Displaying 1,021 To 1,050 Of 11,789 Comments Indeed, and the problem with true believer sites like AlterNet is that it does fall into several of those simplistically self-unaware traps of unintentional irony given what they criticize. It is especially annoying that everything just comes down to us not fighting enough or something. I mean, this is the same mentality of evangelical Christians that believe an actual answer to the “Muslim problem” is to convert a fifth of the world’s population. It’s just not happening. Nailed it on the “why?” – like, what’s in it for me? Truth is, there is still something in it for you even if you don’t care about charity, it at least makes you look good even if you don’t care, but not even that occurs to you. » Posted By Khirad On February 13, 2012 @ 9:23 am It’s actually not that pesky. For all those Bible Thumpers, too bad for them but one of the Founders of AA was agnostic. http://bigbookstepstudy.com/content.php?176-Chapter-Text-for-We-Agnostics » Posted By Khirad On February 13, 2012 @ 9:16 am I’m horrible. That was just curious phrasing I couldn’t let go. In any case, this contraception issue is not just a women’s cause! Is it safe to come out of the doghouse? » Posted By Khirad On February 13, 2012 @ 9:13 am Well, I’m all for the arousing women part, at least. 😉 » Posted By Khirad On February 13, 2012 @ 7:06 am Conservatism Thrives on Low Intelligence and Poor Information Don’t take my word for it. Listen to what two former Republican ideologues, David Frum and Mike Lofgren, have been saying. Frum warns that “conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics”. The result is a “shift to ever more extreme, ever more fantasy-based ideology” which has “ominous real-world consequences for American society”. » Posted By Khirad On February 13, 2012 @ 2:18 am What’s the difference between his behavior and a mentally ill homeless person ranting to themselves incoherently on a city street? » Posted By Khirad On February 13, 2012 @ 2:15 am I saw that too. There is no discussion when one has their own “facts” and won’t once concede to reality. » Posted By Khirad On February 10, 2012 @ 9:23 pm People either love Black Swan or hate it. Some hate it ’cause it’s too weird, others love it for the same reason (and not just random weirdness, but deliberately deep dark weirdness). You’ll never guess where I fall on that film. » Posted By Khirad On February 10, 2012 @ 9:22 pm I always got the impression the Babylonians became decadent, more than being a peaceful people. But, comparisons could be made to the agricultural Puebloan people vs. the nomadic hunter Apache, as well. Maybe the two are coterminous in a way. Except that even an agricultural society will grow enough and have to conquer for more land. » Posted By Khirad On February 10, 2012 @ 9:19 pm I was just teasing what I thought you meant and making it blunter. » Posted By Khirad On February 10, 2012 @ 1:20 pm Yup, that’s what I’ve really been pissed off about. Especially when things had been going well for the president, it was an unforced error, and that’s what is most disheartening. My only hope is that the polls are right and that this backfires on them. They’ve had a habit of believing their own hype and overreach biting them in the ass lately. » Posted By Khirad On February 10, 2012 @ 1:18 pm Or, as discussed below… Shari’a. They have a real blindspot. I don’t really believe they see the hypocrisy themselves. I don’t know if that’s more or less comforting than opportunistic cynicism and pandering. I think I find true believers more disturbing than crass manipulators though. » Posted By Khirad On February 10, 2012 @ 1:16 pm How about we fight over Church vs. State issues in a non-presidential election year? Call me an willy-kneed pragmatist, but I don’t want this fight just right now, that’s all. » Posted By Khirad On February 10, 2012 @ 1:13 pm And that point is *shock* woefully missing when they talk about big government going after religion. Oh really? Then why don’t you stop receiving handouts from that enslaver government. » Posted By Khirad On February 10, 2012 @ 11:55 am I like what you did there. And that is their business, is it not? » Posted By Khirad On February 10, 2012 @ 11:53 am Exactly my point. I want. this. over. with. …a week ago. Focus needs to be back on the GOP circus and their unelectability, no more own-goals. » Posted By Khirad On February 10, 2012 @ 11:52 am We do need to elect more women to Congress. But I just want this over with. I don’t want us to cave, but if this is a reasonable compromise and they still don’t like it, too bad, but it was addressed. This should have already been nipped in the bud on roll-out. The fight for this had been prepared for months on the other side. Tim Kaine was practically glowing about it and stressed the right of access to contraception. We shall see. » Posted By Khirad On February 10, 2012 @ 11:50 am Romney is totally tanking at CPAC so far. To paraphrase: “It’s not numbers or facts, it the pain we feel in our hearts about America and a failed ideology” What hearts? And more of the usual vague pablum. Edit: okay, where did he get that claque and how much were they paid? Were there free booze? He was getting whoops and hollers and clapping while he was completely falling flat. Also, if he’s gonna keep bringing up the poor grandpa from Mexico, someone in the GOP needs to grow a pair and ask him more about that quaint little story about pulling oneself up by their wives’ multiple bootstraps. » Posted By Khirad On February 10, 2012 @ 10:06 am I can’t wait for Monday. » Posted By Khirad On February 10, 2012 @ 5:53 am I have heard the stupidist hyperbolic comparisons on this manufactured contraception furor. From Bonhoeffer fighting Nazis, to the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror; but this Cardinal on Morning Joke gave me whiplash. He said that even referrals à la “Hawai’i model” is like a school filtering pornography from children, but saying they can give them a referral to view it. WTF? Wait, that’s not all. When confronted by the numbers of Catholic families who use birth control, he said, well, there are a lot of Catholics in jail too. If I were charitable, it would be that he was saying we are all sinners and need grace and redemption and such, but that was a really hamfisted way of phrasing it. Even the Catholic Church knows about degree. After all, there’s all sorts of hierarchies for sins, absolution, etc. 99% of Catholic families are not like an inmate trying to repent for a violent crime. (Also, if I’m a Cardinal, I wouldn’t put kids and pornography in the same sentence. Sorry to go there, but it just occurred to me what a curious example that was.) Like I’ve said many times. I’m not anti-Catholic (and always try to be conscious of any Protestant bias I’ve unwittingly inherited), but this Boys’ Club at the top of the Church can be so out of touch. » Posted By Khirad On February 10, 2012 @ 5:52 am If ya didn’t see this the first time, I do recommend it @1:00 » Posted By Khirad On February 10, 2012 @ 5:32 am Cool, someone else had my thought, Imagine a Muslim charity that receives federal tax breaks demanding exemptions from federal rules on health insurance. How would that go? – The Grist’s David Roberts » Posted By Khirad On February 9, 2012 @ 3:58 pm Question to Repubs: where are you on FBI surveillance of mosques? Islamic family law? Speak up for Muslims to practice their faith in America or STFU over this dust-up over Catholic hospitals as not about birth control but about religious freedom and government overreach. *stomps foot* » Posted By Khirad On February 9, 2012 @ 6:41 am Hannity has his secret tape, I have mine.
» Posted By Khirad On February 9, 2012 @ 6:28 am You said UK. Does this include NI? What is the law up there? I’m asking ’cause with the Ian Paisley brand of Protestantism… I know for years those “abortion boats” gained lots of publicity. Are those still around? Honestly, why you would do that and not just take a trip across the Irish Sea is beyond me anyway — unless you are financially unable. And above all, honestly, are they that itching to protest abortion? In Ireland of all places? Really? That’s like protesting there’s not enough pasta in Italy. » Posted By Khirad On February 9, 2012 @ 5:35 am Or Midwest. Like every thing else Romney can have many regional identities, too. I’ve been puzzling over this. So Santorum gets delegates, but who does he give them to and for what? -Romney? Temperamentally similar, but his attacks have been clear on healthcare and abortion. Then again Pawlenty was once a foe. -Newt? More similar in positions and both playing populism, but temperamentally I think there’s a disconnect. Completely different tone. Santorum holds reprehensible positions, and has creepy spots, but on the whole leads a wholesome life. I’m not sure Rick can endorse such a character as Newt. Also, Newt isn’t getting the nom. -Paul? No effing way. Does he just take them to the convention and sit on them? Extract a cabinet position? Ugh, can you imagine him replacing Sebelius? I honestly don’t know what he’s doing. Maybe in a fit of delusion hoping the rest non-Romneys throw theirs to him? » Posted By Khirad On February 8, 2012 @ 1:27 am I still have yet to make candied bacon ice cream and bacon on a maple bar is de-lish. This though, I’ll pass, if that makes any sense. Even I think there can be too much bacon. » Posted By Khirad On February 7, 2012 @ 9:31 pm It wasn’t even on my radar, and I’m usually abreast of these things. Maybe Kalima will chide me for not reading MB though. 😉 » Posted By Khirad On February 6, 2012 @ 11:56 pm Romania’s government collapses after protests Thousands of Romanians took to the streets in January to protest salary cuts, higher taxes and the widespread perception that the government was not interested in the public’s hardships in this nation of 22 million. » Posted By Khirad On February 6, 2012 @ 11:30 pm Well, not to defend her, but I think she was a product of her background too. She just went way, way, way over the edge with it. » Posted By Khirad On February 6, 2012 @ 11:26 pmComments Posted By Khirad
http://www.alternet.org/story/154082/conservatism_thrives_on_low_intelligence_and_poor_information/?page=entire
http://news.yahoo.com/romanias-government-collapses-protests-151141275.html
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