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Muslim ads on county buses drive Jewish group to protest
Well, first of all, that's nothing like what Barney Frank says, but what's a little accuracy among neofascists? One of the things I love about right-wing zombies is that they bray incessantly about "personal responsibility " - and then when they screw up, they implode into an orgy of finger pointing and won't accept any responsibility themselves. (Jan 21, 2009 | post #273)
Investigator: Heart-shaped sticker was put on duct tape coverin...
Just out of curiosity, Is Nancy Grace aware that there are other things going on in the world (I mean, she does have access to the CNN newsroom), or is she determined to make her fortune by beating this story into subatomic particulata? Why not just call it "The Caylee Anthony Hour with your Host, Nancy Grace." (Jan 21, 2009 | post #640)
Uggla exchanges salary figures with Marlins
Still just as charming as ever with those gratuitous insults, eh? Even though you try to hide your lack of breeding behind dirty t-shirts, torn jeans and three-day stubble, I guess it just breaks through sometimes and you can't help it. (Jan 21, 2009 | post #27)
First Orders of Business: Obama freezes Bush regulations, procl...
Boy, what a vomit of perpetually retreaded right wing cliches and festival of ignorance, stupidity and paranoia this thread has been. Look, I share your horror at the idea of everyone being able to afford medical coverage, being assured that their kids or elderly family members won't starve if their key breadwinners lose their jobs or are hurt or become seriously ill, allowing medical science to be able to attack intractable diseases and syndromes without the interference of infantile religiosity, being able to drink tapwater without wondering how long it'll take for the metastasis to unfurl, being provided with other options for maintaining themselves instead of turning to crime in their desperation to survive in a society already pathologically awash in cheap guns. Yes, all these horrors and more are constantly on my mind and are keeping me awake at night. But take heart - I'm sure there's still enough selfishness, cupidity, bigotry and sheer stupidity among us so that we'll find a way to keep it all from happening. (Jan 21, 2009 | post #117)
First Orders of Business: Obama freezes Bush regulations, procl...
Sounds to me like you forgot to take your prozac this morning. I'll bet that Jesus appeared to you on a tortilla and told you to write all that. (Jan 21, 2009 | post #107)
Muslim ads on county buses drive Jewish group to protest
Menorah. But when you're transliterating out of Hebrew it's no big deal. Sure, as far as I can tell an advertisement on the side of a bus where anyone else, within reason, can pay to advertise is not a religious display in the same sense that a manger or menorah sitting on the front lawn of a courthouse or city hall, with the sponsorship of the polity in question, is. And not being a lawyer (although cursed much of my professional life to have had to employ them frequently), I don't know that the side of a bus used to advertise is quite the same thing as a courthouse lawn in the jurisprudence on this issue. It gets even more confused if, in fact, the ads are managed by a contracting advertising agency and not by the municipality itself. If the agency has preempted the space, it might become a restraint of trade issue if the municipality tried to restrict them from selling space to a perfectly legal entity - which, like their religion, politics or anything else about them or not, the organization in question remains. All this aside, "church and state" isn't really what's at issue here, even though I am aware that this and my preceding post are in response to your justifiably raising that issue. Those protesting the ads aren't concerned about legal niceties for the most part. For them, the real issue is the cycle of bigotry that sets one faith with its delusions of exclusive divine approbation against another faith with the same delusions about itself. This incredibly juvenile tug of war over who "owns" a bunch of guys who have been dead for a minimum of about two thousand years is a ridiculous case in point. Still, given the bottomless complexity of human nature, no one ever said these were simple issues. It would be nice if all superstition were to disappear once and for all. But since that won't happen, the only thing that guarantees that we'll be able to wallow in either my superstition or yours to our heart's content is to let the other guy wallow in his own as well. (Jan 21, 2009 | post #268)
George W. Bush's legacy: A warning not to insulate or isolate
No one who's been a regular here needs to be reminded of my contempt for Bush and his coterie of thugs, crooks and liars. I think, though, that it's being overlooked that his placement of African Americans in high profile positions of immense responsibility contributed something to the softening of racial attitudes and perhaps even made Obama's election possible in the first place. True, Colin Powell feels ashamed of his role in the Bush Administration now, and Condi Rice was a major architect of some of Bush's biggest foreign policy disasters. Nevertheless, we became accustomed to seeing Black Americans operating close to our centers of power and I'd be very surprised if that didn't make a difference in November. (Jan 21, 2009 | post #84)
Uggla exchanges salary figures with Marlins
Whereas it's true that Uggla has gone to two all-star games, it's a fair bet that he wishes he had stayed home for the last one. His season nosedived after that. In any even what's out there that's better? If he concentrates on cutting down his strikeouts and putting the ball in play more often, he'll be as potent an offensive second baseman as anyone in the game. His fielding? We-l-l-l, that's another thing.... (Jan 21, 2009 | post #22)
Barack Obama's mother-in-law will move to White House for trial...
I don't think Barack obama should feel obligated to be any happier about this than I would if I were in his place. (Jan 21, 2009 | post #1258)
Cuban Jews react to Obama's intentions
Let's hope Obama moves quickly to throw out Bush's cruel and stupid travel and remittance restrictions first, then begins ridding us of the failed legacy of 50 years of a mindless embargo that has accomplished absolutely nothing - except to reinforce Castro's regime and legitimize his complaint about American arrogance. Half a century of failure may not strike some relict right wing Cubans as evidence of ineffectuality, but for the rest of us, that much futility kind calls for a big change. (Jan 21, 2009 | post #1)
Muslim ads on county buses drive Jewish group to protest
The bus system sells advertising space; it doesn't sponsor or promote the point of view being expressed thereon, so the principle doesn't apply. To discriminate against its customers on the basis of religion, however, would indeed be illegal. I'm pretty sure I've seen some pro-life advertising on the buses from time to time as well. Much as I disagree with them, their sponsors have the same right to buy the space as the Islamic organizations do. Meanwhile, I find nothing offensive whatsoever about those ads. Anyway, if the aggrieved parties feel that these Islamic advertisers have "stolen" their patriarchs, they're a little late. Islam has revered them since its inception, so you've got, what, about fourteen hundred years of catching up to do. Anyway, what if our hoary forebears have been stolen? It was costing us a fortune to keep those silly old myths on life support. Depending on whether you're Jewish or Christian, we've had between thirty five hundred to two thousand years to advance to much more sophisticated and far less xenophobic views of other faiths. It sure likes like a squandered opportunity to me. (Jan 21, 2009 | post #262)
Margate tired of retrieving sunken cars for free
Why not just initiate an incentive program to get everyone back into Volkswagen beetles? Hell, if Teddy Kennedy drove one, he would have been President. (Jan 21, 2009 | post #72)
Obama set to undertake six-city whistle-stop tour to nation's c...
Most likely because the stench from the mess he made - not to mention the mess itself - will still be with us for quite some time yet. (Jan 21, 2009 | post #459)
Obama set to undertake six-city whistle-stop tour to nation's c...
I suspect that will only be true of those homeschooled **** , evangelical zombies and professional neoconmen who lapsed into their protracted vegetative states before the last election. (Jan 21, 2009 | post #458)
Obama's inauguration, speech one for history books
Ah, our Virtual Village Idiot is still kicking the corpse of the late unlamented Bush administration, hoping more of his cliche-ridden right wing hyperboles will drop out like maggots before the historians go to work on it. Yeah, I recall one night Shrub swung past me in his ninja costume on his way to break up yet another fearsome terror plot, but three out of the four planes hit before he figured out that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time yet again. So, in place of losing another four thousand plus citizens in New York, he sent them over to Iraq to be killed there. I think he said something like, "we're getting them killed over there because it's more glorious than getting them killed over here," and we can take something like a quarter of a million Iraqi merchants, farmers, cab drivers, housewives, students, doctors, janitors and so forth with us to enhance our glory. Well, if you listened to anything besides the sound of your own repetitive voice belching your usual platitudes, you could have heard the sighs of relief around the world - especially among our allies - that our war criminal in chief has been disenfranchised from the triggers he was always so happy to pull and that his own mini-Gulag at Guantanamo is being dismantled at last. Happen to notice the nearly three million people crammed into Washington to celebrate yesterday? Sure you did, and no doubt this predictably exaggerated, bilious blog of yours was your way of chewing your knuckles over it in public. (Jan 21, 2009 | post #11)
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