Displaying 691 To 720 Of 11,789 Comments And in that you’ve nailed why most on the left recoil at drones. Special teams on the ground, face-to-face with the enemy commando style can still accidentally kill civilian innocents, but at least they did it the hard way. Wait, what? I do think there’s something that unsettles us about the depersonalized joystickness of it, but given the alternatives… I dunno. I hate hate hate hate hate the civilian deaths, but damn have we come a long way from carpet bombing and napalm. As such, drones still get my thumbs up. » Posted By Khirad On February 9, 2012 @ 3:48 pm Holy crap. Super Freaks » Posted By Khirad On February 7, 2012 @ 11:55 pm Elizabeth Shuler, the secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, said it’s part of a long-term effort to “reintroduce” the labor movement to young people. They need to try again IMHO. That was incredibly vague. The only time I realized it was for unions was at the very end. It was like those commercials where you can’t tell what they’re even selling. I mean, I like the idea of a softer sell, you don’t need to hit the audience over the head with bluntness, but find a happier middle ground with a clearer, if still a little fuzzy and positive, message. » Posted By Khirad On February 7, 2012 @ 11:54 pm Believe it or not, but Chuck Todd actually made salient point, half-kidding – whether he intended to or not. ‘With all these social issues back with a vengeance, it must mean the economy is really improving.’ After all, as we all know, when are culture wars the hottest? – when National Security and the Economy are gone, it’s the only old GOP standby left except for the new one of just being anti-Obama on absolutely everything (real and fictitious). » Posted By Khirad On February 9, 2012 @ 8:59 am Oh wow, I only knew of one girl in school that even approached that. Most of them dressed like any other teenage girl. Only time I saw that big frilly dress thing was at a Denny’s in Flagstaff, where the whole big family looked FLDS. » Posted By Khirad On February 5, 2012 @ 12:40 am Well yes, of course. In Utah it would kind of be redundant. » Posted By Khirad On February 5, 2012 @ 12:30 am Ah, the great “I don’t understand” play in another language. How to think of any better dodge than that? » Posted By Khirad On February 4, 2012 @ 11:19 pm You know what is so annoying about the LDS missionaries? They’re so damn nice. They’ve got the sell down. And the niceness is creepy. Of course, the run of the mill brothers on a bicycle doing their mandatory mission around the neighborhood isn’t so bad. They just say, “would you like…” you say “no” and they only seem too happy to be on to the next door and get their rite of passage over with. » Posted By Khirad On February 4, 2012 @ 11:17 pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFuoVQ4NRMc The problem is that the wine and beer they sell at restaurants might as well be non-alcoholic it’s so low, less than 5% in beer, and the wine tastes like water. This will change too though. The barn door has opened and isn’t going back. » Posted By Khirad On February 4, 2012 @ 11:14 pm My best friend from High School who was an atheist married a Jehovah’s Witness, there’s quite a few in upper Clark County. His FB info now lists him as Roman Catholic (as he had lapsed after meeting me, mwahaha). I haven’t talked with him about it, but I’m guessing he said, fine, we’ll raise the kids Christian, but not in your loony church. » Posted By Khirad On February 4, 2012 @ 11:11 pm You mean I won’t literally die without an iPad? » Posted By Khirad On February 2, 2012 @ 1:23 am Indeed. And while I hate to feed into bias based on religion like we would accuse the Evangelicals, and while I would say it’s a form of Christianity (inasmuch the Bahá’í faith is a form of Islam, kinda sorta, …not really), when Mitt talks up Jesus and all of that, he’s also being crassly disingenuous and self-serving about the nature of Jesus and God in Mormon theology. When talking of Muslims, we often hear the dreaded word taqiyyah. Well, I see a bit of dissimulation actually taking place with Mitt. Here, this will totally not clear anything up about Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden (which was in Missouri, silly!) Listen. Bigotry against Mormons is wrong, and ‘cult’ is a bit strong of a word, but on the other hand, they aren’t just another sect of Christianity with additional quirky beliefs. Some of their beliefs are quite different from traditional foundational beliefs of Christians. I mean, for a lot of conservative Christians, the very fact they don’t believe in the Trinity is a big no-no heterodoxy in itself which disqualifies them from any ecumenical fellowship. » Posted By Khirad On February 2, 2012 @ 1:22 am You can’t please all the people all the time, and when you clumsily try, you please no one. It’s as if his vapid say-anythingness actually jumped the shark. » Posted By Khirad On February 2, 2012 @ 1:06 am They do realize they’re saying this out loud, on the record, right? Rick Santorum Tells Sick Kid Market Should Should Set Drug Prices » Posted By Khirad On February 1, 2012 @ 8:30 pm It’s on my bookshelf, but my lord. Every time I opened up you could tell they were trying a little too hard. Also, why did they feel the need to talk like 17th century Englishmen? In any case, I just thought it would be interesting to see what the Book of Mormon had to say about wealth and at one point it said we should all be equal and sharing in kind and one community of the Lord. I believe there was another name for that, minus the Lord part… » Posted By Khirad On February 1, 2012 @ 8:29 pm Talk about levels of irony. And now I, Mormon, would that ye should know that the people had multiplied, insomuch that they were spread upon all the face of the land, and that they had become exceedingly rich, because of their prosperity in Christ. And now, in this two hundred and first year there began to be among them those who were lifted up in pride, such as the wearing of costly apparel, and all manner of fine pearls, and of the fine things of the world. And from that time forth they did have their goods and their substance no more common among them. And they began to be divided into classes; and they began to build up churches unto themselves to get gain, and began to deny the true church of Christ. (4 Nephi 23-26) And now, for the sake of these things which I have spoken unto you—that is, for the sake of retaining a remission of your sins from day to day, that ye may walk guiltless before God—I would that ye should impart of your substance to the poor, every man according to that which he hath, such as feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and administering to their relief, both spiritually and temporally, according to their wants. (Mosiah 4: 26) And seeing as the context is within that of a discourse of a king, this is not merely a ‘let the churches handle charity’ lesson, but one for society as a whole. Or so a blog I just read said. » Posted By Khirad On February 1, 2012 @ 7:32 pm I’ve begun preaching the Gospel of Portlandia, for yea I am from the whole food land. » Posted By Khirad On January 28, 2012 @ 8:08 pm Conditions in Chinese factories, or white people problems? 😉
» Posted By Khirad On January 28, 2012 @ 12:44 pm You probably already did this, but damn I loved this: One of my students shared this parable: A rich white man sits with a poor white man and poor black man at a table laden with cookies. The rich white man snatches all the cookies but one, then turns to the poor white man and says, “Watch out for that darky. I think he wants to take your cookie.” It works every time. http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/24/2606032/practicing-the-politics-of-racial.html » Posted By Khirad On January 26, 2012 @ 10:03 pm Weekend Music Thread – Southern Accents
» Posted By Khirad On January 22, 2012 @ 6:24 pm Ya gotta actually listen to the lyrics. Waylon Jennings – Southern Pride » Posted By Khirad On January 21, 2012 @ 12:03 pm “Yeah, That’s the GOP Ticket!” – Can Romney Lie His Way Into the White House? I posted about it before, and estimates vary, but we’re at least bigger than the next dozen navies COMBINED. Also, we’re scared because of a few crappy subs and China’s new aircraft carrier. LOL, just look up its history. Iran’s Navy consists mostly of progressively again pre-Revolution ships, North Korean and domestically produced lemons, and rubber rafts. Here is their mighty fleet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_ships_of_the_Iranian_Navy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_of_the_Army_of_the_Guardians_of_the_Islamic_Revolution#Watercraft » Posted By Khirad On January 19, 2012 @ 3:00 pm Can we go back to see if he thought it was a peccadillo back then? » Posted By Khirad On January 19, 2012 @ 2:49 pm He even lies and is disingenuous about how smart/dumb he is. He pulled the “class envy” canard on a guy who confronted him and shot back snark on the guy that he was free to believe in a system like they have in China, North Korea, or Russia. Well, he probably doesn’t realize all those places are run by elites like him, but he’s certainly smarter than the GOP flock than to not realize Russia is no longer the Soviet Union. Hell, he probably has a bank account in Moscow. For a party that credits Reagan for the fall of the Berlin Wall they sure do seem confused that there’s no more USSR. Boggles my mind, that disconnect. But let’s get back to China, shall we? This looks more like a GOP wet dream than a Democratic one: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/08/world/la-fg-china-corruption-on-wheels-20120108 » Posted By Khirad On January 19, 2012 @ 2:46 pm
» Posted By Khirad On January 17, 2012 @ 12:36 pm LIVE BLOG – GOP Debate in SC – 6:00 PM PST Not just me. Racism aside, this was the most jaw-dropping part of the night which apparently only Juan Cole and I made note of. I’ll crosspost this as there are so many good points how their complete ignorance is dangerous, apart from being incredibly ironic. Perry talks Crazy about Turkey, but is Par for GOP Course » Posted By Khirad On January 17, 2012 @ 7:55 am Al Sharpton had a series of letters written to Dr. MLK from Segregationists. Things written like an “arrogant”, “dark skinned Hitler” who wanted to “take from White people” and “lead us to Communism.” I got a chill. I already knew all that was racist. “Arrogant” I knew was ‘uppity’ but I thought the others were newer proxies, or that Communism was another old bogeyman they had substituted for N*****. Silly me. It’s almost word for word to what they say now. Like some sick subculture that has survived, an invisible empire unto itself. » Posted By Khirad On January 17, 2012 @ 4:22 am Santorum: Reestablishing full diplomatic ties with an embassy in Damascus was a mistake? Google Robert Ford asshat. Fox: AKP are Islamist extremists? Perry: Erdoğan and Davutoğlu are terrorists? WTF? Perry making a false equivalency with what the Taliban do and comparing ourselves to them fucked up. Paul glossing over them as merely an insurgency against colonialism, also simplistic no matter how you feel about staying in Afghanistan or negotiating. Romney: our Navy is smaller? Maybe, and it’s still at least bigger than the next dozen navies combined. My god, I can’t keep up… » Posted By Khirad On January 16, 2012 @ 7:19 pm The Rick Perry/Katy Perry Mashup You Can’t Unsee » Posted By Khirad On January 14, 2012 @ 2:59 am I think that’s it. The empathy problem. The man really is a robot. » Posted By Khirad On January 13, 2012 @ 8:42 pmComments Posted By Khirad
Meet the Super PAC that wants to fight Islam, ban circumcision, and bury people at sea.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/07/crazy_super_pac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_and_Eve_%28LDS_Church%29#cite_note-Millet-1
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/rick-santorum-tells-sick-kid-market-set-drug-004745384–abc-news.html
http://www.juancole.com/2012/01/perry-talks-crazy-about-turkey-but-is-par-for-gop-course.html
http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/the-rick-perrykaty-perry-mashup-you-cant-uns
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