What This World Needs is a Good Shirley Temple

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"Mittens" Romney, Barney Frank, Constitution, corporate America, economy, environment, Eric Cantor, Humor, Judeo-Christianity, Newt Gingrich, Occupy Wall Street, wacko media

Hey it worked in the 30’s. Or so they tell me. I have no personal knowledge. I’m not that old. I refer to those old reels of celluloid to inform me.

Back in the 30’s this country, like today, was reeling from pessimism. The economy sucked and people had lost faith. So, those great minds in the country told Hollywood to get on board, and make lots of feel-good movies.

And they did. And Shirley saved America.  We just need another Shirley is all. Simple.

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Having saved the world before noon, let us move on. Did you know that back in the 20’s and 30’s that corporate Amerika fought Child Labor laws tooth and nail? Did you know that the first act passed by Congress, the Keating-Owens Act, was struck down by the US Supreme Court as a constitutional infringement on a child’s right to contract his or her own labor?

Do rational people believe that anything has changed in Corporacracy? The GOP continues to blame the economic woes of the country on “regulation” of business by Democrats. They assure us that our Corporate benefactors will “do the right” thing when it comes to safe working conditions, safe products, and otherwise fair business practices.

How low does your IQ have to be to believe that? Does anyone remember the company town? Does anyone remember the Triangle Shirtwaist fire? Does anyone remember GM strikers being attacked and beaten by corporate goons?

Yeah, I sure believe that the Koch brothers are lookin’ out for me. Sure I do.

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Just how clearly does our Constitution follow the commandments of the Christian faith? Beeryblog has a post you better darn read if you want to know. It’s an eye-opener.

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Don’t know if you heard or not, but Gingrich called for the arrest, trial and imprisonment of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd as the ” real perpetrators” of the economic collapse in this country. When the moderators suggested that that was said tongue-in-cheek- surely, Newt the Toot, doubled down and assured everyone that he meant every word of it.

Barney Frank responded with this:

“I wish I knew that he was willing to listen to my advice, I would have given him some: I would have told him not to impeach Clinton, I would have told his successors not to go to war with Iraq, and I would have told DeLay not to go on the dance show. He’s been having a bad year, you know — this self-styled intellectual leader of the free world struggling to stay ahead of Michele Bachmann in the polls is unsettling him so he talks even sillier than he sometimes does.”

H/T to Joe.My.God

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The nutz on the right continue to not know what the willies to do about the Occupy Wall Street phenom. Eric (everybody’s nerdish little brother) Cantor has gone from calling them “mobs” to folks who are folks who are “justifiably frustrated.” Read how Cantor tries to backtrack and still manage to tell everyone how different this group is from his beloved (let me kiss your feet) TeaNutz®.

As the movement grows across the country, the GOP is rethinking its initial condemnation of “all those dirty hippies” and “anarchists” who are out to “divide our country” and “pit Americans against Americans”. It’s a fun thing to watch I gotta admit.

And Herm, I would be guessin’, ain’t going anywhere near the “mobs” with his “stop whining and get a job” routine.

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If you need another primer on the economy, Robert Reich has that for you in seven lies about the economy that are being pushed by the Right. 

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A couple of nice finds at Political Irony. The first is a Democratic website where you can go and watch Mitt (somebody called me Mittens and I thought that was cute) Romney flippin’ and floppin’ on a huge number of issues. All out of his own mouth. Go here for that.

Or go here for late night humor.

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There’s two guys chasing after one brain-cell award: Beck interviewing Hank Williams Jr. on his being fired from ESPN for being just plain too stupid to exist. Of course you get that Blaze, so no link is required. You would not want to read it after all.

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Did you know that erasers have magical properties? Well they do. Whatever they erase, ceases to exist. At least on planet TEX-ASS. You see, for years TEXAS has contracted with Houston Advanced Research Center to report on the state of Galveston Bay. And they did so this year. And the water levels are rising, and the scientists said it was important proof of climate change and human causation.

References to the rising water and projections of future rising were simply erased by Rick’s boys and girls who don’t care for that kinda stuff. It’s all a left-wing hoax didn’t ya know?

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I’m living in a land somewhere west of Andromeda this day. I awoke to a husband who out-of-the-blue and for no-definable-reason, offered to cook dinner. I had a roast out defrosting and he said, “save it until tomorrow, I’ll go down and get the liver and fix that. I know you don’t like to cook liver.”

I immediately began looking around for MY husband. But I’m thinkin’ I may keep this imposter around, at least until after that liver is cooked. I do love me some liver ‘n onions on occasion.

 

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And They Don’t Even Know They are Crazy

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Bryan Fischer, budget, economy, environment, Eric Cantor, global warming, Individual Rights, Islamophobia, Michele Bachmann, teabaggers

Imagine what THAT must be like? Being crazy as the proverbial loon, and having nary a clue.

I feel, in the name of good consciousness, I should have to tell ’em. I really do. It’s a moral thing. A person has a right to know they are not playing with a full deck.

Case in point.

Bryan Fischer, that homophobic/Islamophobic, all around provider of hate. He’s crazy. Batshit, Wonka, nutzo, drooling and showing us his nasty privates kinda crazy.

You don’t believe me?

Well, okay, I’ll prove it to ya.

In his radio broadcast of only yesterday, picklebrain Bryan talked about a Pew poll that said that half of all Muslims think of themselves as Muslim first and Americans second. Being no dummy in his empty skull, he fully admitted that Christians pretty much do the same thing, think of themselves as Christian first and Americans second.

Okay.

But when you are crazy as a 42-year-old male in Louisiana claiming that he is Napoleon Bonaparte returned from the dead, well then that gets interpreted this way:

 It’s not a problem when a Christian says that. For the Christian to say “I am a Christian first and an American second,” that’s what we all ought to say. Our ultimate allegiance is not to country, not to the Constitution, it’s to God and the Scripture. If you have to make a choice between the two, we must obey God rather than man.

But when a Christian says “I’m a Christian first and an American second,” the fact that he is a Christian first, he’s got devotion and allegiance to Jesus Christ means he’s going to be a better American. He’s going to be an asset to his country, he’s going to love his country, he’s going to become more fervent in his patriotism. His love for his country and for its traditions are going to deepen because those traditions are rooted in the soil of the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Now if you have a Muslim, on the other hand, that says that – “I am a Muslim first and an American second” – look out! Because that indicates his ultimate devotion is to the Quran, it’s to Allah, it’s to Muhammad. It’s not to Jesus Christ, it’s not to the Judeo-Christian tradition, it is not to American values and American tradition and American history and American heroes – it is to Allah and Allah tells him to slay the idolaters wherever you find them.

So the more devout a Muslim gets, the more of a threat he becomes to America’s national security.

 And that dear friends, qualifies Mr. Fischer as being crazier than 95% of the patients in Bellevue.

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Case in point 2:

In 2004, Eric Cantor asked for federal funds to help his hurricane ravaged state. Some time after than, Eric (I am more important than John) Cantor, forget what little he ever knew. Sharing the common TeaNutz® drool cup, Eric the crazy CANNOT sing that tune in 2011. So it comes out, we want aid, if we can offset it with cutting something somewhere.

Cantor you can’t become Speaker that way. I think your constituency is already lookin’ about for a new representative. You’re not playing with even half a deck there Eric the Cant.

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Case in point 3:

Michele Bachmann. Oh hell, why bother. She’s too obvious, and let it not be said that I have no compassion for the crazy among us. It was God. . .No it was only a joke. . .No it was God. I’m lying, or I’m not.

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Case in point 4:

The TeaNutz®. They are most all of ’em crazy as seals at a polar bear party. I mean it. And if you don’t believe me on that one, than please go read wearerespectablenegroes interview with “Whiteness.”

It will all sound so eerily familiar to ya. And you will whisper for the men in white jackets with the funny jacket that has the strings attached to the sleeves, and the refrain, “they’re coming to take me away haha, heehee, ho-ho. . .”

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Case in point 5:

There is a squirrelly fellow by the name of Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, and he runs a “Christian environmental think tank”. Read anti-global warming. He claims that the folks protesting at the White House against the Canadian pipeline are “violating scripture” and are just publicity seekers.

How so you ask?

Why, scripture is quite clear:

“They profess to believe the Bible,” he points out. “Well, the Bible tells them that they’re supposed to obey the governing authorities unless those governing authorities either require them to do what God forbids or forbids them to do what God requires — and that has not happened. So they are actually disobeying scripture by doing this.”

Sumpin’ tells me that old Cal wouldn’t be singing that tune when it comes to go old “American” teabagger protestin’ now would he?

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And Case in Point, 6 and last but never the least of the crazies:

The US Congress, except for a few Dems here and there:

From Joe.My.God.

We’re Still Here?

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Photo credit: Adam Baron

Well, thankfully, we took lawn chairs. I mean Saturday for the Rapture. We were up on the hill, standing, and then sitting. Checking the watch. We clasped hands at :30 seconds and counting. And then. . . N O T H I N G.

At first, utter terror grabbed my heart. Oh no, was there some bureaucratic snafu? Had our names been left off by some angelic error? I commenced to clacking my ruby-red shoes again and again. To no avail.

We wondered, should we run back to the house and get in the basement? But all was eerily quiet and well, you might even say serene. No shaking, no erupting cacophony of earth-splitting horrors.

Finally, dejectedly, we wandered back to the house, flipped on the TV and found everything pretty much the same.

“Damn it!” the Contrarian exclaimed.

“What?”

“We missed the Preakness. Wonder who won?” he muttered.

“I can top that,” I intoned.

“How’s that?”

“On Monday, I’m back to what is increasingly as boring as paint drying–the GOP field of candidates!” I sighed.

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No doubt the poor people of Joplin, MO thought the Rapture might have been just delayed as they saw their town torn apart by a killer tornado yesterday. These monster storms are taking a toll across the country, and one has to go back to pre-1950 times to find these kind of death tolls. That means the storms are more ferocious, since warning systems and structures are certainly much better today. But there ain’t no global warming of course. No that is not possible.

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Does anyone care that Mitch Daniels is out and Tim Pawlenty is in? It’s really hard to. Theories abound as to why the “better?” candidates are opting out and the idiots are taking center stage. The most likely scenario is that they figure that Obama is nearly a sure bet. Re-focus on 2016. Maybe. If so, it promises to be a yawner except for the humor factor if Bachmann and Palin, join the other loonies Cain, Santorum, and Gingrich. Even then, it’s hard to get enthused. Or maybe I’m just off my game today. **shrug**

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Proof that I am sane and the world is crazy? One need go no further than a few weeks ago when I named the hat worn by Princess Beatrice at the William and Kate wedding as the “Bullwinkle Hat.”

Said “hat” sold on Ebay for $130,000 big ones. Need I say more?  

Truly, the more I look, the easier it is to find evidence that I am one of the few remaining sane humans on this planet.

Newt Gingrich. Need I say more?

I can go on like this all day. I deserve some kind of recognition for my ability to retain my mind in good working order when faced with this kind of insanity provoking nuttery. I do.

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I confess to not understanding all the intricacies of the Middle East peace process. But over the years, my sympathies have shifted more to the Palestinian side of things. I certainly don’t like Hamas’s tactics, but I think the Palestinians have a better claim on the land than do the Israelis. Fair reading of the Bible must leave a person with a certain amount of “well that’s a convenient way to tell the story and justify war and genocide isn’t it” feeling in the end.

Looking back, it was probably a very bad idea to create the state of Israel. And given history, Jerusalem, seems to me, to be fairly an “international” city of three religions. Saying all that, realities are what they are.

I suspect that those who really are in the know, know that Obama’s  speech on the peace process were carefully crafted and struck just the right note. They are entirely in line with European allies conclusions on the matter.

How do you feel about the situation?

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What’s on the stove? Liver and Onions, carrots, salad

 

 

The Group of People I Like Keeps Dwindling

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budget, environment, Glenn Beck, media wackos, Muslims, Qur'an, racism

One of the things that has long troubled me in the silly war by the extremist right to paint Obama as a Muslim, is why the response isn’t simply: so what if he is? Why is it something that must be defended against? Have we gone so far around the bend into naked hatred that it would not be okay to have a Muslim president?

The fact that Barack Obama is assuredly a Christian, is beside the point. We need only go as far as Herman Cain to find someone willing to blatantly state that no Muslim would find their way into “his” administration.

A furor erupted in New Jersey when the governor there appointed a Muslim to the Court of Appeals. Thankfully, the governor says he would do it again!

But we are, it seems, making it almost alright to bash Muslims. The extremist right is simply awful in its hate-spewing, using all sorts of words and phrases meant to inflame and leaving no doubt that they conceive of Muslims in general as a thing to be eradicated from the body politic. As we have previously noted Bryan Fischer suggests they have no “1st Amendment rights” since our Founding Fathers, inexplicably never meant to include anyone but Christians, and perhaps “good” Jews.

Many extremists point to the Qur’an as being a hate-filled book. Frankly, from things I’ve read, by people who have reason to know, it is no more so than the Bible, which admittedly portrays a pretty violent and bloodthirsty God in parts of the Hebrew Scriptures.

But did you know that the person named most often in the Qur’an is Moses? And the second most named person is Jesus? And the third is the Virgin Mary? I sure didn’t. Read an account of this and other things from the Qur’an at The Reaction, in a guest post by Hamid M. Khan, adjunct professor of Islamic Law at the University of Colorado Law School.

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A couple of shorts. This just in. Beck is “transitioning off” his TV show. Meaning he has been told to take a hike. The usual “new projects are in the works” was released.

Democrats proposed that if the Rethugs were intent on the government shutdown, that the moral thing to do was to stop paying themselves in Congress and President. The GOP said whoa, that was going too far!

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With Paul Ryan’s “new budget” which basically guts Medicare and Medicaid, we now see that the GOP strategy is to support in every way the rich getting richer and placing all the economic suffering on the poor, women and old people. Coupled with their growing attacks on Muslims, and Latinos, well, we can see that it is the party of the great shrinking white well-to-do. Good luck with that.

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If you want to find out what your state excels in, environmentally that is, well take a look at the map below. [h/t Joe.My.God]

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What’s on the stove? Fish Tacos (recipe anyone?)

Bad News is Everywhere

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corporate elites, energy, environment, GOP, Japan, Libya, Manning, Michigan, Military, nuclear energy, Qaddafi, wikileaks

Word out of Japan is not good. Meltdown remains a real possibility. I understand radiation levels are increasing even in Tokyo, though they are no way alarming at this time.

Still, this scenario must be horrifying to those living and present on the island. Historic memories are recalled, and this must heighten the fear.

I am nearly numb from the pictures and the numbers. Severe quakes still continue to come ever few hours. People are washing up on shore in numbers that sear the mind. One can but wonder how relief workers can carry on. I have no words, just prayers and agonized thoughts.

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Meanwhile, things continue to be bleak for rebels forces in Libya. Qaddafi’s mercenaries are gaining ground at every turn it seems. Promises of amnesty are seen for what they are, mere lies. No one doubts that Qaddafi intends to destroy everyone connected with the rebel uprising. While everyone seems on board with a no-fly zone, none is so far implemented.

If Qaddafi gets away with this slaughter, they other tyrants will become emboldened that they too can simply murder opposition without concern for anything more than words from the International Community. This is simply immoral.

I have no doubt that there are no easy solutions, but we cannot merely sit back and watch this horror. The countries of the world must address this issue of rogue states and decide on a strategy and then implement it. Otherwise, these things will continue as they have so far decade after decade.

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Pfc. Bradley Manning is incarcerated at Quantico, Va, for allegedly turning over WikiLeaks material. I have no opinion on that frankly, although I’m predisposed to think that the more we the public knows the better. The whole idea of “secret” smacks to me of convenience whereby leadership in any country can do all manner of things intolerable to average folks in the name of “national security.”

In any event, what is happening to Mr.Manning is unconscionable and immoral. He is being kept in solitary confinement, being allowed to “walk around a room in shackles for one hour per day.” His clothes are taken from him and night, and not returned until he is “inspected” the next day. I don’t know if he is allowed any media material, books, TV or the like.

What I can tell you is this. When I was a law student, I did an in-depth study of the death penalty in Michigan, my home state. I learned that the death penalty was deliberately avoided in favor of solitary confinement, for the precise reason that it was considered more cruel.

After using it for some years, the head of the penal system begged the legislature to allow some time in general population for those prisoners. Solitary confinement tended to produce death or insanity within about three years.

Efforts to see Manning by many, the latest I believe being Dennis Kucinich, have been rebuffed.

If we are a compassionate people, a moral people, we should be contacting our representatives in Congress.

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It gets more and more painful to report how Republican legislators and their Rethug Governors are putting in place a world that is safe for corporate greed to have the day, and at the same time tax the poor.

In Michigan, the GOP passed legislation allowing the Governor to declare “economic states of emergency” in any town and move in, cancelling contracts (labor), seizing assets and selling them, and firing elected officials.

Further cuts are made against the poor and working class by cancelling a $500 child tax credit, credits for seniors and other such things, all the while cutting corporate taxes by 86%. Yes, you read that right. When added all up, the taxes fall most harshly on the poorest, while the richest people in the state suffer only 0.1% increase.

This is what you get from Republicans. They do the bidding of their corporate masters.  

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And just because the news is so god-awful terrible today, this:

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Discussin’ Science From the LazyBoy

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crazy right-wing, environment, evolution, Humor

Come on in. Pull up a couch. Don’t worry ’bout that coffee table, go right on ahead and rest them shit-kickers on it. Buds in the fridge. No not that fridge, the one right next to yer arm.

 Handy ain’t she? Set the remote right on it too. Only thing I don’t got is a crapper. Like a cheetos?

Well, now we’re all here. Got us a week to go before the big ‘un, so I was figurin’ we could have a real inTelechual discushun, ’bout  that there  climate change and evOlushun business, ya know that thear-rey that we all comes from monkeys?

(Shhh, I’ve set the scene. You can go to The Blaze and see the video of Bill Maher having a discussion of these things, but the comments are way better.)

historyguy48 Posted on January 29, 2011 at 9:18am

This guy is a comedian. So this has to be a joke, right? Idiots like him are a dime a dozen. The only thing settled about global warming, is that it is a scam. Evolution is still a theory, not proven science, so far, It does look like it may be true, but remember the Piltdown man scam? That one “proved” evolution, until it was pointed out that it was the body of a ape with a human skull.

Hey Historyguy48, is your knowledge of history as good as your knowledge of science? And where did you get your history education? Just so I can warn parents to keep their kids away.

KICKILLEGALSOUT Posted on January 29, 2011 at 9:21am

Science by definition is a branch of knowledge or study dealing with facts. No one is against facts, but it seems Atheist are. The problem today is when people try to claim hypothesis’ and theories are science. If it was in fact science it would not be called a hypothesis or a theory. The error today is to say people who don’t believe in evolution are anti-science, for example,
What I want to know if how people can just make the “jump” to evolution. No scientist in the world today can answer 2 questions by science. Where did it all come from? How did inorganic material transition to organic life? No one can answer this but then just jump to the “facts” of evolution. You can’t just skip a step and the most important one for that matter. There is no sense talking about evolution until they can answer those questions. The only answer is a Creator God or the guess of man.

Kickillegalsout let me see your dictionary dude. Oh looky here. It says the definition of Kickillegalsout is: a guy who can walk around with no brain. I’m not sure you know what side of the street you are on. Join Historyguy48. Together you don’t own a brain cell.

independentvoteril Posted on January 29, 2011 at 9:45am

Maher..

MEMO:
Global warming hoax is OVER..Your side lost.. and evaluation only exists for PROGRESSIVES the rest of us came from CREATION.. which explains WHY the progressives have the mentality of a monkey.. actually that’s an insult to monkeys who are MUCH smarter than PROGRESSIVES..
End of Debate…

IndependentvoterIl: What is not over is the debate as to whether you should be allowed to drink, drive, vote  or even leave you house unescorted. Your picture is attached this week to the phrase willful ignorance coupled with general stupidity.

bobodu Posted on January 29, 2011 at 9:57am

Of course, the science should NOT be debated!!

Mr. Creationist…can you explain how a light bulb works?

Well you betcha. Ya see…in ever light bulb dat God created… He put a tiny lil Jesus in dere…and dat lil Jesus just wants ta shine ya see…He wants ta shine His light on da world…but when we turn off dat switch…we‘us jus’ turnin’ our backs on Jesus…an He casts darkness over da room..

bobodu: You are da man!

TexasCommonSense Posted on January 29, 2011 at 10:47am

There has been climate change as long as there’s been a climate. . .

TexasCommonSense: okay, I only included you because your NAME IS AN OXYMORON! Dude really!

canyousmellmenow Posted on January 29, 2011 at 11:01am

He said he came from monkey geans. In the 70′s we were gona freeze now were gona melt ? I can tell you this, I am freezing, my gas and electric bill are higher then ever. Send me some global warming please………

canyousmellmenow: yes, and please stay down wind of us from now on. I’ll send you something buddy, but global warming is gonna come free of charge.

Kalish Posted on January 29, 2011 at 12:48pm

When you see how intiricate our universe is, or even our human bodies, all the different species etc.. you really have to be off your rocker to think all these things and many more came from nothing, and all of a sudden “bang” everthing just happened, by pure chance, and there is no evidence that carbon dating is even accurate beyond 5000-8000 years

Kalish: Can’t you see I’m in a barcalounger? No rockers here. You got your bang and your evolution confused, but then I guess you haven’t heard they have better dating that carbon now. Damn science, always a changin’ things on a guy.

truwired Posted on January 29, 2011 at 5:14pm

Evolution has no science to back it up!
“ALL” of the proof/evidence is based on assumption. Radio carbon dating has proved itself over and over to be inaccurate.
At least creationists have written testimony to back itself up!
Praise Jesus!!
I Corinthians 1:

25 Because the foolishness of God
is wiser than men; and the weakness
of God is stronger than men.
26 For ye see your calling, brethren,
how that not many wise men
after the flesh, not many mighty, not
many noble, are called:
27 But God hath chosen the foolish
things of the world to confound the
wise; and God hath chosen the weak
things of the world to confound the
things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world,
and things which are despised, hath
God chosen, yea, and things which
are not, to bring to nought things
that are:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence

truwired: we are to assume you are one of the foolish things? Or are you the weak or the base? Yes, I can see how you have evidence. Exactly which creation story from Genesis do you personally hold to? Hey, just askin’.

AriBenTZion Posted on January 30, 2011 at 2:50pm

A w, t h e l i t t l e J e w.

AriBenTZion: aww the little hate monger. In any discussion, throw in a little anti-Semitism just to sweeten the mix.

CottonMPG Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:51am

I feel sorry for those who are so determined to cling to this evolutionary theory. It flies in the face of true science. The only observable changes in living creatures have to do with a loss of genetic material and this could only result in devolution and/or adaptation.
To clarify, you must start with a living creature first, then you can, through natural or human directed selection, eliminate unwanted characteristics by only allowing certain individuals to live and reproduce. Bacteria and viruses adapt similarly to our own immune systems. They appear different but they are still bacteria or viruses, they don’t turn into amoeba. A wolf hound is still a domesticated wolf as is a dachshund. They are simply adapted, through intentional selection to a specific purpose. The second law of thermodynamics states that all things are moving from order to disorder. This is true science and is readily observable all day every day. This is also in direct opposition to the idea of evolution. Oh and by the way, who do you think would be more highly evolved of all the races if evolution were true? Ask Darwin. He had very definite ideas on the matter. The Bible teaches that God created two human beings in His image and that all the races of the world are descended from them.

CottonMPG: I would, but hate to tell you dude, Darwin is dead. Always helpful to interject a tiny bit of racism in there too isn’t it. A good discussion should be like punch right? Or meatloaf. Or maybe somebody should punch you for being a meatloaf.

Smokey_Bojangles Posted on January 29, 2011 at 9:22am

Why are there no talking apes?People who thought this way have caused over 100million deaths.Bill will meet his idols,Mao,Stalin,Hitler etc in Hell.

Smokey_Bojangles: Stop smoking that. Whatever it is, stop smokin’ it now. It’s made you stupid.

SND97 Posted on January 29, 2011 at 10:14am

I don’t care How, When, Where, What Time Frame, God created man and the heavens and the Earth and everything that is life. It’s called faith, sometime I think God simply looks at all of us and just scratches his head at our stupidity.

Read the very first verse in the old test about the waters, and then ask yourself one question, how did that verse written thousands of years ago possiblly know that the entire earth was once covered with water and then the land formed? Even Scientist admit that the Earth was in fact covered with water in it’s history, so how did that first explain that thousands of years ago before so called Science knew it?remember now, put con and science together and what do you get? Conscience

SND97: Go back and try to read that again. There is nothing said in the bible about the earth being covered with water. Just water dude. And no scientist says that the earth was covered with water. All or most land masses were at one time or another under water, but not at the same time. And frankly, science doesn’t know anything. It’s not a person. Yes, and put dipsy and doodle together and you get dipsydoodle or SND97. I see you point.

BRAVEHEART Posted on January 29, 2011 at 10:26am

Evolution is an extreme Fairy Tale just like 99% of the idealology that Liberals buy into. Once you buy into liberalism your capacity for accurate knowledge and competent understanding (discernment) is extremely diminished. These people become like Droids that can not function outside of a confined enviorment or equasion. They actually construct an artificial world that supplies the necessary parts and peices for their dogmatic liberal Socalist utopia.

Braveheart: Oh I’m so glad you’ve helped us to see the truth. Not like you crazy righties, who get the best news here at Blaze and then at WorldnetDaily and then Fox. Have I correctly covered your reading and watching list? I take it none of the above is giving any spelling lessons these days?

The only sad thing, is that these damn fools actually vote.

Dear, Johnny Depp Awaits You in the Bedroom

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A statement like that can cause a woman my age to go into immediate cardiac arrest. I gasped, turned to my beloved Contrarian with all the love I could muster in my eyes, and gushed, “Darling, this is the Best late Christmas present ever!”

I tripped across  one dog and stepped on at least one cat tail as I launched myself across the room, eyes shining brightly at the bedroom door.

I burst in, my eyes like eagles, searching the environs. “Come out, come out, where ever you are, ” I teased.

“What are you talking about?” the Contrarian grunted. “I taped David Letterman. Depp is a guest. Since Stewart’ still off on vacation, I thought we could watch it for our bedtime fare.”

Welcome to my life. My fantasy universe collapsed before my tear-laden eyes, and I mumbled, “well of course, I was just making a joke.” I pushed my tired feet under the covers, pulled the blankets up tight against my chin, and closed my eyes, to let the fantasy play out for a few more seconds.

Sigh.

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What’s in a name? No, I’m not getting all Shakespearean on ya. Are you named after someone? Cappy over at Writer’s Block is, and she tells you all about it. Also her penchant for naming as yet unborn children.

I do that for pets. I name them in advance. My next two dogs will be Frieda and Diego. After the Mexican painters. I saw the movie. What a love affair. Passionate people hurt each other, but their love is dramatic.  I like to name in love affairs. Or something else. We have Kate and Spencer (Hepburn and Tracy) and Calvin and Hobbes (okay that isn’t a love affair, except sorta it is). Our cats. They don’t exactly act like their counterparts. That is the downside.

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This next one requires some real thought. First impressions may be wrong. Does the computer enhance, or make for better writing than the old-fashioned ink and quill? pencil? ink pen? typewriter? The eraser was vilified as making for sloppy writing, easy to “correct.” How about white-out? Trickier question than you might have thought. American Scientist has a titillating review on the subject. The book in question is called: A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers and the Digital Revolution.

It sounds like a quirky but quite interesting little book.

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If Murr Brewster hasn’t come across your radar yet, you may want to take a look at her blog. She has a slice of environmental reporting to do today, done in her rather inimitable style. How do you fare in the “go green” revolution? Like Murr, up and down, depends.

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What frustrates me with “some” atheists is that their arguments are based on fundamentalist interpretations of the bible, which we (most of us) agree are utterly wrong. Yet these atheists seem either unwilling or unable to see that there is a better/clearer/more intellectually sound way of reading scripture.

Tim Bulkeley writes a great little piece over at The Bible and Interpretation that lays the plague of the neo-Atheists at the feet of the fundamentally unbiblical fundamentalist. I agree. See if you do. Thanks for the H/T from James McGrath at Exploring our Matrix.

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My thought is that Dubya might not want to take his book tour to London. Not after the scathing and terribly accurate review Eliot Weinberger gives it. An excerpt will suffice to whet your whistle:

In the late 1960s, George Bush Jr was at Yale, branding the asses of pledges to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity with a hot coathanger. Michel Foucault was at the Societé française de philosophie, considering the question, ‘What is an author?’ The two, needless to say, never met.

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We’re having fried chicken, mashed taters and gravy and peas. I like peas. I even like the ones in cans. Like when I was a kid. They are like two different vegetables. Peas from the freezer and peas from the can. It’s one of those foods I need to revisit now and again, like that bright orange french dressing by Wishbone. Nostalgia they call it.

I’m a good wife. I cook up good grub. Even if Johnny Depp wasn’t in my bedroom.