A challenge for all Bush-Haters

[Hoshiko]

Jesus people, slow down...

My poor dialup can't take it.  :P

Dial up?

Does your computer have wooden keys?

Hey, you leave my keyboard alone. It made it through the Civil War, I'll have you know!

My computer is so old, I post using punch cards.

So we can blame most of your posts on pregnant or hanging chads?

[Scytano]

I disagree, but that's nothing that either of us can really prove. I doubt Kerry would have made the same Supreme Court Appointment decisions, for example..

Well that hasn't happened yet. For all we know there might not even be any new appointments to the court during this term.

Bingo. Now add in the fact that he's not really looking to ban gay marriage per se and we'll have a winner.

He wants to change the constitution solely for the purpose of denying rights to gay people. If you are going to deny rights there should be a good reason for it, and I can see none here.

What, you thought he was serious about all of that religious stuff? No, he never wanted a gay marriage ban himself, he wanted the voters that did. He catered to the ultra right but he himself has no personal agendas beyond making money for him and his friends.

I disagree. I think he really wants to "preserve marriage". Maybe he is really for civil unions, but I don't think the man is a liar... when he says he wants marriage to remain between a man and a woman I take his word for it.

He's a party boy at heart playing the conservative, and playing it badly

Well, he's certainly not an economic conservative.

[agent compassion]

I'm also a jingoistic freak with the morals of Roy Cohn, but that should not affect my credibility.

Hell yeah! Post editing is a hoot!

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Pure slander.

I am a regular Buddha.

No, you're an irregular Buddha.

[East Coast Hustle]

listen, I don't know about you, but for now, I live in AMERICA, not Iran or North Korea...so yeah, it IS ok that we have nukes and will use force to keep other countries from acquiring them...I don't think "kill them before they kill us" is a good or desireable solution, but it might be the only VIABLE solution, and when it comes to them or me, there's no question that I'm going with "me"

I'm also a jingoistic freak with the morals of Roy Cohn, but that should not affect my credibility.

Hell yeah!  Post editting is a hoot!

I'd be more likely to be properly insulted if I had any idea who Roy Cohn was...but if he has morals, you probably shouldn't compare him to me....

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Whats a computer?

The spirit box that is showing you this.

If it stops working, just shake a few beads, and throw a little sand.

If that doesn't work, sacrifice your hamster.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I'd be more likely to be properly insulted if I had any idea who Roy Cohn was...

[agent compassion]

Well, he's certainly not an economic conservative.

Maybe he just really likes canned fruit spreads?



I mean, geez, I like fruit spread as much as anyone else, but I don't think it needs to be in the frickin' Constitution....

[The Good Reverend Roger]

So we can blame most of your posts on pregnant or hanging chads?

Don't look at me.  *I* didn't get Chad pregnant.

[Hoshiko]

Well, the last guy to try it was Jesus.

And you saw what happened to HIM...and what they twisted his words into, later.

The answer, historically, is "no".

Yes, yes, and there were many others. Siddhartha Gautama (actually got somewhere but only in asia) and the bodhisattvas that followed after. The dali lama (got booted from his own country), Mahatmas Ghandi (was hated by the very people he loved, mainly the untouchables) and mother teresa (held back by the CC).

But I've got to do something. Something big. Something big that will be peaceful, but won't be seen as weak. Something strong, but humble. Something that would turn the eyes of the leaders of the world, but not because they can make a profit.

<...grasping at the air...>

You lost me when you got to Mother Teresa. She was no saint, my friend. She used the dying and sick as cash cows for the Catholic Church and horded most of that away.

She herself said that her purpose was not to heal or give comfort, but to save the souls of those who were dying dirty and under-fed in her "hospitals". Many of those people could have been cured if she had actually used the money for that purpose.

Very few actually do good for good itself. Most have something to gain. Don't fall into that trap of thinking that you're any different.

[Cain]

Whats a computer?

The spirit box that is showing you this.

If it stops working, just shake a few beads, and throw a little sand.

If that doesn't work, sacrifice your hamster.

Ah, I think I have a wind up version.  It sure as hell has that effect on me.

[Scytano]

Well, he's certainly not an economic conservative.

Maybe he just really likes canned fruit spreads?



I mean, geez, I like fruit spread as much as anyone else, but I don't think it needs to be in the frickin' Constitution....

He's for the fruit spread, however if you want to spread your fruit in queer ways you will have to buy civil cans.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

No, you're an irregular Buddha.

Guerrilla Buddhists!  RAH!

WE WILL MARCH ON A ROAD OF BONES!*




(* - No beef bones, please)

[Hoshiko]

So we can blame most of your posts on pregnant or hanging chads?

Don't look at me.  *I* didn't get Chad pregnant.

You'll say anything to get out of the child support, won't you?

Be careful, they give papercuts.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

You lost me when you got to Mother Teresa. She was no saint, my friend. She used the dying and sick as cash cows for the Catholic Church and horded most of that away.

Link, please.

[East Coast Hustle]

*yawn*

all this mindless idealism tires me...

I'll come back tomorrow and see if anyone's got anything to say that has a shred of realism in it anywhere....