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Blogs for Lunatic Hyperbole 2007-05-07 17:25:00 I guess when you’ve got little in the way of real argument you may as well assert something truly absurd and hope no one calls your bluff.
Ah, save the planet! For what? Supposing you could actually figure out the optimum number of people and the optimum amount of resource consumption so that the earth replenishes as fast as it is used - the world would last for ever! You would have saved the planet! But, for what? Eventually, the sun goes cold and the whole planet dies. We’re saving vapor.
The Crime of Having a Child
How many billion years are we talking about there Mark? Even you cannot be idiot enough to honestly believe that this is a valid point? It is like arguing, “Why wear a parachute, you are going to die in sixty years anyway?” Except that… well… the argument about the Sun going cold is more nuts by orders of magnitude.
Of course, why worry? It will all work out in heaven!
If you have faith in the life of the world to come, then wish to Read more:Blogs
, Hyperbole
Distasteful vs. Illegal 2007-05-06 21:56:24 Browsing The Aggressive Voice Daily I can find quite a few lines I can’t tow, but an article on the “Hate Crimes Prevention Act” seems to be on the right track.
The “Hate Crimes Prevention Act” sounds like a good idea when you read it, but… it should be opposed primary because Congress has no business legislating our thoughts - however bigoted they may be. Punishing someone harder for committing a likewise offense as someone else but for “hateful” purposes is a violation of the First Amendment’s free speech clause and maybe even the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause, and would probably not pass constitutional muster with the Supreme Court.
Aggressive-Voice Daily: A Crime to Hate Homosexuals?
I’m willing to say that that is a fair assessment. The law has to focus on the criminal behavior itself and not on the motivation for that behavior. Motivation, really, is thought– opinion, conviction, belief&n
“All alone, just her and I…” 2007-05-06 18:53:48 Ugly Naked Guy is a wee bit bent out of shape over a poem about a cow, though granted it is a cow in the &ldquo
;why buy the cow when you can get the free&rdquo
; sense. And it is a wretchedly bad piece of poetrically trite verse. It does have a low brow tongue in cheek wit to it though, and it ends with a bang. Great piece of comedic misdirection overall.
I mention it because Uglee Naked Guy has had a bit of a cow over it. Why? Well, the poem has certain vague sexual overtones to it. Sex. Yes, the big ugly. The nasty. The ‘its perfectly good and fine and natural and all that but we shouldn’t talk about it and we should hide it from our kids.’
Sigh. File this under “bizarre american sexuality”. The math teacher, though, apparently isn’t so afflicted with american weirdness about sex. He liked the poem. Good for him.
Honestly, something tends to happen to people in this country starting around the age of 19 or 20. Somewhere around then people, generall Read more:alone
, hellip
Mark, the ICC, paranoia, and… well, lies. 2005-10-20 18:47:50 The fact that we did not become part to the International Criminal Court (ICC) is just one of the many reasons the left hates President Bush. Putting the whole world under the governance of a non-American court irresponsible to any elected body is a dream of leftists - a place where they could quietly enforce their leftist worldview without all that tiresome democracy stuff getting in the way.
Blogs for Bush: The White House Of The Blogosphere: Why We’re Not Part of the International Criminal Court
Lol!
I’d hate to be this paranoid, though if high ranking officials in the administration to which I was subservient were under indictment, with more indictments to come, I’d probably be a bit paranoid as well.
I’d also hate to be this disconnected from reality, and there are several levels of disconnection here. The first is that the ill-defined ‘left’ hates Bush. That may be true but it glosses over the fact that there aren’t really that many har Read more:hellip
Blogs for a Catholic Country 2007-05-10 16:35:20 Noonan is a wee bit bent out of shape over abortion.
This is making it ever more inescapable - the choice is between voting to keep/make abortion legal, or being a Catholic
…
Standing Even Stronger for the Culture of Life
But what he ought to be concerned about is the rather tremendous authority over US law that he’s willing to give a foreign power.
… I’ve been waiting for those with authority to speak clearly on the issue.
Standing Even Stronger for the Culture of Life
The authority in question is the Catholic Church, but consider how inflamed the right would be if some other foreign power tried to tell US citizens how to vote, even obliquely? Mark himself has railed against US involvement in the International Criminal Court on the grounds that the US ought not be subject to foreign, non-democratic, governance. Interesting… when the ‘governance’ is the Church it seems not to matter that it is foreign, and non-democratic– but then Mark Read more:Blogs
, Country
Blogs for Troop Petitions 2007-05-10 15:06:50 Why lookie here at how them troops are standing up to da Defeatocrats! They’ve issued an Appeal to Courage, they sure have.
The Appeal for Courage, a petition signed by more than 2,700 U.S. service members since February 2007 asks Congress to fully support the mission and reject calls for retreat. According to the site, 60% of the signatories are serving, or have previously served, in Iraq.
Blogs
for Bush: The White House Of The Blogosphere: Troop
s Petition Congress To Stop Calls For Retreat
Twenty-seven hundred troops so far. Out of what? 158,000 or so (currently serving). Wow. That is what? A percent? Staggering. Overwhelming. Gosh that Bush sure has a strong base.
Note too that only about 60% of the signatories “are serving, or have previously served, in Iraq.” Sheesh! Nothing like making something of nothing. Read more:Petitions
Blogs for the Hitler Card 2007-05-10 14:46:11 There is no one in power in the world today who is remotely like Hitler
. There is nothing in the world today remotely like Hitler’s war machine. Still, why let that get in the way of paranoid, lunatic, hyper-exaggeration?
We can live in reality and deal with it, harsh as it may be, or we can bury our heads in the sand and hope the wolf will leave us alone…but, eventually, the wolf will come for us, if we haven’t killed him first. It is fight now, on our terms, or fight later, on their terms. The choice is ours.
Blogs
for Bush: The White House Of The Blogosphere: 67 Years Ago Today
Its not like we are talking about people’s lives! Oh… wait… we are talking about people’s lives.
I read somewhere recently that playing the Hitler card is a sure sign that a person has run out of reasonable things to say.
You can never have too much help 2007-05-09 23:05:44 Debunking religious flakery. Take a look at mystic bourgeoisie:
The unlikely story of how America slipped the surly bonds of earth & came to believe in signs & portents that would make the middle ages blush.
You can never have too much help 2007-05-09 22:28:13 Debunking religious flakery. Take a look at mystic bourgeoisie:
The unlikely story of how America slipped the surly bonds of earth & came to believe in signs & portents that would make the middle ages blush.
You can never have too much help 2007-05-09 22:17:23 Debunking religious flakery. Take a look at mystic bourgeoisie:
The unlikely story of how America slipped the surly bonds of earth & came to believe in signs & portents that would make the middle ages blush.
Help! Help! Save the children! 2007-05-09 16:37:28 When I see article like this one at United Families International I can’t help but think, “How divorced from reality do you have to be… how ignorant of history do you have to be… how blind to the basic facts of human civilization… how foolishly ethnocentric do you have to be be to actually believe that the Family– with a capital ‘F’– is in danger or that the ‘The Children’ are threatened?” The ‘Family’ has popped up in every civilization we know about. ‘The Family’ just seem to be ever present. Look around. Every culture has got one. No exceptions. The ‘Family’ really just flows directly from human reproductive biology, which leads me to suggest another question, “How ignorant of human biology do you have to be to think that the ‘Family’ is in danger and ‘The Children’ are threatened?”
Of course, not all families look the same cross cultura
Guns, Germs & Steeled… 2007-05-09 03:01:33 &hellip
; takes a stab at the pitiful US media and global warming denial all in the same post. Nice. Read more:Germs
Steal ‘em? Hell, we’ll eat ‘em too. 2007-05-09 02:53:59 Phonelesscord has published a post titled “Eco Freaks Want to Steal
Your Babies!” attacking the same nutball B4B post that I skewered a day or two ago.
Several of phonelesscord’s points are worth quoting. Noting Noonan’s dicotomy of &lsquo
;human needs vs. non-human needs’ phonelesscord writes:
Here's the problem with this analysis. This is not about a conflict between human needs and non-human needs - it's all about human needs. Your children? Your children's children? They are humans too, and they will need stuff!
Eco Freaks Want to Steal Your Babies!
And in case you haven’t yet caught the gist of both my post and PLC’s:
…but the OPT is not advocating for slowing population growth in order to save the Golden Throated Platypus of Northeastern Croatia or something (although I would think that stewards of God's creation might show a little interest in this sort of project) - they're doing it out of concern for future human bein
worldwide opinions says… 2007-05-08 20:19:44
&hellip
; Welcome to the latest edition of the Worldwide Opinions blog carnival.
I’ll tell ya in my memoirs… like hell 2007-05-08 17:05:19 The Greenbelt: Not another F#@cking Book:
We cannot afford to wait till then, for thousands more dead Americans, for tens or hundreds of thousands more dead Iraqis, for more loss of American prestige and influence and morality.
And, oh yeah: memo to Wolf - don’t laugh with these people. They are not funny - they are terrifying.
Read more:hellip
Manly Manly Men Full of Manliness 2007-05-08 16:29:35 Maybe too full?
Apparently, we as a society “contributed to the slaughter of the Virginia Tech students and teachers who were there”. We contributed to the slaughter by being wusses. We helped the killing by being weenies, momma’s boys, and swishy waisted pansies. Ouch.
After dragging myself away from the irony at the top left corner– a handsome hot young male nude sculpted by a gay man along aesthetic lines laid down by a civilization that liked its pederasty– I read my way through fantasies of heroism.
I would like to say that were I in that situation, I would jump that sucker grab his gun away from him and pound him senseless with it.
What We Would Do
Note: I said “fantasies”.
The reality is that it would probably be a race to see if I pissed my pants before or after I dived under a desk.
What We Would Do
But the author, tony, can envision himself doing it.
But I can envision myself doing it.
What We Would Do
Why? Because he’s a MAN. Read more:Manly
Changes to the site 2007-05-13 18:26:42 The upgrade and alterations continue. I hope to finish them soon and get back to blogging.
The upgrade is not responsible for the slow load times. That problem began before I started the upgrade.
I discovered, much to my annoyance, that a Wordpress Theme called “3k2redux klee by Michael Heilemann & Chris J Davis” hides a god-damned site tracker in the code.
… back to work.
Should we let Jeffrey take his gun to the Safeway? 2007-05-12 17:28:55 I mean, those slow lines are killers.
Man Jeffrey
Francis Cullen, a 59 year-old-man of Kingman, shot at firefighters because they refused to go and get the man's cat out of a tree. Read more:Safeway
I like DocMike 2007-05-12 01:14:59 By The Book Comics: “I meet an awful lot of Christians who have absolutely no idea of the injustice, absurdity, cruelty, violence, intolerance, and contradictions the Bible contains. And still, they consider it to be the inerrant word of God. My goal is to point out some of its weaknesses and reveal the Bible for what it really is: An antiquated book of mythology assembled by an elite group of power mongers to control the minds of their contemporaries. Amen.”
Blogs for a Catholic Country 2007-05-10 16:35:20 Noonan is a wee bit bent out of shape over abortion.
This is making it ever more inescapable - the choice is between voting to keep/make abortion legal, or being a Catholic
…
Standing Even Stronger for the Culture of Life
But what he ought to be concerned about is the rather tremendous authority over US law that he’s willing to give a foreign power.
… I’ve been waiting for those with authority to speak clearly on the issue.
Standing Even Stronger for the Culture of Life
The authority in question is the Catholic Church, but consider how inflamed the right would be if some other foreign power tried to tell US citizens how to vote, even obliquely? Mark himself has railed against US involvement in the International Criminal Court on the grounds that the US ought not be subject to foreign, non-democratic, governance. Interesting… when the ‘governance’ is the Church it seems not to matter that it is foreign, and non-democratic– but then Mark Read more:Blogs
, Country
Blogs for Troop Petitions 2007-05-10 15:06:50 Why lookie here at how them troops are standing up to da Defeatocrats! They’ve issued an Appeal to Courage, they sure have.
The Appeal for Courage, a petition signed by more than 2,700 U.S. service members since February 2007 asks Congress to fully support the mission and reject calls for retreat. According to the site, 60% of the signatories are serving, or have previously served, in Iraq.
Blogs
for Bush: The White House Of The Blogosphere: Troop
s Petition Congress To Stop Calls For Retreat
Twenty-seven hundred troops so far. Out of what? 158,000 or so (currently serving). Wow. That is what? A percent? Staggering. Overwhelming. Gosh that Bush sure has a strong base.
Note too that only about 60% of the signatories “are serving, or have previously served, in Iraq.” Sheesh! Nothing like making something of nothing. Read more:Petitions
Blogs for the Hitler Card 2007-05-10 14:46:11 There is no one in power in the world today who is remotely like Hitler
. There is nothing in the world today remotely like Hitler’s war machine. Still, why let that get in the way of paranoid, lunatic, hyper-exaggeration?
We can live in reality and deal with it, harsh as it may be, or we can bury our heads in the sand and hope the wolf will leave us alone…but, eventually, the wolf will come for us, if we haven’t killed him first. It is fight now, on our terms, or fight later, on their terms. The choice is ours.
Blogs
for Bush: The White House Of The Blogosphere: 67 Years Ago Today
Its not like we are talking about people’s lives! Oh… wait… we are talking about people’s lives.
I read somewhere recently that playing the Hitler card is a sure sign that a person has run out of reasonable things to say.
You can never have too much help 2007-05-09 23:05:44 Debunking religious flakery. Take a look at mystic bourgeoisie:
The unlikely story of how America slipped the surly bonds of earth & came to believe in signs & portents that would make the middle ages blush.
Help! Help! Save the children! 2007-05-09 16:37:28 When I see article like this one at United Families International I can’t help but think, “How divorced from reality do you have to be… how ignorant of history do you have to be… how blind to the basic facts of human civilization… how foolishly ethnocentric do you have to be be to actually believe that the Family– with a capital ‘F’– is in danger or that the ‘The Children’ are threatened?” The ‘Family’ has popped up in every civilization we know about. ‘The Family’ just seem to be ever present. Look around. Every culture has got one. No exceptions. The ‘Family’ really just flows directly from human reproductive biology, which leads me to suggest another question, “How ignorant of human biology do you have to be to think that the ‘Family’ is in danger and ‘The Children’ are threatened?”
Of course, not all families look the same cross cultura
Guns, Germs & Steeled… 2007-05-09 03:01:33 &hellip
; takes a stab at the pitiful US media and global warming denial all in the same post. Nice. Read more:Germs
Steal ‘em? Hell, we’ll eat ‘em too. 2007-05-09 02:53:59 Phonelesscord has published a post titled “Eco Freaks Want to Steal
Your Babies!” attacking the same nutball B4B post that I skewered a day or two ago.
Several of phonelesscord’s points are worth quoting. Noting Noonan’s dicotomy of &lsquo
;human needs vs. non-human needs’ phonelesscord writes:
Here's the problem with this analysis. This is not about a conflict between human needs and non-human needs - it's all about human needs. Your children? Your children's children? They are humans too, and they will need stuff!
Eco Freaks Want to Steal Your Babies!
And in case you haven’t yet caught the gist of both my post and PLC’s:
…but the OPT is not advocating for slowing population growth in order to save the Golden Throated Platypus of Northeastern Croatia or something (although I would think that stewards of God's creation might show a little interest in this sort of project) - they're doing it out of concern for future human bein
worldwide opinions says… 2007-05-08 20:19:44
&hellip
; Welcome to the latest edition of the Worldwide Opinions blog carnival.
I’ll tell ya in my memoirs… like hell 2007-05-08 17:05:19 The Greenbelt: Not another F#@cking Book:
We cannot afford to wait till then, for thousands more dead Americans, for tens or hundreds of thousands more dead Iraqis, for more loss of American prestige and influence and morality.
And, oh yeah: memo to Wolf - don’t laugh with these people. They are not funny - they are terrifying. Read more:hellip
Manly Manly Men Full of Manliness 2007-05-08 16:29:35 Maybe too full?
Apparently, we as a society “contributed to the slaughter of the Virginia Tech students and teachers who were there”. We contributed to the slaughter by being wusses. We helped the killing by being weenies, momma’s boys, and swishy waisted pansies. Ouch.
After dragging myself away from the irony at the top left corner– a handsome hot young male nude sculpted by a gay man along aesthetic lines laid down by a civilization that liked its pederasty– I read my way through fantasies of heroism.
I would like to say that were I in that situation, I would jump that sucker grab his gun away from him and pound him senseless with it.
What We Would Do
Note: I said “fantasies”.
The reality is that it would probably be a race to see if I pissed my pants before or after I dived under a desk.
What We Would Do
But the author, tony, can envision himself doing it.
But I can envision myself doing it.
What We Would Do
Why? Because he’s a MAN. Read more:Manly
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