POST #557: Random Observations
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| Meditations on Fred, August 2014 ` |
The following compilation of positively un-American, LEFT WING propaganda are unrelated musings that I had placed here and there on various websites or way out yonder in the Facebooksphere. HAPPY READING!
1. The More Things Change....
This jolly little piece of infotainment greeted me this morning from a source called CLG News:
"For the first time since the U.S. 'withdrew' from Iraq in 2011 the U.S. Army is
preparing to deploy a division headquarters to Iraq."
This is not a good idea, campers. When are we going to learn? Thanks to a century of meddling by the United States, Britain, France and the former Soviet Union (the main - but by no means only - suspects) the Middle East has been destabilized utterly and eternally. No amount of military force is going to change this reality. The place is broken and we helped break it. As someone once said, "You can bomb the world to pieces but you can't bomb the world to peace."
Iraq is in the process of imploding. The right wing is blaming the chaos on Barack Obama and the Democrats. If the president insists on going down this road, he'll only end up giving his critics something substantial to whine about. Ain't politics A gas?
PREDICTION: This is going to end very tragically. We'll just leave it at that.
Iraq is in the process of imploding. The right wing is blaming the chaos on Barack Obama and the Democrats. If the president insists on going down this road, he'll only end up giving his critics something substantial to whine about. Ain't politics A gas?
PREDICTION: This is going to end very tragically. We'll just leave it at that.
2. Letter to the New York Daily News, 9/14/14:
"Hey, I've got a dandy idea: What if the NY Daily News - and all
responsible papers - no longer run photographs of these ISIS freaks in
the act of executing innocent human beings? Can't you see that by
running these pictures (on page one no less) you're playing right into
their gnarled little hands? From now on, please, merely report to us
what they have done. Leave the rest to our imaginations."
They usually print what I send to them. They didn't print that one. Cowards.
3. Quote of the Ages:
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free....it expects what never was and never will be."
4. Mallard Fillmore:
I don't know the name of the nitwit who writes the Mallard Fillmore comic strip (Tim Something-or-other) This much, however, is beyond certainty: Charles Schultz he ain't. But I make it a point never to miss his daily masterpiece of mediocrity and misinformation. In fact there have been times when Mallard is the first thing I turn to when I open the paper. Every morning, in a state of barely restrained glee, I'll find myself asking, sometimes aloud, "What moronic thing is this knucklehead going to puke up today for my amusement?" He never fails to deliver the goods - or almost never. Once, about four-or-five years ago, he actually made a point that I thought quite valid. I was in a semi state of shock for the rest of the day. Seriously.
The person who writes Mallard Fillmore is not only a racist (his tirades against blacks are a weekly delight) he's also an anti-Semite - worst than any seen in print in a very long time. His caricatures of Jews are about as blatantly stereotypical as anything put out by the propagandists of the Third Reich eighty years ago. If he's ever given the brush by my local paper, I won't lose any sleep over it; But if he's here to stay that's okay, too. Right wing lunacy can be quite entertaining. Mallard Fillmore is very much so.
I think of it as the Three's Company of comic strips: so mind-numbingly bad it's actually amusing.
5. Cruz Control
Ted Cruz made a minor tremor the other day at something called the Value Voters Summit when he referred to the Democrats as an "extreme, radical party". Really? At a time when a extreme change in the course in our national affairs is radically needed, I can only say that if the Dems were one/quarter as extreme and as radical as old Ted implies I would still be one.
The senator from Texas is a satirist's delight. I hope he never goes away. He's the gift that keeps giving and giving.
6.. RUN, LIZ, RUN!
Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is the best thing to happen to progressive politics in this country since Eleanor Roosevelt - and there is a growing choir rising from her natural constituency that is not only singing her praises, they are urging her - begging her - to seek the Democratic nomination for the presidency in two years. It's a grand idea - sort of.
I'm of two minds about this: Yeah, I would love to see this woman as the standard bearer in 2016, Hillary Clinton, at present the presumed nominee, leaves me cold. Although Senator Warren's chances for living in the White House if nominated are not as sure as Ms. Clinton's, it's not the impossible dream that many people believe it to be. The problem she would have as president (and it's the same one that Barack Obama has encountered) is the obstructionism of the Republican party. This country is only going to be saved if the American people take a decided turn to the left. That's not going to happen any time soon, kids.
7. Texas Secession:
There is a movement now underway in Texas that would have that state secede from the union. This is where I let out a sigh of complete exasperation.
I don't think Texas independence is a particularly good idea for its citizens. This needs to be emphasized to these people as aggressively as possible because, let's face it, most Texans (or at least the ones who vote) don't know what's good for them. Just look at the collection of chuckleheads they keep sending to Washington and Austin! You know what I'm talking about?
In fact, secession is a perfectly hideous idea. It would take less than a year for its residents to realize that seceding from the union was a dreadful mistake. Without U.S. taxpayers keeping them afloat, the Lone Star State would have imploded decades ago. But if Texas insists on secession, fine. Let them go. Good bye and good riddance.
For one-hundred and fifty years this country has had to twist itself into semantic pretzels making excuses to the rest of the planet for the idiocy of that place. And if secession is really the road they want to go down, I propose that we erect a wall to keep out the tsunami of refugees that will surely be flooding our border in no time at all. If Texas wants to leave, then, by all means, let them leave. We certainly shouldn't come to blows militarily over the matter. A civil war over Texas? It wouldn't be worth it. It's not an asset to the union; it's a national embarrassment.
Let them have the right wing paradise of their warped fantasies. It would serve the silly bastards right.
One last thought on this subject: Can you even imagine the "nation" of Texas with a nuclear weapon? Wouldn't that be a hoot? Goodness gracious me!
8. "Blessed Are The Meek" - NOT!!!
They tend to refer to these right wing Christians as "religious extremists"; but if you think about it for a minute, that term is the ultimate misnomer. If they were as extreme about Jesus as they would have us believe, they would be spreading His message in EXTREME ways, setting EXTREME examples. For instance:
If Pat Robertson was as tuned-in to Jesus as he claims he is, he would be giving all of his treasure to the poor. He isn't. In fact, he's the part owner of a diamond mine in Africa. Any profit he makes goes to Pat Robertson. That's not very extreme, is it?
If these blubbering congressmen and women from the Bible Belt were as sweet on the Prince of Peace as they say they are, they would be demanding a ninety percent tax rate for anyone making over one million dollars a year in order to eliminate poverty in America. They won't. It's all about tax cuts (and more tax cuts) to a class of people who have more money than, well, God. That's not very extreme.
The problem, according to them, is all of those nasty, dirty and lazy poor people. Why don't they just get off of their butts and get to work! That's not very extreme either. Think about it.
And a final note to the racist, anti-Semitic "Christians" out there in La La Land: Jesus was a rabbi and He was not a white man. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Hypocrisy: It's prevalent, overwhelming - and so few seem to take notice. Strange.
Tom Degan
Honorary Member (in good standing)
of the International Jewish Conspiracy
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REGARDING THE PHOTOGRAPH AT THE TOP:
In Boston, on May 31, 1894, John Florence Sullivan was born. When he was
a teenager he developed a juggling act for vaudeville. One day, due to
an error by a booking agent, he was inadvertently billed as "Fred
Allen". He liked the name so much he kept it for the rest of his life. Although he appeared in a number of films (some of them quite good) he is primarily remembered today
(if he's remembered at all) as the greatest humorist who ever practiced
the lost and lamented art of radio comedy. Jack Benny once said of him, "His ability to ad lib was phenomenal." That was an understatement.
3. Quote of the Ages:
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free....it expects what never was and never will be."
Thomas Jefferson
Kiss this country goodbye.
Kiss this country goodbye.
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| Yeah, extreme right |
I don't know the name of the nitwit who writes the Mallard Fillmore comic strip (Tim Something-or-other) This much, however, is beyond certainty: Charles Schultz he ain't. But I make it a point never to miss his daily masterpiece of mediocrity and misinformation. In fact there have been times when Mallard is the first thing I turn to when I open the paper. Every morning, in a state of barely restrained glee, I'll find myself asking, sometimes aloud, "What moronic thing is this knucklehead going to puke up today for my amusement?" He never fails to deliver the goods - or almost never. Once, about four-or-five years ago, he actually made a point that I thought quite valid. I was in a semi state of shock for the rest of the day. Seriously.
The person who writes Mallard Fillmore is not only a racist (his tirades against blacks are a weekly delight) he's also an anti-Semite - worst than any seen in print in a very long time. His caricatures of Jews are about as blatantly stereotypical as anything put out by the propagandists of the Third Reich eighty years ago. If he's ever given the brush by my local paper, I won't lose any sleep over it; But if he's here to stay that's okay, too. Right wing lunacy can be quite entertaining. Mallard Fillmore is very much so.
I think of it as the Three's Company of comic strips: so mind-numbingly bad it's actually amusing.
5. Cruz Control
Ted Cruz made a minor tremor the other day at something called the Value Voters Summit when he referred to the Democrats as an "extreme, radical party". Really? At a time when a extreme change in the course in our national affairs is radically needed, I can only say that if the Dems were one/quarter as extreme and as radical as old Ted implies I would still be one.
The senator from Texas is a satirist's delight. I hope he never goes away. He's the gift that keeps giving and giving.
6.. RUN, LIZ, RUN!Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is the best thing to happen to progressive politics in this country since Eleanor Roosevelt - and there is a growing choir rising from her natural constituency that is not only singing her praises, they are urging her - begging her - to seek the Democratic nomination for the presidency in two years. It's a grand idea - sort of.
I'm of two minds about this: Yeah, I would love to see this woman as the standard bearer in 2016, Hillary Clinton, at present the presumed nominee, leaves me cold. Although Senator Warren's chances for living in the White House if nominated are not as sure as Ms. Clinton's, it's not the impossible dream that many people believe it to be. The problem she would have as president (and it's the same one that Barack Obama has encountered) is the obstructionism of the Republican party. This country is only going to be saved if the American people take a decided turn to the left. That's not going to happen any time soon, kids.
7. Texas Secession:
There is a movement now underway in Texas that would have that state secede from the union. This is where I let out a sigh of complete exasperation.
I don't think Texas independence is a particularly good idea for its citizens. This needs to be emphasized to these people as aggressively as possible because, let's face it, most Texans (or at least the ones who vote) don't know what's good for them. Just look at the collection of chuckleheads they keep sending to Washington and Austin! You know what I'm talking about?
In fact, secession is a perfectly hideous idea. It would take less than a year for its residents to realize that seceding from the union was a dreadful mistake. Without U.S. taxpayers keeping them afloat, the Lone Star State would have imploded decades ago. But if Texas insists on secession, fine. Let them go. Good bye and good riddance.
For one-hundred and fifty years this country has had to twist itself into semantic pretzels making excuses to the rest of the planet for the idiocy of that place. And if secession is really the road they want to go down, I propose that we erect a wall to keep out the tsunami of refugees that will surely be flooding our border in no time at all. If Texas wants to leave, then, by all means, let them leave. We certainly shouldn't come to blows militarily over the matter. A civil war over Texas? It wouldn't be worth it. It's not an asset to the union; it's a national embarrassment.
Let them have the right wing paradise of their warped fantasies. It would serve the silly bastards right.
One last thought on this subject: Can you even imagine the "nation" of Texas with a nuclear weapon? Wouldn't that be a hoot? Goodness gracious me!
They tend to refer to these right wing Christians as "religious extremists"; but if you think about it for a minute, that term is the ultimate misnomer. If they were as extreme about Jesus as they would have us believe, they would be spreading His message in EXTREME ways, setting EXTREME examples. For instance:
If Pat Robertson was as tuned-in to Jesus as he claims he is, he would be giving all of his treasure to the poor. He isn't. In fact, he's the part owner of a diamond mine in Africa. Any profit he makes goes to Pat Robertson. That's not very extreme, is it?
If these blubbering congressmen and women from the Bible Belt were as sweet on the Prince of Peace as they say they are, they would be demanding a ninety percent tax rate for anyone making over one million dollars a year in order to eliminate poverty in America. They won't. It's all about tax cuts (and more tax cuts) to a class of people who have more money than, well, God. That's not very extreme.
The problem, according to them, is all of those nasty, dirty and lazy poor people. Why don't they just get off of their butts and get to work! That's not very extreme either. Think about it.
And a final note to the racist, anti-Semitic "Christians" out there in La La Land: Jesus was a rabbi and He was not a white man. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Hypocrisy: It's prevalent, overwhelming - and so few seem to take notice. Strange.
Tom Degan
Honorary Member (in good standing)
of the International Jewish Conspiracy
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REGARDING THE PHOTOGRAPH AT THE TOP:
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| Fred Allen 1894-1956 |
Fred died unexpectedly of a massive heart attack on St. Patrick's Day
1956 while taking his evening stroll down West 57th Street, directly across from Carnegie Hall. He was two
months shy of his sixty-second birthday. He is interred at the Gate of
Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, NY. Whenever I drive by the place (which
is not very often) I always stop by for a little meditation at the place where he sleeps. I visited there recently. Thanks to Carolyn Karkosza for taking the photograph - and to my old friend, Kevin Kelly, for turning me on to Fred Allen when we were still kids
AFTERTHOUGHT:
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To order tickets by phone call (855) 870-2717. You will laugh.
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| Courtney Reed & Adam Jacobs ` |
If you happen to find yourself in merrie olde Manhattan at any time in the foreseeable future you might want to check out the new musical, "Aladdin", now playing at the New Amsterdam Theater (214 West 42nd Street). I attended the show on Wednesday evening in the company of my dear friends, the Fabulous Sager Family (and Lady Nina). It was one of the funniest things I've ever had the pleasure of seeing. Afterward, we had the opportunity to meet some members of the cast including Courtney Reed (Jasmin) and Don Darryl Rivera (Iago). They were very nice people. It was a sweet evening.
To order tickets by phone call (855) 870-2717. You will laugh.
posted by Tom Degan @ 7:52 AM
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141 Comments:
1. PREDICTION: This is going to end very tragically.
I agree with you, for different reasons, but the end is going to be tragic.
2. Agree as nothing good comes out of showing the photos. Although I feel your reason has to be compared to your position on showing videos of the attack of 9/11, should the media been allowed to show the photos of the flag draped coffins coming back from Iraq and should photos of Bin Laden's body be shown?
3. Quote of the Obama age, "people do not have the right to unregulated rights in this country" Al Sharpton who has said he will be a consultant in finding AG Holders replacement.
4.I like my duck Pressed.
5. Who are you to say what a Christian should or should not be?
"And a final note to the racist, anti-Semitic "Christians" out there in La La Land: Jesus was a rabbi and He was not a white man."
Did Jesus call himself a Rabbi? Why do you? He was Jewish that's for sure. What human race do those called Semitic belong to? IE: Caucasian, Mongoloid, Negroid, and Australoid.
Jesus was constantly referred to by his disciples as "Rabbi" - for it is written. Honest! Check out the Scriptures!
Anonymous, I think Tom, and many others of us wouold like Christians to at least READ a little of The Jeus bits in the Bible, and stop obsessing on the old testement so much.
And maybe Sharpton said that, maybe he didn't. Either way it doesn't mean it's true.
Btw, by todays political standards, Jesus was a LIBERAL. Oh that gets modern "Christians" going!
Hay Anonymous here's a thought for you, if you can comprehend it.
If ISIS had shot those journalists would we even care? Don't you think they know that by beheading them we will overreact? They have practically "Double dog dared" us to start military action and as we all know, one CANNOT ignore a "double dog dare".
bin Laden once said he didn;'t have to beat the Americans militarily. We would beat ourselves by destroying our economy trying to beat HIM militarily.
Looks like Your boy Bush played right into his hands.
"They tend to refer to these right wing Christians as "religious extremists"; but if you think about it for a minute, that term is the ultimate misnomer. If they were as extreme about Jesus as they would have us believe, they would be spreading His message in EXTREME ways, setting EXTREME examples..."
Spot on, brother. Preach it. My point to DD in the last post... Unfortunately, TBN and the 700 Club is many people's understanding of true Christianity. If it were my only exposure, I'd run away as fast as I could as well... The Osteenification of American evangelicalism saddens me to no end. All those who want to use His name are not His.
Yes Tom I know that's what OTHERS called Him, but that is not what He called Himself. Rabbi is defined as "a Jewish scholar or teacher, especially one who studies or teaches Jewish law, or a person appointed as a Jewish religious leader".
He did not make a claim to be any of those. At age 12 he went to the temple and amazed the elders there with his knowledge of what we call the Old Testament. What amazed them was not that a 12 year old would have this knowledge, but that someone whose father was a carpenter and not a Rabbi, and from Nazareth, (not the center of Judaism IE: the area around Jerusalem), would be so knowledgeable.
Jesus called himself the Son of God and the Son of Man, never Rabbi.
Matthew 16:13-20
13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”
14 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
15 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”
16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
Thanks for you friendly, kind response to my post!
The word Rabbi is a bit esoteric and can take on more or less specific meanings - but really means simply "teacher" - which He was. Though that isn't ALL He was as you point out Anon.
In Tom's context (that it is silly for a person to claim Christianity and be anti-Semitic) I think his use of it was fine... He was very definitely THE Rabbi of Rabbi's in the sense He fully taught and quoted the OT often - as He unveiled His fulfillment of it.
What I find disturbing is when person is anti-Christian AND anti Semitic.
Yes Jesus was a teacher, I just don't believe he was recognized by the Jewish religious leaders as a Rabbi. It is interesting that the disciples told him the people were calling him a prophet. Not all Jews believe in the resurrection of the dead, so I wonder which group of Jews it was who thought he was a prophet who had risen from the dead?
Semitic people are of the Caucasian human race. Which I take to mean that Jesus was not Negroid, or Mongoloid, Asian or Australoid. Tom is of the Caucasian race and he, by the evidence of his photos is "white". So Jesus while most likely have dark skin and eyes, was a Caucasian.
Maybe I'm too literal?
In a newly-released statement, Al Sharpton announced that he and his organization, the National Action Network, were “engaged in immediate conversations with the White House on deliberations over a successor whom we hope will continue in the general direction of Attorney General [Eric] Holder.”
http://www.mediaite.com
"If ISIS had shot those journalists would we even care?
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For sure not as much as those who care about Michael Brown being shot by a police officer.
Tom,
Seeing you in that photo, I am really getting concerned about your mental health.
I know you had your hopes of AmeriKa moving to a socialist Utopia led by the young smooth talking President with no experience who blew a lot of smoke up our asses but turned out to be the biggest flop in US history.
Now that Obama is going to bomb more of the Middle East including Syria that only our arch enemies (Neocon War Hawks Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz) dreamed about bombing, it looks like you have had a breakdown.
Even Dave Dubya will soon be ranting at the innocent people killed by Obama and his new war pigs.
"War Pigs"
Generals gathered in their masses,
just like witches at black masses.
Evil minds that plot destruction,
sorcerers of death's construction.
In the fields the bodies burning,
as the war machine keeps turning.
Death and hatred to mankind,
poisoning their brainwashed minds...Oh lord yeah!
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor
Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait `till their judgement day comes, yeah!
Now in darkness, world stops turning,
as you hear the bodies burning.
No more war pigs of the power,
hand of god has struck the hour.
Day of judgement, god is calling,
on their knees the war pigs crawling.
Begging mercy for their sins,
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings...Oh lord, yeah!
Anonymous, do have any other sources besides a poor man's TMZ?
And there should be 10,000 times the outrage over MIchael Brown. as well as Trayvon Martin.
But we will justify THAT by criminalizing the victim.In a few weeks it will be forgotten in the wake of another shooting rampage. A few people will call for stricter gun control, but they will be shouted down by the gun nuts with NRA polital clout behind them.
One is killed in a WAR ZONE, know ing he could be killed at any second.
The other was walkung the street of an AMerican town, minding his own business until confronted by someone he should have been able to trust. A plice officer.
You tell US which one we should be more outraged over. Now if Brown had beheaded the White cop?
Fox news would be ON it.
"The other was walkung the street of an AMerican town, minding his own business until confronted by someone he should have been able to trust. A plice officer."
Was the "other" the gang banger who stole from and then roughed up that little asian man in his store and broke the eye socket of the police man?
Mozart,
Aren't you the one who said you wouldn't be worried about Muslim until they started beheading Americans here in the USA?
Let's go a bit further with your insight about risks in a war zone vs. the streets of America. The woman who was beheaded at work, is work supposed to be as safe as the street? Was the accused committing a hate crime against women? Your morality over the deaths of fellow humans seems a bit capricious to say the least.
What is your take about people living in New Orleans? They knew it was a location that could be hit by hurricanes, they knew there was a chance of floods from same, but yet they choose to live there even after knowing the risks? More interesting they knew the hurricane was coming. They chose to stay.
Using your example, why should there be any compassion for them?
And finally Mozart, why are you acting alike a troll by not staying on the subject(s) Tom has given? Why are you whining about Bush, again?
Was the "other" the gang banger who stole from and then roughed up that little asian man in his store and broke the eye socket of the police man?
Good question. All evidence and information would tell us this is not true.
The owner clarifies that neither the management of the shop, nor any employee has ever identified Mike Brown as the suspect recorded in the surveillance video.
Broken eye socket, eh? Sounds suspiciously like another con-servative LIE.
Only the hateful racists of the RRBC know the real truth, right?
Theirs is the racism and hate that fuels fascism.
Are you sure it was an actual Muslim? I think it's just a copycat looking for attention. Didn't the guy just get fired? Hell if he'd used a gun you'd be defending him.
As for staying on subject, it's a "random thoughts" blog.
WHO ARE YOUR CONGRESSMEN?
Why are you ducking that question?
Hell if he'd been a Christian and used a gun, you would be attacking him!
"Are you sure it was an actual Muslim? I think it's just a copycat looking for attention".
Sure you do, even in the face of over whelming evidence to the contrary, you will believe anything to avoid admitting you need to change you view about the Islamic threat to America. dailycaller.com/2014/09/26/sharia-law-is-coming-oklahoma-beheader-celebrated-terrorists-disparaged-non-muslims-on-facebook/
Talk about bubble cult!
Words can not express my absolute amazement at how ignorant of reality you are. Who are you to question when a person says they are a Muslim, if they are or not?
Is being fired an excuse for beheading a woman? The killer was black, his victim was white. No justice no peace!
State Rep. Christina “Tita” Ayala, D-Bridgeport, was arrested Friday on 19 voting fraud charges. In the immortal words of Mayor Richard Daily (D) Chicago, vote early and vote often." I think she was just being a Mayor Daily copy cat.
Do you want to blame Bush again or are you finished whining about him for a while?
Stupid Democrats like Tita give Republicans like Chuckie a tingle up their legs.
Yes, State Rep. Christina “Tita” Ayala, D-Bridgeport, was arrested on 19 voting fraud charges. She’s an idiot who should not be representing anybody. And she will never do so again.
It’s a good thing we already had laws against this, right?
Just in case Chuckie thinks Obama crookedly won 19 votes from Tita, we have bad news. He didn’t get a single one of them. Not one of those votes went to Obama. Or to any national office.
The votes were in various Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee elections, a municipal primary election and a state primary election.
And they caught her..even without a Republican Voter ID law.
So, thanks to Chuckie for that tidbit. We liberals, along with Chuckie, agree that this woman should be held accountable if she’s guilty of voting when, or where, she shouldn’t have.
But was Tita’s rampage against humanity and threat to American democracy as dire as the “Islamic threat to America”?
I would hope not, but only Chuckie knows for sure.
Chuckie reports what the “Islamic threat to America” has wrought. Never mind it was not so much terrorism, but murder at the workplace.
Deranged workplace violence isn't really just a Muslim problem.
I’d say this is deranged:
My Ancestors Who Are The True Jews Here In America Today Are Originally From Israel. They Were Bombed Outta Israel By The Roman Catholic Army So They Fled To Egypt And The Afrikans Sold Us To The White Man As Slaves Along With Any Other Black Person Here In Amerika Today Aka The True Jews From Israel.
Yeah, these are not the words of a sane person. I think the real threat here are the results from untreated mental illness and employment termination.
The killer was black, his victim was white. No justice no peace!
Yeah, these are the words that would draw a cheer at a Klan meeting.
Talk about bubble cult!
Indeed.
Anonymous, you must spend your entire life looking up obscure things on whacko websites.
Bush sucked as president, and now you are obsessed with making Obama look bad to cover for it.
Pathetic.
WHO ARE YOUR CONGRESSMEN?
Even Dave Dubya will soon be ranting at the innocent people killed by Obama and his new war pigs.
Chuckie's thoughtful anticipation is quite flattering.
Except I wouldn't be ranting AT the innocent people getting killed.
That's really more Chuckie's line of work. I'm sure he would rant at the innocent victims of war in Gaza...because in Chuckies bubble, there are no innocent Muslims.
That stuff goes over well at Klan meetings too.
"The owner clarifies that neither the management of the shop, nor any employee has ever identified Mike Brown as the suspect recorded in the surveillance video.
Broken eye socket, eh? Sounds suspiciously like another con-servative LIE."
Yes, the facts are settled that Michael Brown was not assaulting the asian man and did not break the eye socket of the policeman. The policeman hired Dirty Harry to break his eye socket immediately after the incident.
Yes, and the facts are also settled with global warming and the Northern Polar cap will soon be gone according to the top global warming, Nobel Prize winning, scientist Al Gore.
Dave Dubya,
Will you join me in an antiwar protest in front of the White House when innocent muslem people begin to be killed in Syria when Obama begins his heavy bombing?
Lets have a big Occupy Movement in front of the white house.
If a Muslim murders in America, liberals claim it's "work place violence". You know like the Ft Hood murders. Now we have the OK "copy cat" beheading and Mozart has his head stuck where the sun doesn't shine, in an attempt to avoid reality. Talk about a cult of denial! Why cant Liberal Humanists accept the truth as found on the murdering Black Muslim's own Face Book? Because it might mean they would have to blame the black guy. Almost makes you wonder if Mozart is a black man the way he defends any criminal action done by the persons from the "community" against their neighbors and whites as being not as bad a something else, somewhere else at some other time.
Reality is that all Muslims want the world to live under Sharia Law, and believe as good Muslims, it is their duty to bring that about. Their methods may differ, but their goal is the same. Must be some "obscure things on whacko websites". Just ask a Muslim, do you believe as a Muslim it is your responsibility to enable Sharia Law to be put in effect every where?
Liberal Humanists will rue the day when Sharia Law comes to their part of the world. And it will as long as Mozart and his kin are more afraid of saying Islam is NOT a religion of peace, than being punished under Sharia Law. Do you know what happens to atheists like you Mozart, under Sharia Law? Look into it when you are not busy surfing your normal sources of liberal hate.
As far as Obama covering for Bush, maybe it was on some "obscure whacko website", but didn't Obama say the war was over when he pulled our troops out of Iraq? Didn't Obama say Al Qaeda was no longer a threat due to HIS leadership for the past 6 years? Didn't Obama call ISIS the JV when he was asked about them as a threat? Didn't Obama draw a line in the sand?
Here's some history for you that might open you eyes to how a real leader leads. But I doubt it can cause you are too busy whining about GWB, but here goes.
JFK after the Bay of Pigs invasion took full responsibility for its failure. He correctly could have blamed the CIA and Eisenhower for the mess he was left with. But as a REAL MAN and being a REAL LEADER, he didn't. Maybe it was his Wacko (BYW that is how the word is spelled)book Profiles In Courage that has something to do with it. BUT Obama today blamed his intelligence officers for the mess he is now in the Middle East..
Ike was prepared to take all the blame if the D Day invasion failed. He wasn't going to blame his weather man or his staff or the troops.
Truman had a plaque on his desk that read, "THE BUCK STOPS HERE", not "I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!"
Real Leadership is not leading from behind or from the golf cart or from Martha's Vineyard.
Reality is that all Muslims want the world to live under Sharia Law, and believe as good Muslims, it is their duty to bring that about. …And they all want to chop off our heads!
Chuckie’s really on a roll with his Klan meeting rants. And he wants us to live in fear of Muslims and Sharia Law. HELP!
Reality is, Chuckie says many things that have little or nothing to do with reality.
Chuckie and his cult generally prefer to ignore reality and embrace their reassuring far Right indoctrination. They don’t want people to know this about them. They also don’t want us to know about this:
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These are among the key findings of a worldwide survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life.
Muslims around the globe have differing understandings of what sharia means in practice…The percentage of Muslims who say they want sharia to be “the official law of the land” varies widely around the world…in many countries where there is strong backing for sharia, most Muslims favor religious freedom for people of other faiths… most supporters of sharia in Pakistan – as in many other countries – think Islamic law should apply only to Muslims… In most countries surveyed, there is considerably less support for severe punishments, such as cutting off the hands of thieves or executing people who convert from Islam to another faith… In most countries where a question about so-called “honor” killings was asked, majorities of Muslims say such killings are never justified. Only in two countries – Afghanistan and Iraq – do majorities condone extra-judicial executions of women who allegedly have shamed their families by engaging in premarital sex or adultery.
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In Afghanistan and Iraq. majorities condone extra-judicial executions of women. What else do they have in common?
Under Bush and Republican "leadership", we fixed them, right?
Tom
#8 Meekness.
Surprise, I disagree with your understanding of the word meek as you explained.
Christ was meek when it came to defending Himself from those who were attacking him, see the transcript between He and Pontius Pilate, but not so in defending others, see His actions at the temple, the feeding of the 5000, the healing of the sick. Pretty aggressive actions that benefited others. He would turn the other check if slapped, but if one of His own was slapped, that was a different story.
Christ knew from the get go what His mission was, He also knew He could stop the trial and execution with just a word. That He choose NOT to is meekness, IE not using His power, rights, position, for His own benefit.
Don't forget that Jesus and his 12 Disciples had money, see Judas Iscariot's job. It would seem that Jesus did not give all of his wealth away. So to assign that requirement to Christians today is simply not correct. Your position does not support higher taxes, anymore that Jesus was against paying any taxes.
While I am not a fan of Pat Robertson (for theological reason) do you know how much he gives away to charity (I don't) and how much he pays in taxes (I don't)? In the realm of today's well known Christians, I would suggest Billy Graham should be the example of how a preacher handles his life and income.
Something you need to remember is just because a person says they are a Christian, doesn't mean that they are. I had a pastor say that when you get to heaven you are going to be more surprised by the people who are not by there, than the people who are. I expect you to apply the same standards that you apply to Pat Robertson to the Kennedy's, Al Gore, V.P Biden, E. Warren, Et al, IE: 90% tax rate, etc.
"they would be demanding a ninety percent tax rate for anyone making over one million dollars a year in order to eliminate poverty in America."
That statement needs to be addressed.
1. Would a 90% tax rate on millionaires do as you claim it would?
2. Is how much a person is taxed or gives away what determines their faith?
3. Is the "Bible Belt" the only place that is opposed to higher taxes?
4. Is there wealth in the rest of the country that favors lower taxes?
5. Why are your standards the ones that should be accepted as the determining factor?
Tom, I think your prejudice towards the south, the Bible Belt and conservative Christians, is showing in that comment.
Here are seven other recent cases of lone wolf Islamic attacks inside the United States in recent years:
Yusuf Ibrahim. In April, 28-year-old Yusuf Ibrahim was indicted for two 2013 beheadings. He allegedly shot 25-year-old Hanny Tawadros and 27-year-old Amgad Konds, then cut off their heads and hands. The two were Egyptian Coptic Christian expatriates.
Faleh Hassan Almaleki. Almaleki killed his daughter, Noor Almaleki, 20, in a parking lot in Phoenix in 2009 after she became “too Westernized” and refused an arranged marriage. He also used his car to assault the mother of Noor’s boyfriend. Ahmed Rehab of the Council on American-Islamic Relations condemned the “domestic violence incident.”
Yaser Said. In 2008, Said allegedly murdered his two daughters after they began dating non-Muslims. He allegedly shot daughters Amina, 18, and Sarah, 17, on January 1, 2008 multiple times after luring them back home to visit their grandmother’s grave. Said is still at large.
Muzzammil Hassan. In 2009, Hassan cut his wife's head off because she filed for divorce against him. He stabbed his wife, Aasiya, some 40 times and then proceeded to decapitate her. Ironically, Hassan founded Bridge TV in 2004, a station dedicated to fighting “the negative stereotype of Muslims post-9/11.”
Mohammed Taheri-azar: In 2006, Taheri-azar drove his car into a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in an attempt to kill Americans in supposed revenge for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Naveed Afzal Haq. Haq attacked the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle in 2006 with a gun, killing a woman and wounding five. The feds didn’t charge him with terrorism; instead, state authorities charged him with murder.
Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad. Muhammad shot and killed an Army soldier at a Little Rock recruiting station in 2010.
First bombing of World Trade Center.
Recent contributions to World Peace by Islam
2014.09.26 (Barawe, Somalia) – A woman who ‘married several husbands’ is buried up to her neck and stoned to death.
2014.09.26 (Ghazni, Afghanistan) – Over one-hundred people are reported killed by an Islamic fundamentalist assault on their villages.
2014.09.25 (Rawalpindi, Pakistan) – A policeman shoots a Christian pastor to death who was in jail for a false charge of blasphemy.
2014.09.24 (Djurdjura, Algeria) – Fundamentalists behead a captured French tourist.
2014.09.23 (Mirpurkhas, Pakistan) – An Ahmadi doctor is brutally murdered in his clinic by Sunni extremists.
2014.09.23 (Sadr City, Iraq) – Sunnis slaughter eighteen Shiites with a car bomb.
Something you need to remember is just because a person says they are a Christian, doesn't mean that they are.
Indeed.
We know them by their fruits. In this case the fetid fruits are LIES and HATE for liberals, Muslims, and the poor, along with their shilling for the servants of mammon.
So “seven other recent cases of lone wolf Islamic attacks” is proof all American Muslims want to kill fellow Americans? That's good enough for Chuckie and the Klan.
But it’s OK, or not worth mentioning, the “Christians” who murder doctors in their church and at their place of work for LEGAL practices.
America’s “Islamic threat” still has a long way to go to catch up with America’s number one government-hating, Christian Right terrorist Tim McVeigh.
Most important here is only "Christian hate" is acceptable, right, Chuckie?
His actions at the temple, the feeding of the 5000, the healing of the sick. Pretty aggressive actions that benefited others..
No, these are not acts of aggression, but liberal acts for social good.
Aggression. What a mindset. Sorry Jesus was not the aggressor. The armies of empires are.
One could imagine a Christian would appreciate the truth when his falsehood is corrected. Reality is that all Muslims want the world to live under Sharia Law, and believe as good Muslims, it is their duty to bring that about.
Chuckie ignores the truth and spreads more hate.
Anonymous, until you learn how the government works, and then stop avaoiding answering questions, you have no credibility here. Instead of admitting yoiu have been wrong, you just run away and change the subject.
WHO ARE YOUR CONGRESSMEN?
Jeez man, you could look it up in 5 minutes. Are you too stupid to even do that?
But then you didn't know that the Senate is part of Congress, so who knows?
Can't happen here because?
British KFC Refuses To Give Customer Hand-Wipes Because Alcohol In Them Violates Sharia Law…
But what does happen here is what happened to Chick Fil A or Duck Dynasty family or what liberals are trying to do to opposition speech, of a bakery if they wont bake a same marriage cake.
What is happening here is Minnesota Muslims Demand Pork-Free Halal Food From Welfare Food Bank.
Strange how if presented with historical factual events, counter to humanist liberalism views of Islam it becomes hate speech. In their opinion that is, as we must never forget that in humanism, there is no right or wrong, there just is. Strange how liberal humanists are now trying to tie Christianity to the KKK. Strange now beheading a co-worker is now called work place violence.
Strange how the act of Tim McVeigh condemns all conservative Christians but the act of Jah'Keem Yisrael does not condemn all Muslims. Strange how the government attack and murder of the people of Waco and Ruby Ridge is forgotten by liberals.
Sharia Law is the answerer to all the problems of the world, submit now and you too can enjoy the benefits of living under Sharia Law.
It's strange how Anonymous can act as though he knows what's going on in the world, and yet not know who his congressmen are, and that the Senate is part of congress.
Every time he's proven wrong, he just moves on to a some other obscure unimportant "news" item he's picked up from Fox news or some other whack job website.
He's clearly deep within "the bubble"
"He's clearly deep within "the bubble"
That is clearly just your opinion Mozart, which does not make it true.
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In their opinion that is, as we must never forget that in humanism, there is no right or wrong, there just is.
Illogical, for we all know that Chuckie is so wrong so often. The above falsehood proves this again.
Strange how the government attack and murder of the people of Waco and Ruby Ridge is forgotten by liberals.
This is a favorite line at Chuckie’s militia meetings.
Strange how liberal humanists are now trying to tie Christianity to the KKK
In Chuckie’s zeal to demonize liberals with hateful lies, he has it completely backwards, of course. The Klan are all self proclaimed “Christians”. THEY tie themselves to Christianity. Not a Jew, Muslim, liberal or atheist in the bunch. LOT’s of Chuckies.
Isn’t it ironic how Chuckie can’t see that a bakery that “wont bake a same marriage cake” and a “British KFC Refuses To Give Customer Hand-Wipes” are both cases of refusing service/business on religious grounds.
Refusing to do business with gays because of religion is the kind of Sharia Law that Chuckie likes.
I'm sure we can think of other areas of agreement between Chuckie and many Muslims. I would safely predict subordination of women, homophobia, denial of evolution, etc. are all part of Chuckie's Sharia Law.
None of these are humanist beliefs or sane Christian values.
Chuckie, and the Muslims he hates, are more alike than Chuckie knows.
He’s all about the bigotry, hate, and ignorance that the worst elements that some Muslims and so-called Christians embrace.
Chuckie’s “Christian Hate” reminds us that “Gott Mitt Uns” (God With Us) was the motto worn by Hitler’s Wehrmacht as they spread fascism across Europe.
Theirs is the hate that has, and continues, to fuel fascism.
"The rest of us"
You are there with him and the rest of his screen names. No "opinion" your responses make it obvious. No amount of facts can get through to you people. You just keep bringing the same tired old crap you always do, no matter how many times you are proven wrong.
Do YOU know who YOUR congressmen are?
Anonymous doesn't, but then HE doesn't even know that the Senate is part of congress.
"we all know"
Ah yes the imperial we, from who else, The Hall Monitor and Head Janitor of the Blogosphere, Dave Duyba.
As if his opinions are the only ones allowed. Such liberal royalty, such self centered conceit, such hate filled language towards anyone who dares to prick his bubble cult of liberal faux reality.
List a few of these "hateful lies", for us Dave. Tell me what you think the advantages of living under Sharia law will be for you vs what you have now? You won't last a month saying what you do about Christianity and Christians if you said the same about Islam. So enjoy your freedom in Eastern MI while you can. Because you live in the state with the largest percentage of Muslims, Michigan. Maybe that explains your pro Islam statements, you are afraid to say anything negative about Islam. Or your real name is
Ayuba Suleiman Diallo.
I love how Anonymous defends the nutbags at Ruby ridge and WACO. Randy Weaver ignored LEGAL WARRENTS and holed up in his little mountain "compoud" and sent as pregnant woman out to face the officers.
The Branch Dividians were just one more example of religion causing problems. They were stockpiling weapons and hand grenades! Koresh hid behind children. (the same ones he was molesting and raping) Even his own mother thought he was nuts. THEY TOLD THE POLICE AND THE MEDIA THAT THEY WOULD SET FIRE TO THE COMPOUND IF ANYONE TRIED TO BREAK THROUGH. Of course, Fox news and their dittoheaded audience blamed Clinton.
ANonymous, do you whine about Fox news when they push their agenda by saying "Americans are saying..." or "It's been said that..." or various other versioins of "We consider our tiny litle base to be "everyone who matters".
Where do YOU live Anonymous? Here's betting you can't even anser that question. You don't know that the Senate is part of Congress. You can't name your representatives in Washington DC.
Here's betting you aren't even an American.
List a few of these "hateful lies", for us Dave.
I already have indicated, and debunked, the lies.
Try reading my comments, sport. I bet you hated seeing that Pew Survey that reveals your ignorance and lies about Muslims. And how you, and so many Muslims you hate, share certain Shari Law values.
We know you and your conservative Sharia gang have no use for liberals or democracy at all.
"Or your real name is Ayuba Suleiman Diallo".
That MUST be it. LOL!!!
I always felt that conservatives would be more at home in the Middle East
Everyone including children (well, the males anyway) carry guns
Women have no rights.
Religion runs the show.
Sounds like a conservative wet dream to me.
There is no "plan to stop Shaira law" because there is no danger outside the paranoid minds at Fox news of it ever actually being implemented here.
Anonymous, until you can tell us who your congressmen are, you need to shut up. Clearly you have no idea how the American government works, probably because you are not an American.
Christians here would LOVE to have women back in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant. Just listen to the polititians and Fox news pundits talk about them.
And your PARANOIA is not going over well. You look like even more of a MORON than usual, and that's going some.
RELIGION runs the show in the Middle East, and given the slightest chance conservatives would have the same thing here. "Christian" or otherwise, it wouldn't make much difference.
ALL Religion MUST eventually be eliminated. EDUCATION is a good place to start. Anonymous, you might try high school. At least you'd learn that the Senate is part of Congress.
There he goes again.
Chuckie’s spewing his rage, resentments, and willful ignorance. As I truthfully noted, he’s deliberately ignoring the Pew survey. Why is that, we wonder? LOL!!
"Oh I see, liberals...blither blather sputter spew”
Every time Chuckie snorts out, “Oh I see”, he doesn't. He doesn't see ANYTHING real about liberals. All he has are the demonized images and hate in his brainwashed, willfully ignorant head.
And he just HAS to throw out another false wild accusation. You both claim morals are subjective or situational, that there are no absolutes, except that which you claim to be so.
Chuckie can add another LIE to that list he demanded, along with his other accusation and lie, ”Explains why abortion is ok as a form of birth control” I certainly never said such a thing, but his Cult tells him this.
….Say, what makes Chuckie an expert on “Sharia Law” anyway? LOL.
Time for Chuckie’s famous Right Wing Projection:
Christianity does not run the show in America. But you are afraid it will.
Followed by:
So what is your plan to stop the institution of Sharai Law in the USA?
Obviously Chuckie is the person who is afraid, or merely selling fear of a BIG LIE about “Sharai Law in the USA”.
Oh, and thank the founders for the wisdom to Constitutionally assure “Christianity does not run the show in America”. Theocracy is diametrically opposed to democracy. No wonder the Right loves it.
What rights are Christians taking away from women?
How about we start with the right to NOT bear the child of a rapist?
"There is no "plan to stop Shaira law" because there is no danger outside the paranoid minds at Fox news of it ever actually being implemented here."
Tell that to the lady who lost her head to a Muslim. Tell that to the food pantries in MN.
"Christians here would LOVE to have women back in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant."
Have you completely lost all touch with reality and have gone totally insane? How many politicians have you asked, how many hours of Fox News have you watched to support that comment? My bet would be ZERO! Prove me wrong by giving the names of the politicians you have asked, and the shows you have watched on Fox news.
You can't because you are a liar, who will stop at nothing to spread your message of liberal lies and hate.
"RELIGION runs the show in the Middle East, and given the slightest chance conservatives would have the same thing here. "Christian" or otherwise, it wouldn't make much difference.
ALL Religion MUST eventually be eliminated"
America, this is the soul of today's liberal.
Mozart,
You are disgusting.
I feel dirty every time I post after you.
P.S. Hell will freeze before you I tell you anything about my personal life. You are so deranged and demented I consider giving any information that you could use to locate my home would be inviting a home invasion by you. You lack any sense of morality other than that which you declare as moral.
Anyone who holds your beliefs is that dangerous.
Anonymous, that guy was no more a "muslim" than you are. He was just a wannabe who got pissed off after losing his job. The whole beheading thing was the same as the ones in the Middle east it's to get us all freaked out and overreact. Hell, if he'd shot that woman he'd be an afterthought on the local news. If he shot and killed a dozen people he MIGHT have been an item on the national news for a couple days. Then the NRA would be out doing PR on all the talk shows saying "Guns don't kill people..."
And all you have to do is look at how conservatives think based on their deeds and words to see how they feel about women. Hobby Lobby refusing to carry insurance that covers Female birth control, Rush Limbaughs's comments about Sandra Fluke being a "slut", GOP refusing to pass equal pay for equal work bills, GOP polititians saying that in cases of "legitimate rape" (is there another kind?) a woman can't get pregnant because he body "shuts down". There are dozens more.
Oh and YES religion should be banned because it's the cause of 90% of all wars, much of all discrimination, and it gets in the way of human progress.
Oh, and I'm surprised it took you so long to come up with an EXCUSE why you have been too cowardly to answer the question you asked ME. WHO ARE YOUR CONGRESSMEN) I answered you honestly and immediately. You chickened out and made a lame assed excuse.
If you find me "dangerous" you really are paranoid. You represent conservatives well though. Keep living in fear. Serves you right.
As for you "feeling dirty" that's your personal problem. Have you considered therapy?
"You are so deranged and demented I consider giving any information that you could use to locate my home would be inviting a home invasion by you."
Sorry, I just had to read that again with my own eyes.
Me too Tom, me too. When I was asked if I knew who my congressmen were, I answered immediately. He's been ducking that question for months now.
Can you believe the excuse he came up with? Incredible.
Mozart, I've already corrected that ignorant statement about religion being the cause of 90% of wars. You either missed it or failed to comprehend it. It is a false statement.
Provide the back up.
Also, obviously, Anon was not ACTUALLY afraid of Mozart. It was a joke - in my reading.
In reality, Mozart's fetish with this question has become tired. Mozart doesn't control what question a person wants to answer. No body has to follow his little control ploy. It is sophomoric. And, this whole blog has been ruined by ignorant nonsense like this. It needs to improve or I'm about to move on...
that guy was no more a "muslim" than you are. He was just a wannabe who got pissed off after losing his job. The whole beheading thing was the same as the ones in the Middle east it's to get us all freaked out and overreact. Hell, if he'd shot that woman he'd be an afterthought on the local news. If he shot and killed a dozen people he MIGHT have been an item on the national news for a couple days. Then the NRA would be out doing PR on all the talk shows saying "Guns don't kill people..."
ANOTHER TOTAL LIE and LIBERAL FABRICATION FROM MOZART.
5 weeks until the midterms, Mozart do you know who your new Congressman will be?
GOP refusing to pass equal pay for equal work bills
Tell that to the female staff working in the OBAMA white house.
Define Slut for me Mozart and then review the number of sexual partners Ms. Fluke claimed to have had.
"Hobby Lobby refusing to carry insurance that covers Female birth control"
SOME birth control, not all birth control.But then I forget, you have no standards of morality to be held to.
Jokes on you Mozart.
Harley, You don't do yourself any favors defending Anonymous, and yes, 90% of ALL wars are over RELIGION. And if Anonymous is going to ask questions he should not be too much of a COWARD to answer them himself.
Anonymous, you have yet to actualy prove me wrong about anything. Namecalling is not going to get it done. I stand by everything I've said 100%.
Obama has no authority over what people are paid in the White House.
And if you are calling Sandra Fluke a "Slut" then you are not worthy of any human respect. I doubt you have had even one sexual partner other than your best friend "Rosey". My "Morality" says that a man who gets caught coming home with bags full of black market Viagra (Limbaugh) has nothing to say about Ms. Fluke.
Harley,
Anon was not ACTUALLY afraid of Mozart. It was a joke - in my reading.
That could be true. Sociopaths "joke" too. And Rush Limbaugh is a hate spewing "comedian" for Right Wing authoritarian types.
From Chuckie, good faith discussion is out of the question. He’s on a mission you know. His purpose is to disrupt and antagonize by any lie possible. He rejects all facts that disprove his lies, proving again his scorn for fair dialogue.
Everything Chuckie says could be one long, sick hateful joke. But he does indicate living in fear of “American Sharia Law”, and now his fear of Mozart for asking the SAME question he demanded of Mozart. This, and his complete ignorance of liberal thought and Muslim people have been made clear. Hate and fear are far more consistent in his words than humor, I’m afraid.
But if you get the joke, that’s great.
"...and, yes, 90% of all wars are over religion" is not back up. It is an unfounded (and wrong) assertion.
Here is what back up looks like...
(in response to the same claim by you from the last topic)
CUT AND PASTED...
"How many wars fought and how many people dead in the name of religion?
Pretty much all of them if the truth be told." - Mozart
Another piece of made-up nonsense devoid of even superficial critical thought.
American Revolution, French Revolution, Napoleonic imperial aggression, American Civil War, German Nazi Aggression, Soviet Communist Revolution, Chinese Communist Revolution, Korea, Vietnam, all wars fought in the 20th century for the most part. All of which account for FAR more death than former wars combined. An atheistic foundation played a large role in some of these, in fact. 20th century was the bloodiest EVER and virtually none accounted for due to "religion".
DD
"He rejects all facts that disprove his lies, proving again his scorn for fair dialogue."
You just described Mozart.
"He rejects all facts that disprove his lies, proving again his scorn for fair dialogue."
You just described Mozart.
Ah, Anonymous is only joking, and clearly Mozart is not?
Interesting.
Learn something new every day.
“ISIS is a threat that must be stopped,” Braley(d) said during a debate Sunday in Iowa for Senate . “Anytime American citizens are attacked by a terrorist group, they need to be brought to justice or to the grave.”
Who didn't get the message abut ISIS threat to Americans, Braley of Mozart?
Fair challenge.
Mozart, if you were joking about 90% of wars being cause by "religion", please correct me...
Anon was not ACTUALLY afraid of Mozart. It was a joke - in my reading.
Why not ask him as well? Why not give them both the benefit of the doubt?
And while we’re at it, let’s ask our fearful, or comical, buddy about his fear, ignorance, and hate of liberals, Muslims, “socialism”, safety nets, and healthcare.
Maybe it’s all a big joke?
I think he he really is frightened.
If half the things he utters were true, I'd be afraid too. As it is, I'm more afraid of the hate and willful ignorance he shares with hid cult of true believers.
See if responds. Remember your point that he "agreed" with? Let's try it again.
Who agrees with Harley and me on this?
In reality, "the market" or "markets" are a social structure made up of the same flawed men as government. Modern laissez-faire capitalist proponents seem to me to have almost a Darwinian approach and go too far, stretching credulity. I truly think more (and better) regulation (in the banking industry for example) would have headed off some of the pain this world will some day endure - within the next 5 years most likely. Crooked banking, offshoring of middle-class manufacturing jobs, corporations owning politicians, and other factors could have been better managed for our country's well-being. Reasonable and right-minded regulation would have been better for us in hindsight.
I think we have to be intellectually honest... do our markets today really appear to be "free"? Not to me. They appear to be in the control of a very few central planners made up of western banking interests.
What do think he's going to do? (I'd bet he will continue ignoring this altogether, like he did the Pew Survey.)
ISIS Bans Teaching Evolution In Schools
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/isis-bans-evolution-schools
Do Chuckie and his fellow religious fanatics see eye to eye on yet ANOTHER issue?
How "Sharia" of them.
And, say for argument's sake that what Anon said (about fearing Mozart's intentions) was highly offensive or anti-social.
How does that rank on the anti-social scale compared to "all religion must be eliminated eventually"?
So, forgive me if after reading Tom's retort of "having to read that again with my own eyes" I rolled my eyes so hard they nearly fell out of my head.
Please. I'm not impressed.
And, say for argument's sake that what Anon said (about fearing Mozart's intentions) was highly offensive or anti-social.
How does that rank on the anti-social scale compared to "all religion must be eliminated eventually"?
It's a matter of degree and sample selection, isn't it? Chuckie has made broad and false generalizations about liberals, too many to count, and about all Muslims wanting execute us under "Sharia law", hasn't he?
Yes, some Muslims want to kill us and some wars were religion fueled.
Both of these generalizations reflect fear over fact. Neither were jokes, by the way. Chuckie was just up to his usual double standards of demanding answers for which he was unwilling to reciprocate.
I'm surprise you didn't notice this.
Does he still agree with your statement that I supported? Was he joking when he agreed? Why do you suppose he can't bring himself to agree with you when I do?
The question remains unanswered. Good faith discussion has been scorned.
I could offer some theories and show identical behavior patterns exhibited by other hard core partisans.
Well Gee Harley, lets see how about EVERY war in the Middle east from the CRUSADES until the constant conflict whe've known there.(REALLY, NONE of 20th century wars over religion?) There's a start. The Catholics and protestant have been going at it for centuries. WWI and WWII were geopolitical to start with but in WWII Hitlers main gripe was the JEWS. Keep digging into almost any war and you will find some sort of religious nonsense. Our Revolution had as much to do with NOT wanting to be mandetory members of the Anglican Church as any other reason, which is WHY there is a Separation of Church and State in the FIRST AMENDMENT of our constitution. Communists are known to be Atheists as you Neocons are so fond of pointing out, and if you look at more than the McNuggets of history you will fing that ALL wars started by the "Commies" were in part to rid us of religion. ( they didn't like sharing power with a God)
Napoleon thought it was his "God given destiny" to rule at least Europe (Read his bigraphy)
On top of all that, the KKK considers it's self a "Christian" organization, as do most of the "militias" that are out there playing army on the mountains HOPING for an apopcolypse so they can "set the country right".
So my statement STANDS as usual. Dihg past the surface(which conservatives never do) of almost ANY war, and you find religion.
"Onward Christian SOLDIERS, marching as to WAR"
It's even in the songs.
I also stand by my statement that all religion must someday be eliminated. It won't even have to be an overt act. Right now more and more young people are either rejecting or giving up religion because in the 21st century it's just too ignorant and silly to believe in such nonsense.
Mozart, your revisionism is appalling and laughable. You dig and find what you want to find - not the truth. Certainly not a defense for your silly assertion.
The World Wars had nothing to do with religion. Hitler's hatred of Jews was informed by nationalism and complex and perverse (and not completely understood) Nietszchean/Darwinian construct of races. He was not a religious man. The American, French and October revolutions were not religious wars.
Your understand of separation of church and state is off-base, too. That came into being more at the behest of the church than it did the state. The rationale was more to protect the church from the state than vice-versa.
Your assessment of religion is fueled by your hatred of it - and it fuels your flawed perspective on history with regard to it. You don't objectively assess it - that is clear.
Truth be told, ideologies closely linked with atheism fueled more killing in the 20th century than all the wars previous put together - religious wars included.
First American case of Ebola announced today.
Blame Bush
Occupy Member Arrested For Threatening To Bomb University, Rape And Decapitate Female Students
The charges of making bomb threats and sending threatening communications were filed against Derrick Dawon Burns, 21, on Thursday but sealed until his arrest, a release from the U.S. Attorney Stephen R. Wigginton said. Burns is being held without bond pending a hearing Wednesday in Chicago.
Postal workers discovered seven handwritten letters in postal sorting machines and collection boxes titled “The War on SIUC” or “The War on SIU,” court documents say. Another letter was directed to the FBI, and university police, staff, and students. “These letters collectively included various threats to rape and murder, to blow up buildings, and to cause major damage to property,” according to court documents.
One letter included threats to rape and decapitate female students, and said, “Give me $50 million or SIU is history,” court documents say.
“It’s going to be very hard to make a new world for yourself if Wall Street continues doing what they’re doing,” said protestor Derrick Burns, an SIU Freshman. “I was part of Occupy Chicago…I carried a sign, and on the back of the sign it said ‘the American government and Wall Street will hear from all of us soon’, and that’s true because you cannot keep treating people you serve this way.”
Totally a set up by the white racist justice system. Burns is black and therefore is justified due to the burning rage blacks feel because the first black candidate for President was defeated. Ah, wait a minute, its because as a black man, he doesn't have access to higher education. Nope it's because no one is listening to the black men today, people are afraid of them. Oops, his rage is because he spend quality time with Mozart on how to deal with whites, Christians and conservatives. That's it! He was exposed to the hate and rage of Mozart's liberalism.
So we can't blame HIM cause he is just a innocent victim of Mozart's aura.
Or maybe he was just a copy cat?
Harley,
Your assessment of religion is fueled by your hatred of it - and it fuels your flawed perspective on history with regard to it. You don't objectively assess it - that is clear.
And if we substitute "liberalism" or "Islam" for "religion", we have described Chuckie.
I think we've helped each other out here, Harley.
Just as I predicted, we are met with silence on our agreement with your points. He must really hate me.
Notice how he MUST ignore so many truths to adhere to his extremist ideology. I know Muslims more enlightened and less hateful than Chuckie. I wouldn't be surprised if Chuckie yearns for a "final solution" for Muslims that is far deadlier than Mozart's desire to see religion relegated to history. After all, he seems to believe all Muslims want to chop off his ignorant, hateful little head. He even came up with a Muslim name for me. Wasn't that sweet?
Hitler's hatred of Jews was informed by nationalism and complex and perverse (and not completely understood) Nietszchean/Darwinian construct of races.
Hitler was not that complex. He was a White Supremacist "Master-racist". And as a fascist, he needed scapegoats. Never mind German Jews fought and bled at his side in the First World War. The same is true for the American radical Right. Liberals have fought and died for this country, yet are demonized and made scapegoats by our own homegrown Reich Wing. The fascist Chuckies of America need their scapegoats too.
This is why his is the hate that fuels fascism.
"Mozart, your revisionism is appalling and laughable. You dig and find what you want to find - not the truth. Certainly not a defense for your silly assertion."
Wow, how ironic thet you accuse ME of that when it has been your alter ego (Anonymous) tactic for as long as I have read this blog.
As fr my "revisionism" I satn by it because like I said if you dig beyong the "McNuggets" of history one learns in High School you will find letters and essays by the founders where they DEFINITELY didn't want religion involved in the lawmaking process. They wanted law based on FACTS not subjective interpretations of a Bible most of them did not wholey believe in. Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin were particulary against any form of religion attached to the government.
As for Anonymous, no one Blames Bush for Ebola, but since we have cured every case that's come near us and thousands of others in Africa, I'm not as worried about that one as many others are. It's just one more "We are ALL going to DIE!!!" tactic used by the media to improve ratings. Kind of like all the "Shingles" commercials out there. As for ther "Beheading" thing. I aleady predicted and explained the reasons for that problem. People know it freaks us out. They know it wil get our attention. That's ALL it is. If they shoot people instead of beheading no one cares anymore. The NRA even defends it.
BTW, I do not "hate religion". I hate peole who use it as a weapon aginst those they simply don't like.
If a person's faith helps them through the tough times, providing confort or confidence, I'm all for it.
But too may times especialy in THIS country it's used as a weapon against women, Gays, people of other faiths (like Muslims)or as a way to keep REAL HISTORY out of our classrooms, not to mention the real threat from radical Islam. THAT is the problem, and it would be best to just get rid of religion altogether. All it's really doing is holding back human progress. I have been trying to find the name of the book I read in shchhol, where this guy took all the times "The Church" stifled human learniing (Like with Galileo)hand he hypothosized that had there been no church involvement in scientific research, we could have landed on the Moon as early as the late 1700's. Obviously not proveable, but an interesting read.
Dave Dubya,
You are one of those morons that gets pissy about the distinction between socialist, Marxist, communist etc. but still call America a democracy.
Just Say'n.
You've got to hand it to Dave Dubya for his shear, raw loyalty to the black socialist cause.
Man, Dave has a gift. We could sit Dave down and show him a surveillance camera footage of Obama murdering an 80 year old woman, and Dave would say something to defend it.
Dave: "Clearly Obama is not committing murder here on this tape. It's self-defense."
But, Dave, she was an unarmed, 80 year old woman.
Dave: "Yes, but she was a white woman. And she triggered a flashback in Obama's mind. See, when Obama was a tender college age man, an 80 year old white woman told him to stop smoking pot on her lawn, or she would call the police."
Dave, that's not self defense.
Dave: "Yes, it is. She made him feel racially inferior. And, she implied that blacks have a disproportionate rate of drug addiction, and that hurt Obama's feelings. It was self defense."
Dave, you're my favorite obama the clown ass kisser. Keep up the good work.
Harry, you just typed a lot for nothing. Dave has criticized Obama numerous times, you just were not paying attention.
James,
Why is Obama bombing Syria. Have they found any "nukular aluminum tubes" there?
YAHOO NEWS – The US Marine Corps plans to deploy 2,300 troops to the Middle East for a new unit designed to quickly respond to crises in the volatile region, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
See, just like Obama told us, there will not be boots on the ground in this not a war vs ISIS.
This just in!
The Marines being sent will not be boots on the ground, they will be levitating under the spell of Obama's mere awesomeness.
"Let me make this perfectly clear" is what Obama says before his next lie.
Man, you gotta hand it to Anonymous (and all his other screen names)
He never gives up,no matter how many times he's made to look like a complete moron.
"But too may times especialy in THIS country it's used as a weapon against women, Gays, people of other faiths (like Muslims)or as a way to keep REAL HISTORY out of our classrooms, not to mention the real threat from radical Islam. THAT is the problem, and it would be best to just get rid of religion altogether. All it's really doing is holding back human progress. I have been trying to find the name of the book I read in shchhol, where this guy took all the times "The Church" stifled human learniing (Like with Galileo)hand he hypothosized that had there been no church involvement in scientific research, we could have landed on the Moon as early as the late 1700's. Obviously not proveable, but an interesting read."
Interesting to me that you have turned a discussion about the existence of a Creator into a polemic against Christianity. Well, if you ever find anything more about "the guy" please let me know - sounds like some fun reading.
Clearly you have not studied (beyond the surface sound bites atheists love to trot out) the Galileo situation. Some (if not many) of the churchmen had no big issues with his science - they were more concerned about his admitted desire to turn himself into a philosopher/theologian and engage in what they saw as unfounded and unwarranted innovation in what they considered their domain. Had he left off with his scientific theory he'd have not been entangled.
What you say about being used as a weapon against women is a lie and a myth. Christianity (since this is primarily what you desire to attack it is clear) actually elevated the status of women. Christ clearly taught (and practiced) a way that treated women as ontological equals with men in a society that did not. And, to hold to an understanding of abortion as being a heinous act is not aimed at denigrating women. Your charge about rape is an aim to use the extreme difficult case to define the subject - as is typical by someone who cannot or will not honestly engage a debate. It is childish. No one is saying there aren't difficult cases that present moral conundrums - and we can deal with those. It would be like me using Dr. Gosnell and proclaiming that the face of abortion, which I have never done. But could.
It is clear to me from reading your revisionism that YOU are guilty of internal revisionism no less that a religious adherent. It is false in every sense of the word that Christians ONLY are guilty of historical slant. As I commented on the Roosevelt documentary, it is darn near impossible for any historian to be 100% unbiased. For a person to ignore the parallel impact that Christianity had along with the Renaissance and Enlightenment in the rise of Western culture is willfully ignorant. Both the modern university as well as modern healthcare were heavily influence - if not downright created by - Christianity. And that's not to say there weren't other influences. But, to dismiss the role of Christians is ridiculous.
And, for Tom to allow you to talk about stamping out all religion and not comment leaves me scratching my head about his purposes in the blog. I'm really honestly wondering if this thing isn't a sham or a shell game of sorts.
Why is Obama bombing Syria?
It's what managers of militarist corporatist empires do.
And maybe, just maybe, because Bush invaded Iraq over fictional “connections” between Saddam and al-Qaeda, and fictional “nukular”, aluminum tubes?. Only RRBC cult idiots believe there were no negative consequences for a war for crony profit and political gain.
How's that Iraqi Freedom workin out for ya?
And isn't it a fact that BUSH agreed to withdraw after Iraqis insisted?
Why, yes. That is a fact.
So the following are facts as well.
Obama wouldn't have put them there in the first place, and was merely following the withdrawal agreement BUSH signed.
But what does it matter? The con-servative cult of hate would condemn Obama for whatever he does or does not do. If he employs the military, he is condemned. If he doesn't, he is still condemned by the same hateful authoritarians.
These facts have been proven by Chuckie.
Theirs is the hate that fuels fascism.
That the Bush administration signed the status-of-forces agreement that included U.S. troops’ leaving at the end of 2011, is utterly meaningless: The agreement was supposed to be renegotiated eventually, to provide a long-term presence with U.S. troops in a different role. That’s why the Obama administration, however half-heartedly and with little regard for the fate of Iraq, did try to renegotiate it. And it’s why the Maliki government was open to these negotiations — the situation on the ground was very different in 2011 than it had been when Bush signed the agreement in 2008.
Yes this blog is a shell game.
On MSNBC’s Hardball last night, host Chris Matthews tussled with Obamacare architect Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel over the how serious a threat Ebola is to Americans. Matthews and Emanuel also spared over President Obama saying it was “unlikely” that an Ebola case would strike the U.S.
“Obama said it was unlikely. It has happened. It’s here,” Matthews said.
Dr. Emanuel said there is some “FEAR MONGERING” going on here, but Matthews said he was just quoting the president and stating facts.
Whole lot of FEAR MONGERING going on out there when Obama's words are held up to reality.
...And here it comes. Blame the Black Guy for Ebola.
As expected.
That the Bush administration signed the status-of-forces agreement that included U.S. troops’ leaving at the end of 2011, is utterly meaningless.
This blame the black guy stuff is what it utterly meaningless, except for the fascistic hate of writer. Nothing is ever Bush’s fault.
That’s why the Obama administration, however half-heartedly and with little regard for the fate of Iraq, did try to renegotiate it.
It takes two parties for an agreement. This projection indicates Obama DID try something, but no agreement was reached. Iraqis learned from the Republicans to NEVER COMPROMISE with Obama.
And it’s why the Maliki government was open to these negotiations
This is yet another lie. Yawn.
An agreement failed over Iraqi opposition to giving American troops legal immunity that would shield them from Iraqi prosecution. Legal protection for U.S. troops has always angered everyday Iraqis who saw it as simply a way for the Americans to run roughshod over the country, as Bush’s occupying legions and Blackwater thugs demonstrated.
Time Magazine: 10-21-11
But ending the U.S. troop presence in Iraq was an overwhelmingly popular demand among Iraqis, and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki appears to have been unwilling to take the political risk of extending it. While he was inclined to see a small number of American soldiers stay behind to continue mentoring Iraqi forces, the likes of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, on whose support Maliki's ruling coalition depends, were having none of it. Even the Obama Administration's plan to keep some 3,000 trainers behind failed because the Iraqis were unwilling to grant them the legal immunity from local prosecution that is common to SOF agreements in most countries where U.S. forces are based.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/world/middleeast/29iraq.html?pagewanted=all
July 2008:
Bombers and Ethnic Clashes Kill 61 in Iraq
How’s that Iraqi Freedom workin out for ya?
The easily predicted civil war was going on when BUSH signed the SOFA agreement.
Better blame the Black guy and liberals. It’s the fascist thing to do.
Looks like Chris Mathews is blaming the black guy for the failure to prevent the first Ebola case in America.
How dare Mathews try to hold Obama, the black guy, to his own words? What kind of closet racist is Mathews anyway? Surely if anyone knows by now that what the black guys says isn't necessarily what he means, it has to be Mathews who has been carry Obama's water almost as much as Mozart has for the past 6 years..
When the black guy blames Bush for something, is it he telling the truth? Or is he lying? When the black guy blames his intelligence staff for not advising him of the growth of ISIS, could that be a lie?
One thing for sure, if you point out a lie from the black guy, GWB is going to catch hell for something. It's a liberal humanist thing, you wouldn't understand.
Now this may be the largest LIE I've ever read here.
"Iraqis learned from the Republicans to NEVER COMPROMISE with Obama."
Most adults work to fix problems, liberals work to fix blame.
Oh yeah, their hate fuels their fascism, what a crock of crap coming from the prison janitor who know crap when he has to clean to clean it up.
Iraqis learned from the Republicans to NEVER COMPROMISE with Obama.
Or could it be the Iraqis realized they were negotiating with a spineless amateur who was driven by his poll numbers instead of doing what was best for his country?
Nah, the Iraqis aren't smart enough to figure that out.
Gotta love anonymous, WHINING about Obama FULFILLING AN AGREEMENT MADE BY BUSH!
Jeez...
And Ebola is going to be like "bird flu"...much ado about nothing. In Africa, where treatment is difficult if not non existant, it's fatal. So far we have managed to cure everyone who's contracted it that we can reach and treat.
Anyone REALLY frightened by the commercials about shingles?
"IF YOU HAVE HAD CHICKEN POX THIS VIRUS IS ALREADY IN YOUR BODY!!!"
I recently had a colonoscopy, as all men my age should have. They found polyps that while NOT cancerous, were the type that often are. The doctor, while bitching about how Obamacare is making HIS life more difficult because he himself has to fill out his own paperwork, also said that the colonoscopy MIGHT have saved my life.
I couldn't resist telling him that the ONLY reason I was able to have it was BECAUSE Obamacare allowed me to afford the insurance that covered it, and wasn't a little extra paperwork on HIS part worth my life?
The look on his face was priceless.
Insults and whining from Anonymous to follow...
"Iraqis learned from the Republicans to NEVER COMPROMISE with Obama."
Biggest lie? It's up against a lot of competition. Like this: If a Muslim murders in America, liberals claim it's "work place violence".
Yeah, you see, if it happens in the workplace, whether terrorism or not, it's workplace violence.
If it's bombing or shooting elsewhere it could be terrorism.
Complicated?
Well, let me attach a "Maybe" to that. "Maybe Iraqis learned from the Republicans to NEVER COMPROMISE with Obama". Better?
Unlike Republicans, adults always compromise when two parties set out to solve a problem.
Republicans DO NOT COMPROMISE. Their only interests are tax cuts and sweetheart deals for the rich, and cuts in safety nets for the jobless.
Good thing for them they have talk radio and FOX(R) to promote their agenda, along with a legion of ignorant and resentful shills like Chuckie.
"I recently had a colonoscopy."
Not going to touch that with a ten foot hose. Sometimes Mozart makes it just too easy.
I predicted that one didn't I? Anonymous could not resist the childish schoolyard comment. Man, I play him like a $2 banjo.
He DID however completely disregard the point of my post, but then he always did have an aversion to logical adult conversation.
WHO ARE YOUR CONGRESSMEN?
Bet you don't know. More likely is you have none because you aren't an American.
"Well, let me attach a "Maybe" to that."
Nope no mulligans for you allowed. You said it you own it.
See Mozart for example of how this works.
Didn't knew Chris Matthews was on Fox News Network.
The express on your doctors face was in reaction to the lies that come out of your mouth
Anonymous, who asked for a "mulligan"? I always stand by MY statements.
DO YOU?
I have you completely figured out, of course that took about 3 minutes. You are not incredibly "deep".
Nope no mulligans for you allowed. says the resident authoritarian rule maker with double standards.
Chuckie has no actual authority for his dictatorial actions, of course.
It's the American way to be anti-authoritarian and progressive. The Colonial era conservatives preferred to remain subjects of the Crown.
Questioning authoritarians is the first step to free thought and adaptation to new facts and information.
Cons are convinced they already have ALL the answers, so they have no need to question their authoritarian masters.They are good authoritarian followers. (Read John Dean's book, "Conservatives without Conscience" for a clear study of the Right Wing Authoritarian Personality.)
For the radical Right, it's, "Full speed down the track to power and wealth for the masters, and ruin for the rest of the country. For we do not question our leaders and never reconsider anything whatsoever".
This explains why we will see another economic collapse and failure of deregulated capitalism when they seize power again. The lessons of history have been repeated enough to know.
It is so accommodating for Chuckie to display his classic authoritarian personality and its utter devotion to dogma and ideology. Always "Right", seldom correct.
This is a perfect example of the mechanism that allows their dismissal of truth. The con-servative mentality must adhere to its dogma, no matter the facts. No admission for error. No corrections for error. And no accountability for error.
And no mulligans.
We can thank Chuckie for this insight into the Right Wing authoritarian personality.
The sooner more Americans wake up to these guys the better off we all will be. For they want nothing short of a one-party dictatorship.
It's the authoritarian way.
Read "Conservatives Without Conscience" and you will better understand how the enemies of democracy operate.
Then why did Dave request a change in what he said, if he ALWAYS stands by what he said?
In between your job duties look up Eric Allen Bell's "Why I do not hate Muslims."
Argentina’s President Says America Tried To Assassinate Her.
Blame Bush!
"This explains why we will see"
More of the Imperial We from the man (?) whose ego is almost as large as Obama's.
Anonymous, I think you need to put down the crack pipe.
While you are at it, stop being such a coward and answer the question you asked me.
WHO ARE YOUR CONGRESSMEN?
I think its good timing with the Ebola outbreak on our open southern border of the US.
It may be the issue that sticks for the Democrats to beat the GOP this November!
Taking into account that there is NO EBOLA anywhere in the western hemisphere, and also that the recent case in Dallas flew here from Africa LEGALLY, your comment about "open borders" is just plain STOOPUD. BTW, Your Messiah Ronald reragan (cue the heavenly choirs) wanted TOTAL AMNESTY, and the "Dream act" was first concieved under his administration, and promoted by BOTH Bush's. PLus, I notice you conservatives nenver mention closing the CANADIAN border, nor have I heard any discussion about increased pressure to keep out "illegals" from Europe or Asia (Of which there are currently more than 5 million). Maybe it's because they have money and WHITE skin?
Oh, and the only "issue" keeping Democrats from taking both the House and Senate is GERRYMANDERING along with disenfranchising as many Dem voters as possible.
Mozart,
WHO WILL BE YOUR CONGRESSMEN?
"NO EBOLA anywhere in the western hemisphere"
BUT...........
There is a case in Dallas.......
Who ever is paying you to post here Mozart is paying too much.
But...THE PERSON FLEW IN FROM AFRICA, AND HE'S IN ISOLATION. Besides, we can cure it. Only the media thinks it's an emergency.
Anonymous, Maybe you could at least TRY to comprehend simple concepts. It's just so sad how you seem to be so stupid.
My Congressmen will be whomever wins the election. The Republicans have the House districts pretty much gerrymandered in their favor, but Braley is a good bet to beat Joni Ernst.
Now WO ARE YOUR CURRENT CONGRESSMEN?
Until you answer that simple question, you really have no right to expect anyone to answer yours, but I'm trying to keep this conversation in good faith.
"WO are my"
Are wou making fun of my speech impediment, wou wacist wou?
"Only the media thinks it's an emergency."
Like the media thought if you liked your dr. you could keep him. That you would save $2500 a year in insurance costs (failing to note that the reason is someone else is picking up part of the tab) that there were 57 states, there was a line in the sand? You mean that media?
And you have no right to the money I earn that!
" but Braley is a good bet to beat Joni Ernst'
Whose poll are you basing that belief on?
"Let me be real frank to the Dallas County residents: The fact that we have one confirmed case, there may be another case that is a close associate with this particular patient," he said. "So this is real. There should be a concern, but it's contained to the specific family members and close friends at this moment."
Not sure whether I'd use the word "emergency" just yet, but "very concerning" would seem to be appropriate.
Tom knows that EITHER of the Roosevelt boys would have locked down our country for a period of time from receiving individuals from affected areas. At least they would have implemented SOME MEASURE of controls vs. announcing we're all okay - don't worry. Turns out running the country is more difficult that "community organization".
“If they’re not lying, they are grossly incompetent,” said Mobley, a microbiologist and emergency trauma physician from Springfield, Mo.
Mobley said the CDC is “sugar-coating” the risk of the virus spreading in the United States.
“For them to say last week that the likelihood of importing an Ebola case was extremely small was a real bad call,” he said.
“Once this disease consumes every third world country, as surely it will, because they lack the same basic infrastructure as Sierra Leone and Liberia, at that point, we will be importing clusters of Ebola on a daily basis,” Mobley predicted. “That will overwhelm any advanced country’s ability to contain the clusters in isolation and quarantine. That spells bad news.”
Mozart loves sugar coated news as long as a Democrat is in office.
This will be the official liberal response to the midterm elections if they lose Congress.
1. Voter suppression
2. They were out spent
3. Media too conservative
4. Voters where not well informed.
5. GOP lied a whole lot
6. Voters are stupid
7. GOP stole the election
8. GERRYMANDERING
9. And disenfranchising as many Dem voters as possible.
Never will it be address that maybe, just maybe, the voters at least for this election are tired of Democrat not keeping their promises, and lies, and it's refusal to stop playing the blame game.
What is really interesting is Mozart claim that it's fear mongering that's causing the Ebola problem, and it's the media and it's fear mongering that is causing the trend for Americans to not trust Muslims. But ignores the fear mongering done by the left in support of Obamacare.
It is telling that on Ebola at least, Obama has lost Chris Mathews. Obama has lost liberal Eric Allen Bell on Islam threat to America. See Bell's book "Why I do not hate Muslims."
Anonymous, you just can't let go of things that are already debunked. Typical conservative.
WHO ARE YOUR CONGRESSMEN?
Until you answer that I will no longer answer any of your questions.
Did anyone see the question that Mozart claims he was asked? In fact there isn't a question mark in the entire post.
Odd, very odd.
However, Obama has lost Chris Mathews,
Eric Allen Bell and now Piers Morgan.
Morgan, the ex-CNN talk show host, wrote on Wednesday, his first story as editor-at-large for the Daily Mail.
“A slapdash Secret Service detail isn’t what’s wrong with the White House — the real scandal is a President who is so complacent about protecting Americans,” the headline blares.
Piers predicts that now that President Obama went on “60 Minutes” and distanced himself from U.S. national intelligence agencies on the rapid spread of ISIS, he’s guaranteed himself leaks to the media for the remainder of his presidency.
“A more shameless, reprehensible display of buck-passing it would be hard to find from a sitting President,” he wrote.
Obama in IL Northwestern Univ, calls the Ebola, "eboli" If Sarah Palin said that, she'd be made fun of 24/7
Al Sharpton reminded his MSNBC viewers Wednesday night that it was the beginning of “National Breast Awareness Month.”
Of course, Sharpton meant National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
It was a rare slip-up for the reverend.
Obama Mispronounces Name of the 'Choctaw' Nation.
Thank goodness English is their native tongue
Mozart,
"Cedar Rapids and Iowa City schools have seen an increasing number of immigrant and refugee families over the past few years. Schools continue to have a significant number of Spanish speakers but are noticing a GROWTH in ARABIC, Swahili and languages from several African countries.
They're here!
Anonymous,
I'm sure thats what the Indians said when we showed up.
This country was built by immigrants. Stop being such a bigot.
"Iraqis learned from the Republicans to NEVER COMPROMISE with Obama."
Wow Dave Dubya. Its really getting thick in here. I may start wearing my hip boots when visiting Tom's blog from now on!
So Cindy (Anonymous) What was wrong with Dave's statement. I notice they you never provided any evidence that he was wrong.
Fear mongering NBC!
An American freelancing for NBC News in Liberia has tested positive for the Ebola virus, the news network announced Thursday.
The 33-year-old cameraman started showing symptoms of the virus on Wednesday — one day after hired as a second cameraman for NBC News Chief Medical Editor and Correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman.
The man, whose name is being withheld at his family’s request, had been working in Liberia for the past three years before contracting the virus, according to NBC.
"This country was built by immigrants. Stop being such a bigot."
Immigrants that were legal, not ones who entered the country illegally.
Big difference, unless obeying the law makes one a bigot?
FDR continued the policy of having closed borders to any immigration until the wave of legal immigrant from the previous turn of the century has assimilated into the American culture. That makes FDR a bigot?
Another Gaffe: Obama Calls Holder’s Doctor Wife An “Obi Gynee”…
Smartest president on our history!
Hey, if you have any complaints you can send them to "1400 Pennsylvania Ave."
Oh, and ask an Indian if they though we were "legal immigrants" when we ran them off ther land and killed 90% of them in the process.
The Obama administration has quietly scrapped plans to enact sweeping new federal quarantine regulations that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention touted four years ago as critical to protecting Americans from dangerous diseases spread by travelers.
The regulations, proposed in 2005 during the Bush administration amid fears of avian flu, would have given the federal government additional powers to detain sick airline passengers and those exposed to certain diseases.
This at the same time Obama is ignoring our immigration laws. He really hates America.
Which Native American tribe should I ask Mozart, you racist?
"The Obama administration has quietly scrapped plans to enact sweeping new federal quarantine regulations that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention touted four years ago as critical to protecting Americans from dangerous diseases spread by travelers."
"Quietly" in other words, this was such a covert action on the administration's part that only the most paranoid of right wing bloggers has noticed it.
Tell me, just where do you get your information from. Thin air?
"Immigrants that were legal, not ones who entered the country illegally.
Big difference, unless obeying the law makes one a bigot."
Really? Can you tell me who made it "legal" for the English, Dutch and Spanish immigrants to settle Virginia, New York and California?
I don't recall the people who were already here giving them the ok.
BTW, they were immigrants too, just much earlier, by about 12,000 years.
Currently, over a hundred lawsuits have been filed against Obamacare - and Obamacare has lost 91% of the cases decided to-date, (71 losses out of 78 decisions)
But the important thing is not the law, but that Mozart get's help from the rest of us in paying for his health care insurance.
Anon -
Folks like to equivocate on the immigration issue. The logic seemingly is that the loosely organized and culturally primitive natives the first Europeans immigrants encountered were foolish and naïve enough (not to mention given to the same kinds of greed and compromise as any human) to trust us. So, we should be as naïve and trusting and eventually be overrun as well? There are MANY differences between the two situations. And, the legality issue is obvious. They didn't have codified laws for immigration - the concept didn't exist in their framework. It does in ours. They didn't conceptualize of a global community. We understood that from the beginning. More could be said. I say this only to say it isn't a reasonable comparison and really has little validity or application towards our situation.
The basic point is well taken, but I swear, I don't get where the logic is supposed to take us?
Thin air? Not quite Tom..
You know that far right wing Fascist news organization, USA Today.
Say De_Bill, what were the Native Americans immigration laws that settlers from Europe broke when they came here?
Just asking?
Say De_Bill, what were the Native Americans immigration laws that settlers from Europe broke when they came here?
No law, no harm, no foul?
The settlers broke their own "sharia", or Biblical, laws. Thou shalt not kill and Thou shalt not steal, being the two most obvious.
Chuckie's moral relativism ignores this fact.
In the RRBC, morals and justice don't seem to apply for whites' actions against non-whites. It would also grant complete legal immunity, without accountability to the public, for their corporate "persons" pollution and other criminal behavior.
Just as white persons are superior to non-white persons, corporate "persons" are superior to flesh and blood humans.
This is the fascistic, de-humanizing and demonizing nature of the Radical Right Bubble Cult.
Isn't that right Chuckie?
We’re sure Chuckie’s getting a tingle up his leg blaming Obama for Ebola.
Chuckie’s upset about more regulations not being imposed? What about his precious “small government” he wants to dismantle? Yeah, we all know Chuckie is a hypocrite. It was unpopular with both the ACLU and corporate interests. It had to go. Nuff said.
For the rest of the story:
The Air Transport Association had decried them as imposing "unprecedented" regulations on airlines at costs they couldn't afford. "We think that the CDC was right to withdraw the proposed rule," association spokeswoman Elizabeth Merida said Thursday.
Even in the Bush administration, some were skeptical of the CDC's 2005 proposal, said Stewart Baker, assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security from 2005 to 2009. "There were a lot of questions about how plausible it was to treat airports as a place where you could stop and inspect and quarantine people," Baker said Thursday.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-04-01-quarantine_N.htm
"we all know"
Ah yes, the return of the IMPERIAL WE.
What is the "IMPERIAL WE" anyway?
In this case, "we" are everybody but poor little Chuckie.
No wonder he has an identity complex.
LOL!
Anonymous, please explain how I am the racist when I am admitting we stole the land from the Indians? BTW, there are no "Native Americans." Even the Indians came from Siberia via the Alleutian land bridge.
It's like the term "AFrican AMerican". 99% of Black people have never been to Africa. I have a friend who was BORN in South Africa to American parents but since he has white skin and red hair he can't put "African American" on the form. You, as a batshit conservative should be the first one to want to just call peole "Americans".
But then hypocricy is your default position isn't it?
ANonymous, considering that nearly 40 MILLION people have participated in the ACA now, "nearly 100" lawsuits is pretty much nonexistant by comparison.
As for "the rest of you" paying for MY healthcare, let me remind you that Hitt Romney LOVED this law when he used it to great popularity and siccess in Massechusetts, because oit "got the deadbeats to pay their own way"
See, when a person who is sick ends up in the hospital and can't pay the bill, THAT STATE PAYS IT. Which means "the rest of us" are covering the ENTIRE COST.
The ACA provides people like me (self employed and no group plan available) and poor people to at least pay SOME of their own insurance premiums. It's a sliding scale based on income. It IS subsidised by taxes but it's cheaper to the taxpayer than before. Also, people like me (you know the "Takers") can get to doctors for PREVENTATIVE CARE which is cheaper in the long run that waiting until, in my case, they have full blown Cancer.
Of course, ALL you know about "Obamacare" is what Fox news spoon feeds you. You don't want to know the FACTS.
The FACTS are that the VAST Majority of people who actually participate in this plan (many of them conservatives) LOVE IT.
Hopefully soon we will move past it to a "Single payer" system like the rest of the civillized world, removing profit from our healthcare system.
HAIL SOCIALISM!!! (at least in some areas)
Mozart,
So, first, thank you for ridiculing what the poster was trying to do - which is use the commonly accepted "politically correct" and sensitive label for the remaining people on this continent with predominantly "native" blood. Who, by the way, desire the distinction in most cases.
I'm assuming since you are so sensitive to accuracy in naming conventions, that you believe (as did the first explorers) that we actually are living now in India. I did not know that about you. That's a really strange belief - can't say as I've run across that before. Actually, we found out later on it was a wholly different land mass. We call it North America today.
The entire issue (of the Indian Mongolian Native long ago North American land mass peoples) is a red herring. It has NOTHING to do with the issue of today's immigration issues. NOTHING.
What's not to love, when someone else is picking up your tab.
Those subsidies might be a problem for you Mozart come tax time 2015. Good luck and when all else fails, blame Bush, or Romney or the Tea Party or Fox News or Limbaugh, or BIG RX or BIG OIL, or just about any other organization that humanist socialists like your self blame for all the problems in our country. One day, when you beloved socialism, you dreamed of nanny state is bankrupt, who will you blame then?
"Single payer" system like the rest of the "civillized" world, removing profit from our healthcare system."
You mean like in Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela? Health care is a business, a private business, or it was. It is not a service promised by the Constitutional. Nor is it a right promised by the Constitution.
"The FACTS are that the VAST Majority of people who actually participate in this plan (many of them conservatives) LOVE IT." Share with us Mozart, your source of these FACTS.
I'm not fan of KISS, or for that matter the heavy metal music scene. But I've always respected Gene Simmons of KISS for his straight forward, out spoken views of what America HAD to offer and what liberalism HAS done to that offer. If you are able to watch a repeat of Dan Rather's "The Big Interview" on AXS TV, do so. At least the shows last half hour. Simmons says it so much better than I ever could.
Single payer system…
You mean like in Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela? Health care is a business, a private business, or it was. It is not a service promised by the Constitutional. Nor is it a right promised by the Constitution.
So far Right and so far WRONG, Chuckie at his finest.
You mean like in Cuba… Chuckie LOVES to conflate health care with communism. They need to do this in their cult to frighten people.
Health care is a business, (Yes), a private business, (Not always), or it was. (No, still is.)
And if health care is not a right, then everyone in Europe and Canada have more rights than we do. Why does Chuckie hate human health care rights?
It’s a good thing smarter people than Chuckie understand the Constitutional provision for the general welfare.
Health care is a service provided for the general welfare, which is Constitutional according to the Supreme Court. Yes, from Medicare to Obamacare. So Chuckie can stuff it with his wrong-headed ideas of the Constitution.
Chuckie’s gonna hate and ignore this: John Adams and other Founders instituted tax funded, government run health care.
Oh, yes, that would make them commies by Chuckie’s RRBC purity standards.
Even the founders taxed for health care.
Somebody better lecture John Adams on the Constitution. Apparently he and other Founders were some of those socialists for government mandated health care. Yes, the disturbing news is out. In 1798 the 5th Congress passed, and Adams signed, "An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seaman" into law. Thomas Jefferson was the President of the Senate during the 5th Congress while Jonathan Dayton, the youngest man to sign the United States Constitution, was the Speaker of the House.
The act provided for the Federal Government to build and run hospitals for sick and injured seamen. It was paid for by taxing the sailors.
Let this sink in. Adams and other Founders instituted tax funded, government run health care.
Harley, I am sure your dental plan is in order so I have no qualms about saying ...
BITE ME
There is no such thing as a "native" American since no one is "native" to this continent. I'm sure you are on board 100% with the NFL Team from Washington DC calling themselves the "Redskins"
You mentioend only a FEW countries that have non profit healthcare, but I noticed you left out zGewrmany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Canada, and many others that rate WAY above us in the quality of healthcare. Maybe in the USA it's always been "for profit, and maybe conservatives like you think only the rich should have access to it, but thankfully, your kind is dying off and a more "CHristian" ethic is slowly taking over. Remember, Jesus healed the sick FOR FREE.
My source of the "facts " is the growing number of people signing up for the ACA (At least in states that allow it)
I noticed you neglected to mention Romney's success with this same plan in Massechusetts. Go figure.
75% of Republicans signed up for "Obamacare" are satisfied with their plans, and 78% of people overall. I'd call that a "vast" majority.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/republicans-like-obamacare-commonwealth-fund
How about some of YOUR sources since you never seem to provide them.
Have you figured out who your congressmen are yet?
I Meant to address Anonymous about the countries that have non profit healthcare. Harley would NEVER oppose everyuone having access to healthcare would you Harley?
"The FACTS are that the VAST Majority of people who actually participate in this plan (many of them conservatives) LOVE IT." Share with us Mozart, your source of these FACTS.
The White House released a statement Friday condemning the beheading of UK citizen Alan Henning by ISIS, also referred to as ISIL.
"Mr. Henning worked to help improve the lives of the Syrian people and his death is a great loss for them, for his family and the people of the United Kingdom," the statement said.
"Standing together with our UK friends and allies, we will work to bring the perpetrators of Alan's murder -- as well as the murders of Jim Foley, Steven Sotloff and David Haines -- to justice. Standing together with a broad coalition of allies and partners, we will continue taking decisive action to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL."
Obama reportedly was headed for the East Potomac Golf Course upon notification of the event and was heard to say "My condolences to Alan's family but there is no skin off my ass, its time to play some golf!"
Anonymous, I gave you a source, you are just unwilling (more likely unable) to read and comprehend it.
TELL US WHO YOUR CONGRESSMEN ARE.
Your other post (under the disquise of "CNN news" ) is just childish "Limbaughesque" nonsense.
I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary.
He knows exactly how smart he is. . . .
He knows how perceptive he is.
He knows what a good reader of people he is.
And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. . . .
So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. . . .
He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.
LOL VALERIE. THE WORLDS SMARTEST MAN HAD TO SEAL HIS ACADEMIC RECORDS.
WHAT A FUCKING JOKE OBAMA HAS TURNED OUT TO BE.
DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO GET MASSACRED NEXT MONTH.
MOZART HOW MANY SENATE SEATS DOES THE GOP NEED TO OVERRIDE A PRESIDENTIAL VETO YOU DUMB FUCK?
Obama has not sealed his acedemic records. They are off limits to the public in the same way yours and mine are. In fact if you check you'll find that Obama's first EO was to make Presidential records MORE avaliable, recinding one by George W. Bush making them harder to access.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepresidentandcabinet/a/obamas-first-executive-order.htm
And Anonymous, the "child" was "Dubya" who's Daddy had to get him every job he had, all of which he failed miserably at. (including POTUS)
Obama is in fact a highly intelligent thoughtful man, and that GALLS conservatives, who try and project all of Bush's failures upon Obama to hide their embarrassment over Bush.
Now Anonymous, WHO ARE YOUR CONGRESSMEN?
Oh and Valerie (Anonymous)I answered that question in another blog a long tome ago.
But do keep up the insults. It proves you have no actual facts and you know it.
I give Obama credit for bringing in lots of illegals who will end up being loyal Democrat voters in the future.
If they bring in a few 3rd World diseases that we have no immunity to, it's a small price to pay for turning America into a broken-down, defenseless nanny state that elects Democrats at every turn.
Ebola is just icing on the cake.
Thanks, Barack.
Mozart my marxist friend,
Obama is letting illegals from Central America come in and then the feds are putting them on planes and buses and shipping them all over the country.
They may well be bringing in stuff that we seldom if ever see up here in the Developed World.
From what I've heard, part of the function of Ellis Island was to hold people to see if they were healthy or not.
What kind of banana republic is just open to any and all who want to come anyway?
I fully understand that the left wants as many Hispanics as possible to sneak across our borders so they can later vote Democrat, but what about the good of the country?
It is becoming so obvious that even the low-information Kardashian voters are starting to notice that you guys could care less about the welfare of Americans.
Michael (Anonymous)
Get well soon. And tell Rush we said Hi.
The Commonwealth Fund underwrote a considerable part of the research underlying the development of the reforms in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, and reports of its Commission on a High Performance Health System (1995–2013) helped inform the debate leading up to this landmark legislation.
They are the ones who did the poll Mozart is quoting. Kind of like quoting a FOX News poll, right?
Chris Matthews: Didn’t Obama tell us it was “unlikely” Ebola would come to America?
Didn't Obama claim Al Qaeda was defeated and no longer a threat?
Didn't Obama tell us Islam was major thread in American's history?
Didn't Obama call ISIS the J.V.?
Didn't Obama draw a line in the sand in Syria?
Didn't Obama tell us we could keep our Dr if we liked them, Period?
Obama is in fact a highly intelligent thoughtful man, who has told us he is basically lazy.
Can we blame the black guy who brought the FIRST case of EBOLA into America?
Have you ever seen the movie "The Twelve Monkeys"? Great flick.
Still hanging on to your statement that all of this is just media fear mongering? Like when the media said there were 35 million, 40 million, 47 million Americans who did not health insurance? That wasn't fear mongering? How many Americans still dont have health insurance today?
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HAIL SOCIALISM!!! (at least in some areas" Why not in all areas?
Anonymous, when you answer the ONE question put ypou you, maybe someone will answer yours.
Besides, most of them have been answered and/or debunked, and the rest are just plai STUPID.
But I will say this. PURE Socialism wouldn't work anymore than PURE Capitalism does. We need ideas from both areas depending on the situation, but I'm sure that's beyond your grade school comprehention.
Who has pure capitalism?
"Harley, I am sure your dental plan is in order so I have no qualms about saying ...
BITE ME"
Clever.
"But do keep up the insults. It proves you have no actual facts and you know it." - Mozart
"BITE ME." - Mozart
Sounds like a syllogism in the making...
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