Displaying 1,651 To 1,680 Of 19,504 Comments The Weekend Music Thread-Love Conquers All » Posted By AdLib On June 28, 2015 @ 12:51 pm Justice Scala Upholds Injunction Ending History GreenChica, thanks so much! It would be ironic if Scalia’s outrage in opposition to fair minded decisions gave him a heart attack and he was replaced by a liberal judge that guaranteed many more fair minded decisions. » Posted By AdLib On June 28, 2015 @ 12:41 pm Hey Nirek, I may have slightly exaggerated but there seems no doubt that Scalia wants America to have stayed permanently as it was in the 1950’s…when he was only 71. I do believe in having more limited terms for SCOTUS judges but maybe 10-15 years and unlike Cruz, I do not believe the public should be able to vote out SCOTUS judges. It’s political enough but forcing a SCOTUS judge to make decisions while looking over his shoulder at how it would affect his chances at “re-election” would make things far worse. Especially on liberal matters because making conservative or moderate decisions would seem to have less consequences than making liberal decisions. Imagine if the Kochs could bankrolled a campaign to recall every SCOTUS judge who isn’t a plutocrat? That would definitely be the end of our democracy. But that will never happen. » Posted By AdLib On June 28, 2015 @ 12:38 pm Thanks slm! As I’ve mentioned, it gets increasingly harder to satirize RW extremists like Scalia because from day to day, they say such ridiculous things that seem like self-parody…It’s hard to “outcrazy” them. But I do try! » Posted By AdLib On June 26, 2015 @ 4:21 pm GOP to Re-Brand Child Molestation as ‘Mistaken Feelings’ Kalima, they got a show because reality tv is a lot about freaks. People tune in to reality shows to see freaky people who are so off the rails. In such a situation, how could they not get a show? No doubt TLC is pitching Dennis Hastert on starring in a new show for them, “Wrestling With Pedophelia”? » Posted By AdLib On June 9, 2015 @ 5:05 pm One of those things, Frank Luntz coincidentally appeared on The Nightly Show last night. Part of me was expecting him to promote the ‘Mistaken Feelings’ campaign. » Posted By AdLib On June 9, 2015 @ 12:37 pm LightningJoe, that’s the truth! What this proves is that the RW Repubs really possess are conditional morals. Only when it’s not one of them, is an act horrible. When one of their own is a child molester, a crook, a racist, even responsible for the deaths of others, their knee jerk reaction is to defend them, grasping at even the weakest of straws or trying to portray the perp as a victim (yes, the true outrage is that public records were legally released that exposed Josh as molesting his sisters). The GOP has just re-branded themselves into “The New Joke”. » Posted By AdLib On June 9, 2015 @ 11:38 am Nirek, Hastert has made it past the statute of limitations on the abuse but not on the financial crimes. He is being prosecuted and though justice is hard to find nowadays in our system, especially when it comes to the wealthy and powerful, we can at least hope he finds himself behind bars after his legacy has been rightfully destroyed. As for the RW Repubs who are standing behind the Duggars and trying to normalize pedophelia when it’s committed by their own, they have lost any legit claim to morality. » Posted By AdLib On June 9, 2015 @ 11:33 am Thanks so much, PPO! » Posted By AdLib On June 9, 2015 @ 11:30 am The RW motto, “Do as we say, not as we molest.” » Posted By AdLib On June 8, 2015 @ 10:33 pm Kalima, they are desperate to keep their show and its money rolling in. They would french kiss Satan and sacrifice double digits of their kids to him to keep their show on the air. The MSM outrage and attack machine is primarily operated by the RW so as you say, it is amazing how the MSM has been relatively reserved about condemning the parents for covering up a crime to protect the criminal and subjecting their children to abuse…even convincing them to believe their molestation wasn’t really molestation. Even so, these sick people are finished in the mainstream media…but never underestimate the psychos at Fox News, I can imagine them hiring Josh or his parents to be their Family Values correspondent(s). » Posted By AdLib On June 8, 2015 @ 10:32 pm Kes, thank you for the very cool props! So Josh came to his parents three times and they never contacted the police or protected their many daughters from him. Where is child protective services? They are unfit parents. The Duggars reflect the exploitation of religion so of course, their son exploited it to get away with horrible crimes by “repenting”…then going back to it three times. I wonder if the dishonesty of the sexual repression, Josh “saving” touching and kissing his wife for his wedding, says even more about what these religious extremists push their children to do by instilling repression into them. And as you say, the family-wide dishonesty, all of them knowing what happened but hiding it to be on tv and make money, how much more evil does it get than that? You’ve got most of the 7 Deadly Sins (and counting) embodied by this mentally ill family. And their howling that the real sin is that all of this was made public by the media? Sick in its cynical calculation. We all know what would have happened if the same situation occurred in the Obama family (it never could for many reasons, especially, his not having a son or being a sociopath). I don’t see how the RW could have more thoroughly discredited any morality based attack they ever make in the future. “As supporters of child molestation, we find it morally offensive that Obama won’t say he believes in American Exceptionalism!” Now, they’ve got nothing. » Posted By AdLib On June 8, 2015 @ 10:16 pm slm, I doubt they can even say “Jesus” without lightning striking them. Most of us do take mental health seriously, that’s why we criticize Republicans. » Posted By AdLib On June 8, 2015 @ 8:41 pm Kalima, I can’t say I’m surprised by the lack of morals and responsibility of the Duggar parents, their commitment to the Quiverfull cult and the simple logic that two people can’t supervise or properly parent 19 children. What Josh did is horrendous and the Duggar parents, by protecting him from the police and justice and not protecting their daughters, babysitter and the other girls he assaulted, are plainly co-conspirators. And this campaign of theirs, using their daughters who were victimized, to try and convince America that pedophilia is just a natural thing curious boys do, is disgusting. No, a natural 14 year old boy would never sexually attack 5 year olds. A sick 14 year old would and his sick parents would cover it up then think they are the victims. If there is a hell, they better have 19 and counting openings. » Posted By AdLib On June 8, 2015 @ 5:47 pm Hey CL, yep, to these types, simply proclaiming that they are Fundie/Dominionists is like a Get Out of Jail/Hell Free card to them. They can do or justify the most horrendous things and they just have to flash their card to be righteous and on their way to heaven. Had a black or Muslim or gay man been on the news the same way Josh Duggar was, as having been a serial pedophile/child molester, does anyone have any doubt that these same molestation apologists would be frothing at the mouth in hatred and saying the worst possible things about them. The truth is, many of these types are among the most awful people in the world but they have no guilt over it, they don’t worry about what they’re doing as being wrong even though they commit the same acts as those they see as evil. The self-righteous have no need for morality or conscience. They are de facto sociopaths. » Posted By AdLib On June 8, 2015 @ 4:19 pm Hey CL, yep, to these types, simply proclaiming that they are Fundie/Dominionists is like a Get Out of Jail/Hell Free card to them. They can do or justify the most horrendous things and they just have to flash their card to be righteous and on their way to heaven. Had a black or Muslim or gay man been on the news the same way Josh Duggar was, as having been a serial pedophile/child molester, does anyone have any doubt that these same molestation apologists would be frothing at the mouth in hatred and saying the worst possible things about them? The truth is, many of these types are among the most awful people in the world but they have no guilt over it, they don’t worry about what they’re doing as being wrong even though they commit the same acts as those they see as evil. The self-righteous have no need for morality or conscience. They are de facto sociopaths. » Posted By AdLib On June 8, 2015 @ 4:19 pm Republicans Are Now Drowning in Climate Change Denial Funk – Or how about, “It’s happening but it’s not man made.” They’ll concede as little as necessary…as they and their friends and families drown in floods and denial. » Posted By AdLib On June 3, 2015 @ 11:02 am The Huckster is just that. In an earlier era, he’d be selling snake oil to the hicks. He’s inauthentic, just greedy and self-centered as his previous obesity reflected. Now, he’s put on a new facade but he’s so reminiscent of the frauds who have manipulated rural, religious people throughout the years to personally profit. His run for President, like many of the Repubs, is just about trying to elevate his value in the RW marketplace. A cynical, hollow man who’s so obvious to the majority and so devious to the minority that buys into his scam. » Posted By AdLib On June 3, 2015 @ 10:59 am Kalima, what you described is a perspective of those who are enlightened. What we have to deal with on the RW are people who are unenlightened and see their religion as an exercise in blind obedience and intolerance towards those who won’t march in lockstep with them. Their “beliefs” really have little to do with Christianity and much more to do with an emotional need to conform and fear of all in the world around them that doesn’t affirm their small mindedness. » Posted By AdLib On June 3, 2015 @ 10:56 am Kalima, it would make sense that fundamentalists would be less concerned about Climate Change since they believe that the only way humanity ends is through The Rapture…every other worry is irrelevant to them. Also, many of them distrust science and see natural disasters as God punishing people for sins. Their version of God is more anti-Christian than those they condemn for being anti-Christian. » Posted By AdLib On June 2, 2015 @ 8:27 am jjgravitas, it is going to have to be a financial thing for the RW to move over to green energy, never conscience or foresight. From what I hear, wind power and other green sources are now cheaper than coal, use of coal plants is declining for that reason. Relying on the conscience of Republicans is naive but relying on their greed always pays off. » Posted By AdLib On June 2, 2015 @ 8:17 am gyp46, great point but I’d guess it’s lost on the RW crowd since they appear in the dictionary definition of “hypocrisy”. As you say though, if natural disasters are caused by God’s wrath, he must be really pissed off at Texas! » Posted By AdLib On June 2, 2015 @ 8:14 am PPo, actually I don’t think they would believe it because they need to think that God is their superhero who only uses his powers against their “evil” adversaries. You know, gays, women, Democrats, minorities, the evil people. I think it’s precisely because they lack any abilities to reason well that they are Republicans. With that in mind, your Letterman quote is right on the money! » Posted By AdLib On June 2, 2015 @ 8:10 am Nirek, what’s most disgusting is how they are happy to promote their politics as they kill their own citizens. Lex Luthor would be envious. » Posted By AdLib On June 2, 2015 @ 8:06 am The Weekend Music Thread–Dualities Two of my favorite FoC songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U2a-Sl2IaM
» Posted By AdLib On June 2, 2015 @ 8:36 am Nirek, you put your finger on the major reason the U.S. can’t avoid eternally being at war, the Military Industrial Complex and their political pawns who are paid off in Congress and at times in the WH to seek out wars to profit from. Conservatives are also quick to favor war because of the Old Testament mentality of God being vengeful, and trying to reflect that hateful intolerance in their constituency that sees the killing of others as necessary and affirming of their beliefs. Some wars are necessary, such as WWII, when others are the aggressors and fighting a war is an urgent and defensive response. But the U.S. should never be the aggressor and start wars or inject ourselves into wars that are between others and don’t truly threaten us, such as Vietnam, those wars always turn out to cause such unnecessary and exponentially increased harm to our country and many others. War should always be a last resort, a defensive act when our nation is truly and substantially threatened and never taken as lightly as just another legit response to a situation in the world that we’re unhappy about. » Posted By AdLib On May 14, 2015 @ 11:31 am Great to see you Auntie Christ! Hope you are well! No apologies necessary on the timing, this is now a situation that will be continuing on for many years as one appeal after another is made against the death penalty for him. I was truly surprised when the jury returned the death penalty. I do understand why many favor it for Tsarnaev but I thought that MA folks were finally going to give the country the moral leg up that we need in this country. Eye for an eye is not civilized, it is about as uncivilized as things get. It is emotional and vengeful and a society that gives into vengeance diminishes itself. The only excuse I can think of where killing someone else is justified is if there is an immediate threat and one has to kill in self-defense (which includes fighting a war against an sggressor as we did in WWII). If one has to kill to literally, not speculatively, to preserve the lives of innocent people, then the moral justification exists IMO. But in a choice between locking Tsarnaev up for the rest of his life where he can’t harm anyone else ever again and killing him, there is only vengeance as a reason to kill him. And that’s the same motivation that terrorists are driven by, we’re validating that, just trying to draw a line between who should be allowed to kill based on a desire for vengeance and who shouldn’t…and that’s not a game anyone can ever win. Don’t be a stranger here, good to see you! » Posted By AdLib On May 20, 2015 @ 5:41 am KT, I think there are multiple good arguments for life imprisonment in this case and only an emotional argument for the Death Penalty. First off, America should be better than those they condemn and not view killing others as permissible because it is righteous revenge. If taking lives of others is the greatest moral outrage, our government shouldn’t join the terrorists in committing it. Second, Tsarnaev would be rewarded for his act by being executed. He believes it will make him a martyr to other Muslim extremists and he’s probably right. He may also believe that 72 virgins await him in heaven (they’re cheaper by the dozen) and welcome death, not seeing it as a punishment or anything that should make him feel repentant for those he killed. Thirdly, it would sure seem to be a lot more suffering for him to live decades of imprisonment, with little else to think about than the murder of innocent people causing him to spend most of his life like a caged animal, than to quickly end his life. Lastly, the American people would have to spend much more money on Tsarnaev and force his victims and their families to roil in the anguish of this terrible act as his death penalty appeals take years to wind through the courts. Of course, I start from an anti-death-penalty position for the first reason I stated as a core reason, you don’t teach your child that hitting is wrong by spanking them. But the emotional motivation of vengeance, which I get and know the desire to want it delivered, shouldn’t be self-justifying for a society that seeks a position of moral authority over others who can justify killing others to themselves. » Posted By AdLib On May 14, 2015 @ 11:19 am Texas Has Finally Gone Full Metal Straightjacket Heh! Thanks AB! And don’t forget to let the invading troops know that you’re positioned to be their new puppet leader of Governmentistan (Formerly the state of Texas). » Posted By AdLib On May 8, 2015 @ 3:22 pm Well, they do like to drink cocktails! » Posted By AdLib On May 8, 2015 @ 12:16 pmComments Posted By AdLib
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