuoteSarah Palin is another example.
:weary:
QuoteThe politically correct crowd has a very difficult time dealing with Sarah because of who she is. Mrs. Palin is a pro-life, pro-gun, pro-traditional marriage, pro-hunting, white, conservative, Christian male who happened to have been born a woman! The politically correct crowd knows exactly what to do with a white male with those attributes, but a woman?
She is the perfect picture of the politically correct woman – strong, beautiful, able to both buy and fry the bacon, take care of the family, run an entire state and still take care of her baby. But because of who she is, and because she does not subscribe to politically correct thinking, she has been attacked for no other reason than her Judeo-Christian values, just as African Americans were attacked for no other reason than their skin color.
No, people attack Sarah Palin for being an ignorant hick who has a tendency to lie her ass off and quit when the going gets tough. She isn't qualified to run a Dairy Queen.
QuoteIf you still don't think Christians are being attacked for our beliefs, consider Pastor Ake Green in Sweden and Pastor Stephen Boisson in Canada and many other men of God around the world who have been jailed and had their non-profit status threatened because they dare to call homosexuality a sin.
Uh... both of those guys were acquitted and neither spent any time in jail. You are still allowed to call homosexuals subhuman scum that want to destroy all children in every country in the world AFAIK.
QuoteThe sad commentary is many Christians have backed off our God-given responsibility to tell the truth because secular society has deemed the truth "political." Marriage is a church issue,
No, marriage is a legal issue seeing as it is a contract.
Quotepornography is a church issue,
Nope, that's free speech.
Quotehomosexuality is a church issue
Yes, we know. You hate the gays..
Quoteand divorce is a church issue
Ooh, yes! Let's see you back the divorce ban in California. That would really protect the sanctity of marriage.
QuoteThe problem is, as soon as the secular elites named them political, the evangelical church – especially the white evangelical church – retreated and held up the cowardly white flag.
You dumbasses are the one that decided to make everything political in the 70s because you got power hungry. What ever happened to "Render unto Caesar?"
QuoteHow about the wonderful greeting, "Happy Holidays!"? Department stores are afraid to put up signs with the word "Christmas" on them. Don't mistakenly think this is anything new. Secular society began taking Christ out of Christmas when they started calling it "Xmas" – and we let it happen.
You dumbass! Christians are the one that started the tradition of writing it Xmas. It's been around since at least the early 1800s and it meant to pay homage to the Chi Rho christogram. Shouldn't the senior pastor of a church be trained in stuff like this?
QuoteIn my wonderful state of Washington just last year, Gov. Christine Gregoire and the state legislators allowed an Atheist Manifesto to be put up right next to the Nativity scene of our Lord Jesus Christ! I have to say straightforward: the state of Washington is the armpit of the United States, and our lovely legislators are supplying the odiferous scent to the armpit.
Oh noes! The government treated other religion equally. How stinky of them!!!
QuoteThe only difference between Christians and African Americans is that Christians put up with this intolerance while standing behind the false disguise of humility and love. We are obsessed with showing the world our love when our primary job is to tell them the truth. The Bible does not say, "Sensitivity shall set you free." It says, "The truth shall set you free." Are we not the truth-tellers?
When are we as believers, like the African Americans that came before us, going to say, enough is enough? No more "separate but equal!" Our battle cry is "We are the salt of the earth, onward Christian soldiers and to God be the glory! For in unity we will stand and we will not be stopped!
What a whiner! If he wants to see real intolerance he should try some street preaching in Saudi Arabia. Let's see how long he makes it.
What a fruit-loop.
A quick run down of their top 10 stories of the year:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119774
1. Czar wars - Lies about Van Jones, Cass Sunstein, and Kevin Jennings
2. U.S. Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean - Because it is heroic to shoot a guy in the butt.
3. Is Barack Obama constitutionally eligible to serve as president? - BIRTHER MADNESS!!!
4. "Where's the birth certificate?" - Uh... isn't this the same as #3?
5. Department of Homeland Security vs. "right-wing extremists" - Wingnuts only like profiling when it is done to brown people.
6. Something in the air - Teabaggers yelling at random people!
7. Miss California Carrie Prejean - How have her sex tapes not been leaked to the internet yet? C'mon people!
8. The "pink-slips" campaign - I guarantee no one outside of WND even cares about this stupid waste of paper.
9. Michael Savage banned in Britain - Now, if only we could get him banned here...
10. Muslim Mafia - People pull an ACORN-like sting on CAIR. No one ends up CAIRing.
wow nothing about communism and health care
strange...
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on December 10, 2009, 05:08:41 PM
QuoteI have to say straightforward: the state of Washington is the armpit of the United States,
I wonder if he says that to his congregation every Sunday in Kirkland,
WAI'm sure they all love having their state called the armpit of the country. Especially from this asshole coming from Alabama.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120712
QuoteSince the end of World War II, I contend that we have an even more wicked, incorrigible enemy that Western civilization must fight, but unlike Hitler's conspicuous legions of Brownshirts and SS shock troops goose-stepping in front of the Reichstag, this enemy of modern times, this Liberal-Muslim Axis has as its greatest weapon deception, lies and Machiavellian tactics. They hide in the halls of Congress , the White House, the courts, behind 501(c)(3) organizations. The Muslim Axis powers hide behind Allah, Muhammad, the Quran, women's burqas, among civilians; inside Mosques, caves and desolate places in the mountains of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, as well as inside the halls of power in England, France and America.
Conventional wisdom tells us that the greatest trick of the devil was to make everyone believe that he doesn't exist. Likewise, the greatest trick of the Liberal-Muslim Axis is to maneuver and wield vast religious, political and economic power without alerting people who they really are.
:omg:
I saw this via Twitter, earlier in the day.
Basically, Muslims and liberals are everywhere, including under your bed and in your worst nightmares. And they do LIBERAL-MUSLIMY THINGS INSIDE YOUR HEAD.
Quote from: Cain on January 03, 2010, 08:36:44 PM
I saw this via Twitter, earlier in the day.
Basically, Muslims and liberals are everywhere, including under your bed and in your worst nightmares. And they do LIBERAL-MUSLIMY THINGS INSIDE YOUR HEAD.
Billy was having these aching nightmares recently. In his dreams, Muslims and liberals were everywhere, under his bed, in his closet, and they were taking over his mind. He would wake up in a cold sweat, chest heaving, sick to his stomach.
After several weeks of this, he went to his parents and told them about his nightmares. He told them that the Muslims and liberals were invading his mind, and he didn't know what to do. His parents told him, "But Billy, you ARE a Liberal-Muslim."
And then Billy was a Liberal-Muslim.
You know who really sucks? Smart people, that's who!!!
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=121004
QuoteThose whose careers are built on the creation and dissemination of ideas - the intellectuals - have played a role in many societies out of all proportion to their numbers. Whether that role has, on net balance, made those around them better off or worse off is one of the key questions of our times.
The quick answer is that intellectuals have done both. But certainly, for the 20th century, it is hard to escape the conclusion that intellectuals have on net balance made the world a worse and more dangerous place. Scarcely a mass-murdering dictator of the 20th century was without his supporters, admirers or apologists among the leading intellectuals - not only within his own country, but in foreign democracies, where intellectuals were free to say whatever they wanted to...
Some of the most distinguished intellectuals in the Western world in the 1930s gave ringing praise to the Soviet Union, while millions of people there were literally starved to death and vast numbers of others were being shipped off to slave-labor camps.
Many of those same distinguished intellectuals of the 1930s were urging their own countries to disarm while Hitler was rapidly arming Germany for wars of conquest that would have, among other things, put many of those intellectuals in concentration camps – slated for extermination – if he had succeeded.
The 1930s were by no means unique. In too many other eras – including our own today – intellectuals of unquestionable brilliance have advocated similarly childish and dangerous notions. How and why such patterns have existed among intellectuals is a challenging question, whose answer can determine the fate of millions of other people.
Written by Thomas Sowell, a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. My irony meter is now broken.
When I play Tropico intellectuals are the first people I kill
So, what is Sowell's proposed solution?
More reality TV, I suspect.
LMNO
-Is waiting for The Real Housewives of Downtown Baltimore.
Quote from: LMNO on January 08, 2010, 04:58:21 PM
More reality TV, I suspect.
LMNO
-Is waiting for The Real Housewives of Downtown Baltimore.
I'm guessing he'll call for a mandatory quota of conservative professors at all universities.
Wait, would this be the same economics professor Thomas Sowell, who writes for intellectual conservative publications like National Review and the Weekly Standard in addition to recieving Wingnut Welfare from the Hoover Institute?
Ouch, looks like someone just pwnd themselves hard.
Quote from: Cain on January 08, 2010, 10:41:13 PM
Wait, would this be the same economics professor Thomas Sowell, who writes for intellectual conservative publications like National Review and the Weekly Standard in addition to recieving Wingnut Welfare from the Hoover Institute?
Ouch, looks like someone just pwnd themselves hard.
One and the same. I swear that he's done a column similar to this one before but I don't have the stomach to actually dive through his archive.
Wow, it's almost been a month since I posted anything here. Anyways...
Rules for living in my country
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=123826
QuoteDear Potential Immigrant:
Now that you've decided to make your way to these treasured shores, ostensibly in search of freedom and the opportunity to build a better life, there are some things you need to know. I'd like to assume that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services filled you in on them, but I'm going to tell you myself anyway just to be sure.
First, the United States of America was founded, although not directly on the Bible itself, at least on biblical values. You do not have to believe as I believe to live here in my good graces, but you do have to abide by the biblical worldview governing ethical behavior, upon which all Western civilization, ultimately, is based.
The primary biblical value underlying all others is telling the truth. I don't know you personally or even which part of the world you are from, but if you think some sort of "holy deception" is permissible when filling out your paperwork, forget it. As we see it, lying is lying, and frankly we don't care what your culture thinks. If you get caught breaking our laws or betraying our country, you're out of here. Period.
So, then, let's go over some of the principles our first two centuries of immigrants intuitively understood and that many of today's immigrants, for some reason, apparently do not. I don't mean to insult you by belaboring the obvious, but better too much clarity now than a big surprise for both of us down the road.
You cannot own people here. This includes domestic servants and family members. You cannot beat or mutilate your children. You cannot force, threaten, or sell them into arranged marriages. You cannot keep adult relatives from marrying the people they choose, getting jobs, or moving out of your house. You cannot hold your employees captive, beat or rape them, or refuse to pay agreed-upon wages. It took us 200 years to get rid of institutionalized slavery, and we are not about to reinstate it because one of your holy men thinks it's acceptable behavior.
You cannot kill people here. Not your wife. Not your children. Not your grandchildren. Not people who question your honor or hurt your feelings. Not people who quit your religion. Not people of other faiths or ethnicities whom you regard as apes, pigs, monkeys, or dogs.
You cannot take over our lawful institutions and subvert them to you own purposes. If you are a communist and want to overthrow our government, we don't want you. We have enough of our own, so try Cuba or China. If you are a Nazi sympathizer we don't want you either; a Middle Eastern country may be more to your liking anyway. If you are coming here to convert us to any ideology that abrogates our dignity or freedom, don't even get off the plane. We don't care what it says in your holy book; we are not here for you to colonize.
You need to ask questions before you accept employment. If your belief system requires a special place to bathe your feet or time off to pray at work, tell your employer before you hire on. If you are going to refuse to work next to a person of the opposite sex or refuse to perform some required function of the job, your interview is the time to make this plain. Come to think of it, before you leave your country of origin would be even better. It would also give you more time to find an employer willing to make special accommodations, not an easy sell in these times of strong competition and 10 percent unemployment. Just remember that U.S. companies are under no obligation to adapt to your newfound needs after hiring has taken place.
You get only one wife. If that's not enough, it's called bigamy – and you would be subject to state laws regarding that particular felony. Some states also have laws against cohabitation, which is the legal definition of what you would be doing. Also, please note that the rest of us do not intend to support any surplus "spouses" with our tax money through entitlement programs.
You alone are responsible for your actions. The devil does not "make" you do anything. If you get in trouble for punching your neighbor, it's because you're violent, not because you're poor. If you get caught cheating on your taxes, it's because you're a crook, not because the auditor hates you.
A woman's outfit or hairstyle does not "make" you rape her. Maybe your mommy never told you this, but keep your hands off other people. The vast majority of men in most cultures – America's included – manage this successfully all the time. So if you find yourself standing in front of a judge someday explaining that you just "couldn't" control yourself, don't be too surprised if he doesn't buy your story.
Still want to come here after knowing these things? As you may have heard, right now we are full up. If, however, someday we manage to elect a government with the intestinal fortitude to find and deport an estimated 10-20 million illegal intruders and overstayers, and if we determine that the loyalty and skills you have to offer could benefit our already great nation, then there might be a place for you here.
How fulfilling it would be for you to know we really mean it, when you finally hear those magical words, "Welcome to America!"
I bet my next paycheck that she has never been outside the borders of the United States.
Mexicans (the largest single country of origin for immigrants to the US) are of course well known for their belief in holy deception, child mutiliation, rape, hating the Bible, slavery, bigamy and subverting lawful institutions.
Quote from: Cain on February 04, 2010, 12:03:27 AM
Americans (the largest single country of origin for immigrants to the US) are of course well known for their belief in holy deception, child mutiliation, rape, hating the Bible, slavery, bigamy and subverting lawful institutions.
All-too-obvious fix.
It's obvious this article was addressed towards Mooosleims.
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on January 08, 2010, 04:21:05 PM
You know who really sucks? Smart people, that's who!!!
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=121004
QuoteThose whose careers are built on the creation and dissemination of ideas - the intellectuals - have played a role in many societies out of all proportion to their numbers. Whether that role has, on net balance, made those around them better off or worse off is one of the key questions of our times.
The quick answer is that intellectuals have done both. But certainly, for the 20th century, it is hard to escape the conclusion that intellectuals have on net balance made the world a worse and more dangerous place. Scarcely a mass-murdering dictator of the 20th century was without his supporters, admirers or apologists among the leading intellectuals - not only within his own country, but in foreign democracies, where intellectuals were free to say whatever they wanted to...
Some of the most distinguished intellectuals in the Western world in the 1930s gave ringing praise to the Soviet Union, while millions of people there were literally starved to death and vast numbers of others were being shipped off to slave-labor camps.
Many of those same distinguished intellectuals of the 1930s were urging their own countries to disarm while Hitler was rapidly arming Germany for wars of conquest that would have, among other things, put many of those intellectuals in concentration camps – slated for extermination – if he had succeeded.
The 1930s were by no means unique. In too many other eras – including our own today – intellectuals of unquestionable brilliance have advocated similarly childish and dangerous notions. How and why such patterns have existed among intellectuals is a challenging question, whose answer can determine the fate of millions of other people.
Written by Thomas Sowell, a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. My irony meter is now broken.
Anti-intellectualism is a favorite hobbyhorse/scapegoat/strawman for the average Conservatard to ride. It gets old, realllll fast, esp when most of the reigning Republitards are well-heeled and hold at least 2 degrees below zero.
Quote from: Kai on February 04, 2010, 01:51:44 PM
It's obvious this article was addressed towards Mooosleims.
I don't know, Kai. You have to watch out for those evil Catholics. They aren't even True Christians.
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on February 05, 2010, 01:23:39 AM
Quote from: Kai on February 04, 2010, 01:51:44 PM
It's obvious this article was addressed towards Mooosleims.
I don't know, Kai. You have to watch out for those evil Catholics. They aren't even True Christians.
Har, my mom likes to peddle that one about. Though I did hear in church that was because they still used a priest to talk to God and prayed to Mary and the Saints (in Soviet Jesustown, you pray to God and his H.S. and The Jeeze, that's it).
Sorry, but LOL SOVIET JESUSTOWN.
BTW: the Muslim view my husband grew up with about Christianity goes similarly, that they are superior because they are PURISTS who only pray to ONE god, not myriad manifestations of him. To Muslims, a son and a "holy ghost" are just plain silly (to this day my husband calls them the "holy furniture"). ETA: tantamount to idolatry, which is why they are so adamant about no pictures of Mohammad, or Allah.
Birtherism = McCarthyism!!!
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=124693
QuoteBack in the 1950s, the Communist Party USA was on the ropes.
Most Americans understood the threat posed by a totalitarian, foreign-directed organization hell-bent on destroying their way of life from within.
But then the Communists got a brilliant idea. They launched a campaign against anti-communism.
Anyone who spoke out against the party was derided as a "red-baiter." They "saw Communists under every bed." They were delusional.
Fellow travelers and useful idiots were recruited into the campaign against anti-communism. Soon, it became less popular and less "cool" to be an anti-communist than to be a card-carrying member of Josef Stalin's subversive operation "inside the belly of the beast."
Why am I reliving this history?
Because the very same kind of drill is being run today against another righteous American cause – the deep and visceral concerns that Barack Obama has never been held to prove his constitutional eligibility for the highest office in the land.
QuoteThere is only one reason "birthers" are being scorned and repudiated and marginalized today by the left and the soft right: It's because of the same kind of vicious, oppressive, anti-intellectual campaign run against the anti-communists of a previous era.
It's just "not cool" to be a "birther."
:lulz:
Does this mean McCarthy was a Soviet agent?
And that the MSM are Kenyan agents?
I think it means that Farah is McCarthy and all journalists are Commie.
WND hasn't had a good "Teh Gheys are destroyin' Americuh" story lately:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=125178
QuoteIn 1962, the Supreme Court in its wisdom ordered God removed from public schools under the mythical exclusion clause in the Constitution. Next came abortion on demand – a woman's right to murder her unborn child because of its inconvenience – the idea being it's a "choice," not a child. Paralleling abortion on demand were the '60s. Sex, drugs, God is dead, and if it feels good do it.
Under the guise of sensitivity awareness, a greater threat to children than polio is forced upon every grade level. Marjorie King's definitive exposition "Queering the Schools" (City Journal, Spring 2003), lays bare the homosexual activist's plan for public education.
Many evangelical churches and church groups stood by (some more smugly than others) as homosexuality weakened, then split and finally destroyed mainline churches. Now the larvae of our tolerance are hatching. Which brings us to the greatest threat to marriage, family and child rearing in the history of America – homosexual marriage and same-sex unions.
In his brilliant exposition, "The End of Marriage in Scandinavia – The 'conservative case' for same-sex marriage collapses" (Weekly Standard, Feb. 2, 2004), Stanley Kurtz, in frighteningly graphic factuality, writes that marriage and the American family as it now exists will soon be no more. He presents in clear terms that the United States is in the second of the four-stage death process of marriage, family and child rearing.
Homosexual activists try to posit the same-sex marriage movement as similar to the civil-rights movements. But per my comments in an Associated Press article not long ago, "the whole thing bespeaks of something much deeper and more insidious than 'we just want to get married.' They want to change the entire social order."
As Kurtz puts it, "Americans take it for granted that, despite recent troubles, marriage will always exist. This is a mistake. Marriage is disappearing in Scandinavia, and the forces undermining it there are active throughout the West."
The stage has been meticulously set. God, church and authority no longer have the meaning they did scant few decades ago. The Bible – the definitive guide to leading a Spirit-filled life – is now viewed as little more than a book written by sexist men. It is intellectualized, instead of believed. As clearly presented as sin is in the Scriptures, church leaders with the disregard of a second-story robber routinely dismiss the teachings of same.
Under the pretense of enlightenment, good will, being hip or not wanting to be the only one, parents give tacit approval for their children to be socially programmed.
Gays are more dangerous than POLIO?
:lulz:
Isn't Kurtz the resident Birther at NRO?
Quote from: Cain on February 22, 2010, 04:33:27 PM
Isn't Kurtz the resident Birther at NRO?
I can't find anything about him being a birther but he was one of the first people to push the ACORN and Bill Ayers conspiracy theories.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 22, 2010, 04:32:13 PM
Gays are more dangerous than POLIO?
:lulz:
EXPERIMENT TIEM!
Quote from: Jason Wabash on February 22, 2010, 05:57:45 PM
Quote from: Cain on February 22, 2010, 04:33:27 PM
Isn't Kurtz the resident Birther at NRO?
I can't find anything about him being a birther but he was one of the first people to push the ACORN and Bill Ayers conspiracy theories.
Ah, maybe it was Bill Ayer then. I just remember Kurtz being involved in something really stupid during the election period, and I mean stupid by NRO's "liberal fascism" standards, so something quite special.
I have too many rhetorical questions now. :kingmeh:
Chuck Norris has decided to treat us to a three part series where he screams "THEYS GONNA TAKE OUR GUNS!!1!!"
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=145629
QuoteRight now, Washington is scheming and scamming to erode then erase the Second Amendment from our Constitution. And it will accomplish it through the signing of international treaties on gun control, bypassing the normal legislative process in Congress, tightening regulations upon firearm and ammunition manufacturers, using the antigun financing of tycoons and ultimately confiscating all firearms under the guise of terrorism patrol and enforcement. Without public debate and cloaked in secrecy, gun control will covertly come upon us like a thief in the night. One day, we will wake up to discover that the U.S. has signed a global treaty that will prohibit any transfer of firearm ownership, force reductions in the number of firearms privately owned and eventually eradicate the planet of guns for law-abiding citizens. Of course, the criminals will still illegally have their guns. And on that day, if you do not comply with that global treaty, you will be fined and face imprisonment. This is not a fictitious story or false warning. As sure as government health care has been shoved down our throats, so will the barrels of our guns. And left with little defense, we will go as lambs to the slaughter.
I believe the political stars are aligning right now for just such a "perfect storm" of domestic disarmament: via the election and work of an antigun president, the disarmament passions of the Washington elites and the United Nations, the appointments of gun prohibitionists from the White House to the Supreme Court, and the funding of an anti–Second Amendment movement by billionaire progressives like George Soros.
Even if Obama wanted to go after everyone's guns (and everything I've seen says he's pretty much a centrist on that issue), he has so much other crap he wants to do, he'd never get to it.
Ok, reality check on this before I go screaming at Norris, again.
Are there any anti-gun or anti ammunition bills being considered, or in committee, or the entire entire anti-gun conspiracy three representatives from New York that everyone is ignoring? Cause as far as I can tell, the entire thing is being manufactured to drive up prices.
Yeah, it's pretty much in the same vein as the Fairness Doctrine and the VAT. They are ideas that may have been voiced by someone on the liberal side of things, but nobody has actually proposed any legislation that would put either into place. So the right does this thing where they question aloud if the liberals are going to go down that road, and it automatically turns into that they ARE going down that road.
I get regular blast emails from the Obamaites and their agenda doesn't seem to include gun control atm.
Obama at least said he was going to bring gun control back in his campaign. But expecting a politician to keep a campaign promise is not exactly the brightest move in the book.
There's simply no support for it in the senate regardless, when the 'assault weapon' bill came up for renewal seven senators voted for it. Where do they expect another 43 to come from? I really do think the gun lobby is stirring up shit just so they can raise prices.
Eric Holder tried this at the beginning of Obama's term. Both parties in congress told him to piss up a rope.
It's a non-starter.
Quote from: Requia ☣ on April 27, 2010, 06:58:47 PM
Obama at least said he was going to bring gun control back in his campaign. But expecting a politician to keep a campaign promise is not exactly the brightest move in the book.
There's simply no support for it in the senate regardless, when the 'assault weapon' bill came up for renewal seven senators voted for it. Where do they expect another 43 to come from? I really do think the gun lobby is stirring up shit just so they can raise prices.
titcm
when Obama won, my dad and my business about doubled.
especially the 'scary' stuff that would fall under an AWB. and subsonic ammo. that went up a ton, too.
NRA named Obama 'Gun Salesman of the Year'. heh.
The oil slick isn't really that bad.
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=170525
QuoteWith the 24/7 media attention that's been devoted to the ecological disaster, it is easy to regard the leak as the worst thing that's ever happened to the environment. But even now it only ranks as about the 35th worst oil spill in the past hundred years. Something else that we should not lose sight of is that the Gulf is a magnet for hurricanes, just as California is one for earthquakes and New York City is one for Islamic terrorists. That means that bad stuff is always going to be happening – and if people are going to live in such places, they have to accept the risks. British Petroleum will not always be around to pay for the cleanup.
I'm pretty sure reading this entire thread through raised my blood pressure. Or at least gave me a headache. :argh!:
Quote– and if people are going to live in such places, they have to accept the risks. British Petroleum will not always be around to pay for the cleanup.
:lulz:
Never mind that British Petroleum made the mess.
wait, he says they should accept the risk, referring to hurricanes, and then says that BP isn't always going to be there to pay for the cleanup?
is BP going to pay for hurricane cleanups?
wtf is he talking about?
someone that lives near him should shit on his doorstep. if he's going to live there, he should accept that risk...