tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post7199455788729116734..comments2024-03-29T08:50:46.835-05:00Comments on Althouse: The seemingly scurrilous insinuation that Bernie Sanders is an atheist.Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-66573385720883122052016-07-25T07:56:18.502-05:002016-07-25T07:56:18.502-05:00Sure, Bob. Whatever you say.Sure, Bob. Whatever you say.Rustyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00938263272237104128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-35378172750603987242016-07-24T14:31:59.096-05:002016-07-24T14:31:59.096-05:00Whether or not Sanders is, in conventional terms, ...Whether or not Sanders is, in conventional terms, an atheist, he certainly is a true believer in the Cult of the State--the oldest, deadliest religion of them all.Bilwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12264809254712506094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-40842242607053847712016-07-24T14:05:18.628-05:002016-07-24T14:05:18.628-05:00So if Bernie being an atheist is supposedly bad, w...So if Bernie being an atheist is supposedly bad, what does that make Bill & Hillary, modern Pharisees? Or perhaps just the scum rising to the top?mikeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17875483485290838207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-14444636429258661612016-07-24T11:26:10.553-05:002016-07-24T11:26:10.553-05:00Rusty,
You're the one with your fingers in yo...Rusty,<br /><br />You're the one with your fingers in your ears shouting "Lalalalala!" The articles point out that prior to our illegal invasion of Iraq, Western oil interests were largely shut out of Iraq. Subsequently, and now, Western oil interests are IN.<br /><br />From the start, it was apparent the war was an oil grab, as that is what the west has been doing in the middle east for decades. We had no humanitarian or egalitarian or self-defense purposes for invading Iraq, so what's left? <br /><br />It was all in the original name for the invasion: <b><i>O</i></b>peration <b><i>I</i></b>raq <b><i>L</i></b>iberationRobert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-65881840547023435092016-07-24T10:09:23.013-05:002016-07-24T10:09:23.013-05:00HoodlumDoodlum:
The apologetic you posted on Tho...HoodlumDoodlum: <br /><br />The apologetic you posted on Thomas Jackson confirms that man's repulsiveness. Consider, I mean really consider, this passage: "The pastor, Dr. William Spottswood White, described the relationship between Jackson and his Sunday afternoon students: "In their religious instruction he succeeded wonderfully. His discipline was systematic and firm, but very kind. ... His servants reverenced and loved him, as they would have done a brother or father. ... He was emphatically the black man's friend." He addressed his students by name and they, in turn, referred to him affectionately as "Marse Major"." <br /><br />This, according to his church pastor--hardly an unbiased or dispassionate source. I mean, seriously: The "black man's friend"? And they referred to him affectionately as "Marse Major." Well, sho' nuff, I have no doubt they did in his presence. No doubt as well, they was holding their hats in their hands and just lookin' at the ground and a-shufflin' their feet when they spoke with Marse Major. Wonder how all those happy darkies referred to him private, among themselves? <br /><br />As for "He probably opposed the institution": That's just pure speculation, unwarranted by the facts of his life. He owned slaves. He fought and died to preserve slavery. Strange way to oppose it, that.<br /><br />What a crock of shit.Roughcoathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12669030540648967376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-30089922308842952442016-07-24T08:42:46.656-05:002016-07-24T08:42:46.656-05:00"Counterpunch"
You write for those guys ..."Counterpunch"<br />You write for those guys , bob?<br />So bottom line , after reading your articles, is that American companies that monitor, refine and ship petroleum products got work in Iraq. We didn't actually get any oil as you implied.<br />Do you know why American companies got those contracts, Bob?<br />I'll tell you.<br />In the oil industry everything is big. Pipes are big, pressure vessels are big, valves and electronics are big and complex.In fact the bigger and more complex a system is the fewer the people that know how to deal with it. American companies pioneered the mechanic and processes of the oil industry. No matter what international company bids on a petroleum contract somewhere in the process will be an American company with the expertise to get the job done.<br />As an example. You want to build a commercial airliner? You have a choice of three companies from which to procure the most reliable jet engines in the world. Two of which are American. Your insurer and your bank will insist on one of them.<br />OK. Now stick your little fingers in your ears and go LALALALALALA.Rustyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00938263272237104128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-70522620514818552842016-07-24T00:56:06.303-05:002016-07-24T00:56:06.303-05:00Berneres who were constant FB posters during the a...Berneres who were constant FB posters during the actual primary are not posting any concern over the DNC burn..though they got animated over the big Melania plagiarism issue.<br />They want free shit, class warfare and at least lip service to CAGW.walterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17818749187960350810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-15014893113046959242016-07-24T00:15:27.848-05:002016-07-24T00:15:27.848-05:00Unknown said...You know, the convention hasn't...Unknown said...<i>You know, the convention hasn't come yet. He can still take action that would make them regret their lack of morality. </i><br /><br />Incredulously -- I use that word because I followed him pretty closely -- he is going sell out his core principles and campaign for her. I've never seen such a complete volte-farce. Then again, I cannot fathom how much money was dangled. chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-88301427250349688582016-07-24T00:10:01.294-05:002016-07-24T00:10:01.294-05:00Perhaps that was before you guys were revealed to ...Perhaps that was before you guys were revealed to have shafted him in a perfectly disgusting way. Has Sanders less self-respect than Ted Cruz?<br /><br />(Also, since Bernie is a commie, and the Guccifer hack is supposed to be a veil for the involvement of Russia, perhaps he will see fit to act upon these revelations.)<br /><br />I only know what I see. But there are a number of factors that may well have you whistling past the graveyard. <br /><br />- Among other things, the Bernie voters tended to be more white, the natural constituency that Trump is accused of appealing to and that Obama policies are literally killing. <br />- Young, therefore malleable. <br />- Millennial, therefore, as Ivanka says, neither D nor R. <br />- freshly disillusioned by the rotten tactics used against him fully validating the conspiratorial outlook<br />- they wouldn't have been Bernie voters if they liked Hillary<br />- Trump is actually better on the issues that matter to them.<br /><br />Against this you have incredible forces of pressure and indoctrination being applied to them, but there are still some who will take the red pill. They should be encouraged. There is one candidate who's going to change the system. And it ain't her.Bad Lieutenanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18091901464339059169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-41055809330973995342016-07-24T00:08:46.087-05:002016-07-24T00:08:46.087-05:00Who do you think many of the protesters outside of...<i>Who do you think many of the protesters outside of Trump rallies were? </i><br /><br />In Chicago, they were Hillary goons posing as Bernie supporters. Two birds, one stone. <br /><br />Hillary is the root of political evil in America. chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-65780656457138640942016-07-23T23:57:07.555-05:002016-07-23T23:57:07.555-05:00Bernie supporters despise Trump and if you think t...Bernie supporters despise Trump and if you think they can be influenced to vote for Trump you don't know too many Bernie supporters or are delusional. Bernie himself has said he will do all in his power to make sure Trump does not get anywhere near The White House.Who do you think many of the protesters outside of Trump rallies were? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-91582269157223238362016-07-23T23:09:25.834-05:002016-07-23T23:09:25.834-05:00Remember the words of William Burroughs:
The game...Remember the words of William Burroughs:<br /><br />The game is rigged! Take the place apart!<br /><br />Bernie supporters can be turned, people. Most are young and dumb but well meaning. Patience, one at a time, not all at one sitting. They can be shown that Trump is not the Devil and that he represents more change than Hillary does.Bad Lieutenanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18091901464339059169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-24009228137666488692016-07-23T22:47:30.397-05:002016-07-23T22:47:30.397-05:00You know, the convention hasn't come yet. He c...You know, the convention hasn't come yet. He can still take action that would make them regret their lack of morality. He could pull a Cruz or a Cruz-plus. He could get up on stage and say that he and the American people have been betrayed and that he withdrew his endorsement and was going to run on the green party line (I guess endorsing Trump is too impossible). Talk about your operation chaos! What would they do, pull him off the stage with a cane? Shoot him?Bad Lieutenanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18091901464339059169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-61265328560419519552016-07-23T22:37:51.128-05:002016-07-23T22:37:51.128-05:00Perhaps Bernie cares about "damn emails"...<i>Perhaps Bernie cares about "damn emails" now.</i><br /><br />Even if he does, he lacks the balls to do anything about it. He's just one of the Queen's Weenies now.mockturtlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10507310332014103437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-75976403751375475782016-07-23T22:01:28.732-05:002016-07-23T22:01:28.732-05:00Perhaps Bernie cares about "damn emails"...Perhaps Bernie cares about "damn emails" now.walterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17818749187960350810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-49564071598084777622016-07-23T21:39:21.731-05:002016-07-23T21:39:21.731-05:00AllenS wrote: It can be both. My DNA says that I&#...AllenS wrote: <i>It can be both. My DNA says that I'm 3% European Jewish, and I've never been in a Jewish place of worship, nor have any of my known relatives.</i><br /><br />It seems unlikely that those genes got in your family tree at a synagogue. chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-51931244446602993492016-07-23T21:29:58.712-05:002016-07-23T21:29:58.712-05:00Cooke is sort of funny when he goes all conspiracy...Cooke is sort of funny when he goes all conspiracy theory. Cheney meets with oil executives. Conspiracy! No report was ever issued. That confirms the conspiracy! You know what would be definitive proof? That the meeting had never been reported! Proof positive!!!!<br /><br />If western oil companies pump Iraqi oil it's proof that the war was for Iraq's oil. If western oil companies don't pump all of Iraq's oil it's a failed war for oil. <br /><br />I'm convinced! But since the oil companies run the country why did Obama leave Iraq and allow ISIS to take over some of the oil? Is Obama in cahoots with Big Wind? Is Big Wind outbidding Big Oil for control of the US government? <br /><br />This is getting complicated but I'm sure Cooke will tell us all about it.Moneyrunnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12940253500799383224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-75554005715682696642016-07-23T21:18:34.561-05:002016-07-23T21:18:34.561-05:00Roughcoat said...General Thomas "Stonewall&qu...<i>Roughcoat said...General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson wrote highly articulate--and repulsive--exegeses on the moral and scriptural justifications for slavery. His apologetics on the subject were quite representative of his class. Jackson and his ilk didn't march off to war to end slavery, rather they went to war to preserve it, and spread it.</i><br /><br />Wikipedia - Jackson, section "slavery"<br /><br />Little as he was known to the white inhabitants of Lexington, Jackson was revered by many of the African Americans in town, both slaves and free blacks. He was instrumental in the organization in 1855 of Sunday School classes for blacks at the Presbyterian Church. His second wife, Mary Anna Jackson, taught with Jackson, as "he preferred that my labors should be given to the colored children, believing that it was more important and useful to put the strong hand of the Gospel under the ignorant African race, to lift them up."[26] The pastor, Dr. William Spottswood White, described the relationship between Jackson and his Sunday afternoon students: "In their religious instruction he succeeded wonderfully. His discipline was systematic and firm, but very kind. ... His servants reverenced and loved him, as they would have done a brother or father. ... He was emphatically the black man's friend." He addressed his students by name and they, in turn, referred to him affectionately as "Marse Major".[27]<br /><br />Jackson's family owned six slaves in the late 1850s. Three (Hetty, Cyrus, and George, a mother and two teenage sons) were received as a wedding present. Another, Albert, requested that Jackson purchase him and allow him to work for his freedom; he was employed as a waiter in one of the Lexington hotels and Jackson rented him to VMI. Amy also requested that Jackson purchase her from a public slave auction and she served the family as a cook and housekeeper. The sixth, Emma, was a four-year-old orphan with a learning disability, accepted by Jackson from an aged widow and presented to his second wife, Mary Anna, as a welcome-home gift.[28] After the American Civil War began he appears to have hired out or sold his slaves. Mary Anna Jackson, in her 1895 memoir, said, "our servants ... without the firm guidance and restraint of their master, the excitement of the times proved so demoralizing to them that he deemed it best for me to provide them with good homes among the permanent residents."[29] James Robertson wrote about Jackson's view on slavery:<br /><br />Jackson neither apologized for nor spoke in favor of the practice of slavery. He probably opposed the institution. Yet in his mind the Creator had sanctioned slavery, and man had no moral right to challenge its existence. The good Christian slaveholder was one who treated his servants fairly and humanely at all times.[30]HoodlumDoodlumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17591221162603652473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-46697041454350674902016-07-23T20:35:26.792-05:002016-07-23T20:35:26.792-05:00Meanwhile the acceptance of Bernie Sanders has alr...Meanwhile the acceptance of Bernie Sanders has already more or less legitimized socialism as a party to the national discourse. That is a true pity and shame.Bad Lieutenanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18091901464339059169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-38704175820003600132016-07-23T20:31:41.339-05:002016-07-23T20:31:41.339-05:00Ok...but isn't the bigger story that you guys ...Ok...but isn't the bigger story that you guys now have proof that the DNC was working (in a coordinated manner) against Bernie? Like, I get that this particular example involves the tactic of implying that he does not believe in God (and whether that's accurate or should be insulting/hurtful at all) is a big deal, but surely the BIGGER deal is that this opposition strategy discussion/action took place within the DNC?!HoodlumDoodlumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17591221162603652473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-84855837727311643502016-07-23T20:28:43.128-05:002016-07-23T20:28:43.128-05:00Prediction: This will be one of the last elections...Prediction: This will be one of the last elections when someone like Bernie has to hedge and the DNC can use atheism as a smear against Dems. It might work against GOPers for another cycle--you know, in the form of no-real-Christian-would hypocrisy mongering--but that'll be it.Sebastianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00505631054204611033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83486035520822520202016-07-23T19:56:58.317-05:002016-07-23T19:56:58.317-05:00I'm sure this was all discussed at the meeting...<i>I'm sure this was all discussed at the meeting Cheney had in his first few months as Presi--er, as "Vice" President--with oil company execs in his office. No minutes or any reporting on what was discussed at that meeting has ever been released.</i><br /><br />I'm sure a bullshit-addicted bullshit artist like yourself would be.<br /><br />The same "no report has ever been released" trope is evidence of anything you like, which is to say evidence of nothing.Quaestorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13688608372863540573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-90367112558930046772016-07-23T19:53:53.436-05:002016-07-23T19:53:53.436-05:00Oh, scratch that. I guess the meeting never happen...<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501842.html" rel="nofollow"> Oh, scratch that. I guess the meeting never happened as none of the oil companies sent representatives. </a>Robert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-54019654291724221812016-07-23T19:52:38.271-05:002016-07-23T19:52:38.271-05:00John said...
Is Jewishness a race or a religion?
...John said...<br /><i>Is Jewishness a race or a religion?</i><br /><br />It can be both. My DNA says that I'm 3% European Jewish, and I've never been in a Jewish place of worship, nor have any of my known relatives.AllenShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08848966772462502893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-61509939000395991052016-07-23T19:51:27.455-05:002016-07-23T19:51:27.455-05:00Sure it was. When I say "so we can control th...<i>Sure it was. When I say "so we can control the oil resources," I mean the Western Powers and the oil corporations for whom we act.</i><br /><br />Bullshit. Ex post facto bullshit, at that.Quaestorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13688608372863540573noreply@blogger.com