Open thread 2/25

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  1. Kansas
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:47 am | Permalink

    Construction on the Tower of Babel (these blogs) is about to begin!

  2. Steven Davis
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:23 am | Permalink

    In this article, Disowned by the Ownership Society, this author claims that the “ownership society” mantra was a scam by conservatives. I don’t know about that, but the differences in perspectives of the groups she describes accounts for much endless bickering on this blog.

    http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080218/klein

    Warning: this is a liberal rag…

  3. Pleefer
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:31 am | Permalink

    I noticed that the Marine never answered me from yesterday’s open thread. You should all fear the mantality of that guy. He is claiming moral high ground but will not hesitate to shoot you and disarm you, all in the name of “taking orders”. He will kill his friends and family if asked to.

    He must find it easy to ignore the tinfoilers, cause he doesn’t have to address any real issues. All this guy wants to talk about it his Superior Christianity and if I felt like it, I could dismantle and dissect the Bible all day long. And some of the drivel he speaks of makes me want to, but I love what Yahushua taught and it’s very explicit in his intent. What the Marine does with the teaching is just plain backwards. But he’s a good crusader I suppose.

    God loves that in creation.

    I’m not trying to build some trap here, I just want an answer from the guy.

    Will you shoot your family and friends if ordered? Will you disarm or kill your fellow Americans if ordered?

    I know you don’t have to answer such stupid questions…

  4. writerdog
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:41 am | Permalink

    Hank is it too late to e-mail, I have the flu and have not been running on all eight cylinders.
    It would be my hope that it is not to the exclusion of those on the left, true enough that there are some on both sides of this add nothing and sound that perhaps mom should be limiting the internet access. But for the most part there are also many on both sides that come here with reason and thoughtfulness. Those character qualities are not limited by party affiliation. And yes I know that I am not saying anything to you that you do not already know.

  5. lindainks55
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:03 am | Permalink

    Dog,

    I’m sorry you’ve been ill and hope you’re much better.

    If you’re still around could you email those links you gave me a couple of weeks ago, please? I promise to bookmark this time.

    Thanks in advance!

  6. Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:12 am | Permalink

    Good Morning, Linda!!

  7. Pleefer
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:29 am | Permalink

    And writerdog, linda told me last night that we have a lot in common when it comes to research and doing homework.

    Infowarrior?

  8. writerdog
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:42 am | Permalink

    Steven Davis, that is an interesting article and I have seen the same logic in the company I work for.
    Stock ownership and a bonus that is based on the profit of the store. Both to give the employees a feeling of “vested interest” in the operation and the welfare of the company. In reality it is a small investment from the company’s view point that may yield a greater dividend. If one were to invest thirty years of their life into the service of the company. Without ever selling their stock, it would give an retiree a lovely nest egg. It was listed once in the fortune five hundred toward the bottom of the best companies to work for because of that.

    In principle there is nothing wrong with the logic, most people are not after great wealth just to live happily.
    That is why true Capitalism works well, not everyone wants to be the CEO. The downfall as we have seen with the effect on the housing market and the mortgage companies is you can not bring it around solely on paper. Making it out of thin air, it has to be done in the rock solid. It would be like winning a new car, you do not have the expense of buying it. But can not afford the taxes, insurance and upkeep on it so you can not even drive it. That is why Reich referred to it as “hokum”, if the Bush administration was a new business they would have closed in the first four months. They and their fiscal advisors have the same “fiscal responsibility” of a college freshman with his first credit card. “who needs money I have a credit card!”.

    And speaking of Fiscal conservatives, while on the site I read an article that not only explains why I became a Ron Paul supporter but also the reality of the economy.

    http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080218/howl

    And Steven I thought you said it was a “liberal rag” most of what I saw there reminded me of “real Conservative” thoughts. LOL

  9. ghotiphaze
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:45 am | Permalink

    I could dismantle and dissect the Bible all day long.

    Probably one of my better days was when the Jehova’s Witlesses left my door kicking my cat. Just getting cussed out by them began to get blase. I’m proud to say they’ve not ‘graced’ my door in nearly 5 years.

  10. Pleefer
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:48 am | Permalink

    heheheheheh.

  11. writerdog
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:56 am | Permalink

    And writerdog, linda told me last night that we have a lot in common when it comes to research and doing homework.
    Infowarrior?

    Well I can’t dance and when I sing dogs howl! In today’s political climate, bullets are of no use. The only weapon left is information and logic. At times I feel fortunate, if it a battle of wits some seem to come short on ammo. But only on certain topics like the Neoconservatives and their ideology I had to be a quick study.
    The rest of the world I have always been a news junkie and do try to find out when I realize I do not know.
    But that is why I know our current efforts against Al-Qaeda will not be effective. It is the history of such movements that shows they will self implode. But yes infowarror is a good term.

  12. Steven Davis
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:03 am | Permalink

    Thanks for the link, Dog. If you read The Nation, it is hard to escape that it is a liberal publication. They are sympathetic to Ron Paul in the article, though. Ron Paul’s campaign is emblematic of one political truth in America: Speak the truth, you will be ignored, reviled, and never elected. Sad, but true.

    The message of “I will cut popular federal programs” just does not get one elected. Instead we elect liars who tell us “deficits don’t matter” – “let’s keep living off of that credit card we never have to pay back.” When our day of reckoning comes, I hope it is not as bad as it could be.

  13. Pleefer
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:14 am | Permalink

    It’ll be one heck of a wake up call when folks start realizing that our creditors aren’t the annoying and mean spirited folks on the other end of the phone or the writers of snotty, “you owe us” letters. Our creditors are a nation that is Red in nature with a lot of people in their army.

    Again, this whole “Kosovo Independence” thing is pretty dang scary. It’s like taking Tejas away from the States.

    But as far as “news” goes, at least we know who won the Oscar’s.

  14. Pleefer
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:15 am | Permalink

    When do you think Bushco will decide that Youtube ought to be blocked over here, you know? for our safety?

  15. writerdog
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:24 am | Permalink

    Thanks Linda I am feeling better but still weak, here there are plus some I did not post the last time.
    Oddly the link to the series “why we fight” shows it was deleted for TOS on youtube?
    I hope this is what you are looking for.
    larouchepub.com/other/2003/commentaries/3024lar_show_strauss.html

    pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html

    army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=4930

    pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2004/bush/war.html

    informationclearinghouse.info/article5010.htm

    sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Office_of_Special_Plans

    onpointradio.org/shows/2003/05/20030515_a_main.asp

    pnac.info/

    whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/12/20051230-8.html

    newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm

    swans.com/library/art11/mdolin10.html

    whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html

    csmonitor.com/specials/neocon/index.html?s=spusa

    newamericancentury.org/

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfowitz_Doctrine#Doctrine_Articles

    youtube.com/results?search_query=power+of+nightmares&search=Search

    youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D7C6BB460F416F16

    worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55825
    (it will not left through the links with the H T T P // in them)

  16. lindainks55
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:29 am | Permalink

    Well, that should keep me busy for awhile! ;-0

    Thanks, dog! I won’t know if they’re what I’m looking for until I go through them. But I feel like I need to catch up and pull my head out of the sand.

  17. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:37 am | Permalink

    That should keep you busy for a while, Linda!!

  18. writerdog
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:48 am | Permalink

    Well Pleefer, as I mentioned in the reply to Linda one of the links for youtube is no longer good. “Why we fight” in some respects take what was said in “the Power of Nightmares” and showed the actual usages of the policy. I have watched it several times and I am at a loss to explain just what there was about it that would be a violation of terms of service. But if the Administration wants to keep something’s secret they will have to do two things. Limit the American peoples ability to receive news and information from outside the U.S. And perhaps not be so damn stupid as to go on the BBC and shoot their mouths off!

    I might even see them blocking CSPAN someday, it is amazing what these Congressmen and Senators are saying on the floor in front of the American public. Like Jeff Sessions from Ala standing there and using the love of the Constitution and the love of liberty as a put-down. Maybe he was gone the day he would have taken an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies both Foreign and domestic. Might he have had his fingers cross behind his back?

  19. writerdog
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:53 am | Permalink

    I feel a need to go back to bed, later if the boy is not hogging the computer when I get back up.

  20. Steven Davis
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:54 am | Permalink

    Amy Sullivan (whom, I am pretty sure, was a staffer for Tom Daschle) always has interesting things to say about Democrats and Christianity:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/22/AR2008022202386.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

  21. RD
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:05 am | Permalink

    Linda,
    I was going to post the link to PNAC last night, but the thread was so long, and I got caught up in all the bickering that I missed it. It’s good that WD included it! Be sure to check it out and note who the signatories are.

    And for those who don’t believe our government or officials in it could never plan or do anything secretly that would place us in harm’s way, just check out Operation Northwoods or google the name.

  22. RD
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:06 am | Permalink

    Sorry the link doesn’t work. Here’s the Operation Northwoods URL:
    http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-i.htm

  23. Pleefer
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:10 am | Permalink

    Don’t forget The Gulf of Tonkin, The USS Liberty, The USS Maine and for a further history lesson, the Reichstag Fire.

  24. Candidate Joke
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:16 am | Permalink

    The seven dwarfs always left to go work in the mine early each morning. As always, Snow White stayed home doing her domestic chores. As lunchtime approached, she would prepare their lunch and carry it to the mine.

    One day as she arrived at the mine with the lunch,
    she saw that there had been a terrible cave-in.
    Tearfully, and fearing the worst, Snow White began
    calling out, hoping against hope that the dwarfs
    had somehow survived. ‘Hello, hello!’ she shouted.
    ‘Can anyone hear me? Hello!’

    For a long while, there was no answer. Losing hope, Snow White again shouted, ‘Hello! Is anyone down there?’ Just as she was about to give up all hope, there came a faint voice from deep within the mine.

    ‘Vote for Hillary! Vote for Hillary!’

    Snow White fell to her knees, crossed herself, and
    prayed, ‘Oh, thank you God! At least Dopey is still alive.

  25. MonkeyHawk
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:19 am | Permalink

    Did anyone see the “60 Minutes” piece on former Alabama Governor Don Siegleman who was railroaded by Karl Rove into a trumped up bribary charge?

    Not if you were in Alabama. Incredibly, the broadcast of the Siegelman segment — and only the Siegelman segment — got blacked out in Alabama.

    “Transmission Difficulties”…

    Uh-huh.

  26. ghotiphaze
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:22 am | Permalink

    Add Mex-Am war to that list, Pleef.

  27. More on Same
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:36 am | Permalink

    “The Shot heard around the World” the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, considered as one of the main causes of World War I.”

  28. ghotiphaze
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:40 am | Permalink

    Same, the US didn’t shoot Ferdinand (wasn’t that the bull in a Disney cartoon?)

  29. MonkeyHawk
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:44 am | Permalink

    “More on Same” –

    Gee, and I always thought it was Bobby Thompson’s home run.

    Anyway, Ralph Walso Emerson created “the shot” in his 1837 poem: “Concord Hymn”

    By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
    Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled;
    Here once the embattled farmers stood;
    And fired the shot heard round the world.

  30. ghotiphaze
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:50 am | Permalink

    I remember that, too, Monkey–NOW. Ya jogged my brain.

  31. Pleefer
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:52 am | Permalink

    And we’re doing it again over there in Eurasia, with Kosovo’s “Independence”.

  32. outlander
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 11:07 am | Permalink

    Global Cooling Update

    http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=d7c7fcce-d248-4e97-ab72-1adbdbb1d0d0&k=4336

  33. ghotiphaze
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 11:08 am | Permalink

    Ok, outlander, we get your point! You’re frigid!

  34. Ksgrm
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 11:20 am | Permalink

    “David Suzuki has called for political leaders to be thrown in jail for ignoring the science behind climate change.”

    http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=290513

    This is just a portion of what this respected GW advocate has to say. Does it seem logical to you. Will GW trump free speech and the right to make an unpopular decision by the oposition?

    Up late last night I caught an interview with Dr. David Suzuki. He stated that the US needs to cut it’s CO2 output by 90% immediately to stop GW in it’s tracks. When the moderator asked him what this would mean to the economy of the US he had no answer. A well timed break for him came then and on returning he had disappeared after finding that the host wasn’t a GW advocate.

    The US is expendable in this debate. We need to make sure that the people we elect to office look at both sides of this debate. Outlander gave us a very good link and I challenge all to read it with an open mind.

    The debate for logical people isn’t over. Cosmos I don’t want to argue this with you again. I also don’t want to see your attack on those quoted in the article. Neither of us will change our minds. This is merely to jog some awake about the impending consequences of acquiesence to the GW dogma.

  35. cosmos
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 11:32 am | Permalink

    outlander’s link,

    Kenneth Tapping of our own National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a long period of severely cold weather if sunspot activity does not pick up soon.

    The National Post, like the IBD, is not a reliable source.

    Dr. Tapping is not an AGW skeptic.

    ‘Scientist Busts Biz Sheet for Misrepresenting His Work’ http://www.desmogblog.com/scientist-bust-biz-sheet-for-misrepresenting-his-work “National Research Council of Canada scientist Dr. Kenneth Tapping has offered whithering criticism of Investor’s Business Daily for reporting that Tapping is among those who deny that greenhouse gases are the principal cause of current global warming.”

    Part of Dr. Tapping’s response, http://www.leanleft.com/archives/2008/02/09/6488/ “It is the opinion of scientists, including me, that global warming is a major issue, and that it might be too late to do anything about it already.
    If there is a cooling due to the solar activity cycle laying off for a bit, then the a period of solar cooling could be a much-needed respite giving us more time to attack the problem of greenhouse gases, with the caveat that if we do not, things will be far worse when things turn on again after a few decades. However, once again it is early days and we cannot at the moment conclude there is another minimum started.”

  36. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 11:37 am | Permalink

    The National Post, like the IBD, is not a reliable source.cosmos
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 11:32 am

    The Desmog Blog and leanleft.com are reliable sources cosmos?
    :roll:

  37. cosmos
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 11:49 am | Permalink

    If you want to, email Dr. Tapping to confirm his statements at leanleft.com .

    http://www.leanleft.com/archives/2008/02/09/6488
    NOTE: Upon requesting permission to publish the above, Dr. Tapping responds:

    Please feel free to quote what I said. I think it is a real shame that we sometimes see the downside of the freedom of the web, and that an investment journal would quote reports like that without going to their source.

  38. outlander
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:08 pm | Permalink

    Cosmos. The article didn’t quote Dr. Tapping as anything other than a scientist. He doesn’t deny what he said.

    What about the rest of the article? It demonstrates the folly of thinking we know what’s going to happen next in climate change, its cause, or that we can do a darn thing about it.

  39. Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:14 pm | Permalink

    that global warming is a major issue, and that it might be too late to do anything about it already.

    So why fight it. It is already too late.

  40. ghotiphaze
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:20 pm | Permalink

    So why fight it. It is already too late

    I’m going to die one day, but I still won’t jump out of a perfectly good airplane, ride in a helicopter, or nap on a railroad track.

  41. Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:25 pm | Permalink

    Fish,

    I am (was) Airborne certified and have taken part in Air Mobile exercises. Never napped on RR tracks. What is your point?

    According to cosmos’ sources, it is too late to turn back global warming.

  42. Vaughn Tolle
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:28 pm | Permalink

    Sol, how is “might be too late” equivalent to “is too late”? Just want to ask.

  43. ghotiphaze
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:34 pm | Permalink

    the point is, some chances just aren’t worth taking. I wouldn’t take a job of jumping out of airplane–I’d jump if it was aflame and going down, but that’s about it, and I’d probably open the ‘chute in the plane and make sure there’s really fabric in that knapsack and not someone’s lunch.

    It makes no sense to just say you don’t believe and do nothing about it in the off-chance you’re wrong. Contrary to popular belief, being eco/green is actually cost efficient and profitable–why y’all don’t embrace that I’ll never understand. It’s money in your pocket–unless you have stock in utilities industries.
    Niels Bohr had a horseshoe nailed above the door to his workshop and a friend asked if he actually believed in such nonsense. he replied, “No, but they tell me it works even if you don’t believe”.
    (ok, probably never happened, but I read it about a dozen times from a 1/2 dozen sources, and the anectdote makes a good point)

  44. cosmos
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:34 pm | Permalink

    outlander,

    Dr. Tapping did not say what the National Post printed.

    Winds driving ocean currents did not cause the recent warming in the interiors of Canada and Siberia.

    The movie ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ is mostly science fiction.

    Solar activity did not cause the recent warming.

    http://www.mps.mpg.de/dokumente/publikationen/solanki/c153.pdf
    The last 30 years [of data] are not considered however. In this time the climate and solar data diverge strongly from each other.

    Note that the most recent warming, since around 1975, has not been considered in the above correlations. During these last 30 years the solar total irradiance, solar UV irradiance and cosmic ray flux has not shown any significant secular trend, so that at least this most recent warming trend must have another source

    The “source” is increased GHG levels. And we can do a “darn thing” about the GHG’s we are emitting.

  45. ghotiphaze
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:36 pm | Permalink

    Oh, BTW, helicopters. I always wanted to ride in one of those things. Then while I was in the service I noticed the army of wrench jockeys descending on those things the minute it landed, spending about an hour tightening every nut and bolt that had shook loose in the 10 minute flight–No thanks.

  46. Pleefer
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:36 pm | Permalink

    Has anyone ever thought that climate change is cyclical, like the changing of the seasons? Like day after night after day after night? Can we effect time? I’m a firm believer that indeed climate change IS cyclical and it happens over the course of THOUSANDS of years. Time did not begin the day we were blessed with the first scientist. Seems to me that our little rock is part of something a little bit bigger than us. These climate people are falling for another excuse to tax us to death. Climate change is happening but we humans aren’t doing that much to contribute to it. How about the temperature on every other planet in our solar system elevating like ours? Sun spot activities are elevated. Yellowstone’s volcanic activity is elevating and that’s a pretty damned big volcano. Can we control all of the volcanic activity around the planet now? Do you not think that it’s all interconnected? Good luck with the whole Global Warming/Colling thing. It’s a tad bit bigger than us.
    Man, I REALLY hope the MAYA are right about Dec 21, 2012…heheheh.

  47. MonkeyHawk
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:37 pm | Permalink

    “SolDevVB” shares his brilliance with –

    “According to cosmos’ sources, it is too late to turn back global warming.”

    And maybe they’re right. As Yogi Berra observed, “Predictions are tough. Especially when it involves the future.”

    Those of you who deny the overwhelming evidence of Global Climate Change always go through the same litany.

    First, you deny it.

    Then people show you all the evidence that it’s happening and then,

    Second, you deny it has anything to do with humans burning carbon-based fuels.

    Then people who you the data and then you

    Third, try to assert that nothing can be done.

    And then someone (in this case, me) reminds you that the first rule for getting out of a hole is to stop digging.

    Whatever happens to this planet, it’s most certainly gonna get worse as long as the economy in dependent upon polluting the atmosphere.

  48. Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:37 pm | Permalink

    Fish,

    Chinook? If they aren’t leaking hydraulic fluid, they are empty!!!

  49. cosmos
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:40 pm | Permalink

    Vaughn Tolle posted February 25, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    Sol, how is “might be too late” equivalent to “is too late”?

    Misquoting is a strategy used by AGW deniers… or else Sol has a reading comprehension problem.

  50. ghotiphaze
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:41 pm | Permalink

    IS cyclical and it happens over the course of THOUSANDS of years

    Frozen mammoth mummies in Siberia with fresh buttercups in it’s stomach.

    Really, Pleef, I agree with the cyclical bit, but like I say, it just isn’t worth the gamble.

    And BTW, if Yellowstone decides to go, all this (and everything to the far side of Missouri) won’t be around to care.

  51. Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:41 pm | Permalink

    Third, try to assert that nothing can be done.

    Monkeyboy,

    From cosmos’ own post…

    that global warming is a major issue, and that it might be too late to do anything about it already.

    You calling cosmos and his source liars?

  52. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:41 pm | Permalink

    I made the mistake of riding in a Chinook once. I now know why they call them “kidney busters.”

  53. Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:42 pm | Permalink

    Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:41 pm | Permalink

    They sure can deliver equipment though can’t they?

  54. Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:45 pm | Permalink

    This is funny – watching all the CONservatives getting their collective panties all in a wad over Barack Obama.

    Americans are not going to tolerate another Rovian attack machine approach as they did when Gore and Kerry ran for the presidency. One of the reasons that Hillary is having such a difficult time with Obama is just that – she tried the attack approach and it backfired.

    Leonard Pitts had a GREAT column in today’s Eagle Op Ed section. Read it and you MAY be able to understand the appeal that Barack has for America.

    The CONservatives can flail away all they want – the country is not going to buy a Bush III presidency. George has now sunk to the absolute lowest approval rating in recorded history and McCain is running as a successor to the failed policies of George WMD Bush.

    That may work in Republican primaries, but it is not going to work come November, and McCain’s words are going to come back to haunt him. Hell, the photo of McCain hugging Bush around the waist is going to be ALL over the McCain campaign.

    I thought that I came up with a pretty good tag line for McCain, John “Call Me Three” McCain, but one of those famous LIBERAL websites has an even better one………………

    John W. McBush.

    (chortles)

    Ha! (To quote Chris Matthews.)

  55. The Phantom
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:45 pm | Permalink

    Couple of interesting tidbits. 10% of all mortgage holders are ‘upside down’ on their homes. Home sales are at the lowest number in 9 yrs. Time for Max to weigh in with bush’s American Dream maker Bush statements.

  56. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:46 pm | Permalink

    Ya Sol, that’s why the AF was “borrowing” the Chinook. We had some “Red Flag” equipment that needed to go back to the base in a hurry, so we contacted the Army for a free ride.

    Unfortunately, I volunteered to go along with the equipment. Won’t make that mistake again. :D

  57. ghotiphaze
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:48 pm | Permalink

    Ok, I just make my mortgage payments. Wot the snot does ‘upside down’ mean?

  58. cosmos
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:49 pm | Permalink

    Pleefer posted February 25, 2008 at 12:36 pm

    Has anyone ever thought that climate change is cyclical, like the changing of the seasons?

    Yes.
    You can read all about Milankovitch cycles, palaeoclimate, etc in chapter 6 at,
    http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg1.htm

    But past natural climate changes do not prevent human-caused changes.

    Think ‘nuclear winter’, caused by a large-scale nuclear war. Or global warming, caused by higher GHG levels.

  59. Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:49 pm | Permalink

    Upside down – your house is worth less than what you owe on your mortgage.

  60. MonkeyHawk
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:50 pm | Permalink

    “SolDevVB” regurgitates –

    “…and that it might be too late to do anything…

    And it might.

    Do you know the definition of the word “might,” “SolDevVB?” Look it up.

  61. ghotiphaze
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:53 pm | Permalink

    Gee, that happens about 30 seconds after you take out the loan. Isn’t it only worth what you owe in the last 10 years or so?

    About all the mortgage failures, does anyone have any facts (or even ball-park) figures on mean, median, mode (if you’re gonna slap me with numbers, I want all three, not the one that happens to make your point LOL) on cost of these mortgages?

    Just kinda curious if the majority is the 12k starter from Baltic Ave, or the 200k from Pennsylvania Ave.

  62. Steven Davis
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:54 pm | Permalink

    From the thread that got shut down:

    “ghotiphaze, my point as I am sure you are aware of is the ‘undercover’ message Steven D had in his post. It was a slam at the prowess of Rove by relating his connection to a gay man.”

    So, you think I am sending you undercover messages? I suspect that those subliminal messages you are seeing are a reflection of your bigotry. Please keep your projections to yourself. You will note, I hope, if you are able to suspend your gross partisan perceptions for even one second, that I made no speculation on what effect these facts had on Karl Rove. Frankly, I don’t know what, or if, they did.

    That had to be one of the offensive attacks you have made GRM.

  63. cosmos
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:55 pm | Permalink

    Looks like SolDevVB firmly believes that:

    “it might be” = “it is“. Sol is not logical.

  64. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:57 pm | Permalink

    I remember looking at 30 year mortgage on a house I had back in the 80s. It was purchased for 80K. If I had kept it for 30 years, I would have paid about 175K for it with interest accumulating over time.

    “Upside down” usually is a term meant for short term purchases by credit – like automobiles.

    Car dealers love to see people come in “upside down” on their cars, because it means they can trade/sell them a car and tack on the new interest on the old interest.

    What a deal…

  65. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:58 pm | Permalink

    cosmos,

    Depends on what the definition of “is” is.

    (chortles)

  66. ghotiphaze
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:59 pm | Permalink

    My old cars get traded for labor/parts on new(used) cars. It saves me the towing fees.

  67. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:01 pm | Permalink

    What happened to Ed Friedemann? Is he Horst?

  68. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:04 pm | Permalink

    Dunno Max,

    If it wasn’t about Palestinians or Israelis, Ed Friedemann usually had no comments.

  69. Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:04 pm | Permalink

    Welllllll Thats ONE thread shut down for the day… At least its a start!!

  70. Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:05 pm | Permalink

    BTW, Regular… “Horst” didnt post using the “N” word — That was the phony posster “Jesus” that used the “N” word!!

  71. Vaughn Tolle
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:06 pm | Permalink

    It is strange to see the phrase “upside down” in connection with real estate. Two thoughts on why such may be appropriate now:

    1) Declining values (perhaps not so much around Wichita, but nationally, this is reported as a concern) which could place the owner in a negative equity position;

    2) Too much mortgage (anyone but me recall the “teaser” ads for borrowing up to 125% of value that were running within the past few years?) or, too many mortgages (first to purchase, second to “pay off credit cards and deduct the interest”), which, in combination with #1, supra, would result in an “upside down” position.

  72. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:06 pm | Permalink

    Doesn’t matter to me who said it Chas, both comments needed to be torpedoed out of the Blog.

  73. Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:08 pm | Permalink

    And so they were… And you should also type in an apology for suggesting that Monkey posted the fake poster’s use of the “N” word, dont you think??

  74. ghotiphaze
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:08 pm | Permalink

    Vaughn, just curious as I’d probably never do this anyway: wouldn’t it be more sensical to purchase another house, used for rental property, than to just take a 2nd mort. on the one home?

  75. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:09 pm | Permalink

    Yeah Vaughn, the thought occurred to me after I posted, that buyers were asking to finance on an inflated artificial value of the house, which is of course is about as dumb as one can get.

    That’s just financial suicide imo.

  76. The Phantom
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:10 pm | Permalink

    Not a good position to be in when if you sold your house, you wouldn’t have enough to pay the mortgage loan off. Explains why so many people are walking away from the loans.

  77. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:11 pm | Permalink

    Not really Chas, MonkeyHock has used the “N” word often in his posts. Which imo were absolutely unnecessary to make his point.

  78. Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:11 pm | Permalink

    In Wichita, the “upside down” mortgage situation isn’t all that bad, but in places like LA and Boston, declining prices have left many buyers faced with the fact that the home they bought in the past few years may not be worth what they owe, sometimes by a substantial margin.

    It used to be a auto purchaser’s issue, but we are now seeing it with home buyers.

  79. cosmos
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:11 pm | Permalink

    Pleefer posted February 25, 2008 at 12:36 pm

    How about the temperature on every other planet in our solar system elevating like ours?

    You must be posting from a different system than Earth’s — not all planets in our system are warming.

  80. ghotiphaze
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:12 pm | Permalink

    I remember those comercials, too, reg, and I thought they were somewhat dumb, too. But i figured I was just ignorant in economics–I took the cash for my Western Resource stock about 12 years ago when the twins were born.

  81. ksagnostic
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:12 pm | Permalink

    I see the Obama thread has been shut down.

    Still, a quick last reply to rfl from that thread.

    “Making up your own conclusions based upon my statments and then blaming me again ksagnostic? You are the one coming up with the conclusion that Obama sympathizes with the enemy, I simply provided the facts leading to your OWN conclusion.”

    I don’t assume that Muslims “are the enemy”. That seems to be your premise. The fact that you draw that conclusion says a lot about you.

    “Seems like your own logic is defeating your attempts to defend your candidate.

    By posting the FACT that Obama is labled the ‘Hope of the entire World’ by a racist muslim, and then showing how this tacit endorsement is consistent with rumors that Obama is partial to the muslim faith, ksagnostic has resorted to the typical leftist arm flailing defense by labeling me a McCarthyite.”

    Once again, this is the fallacy of guilt by association. Also, drawing an equivalence between the Nation of Islam and Islam. Farrakhan’s “tacit endorsement is consistent with rumors”. That is exactly the sort of reasoning that McCarthy used. The “leftist arm flailing” is simply ad hominem.

    The rest of the post is troll logic based on argument by projection.

  82. Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:14 pm | Permalink

    WhatEVer…. at least they are gone, and the thread is now closed!! It had good possibilities… :-(

  83. Pleefer
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:14 pm | Permalink

    cosmos,
    I saw that it had United Nations all over it and promptly hit the “back” button. I’m “putting my head in the sand” when it comes to ANYTHING the UN has to say. Global carbon taxing (taxing on breathing), that’s the UN. Sorry bro, I’m not too hip on the Global Governance thing. I do know that we have to figure out alternative fuels. But trying to tax Co2? Carbon dioxide is to a plant what oxygen is to an animal.

  84. ghotiphaze
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:14 pm | Permalink

    Open thread 2/25
    the clearing house of blogs LOL

  85. ghotiphaze
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:16 pm | Permalink

    Carbon dioxide is to a plant what oxygen is to an animal.

    You’re right, there, Pleef. It’s a toxin to plants, too.

  86. Vaughn Tolle
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:17 pm | Permalink

    ghotiphaze, that depends upon the terms upon which one might get a mortgage on “investment property”, which are usually, from my experience, a bit more rigorous than an “owner-occupied” home. Plus, all the problems with being a landlord, which many do not wish to assume.

    Regular, the problem there lies with the artificial, if you will, values that real estate has carried over the past decade or so. The market might well indicate that property is selling for values you or I might feel are artificially high, but if the appraisals supported it, then the lender would want to make the loan. I think that there were few that thought values would actually decline, or not continue increasing, notwithstanding the fact that values can do either or both.

    Phantom, I speculate there is quite a bit of that underlying the “walk away” problems. As more mortgage lenders end up with increasing numbers of properties, and the REO (’real estate owned’) number on the statement continues to increase, in the short term, it likely is a good time to be a buyer, especially a buyer who doesn’t need a loan. Long term, I expect a shakeout in the mortgage lending industry, with those surviving being a bit more conservative in lending.

  87. ksfarmgrrl
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:18 pm | Permalink

    “Not really Chas, MonkeyHock has used the “N” word often in his posts.”

    As much as I despise monkey’s kookaide swilling, obama worshiping ways, I’m gonna defend him here.

    Got a link for that reg? ‘Cause I dont recall monkey ever posting any such thing.

  88. Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:18 pm | Permalink

    IF that post on the Obama thread was actually an assassination threat againsst Obama, then I hope they prosecute the poster to the fullest extent possible… That kind of thing needs to stop!!

  89. Pleefer
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:19 pm | Permalink

    I hitched a ride with the Gray aliens.

  90. Pleefer
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:21 pm | Permalink

    They took me by here too.

  91. American Way
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:22 pm | Permalink

    MonkeyHawk
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 12:21 pm | Permalink

    “Horst Wessell’s” only sin is that he wrote what Cons such as “ksgrm,” “American Way,” “Max,” “Econ101,” “Hank Price,” “GMC70,” “Regular, et al” really think.

    Monkeyhawk, I resent you labeling me with the remarks of the hit and run troll Horst Wessle.

    Please go back and read everything I have EVER posted, and do one of two things:

    1. Produce my remarks which support your claim.
    2. Apologize

    I may disagree with you, and strongly disagree with you some times – but I don’t attribute other posters remarks as yours.

    I really hope this is not how you really think. I hope you are just trying to flame us all.

    But I do not consider my beliefs connected to the person you attribute them to even remotely.

    I thought lumping everyone into groups is divisive?

    At any rate, it is simply NOT true.

  92. Pleefer
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:23 pm | Permalink

    Ahhh, here we go!

  93. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:25 pm | Permalink

    That’s probably why they closed the thread Chas, rather than delete the comment. The Secret Service has no humor when it comes to things like that.

  94. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:26 pm | Permalink

    I doubt if I can find the posts KFG, as I requested they be deleted for the word usage. :)

  95. Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:27 pm | Permalink

    Not one word about Nader. Hmmmmm.

  96. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:30 pm | Permalink

    Shh Sol, Nader gives the Dems indigestion.

    Not around lunch time please. :D

  97. American Way
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:30 pm | Permalink

    And not one word on Ron Paul, Hmmmmmmmm.

    Oops:

    writerdog
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:42 am
    Steven Davis
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:03 am

    Announce as an independent? I’d like to see his name on my ballot.

  98. Ksgrm
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:31 pm | Permalink

    Monkey I am going to assume you are just an agitator and not a person who really has such prejudiced thoughts. Liberals like you are the worlds worse when it comes to tolerance and the worlds best when it comes to being judgemental.

  99. ghotiphaze
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:31 pm | Permalink

    2012 Earth Shift Prophecy
    Find Out What Nostradamus Says About The Years 2008 – 2012.

    Pleef, PLEASE!!!!

  100. Pleefer
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:31 pm | Permalink

    Don’t count out Bloomberg.

  101. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:32 pm | Permalink

    Ron Paul/Nader ticket – sorry – had some brain embolisms. :)

  102. cosmos
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:33 pm | Permalink

    http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-on-mars.htm
    “So what’s causing Mars’ warming? According to ‘Global warming and climate forcing by recent albedo changes on Mars’ (Fenton 2007), massive planet darkening storms have been observed over the last 30 years. These reduce the planet’s albedo (reflectivity) so the planet absorbs more of the sun’s energy – this has a warming effect.”

    (Fenton 2007)
    http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v446/n7136/abs/nature05718.html

  103. American Way
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:40 pm | Permalink

    Cosmos, it must be the impact of man.

    All those little dune buggies we got up there pollutin’ up the invyrowmint. Or maybe it’s all the probes we keep shooting through their atmosphere.

    It’s all a plot by golfers looking for the next place to plant an 18 hole course with high greens fees.

  104. cosmos
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:45 pm | Permalink

    Pleefer posted February 25, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    I saw that it had United Nations all over it and promptly hit the “back” button. I’m “putting my head in the sand” when it comes to ANYTHING the UN has to say.

    Wise decision. You should not read what’s in the reports there that scientists (not the “UN”) wrote — you might understand climate science, and understand that humans are causing global warming.

    It’s probably better for you to just be an “ostrich”.

  105. Pleefer
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:45 pm | Permalink

    Do not ever compare Nader to Paul. Nader is a socialist and Ron Paul is an American hero. Trying to be funny? “The Spoiler Team”?

  106. Ksgrm
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:53 pm | Permalink

    Cosmos even Dr Suzuki last night could not give one example of what man could do to help GW. He actually refused to come back after the break to support his position. If he was that weak and his only plan was for the US to cut CO2 emissions by 90%, which by the way would put us somewhere in the mid 18th century, what is the solution to the problem you see?

  107. Posted February 25, 2008 at 1:59 pm | Permalink

    What program was Suzukion??

  108. Pleefer
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 2:04 pm | Permalink

    Here’s a little story about the ways of the UN. You might get a kick out of it. I just get on here on point to the rabbit hole, jump in if you want to.

  109. Posted February 25, 2008 at 2:18 pm | Permalink

    So, maybe Suzuki wasnt on a program last nite?? Hmmmm…..

  110. Pleefer
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 2:22 pm | Permalink

    you can Google NSSM 200 as well. Kissinger rules! And so does Obama’s chief foreign advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski.

  111. Posted February 25, 2008 at 2:23 pm | Permalink

    Most interesting, Pleefer… I never trusted that guy back in the day… Doesnt really surprise me… but still interesting…

  112. Posted February 25, 2008 at 2:26 pm | Permalink

    Ummm that second link is more on Kissinger… Doesnt say anything on Brzezinski.

  113. Posted February 25, 2008 at 2:27 pm | Permalink

    I still want to know what program Suzuki was on that has KsGrm all in a dither…

  114. cosmos
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 2:28 pm | Permalink

    Ksgrm posted February 25, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    Cosmos even Dr Suzuki last night could not give one example of what man could do to help GW.

    Uh huh…
    http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Climate_Change/Solutions/

    Ksgrm, you’re interested in the economy? I suggest that you read

    Chapter ‘12. Climate: Making Sense and Making Money
    How to end the threat of global warming at a profit.’
    at,
    http://www.natcap.org/sitepages/pid5.php

    Or it may be in the “business” section at book stores.
    Note the sections, ‘Almost Everyone Wins’, and ‘Protecting the Climate for Fun and Profit’.

    And excuse the very obvious point, but the climate science is separate from the “solutions”.

  115. cosmos
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 2:32 pm | Permalink

    Pleefer!

    There’s a picture of you at the top of this page,
    http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Climate_Change/Science/Skeptics.asp

  116. Pleefer
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 2:35 pm | Permalink

    hahahahaha! I have my tail in the sand.

  117. Pleefer
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 2:38 pm | Permalink

    Chas, Zbig’s deal is in his book “The Grand Chessboard” (read it), is that we need to keep chaos going in the Mid East and Eurasia (Balkans) in order to maintain our Empire, regardless of how many wars are to be fought. We are doing a fine job.

  118. Posted February 25, 2008 at 2:41 pm | Permalink

    So — does he favor that idea, or oppose such a thing?? That sounds more like McCain’s type of idea, and not Obama’s???

  119. Posted February 25, 2008 at 2:42 pm | Permalink

    So, does anybody know what program David Sulzuki allegedly walked off of last nite??

  120. TDT
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 2:47 pm | Permalink

    Wow Steven, you’re on a roll with these articles. So far I’ve read 2 articles that you have posted.

  121. Posted February 25, 2008 at 2:49 pm | Permalink

    Must have just been another one of Granny’s hit and run posts… I even asked really nice, too!!

  122. annie moose
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 2:52 pm | Permalink

    Damn 2 freaking wars, total financial deregulation, massive tax cuts, the ownership society and we still get a recession. Can’t you wingnuts do anything right?

    By Jonathan Saul
    DUBLIN, Feb 25 (Reuters) – The United States economy is already in recession and is set for a further slowdown with the dollar expected to remain under pressure, investment guru Jim Rogers said on Monday.
    Last week the U.S. central bank sharply lowered its forecast for U.S. economic growth in 2008 and said it was worried the economy could face further setbacks even after a series of aggressive interest rate cuts.
    “The U.S. is in recession,” Rogers told reporters on a visit to Dublin. “It is going to get worse.”
    Rogers, who co-founded the Quantum Fund with billionaire George Soros in the 1970s, said the housing and automobile sectors were in a situation “worse than recession” with soaring energy and food prices hitting consumer spending.
    “They (the U.S. central bank) are printing money and are trying to prevent the recession — they are putting on Band Aids,” he said ahead of an investor conference in Dublin.
    Rogers said the central bank was making the “same mistakes” Japan did in the early 1990s before its credit-inflated bubble economy burst.
    “The Japanese did it and the Japanese still have not recovered 18 years later,” he said.
    “As long as the (U.S.) central bank and the federal government keep making the mistakes, you will have a longer period of slowdown and it will be perhaps one of the worst recessions we have had in a long time in America,” he said. Rogers said the dollar was set to “go down a great deal” adding he hoped to get out of all his dollar holdings at some stage this year.
    “There are so many people bearish on the dollar right now including me and normally when that happens something comes along to cause a rally even if it is a bear market,” he said.
    Rogers said countries such as Iran and Venezuela were already using alternative currencies to the dollar. “The dollar is going to lose its status as the world’s reserve currency — that is in the process of happening,” he said.
    Rogers reiterated he preferred investments in the agriculture sector in the light of tightening supplies worldwide.
    “Inventories for food are the lowest in 40 or 50 years. I don’t see where the supplies are coming from,” he said.
    “Agriculture is still the best place to be, maybe (also) silver, maybe palladium,” he said. (Editing by Theodore d’Afflisio)

  123. fleettwood
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 2:54 pm | Permalink

    “…Rogers, who co-founded the Quantum Fund with billionaire George Soros…”

    Enough said.

  124. Posted February 25, 2008 at 3:00 pm | Permalink

    Fleetwood doesn’t like it when Democrats make money.

    It hurts his feelings.

    Only Republicans are supposed to make money.

  125. ghotiphaze
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 3:01 pm | Permalink

    hahahahaha! I have my tail in the sand

    that’s your tail? Your wife said it was your…nevermind.

  126. ANTI
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 3:01 pm | Permalink

    Chas, an article on Suzuki’s comments
    http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=291604

  127. The Phantom
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 3:05 pm | Permalink

    With 100$ p.b oil, you get stagflation.

  128. Posted February 25, 2008 at 3:05 pm | Permalink

    I didnt ask for an article on Suzuki’s comments… I asked what program Suzuki allegedly walked off of last nite, according to what KsGrm said upthread…

  129. fleettwood
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 3:06 pm | Permalink

    “Senate Democrats are planning a vote on Tuesday that will momentarily refocus the body on a subject that’s a bit dicey these days for them — Iraq.”

    Looks like we get to watch the dems step in it again.

  130. American Way
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 3:09 pm | Permalink

    Be careful revealing your personal information on the blogs. These libs take their candidates very seriously. Any and all threats should be treated as equally having the potential for harm:

    Democratic House Divided: Pa. Man Stabs Brother-In-Law Over Election

    But Jose Ortiz, 28 — a Hillary Clinton supporter —is behind bars after stabbing his Barack Obama-supporting brother-in-law, Sean Shurelds, following a political argument, according to KYW1060.com. by FOXNews.com

  131. Posted February 25, 2008 at 3:11 pm | Permalink

    Well, Fleet, we have borrowed $1 trillion from the Chinese to finance the Bush Misadventure in Iraq and what did we get for it?

    Iraq is less stable and more of a threat now than it was pre-invasion.

    Good job, George “19%” Bush, good job.

    Eh, and you want to criticize Democrats about Iraq?

    Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh…………

  132. fleettwood
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 3:13 pm | Permalink

    I think the democrats should bring these resolutions to the floor more often.
    It smells like victory for my team.

  133. Posted February 25, 2008 at 3:14 pm | Permalink

    http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Climate_Change/Science/Skeptics.asp

    Interesting article ANTI — Not a word in that entire piece that is reflective of Climate Science… Not ONE word… Just a long drawn out attack on the MAN….

  134. Posted February 25, 2008 at 3:29 pm | Permalink

    Man Fired After Repeated Requests for Prostitute

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,332472,00.html

    Fleet?

  135. Pleefer
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 3:33 pm | Permalink

    Obama is owned by the same folks as all the rest. Bankers.

  136. Posted February 25, 2008 at 3:36 pm | Permalink

    Looks like ANTI is another hit and run poster today… Oh well!!

  137. rfl
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 3:47 pm | Permalink

    “Prejudices have a way of being earned. The questions are being asked widely, Is Obama a muslim sympathizer? Being labeled as the “Hope for the entire world” by the American face of radical racist Islam certaintly doesn’t support the effort to categorize such questions as uninformed”
    -rfl

    “Such reason is right out of Joseph McCarthy. I sympathize with Muslims, therefore I sympathize with the enemy? Nice reasoning there.”
    -ksagnostic

    “I don’t assume that Muslims “are the enemy”. That seems to be your premise.”
    -ksagnostic

    It’s all there in black and white. ksagnostic added to my statements by claiming that I was trying to paint muslims as the enemy. I brought out that Obama is being labeled as a muslim by some opponents and that Farrakhan supports him. That is it!!!

    No where in either of my two points did I describe Muslims as “the enemy”. ksagnostic came to that conclusion all by himself and now accuses me of making that conclusion so he can label me as McCarthyite.

    ksagnostic comes up with unflattering conclusions based on facts that I posted and then insinuates that I am the one making those conclusions so that he can call me a McCarthyite. This is Strawman at it’s height!

    It is clear that ksagnostic can’t stand up to an argument and defend his candidate without picking out singular words and phrases to create a strawman on.

    He sees “sympathizer” and then he immediately thinks McCarthy. He sees the word “arm” in “leftist arm flailing” and thinks ad hominem.

    Stay tuned for more strawman construction courtesy of ksagnostic….

  138. ANTI
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 3:54 pm | Permalink

    Chas, I work more than one day a week.

  139. ANTI
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 3:55 pm | Permalink

    Chas, I get back with you on that when I get some free time

  140. Posted February 25, 2008 at 4:01 pm | Permalink

    What kind of kool-aid are you on today, RFL?? You SAID —

    “the American face of radical racist Islam certaintly doesn’t support the effort to categorize such questions as uninformed”
    -rfl

    You are saying that questions of Obama’s alleged and debunked “muslim” leanings are supported by the endorsement of the Nation of Islam and Minister Farakahn…

    Now, can you spin out of that??

  141. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 4:01 pm | Permalink

    From Cosmos great-great…grandson 500 years from now:

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,332429,00.html

    Is there any way our future descendants can save themselves? Why, yes, explains Smith.

    He cites a recent study emanating from the University of California, Santa Cruz. It proposes taming an asteroid to swing by the Earth every few thousand years, slowly nudging the Earth into higher solar orbit, enough to outpace the sun’s own outward growth.

    “This sounds like science fiction,” says Smith. “But it seems that the energy requirements are just about possible and the technology could be developed over the next few centuries.”

  142. Posted February 25, 2008 at 4:02 pm | Permalink

    ANTI
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 3:54 pm | Permalink
    Chas, I work more than one day a week.
    =========================================

    Thanks nice… So do I!! LOL

  143. Posted February 25, 2008 at 4:03 pm | Permalink

    Thanks = Thats

  144. Posted February 25, 2008 at 4:05 pm | Permalink

    I still want to know what program David Suzuki allegedly walked off of last evening… Amazing such a simple question cant find an answer!!

  145. Ken
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 4:13 pm | Permalink

    Got this in an email today — also think of the tax dollars saved

    As reported earlier this week, some dirt bag who got pulled over in a routine traffic stop in Florida ended up ‘executing’ the deputy who stopped him. The deputy was shot eight times, including once behind his right ear at close range. Another deputy was wounded and a police dog killed. A statewide manhunt ensued. The low-life was found hiding in a wooded area with his gun. SWAT team officers fired and hit the guy 68 times.
    Now here’s the kicker: LOVE THIS!!!! Naturally, the media asked why they shot him 68 times.

    Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, told the Orlando Sentinel ..

    wait for it –

    ‘That’s all the bullets we had.’

  146. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 4:27 pm | Permalink

    http://www.snopes.com/crime/cops/judd.asp

    Actually Ken, they shot at him 110 times, but only hit him 68 times.

    Now if this is ok, what’s wrong with a firing line for capital punishment?

  147. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 4:30 pm | Permalink

    Chas, Suzuki was on “I’m a Leftist Liberal, who is annoying and keeps asking the same question over and over like the ground-licking chimp I am.”

  148. parkay
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 4:34 pm | Permalink

    It appears that in his 2006 Africa tour, Barack Hussein Obamanation, a man that extremist Muslim Louis Farrakhan calls “the hope of the entire world,” was in thick with Somali Muslims – remember, they are the ones that shot down American servicemen and dragged their bodies through the streets.
    Also, the board of a nonprofit organization on which Obamanation served as a paid director alongside a confessed domestic terrorist granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a “catastrophe” and supports intense immigration reform, including providing drivers licenses and education to illegal aliens. Rashid Khalidi is the terrorist co-founder of the Arab Muslim group and a supporter and fundraiser for Obamanation, whom Muslims view as a Palestinian sympathizer. Remember the Palestinians who laughed and clapped and celebrated on 09/11/01? They are supporting Obamanation.
    Meanwhile, Iraqi Muslim terrorists have started planting bombs in wheelchairs, a tactic they might eventually employ here in the USofA, if leftist Democrats are allowed to declare a defeat and run from Iraq in January, 2009, as both Obamanation and Hog Futures Hillary promise.
    - – -

    In 1975, young shyster Hillary Rodham defended Tom Taylor, 41, a drunken Arkansas factory worker who raped a 12-year-old girl, and got she him off with a disgusting, lenient plea bargain and a mere one year in jail, partly because she pointed the finger of blame at the child victim, falsely accusing her of seeking out older men and lying.
    The girl later attempted suicide, was treated by a psychiatrist for years, and eventually became a meth addict, thief, and prison inmate. The Democrat version of “no child left behind.” The rapist died in 1992 of a heart ailment, apparently without ever spending any more time in jail after the very short stretch provided by Hillary via stepping on the back of the child victim.
    You can imagine what would happen in our criminal justice system, if a soft-on-predators pro-abortion shyster is elected President of the USofA and starts picking federal judges. The corrupt Kansas criminal justice system is a model for it.

  149. parkay
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 4:38 pm | Permalink

    Norma McCorvey, the Roe of the falsely presented Roe v. Wade court case, will be serving as a pro-life volunteer in front of George Tiller’s notorious, criminal, late-term abortion mill one day this week, attempting to save some of the babies from mangling, dismemberment, poisoning, and beheading.
    - – -

    The Johnson County grand jury has rejected an agreement in which Planned Parenthood was to turn over some or part of the abortion records which were subpoenaed as evidence, since Planned Parenthood is still stalling and refusing to fully comply with the subpoena.
    - – -

    “I feel incredibly guilty thinking that I could have killed him, and then I find myself wondering how many other babies are killed who would have turned out to be completely healthy.”
    . . . Becky Kramer, 23, of South Wales, mother of a healthy boy
    . . .
    Baby-hating quacks urged Becky and Kriss Kramer of Pembroke Dock in South Wales, to abort their baby saying he would be born with rhomboencephalosynapsis — a condition that affects fewer than one in a million people worldwide. But the couple defied the quacks, and their son Brandon was born healthy on Oct. 1 last year.
    The baby is now teething and attempting to talk.

  150. Posted February 25, 2008 at 4:44 pm | Permalink

    “Now if this is ok, what’s wrong with a firing line for capital punishment?”

    Nothing, once you solve the issues that led to 125 men being falsely convicted and sentenced to death.

    125 men have been released from Death Row after evidence proved their innocence, some after as much as 18 years on the Row.

    Fix that problem before worrying about how to execute people.

  151. Political_mama
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 4:46 pm | Permalink

    NO credibility Parkay.

    The same people who believe Roe’s story about not knowing what was going on, that they forced her into an abortion…are the same people who believe a virgin got pregnant by holy intervention.

  152. Posted February 25, 2008 at 4:52 pm | Permalink

    “The same people who believe Roe’s story about not knowing what was going on, that they forced her into an abortion…”

    Not sure if my memory serves me correctly, but I do not think “Roe” actually got an abortion.

  153. Ksgrm
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 4:56 pm | Permalink

    Chas I heard it on a late night radio interview. Probably wasn’t live since it was Sunday night. Not sure who the moderator was because I usually don’t listen to the radio that late. In was on 1330 if you call them I’m sure the traffic manager can give you the name of the show.

    As for hitting and running. I have a life. Sometimes it requires my presence away from my computer. Try it sometime.

    The man was completly out in left field when it came to finding a solution. He just knew we needed to shut down American businesses because we were the worse abusers. He specifically said we had to be a shinng example for the other countries and that is why they weren’t expected to comply. This was before he slinked out at break.

    Please stop asking your questions over and over again.

  154. Posted February 25, 2008 at 4:59 pm | Permalink

    Hey, Regular, you Bufoon Troll… I have asked NICE…. And nobody can answer the question… After all, it was stated that Suzuki walked off of a program last nite, and would not answer questions…

    So, I wanted to know what program he walked off of… Sorry if that gets you all in a twit!!

  155. Ksgrm
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 5:05 pm | Permalink

    Chas see post 3 minutes before the one you just posted.

  156. Political_mama
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 5:07 pm | Permalink

    You’re right, I knew that, but she still pretended that she didn’t know that they were trying to make abortion legal. She’s changed her story so many times…it was too late for her to get her abortion.

    She’s also one who claims to have been cured of homosexuality.

  157. Posted February 25, 2008 at 5:14 pm | Permalink

    “She’s also one who claims to have been cured of homosexuality.”

    Dang, does Nathan know about this?

    This would be a two-fer for him – anti-choice AND a cure for homosexuality.

    Two birds…………………..

  158. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 5:19 pm | Permalink

    No Chas, you wanted the opportunity to leap down ksgrm’s throat if the program wasn’t on last night.

    Yes Chas, your motives are that transparent.

  159. ksfarmgrrl
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 5:33 pm | Permalink

    Cosmos and annie, here’s a couple of good links about carbon. One is about commodity traders believing that carbon trading will be the next big thing and could be bigger than all other commodities combined.

    http://dtnag.com/dtnag/common/link.do?symbolicName=/ag/blogs/template1&blogHandle=grainmarkets&blogEntryId=8a82c0bc179eb307011851e1e2a90843

    The other link here is from the New Yorker about carbon footprints and how corporations see the need to reduce theirs. At a profit.

    http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/02/25/080225fa_fact_specter/?yrail

    By the way, wheat is trading in Minneapolis with NO limit and is nearing $20. All grains are on a bullish run.

    Just like food prices…

  160. ksfarmgrrl
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 5:34 pm | Permalink

    Well thank goddess she’s been CURED. We sure as hell wouldnt want to claim her since she clearly cant make up her damn mind about anything.

    I think she believes whatever the last person talking to her said to believe.

  161. Posted February 25, 2008 at 5:56 pm | Permalink

    That would likely have been Lars Larson, most likely recorded Friday.. I can understand why Suzuki would have walked off the program!! Sorry I didnt see your post come before I posted… I was away from my desk…

    BTW REGULAR — YOU ARE WRONG BUFFON!!

  162. Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:11 pm | Permalink

    Here ya go, Grm >>>>

    http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Climate_Change/Solutions/

  163. J R
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:24 pm | Permalink

    No one reads your links anymore “parkay”.

    You have never stood to defend them. Not once.

    You could very easily be an automated post.

  164. ANTI
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:26 pm | Permalink

    Chas, Suzuki is still a unrealistic kook, from everything I have read. He, like most of the GW crowd do not engage in debate because that would open them up to being exposed as sheep of Al Gore, or that they want to simply fill there pockets and have power over industry.

  165. Boxlock
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:28 pm | Permalink

    Link: http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=332289

    Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age

    “And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its “lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.
    The ice is back.
    “We missed what was right in front of our eyes,” says Prof. Russell. It’s not ice melt but rather wind circulation that drives ocean currents northward from the tropics. Climate models until now have not properly accounted for the wind’s effects on ocean circulation, so researchers have compensated by over-emphasizing the role of man made warming on polar ice melt.
    Last month, Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, shrugged off man made climate change as “a drop in the bucket.” Showing that solar activity has entered an inactive phase, Prof. Sorokhtin advised people to “stock up on fur coats.”

    He is not alone. Kenneth Tapping of our own National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a long period of severely cold weather if sunspot activity does not pick up soon.

    It’s way too early to claim the same is about to happen again, but then it’s way too early for the hysteria of the global warmers, too.”

    Now bring on those decrying this as psudo-science and a lack of ‘peer-review’. Ha!

  166. Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:31 pm | Permalink

    “BUFFON”

    Is that similar to the advice that Mr. Miyagi gave Daniel-San?

    “Wax on, wax off.”

    “Buff on, buff off.”

  167. Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:34 pm | Permalink

    Oooops Buffoon!! Mo betta??

  168. Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:37 pm | Permalink

    I like the original version better – it suits McCreepy quite well.

  169. Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:40 pm | Permalink

    Boxer… Ummmm…. We have already been over the Dr. Tapping story… Your version has already been debunked upthread…

  170. Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:42 pm | Permalink

    Ohh ok Clark… LOL

  171. J R
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:43 pm | Permalink

    “In was on 1330 if you call them I’m sure the traffic manager can give you the name of the show.”

    Uh yeah…

    As most posters here know, I monitor that station on a regular basis.

    The program ksgrm heard is Matt Drudge.

    Geez didn’t Suzuki know better than to present science to a high school drop out, yellow underwear journalist?

    Oh and grmie?

    Global warming affects…are you ready?

    The whole world. Yup the US too! Now us maintaining our status quo for our creature comfort is NOT gonna give us special dispensation from the long term results.

  172. cosmos
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:44 pm | Permalink

    Boxlock posted February 25, 2008 at 6:28 pm

    Now bring on those decrying this as psudo-science and a lack of ‘peer-review’. Ha!

    It’s very shoddy journalism, as I already explained upthread,
    http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/02/open-thread-225/#comment-301382

  173. outlander
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:44 pm | Permalink

    It hasn’t been “debunked” Chas. It has pretty much been unanswered.

  174. Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:44 pm | Permalink

    Must hae been an interesting meeting/conversation with the Editors today, huh Clark?? :-|

  175. ANTI
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:44 pm | Permalink

    Boxlock, you forget…if cosmos says it is “bad science”, well then it is BAD SCIENCE…. :(
    That is how it works around here.

  176. J R
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:49 pm | Permalink

    Even if there was anything to the schlocky suggestions as to global cooling?

    Is it a reason NOT to cut our use of fossil fuels?

    Please show your work.

  177. Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:49 pm | Permalink

    You jumpin threads ANTI??

  178. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:50 pm | Permalink

    Chas,

    Check this website out and tell me what you think reverend:

    http://www.answering-islam.org.uk/Responses/Abualrub/allahs_identity.htm

  179. cosmos
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:50 pm | Permalink

    ANTI and outlander,

    You seem to have a reading comprehension problem.

    Dr. Tapping believes that humans are causing global warming.

  180. ANTI
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:50 pm | Permalink

    Maybe, what did I miss?

  181. Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:50 pm | Permalink

    JR — Drudge isnt on Sunday Nite 1330 anymore… He quit… I think its Lars Larson now… but he is almost as bad as Drudge!! LOL

  182. outlander
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:51 pm | Permalink

    Not at all JR. Let’s get started on the nukes!

  183. Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:52 pm | Permalink

    http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Climate_Change/Solutions/

  184. J R
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:53 pm | Permalink

    Uh yeah outlander.

    Power that leaves poisonous waste to linger for longer than the human race has so far existed?

    Your take OR mine.

    No I don’t call that an answer.

  185. Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:54 pm | Permalink

    Never mind, ANTI… cant see too good today… eye infection…

  186. Heckler
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 6:56 pm | Permalink

    Here kitty kitty

    http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SNOW/DATA/nhem-1mo-loop.html

  187. ANTI
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:00 pm | Permalink

    Cosmos What about the others’ claims in the article?

  188. ANTI
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:03 pm | Permalink

    no worries Chas..Eye’ve been there….

  189. ANTI
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:04 pm | Permalink

    that was a poor attempt at eye humor

  190. ksagnostic
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:07 pm | Permalink

    This probably qualifies as feeding the troll, but here goes.

    Here is the first post rfl made in this discussion, in full.

    “It couldn’t get any better for Obama. Even the Nation of Islam Minister, Louis Farrakhan, thinks Obama’s presidency is the ‘Hope of the Entire World’.

    http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/02/25/farrakhan-praises-obama-as-hope-of-entire-world/

    “I am sure that we can all agree that Islam has been a world leader in solving the worlds problems. With that said, let’s all follow Farrakhan’s tacit endorsement on November for a better tomorrow.”

    1) What is the point of mentioning Farrahan at all, unless it is to include a guilt by association? Who cares qhat Farrakhan thinks of Obama? How does it possibly reflect on Obama? It is the same sort of strategy that has been used against other candidates, and has been used since this country had elections. A variation of “Crazy Sam likes candidate B, do you really want to support a guy like candidate B if Crazy Sam likes him?”. Your intent was clear, rfl. That parkay immediately latched onto the same strategy.

    2) Islam does not equal Nation of Islam. There are major, MAJOR differences between the two. And your sarcasm is obvious. You are simply being ingenuous to portray this post as “just stating the facts”.

    Here is rfl’s next post (included are the words in his post that he responded to).

    ‘Nice appeal to a variety of uninformed prejudices there pal…because a widely disliked person like Farrakhan likes Obama doesn’t automatically make Obama a worse person.’
    -ksagnostic

    “Prejudices have a way of being earned. The questions are being asked widely, Is Obama a muslim sympathizer? Being labeled as the ‘Hope for the entire world’ by the American face of radical racist Islam certaintly doesn’t support the effort to categorize such questions as uninformed.”

    Prejudices have a way of being earned? Obama’s black and has an Islamic sounding name and Louis Farrakhan says he likes him. Once again, Nation of Islam equals Islam. Also, notice the introduction of the terminology “muslim sympathizer”.

    My response was:

    “Such reason(ing) is right out of Joseph McCarthy. I sympathize with Muslims, therefore I sympathize with the enemy? Nice reasoning there.”

    Certainly, the term “muslim sympathizer” is evocative of the terminology “communist sympathizer” used by Joseph McCarthy and the “anti-communist” movement that took his name (McCarthyism). What exactly does “muslim sympathizer” mean anyway? Why the question “Is Obama a muslim sypathizer?”? Rfl’s intent, I would argue, is clearly implied. Otherwise, who would care?

    Here’s rfl’s next post:

    “Making up your own conclusions based upon my statments and then blaming me again ksagnostic? You are the one coming up with the conclusion that Obama sympathizes with the enemy, I simply provided the facts leading to your OWN conclusion.”

    Really, what conclusion is that? You brought up “muslim sympathizer”. What you seemed to fail to understand about what I said is this…

    I said that “I sympathize with Muslims”. I didn’t come to any conclusion about “Obama sympathizing with the enemy”, for two reasons, one, I used the personal pronoun “I” (therfore, I was making no conclusion about Obama sympathizing with the enemy, and secondly, I was clearly paraphrasing the reasoning inferred from your post (”therefore, I sympathize with the enemy?”). To say that is now my reasoning is not only disingenuous, it is trollish (”look what I got you to say, neener neener!”). The meaning of communist sympathizer was clear in the 1950’s. There is no reason to assume that your meaning was any different with regards to your meaning in bringing up “muslim sympathizer”.

    Let me be clearer. There is no reason to assume that a person is an enemy simply because of his/her religious status as a Muslim, any more than it is to assume that a person is an enemy simply because of his/her religious status as a Christian/Hindu/Wiccan/Unitarian/etc.

    And this brings us to this last post.

    “‘I don’t assume that Muslims ‘are the enemy’. That seems to be your premise.’
    -ksagnostic

    “It’s all there in black and white. ksagnostic added to my statements by claiming that I was trying to paint muslims as the enemy. I brought out that Obama is being labeled as a muslim by some opponents and that Farrakhan supports him. That is it!!!”

    That’s right. You just brought it up and let it hang there. You’re innocent!

    Do you really think you are fooling anyone with any intelligence? Besides, that is NOT all you said.

    “No where in either of my two points did I describe Muslims as ‘the enemy’. ksagnostic came to that conclusion all by himself and now accuses me of making that conclusion so he can label me as McCarthyite.”

    I said that the reasoning that was implied in your post was worthy of Joseph MaCarthy. You introduced the term “muslim sympathizer”, which is certainly evocative of the terminology “communist sympathizer”. Outside of imported sinister implications, who would really care whether Obama sympathized with Muslims? Why did you bring it up, and why did you use that terminology?

    My conclusion was reasonable. I strongly suspect that it was the conclusion you meant to be drawn. Given this premise, which I believe would be evident to anyone following this discussion, your accusation of me constructing a “straw man” is dishonest.

  191. Heckler
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:26 pm | Permalink

    the reasoning that was implied in your post was worthy of Joseph MaCarthy

    Uhhh, Joe was right for the most part…..

  192. Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:31 pm | Permalink

    Ummm Heckler, WHY would you support Joe McCarthy?? I mean, “Have You No Shame?” :-)

  193. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:33 pm | Permalink

    Chas.
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 5:35 pm | Permalink
    Hey, they need the information… If they share databases of “Seized Illegal Guns” with other Law Enforcement departments then they will have a record to work with in criminal investigation…
    ———————————————

    Specifics Chas.

    Going thru life as an ignorant person isn’t something even you would reccommend would you Chas?

    “A record to work with.” Chas, WTF do you mean by that? The linked article gave no details as to what information they were gaining nor what they would do with whatever information they are collecting.

    How can you cheer something from a position of ignorance?

    Or maybe you just cheer anything that gives power to the Government, for no specifically stated purpose.

    Bad dog, Chas.

  194. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:34 pm | Permalink

    Chas screwed-up and he’s hiding from the error of his ways.

    Fess up Chas.

  195. Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:35 pm | Permalink

    What’s the matter Max, you gotta drag another thread to this one??? Are you THAT desperate??? You got illegal weapons you are hiding??? I gave you specifics… If you cant figure it out, then I feel sorry for you!!

  196. Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:37 pm | Permalink

    Max, how many times do you have to be told… Being in disagreement with another poster does not make the disagreement WRONG!! I do wish you would get some kind of a check-up!! You struggle so much with the basics of human understanding!! Unbelievable!!

  197. Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:38 pm | Permalink

    Max says >>>>

    “Going thru life as an ignorant person isn’t something even you would reccommend would you Chas?”

    Of course not, Max, thats why I am urging you to get a check-up very soon!!

  198. Boxlock
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:44 pm | Permalink

    The weather is always going to change.
    Sometimes it’s hot, other times it’s cold, only those with nothing better to do get all excited about that.
    Funny how anybody or thing that disagrees with AGW is bad science, and all who do promote it are of
    good science.
    I couldn’t care less except that what’s it’s doing right now…and that impacts it as much as anyone else on this blog. Kind of makes all that effort and concern look a little foolish, uh?

  199. Ksgrm
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:45 pm | Permalink

    Chas and JR I don’t care if he was being interview by a purple martian – when asked questions he couldn’t respond. He had no answers and realizing it would only get worse if he stayed he ran away. Most GW people are that way. They are spoonfed their beliefs but can’t defend them because they are poppycock.

    JR you really should monitor a little better. Drudge went off weeks ago. It wasn’t Lars Larson either. Sorry I can’t give you the interviewer. When I return from vacation I will find out for you. I had to spend too much time solving farmies problems and have ran out of time.

  200. outlander
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:46 pm | Permalink

    Cosmos: Tapping was just an add-on to the jist of the article. Perhaps the reading problem here is that you didn’t read the article? What about the documented REDUCED solar activity?

    But overall, what was the purpose of the article Cosmos? Hint: it is summarized in the last paragraph. Reread it and then we will have a pop quiz.

  201. Boxlock
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:52 pm | Permalink

    From the Nader thread;
    I’m tickled Nader is in again.
    I’m glad he’s running. He’s green and might pull a few of the global warming flunkies with him.
    That will be a fun spectacle.

  202. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:52 pm | Permalink

    Chas.
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:35 pm | Permalink
    What’s the matter Max, you gotta drag another thread to this one??? Are you THAT desperate??? You got illegal weapons you are hiding??? I gave you specifics… If you cant figure it out, then I feel sorry for you!!
    ———————————————

    Chas, you do nothing but constantly harrass bloggers here who don’t agree with you. How does that feel bud?

    You state you are happy with Baltimore and NYC sharing this gun data, yet YOU CANNOT SUPPORT YOUR POSITION!

    Funny Chas.

    You are against the 2nd Amendment, just admit it.

    You are against Freedom, just admit it.

    YOU CAN’T SUPPORT YOUR POSITION FOR BEING HAPPY ABOUT NYC AND BALTIMORE SHARING GUN INFORMATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  203. Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:53 pm | Permalink

    KsGrm, you made a pledge to not address me.. I see that was difficult for you… Do try hrder!!

  204. lindainks55
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:54 pm | Permalink

    Interesting article reporting findings of a study by the the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, which polled more than 35,000 Americans over the age 18, and shows Protestants are on the verge of becoming a statistical minority in the U.S.

    http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/02/25/protestants-verging-on-becoming-minorities.html

  205. ANTI
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:56 pm | Permalink

    Cosmos What about the others’ claims in the article?

  206. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:57 pm | Permalink

    You struggle so much with the basics of human understanding!! Unbelievable!!

    HA HA HA HA.

    Yeah, like understanding the basics of your bullshit response on the Tiahrt topic.

    Please explain your position on the Tiahrt Amendment oh great one.

  207. ANTI
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:59 pm | Permalink

    Al Gore, AGW, GW, Green sucks, I burn tires for fun….that should alert Cosmos to a response

  208. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:00 pm | Permalink

    Chas.
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 7:53 pm | Permalink
    KsGrm, you made a pledge to not address me.. I see that was difficult for you… Do try hrder!!
    ———————————————

    It’s that ignorant animal magnetism you possess Chas!

    You are irresistable!

    EXPLAIN YOUR POSITION ON TIAHRT CHAS!

    YOU CAN’T!!!!!

    BAD DOG!!!!

  209. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:01 pm | Permalink

    Chas, go away for awhile, use your inhaler and wait a few minutes until you catch your breath.

    Then maybe you can be rational.

    Calm down boy.

    Lay down.

    Good dog.

  210. Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:02 pm | Permalink

    Max, I gave you my reasons… If you cant READ what I wrote, that is not my problem!! Max, it is most annoying to read day after day after day a bunch of trivial dope out of a Man who should know better… A Man who has lived through much of the same things I have lived through… A MAN who should know the dangers of Tyranny…. of oppression… And yet you continue to spout forth some of the lousiest, dirtiest CRAP I have ever seen in recent years!! With the GARBAGE you post on here I definitely feel like a guy like Timothy McVeigh would have been happy to call you a comrade!!(in arms)

    Now, I posted on the other thread why I am happy for Baltimore and NYC… I would suggest you go read it… very slowly, if you need to… Go read it and see that I am clearly on the side of Law Enforcement being able to DO THEIR JOBS, with a minimum of danger for losing their lives… and with a maximum interest in “protecting and serving” — And that would most definitely include being able to track down “Seized Illegal Weapons” in other departments….

    WHY Tiahrt and others would oppose that, is far beyond my comprehension!!

    And, ummmm Max…. NOBODY IS COMING AFTER YOUR GUNS, UNLESS YOU TURN THEM ON YOUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS FOR NO REASON!! GET IT???

  211. Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:04 pm | Permalink

    MAX — you are a major A$$HOLE!!! YOU go away… go crawl into a fox hole… put on your war paint, so you can fight off the Troops coming from President Hillary, to take away your guns!!! LOLOL Yea, like she could even CARE about your guns!! But, Max, go get paranoid, and have fun… Just dont shoot the paper boy!!

  212. Boxlock
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:14 pm | Permalink

    Max,
    Congrats, you did it again. Like a master craftsman you turn Chas into a raving lunatic. Did you go to school to learn that….oh wait, it’s just Chas, anybody can do it I guess whether trying or not.

  213. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:14 pm | Permalink

    Chas.
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:02 pm | Permalink
    Max, I gave you my reasons…
    ————————————–

    Huh?

    Please enumerate them here.

    YOU CAN’T!

    Why? Because YOU DIDN’T LIST ANY REASONS CHAS!!!

  214. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:15 pm | Permalink

    Boxlock,

    I was trying to be gentle with the Lad, since I’m aware of his fragile, and ignorant state of being.

    Yet, somehow, as sensitive as I am, I still set him off into USING ALL CAPS!!!!

  215. Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:15 pm | Permalink

    My reasons are on the OTHER THREAD idiot!!

  216. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:17 pm | Permalink

    (chortles)

  217. Ksgrm
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:18 pm | Permalink

    Chas what – you wait until you think I am gone and then start talking about me as if I am still around. I forgot to tell you I am taking my laptop so I can monitor you. So stop with the nonsense and give the reasons. I asked that question early this morning.

  218. Pleefer
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:21 pm | Permalink

    I like Jimmy Buffon.

  219. Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:27 pm | Permalink

    As the election season heats up the National Council of Churches USA has re-issued their Christian Principles in An Election Year:
    Your church, your communion, and the National Council of Churches USA do not endorse any political party or any candidate.

    Be that as it may, our Christian faith compels us to address the world through the lens of our relationship to God and to one another. Public discourse is enhanced as we engage civic leaders on the values and ethics affirmed by our faith. At the same time, religious liberty and the integrity of our democracy will be protected as candidates refrain from using faith-based organizations and institutions for partisan gain.

    We offer these 10 principles to those seeking to accept the responsibility that comes with holding public office.

    1. War is contrary to the will of God. While the use of violent force may, at times, be a necessity of last resort, Christ pronounces his blessing on the peacemakers. We look for political leaders who will make peace with justice a top priority and who will actively seek nonviolent solutions to conflict.
    2. God calls us to live in communities shaped by peace and cooperation. We reject policies that abandon large segments of our inner city and rural populations to hopelessness. We look for political leaders who will re-build our communities and bring an end to the cycles of violence and killing.
    3. God created us for each other, and thus our security depends on the well being of our global neighbors. We look for political leaders for whom a foreign policy based on cooperation and global justice is an urgent concern.
    4. God calls us to be advocates for those who are most vulnerable in our society. We look for political leaders who yearn for economic justice and who will seek to reduce the growing disparity between rich and poor.
    5. Each human being is created in the image of God and is of infinite worth. We look for political leaders who actively promote racial justice and equal opportunity for everyone.
    6. The earth belongs to God and is intrinsically good. We look for political leaders who recognize the earth’s goodness, champion environmental justice, and uphold our responsibility to be stewards of God’s creation.
    7. Christians have a biblical mandate to welcome strangers. We look for political leaders who will pursue fair immigration policies and speak out against xenophobia.
    8. Those who follow Christ are called to heal the sick. We look for political leaders who will support adequate, affordable and accessible health care for all.
    9. Because of the transforming power of God’s grace, all humans are called to be in right relationship with each other. We look for political leaders who seek a restorative, not retributive, approach to the criminal justice system and the individuals within it.
    10. Providing enriched learning environments for all of God’s children is a moral imperative. We look for political leaders who advocate for equal educational opportunity and abundant funding for children’s services.

  220. Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:29 pm | Permalink

    You paranoid B***h — I am not talking about you!! Get over yourself!!

    My reasons are posted on the Tiahrt Thread… Did you not read that??

  221. J R
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:29 pm | Permalink

    “Uhhh, Joe was right for the most part…..”

    And with that Heckler, I must declare you insane.

    But at least Heckler is for real.

    Chas why do you treat “boxlock” and “Max” like anything other than jimmy mac puppets?

    He used to hide it pretty good in “Max”. But he got sloppy.

  222. Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:34 pm | Permalink

    JR I am not as positive about that as you are… Sometimes, yes, but other times not… and, then there are times I wonder about Granny!! LOL

  223. Ksgrm
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:36 pm | Permalink

    7. Christians have a biblical mandate to welcome strangers.

    And you told me to never darken the doorway of your church. Is this referring just to liberal strangers?

  224. Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:37 pm | Permalink

    Lord, lead us not into temptation;
    But deliver us from those who think they’re you!

  225. Hud
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:40 pm | Permalink

    “But deliver us from those who think they’re you!”

    Talking about yourself again?

  226. Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:40 pm | Permalink

    Granny, you cant even go a whole day without addressing me on the Blog.. like you said yesterday… You wouldnt be coming to my Church for the purpose of worship… You would be coming to find something to PICK AT… just like you do here!! For that reason, you would not be welcome… Get it??

    Now, that said, I would also not do anything to keep you OUT…

  227. Ksgrm
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:43 pm | Permalink

    In your famous words, Source?? I would never have said that. I know me better than that.

    Show me those words.

  228. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:46 pm | Permalink

    ksgrm,

    There’s not enough room in Chas’s laundromat church to have visitors.

  229. Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:46 pm | Permalink

    Grm, you said that yesterday… when you all were feeling sorry for yourselves over Tiahrt!!

    You said you were going to try not to address me on the Blog anymore… Sorry if your memory is short…

  230. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:49 pm | Permalink

    Chas,

    Check this website out:

    http://answering-islam.org.uk/Responses/Abualrub/allahs_identity.htm

  231. Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:49 pm | Permalink

    James, you have no idea where my church is, or what it looks like… WHY DO YOU CONSTANTLY LIE ABOUT IT ON THE BLOG??? DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY, LYING JAMES… LIE ABOUT MY CHURCH… LIE ABOUT ME…. LIE ABOUT ANYTHING BUT WHAT YOU LIKE… YOU LIE ABOUT GAYS… YOU LIE ABOUT OTHER MEN’S TESTICLES…
    WHAT IS THERE THAT YOU DONT LIE ABOUT???

    LIE LIE LIE LIE JAMES LIES!!!

  232. Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:50 pm | Permalink

    GO FIND A BRIDGE TO HIDE UNDER, YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING TROLL!!

  233. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:51 pm | Permalink

    wonk wonk wonk

  234. Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:51 pm | Permalink

    WHY SHOULD I AMUSA?? OR WHOEVER THE HECK YOU ARE?? ITS A BUNCH OF MUSH!!

  235. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:51 pm | Permalink

    Chas,

    What is the name of your God?

  236. Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:51 pm | Permalink

    JAMES, you been sleeping with those river geese again??? ROFL!!

  237. Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:53 pm | Permalink

    AMERUSA, I AM NOT DISCUSSING YOUR IDIOTIC DRIVEL… SEE, GOD, DOES JUST FINE FOR ME…

  238. Ksgrm
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:56 pm | Permalink

    Chas my revised intent was to treat you kindly and not let you get under my skin. I for one think I am doing admirably. I have been nothing but kind to you. But I will have to say that you latest reply to James wasn’t kind.

    9. Because of the transforming power of God’s grace, all humans are called to be in right relationship with each other.

    Your attitude would be in direct contradiction with #9.

  239. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:56 pm | Permalink

    Chas,

    Idiotic drivel?

    Yahweh is drivel?

    God is Allah is Bhudda is whatever. Now that is drivel!!

    What is the name of your God?

  240. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:59 pm | Permalink

    Satan is Chas’s God.

  241. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:02 pm | Permalink

    What size is your Congregation Chas?

    Do you have Deacons?

    Do you light candles?

    Do you use grape juice or wine in your ceremonies?

    Do you raise your hands and head when you pray or do you bow?

    Does your Church have an organ or a piano? or Both?

    Do you need a microphone when you speak or do you wander the aisles?

    Are you a hand clasper or do you hold your hands out in a cusp?

    Do you call for pray or do you invite for prayer?

    Do you have Sunday School?

    Do you sit in a chair or a pew?

  242. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:02 pm | Permalink

    gRM… ONE CANNOT BE IN A RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH A CONSTANT LIAR… SORRY!! THAT # 9 THAT YOU ARE PICKING APART, GOES TWO WAYS!!

  243. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:04 pm | Permalink

    NOW MAX LIES TOO!! ARENT YOU PEOPLE JUST SO FRIGGIN WONDERFUL??? ALL OF YOUR SELF RIGHTEOUS PIOUS PLATITUDES, MAX, AND THE BEST YOU CAN DO IS LIE ABOUT MY GOD?? SEE, MAX, YOU ARENT LYING ABOUT ME.. NOW YOU LIE ABOUT MY GOD!! SOME CHURCHES CALL THAT THE BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT… BUT, I DOUBT THAT YOU GIVE A RIP ONE WAY OR THE OTHER!!

  244. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:04 pm | Permalink

    Here are the sum total ‘Reasons’ from Chas’s other thread:

    “Chas.
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 2:56 pm | Permalink
    Looks likemaybe Baltimore and NYC have figured out a way to get round TT’s precious amendment!! Hooray for the big guys!!”

    “Chas.
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 5:35 pm | Permalink
    Hey, they need the information… If they share databases of “Seized Illegal Guns” with other Law Enforcement departments then they will have a record to work with in criminal investigation…”

    That be it!

    And that was your Chasism for the day.

  245. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:05 pm | Permalink

    They’ll have a record to work with.

    Would that be 78 or 45?

  246. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:05 pm | Permalink

    Or 33 and 1/3?

  247. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:06 pm | Permalink

    Chas,

    All I am asking is what is the name of the god you call God?

    Are you a Christian Chas? Have you studied scripture and do you know Christian theology?

    His name does not stop at God.

    That is where we are getting in trouble in this world today and in this country.

    His name among many is Yahweh, Jehovah, El Shaddai, and the Lord God Almighty.

    Yahweh is the name that gives the meaning of his character and tells who he is.

  248. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:07 pm | Permalink

    JAMES… ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS… NOT THAT IT IS ANY OF YOUR FRIGGIN BUSINESS…

    YES!!!

  249. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:07 pm | Permalink

    Does anyone have record players anymore?

  250. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:07 pm | Permalink

    Appears to be innocent questions to me Chas. Why won’t you answer?

  251. MonkeyHawk
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:09 pm | Permalink

    His name is “God.” It’s not just a job description.

    But his friends call him “Larry.”

  252. Hud
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:10 pm | Permalink

    Does anyone have record players anymore?

    I think I have a turntable.

  253. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:10 pm | Permalink

    AMERUSA — OBVIOUSLY YOU DONT STUDY MUCH BIBLE YOURSELF, OR YOU WOULD KNOW THAT YHWH IS THE HEBREW VERB, “TO BE” OR “I AM” — AS IN MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH, WHEN HE ASKS WHO SHALL HE SAY SENDS HIM… THE VOICE FROM THE BURNING BUSH SAYS, “TELL THEM ‘I AM’ HAS SENT YOU…” THUS, “I AM” IS A ‘NAME’ FOR GOD… AND TO THIS DAY, THAT WORD IS NOT TO BE SPOKEN IN A SYNAGOGUE…

    AS I SAID, GOD WORKS JUST FINE

  254. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:10 pm | Permalink

    I have a record player. It’s a Technics. Lot’s of 331/3 LPs left too.

  255. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:11 pm | Permalink

    Chas’ 8:27 and 8:29 threads sorta indicate a bi-polar type situation eh?

    Or maybe a true satanic possession.

    Exorcism Chas. Take two and call a doctor in the morning.

  256. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:12 pm | Permalink

    I DID ANSWER YOU JAMES….

    CAN YOU READ, LIAR???

  257. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:15 pm | Permalink

    Monkey, I think some might argue that point on “Larry” I mean Larry has a nice ring to it… BUT, the book says: Our Father, Which ART in Heaven… God’s name is Art… if you know him as a Father :-)

  258. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:17 pm | Permalink

    Chas,

    But I do not attend a synagogue.

    Christains do not live under the old law. Christ fulfilled the old law.

    Yes YHWH is the source of Yahweh.

    But Yahweh (YHWH) is who he is and we live under a different dispensation today.

    Chas – do you have to use all CAPS?

    But, back to “God is OK with me”.

    Does Allah work OK for you?

    Does Baal work OK with you?

    Does Beezlebub work OK for you?

    Or Krishna, etc, etc?

  259. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:17 pm | Permalink

    Max, you brainless wonder… The long post upthread isnt even MY post… That is from the National Council of Churches… It has just been issued for this year… just like one is issued every year… Duh!!

    My other post you refer to??? Grm just isnt keeping up very good!! Not my fault!!

  260. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:17 pm | Permalink

    Where did you attend Seminary Chas?

    Do you have Synods?

    Does your Church belong to a Convention?
    Which one?

    Do you give a call for those to accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior at the end of Worship Service?

    Do you sprinkle or immerse with Baptism?

    Do you teach the Lord’s prayer and do you repeat it during sermons?

  261. MonkeyHawk
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:18 pm | Permalink

    “Regular’s” silly questions reveal the fine points and depth of his theology –

    What size is your Congregation?
    Do you have Deacons?
    Do you light candles?
    Do you use grape juice or wine in your ceremonies?
    Do you raise your hands and head when you pray or do you bow?
    Does your Church have an organ or a piano? or Both?
    Do you need a microphone when you speak or do you wander the aisles?
    Are you a hand clasper or do you hold your hands out in a cusp?
    Do you call for pray or do you invite for prayer?
    Do you have Sunday School?
    Do you sit in a chair or a pew?

    I’ve been in a church that had a wireless microphone and the speaker could still “wander the aisles.” I guess it wasn’t an orthodox congregation.

  262. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:20 pm | Permalink

    James, you are a true attempt at a work of art… Now you put out a NEW list of questions… Do you think I am stupid enough to answer your stupidity??

    I already gave you an answer to the first list…

  263. Pedant
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:20 pm | Permalink

    Bush confidently predicts GOP wins in November

    By Mark Preston
    CNN Political Editor
    Friday, July 7, 2006

    WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush predicted Thursday that Republicans would maintain control of Congress after the November elections and vowed to continue criss-crossing the country in the coming months to help elect GOP candidates. …

    http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/07/mg.fri/index.html?section=cnn_allpolitics
    —————-
    Bush predicts GOP will hold White House

    By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer
    1 hour, 5 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON – President Bush predicted Monday that voters will replace him with a Republican president who will “keep up the fight” in Iraq. “I’m confident we’ll hold the White House in 2008,” Bush told donors at the Republican Governors Association annual dinner, which raised a record $10.6 million for GOP gubernatorial candidates. …

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080226/ap_on_el_pr/bush_governors;_ylt=AoTGHPj8bJy0_7giWB16h7is0NUE
    —————-

    Now that has GOT to scare the bejesus out of McCain;s campaign staff.

    :lol:

  264. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:20 pm | Permalink

    Chas, do you always drink and blog at the same time?

    Not a good combination.

    I posted your NYC Baltimore “reasons”. Didn’t comment about your 9 commandments at all.

    Keep up.

  265. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:22 pm | Permalink

    Well, my church uses microphones because of the size of the sanctuary. Plus, there are headphones for the hard of hearing and the sermon is recorded for those who are sick and wish to listen to it later.

  266. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:22 pm | Permalink

    Chad, go light a candle, hold a crucifix (if you have one) and read this out loud 3 times:

    Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel

    St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all the other evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

  267. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:23 pm | Permalink

    I dunno Chas, I’ve never met a minister so unwilling to talk about his Church.

    Usually, the come up with an amusing/interesting story or two about their experiences.

  268. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:25 pm | Permalink

    My church uses microphones, a sound system, obviously, and contemporary music.

    May a joyful noise unto the Lord! Alleluia!

  269. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:25 pm | Permalink

    We have more than one wireless mic… sometimes we have more than one speaker… LOL

    We have an organ and piano… we have pews and chairs… chairs for over flow…. hard wood pews in the Chapel… padded pews in the main sanctuary… We have a membership of around 200 I think… depending on congregations, some use wine, some use grape juice for Holy Eucharist (thats Communion for some)… Ummmm we just pray, James… the how is pretty much up to the individual… ALL churches pray, James… dumb question…

    Why would I use the Lord’s Prayer during sermons??? That would be silly… We use it elsewhere…

    Now, you all done being stupid??? I didnt come on the Blog to talk religion…

  270. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:27 pm | Permalink

    See, Max, thats where you got a problem… I am a Christian… why would I want to pray to an Angel???

  271. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:27 pm | Permalink

    Chas,

    So what did you come to the blog for Chas?

  272. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:27 pm | Permalink

    “Now that has GOT to scare the bejesus out of McCain;s campaign staff.”

    They’re screwed now, Pedant. Talk about the kiss of death.

    I can see McCain and Bush in a Michael and Fredo embrace right now – it’s all over for McCain except for the ride in the fishing boat.

  273. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:28 pm | Permalink

    Now that wasn’t so hard wasn’t it Chas? :)

  274. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:29 pm | Permalink

    Chas,

    You are right, praying to angels is not scriptural.

  275. MonkeyHawk
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:29 pm | Permalink

    Fair’s fair, “Regular” –

    Does your church have a bass guitar player?

    Which dishes are more common at your pot lucks? Casseroles or jello salads?

    Are funerals in your santuary free to anyone or only for members?

    Are the cookies in Sunday School name-brand Nabiscos and Pepridge Farms or store-brand. (Extra points for homemade!)

    Does the offering come before or after the sermon?

    I’m sure, “Regular,” these questions address what you obviously think is important in contemporary life.

  276. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:29 pm | Permalink

    Chas.
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 8:02 pm | Permalink
    Max, I gave you my reasons… If you cant READ what I wrote, that is not my problem!! Max, it is most annoying to read day after day after day a bunch of trivial dope out of a Man who should know better… A Man who has lived through much of the same things I have lived through… A MAN who should know the dangers of Tyranny…. of oppression… And yet you continue to spout forth some of the lousiest, dirtiest CRAP I have ever seen in recent years!! With the GARBAGE you post on here I definitely feel like a guy like Timothy McVeigh would have been happy to call you a comrade!!(in arms)

    Now, I posted on the other thread why I am happy for Baltimore and NYC… I would suggest you go read it… very slowly, if you need to… Go read it and see that I am clearly on the side of Law Enforcement being able to DO THEIR JOBS, with a minimum of danger for losing their lives… and with a maximum interest in “protecting and serving” — And that would most definitely include being able to track down “Seized Illegal Weapons” in other departments….

    WHY Tiahrt and others would oppose that, is far beyond my comprehension!!
    ———————————————–
    Here’s the Tiahrt Amendment Chas.

    http://www.house.gov/tiahrt/communications/press_releases/2007/Tiahrt_gun_amd/TIAHRT_amendment_2.pdf

    Chas, can you please point out the specific section of the Tiahrt Amendment that prevents law enforcement from doing their job?

    CAN YOU?

    Huh?

    Nope. You can cite Brady.com, but lies is all that you have.

    LIE Chas.

    LIE. LIE. LIE.

  277. ANTI
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:30 pm | Permalink

    I’ve been in a church that had a wireless microphone and the speaker could still “wander the aisles.”

    was the speaker a Peavey?

  278. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:30 pm | Permalink

    What kind of Deacons, James?? Serving Deacons, Ordained Deacons, or Pastoral Deacons??

  279. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:31 pm | Permalink

    Chas,

    I think you should have some influence on WS.

    He seems to always revert to bad language and even blaspheming the name of God.

  280. Boxlock
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:31 pm | Permalink

    Chas,
    Does your church have an established liturgy?

    What content typically makes up a service you conduct?

    Is yours a church with a brick and mortar location?

    Do you welcome visitors to your church and if so will you invite us as participants on this blog to attend? As long as we don’t blog there.

    Your church doesn’t by chance have a foundational purpose based on the IRS does it?

  281. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:33 pm | Permalink

    Fair’s fair, “Regular” –

    Does your church have a bass guitar player?
    rarely, usually acoustic – on special occassions
    Which dishes are more common at your pot lucks? Casseroles or jello salads?
    Casseroles and jello salads
    Are funerals in your santuary free to anyone or only for members?
    A member can sponsor someone who wants to have a funeral service or marriage ceremony
    Are the cookies in Sunday School name-brand Nabiscos and Pepridge Farms or store-brand. (Extra points for homemade!)
    home made
    Does the offering come before or after the sermon?
    before
    I’m sure, “Regular,” these questions address what you obviously think is important in contemporary life.
    —————-

  282. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:34 pm | Permalink

    Blogexorcism?

  283. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:34 pm | Permalink

    “He seems to always revert to bad language and even blaspheming the name of God.”

    And how would that be, nitwit?

  284. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:35 pm | Permalink

    Of course it wasnt hard James… But it sure was pretty dumb of you to ask such trivial stuff… Different congregations are structured different ways… Different services are structured for different purposes… Surely you dont think every Sunday is the Same Old Same Old, do you??

  285. Regular
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:35 pm | Permalink

    #
    Chas.
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:30 pm | Permalink

    What kind of Deacons, James?? Serving Deacons, Ordained Deacons, or Pastoral Deacons??
    ——————-
    I’m not familiar with the different kinds of those Deacons. Our Deacons are lay people, that are nominated, then a meeting is held to review their entry. My grandfather though, was an ordained Deacon in a Northern Baptist Church.

  286. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:36 pm | Permalink

    WS,

    Nitwit no!

    Hobbit? Possibly!

    Are you an Orc?

  287. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:36 pm | Permalink

    Go ahead Chas, point out the exact language in the Tiahrt Amendment that stops law enforcement from investigating crimes.

    I gave you the Amendment. It’s 4 pages long!

    Course you know it by heart anyway.

    Fess up Chas. You didn’t know what you were talking about on the Tiahrt Amendment or on the Baltimore NYC database.

    Fess up.

    Ok, stew in your own bullshit then. Max is the least of YOUR problems.

  288. J R
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:38 pm | Permalink

    Hmm I could find out what church James goes to.

    Or if he even goes.

    He doesn’t seem to get out much.

  289. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:38 pm | Permalink

    Chas,

    What do you come to the blog for?

  290. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:39 pm | Permalink

    “Are you an Orc?”

    Nope.

  291. Ksgrm
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:39 pm | Permalink

    Max I was just getting ready to say we had a very uneventful night of blogging. Pleasant for everyone. Then you had to spoil it.

    Back off of Chas. It is just a blog afterall.

    Thanks.

  292. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:40 pm | Permalink

    WS,

    Do you know what an Orc is?

  293. ANTI
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:40 pm | Permalink

    IS THE SPEAKER A PEAVEY CHAS??? ah, I really don’t care. But this is far better than name calling!

  294. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:40 pm | Permalink

    MAX — control yourself… I DID NOT… repeat DID NOT say anything for or against the Tiahrt Amendment on the other thread… Which is where your drivel belongs… ALL I said was I think its pretty neat the way NYC and Baltimore (and hopefully others) have figured out a way to get around that Amendment… Now, GO READ WHAT I SAID instead of making up any more of your friggin LIES!! I get sick of your constant LIES!!

  295. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:41 pm | Permalink

    I have no idea what kind of a speaker it is… They are built into the Beams and Arches…

  296. ANTI
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:42 pm | Permalink

    Thank you Chas

  297. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:42 pm | Permalink

    Somebody asked about brick and mortar?? I suppose if it is wood frame its not good enough?? LOL

  298. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:42 pm | Permalink

    ANTI,

    That was cool about the speaker being a Peavey!

  299. Ksgrm
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:43 pm | Permalink

    Chas Max has the right to wonder why you think they need to get around the ammendment. It seems like a good one to me. Why should a manufacturer of any item be responsible for its use by an owner. Not well thought for NYC or Baltimore. Just another way for lawyers to get richer.

    You need to speak nicer and lay off the caps. That is yelling at others in blog speak you know.

  300. ANTI
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:46 pm | Permalink

    American, of the USA, well I’m a Marshall guy myself, but I wouldn’t blame a guy that used a Peavey.

  301. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:47 pm | Permalink

    “Do you know what an Orc is?”

    Nope, don’t know and don’t care. Sorry.

  302. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:48 pm | Permalink

    Grm, because thats my OPINION…. thats why!! And as for manufacturers…. Hey, if a bartender can be held responsible for the guy who drinks too much in his bar, and goes out and kills somebody in his car… maybe the manufacturers ought to have some kind of accountability when it comes to guns… That one is still up in the air, as far as I am concerned… I just want law enforcement to have FULL access to what they need to do their job to protect me and mine… And, it looks like NYC and Baltimore have managed to make sure they can do their jobs…

    Now, like I said, that stuff belongs on another Thread… or, did it get locked down like the Obama thread??

  303. Grundy
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:49 pm | Permalink

    God Bless everyone! I hope you folks on the Kansas prairie are having a wonderful evening!

    God’s blessing to each of you!

  304. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:50 pm | Permalink

    WS,

    Have you heard of the Lord of the Rings?

  305. Max
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:52 pm | Permalink

    I’m done with Chas, Ksgrm. He’s all yours now.

    He wants to attack the 2nd Amendment. I defend it.

    He wants to attack Christians. I defend them.

    Gave Chas a dose of his own CAP medicine, but he only seems to enjoy it.

    Someone asked Chas why he blogs. PAIN. He likes PAIN. Oh, not giving PAIN. Getting PAIN.

    Sick freak he is. And I’m thru with him.

  306. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:55 pm | Permalink

    Max,

    Even Chas deserves a second chance!

  307. Grundy
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:55 pm | Permalink

    Lord of the rings is that hobbit movie. I thought I saw Christians posting here about the Lord of Hosts!

    The hobbit was a thief, albeit in good fashion he was returning the stolen ring.

    The Lord Jesus Christ will come like a theif in the night.

    The thief cometh not but to steal and kill and destroy. JC has come that you might have LIFE and have it MORE abundantly!

    Imagine life MORE abundantly. Now it has to be true, doesn’t it. I mean it is in the book.
    And the book is either true from cover to cover, or it is false.

    You can’t believe in part, but in completeness!

    Life MORE abundantly!!

  308. Posted February 25, 2008 at 9:56 pm | Permalink

    Nice job, Horst Wessel, of getting a thread closed down.

    Actually, now that it’s all over and done with, I must say that the security at the El Dorado Obama event was not tight.

    I’m not going to specify, but it should have been better.

  309. lindainks55
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:01 pm | Permalink

    Hey Chas, my church is chubby, has silver hair (sounds nicer than grey), a wide happy smile, nothing fancy but God lives there. I like to think everyone here is kinder than their words.

    Did you read that link way up thread about the study done by Pew Forum on religion? I wondered what you think of that? Here’s another link from another source that reports on the study.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/us/25cnd-religion.html?hp

    Any thoughts?

  310. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:02 pm | Permalink

    Grundy,

    I assume that you know, The Lord of the Rings is an allegory in movie form about the life of Christ written by JRR Tolkein, a contemporary of CS Lewis.

    Much like the Chronicles of Narnia, by CS Lewis.

  311. Grundy
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:04 pm | Permalink

    Just read up this thread. Guess I’m not on a Christian blog. Good evening to those of you in Kansas.

    There is much potential in those of you who want to believe.

    God Bless!

  312. Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:06 pm | Permalink

    Grm, you have the blatant audacity to tell ANYBODY here to speak nicer??? You got a finger pointing at somebody else, there are some pointing BACK at you!! You just want to dictate to others… You just cant take it when it gets thrown back in your face!!

    MAX — You are defending Christians how??? By praying to ANGELS??? Yea, right!! You hang in there with your superstitions, ok??? Make sure you hang on tight to that rabbit’s foot now… And sleep with that garlic around your neck…

  313. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:07 pm | Permalink

    lindainks55,

    New York Times? Hopefully they got this one right.

  314. Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:08 pm | Permalink

    AMERUSA — Lord of the Rings was in BOOK form LONG before it was a movie!! As was the Chronicles of Narnia…

  315. Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:10 pm | Permalink

    “New York Times? Hopefully they got this one right.”

    Criticizing the Times? You folks thought that they were WONDERFUL when Judith Miller was regurgitating the administration’s talking points during the run up to the Bush War of Choice on Iraq.

    What changed?

  316. lindainks55
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:10 pm | Permalink

    http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/02/25/protestants-verging-on-becoming-minorities.html

    Here’s another take from US News and World Report. I honestly don’t know which or what sources are credible, acceptable… Anyway, here are two sources reporting on a study. Whatta ya think

  317. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:11 pm | Permalink

    Chas,

    You are correct about the book. I read it a long time ago, as I did the Chronicles of Narnia.

    CS Lewis was an atheist prior to the time he wrote the Chronicles of Narnia.

  318. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:12 pm | Permalink

    Grunday,

    Do you object to the Lord of the Rings? And why?

  319. cosmos
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:13 pm | Permalink

    outlander,

    Dr. Tapping, who was misquoted, was supposed to support Oleg “a drop in the bucket” Sorokhtin’s false claim.

    Reread this, and please try to comprehend it.
    http://www.mps.mpg.de/dokumente/publikationen/solanki/c153.pdf
    The last 30 years [of data] are not considered however. In this time the climate and solar data diverge strongly from each other.

    Note that the most recent warming, since around 1975, has not been considered in the above correlations. During these last 30 years the solar total irradiance, solar UV irradiance and cosmic ray flux has not shown any significant secular trend, so that at least this most recent warming trend must have another source

    Again, Earth’s climate can be changed by both natural and anthropogenic factors. It can be warmed by human-added GHG’s — and cooled, by a smaller amount, temporarily, by lower solar activity.

    As Dr. Tapping said:
    “If there is a cooling due to the solar activity cycle laying off for a bit, then the a period of solar cooling could be a much-needed respite giving us more time to attack the problem of greenhouse gases, with the caveat that if we do not, things will be far worse when things turn on again after a few decades.
    However, once again it is early days and we cannot at the moment conclude there is another minimum started.”

  320. MonkeyHawk
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:13 pm | Permalink

    “CapnAmerica” offers –

    “Actually, now that it’s all over and done with, I must say that the security at the El Dorado Obama event was not tight.

    “I’m not going to specify, but it should have been better.

    That kinda bothered me, too, “CapnAmerica.”

    Now, it was a bitterly cold day and thousands of people showed up… to just about everyone’s surprise. And once the stage was set and the lights were hung, the Obama campaign opted for getting people in the building rather than extending the wait outside in the cold…

    And I must confess that I was almost in “Hank”-mode, scanning the audience looking for this generation’s Arthur Bremmer. For all I knew, “Nathan” was there packing heat and someone had told him Barrack killed shot his dog.

    I’m old enough to know just how inspiring Martin Luther King was and how inspiring Bobby Kennedy was and 1968 — thanks to hot flying lead that typical right wingnut “Horst Wessel” advocates — resulted in Richard M. Nixon.

    Rumsfeld, Cheney, all sorts of Republic Party leaders got their start thanks to Dick Nixon’s presidency. No wonder the Republic Party is considerding Hot Lead as an alternative to democracy. It’s about the only card they’ve got to play.

  321. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:14 pm | Permalink

    WS,

    The New York Times days are numbered.

    Check your sources before you report.

    Sounds like CBS former anchor.

  322. lindainks55
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:15 pm | Permalink

    Well, K State lost. Not a good week for the state men’s teams. ;-(

  323. ANTI
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:16 pm | Permalink

    Cosmos….what about THE REST OF THE ARTICLE? We get the Dr. Tapping thing! That was a very small piece to the article.

  324. American, of the USA
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:18 pm | Permalink

    Good night all!

    Good talking to you all!

    May the lord bless you and keep you and may he shine his light down upon you!

  325. Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:21 pm | Permalink

    “The New York Times days are numbered.”

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm……………….. I bet that comes as news to them, no pun intended. All newspapers have suffered declining subscriptions since the advent of the Internet, but I hardly think that the Times is going anywhere.

    I bet you didn’t read the Times follow up story about McCain’s contacts with lobbyists – you know – the ones he said he never had.

    The article was about McBush’s SWORN testimony in 2002.

    In other words, gotcha!!

  326. Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:26 pm | Permalink

    Good articles Linda… I saw the Pew Forum article last week… got it from the Denominational offices… I agree with almost all of the article… with one rather subtle exception….

    I think one of the resons for the rise of the Mega Churches, is the breakdown of the “neighborhood” concept… As more people flee for the hills… errrr… the suburbs… the old “neighborhood” churches, and grocery stores, etc., have all lost out… Instead of local neighborhood churches, we are seeing this increase in more of what I would call “regional” churches to replace the old neighborhood church…

    With that exception, I think the Pew Forum is right on the money…

    I remember when the first modern style architecture “mega” church was built in Wichita — Metropolitan Baptist, over on McClean Blvd. by the Stadium…

    Before that, the “mega” churches were First Presbyterian, First United Methodist, First Baptist (all downtown churches) and St. Mary’s Cathedral… They were “mega” churches in terms of numbers of members…

    Once the city started expanding, there came Church of the Magdalene, Central Christian out on North Rock (result of a church split), then came Central Community Church on W. Maple… and now many many others have sprung up…

    But, still, the underlying factor is the population relocation outward from center city…

  327. J R
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:28 pm | Permalink

    Monkeyhawk?

    “And I must confess that I was almost in “Hank”-mode,”

    That’s fair.

    “For all I knew, “Nathan” was there packing heat and someone had told him Barrack killed shot his dog.”

    And that is just not.

    Sheesh what a confusing election we have to come.

    I can’t convince such as you Monkeyhawk that Obama is a GOP apologist and sympathizer and here I am defending the most indefensible of right wing posters.

    Maybe it is my special purgatory for having travelled from the far right to the far left.

  328. Steven Davis
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:34 pm | Permalink

    KsGrm,
    I see that you did not respond to my post on your dishonest portrayal of my post about Karl Rove. Lying is such an unbecoming trait for grandmothers, don’t you think?

    I had nastier things to say, but I will refrain, because beating up on an alleged grandmother (and I am not convinced of same) is just so unseemly, it feels to me.

  329. Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:36 pm | Permalink

    Karl Rove will get a fair trial before he’s frog-marched out into a maximum security institution.

  330. lindainks55
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:36 pm | Permalink

    Sometimes the world seems really upset — a bad tummy ache and very grouchy! Do you think when we quit hanging out on the porch and over the back fence we lost something very valuable? Now we stay in our air conditioned homes in front of the television and / or computer and we’ve lost our ability to treat humanity with dignity and kindness. Enough deep thoughts (doesn’t take much to get to the bottom of my old brain!) — must get some sleep. Goodnight all!

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  332. cosmos
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:46 pm | Permalink

    ANTI,

    Did you even read the title of outlander’s op-ed?

    The “new Ice Age”, caused by lower solar activity in the future, was the op-ed’s main point.

    I already covered some other minor points upthread, at 12:34 pm.

  333. Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:56 pm | Permalink

    Well, time for sleep….

    Good night; Good luck; and God bless,
    Whatever you conceive God to be!!

    Blessings all!!

  334. MonkeyHawk
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 10:57 pm | Permalink

    “J R” –

    Maybe that’s the problem between us. I never fell victim to the Far Right as you did.

    I pretty much saw them as they are from the start.

    You were seduced by them, albeit as a kid. I can only imagine what led to your epiphany.

    And, frankly, you are nothing close to “far Left.” No one in mainstream political discussion seems to be “far Left” anymore. I’m not, but I keep tabs on the real “far Left,” and what they want would make Dennis Kucinich blush.

    And that’s kind of the point: the so-called “Conservatives” on this forum (and many others) have become so radicalized right-wingers they’ve lost touch with perspective and reality.

    But, thanks to the conservative-dominated-mainstream-media, we progressives are playing road games. CONservative Republic Party dogma is the home field these days.

    I’m on record somewhere (Google is your friend) for wondering — on 9/11 — if 9/11 was America’s Reichstag Fire.

    Since you were seduced by the Right and came to your senses, I tend to respect your views. Since I wasn’t, I tend to think that most Americans aren’t as vile as some of the Cons who choose to contribute to this forum. Maybe you know better. Maybe everyone who’s a registered member of the Republic Party is a fascist.

  335. Posted February 25, 2008 at 11:05 pm | Permalink

    Monkey, not so much facist, as theocratic re-constructionists… at least many of them… as for others, facists indeed!! In love with the enterprise of Business… to the point that Business now nearly runs the government… classic facist state… But they CALL it freedom and democracy…

  336. Rage
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 11:28 pm | Permalink

    JR, Monkey, Chas:

    Life is tough. It’s hard to keep track. It’s easy to take your poltical ideology from off-the-shelf.

    We are the exception.

    I rather liked some of the things Reagan was saying in 1980 (hell, I was only a kid). My mother reminded me that talk was cheap. I was already inclined towards the Democrats–I remembered Nixon all too well. But Jimmy was toast.

    My older brother talked me out of voting for Anderson. And taught me a few other things. I started paying attention.

    I think that’s the most important thing, ultimately, no matter what your views. Pay attention. I’ve been particularly guilty this season in particular of settling on sound bites. And I knew it wasn’t enough. I think I even posted it here.

    Oh well.

    I respect’s JR’s conversion quite a bit, as my whole life has been an ongoing conversion. I suppose I’ve been (to some degree) a Democrat for quite a while, but, at various times, I’ve called myself a Democrat, a Socialist, a Libertarian, a Green, and an Independent. None really fits, except maybe the last, though certainly not in corpo-newspeak terms.

    I’m just me. A registered nothing.

    As the saying goes, think outside the box.

  337. cosmos
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 11:30 pm | Permalink

    JimmyMac,

    Did you email Dr. Tapping, and ask him if “Desmog Blog and leanleft.com are reliable sources”?

  338. MonkeyHawk
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 11:46 pm | Permalink

    “Rage” –

    I had a John Anderson bumper sticker on my car in 1980.

    I suspect most of us mainstream moderates really would prefer a liberal Republican on the ballot.

    Clinton came close.

    But the Republic Party systematically has rejected the politics of Eisenhower or Rockefeller or Anderson.

    The Republic Party has driven itself so far to the right even McCain is considered “too liberal.” Just like 1996 when Bob Dole was considered “too liberal.” Bob Dole.

    When John McCain and Bob Dole are “too liberal” for you, you’ve gone so far over the right wing edge reality is no longer a perspective worth respect.

    Bob Dole! Too “liberal?”

  339. J R
    Posted February 25, 2008 at 11:48 pm | Permalink

    Like I said, a strange time to come.

    I had to put off my reply to Monkeyhawks thoughtful post.

    So I could fight Nathan on another thread.

    After I defended Nathan here.

    Long day. I will get back to you Monkeyhawk.

    For now I will fall back on that the right is sometimes defensible, ALWAYS defensive, and NEVER to be trusted.

    Good night.

  340. J R
    Posted February 26, 2008 at 12:08 am | Permalink

    OK I lied.

    I wanted to get this in for the Obama folks.

    ” A day after Hillary Clinton angrily called on Barack Obama to stop mailing campaign literature she said misrepresented her positions, the New York senator adopted a more sarcastic tone toward her rival on a campaign swing through Rhode Island Sunday.

    Speaking to a crowd at Rhode Island College, Clinton said, “None of the problems we face will be easily solved,” and then went on to mock Obama’s message of unity.

    “Now, I could stand up here and say, ‘Let’s just get everybody together. Let’s get unified,’” Clinton said to laughter of the crowd.

    “The skies will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect,” she said dryly as the crowd erupted.

    “Maybe I’ve just lived a little long, but I have no illusions about how hard this is going to be,” Clinton continued. “You are not going to wave a magic wand to make special interests disappear.”

    And I prove that here all the time as no measure I afford the right goes unpunished on me.

    Obama is an unknown.

    Google “know your enemy”+”Sun Tzu”

  341. Pleefer
    Posted February 26, 2008 at 5:38 am | Permalink

    Yahushua hated religion. The dogma shit that your “Churches” perform destroys all that is good about Christianity.

  342. Pleefer
    Posted February 26, 2008 at 5:48 am | Permalink

    Half of Catholics leave the “Church” because that abomination is nothing but dogma.

    Transmogrification? Gross. The Christ wouldn’t want you to kill him each week and then eat him!?!?!?! Gross.

    “Universal Church”?…yeah right.

    Shit…I didn’t want to start into this.

  343. Posted February 26, 2008 at 9:15 am | Permalink

    “Illinois Nazis?! I hate Illinois Nazis!” Jake Blues (John Belushi) right before he drives them all off a bridge.

    Hey, you know what’s cool?

    The original Captain America character started his career as a Nazi fighter.

    We kicked Nazi ass once; we can always do it again.

    Zeig heil, you pathetic ass.

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