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Von Sloneker: Jul 6, 2009; as if all this was something more
than another footnote on a postcard from nowhere,
another chapter in the handbook for exercises in futility

I post this here in the hope that spreading it can dilute the poisonous rage instilled in me:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/373005/another-anti-israel-boycott-kevin-d-williamson

An assbugle at National Review posted:

A Canadian student group has announced its intention to boycott Sabra hummus, and to attempt to have the product banned from its campus, because the hummus brand�s parent company sends care packages to Israeli troops. To those Canadian undergraduates who are so committed to their particular view of world affairs that they are willing to switch their brand of hummus, I say: Bully to you, Moonbeam McNuck.

I would, however, like to take the occasion to renew my promise to stage a counter-boycott of the exports of globally prominent companies based in the Palestinian territories.

Just as soon as there are some.

The comments, as one would expect, are a gruesome variation on a theme (of poo poo). There's even a "St. Pancake" reference, something that never gets old.

I recall reading recently that Nat'l Review was getting sued into oblivion by a libeled climatologist. Can we speed up this whole oblivion process, please.

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# ? Jun 8, 2024 23:35

Venom Snake: Feb 19, 2014; by Nyc_Tattoo

bpower posted:

Its has nearly 600 Likes for 16 Dislikes (?). The comments are full of conservatives unironically saying its hilarious.

That "Give it up" is NOT sarcastic. These people are broken. I wonder how bad something has to be for them to hate it even though its conservative. I think I just answered by own question. If they don't like something it would cease to be conservative.

Its interesting because many of these people who wish sickness and hatred upon others will ironically claim that they are "True christians" while those who love thy neighbor and forgive them for their sins are evil communists who hate freedom.

It's really starting to grind my gears, I'm a fairly religious person and I'm really starting to hate people corrupting the real message of Christianity which is forgiveness and compassion not hatred and bigotry.

# ? Mar 11, 2014 00:31

Vertical Lime: Dec 11, 2004

Cardboard Box A posted:

Is newsbusters still raging against every incident of the media not hating gays as evidence of the liberal conspiracy?

Probably. They'll never change. A conservative way of thinking if you will

Also

# ? Mar 11, 2014 03:17

Mr Interweb: Aug 25, 2004

kik2dagroin posted:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/03/05/liberal_disturbed_by_obama_s_middle_name
A terrorist attack on American soil is absolutely the same thing as an incident happening independently overseas.

Thanks for this.

You know what I find most surprising about instances like this? When Limbaugh's off ranting by himself or bitching to one of his idiot conservatives about something, he's not really shy about saying exactly what he's thinking. And yet, almost always when he's confronted (the few times that manages to happen), he gets super defensive, tries to crawl away from the original remarks and goes with the whole "WHAT, WHO ME??!" angle. It's one thing to see some random Republican congressman or whatever do that sort of thing, but Rush himself? He's one of the people who constantly tries to command conservatives into not acting like weak kneed little girly men who fear being accused of the dreaded "political correctness"! Yet the man himself turns to jelly when someone dares him to confirm what he was saying.

# ? Mar 11, 2014 06:11

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

Mr Interweb posted:

You know what I find most surprising about instances like this? When Limbaugh's off ranting by himself or bitching to one of his idiot conservatives about something, he's not really shy about saying exactly what he's thinking. And yet, almost always when he's confronted (the few times that manages to happen), he gets super defensive, tries to crawl away from the original remarks and goes with the whole "WHAT, WHO ME??!" angle. It's one thing to see some random Republican congressman or whatever do that sort of thing, but Rush himself? He's one of the people who constantly tries to command conservatives into not acting like weak kneed little girly men who fear being accused of the dreaded "political correctness"! Yet the man himself turns to jelly when someone dares him to confirm what he was saying.

He's been doing that since the beginning - as soon as any criticism comes in he switches modes and wonders what's the big deal, I'm just an entertainer, a "harmless little fuzzball", you liberals have no sense of humor, jeez you people need to relax and lighten up and not take things so seriously. It's a common schoolyard bully excuse ("Aww, we were just having fun, I guess Billy took it a little too seriously")

Limbaugh's inability to take any criticism is legendary. Mister Tough Guy never does interviews or speeches or debates before any but the most supportive audiences, callers to his show are screened seven ways to Sunday and if a live liberal gets through it's the dump button and 15 minutes of pre-recorded "funny" conservative sketch-songs while Rush tries to recover. The only time I saw him appear before a non-friendly audience was when he did the Letterman show in like 1993 - and Letterman destroyed him with one or two non-political comments (He was doing one of his riffs about how Hillary Clinton looked like a catcher's mitt left out in the rain or something and Letterman interrupted saying "You can say that, of course, because you're such a fine specimen of physical perfection yourself", and Limbaugh gulped air for 30 seconds while the audience screamed in approval). Limbaugh retreated to his hugbox and hasn't ever left it.

I mean say what you will about conservative blowhards of past eras, at least they weren't afraid to go out and mix it up. Buckley did a lot of college speeches, staged debates, and Q&A sessions in front of hostile audiences, and usually came off well. Limbaugh can't handle the slightest whiff of dissent or critique.

# ? Mar 11, 2014 06:30

The Crotch: Oct 16, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

There is one other example of Limbaugh in front of a hostile audience...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNK4byQkn7w

# ? Mar 11, 2014 07:19

Typical Pubbie: May 10, 2011

Not sure where else to post this. Dallas Buyers Club and the triumph of free market healthcare.

quote:

It's a very-well-made movie, and McConaughey and Jared Leto (who plays a transgender woman named Rayon who partners with Woodroof) give great performances. And the script, which had been written over the course of 20 years and was based in large part on interviews with Woodroof and on his personal journals, is by all accounts an accurate depiction of Woodroof's life. But it risks leaving a false impression of that period in the history of HIV/AIDS, and in particular of the role of AZT.

quote:

The trouble is that AZT is actually a very effective therapy against HIV/AIDS. "People who were consistently using AZT prolonged life for one year," says Jonathan Engel, a medical historian at Baruch College and author of "The Epidemic: A History of AIDS." That may not sound like a lot, but at a time when the disease had a mortality rate of 100 percent, anything that delayed death was valuable.

quote:

But what of the drugs Woodroof used, and imported, to use in place of AZT? "The stuff he was importing from Mexico was almost all useless," Engel says. A case in point is the experimental drug Peptide T. "[Woodruff] did become a proponent of Peptide T, and he used it himself, and believed it himself," Staley says. "It never panned out. It's a useless therapy, and it never got approved, and nobody uses it today, but the film implies that it helped him."
That and other drugs were what buyers clubs referred to as "what the hell" drugs. They may or may not work, but they weren't likely to do any harm, so why not try them?

quote:

The original Dallas Life Magazine story upon which the film is based notes that Woodroof supplied herbal remedies like "milk thistle" (which didn't hurt but didn't help either) as well as more serious treatments like compound Q, DDC and alpha interferon...

Compound Q, however, backfired, with at least two deaths linked to it over the course of two trials (one FDA-approved, one run "guerrilla-style" by the activist Martin Delaney). "When it became apparent that it could kill people, the FDA tried to get buyers clubs to pull it, and everyone did pull it, except Ron Woodroof," Staley recalls.

Ron Woodroof, libertarian and conservative hero of Dallas Buyers Club, was a snake oil salesman who charged members of his club hundreds of dollars a month to buy "extract of milk thistle" along with dangerous drugs like Compound Q that did nothing to slow the advance of HIV in their bodies. Kinda makes you want to scream from the rooftops, doesn't it?

Typical Pubbie fucked around with this message at 10:44 on Mar 11, 2014

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esto es malo: Aug 3, 2006; Don't want to end up a cartoon

In a cartoon graveyard

Surely the market would have self-regulated behavior like that if it was truly harmful.

# ? Mar 11, 2014 11:28

Zuhzuhzombie!!: Apr 17, 2008; FACTS ARE A CONSPIRACY BY THE CAPITALIST OPRESSOR

Typical Pubbie posted:

Ron Woodroof, libertarian and conservative hero of Dallas Buyers Club, was a snake oil salesman who charged members of his club hundreds of dollars a month to buy "extract of milk thistle" along with dangerous drugs like Compound Q that did nothing to slow the advance of HIV in their bodies. Kinda makes you want to scream from the rooftops, doesn't it?

Makes that whole class war thing much easier to swallow.

:commissar:

# ? Mar 11, 2014 13:08

Assepoester: Jul 18, 2004; Can't post for 10 years!; Melman v2

http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/11/5495288/glenn-beck-thinks-thomas-edison-was-a-bad-man-movie

"Conservative pundit Glenn Beck is making a movie that he hopes will expose the truth about celebrated American inventor Thomas Edison. In a wide-ranging interview with the National Review, Beck said that although Edison is widely seen as "this nice, kind of, good old Thomas," his film will expose him for the person he really was: "a bad man who was electrocuting animals."

Glenn Beck was right

# ? Mar 11, 2014 13:33

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

Cardboard Box A posted:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/11/5495288/glenn-beck-thinks-thomas-edison-was-a-bad-man-movie

"Conservative pundit Glenn Beck is making a movie that he hopes will expose the truth about celebrated American inventor Thomas Edison. In a wide-ranging interview with the National Review, Beck said that although Edison is widely seen as "this nice, kind of, good old Thomas," his film will expose him for the person he really was: "a bad man who was electrocuting animals."

Glenn Beck was right

To be fair, Edison was a dick.

# ? Mar 11, 2014 13:39

Phone: Jul 30, 2005; 親子丼をほしい。

Glen Beck read the Wikipedia entry on Edison and noticed what everyone who is over the age of 13 realizes? That Edison was a loving prick and a ruthless businessman?

# ? Mar 11, 2014 13:39

Spaceman Future!: Feb 9, 2007

Cardboard Box A posted:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/11/5495288/glenn-beck-thinks-thomas-edison-was-a-bad-man-movie

"Conservative pundit Glenn Beck is making a movie that he hopes will expose the truth about celebrated American inventor Thomas Edison. In a wide-ranging interview with the National Review, Beck said that although Edison is widely seen as "this nice, kind of, good old Thomas," his film will expose him for the person he really was: "a bad man who was electrocuting animals."

Glenn Beck was right

Finally common ground, Edison was a douchebag. The secret to bipartisanship is uniting behind Tesla.

# ? Mar 11, 2014 13:43

Damonic: Jan 17, 2006

Cardboard Box A posted:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/11/5495288/glenn-beck-thinks-thomas-edison-was-a-bad-man-movie

"Conservative pundit Glenn Beck is making a movie that he hopes will expose the truth about celebrated American inventor Thomas Edison. In a wide-ranging interview with the National Review, Beck said that although Edison is widely seen as "this nice, kind of, good old Thomas," his film will expose him for the person he really was: "a bad man who was electrocuting animals."

Glenn Beck was right

Haha! That was a plot from Bob's Burgers, kind of(It was a play rather than a movie).

# ? Mar 11, 2014 14:04

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Von Sloneker posted:

I post this here in the hope that spreading it can dilute the poisonous rage instilled in me:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/373005/another-anti-israel-boycott-kevin-d-williamson

The comments, as one would expect, are a gruesome variation on a theme (of poo poo). There's even a "St. Pancake" reference, something that never gets old.

I recall reading recently that Nat'l Review was getting sued into oblivion by a libeled climatologist. Can we speed up this whole oblivion process, please.

I guess that guy missed the Sodastream scandal?

# ? Mar 11, 2014 14:52

ToxicSlurpee: Nov 5, 2003; -=SEND HELP=-; Pillbug

Phone posted:

Glen Beck read the Wikipedia entry on Edison and noticed what everyone who is over the age of 13 realizes? That Edison was a loving prick and a ruthless businessman?

Not everybody knows that and Edison is also a right wing darling. He's held up as proof that anybody can do anything if they set their minds to it. Edison was certainly a genius that advanced the human race like a century or more and most certainly not a corrupt shithead that literally stole dozens of inventions and had a buddy in the patent office that would intercept patents and submit a hastily sketched patent with Edison's name on it before putting the real one in. He most certainly didn't do his damnedest to screw over Tesla at every turn or discredit him every chance he got.

Edison was an enormous rear end in a top hat. He was smart, sure, he just gets credit for a lot of things he shouldn't while poor Tesla gets erased. I read an entire drat chapter about Edison in high school but didn't learn who Nikola Tesla was until I was 23.

# ? Mar 11, 2014 14:56

Mc Do Well: Aug 2, 2008; by FactsAreUseless

So Glenn Beck doesn't like cut throat entrepreneur Thomas Edison? Does that mean he is in favor of socialist Tesla? Or is electricity a progressive creation that must be challenged?

# ? Mar 11, 2014 15:04

Azuth0667: Sep 20, 2011; By the word of Zoroaster, no business decision is poor when it involves Ahura Mazda.

McDowell posted:

So Glenn Beck doesn't like cut throat entrepreneur Thomas Edison? Does that mean he is in favor of socialist Tesla? Or is electricity a progressive creation that must be challenged?

Please let electricity be declared a liberal thing, I'll find endless entertainment in a bunch of confused people that can no longer watch :foxnews:

because they forsake the liberal invention of electricity.

# ? Mar 11, 2014 15:23

Phone: Jul 30, 2005; 親子丼をほしい。

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Not everybody knows that and Edison is also a right wing darling. He's held up as proof that anybody can do anything if they set their minds to it. Edison was certainly a genius that advanced the human race like a century or more and most certainly not a corrupt shithead that literally stole dozens of inventions and had a buddy in the patent office that would intercept patents and submit a hastily sketched patent with Edison's name on it before putting the real one in. He most certainly didn't do his damnedest to screw over Tesla at every turn or discredit him every chance he got.

Edison was an enormous rear end in a top hat. He was smart, sure, he just gets credit for a lot of things he shouldn't while poor Tesla gets erased. I read an entire drat chapter about Edison in high school but didn't learn who Nikola Tesla was until I was 23.

Yeah, knowing who Edison is and having a vague understanding of what he invented while not knowing that he is a colossal douchebag is just a giant marker for "HEY EVERYONE! I DO THE BARE MINIMUM REQUIRED AND TAKE EVERYTHING AT FACE VALUE!"

To be fair, though, the Edison museum whitewashes the gently caress out of him and I was a bit suspicious as a 4th grader in elementary school when we went there.

# ? Mar 11, 2014 15:25

Shbobdb: Dec 16, 2010; by Reene

Electricity involves imaginary numbers. Glenn Beck is just working to catch up with Conservapedia.

# ? Mar 11, 2014 15:55

Phone: Jul 30, 2005; 親子丼をほしい。

Power was probably one of the easiest course work that I did. Polar coordinate system is OP as gently caress.

Reactive power is imaginary? OR IS IT A LIBERAL CONSPIRACY!?

# ? Mar 11, 2014 15:58

Nintendo Kid: Aug 4, 2011; by Smythe

Phone posted:

Yeah, knowing who Edison is and having a vague understanding of what he invented while not knowing that he is a colossal douchebag is just a giant marker for "HEY EVERYONE! I DO THE BARE MINIMUM REQUIRED AND TAKE EVERYTHING AT FACE VALUE!"

To be fair, though, the Edison museum whitewashes the gently caress out of him and I was a bit suspicious as a 4th grader in elementary school when we went there.

My generic public middle school history textbook made sure to mention that most of Edison's inventions were done by his employees, including describing him as a successful businessman rather than a prolific inventor and that he often unfairly took credit for employee breakthroughs. So yeah, super bare minimum.

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Zuhzuhzombie!!: Apr 17, 2008; FACTS ARE A CONSPIRACY BY THE CAPITALIST OPRESSOR

You guys are just hating on a job creator. Shame on Glen Beck.

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ToxicSlurpee: Nov 5, 2003; -=SEND HELP=-; Pillbug

Phone posted:

Yeah, knowing who Edison is and having a vague understanding of what he invented while not knowing that he is a colossal douchebag is just a giant marker for "HEY EVERYONE! I DO THE BARE MINIMUM REQUIRED AND TAKE EVERYTHING AT FACE VALUE!"

To be fair, though, the Edison museum whitewashes the gently caress out of him and I was a bit suspicious as a 4th grader in elementary school when we went there.

A lot of people just aren't all that interested in history and only do the bare minimum to not fail their history classes. Other people are in situations where there are distractions that prevent actual, deep thought over it. Or, in some cases, you get in trouble for daring to question what the teacher is saying. I had some teachers growing up that would punish kids that had the audacity to call bullshit on anything, ever.

Other times I'd be distracted by thoughts like "I wonder if I'm going to get enough to eat this week" or "I hope I get to sleep before mom gets home, I don't want hit again."

# ? Mar 11, 2014 16:54

Darkman Fanpage: Jul 4, 2012

Cardboard Box A posted:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/11/5495288/glenn-beck-thinks-thomas-edison-was-a-bad-man-movie

"Conservative pundit Glenn Beck is making a movie that he hopes will expose the truth about celebrated American inventor Thomas Edison. In a wide-ranging interview with the National Review, Beck said that although Edison is widely seen as "this nice, kind of, good old Thomas," his film will expose him for the person he really was: "a bad man who was electrocuting animals."

Glenn Beck was right

Bob's Burgers already did a groundbreaking expose on the murder of Topsy by the dastardly Thomas Edison.

# ? Mar 11, 2014 17:01

kik2dagroin: Mar 23, 2007; Use the anger. Use it.

FMguru posted:

Limbaugh can't handle the slightest whiff of dissent or critique.

Those are my favorite parts of the program, even more rarely when he becomes frazzled when his own staff turns against him. In that very same program that Limbaugh accused the caller of projection about 30 minutes later he said this:

A Fat Sack of poo poo posted:

Anyway, when I look at this Lois Lerner, IRS babe, I see somebody who is miserable, mean, vindictive, unhappy, and vengeful. The woman just encapsulates all of that just in her facial expression. This is the woman who led the IRS effort to essentially disenfranchise the Tea Party. This is the woman at the IRS who was responsible for all of the decision-making, aside from Obama. I mean, I don't want to leave him out of this because he's the inspiration for these people. He's the guy all of these people, the Lois Lerners of the administration, are trying to impress. Obama is the guy they are all trying to please. They are in these positions because Obama or his people put them there because they're not gonna need a memo of instructions; they're already going to know what to do.

Obama doesn't need to send his people at the IRS an instructional memo, i.e., a smoking gun memo on giving the Tea Party a tough time. They already are inclined to do it on their own. It's who they are. That's why they're there. And I say that because, again, when this happened people said, "Does Obama know?" Does Obama know? Obama is the guy who inspires this. This is the woman who saw to it that all of these applications from the Tea Party for tax-exempt status were delayed or denied.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/03/05/lois_lerner_the_face_of_liberalism
:ironicat:

# ? Mar 11, 2014 17:17

Raskolnikov38: Mar 3, 2007; We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Darkman Fanpage posted:

Bob's Burgers already did a groundbreaking expose on the murder of Topsy by the dastardly Thomas Edison.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3wNlhKT0KI

# ? Mar 11, 2014 17:17

BiggerBoat: Sep 26, 2007; Don't you tell me my business again.

bpower posted:

Its has nearly 600 Likes for 16 Dislikes (?). The comments are full of conservatives unironically saying its hilarious.

I think the lack of a genuine sense of humor is the main thing that truly separates liberals and conservatives. We've de-railed about it before a bit here but most of the time I simply find conservatives coming up the short in the "laugh" and "say something funny" departments.

Their fires are stoked by fear and anger with no sense of joy added in or to be found anywhere. Seriously, what makes conservatives happy or brings them joy or laughter? The last conservative "jokes" anyone sent me were Hillary Clinton photoshopped with a dick (at work. true story) and Obama saluting/wearing his flag pin on the wrong side or something (also at work).

They thought that Sarah Palin "Green Eggs and Ham" bit at CPAC was a laugh riot and totally missed the point of the book.

bpower posted:

That "Give it up" is NOT sarcastic. These people are broken. I wonder how bad something has to be for them to hate it even though its conservative. I think I just answered by own question. If they don't like something it would cease to be conservative.

See? Aren't they a hoot?

kik2dagroin posted:

Those are my favorite parts of the program, even more rarely when he becomes frazzled when his own staff turns against him. In that very same program that Limbaugh accused the caller of projection about 30 minutes later he said this:

edit:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/03/05/lois_lerner_the_face_of_liberalism

I never get tired of this "IRS Scandal" poo poo. A large group of people whose entire message and political mantra is basically "gently caress taxes" is aghast at finding themselves targeted for tax evasion. Meanwhile, those same people want to shake down Arabs at airports because...

BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Mar 11, 2014

# ? Mar 11, 2014 20:20

Buried alive: Jun 8, 2009

BiggerBoat posted:

I never get tired of this "IRS Scandal" poo poo. A large group of people whose entire message and political mantra is basically "gently caress taxes" is aghast at finding themselves targeted for tax evasion. Meanwhile, those same people want to shake down Arabs at airports because...

Don't forget that upon investigating the matter, it turns out the IRS was also targeting leftist groups as well.

# ? Mar 11, 2014 21:53

beatlegs: Mar 11, 2001

Also, the initial Inspector General report last year strangely excluded any information about liberal groups that were also targeted, creating a false impression that only conservative groups were targeted, which is what started the whole conspiracy hysteria. Why was the report so one-sided? Be nice if we had a hearing looking into that, as opposed to some paranoid Tea Party fever dream.

# ? Mar 11, 2014 23:03

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

This could be one of the best headlines I have seen from the National Review

quote:

The bioethics movement grows ever more radical. In the reproductive field, many activists promote a near-absolute right to have a baby, the kind of baby we want, via any means we desire.

The UK�s John Harris is a major voice in utilitarian bioethics discourse, who believes that killing so-called human non persons is A-OK. He has now written in favor of creating children using a process known as IVG�in vitro gametes�using stem cells to create eggs and sperm, and then fertilizing via IVF.

Harris extols the possibilities. For example, a single person could �self breed,� making a baby with only their own cells. Another use would be by same sex couples who could both be genetically related to a baby, rather than only one.

Once �safe,� Harris also would permit IVG for those in polyamorous �sentimental relationships� (!!!) to create a baby genetically related to all participants. From �Multiplex Parenting,� published in the Journal of Medical Ethics:

IVG could permit instead a much more substantive sharing of genetic kinship, through what is in essence a generational shortcut. Imagine that four people in a relationship want to parent a child while being all genetically related to her. IVG would enable the following scenario: first, two embryos would be generated from either couple through IVF with either naturally or in vitro generated gametes. hESC lines would be then established from both embryos and differentiated into IVG to be used in a second round of IVF.

In other words, the couples create two embryos and then destroy them for their embryonic stem cells. These cells would then be used to create egg and sperm, which would be joined in IVF:

The resulting embryo would be genetically related to all four prospective parents, who would technically be the child�s genetic grandparents. In light of the developments we have anticipated above, several variations are possible over this scheme, including trios and same-sex partnerships, though in the case of trios the extent of inbreeding would need to be dealt with on a par with that outlined above for self-reproducers using the process to make a baby solely from your own .

Harris�s essay demonstrates that current radical reproduction proposals�we are already close to authorizing 3-parent embryos�would not ultimately be about allowing people with genetic diseases to procreate. Ameliorating health issues are as much pretext as purpose. The ultimate goal is enabling an anything goes culture in which extreme biotechnology is put to the use of fulfilling personal desires�especially those that shatter commonly denigrated �traditional values.�

I have opined against permitting 3-parent IVF for safety and ethical reasons�and was ludicrously branded �anti-science� for my trouble. Let me just add to what I have previously written that I don�t see how we can have a true �society� if the only commonality among us is �anything goes.�

Yes, I suspect that Harris hopes to shock and pull the chains of supposed dinosaurs like yours truly. But radicals such as Harris truly are deeply committed to remaking society along the lines that relativism�s creator Joseph Fletcher proposed.

If they succeed, it will lead to a dramatic increase in the social chaos that we are already experiencing.

# ? Mar 12, 2014 00:19

bpower: Feb 19, 2011

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

This could be one of the best headlines I have seen from the National Review

It does sound a little wierd, I'll admit that, but it also sounds a lot wonderful. Is there a non-crazy argument against it? Imagine 4 or 5 nuns having a baby together and raiing her in a convent with all the other kids? Im not sure why I went there, but imagine anyway. Jolly, what?

# ? Mar 12, 2014 00:43

Time to read Zinn: Sep 11, 2013; the humidity + the viscosity

Wesley J. Smith is one of the protesters from Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

# ? Mar 12, 2014 00:43

Mc Do Well: Aug 2, 2008; by FactsAreUseless

So is this putting out feelers for a pro-life ban on all IVF?

# ? Mar 12, 2014 01:09

Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

bpower posted:

It does sound a little wierd, I'll admit that, but it also sounds a lot wonderful. Is there a non-crazy argument against it? Imagine 4 or 5 nuns having a baby together and raiing her in a convent with all the other kids? Im not sure why I went there, but imagine anyway. Jolly, what?

Oh I did not mean that the idea was weird but the way it was worded in the headline was meant to make their audience disgusted

# ? Mar 12, 2014 01:13

Phone: Jul 30, 2005; 親子丼をほしい。

Time to read Zinn posted:

Wesley J. Smith is one of the protesters from Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

He didn't ask for this.

# ? Mar 12, 2014 03:27

Guilty Spork: Feb 26, 2011; Thunder rolled. It rolled a six.

From Matt Bors' Twitter:

I can't help but feel like even Bill looks like he knows he's just said something spectacularly dumb. Not that it's the first time I've seen conservatives lose their poo poo over the government actually promoting, you know, a plan that theoretically should work better at helping people not die the more people sign up.

# ? Mar 12, 2014 03:27

Darkman Fanpage: Jul 4, 2012

Guilty Spork posted:

From Matt Bors' Twitter:

I can't help but feel like even Bill looks like he knows he's just said something spectacularly dumb. Not that it's the first time I've seen conservatives lose their poo poo over the government actually promoting, you know, a plan that theoretically should work better at helping people not die the more people sign up.

Lincoln was a very funny man.

# ? Mar 12, 2014 03:37

beatlegs: Mar 11, 2001

Guilty Spork posted:

From Matt Bors' Twitter:

Now there's some conservative comedy! If they were only secure enough to poke fun at themselves, they'd have a hit show. Alas.

# ? Mar 12, 2014 03:49

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# ? Jun 8, 2024 23:35

FuzzySkinner: May 23, 2012

Darkman Fanpage posted:

Lincoln was a very funny man.

All Lincoln did during his presidency was tell funny stories to people he was around. They were also used to illustrate a point. (Lincoln is pretty awesome).

http://www.greatamericanhistory.net/humor.htm

Also, their patron saint Reagan used to do stuff like the Dean Martin Roasts back in the day. (which owned. Not Reagan, but the Roasts themselves).

The bit did work too fwiw. I legitimately laughed at the jokes, and gags within the thing. Even if you were against ACA, and not an Obama fan, you'd have to admit that it was funny.

e: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvZqn-YN-gU

# ? Mar 12, 2014 03:49

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