it got very quiet down there.
dirk gently,melancoholic |
08.16.08 - 5:12 pm | #
My dreams are all dead and buried
Sometimes I wish the sun would just explode
When God comes and calls me to his Kingdom
I'll take all you sons a bitches when I go
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
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08.16.08 - 5:14 pm | #
Saddam and his sons were raping the country, literally.
Not many English majors among the wingnuts, I gather.
Gromit |
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08.16.08 - 5:14 pm | #
Not many English majors among the wingnuts, I gather.
Gromit | Homepage | 08.16.08 - 5:14 pm | #
From what I've read, it looks like Rick Warren might actually make McCain's adultery a campaign issue with his evangelical followers.
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William H. Rehnquist |
08.16.08 - 5:15 pm | #
Who Would Jesus Torture?
BlueinColorado |
08.16.08 - 5:15 pm | #
From what I've read, it looks like Rick Warren might actually make McCain's adultery a campaign issue with his evangelical followers.
pffft.
fluff to excuse calling obama a baby killer.
dirk gently,melancoholic |
08.16.08 - 5:16 pm | #
Jeez, the Yankees burned Mariano Rivera for two innings in a tie game against the mighty KC Royals. Desperate times in the Bronx.
Gromit |
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08.16.08 - 5:16 pm | #
It was our moral duty to unleash forces that have killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis. And the years stolen from them wwere years in which they could have been converted and saved!
shemp |
08.16.08 - 5:16 pm | #
god. the reason i asked is that there's been a time or two in my life (as you know) that it would've been handy to have one..
fokowi in deadwood |
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08.16.08 - 5:17 pm | #
fluff to excuse calling obama a baby killer.
Not so sure about that. Warren's less of an abortion and gays allthetime crusader than a Jesus as advocate of the poor guy. He's not a slam dunk for McCain. Not in the least, I think.
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William H. Rehnquist |
08.16.08 - 5:17 pm | #
People say America is not the policeman of the world. We may not be, but the Bible says, if you have been blessed, then you are to care for people who can't care for themselves, you are to speak up for people who can't speak for themselves, and to defend the defenseless.
This would have been helpful to the people of the 9th Ward in NO in August of 2005.
Shaw Hussein Kenawe |
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08.16.08 - 5:18 pm | #
jesus understood that, why don't you?
Jesus has very little to do with modern American "Christianity", which is mostly about shearing the flock.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
08.16.08 - 5:18 pm | #
RW: The difference is that there are no death squads in America. The worst you can get here is that you can get blogged, you can get Lewinskied, on the Internet. There is a difference between that and living under oppression, living with fear for your life. That's why whether or not they found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is beside the point. Saddam and his sons were raping the country, literally. And we morally had to do something. If you have a Judeo-Christian heritage, you have to believe it when God says that evil cannot be compromised with. It has to be resisted, it has to be overcome."
This guy is SO full of shit.
Terry C - Obama/Clinton 08 |
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08.16.08 - 5:18 pm | #
Hi All,
I am writing to ask if any of you would be willing to participate in a study that I am conducting as part of my PhD research. I am interested in examining the ways in which blog users participate in political discourse.
You can contribute to this study by participating in an email interview. The interview questions will ask you about how you argue with, persuade, challenge, or support each other politically; the ways in which you analyze, critique, or support candidates and their campaigns; the features/options you desire from political blogs; and the role that technologies such as blogs and websites play in civic processes, specifically a presidential election.
If you are interested in participating, please email me at dadasce@muohio.edu
Dr. Roberta, you can come here for a big group hug. We love you. You have many friends here.
Just don't talk to that Butler guy. I know it's really hard to know who he is, but together we can overcome anything. You are a lovely rose.
Pastor Mildred |
08.16.08 - 5:19 pm | #
It was our moral duty to unleash forces that have killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis. And the years stolen from them wwere years in which they could have been converted and saved!
shemp
Angelina Jolie says the US should say in Iraq and continue our "humanitarian efforts."
Killing thousands and thousands of people is humanitarian?
Terry C - Obama/Clinton 08 |
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08.16.08 - 5:20 pm | #
The interview questions will ask you about how you argue with, persuade, challenge, or support each other politically
i'm just here to screw with people.
dirk gently,melancoholic |
08.16.08 - 5:20 pm | #
Caroline
What does it pay? Because I only blog for money.
-signed, Paid Troll
Spocko |
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08.16.08 - 5:20 pm | #
Wine tastes awful when it's poured into a glass that has residual soap suds in it.
...bass in a band!
Early Cuyler |
08.16.08 - 5:21 pm | #
The difference is that there are no death squads in America.
See: New York City Police Department; Giuliani, Rudy
Terry C - Obama/Clinton 08 |
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08.16.08 - 5:21 pm | #
Not so sure about that. Warren's less of an abortion and gays allthetime crusader than a Jesus as advocate of the poor guy. He's not a slam dunk for McCain. Not in the least, I think.
Still, isn't it just odd as hell that we get an evening of theosophical cred-swapping and one-upsmanship as the first encounter between the two presumptive candidates?
Whoever wrote Article VI of the Constitution must be havin' a bad case of heartburn right about now....
montag |
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08.16.08 - 5:21 pm | #
No wonder Rick Warren is so popular.
You don't get that kind of support by telling people what they don't want to hear.
Rmj, Itinerant Theologist |
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08.16.08 - 5:21 pm | #
Is there a sex and innuendo portion of the survey? If there isn't, count me out.
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William H. Rehnquist |
08.16.08 - 5:21 pm | #
Wine tastes awful when it's poured into a glass that has residual soap suds in it.
That's God's way of washing your mouth out with soap.
Gromit |
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08.16.08 - 5:21 pm | #
i'm just here to screw with people.
dirk gently,melancoholic
It's always about sex with you, isn't it.
Shaw Hussein Kenawe |
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08.16.08 - 5:21 pm | #
It's always about sex with you, isn't it.
What are you wearing?
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William H. Rehnquist |
08.16.08 - 5:23 pm | #
Wine tastes awful when it's poured into a glass that has residual soap suds in it.
So does iced tea.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
08.16.08 - 5:23 pm | #
I remember after a year of really living the radical teachings of Jesus going to a suburban church in the midwest. They proceeded to talk about how marriage was only for men and women. I got up and walked out and I made sure my family understood why.
I didn't realize it at the time but that had a huge impact on my youngest sister.
Spocko |
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08.16.08 - 5:23 pm | #
if you have been blessed, then you are to care for people who can't care for themselve
This is downright communistic.
R. McGeddon |
08.16.08 - 5:23 pm | #
SONNET 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
~~my favorite repellant, if you know what I mean
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
08.16.08 - 5:23 pm | #
You don't get that kind of support by telling people what they don't want to hear.
Validating what people are doing will never get you run out of town on a rail.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
08.16.08 - 5:24 pm | #
Still, isn't it just odd as hell that we get an evening of theosophical cred-swapping and one-upsmanship as the first encounter between the two presumptive candidates?
Yep. It's what we get when the meme from the last several elections was "values voters"
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William H. Rehnquist |
08.16.08 - 5:24 pm | #
OH GOOD GRIEF.
The Dem platform has softened it's pro-choice platform. Why bother being a fucking Dem.
qlª - |
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08.16.08 - 5:24 pm | #
"See: New York City Police Department; Giuliani, Rudy"
--Terry C
See tasers. See so much I can't even begin to list it.
mer |
08.16.08 - 5:24 pm | #
Not so sure about that. Warren's less of an abortion and gays allthetime crusader than a Jesus as advocate of the poor guy.
justice r, i did post earlier that if there HAS to be a jesus-off, warren is not the worst person in the world to run it. and i don't think he is a slam dunk for mcthuselah either.
i just hate that there HAS to be a nationally televised competition as to who is jesusier. i resent it. fuck jesus, he's been dead for over 2000 years now and we should start living in the present. who he hell is warren to be the arbiter of what is "good" and what is "bad"?
make no mistake - this is a self-appointed judge deciding which of the two contenders is the biggest sinner - sure, at least he realizes that it is more than a one issue question, babies can be killed in war or by poverty, but it still all comes down to his personal righteousness.
dirk gently,melancoholic |
08.16.08 - 5:25 pm | #
Not so sure about that. Warren's less of an abortion and gays allthetime crusader than a Jesus as advocate of the poor guy. He's not a slam dunk for McCain. Not in the least, I think.
Well, maybe, but I'm thinkin' Dorothy Day or Mother Teresa he's not. No Oscar Romero, either.
I mean, he's hardly a liberation theologian. His explicit theme is: "We're rich! We should help!" And yet he ignores the source of that wealth, which is exploitation of the poor (which critique is one of the pillars of liberation theology), so the implicit theme is: "We should be rich! 'Cause God loves us best!"
Which is yet another reason to look askance at a political forum like this one....
Rmj, Itinerant Theologist |
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08.16.08 - 5:25 pm | #
I have always felt the fundamental difference between democrats and Republicans is that the Republicans hold the position that the ends justify the means and the democrats hold that the means justify the ends.
Get the trains to run on time and who cares is it's facism. (R)
Give people money for food and housing and if some end up doing drugs with it the we deal with that. (D)
Escariot |
08.16.08 - 5:25 pm | #
For a long time but we have a very active business that he needs to travel a lot for. He wasn't invited to speak at the convention. I'm sure somebody in his office called the campaign and asked if he was going to be invited to speak because he needs to book meetings for that week if he isn't in Denver. Apparently the answer that came back was no. It's not a fake out or some secret plan, he isn't going to be VP or probably anything else in an Obama administration, assuming he's elected. What he is going to do is go out and campaign for Obama and plenty of Democrats in house and senate races this Fall. I know some you think you can change this by launching VP diaries a couple times a day in hopes that Obama will be swayed by the "netroots." Dude, when has that ever worked with this campaign?
It's a beautiful day. Go outside and get some sun.
i wear english leather, or nothing at all.
dirk gently,melancoholic |
08.16.08 - 5:27 pm | #
Did Incog or Draco have a sex change operation recently?
Just curious.
Terry C - Obama/Clinton 08 |
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08.16.08 - 5:27 pm | #
Pastor Warren on MSNBC says both John McCain and Barack Obama are his good friends. He says this will be a non- partisan forum with the same questions for both candidates. A coin flip determined Obama will go for the first hour while McCain sits inside a sound proof cube.
flee |
08.16.08 - 5:28 pm | #
Give people money for food and housing and if some end up doing drugs with it the we deal with that. (D)
Well, people do drugs to feel good, if only for a brief period of time. The question then becomes why do they feel compelled to do drugs to feel good?
We don't want to examine why they can't feel good without the chemical help.
Because then we'd have to start questioning some basic assumptions about our society that no one wants to get near, because if you're intellectually honest, you'll find that the basic assumptions are pretty warped.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
08.16.08 - 5:28 pm | #
We are all playful children of our very own personal God. Whomever we pick it to be, it is ours.
Pastor Mildred |
08.16.08 - 5:28 pm | #
In honor of the Olympic Games, I've been sitting here at my pc for the last week wearing my SPEEDO.
Me too. I've been wearing my red, white, and blue penis sling. And I've shaved my back hair to make me more aerodynamic. I've also taped my moobs to decrease their drag in the pool.
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William H. Rehnquist |
08.16.08 - 5:28 pm | #
Pastor Warren says evangelicals will have a problem with Obama because of the abortion issue and a problem with McCain because of the stem cell issue.
flee |
08.16.08 - 5:29 pm | #
I've never heard of Warren...he must be wholesome and really really boring.
His schtick is faith-based self-help books. If you aren't interested in those, you wouldn't be likely to have heard of him.
montag |
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08.16.08 - 5:29 pm | #
flee | 08.16.08 - 5:28 pm
I was wondering when jack was going to wind up with all his useless information.
Terry C - Obama/Clinton 08 |
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08.16.08 - 5:29 pm | #
Ah, so if that isn't snark and he really is going to be in a soundproof cube then this is to ensure that one candidate isn't allowed to "play off of" the other. Commendable.
catalexis |
08.16.08 - 5:29 pm | #
In honor of the Olympic Games, I've been sitting here at my pc for the last week wearing my SPEEDO.
Me too. I've been wearing my red, white, and blue penis sling. And I've shaved my back hair to make me more aerodynamic. I've also taped my moobs to decrease their drag in the pool.
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William H. Rehnquist
Moob taping is teh hawt!
Shaw Hussein Kenawe |
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08.16.08 - 5:29 pm | #
Go on, Roy Clark. I summon you from Hell!!
Rusty Cuyler |
08.16.08 - 5:29 pm | #
The most basic question everyone faces in life is Why am I here? What is my purpose? Self-help books suggest that people should look within, at their own desires and dreams, but Rick Warren says the starting place must be with God and his eternal purposes for each life
from his website.
fuck him. how about this: worry about how to live life in relation to your fellow human beings, and if god is out there he'll probably notice. otherwise, what is the point?
dirk gently,melancoholic |
08.16.08 - 5:29 pm | #
Oh wait. Sudsy wine.
That'll do it.
Tiny bubbles
In the wine
Make me feel happy
Make me feel fine
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
08.16.08 - 5:29 pm | #
The move, which is likely to stir even more speculation about Biden's Veep chances, could play in Obama's favor. The Illinois Senator would almost certainly like one of his key foreign policy allies to visit Georgia, too, at a time when McCain is trying to usurp the commander-in-chief role with regard to the Russia-Georgia crisis by talking to the lead actors in the crisis almost daily and dispatching his own campaign allies to the region.
Late Update: Biden is going at the request of Georgia's President.
portia |
08.16.08 - 5:30 pm | #
Leggo of my Speedo.
Richard |
08.16.08 - 5:30 pm | #
Rick Warren says he's going to be totally fair tonight - Andrea Mitchell is excited and will be be speaking to Doris Kearns Goodwin about faith and the presidency.
no, that's a lie. i just hate these two even more.
dirk gently,melancoholic |
08.16.08 - 5:30 pm | #
Pastor Warren says evangelicals will have a problem with Obama because of the abortion issue and a problem with McCain because of the stem cell issue.
flee
Well I have a problem with Warren because of the shithead issue.
Shaw Hussein Kenawe |
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08.16.08 - 5:30 pm | #
We don't want to examine why they can't feel good without the chemical help.
Because then we'd have to start questioning some basic assumptions about our society that no one wants to get near, because if you're intellectually honest, you'll find that the basic assumptions are pretty warped.
Apprentice to Darth Holden | 08.16.08 - 5:28 pm | #
Agreed. But the fact remains that we give the money for housing and food anyway, even if some of it goes to the other. The "welfare Queen" meme notwithstanding...I think that's what I meant....
Escariot |
08.16.08 - 5:31 pm | #
portia: Late Update: Biden is going at the request of Georgia's President.
I mean, he's hardly a liberation theologian. His explicit theme is: "We're rich! We should help!" And yet he ignores the source of that wealth, which is exploitation of the poor (which critique is one of the pillars of liberation theology), so the implicit theme is: "We should be rich! 'Cause God loves us best!"
Well said.
billy b |
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08.16.08 - 5:31 pm | #
No teevee feed here, will anyone be live blogging the christian inquistion on CNN?
foolme1ns |
08.16.08 - 5:31 pm | #
I mean, he's hardly a liberation theologian. His explicit theme is: "We're rich! We should help!"
No teevee feed here, will anyone be live blogging the christian inquistion on CNN?
foolme1ns
I hope not.
And I certainly hope jack isn't here to parrot everything he hears or sees.
Terry C - Obama/Clinton 08 |
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08.16.08 - 5:32 pm | #
I'm in a very gloomy pissed off mood people. Maybe it's the fog, maybe it's because I just saw how little money I have in the bank. Maybe it's because watch these jerk politician who keep getting away with breaking the law and then yuking it up as they get away with it.
I really want them to be arrested and their assets seized.
I really want more asset seizing of these jerks.
Spocko |
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08.16.08 - 5:32 pm | #
Oh, that's funny.
A shithead loser of a troll talking shit about Bill Moyers.
Terry C - Obama/Clinton 08 |
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08.16.08 - 5:33 pm | #
And I certainly hope jack isn't here to parrot everything he hears or sees.
Terry C - Obama/Clinton 08
no worries. he has to be told very explicitely which things to parrot.
dirk gently,melancoholic |
08.16.08 - 5:33 pm | #
I'm going out for n evening of debachery in honor of the christofascist concrete-ization of the blurring of church and state in our country event.
Escariot |
08.16.08 - 5:33 pm | #
Well, the height of BOR-ING was watching Team USA manhandle the Spanish today at the basketball venue.
But then again, I've grown to despise NBA style basketball.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
08.16.08 - 5:33 pm | #
I've grown to despise NBA style basketball.
I know what you mean. I only watch college women's basketball these days, and find it enormously more entertaining.
(Now, how to get them into bikinis? )
Gromit |
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08.16.08 - 5:34 pm | #
But then again, I've grown to despise NBA style basketball.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
I lost interest in the NBA when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar retired.
Terry C - Obama/Clinton 08 |
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08.16.08 - 5:34 pm | #
It takes a lot of basil to make a little bit of pesto.
and Bush sucks.
that is all
Jill |
08.16.08 - 5:34 pm | #
If you don't talk to or about the trolls, more than likely they will go away.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
08.16.08 - 5:35 pm | #
I really want more asset seizing of these jerks.
I really think tossing these assholes into a Chicago January wearing only golf clothes would be an educational exercise for a few of them. Of course, some guys like Dick Cheney won't learn, but not a problem as they won't be alive at the end of the adventure.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
08.16.08 - 5:35 pm | #
Well, maybe, but I'm thinkin' Dorothy Day or Mother Teresa he's not. No Oscar Romero, either.
i wishing whacking off and self-loathing were olympic sports.
i'd take gold.
Dr Roberta |
08.16.08 - 5:36 pm | #
Bush sucks.
Jill
AND blows.
Terry C - Obama/Clinton 08 |
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08.16.08 - 5:36 pm | #
Commendable.
catalexis | 08.16.08 - 5:29 pm | #
my thoughts too. plus novel... hunh
fokowi in deadwood |
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08.16.08 - 5:36 pm | #
Late Update: Biden is going at the request of Georgia's President.
portia
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Heh heh heh. Saakashvili, like a lover scorned, is turning to someone else. Rove, Condi, and Scheunneman promised him something to get him to start shooting at Russians. Then they left him swinging in the wind. Condi even stood over his shoulder as he signed the complete surrender to Russia!!! The man's been badly used.
I won't be the least surprised to start hearing in the near future about how Rove and Rice and Scheunneman urged him into this conflict. The man can't be a big enough moron to have thought he could take Russia on all by himself. No way. Somebody promised him something and it didn't happen.
foolme1ns |
08.16.08 - 5:36 pm | #
so the implicit theme is: "We should be rich! 'Cause God loves us best!"
I think Calvinism is pretty explicit about that, actually.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari |
08.16.08 - 5:37 pm | #
Sonny Purdue?
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Jeffraham Prestonian
lol!! No not that one!
Joe B and Joe L = competing for the mic!!
portia |
08.16.08 - 5:37 pm | #
Shorter Lubeefookit:
bleep bleep bleep bloop bloop grak grok grook
billy b |
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08.16.08 - 5:37 pm | #
Saakashvili, like a lover scorned, is turning to someone else. Rove, Condi, and Scheunneman promised him something to get him to start shooting at Russians. Then they left him swinging in the wind. Condi even stood over his shoulder as he signed the complete surrender to Russia!!! The man's been badly used.
The deserter to Saakashvili: "You fucked up! You trusted us!"
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
08.16.08 - 5:37 pm | #
Joe Biden will be the best choice for VP since Lieberfuck..
Bleh...
Jill |
08.16.08 - 5:38 pm | #
I think Calvinism is pretty explicit about that, actually.
Having grown up Catholic in the thick of that shit, I can verify that you are on. the. money.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore |
08.16.08 - 5:38 pm | #
I think Calvinism is pretty explicit about that, actually.
So much so that a group of Calvinists started living the most sinful lives possible to flaunt their status as the elected.
Apprentice to Darth Holden |
08.16.08 - 5:39 pm | #
Bill Moyers has his own TV show.
Lubyanka watches TV.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari |
08.16.08 - 5:39 pm | #
biden, leiberman and the dumpy one...
Imagine the conversations tonight at the Holiday Inn Tbliisi...oi
Escariot |
08.16.08 - 5:39 pm | #
Joe "Hole In My Head" Biden for Obama-Flator veep...
Wow - Andrea Mitchell and Doris Kearns Goodwin have a very serious discussion about how Obama needs to prove his faith in Jesus Christ and the segment ends with:
ANDREA: So, you're going to your own church tonight, FENWAY PARK!
I hear you about the Calvinistic stuff, it wasn't until college that I found out a lot of stuff that I thought was Catholic was really Calvinistic teachings. I had a brilliant teacher who explained all this stuff. One of the best classes I ever took.
He asked us questions about certain attitudes and then asked. "Is this a Catholic attitude?" and when we said yes he showed where the attitude came from and what the Catholic teaching were. Very enlightening.
Spocko |
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08.16.08 - 5:44 pm | #
Saakashvili, the ultimate chump.
Richard |
08.16.08 - 5:44 pm | #
Wes Clark, Jr. to Labbewacka:
"Siamang monkeys don't read philosophy."
"Yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it!"
They had olympic boxing last night on CNBC and the one announcer said there should be a warning to boxers, 'Attention, Olympic boxing can be hazardous to your health and career.' He said this after a referee called a time out but wasn't assertive or loud enough and one boxer stopped and the other kept fighting and knocked the first out. The scoring is also ridiculous, there have been fights where scores were real low despite 3 rounds of outright brawling and other fights where the score is run way up and all the boxer is doing is hitting the others gloves.
vince |
08.16.08 - 5:46 pm | #
Everyone here, again. Let's reach out to Dr. Roberta. She is a lovely person. But it is a most difficult calling to bring the Word of Peace to an internet blog. Dr. Roberta just said she wacks off. Maybe she is a he. It is so confusing but anyway we must tell her, or him, that we love her, or him.
Pastor Mildred |
08.16.08 - 5:46 pm | #
Botox-babe Pelosi suddenly does an Obama-Flator/Kerry flip-flop and gets religion on offshore drilling...