Open Thread
By bluegal Thursday Mar 20, 2008 10:30pmclick for larger. Dr. Zaius's contribution to Blog Against Theocracy, happening all weekend at http://blogagainsttheocracy.blogspot.com. Lots of great bloggers linked there.
Open thread below.
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Open thread below.
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A couple of more perspectives on Passportgate, from Bubba, and the Reverend Jeremiah
A battle of Fundies. Great
sportenternment!http://bp2.blogger.com/_UQPUzwdX51o/R-RtlgvODxI/AAAAAAAAAHE/NqOctSMDVA8/...
Nuff said.
On Invasion's Anniversary, Protests and Pessimism
By JESSE McKINLEY
While there were more than 140 arrests in San Francisco and more than 30 in Washington, attendance was lighter than at protests in the early years of the Iraq war.
Open Thread! I love open thread. Time to breathe. Time to say what is really on your mind. Time to let others speak, to argue, to joke and poke. my favorite thread of every day.
I am so glad Obama is running. glad to see the racists running scared and showing their true colors. Looking for excuses to transport truth into bullshit and exposing themselves in the process. i look forward to the angry words and the hurt feelings. It is time to rend this racism from this land and get on with dealing with each other as the human beings we are.
Let the shit flying begin.
Anyone else feel like Mark Penn saying that Bill Richardson was irrelevant was kind of like Clinton saying that the states she lost didn't matter? So any vote for Clinton matters, any state/voter bloc/superdelegate for Obama is irrelevant? Do they really think this is a winning strategy, or are they flailing and trying to hit anything nearby?
See Reverend Jeremiah Wright assist in the heart surgery of our beloved president Lyndon B Johnson!
Picture and commendation letter here
http://truthabouttrinity.blogspot.com/
Are the videos ever gonna get fixed?
Shug @ 7:
I visited your site and left a comment. The tape of his entire sermon is what the MSM will never show.
He is right and being taken out of context as he was is bullshit.
I'm voting for Obama. They must really not like him if they are going through all this trouble to defame him.
States' Data Obscure How Few Finish High School
By SAM DILLON
Federal figures gathered under the No Child Left Behind law hide a severe dropout epidemic, researchers say.
Don't know if any of you watched Bill Moyers tonight---but the "Body of War" was an excellent and sobering look at Tomas Young, a real victim of the Iraq war.
www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-flash.html
Powerful and compelling.
I am glad I found a solution to this crap back in the Reagan years. I said "The hell with this religion stuff". I am not a sinner anymore and live happily ever since. Mother Nature never called anyone a sinner.
Zuckerfrosch @ 6:
We progressives should not engage in the bashing of the Clintonistas. Let them thrash around uninterrupted, please. There is nothing new coming from that direction. We should not indulge them. The responses feed the false meme that the Dems are in-fighting. Above all, please don't feed the sHillBots.
Court Details Opposition to Bias in Jury Selection
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
The Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of a black man after ruling that a Louisiana prosecutor had used improper tactics to pick an all-white jury.
You think Crooks and Liars could put the picture up so that people will quit labeling this man as a hate monger.. he's the farthest thing from.
You guys thanks for your support! God Bless!
BaScOmBe whose saying "NO REPUGS" @ 14:
I am so sure Clinton would have said that if Richardson had endorsed her.
You know, I finally watched that movie "300". I know, I know, everyone has seen it but me. I resisted watching it for so long because it was a favorite of the right wing. I now know why they like it. Its pure propaganda and borders on fantasy. I was hoping to see more of a historical account of the Battle of Thermopylae but instead, they ruined it with a Persian army made up of Orcish looking immortals, a fat executioner with lobster like arms, and the like. I was tempted to turn the movie off several times and watch something else. That sort of movie belongs in comic books.
Joe O. @ 18:
No. You are wrong.
You are not (or were not) the only one who never saw it.
Speaking for myself, I would LOVE to live in a Christian Theocracy. I'd be the first one to sign up.
Since it would have to be administrated by evil men, however. Fallen creatures that they are.. such a thing is doomed to failure from the onset.
In light of this, I think I'll take personal rights and liberties, IE the Constitution, to protect my interests.
Since Jesus himself is not available to administrate, I feel the broad support of individual freedoms are the best method to preserve my own interests, and the interests of others.. Be they religious or secular.
Joe O. @ 18:
You do realize that the movie is an adaptation of a graphic novel, right? Frank Miller, most well known for his iconic The Dark Knight Returns and Sin City, wrote 300 back in the 90's. It's not supposed to be realism, it's almost a literal adaptation of the graphic novel in the way that Sin City was at times replicated panel for panel.
Jhoffa_ @ 20:
Ok, that was a little hard to decipher but i take it you are a religious person who wishes Jesus Christ ran a Theocracy and if any one else ran it it would fail, So you embrace the Constitution because you feel it allows you the freedom to embrace God.
I think...
BaScOmBe whose saying "NO REPUGS" @ 14:
A little ironic that comment. Consisting, as it does, entirely of insults.
Joe O. @ 18:
When that movie was being released, The History Channel was hyping it for all it's worth. After a while I just felt like "Fuck the Spartans!" Still haven't seen that movie (and I don't regret that for a minute).
Hi Peter G! :)
Your wit and inteligence is very welcome. :)
(So are you.)
Joe O. @ 18:
Hello...It's just a movie! Just like the bible is just a book!
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 22:
If Jesus Christ came back, he'd end up pissing off the fundies and the right wingnuts with his messages of inclusion and tolerance. BillO and Hannity would end up spinning him as a liberal loon.
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 25:
Thank you Xoites. I was following your exchanges on the thread below. You pretty much had it nailed so I didn't feel the need to intrude with a "Me too"
BaScOmBe whose saying "NO REPUGS" @ 14:
Speaking of Clinton, I'd like to refer all loyal C & L readers to this article that appeared in Mother Jones, September 2007 issue. It's quite an eye-opener:
http://tinyurl.com/26eyz5
watched ,no country for old men last saturday , not impressed , shitty ending too!
Spock @ 26:
Here is a thing some people don't understand about me.
I like movies and will watch almost anything but slasher flicks. I don't care if the actor is a flaming Scientologist, a right wing nut case or a sexual pervert in real life. If the story is good and the acting is good then i want to see it. i may in the end not like it, but if it has merit and if i enjoy it or am provoced by it it was probably worth seeing.
Peter G @ 28:
Oh, Please!
If i am running my mouth somewhere and you agree or disagree, please chime in!
Don't know that its right to compare Rev. Wright with Rev. Magee. I mean, black people DO have reasons to be angry. You may dislike what both men say, but one of them is right.
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 31:
I rather enjoyed the animation myself. I can't think of a movie I'd consider historically accurate in any event. 300 does have one lovely scene in which Leonidas is going about the battlefield spearing Persian wounded. When told he is invited to a parlay he says:There's no reason we can't be civil.
Filthy Harry @ 33:
I think we all have a right to be angry.
Peter G @ 34:
I honestly don't know anything about this movie. Now i will have to see it.
Guardian UK (Comment Is Free): George Bush, A funny kind of Christian
Giles Fraser, the vicar of Putney
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 25:
Don't be flirtin' with my boyfriend, you...lol
Hi x, PG, tyree 'n all!
;-}
This room is dead, can we get a lady to get naked or something?
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 39:
Next best thing, Proud2bHumble is here!
:)
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 40:
(.)(.)
And that's all yer gonna get! hehe
Rev. Wright for President
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 40:
I vote for him keeping his clothes on.
Let the punning begin.
I had to show you this one, 2b :)
49 xoites Hussein defends Constitution Says: Ron @ 47:
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 42:
Ron @ 40:
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 39:
The revolution continues. Give me liberty or give me death.
Give me liberty, death will come when it will. They can put me in jail but they can not imprison my mind. You should stick around too, you ole’ fart. :)
I could take the jail, though I’m not cool with the torture.
Noone is going to torture you until Proud2BHumble shows up with his puns.
tyree @ 30:
If you don't mind me asking, what are your favorite movies, tyree?
Just in time for Easter:
The Ten Commandments Drinking Game
One of my favorite movies of all time is Pleasantville. If you have not seen it i highly recomend you do.
I was in black and white as a teen, so i know.
Roark77 Hussein @ 43:
LOL
Too late for 'keeping', haha, but if you wanna cockus about it, go ahead!
(sorry, couldn't disappoint PG)
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein @ 38:
did you get McGaffe, or is it taken,
btw, how ya doin'?
The sad part is if you listen to the extended versions of Wright's remarks the are not batshit crazy and not hateful. Much of it is intellectual, optimistic and compassionate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdlnzkeoyQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvMbeVQj6Lw
But people on both sides will lazily repeat the "hate" meme rather than look at Wright in a thoughtful and measured manner.
"300" would be a complete repug propaganda only if Barack Obama starred as Xerxes.
The days events brought out the young people.
http://i14.tinypic.com/4vcwzft.jpg
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 48:
A bit of a coincidence. It's in my player right now. A great cast.
DRST @ 47:
No fucking way!
I need my liver.
Peter G @ 54:
I own it and have watched almost 60 times.
For the McList: McThree (Social Insurance number)
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 45:
Methinks thou dust protest too much, the sure sign of a closet punophile who needs to come out before he sneezes and exposes his true pre-dialecticians, hehe.
;-}
maxson @ 51:
let's here it for another round of false equivalence, tarring both sides with the same brush.
please stop that shit.
I have a generalization for you: ALL GENERALIZATIONS ARE FALSE.
At Bear Stearns, Meet the New Boss
By LANDON THOMAS Jr. and ERIC DASH
James Dimon, the chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, attempted to win over executives at Bear Stearns who have vowed to fight his offer.
BaScOmBe whose saying "NO REPUGS" @ 50:
Unless someone got it earlier today, it's all yers, lol
;-}
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein @ 58:
Ok, you nailed me.
I learned my first pun when i was 4 years old:
"Two old ladies went for a tramp in the woods...
But he got away."
BaScOmBe whose saying "I saw 300" @ 59:
Hey, now you're generalizing about generalizations. Doesn't that make it true if they're all false?
;)
tyree @ 30:
I saw it a few days ago and I agree with you about the ending. Also saw Into the Wild.........that was great movie!!
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 56:
Yes, but not whilst engaging in intimacies with a close blood relative I'll wager...
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.
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Which makes you a non-diddling dilettante, incessantly speaking.
;-}
The following sentence is false. The previous sentence is false.
Roark77 Hussein - "I like 300" @ 63:
ya got me!? ;<[)
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 66:
Which is the same as saying:
The following sentence is false. The previous sentence is true.
bmw H. 528 @ 12:
It's just over here. I found it very powerful and a very painful show to watch. CBC would run something like it in Canada and I hope they do. That way people in the border states that would "dare" to get a different opinion could see it.
Peter G @ 57:
You got it.
Do you mean Social Security, eh? If so LOL! If not Scooby says,"Huhn?!"
;-}
It appears that P2B, Xoites and I share an interest in Philosophy. Here's one of my favourites. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWLG9feziRU
What I don't get is the media is making a big deal over pastors/preachers/etc saying outrageous things.
Isn't that their job?
Virgin births, afterlife, a man sitting on a cloud judging us?
Isn't every preacher guilty of spewing bullshit?
Probably the only profession that lies more than politicians.
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein @ 70:
You can take the Canuck out of the woods but.. you know the rest.
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 68:
The first part of this sentence is true and the second part of this sentence is false...........Joardains Paradox.
Peter G @ 71:
Linketh not in anger my son. LOL :)
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 66:
The following statement is TRUE. The previous statement is FALSE.
:<[)
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 62:
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lol, I knew you had it in you, but 46 years is a long time to hold it without severely damn-aging your puncreas; I can only hope we got it out in time.
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To quote a contemporary saint of the first hors d'oeuvres @5,"Let the shit flying begin."
Radically Moderate @ 74:
oops! Jourdain!
BaScOmBe whose saying “NO REPUGS” @ 76:
Oh, you logic students always mucking things up!
Hagee is an abomination, but Wright was a breath of fresh air to an arrogant, warmongering, and stupid public.
Bently @ 72:
Only Obama's preacher gets the pub and the extreme reaction.
McGaffe's two solicited racist, anti-semitic, anti-gay fascists-of-the-cloth have gotten a pass.
Roark77 Hussein - "I like 300" @ 63:
There's an Admiralble Colonel of wisdom in there, and it's Petty Officer to Sargent Corporal 'pun'ishment, hehehe
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein @ 77:
Had it in me? Trust me i could not keep in in me for 28 years and then i looked around and realized people were avoiding me.
I found other ways to communicate.
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 66:
2 true
BaScOmBe whose saying “NO REPUGS” @ 76:
Looks like everyone here has read Godel,Escher and Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Bently @ 72:
hehe, nice, mind if I keep it and use it?
;-}
Peter G @ 85:
Jesus, you read that? That is one tough book.
Rightwing Moonbat Hater @ 80:
I think there's a congressman, King, who is also screaming bloody murder about Obama the closet terrorist and Pelosi has not even called for that piece of shit to be censured.
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein @ 86:
This man is ripe for conversion P2B. Shall we speak to him of The Flying Spaghetti Monster. Remember the heavenly beer volcanoes.
Bently @ 72:
That all reminded me of how that legislation was shot down that would have protected gays, the elderly and the military under hate crime laws. The wingnuts were complaining that they wouldn't be able to preach about the evils of homosexuality.
Radically Moderate @ 74:
Pump fake and slam on Ewing, or nail a 35 footer for the easy 3? Jordan's paradox.
Obama is being called a closet terrorist by someone in Congress?
The ignorance in this country is broader than one can comprehend.
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 87:
I only looked at the pictures.
For the record:
I am not well read, i just keep my eyes and ears open.
It is my deepest shame.
Isn't this an open thread? Why are you all talking about preachers. Why can't we just talk about what we're going to do about this administration.
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 75:
LOL!
(butt why does my ass hurt now?)
;-}
Isn't it real convenient that after Passport Gate broke and the central target looked like Obama , mcSame rounded out the trio , with files access . Given the addiction to dirty tricks and always thinking ahead , it's possible that McSame didn't have his files accessed .
So I hope it is VERIFIED he did have his files accessed , so that we can make certain it wasn't just a diversion and not an attack JUST on obama's privacy .
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 92:
It's on this site, too! I'm going to dig it up!
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 92:
Well he is threatening the existence of the Republican party. In their minds the well being of the country and their party is inseparable. Those dudes are going to have to learn to relax.
Ron @ 95:
Ron!
About time you showed up. I was just going to talk about the best puns we could torture you with. :)
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 92:
You hadn't heard about that? I'm not sure I'd say that King called him a closet terrorist but he made some remarks that could be interpreted in a few different ways, one of them being the oblique Muslim = terrorist meme.
Ron @ 95:
I'd start by opening up the records in the WH, so I can build the cases for indictment against all concerned.
BaScOmBe whose saying "I saw 300" @ 59:
My bad; allow me to restate: There continues to be some people (not all) on both sides that lazily repeat the "hate" meme rather than look at Wright in a thoughtful and measured manner.
Radically Moderate @ 78:
Go with Levis - those designer jeans are too tight to get off in time at your age. See ya in a few...hehe ;-}
Roark77 Hussein - "I like 300" @ 101:
I had not heard about it probably because there are time i just shut all this crap out for a while. A human being can only take so much bullshit in one lifetime.
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 79:
MAYBE,
BaScOmBe whose saying “NO REPUGS” @ 98:
Wear a Racal suit. Lord knows where to put toxic shit like that. Anything left in the Superfund kitty?
Rightwing Moonbat Hater @ 80:
Ya got that Wright.
maxson @ 103:
I happen to agree with Wright.
Teh Flying Spaghetti Monster appears at a Court House in Tennessee...........Pastafarians~~~~~~Rejoice~~~~~
http://www.itlovesyou.blogspot.com/
scroll down for pictures.
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein @ 104:
Unfortunately I wear Lardashe myself.
BaScOmBe whose saying “NO REPUGS” @ 81:
The msmotherfuckers ain't gonna help us. It's up to us to hammer/cajole/charm everyone we know an come into contact with the truth and get them to come here for a look. Our ground game can beat their bullshit.
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 105:
I second that.
Rep. King was covered here on C&L when he pulled the "dancing in the streets" crap. I think since he made the remarks the first time, he actually stood behind them and reinforced them a second time but I could be mistaken about that.
Rep. Steve King smears Obama’s name says: the al-Qaida, and the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, speaking to a local Iowa radio station, said that terrorists would dance in the streets if Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, is elected president — precisely because of not only Obama’s position on withdrawing US troops from Iraq, but because Obama’s middle name is “Hussein,” his father’s Muslim roots, and his appearance — or “optics,” as King put it.
And Barack won the Iowa Caucuses, no?
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 92:
As a Canadian who has met many Americans over the years, sadly I agree with you.
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 83:
I find it very effective at filtering out stiffs and revealing the people I like hanging out with.
;-}
114 BaScOmBe whose saying “NO REPUGS”
I did see the headline and went no further. Maybe tommorow i will lok at it. It reeks of racism from here.
114 BaScOmBe
I remember that post here a while back from that moron. It was despicable.
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein @ 112:
I get up early and fight every day. Gotta stay in shape somehow, you know!
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 87:
Easy pickings for a classical genius like Peter the Great, though. :)
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein @ 117:
Sorry, but you are a babe in the woods when it come to bad puns, i have cleared auditoriums. :)
Peter G @ 111:
For me it's Phatashe or nothing.
FYI Phatashe is a little known subsidiary of Lardahe.
Geez, you guys are really craking em out . How do you expect an old guy to keep up?
BaScOmBe whose saying “NO REPUGS” @ 114:
the ref to Steve King is above
Peter G @ 89:
Onward noodly warrior with your noble proselytizing pastavangilizing self.
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein @ 46:
hi proud xo and all! favorite movies , sand pebbles! platoon , gettysburgh, the african queen zulu the bridges at toko ri , i was in that one , in harms way,
Radically Moderate @ 123:
get with the program fellas, BIGMUHFUGGINashe is hot these days. and you don't wear a belt or boxers. they look great when you bend over.
Ron @ 124:
We expect you will because we know you. :)
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 92:
Perhaps he just likes his clothes out in the open. Word on fashion avenue is he's got a really nice rack.
;-}
BaScOmBe whose saying “NO REPUGS” @ 93:
Nice centerfold too - deeeeep crack.
;-}
BaScOmBe whose saying “NO REPUGS” @ 128:
Dang! I'm BEHIND the trend again!
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein @ 126:
The Heavenly Stripper Factory is a real deal closer. It's right next to the beer volcanoes.Who needs virgins?
tyree @ 127:
African Queen is the best Bogart/Hepburn movie ever. Alone or together.
Did I hear an Amem?
FSMonster!
tyree @ 127:
Those are pretty good movies Tyree
BaScOmBe whose saying “NO REPUGS” @ 125:
I'll give Steve King a reference. Steve King is a right wing neocon rubber stamping tool of the GOP which is a tool for a facsist corporate government.
Bently @ 135:
How about an "Ameatball"
tyree @ 127:
You were in The Bridges at Toko Ri?
Ron @ 137:
Easy on the bandwidth Ron. You could have just said: Asshole.
tyree @ 127:
no country for old men? I laughed my ass off.
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 139:
Oh, sorry, you were in the war.
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 94:
No need to be ashamed, x. You are extremely knowledgeable about the heart of what the progressive movement is all about. If everyone on this planet were as resolutely committed to pacifism and egalitarian social justice as you we would already be where we're trying to get to.
.
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Besides, they make really effective, reasonably priced little electric trimmers for ear and nose hairs now, hehe.
;-}
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein @ 131:
I couldn't tell which way to hold it.
Mike the Canuck @ 136:
yes they are i could go on and on with more ,i have a collection of over six hundread movies!
Ron @ 95:
Sorry! That part of the thread is closed for easter...
Hi Ron!
;-}
I think Tyree is really Micky Rooney- no one else in the cast is still alive;)
Filthy Harry @ 33:
Thank you! Thank you! Hated that graphic. Left the impression that Rev. Wright was the equivalent to Hagee (questionable as a Reverend.)
Every negative label. Descriptor. Sound Bite. None of them are his words. They are your masters words.
Peter G @ 140:
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
:<[)
As slow as my internet connection is tonight, I expect you're right.
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