Displaying 541 To 570 Of 1,300 Comments Religious Right Holds “Prayercast” To Stop Health Care Bill Lay it on me, sister. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 18, 2009 @ 10:37 am And no damned smiley faces, either. They drive me nuts. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 18, 2009 @ 10:36 am Indeed, welcome to my treefort. Fix me a rubber band sandwich, and make it snappy! » Posted By KevenSeven On December 18, 2009 @ 10:35 am What happened was that a primitive and violent species developed a brain sufficiently large to cause it to ask, “where did all this come from?” Now that we have been asking that question for 100k years, we are finally finding some answers. The pity of it is that most of us refuse to let go of the answers cooked up by humans as ignorant as the Israelites of 6000 years ago. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 18, 2009 @ 10:32 am Direct that to any apologist for “Christianity” that you find. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 18, 2009 @ 10:28 am We are only one turn of the screw away from the Religious Right forming Morality Brigades who would shoot down like rabid dogs women who dared dress provocatively. And my life would be much poorer if women ceased to dress provocatively, so I say thank you but no thank you. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 18, 2009 @ 10:20 am Congratulations on joining the ranks of the banned. You may, as may of us do, find it very liberating. We will be delighted to host you here. I’ll be especially pleased to see you if you like to have a vigorous debate. I like a good debate. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 18, 2009 @ 10:15 am This is what people who claim to know the mind of god do. There was a time, a wonderful time, not to long ago, when one’s religious convictions were a personal matter; about as likely to be discussed as what sexual acts one especially favored. What the fuck happened to that perfectly civilized norm? Where did the religiously inclined get the idea that they have any right foist their delusions on the rest of us? Seriously. There are millions of Americans who are convinced they are going to hell (and who am I to tell them different?) if they do not convince everyone else that their interpretations of the rantings of a bunch of bronze age peasants, who were hallucinating on spoiled meat as like as not, are the Word Of God. What drivel. I want these simpletons to shut the hell up and leave me alone. I am a free-born American and a beneficiary of the Enlightenment. There is zero reason to believe in the existence of a god of any sort and I for one resent like hell the influence of the religious on the body politic. And I also say, the hell with respect. I get none from them, I am not prepared to return the favor. I refuse to tolerate their intolerance. Those who want to practice their voodoo in private and not bother me with it will not learn of my low opinion of voodoo. Everybody happy. Religious extremism is as much a hazard in the US as it is anywhere else in the world. I want none of it. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 18, 2009 @ 10:03 am There are plenty of equally reactionary “Christians” here in the US. Replace science with creationism? Palin was named to the ticket in a cynical attempt to attract PUMAs. Nothing more. Certainly not for her brains. I don’t give Deranged Christians credit for shit. Here is a fact for you: The Deranged Religious Extremist exists everywhere, and everywhere are an existential hazard to civilization. This camel is attempting to stick its damp and snotty nose into the tent built by The Enlightenment, and once it gets a glimpse of what is inside, will tear down the tent. Deranged Christians will begin shooting women in the streets for immodest dress shortly after we allow them another inch of our society. I fear and detest them. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 18, 2009 @ 9:48 am These people say they are Christians, and who am I to argue? I don’t know in what important ways these people differ from the Taliban. Except of course that they are right here in America. These people claim to know the mind of god. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 17, 2009 @ 9:28 pm Good work, Sue! » Posted By KevenSeven On December 17, 2009 @ 9:25 pm When you figure it out, explain it to me. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 17, 2009 @ 8:23 pm Bathroom breaks? Make ’em pee in a bucket. The women included. The only problem is that Reid does not have the power to put aside rule 22. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 17, 2009 @ 6:27 pm In his fucking shorts. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 17, 2009 @ 6:25 pm How it is that we get our butts kicked You may have opinions as to why progressives fail, that’s fine. But you failed to address my central points: People do not accurately report their politics, In part because they do not understand the labels. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 18, 2009 @ 10:45 am We are about to utterly fumble the health care reform ball and you would say that we are not getting our asses kicked? » Posted By KevenSeven On December 17, 2009 @ 6:23 pm I don’t accept the premise of you point. I do not believe the numbers reflected in the poll, any more than I believe that 85% of Americans go to church every week. I don’t believe a word of it. I accept that the questions get asked and the responses tallied. I do not accept that Americans respond honestly, either deliberately or otherwise. The fact is that the political discourse in America has been so debased by the forces of reaction that the labels mean next to nothing. If those numbers were correct, more Americans would self-identify as Rethugs than as Dems. Yet the reverse is distinctly the case. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 17, 2009 @ 6:02 pm The bias of the MSM is inertia. The MSM, by virtue of being main stream, is all about the status quo being good. The media does not have a liberal bias. It has a lazy bias. The whole point of this column is not just that we did not do enough, but that it is by the nature of human existence, the more difficult position to take, to be with the forces of progress. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 17, 2009 @ 11:49 am Dammit. Here is the image that I tried to attach: » Posted By KevenSeven On December 17, 2009 @ 11:15 am A Mandate for Civil Disobedience naive is bullshit. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 17, 2009 @ 8:28 pm So what if she was coached? Bill fell for it like a pile of bricks. And he had a well known reputation as a cad. He betrayed the party for his johnson. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 17, 2009 @ 7:41 pm I’m pretty sure that is it. He was pissed that the Dems of Connecticut did not re-nominate him. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 17, 2009 @ 7:25 pm Because Lieberman had been out front chastising Bill for his happy zipper, and Al felt the need for some moral holy water to clean off the tawdriness of Bill and his shocking lack of self control. Have you ever wondered how things would have been different if Bill had looked for his strange nookie from some Georgetown socialite of about 38 years of age? I mean. How much could anyone have griped about him getting jollies with a woman old enough to not be perceived a victim? » Posted By KevenSeven On December 17, 2009 @ 7:23 pm Laugh all you want. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 17, 2009 @ 7:19 pm That bad part is going to be very bad. And I think that there is a lot of wind no longer in the sails of the progressives. So that is a bad thing as well. Two bad things. Adding up to the Rethugs having a much better prospect in the next cycle. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 17, 2009 @ 6:59 pm My club’s e-board just met, to formulate our yearly plan. The primary discussion point was the permeating sense of disappointment. And this from one of the most pragmatic and adult persons you could meet. Fuck it. Dump the whole plan. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 16, 2009 @ 10:57 pm Because they know that the Dems have as much to lose in not passing a crappy bill as they do in passing a crappy bill. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 16, 2009 @ 10:25 pm I think I have come around. I think the Senate Dem caucus should bring out a single payer plan and put it on the floor. Let the goddam Rethugs filibuster. The pity of it is that we cannot reverse rule 22 which obviates the need for a physical filibuster. We been getting rolled, and we ain’t larnt nothing. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 16, 2009 @ 10:23 pm I’ve addressed your final question once before here at the planet, and I think you will agree: The only event that would force Congress to pass effective campaign reform would be the sight of thirty senators going to Federal prison for three to seven for bribery. Even then, I do not know that there is any mechanism to insulate legislation from the influence of any powerful or wealthy groups, short of the destruction of powerful and wealthy groups, which communism attempted and failed to achieve. What I would like to see would be the Court decreeing that money is not speech. That anybody or corporation could buy TV ads saying whatever the fuck they want to. They can plaster billboards saying that Obama is a dangerous Muslim and to vote for him would be treason. Waddeva. But they need to have their names attached. There could be zero anonymity in such advertising. And there could be zero donation to any campaign for any Federal office. Actually, the limit, what is it? $2300 per cycle? works pretty well. We could permit that, perhaps. But the key to keeping the whole vile influence from seeping in is absolutism in the rules. Any and all loopholes and exceptions will open the tent to the camel once again. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 16, 2009 @ 9:44 am Politically? It is essential to pass something called health care reform. » Posted By KevenSeven On December 15, 2009 @ 9:18 pmComments Posted By KevenSeven
Shoot doctors. In church?
Deny gays equal rights?
Block scientific study of stem cells?
Hound the grieving survivors of KIA soldiers, at the funerals?
Demand profession of faith as a precondition to holding elected office?
Endless blather about the End of Days and direct efforts to encourage it and its genesis in Israel?
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