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Shbobdb posted:Dude, it is a well known fact that if Stephen hawking had grown up in a country like England he would have been denied care and that would have deprived the world of his genius.
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FuzzySkinner posted:This. I'm not a great bible guy; could you give me the chapter and verse? I'd like to look at it.
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Dec 25, 2013 08:16
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Grand Prize Winner posted:I'm not a great bible guy; could you give me the chapter and verse? I'd like to look at it. Matt 8:5-13 and Luke 7:1-10. There's some debate about translation. It could be about a gay couple, or it could be about a "soldier and his "slave". Knowing Jesus' penchant for dealing with hated/corrupt Tax collectors (Zacchaeus), Prostitutes (Mary Magdalene), and other people that were generally rejected by hardcore members of the Jewish faith at the time, I like to believe it's the former. Jesus would be HATED by Republicans. He was for Wealth Distribution (Loaves and Fishes), and Free Healthcare (Healing the sick who were generally poor) after all  .
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Dec 25, 2013 08:37
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Dr. Faustus posted:That is an excellent point, and suddenly I wonder how many other breakthroughs he either have, or could have, lost because of such denial of care and loss of life. Investor's Business Daily had an excellent editorial about how Hawking would have surely died if he lived in some socialist hell hole like the UK. I can't seem to find it on their site now?
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Beowulfs_Ghost posted:Investor's Business Daily had an excellent editorial about how Hawking would have surely died if he lived in some socialist hell hole like the UK. I can't seem to find it on their site now? It's since been corrected. edit: this was the article that originally said that, though Kilty Monroe fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Dec 25, 2013 |
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Dec 25, 2013 08:47
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Sorry, I was a little misleading by accident: I meant to say, "That is an excellent point, and suddenly I wonder how many other breakthroughs WE either have, or could have, lost because of such denial of care and loss of life." I didn't mean to make the comment specific to Dr. Hawking.
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Dec 25, 2013 08:58
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Dr. Faustus posted:Sorry, I was a little misleading by accident: Haven't you been reading the thread? It doesn't loving matter what you say as long as it's from the heart*! *only if your heart is white, Christian and rich of course
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beatlegs posted:she's been enabled by the media, which is who I blame because without them there to fluff her up she'd be utterly irrelevent. She rose to the governorship of Alaska without being a darling of conservomedia through a lot of backstabbing and betrayal combined with effective use of her charisma and blatant corruption ( like effectively giving the governors plane to a campaign contributor for a retardedly low price after campaigning against government excess then spending more money than the plane cost to travel around her state while doing her job ). Don't rob her of agency. She knows what she is doing as well as any of them. Nobody gives rush a pass for being "enabled" by the adulation and money thrown at him.
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Dec 25, 2013 18:35
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FuzzySkinner posted:Matt 8:5-13 and Luke 7:1-10. No, they would love Jesus. Just not the one from the bible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK7gI5lMB7M
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This article is from 2011, so she might be different now, but there's an interesting history of Sarah Palin included: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/06/the-tragedy-of-sarah-palin/308492/?single_page=true quote:Palin came out hard on the other side of the philosophical divide from Murkowski—and made it personal. She announced she would challenge him for governor. She assailed the “secret gas line deal” and the “multinational oil companies that make mind-boggling profits off resources owned by all Alaskans.” She put an “all-Alaska” pipeline at the center of her campaign. And she declared her intention to hire Tom Irwin to negotiate the deal. “She’s what I call ‘alley-cat smart,’” Tony Knowles, the former Democratic governor, told me. “It’s not about ideology. She knows how to pick her way down the political route that she feels will be the most beneficial to what she wants to do.”
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clockwork sundial posted:This article is from 2011, so she might be different now, but there's an interesting history of Sarah Palin included: That's probably just more the general tendency of people on the right to have some fairly progressive economic views until they hear how the team's supposed to feel.
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The answer is right therequote:She knows how to pick her way down the political route that she feels will be the most beneficial to what she wants to do. Evidenced by the fact that after she had to go home after the circus of a national campaign that transformed her into a cartoon character, she said gently caress this place and cashed in on celebrity.
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Dr.Zeppelin posted:That's probably just more the general tendency of people on the right to have some fairly progressive economic views until they hear how Fixed that there.
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quote:...assailed the “secret gas line deal” and the “multinational oil companies that make mind-boggling profits off resources owned by all... Free market loving Republican politician, or third world socialist firebrand? By now, some one must have made some little web based game that is just cropped quotes and a choice of attributing it to seemingly polar opposite political personalities.
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Beowulfs_Ghost posted:Free market loving Republican politician, or third world socialist firebrand? Or soulless parasite seeking personal gain off the engine of middle America's bigotry and xenophobia?
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So the former, then
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I know he's not seen as being "right-wing" in the American press, but Piers Morgan is a total wanker, so everyone should feel happy watching him getting pelted by cricket balls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ePx61TkXKY
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Dec 27, 2013 18:52
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So Duck Dynasty will continue with Phil's suspension ending: http://www.deadline.com/2013/12/a-duck-dynasty-to-resume-filming-in-spring/ Can't wait for the usual suspects to claim we won 
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Ah, so after initially not firing him, they've decided to not fire him. A shocking turn of events indeed.
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Vertical Lime posted:So Duck Dynasty will continue with Phil's suspension ending: Michael Medved called it a "watershed moment in the culture war" and generally took the whole thing way too seriously. Did anyone on the left really care about it one way or the other?
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Republicans posted:Michael Medved called it a "watershed moment in the culture war" and generally took the whole thing way too seriously.
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Republicans posted:Michael Medved called it a "watershed moment in the culture war" and generally took the whole thing way too seriously. Not those who were smart enough to realize he's a character and not a real person.
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Republicans posted:Michael Medved called it a "watershed moment in the culture war" and generally took the whole thing way too seriously. It seems like conservatives care more about stupid symbolic "wins" like this than actual tangible progress for their political goals. The conservative media seems to be almost entirely silent over the fact that gays are marrying in Utah and signs are pointing to a very real possibility of that being a permanent thing. It's is odd because at a minimum this should elicit cries of ACTIVIST JUDICIAL TYRANNY but they care far more about getting the duck man back on TV, which would have happened in some way or another regardless of A&E's decision anyways. Also look at the Chick-fil-a controversy, it mystifies me that conservatives seem to be really proud of that whole thing even though all they accomplished is making Dan Cathy slightly more wealthy. Chick-fil-a stopped donating to the worst of the anti-gay groups afterwards and the Chick-fil-a crowd's pet issue lost massively in the November '12 election. The whole thing about the Chick-fil-a thing was that it was supposed to be "foreshadowing for November" which clearly didn't pan out but they seem proud anyways  .
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MaxxBot posted:Also look at the Chick-fil-a controversy, it mystifies me that conservatives seem to be really proud of that whole thing even though all they accomplished is making Dan Cathy slightly more wealthy. Chick-fil-a stopped donating to the worst of the anti-gay groups afterwards and the Chick-fil-a crowd's pet issue lost massively in the November '12 election. The whole thing about the Chick-fil-a thing was that it was supposed to be "foreshadowing for November" which clearly didn't pan out but they seem proud anyways They have a short attention span, and got to have fun celebrating their one-off holiday based on stuffing their faces with fried chicken to show solidarity in hating queers. Whether or not it actually accomplished anything in their favor is irrelevant.
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If the ratings for DD go up when the new episodes run I'll be surprised. They have the right wing bigots in their pocket, but they also had a lot of non-bigots watching before this happened, even many progressives. Who other than homophobic/racist fucktards would be interested in watching now?
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beatlegs posted:If the ratings for DD go up when the new episodes run I'll be surprised. They have the right wing bigots in their pocket, but they also had a lot of non-bigots watching before this happened, even many progressives. Who other than homophobic/racist fucktards would be interested in watching now? Well, Chik Fil-A apparently had even higher sales after their president came out as a homophobe, so....
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Right, but presumably the number of Nielsen families is a fixed amount, conservatives can't be added to the Nielsen survey unlike Chik-fil-a which can always welcome more customers in.
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That Chik-Fil-A thing pissed me off so much. Bible-thumpers acting like standing in line for two hours to buy a chicken sandwich (and did you notice no picture ever had someone with grilled chicken, or a wrap, or a salad?) made them into a 21st-century Rosa Parks.
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skaboomizzy posted:That Chik-Fil-A thing pissed me off so much. Bible-thumpers acting like standing in line for two hours to buy a chicken sandwich (and did you notice no picture ever had someone with grilled chicken, or a wrap, or a salad?) made them into a 21st-century Rosa Parks. http://jezebel.com/5931275/i-know-youre-mad-at-chik+fil+a-but-stop-taking-it-out-on-fat-people
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skaboomizzy posted:That Chik-Fil-A thing pissed me off so much. Bible-thumpers acting like standing in line for two hours to buy a chicken sandwich (and did you notice no picture ever had someone with grilled chicken, or a wrap, or a salad?) made them into a 21st-century Rosa Parks. You're just jealous that they can afford to eat themselves into an early grave and you can't.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Not really, on talk radio the general response was 'his comments are awful but he shouldn't get fired' I've never heard 'talk radio' used to describe the nonconservative variety, or whatever remains of it. Terrestrial talk is something like 90% conservative-libertarian, with what's left of the progressive shows eeking out an existence on iTunes.
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skaboomizzy posted:That Chik-Fil-A thing pissed me off so much. Bible-thumpers acting like standing in line for two hours to buy a chicken sandwich (and did you notice no picture ever had someone with grilled chicken, or a wrap, or a salad?) made them into a 21st-century Rosa Parks. They sell wraps and salads?
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Vertical Lime posted:So Duck Dynasty will continue with Phil's suspension ending: Fox this morning talked about this, with a news header reading "BYE BYE PC POLICE: A&E Reversal a Win for Freedom of Speech. So yeah, they're going to ride this out as if every liberal in America was out for Phil Robertson's blood.
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miscellaneous14 posted:Fox this morning talked about this, with a news header reading "BYE BYE PC POLICE: A&E Reversal a Win for Freedom of Speech. So yeah, they're going to ride this out as if every liberal in America was out for Phil Robertson's blood. Let's bring back Martin Bashir then.
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agarjogger posted:I've never heard 'talk radio' used to describe the nonconservative variety, or whatever remains of it. Terrestrial talk is something like 90% conservative-libertarian, with what's left of the progressive shows eeking out an existence on iTunes.
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The Heritage Foundation is obviously full of poo poo, but I love how they try to peg someone owning 60 Domino's Pizza restaurants as "small business." Also lots of talk about the American Dream when the woman in question inherited her status/money from her dead husband.quote:Did you know there are 34 million different ways to make a Domino’s pizza? Dang government regulations making me create a 34-million item menu -- it's not like I can walk into any other pizza restaurant and see that they just list the calorie amount for each individual topping! http://blog.heritage.org/2013/11/20/obamacare-will-try-control-eat/ bobservo fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Dec 28, 2013 |
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quote:“I have managers that worked for me that some of them have gone to law school, some of them have been accountants,” she said, proud that she is helping people achieve the American dream. The American Dream: Working as a Domino's manager while 300K in debt for college and law school degrees.
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The Ape of Naples posted:Let's bring back Martin Bashir then. MSNBC would've probably brought him back (they're kind of starved for programming) once things blew over, but he decided to resign while he was suspended. The Robertson thing is a lot like what happened to Paula Deen earlier in the year. The more bigoted fans just started buying more of their stuff while the more casual fans hopefully got a good look at exactly the kind of thing they are supporting.
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