Displaying 601 To 630 Of 3,538 Comments JOIN THE LIVE BLOG TONIGHT: GOP Debate at Reagan Library Bachmann is 4 feet tall » Posted By ADONAI On September 7, 2011 @ 4:49 pm HA! I teed that one up and you knocked it out of the park. Well done sir. » Posted By ADONAI On September 7, 2011 @ 4:49 pm HA! I thought about muting it and trying to synch it up with Dark Side of The Moon » Posted By ADONAI On September 7, 2011 @ 4:45 pm God? » Posted By ADONAI On September 7, 2011 @ 4:40 pm I really, REALLY don’t know if I can watch this debate, but I will try so I don’t turn into the annoying person asking the obvious questions. » Posted By ADONAI On September 7, 2011 @ 4:31 pm KT, Very few believe the ends justify the means. Those are the people who keep our country strong and our cause right. But still, some things have to be done. Things we may not agree with. This most often comes up in a military scenario but plays out in civilian life as well. We need those people too. Not as many but enough to keep us on our toes and our purpose clear. » Posted By ADONAI On September 7, 2011 @ 4:57 pm I do believe in just revenge. I am a consequentialist. The ends justify the means. If I though they could guarantee 100% of the time that the right person was being executed, I would probably relax a whole lot on my objections to a death penalty. But these ends are not justified. and no action you take can be just as a result of that. We execute a 100 guilty people. Great. One innocent person makes it all meaningless. Makes it barbarism. » Posted By ADONAI On September 7, 2011 @ 4:29 pm KT, I’ve said before that I don’t condone the death penalty but I understand. My BIGGEST problem with capital punishment is that we kill innocent people. We don’t always kill people who are obviously guilty. I totally get it. But I’m trying to argue what is best for society as a whole. And this isn’t it. Maybe ban the across the board use of the death penalty but have it for extreme circumstances like this. » Posted By ADONAI On September 7, 2011 @ 4:25 pm O.K. Is the death penalty justice or revenge? Does it matter? » Posted By ADONAI On September 7, 2011 @ 3:18 pm Artist, My brother has children whom I love like my own. I still couldn’t condone a death penalty. But don’t misunderstand my intentions. I am not pure of heart. I would kill that man. I would choke him with my own hands til he stopped moving. But it would be hollow. Do nothing to ground my great sadness. But I can’t condone state sanctioned killing nor vigilantism. It weakens us. so I must swallow that rage and be better. » Posted By ADONAI On September 7, 2011 @ 2:48 pm You could not have chose a better quote. The nerd in me salutes you sir. » Posted By ADONAI On September 7, 2011 @ 2:45 pm Reform program. I can’t tolerate the death penalty. Even to satisfy my personal need for revenge. So this one guy who is obviously guilty is killed. What about all the innocent people who follow him? It’s too big a risk. I can’t accept it knowing there’s even a 1% chance an innocent man is killed. And since I don’t condone vigilantism and life imprisonment is a waste of money, might as well give the man a chance to atone and be a proper member of society. People lost many,many loved ones in the Japanese earthquake. You can’t reform an earthquake. But you can reform a human being. If they sincerely repent, no one is beyond redemption. » Posted By ADONAI On September 7, 2011 @ 1:53 pm Beautiful. Almost reminds me of a view from a friend’s house back home. About halfway up the mountain, overlooking the river gorge. Put the laptop down and enjoy, my friend. » Posted By ADONAI On September 6, 2011 @ 12:47 pm God, Guns, Greed – Face of Dominionism choice and Sue, I hope you don’t mind but I’d like to put this debate on pause. You are right. I don’t know enough about your side and it’s not fair to just dismiss it without learning more. So I’m gonna do some reading and get back to you. » Posted By ADONAI On September 5, 2011 @ 12:48 pm Of course no one knows who they are! They haven’t effected them in any way. Dominionists didn’t ruin the market. Dominionists didn’t invade 2 countries. Dominionists haven’t cost us millions of jobs. Dominionists didn’t invent the debt ceiling or downgrade our imaginary credit. Dominionists don’t keep our military dying in the desert. Protest what? Some people lost their job. Most didn’t. Some people have to commit to the war. Most don’t. I want the American people to see the real problem. Themselves. Not a “shadow government” that succeeds less than half the time. » Posted By ADONAI On September 4, 2011 @ 4:18 pm Article seems to say they shot down the creationism disclaimers. Again, I trust the people. Democracy does not scare me. Segregation? Again, good luck with that. who cares how crazy they are? They’ll NEVER get enough states to ratify the Constitution. Invade a Muslim country? Hell Yeah! Take away our porn? Hell No! 9/11 is not a good example. No one care about this war. No one has any attachment to it. It hasn’t allowed Republicans to take over the country. And your worst nightmares are already true. In 2006 President Bush signed an act broadening the President’s ability to declare martial law unilaterally and place troops in American borders, repeal trial and habeas corpus and all that. A bill passed by Congress, opposed by 42 of 231 Democrats in the House and 2 of 50 Democratic Senators. I don’t think the United States government needs a lot of help stripping your rights from you. And they don’t share power. » Posted By ADONAI On September 4, 2011 @ 3:48 pm They’ll never “seize control” of the country. It has to be given to them. And as far as changing the First Amendment, good luck with that. They’ll never get enough states to ratify it. Ever. If their plan is to take over America then they’ve already failed. If teaching intelligent design in school has freaked so many out, I doubt they’ll be able to hide future endeavors. Again, if outlawing liquor was their high water mark, I’m not impressed. Definitely not scared. But every movement needs a boogeyman. I guess they’re as good as any. » Posted By ADONAI On September 4, 2011 @ 1:31 pm To Those Who Are Ignorant about the Past bito, I think I overreacted when I saw illusions made to Nazi Germany. Especially in my exchange with Sue where she made it clear that the cause wasn’t the same but had scary facets of it. And indeed you are correct. Many spoke out about Hitler but the incremental escalation was so subtle at times that by the time Nazi colors were flying over Poland many had just accepted it as normal. I thought about the phrase, “the cost of freedom is eternal vigilance”. Can’t remember who said that. It’s a good one. Whether anything comes of it or not, attention should be paid to divisive forces in our country. Even if they don’t succeed, every crack weakens the structure. » Posted By ADONAI On September 6, 2011 @ 4:04 pm Sue, and most people don’t seem to care. You seem to think most of the country is in shambles. It very much isn’t. My problem isn’t with dominioinists. It’s with the American people. But maybe the Domis will be enough to wake them up. » Posted By ADONAI On September 5, 2011 @ 7:45 pm KT, I want so bad to agree with you cause you speak so much truth. But no one here is Hitler. Or Goebbels or Mengele. And if they are they have no army at their disposal. There are no high office appointments. You are ELECTED President. ELECTED Senator and so on. We aren’t just a democracy we are THE democracy. And no we shouldn’t allow them. But that is what the voting booth is for. » Posted By ADONAI On September 5, 2011 @ 7:38 pm Sue, what has happened? 2 wars most people have no attachment to. An economic crisis most people aren’t affected by. We’re talking about the hijacking and complete control of the entire nation. I don’t think they’ll protest either. I think they’ll fucking riot. » Posted By ADONAI On September 5, 2011 @ 7:30 pm Sue, Hitler was already Chancellor when the fire occurred. His masterstroke was passing an act that removed term limits from his position and basically made him the leader of Germany. He bought off one side and barred the other from even attending the vote. There was little outcry. If anyone tried that here there would be Hell to pay. » Posted By ADONAI On September 5, 2011 @ 7:14 pm KT, This isn’t 1930’s Germany. No one is gonna usurp anyone or seize power. How will they get rid of us in such large numbers? I don’t see logically how they could possibly forge a theocratic state in America. They can barely change individual states into what they want and I am to believe they will change the country? » Posted By ADONAI On September 5, 2011 @ 6:27 pm And I don’t think Perry and Bachmann are gonna murder 12 million people either. Repeal Medicare? They’ll try. Attempt genocide? I doubt it. And if average Germans loved Hitler you think he would have won at least one election. » Posted By ADONAI On September 5, 2011 @ 6:05 pm I know Perry and Bachmann and the Kochs aren’t good people and are the last people we want in high office But once people start comparing them to folks who burned people in ovens, you lose me. If Arriana Huffington is Hermann Goering then I don’t think we have much to fear from the “Fourth Reich”. You know how hard the Nazis worked to be evil? Every time we compare some stupid politician or movement to the Nazis it insults the memory of every person who died by their hand. That was evil. That was PURE fucking evil. It wasn’t the homogenized, corporate owned evil we have today. It’s not the same and it never will be. GOD help us the day fascism really does come to this country. Don’t plan to blog about it. » Posted By ADONAI On September 5, 2011 @ 5:31 pm Weekend Music Thread – We Can Work It Out Rage Against The Machine – The Ghost of Tom Joad
» Posted By ADONAI On September 3, 2011 @ 2:46 pm Labor Day Mix: Dead Kennedys – Take This Job and Shove It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODIhgB2eF1c Creedence Clearwater Revival: Travellin’ Band http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcJ5WQSamQ Clutch – Profits of Doom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3XEIOqWtnA Cypress Hill – Rock Superstar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3ZcflP8KPY Enjoy. » Posted By ADONAI On September 3, 2011 @ 1:33 pm Libertarians Join the Attack on The Southern Poverty Law Center Nah. I think it’s arrogant to call yourself a populist. I can almost guarantee most of the population wouldn’t go for my ideas. I think, if people classified me, I would be a Libertine. » Posted By ADONAI On September 6, 2011 @ 1:05 pm HA! We had to square dance in P.E. when I was a kid. i didn’t take to kindly to it. 🙂 » Posted By ADONAI On September 6, 2011 @ 1:02 pm And THAT is why I don’t like being called a Libertarian. » Posted By ADONAI On September 5, 2011 @ 2:33 pmComments Posted By ADONAI
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