maybe it’s time to start seeing other species.
Fortunately, I’m Irish, so I don’t have any such issues with my goat.
Also, Ron Rosenbaum hates Jooooooos. (That may be the racistiest thing I ever typed).
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OK. I’m not getting the goat thing, Dan. Am I not drunk enough yet? Still, it was nice to see Jeff posted to Taylor’s site.
Here Bob. Hmm. I don’t think I like where he’s going with this. brb.
I don’t get that. Just try to be a nice person I think. Comfort when you can and take comfort when that feels like a healthy thing to do I think. Hmmm. Honestly without seeing a picture of Christopher I don’t think I can analyze this piece any further.
One time, hf, I talked about doing it in a library stall during final exams. I’ll never, ever talk about that again.
The public is going to be sorry if the feds mandate that facilities that recieve public money must perform abortions…
The Catholic Church has already said that they will be compelled to close many of the Hospitals and clinics they operate across America of this becomes official policy, rather than be forced to engage in what they believe to be murder…
The Catholic church operates many of these facilities in low income neighborhoods, where other hospitals and clinics will not locate, due to profitability issues as well as staff security and safety concerns.
Just as with raising gas prices in the interest of throttling down public consumption, this act will have enormous unintended comsequences; ones that disproportionately effect low income folks across the Nation…
While we’re on the brink of outlawing trans-fats, mandating wholefoods style organic grocers to relocate to low income neighborhoods, and de-facto banning non-diet soda’s through the mechanism of excessively taxing them, supposedly in the name of eliminating, or mitigating, obesity and statistically limiting diabetes, at the same time we’re going to mandate killing, predominantly low income folks; it’s another mind-boggling save-me-from-myself measure…
Oh well, it seems as if bread and circus, as a bone thrown to the plebs to placate them, will be replaced by arugula and abortions; in the brave new era of Obama we now live in…
Just another chapter in the narrative arc that is, “The story of O!“…
Completely agreed, Bob.
oh. That one sort of falls somewhere between the comfort/take comfort paradigm and something of a though I have read and enjoyed the letters sort of take on things. These are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
hf,
Were you referring to me!?!
And, what’s up with Ron Rosenbaum? Why’s he hatin’ on Billy Joel? His early tunes are pretty catchy; and not too many dudes have been able to rock a piano in pop music like that since the Killah!
Unless, of course, you liked Randy Newman…No offense if you did…
oh. #7 was to follow #4, but it didn’t.
I can’t talk about the abortion part cause I lack moral clarity on that issue. It’s like the little baby stem cells. I get very confused.
Ric has a lot of moral clarity and is wellspoken so I usually defer to him.
“Comfort when you can and take comfort when that feels like a healthy thing to do I think.”
Most times it’ll be over before she knows it. Where do you think the term “Minute Man” originated? Ace has had some interesting/funny threads on this subject lately.
I thought that was from the Revolutionary War or something.
Bob Reed
When MA told Catholic Charities “adopt out to homosexuals or else”, they chose “or else” and closed shop after 100 years.
It was cause they got ready really fast but they were set to go for three days it says.
I think it’s important to know it’s okay to love is all.
@ #5,
Bob, you think those pro-life services closing may hasten national healthcare? hummmm…
Oh, and I like Billy Joel. Man, I just don’t fit into society!
The Catholic Church has already said that they will be compelled to close many of the Hospitals and clinics they operate across America of this becomes official policy
So Obama just replaces the biblehumpers with government-run hospitals.
Everybody wins, bob.
oh. I see. At #2 I said Bob when I meant Big D. That was dumb of me. Billy Joel. I don’t dislike people who like Billy Joel even though I don’t like him all that much. People who really like U2 are usually annoying to me even though I really like U2. I don’t get it.
Uh, I don’t think so, snippy . . . what with all of that government funding and the Michelle Obama organizers on staff.
“So Obama just replaces the biblehumpers with government-run hospitals.”
Because we all know how much better the government runs things, right? Ever been to a VA hospital, snip?
Point is, snippy is a Papist hater, because like many other religious groups they represent an alternative to the socialists.
I’m sure all those government run hospitals will be as good as King-Drew.
Because being pro-abortion is a much more important criteria of a “good health care” than, say, quality pediatrics.
Dan
veggie is an equal opportunity hater – he hates those other biblehumpers, too – the Jewish Jews.
What I find humorous is when you right wing extremists expect regular Americans to take your biased opinions as facts.
If the god botherers what to suckle at the government teat, they have to suppress their superstitions.
Somehow, I think money will trump faith.
What I find humorous is that you think of yourself as a normal American.
Bigotry. Nice.
“Somehow, I think”
Bwahahahahaha! Good one alphie
Plus Blackie O’s job at the hospital in Chicago was to get all those uninsured patients using the Emergency Room for routine care out of there and into neighborhood clinics and seeing family doctors to create uncollectible receivables for those care providers instead of the hospital. It’s called loss shifting folks, but that’s not the way Michelle and the Obama team described it.
“Somehow, I think”
Not on this planet, snip.
Yes, Daleyrocks, but it was loss shifting with NUANCE.
lee,
I recognize the Machiavellian thought process. It will be up to us realists to point out the left’s willingness to promote short term suffering amongst the low income folks in order to achieve their political ends…
By any means necessary is not as amusing when your child suffers because the church was forced to close it’s hospital due to the government…
Although the MSM may not cast the discussion in that light, you think the Priest won’t do so from the pulpit..?
feets @13 & 15 – I think the soldiers stole the name as a double entendre, but I could be wrong here. I’m liking my version because I just made it up.
Darleen,
I was not aware of the precedent; thanks for the info…
Nobody’s forcing churches to close their hospitals, Bob.
It’s their silly dogma that will do that.
Doing this in the bluest of the blue areas is one thing. It’s going to be interesting to see them try this elsewhere. Baylor is a huge force in the medical community down here and somehow I don’t think they’ll just roll over.
The Weldon Amendment is not an opinion, veggie, and it still stands as law.
Forcing doctors/nurses/hospitals to perform abortions like akin to forcing them to any other elective surgery they might disagree with (circumcision, voluntary amputation, breast augmentation on a teenager) or forcing doctors to participate in executions by lethal injection in states that have legal death penalities as a condition of keeping their medical license.
shorter leftist statist: You are free to comply with MY whims.
“silly dogma”
Surprise! More bigotry from snippy.
Yeah, it’s their breathing that makes them die.
“Yes, Daleyrocks, but it was loss shifting with NUANCE.”
Big D – NUANCE and PURPOSE. That’s what why they paid her the big bucks, right, not as a quid pro quo for actual and future earmarks. Emergency Rooms are not an efficient way to deliver primary or preventive care. Blackie O was encouraging the development of the HEALTH CARE SYSTEM OF THE FUTURE!! All Hail Releprompter Jesus (Pbuh)!!!
Government run like this ?
parsnip,
we’ll see what the folks think when they’re told they have to wait for a vital operation, but that the abortion center will perform same day service…
I’m thinkin’ that no matter how hard O! sells it, there are many religious folks in the black community that won’t be buyin’…
And don’t even start on the majority Catholic hispanics…You don’t think their Priests will be telling them how the government oppressed their religion, their culture!, by trying to force abortion on them..?
Oh yeah, that’ll go over well with them…
Beside’s where is all this government dough coming from? They jus’ gonna print more at thetreasurey or what..?
O! wants to spend two trillion additional dollars next year; can you comprehend that amount?
And an extra trillion per year after, if he has his way…
No room for health care in all that payola…
I’m not sure it’s bigotry, Big D…I find all religions equally ridiculous.
ok. I think that’s valid. Christopher doesn’t address foreplay though. I think foreplay is a big deal.
Let’s just run that up the flagpole so to speak.
parsnip,
That silly dogma is their belief…
Just like your belief in the omnipotence of government
“silly dogmaâ€Â
I think Jane Hamster of Dog Shit Lake labeling Joe Lieberman “Rape Gurney Joe” for his disagreements with her dogma in thiese areas was pretty silly.
Oh, it’s bigotry, parsnip.
Daleyrocks, I was being sarcastic. Sorry…
“I find all religions equally ridiculous.”
Except your libtard belief system.
Haha Bob,
I don’t believe government is omnipotent.
I just think it’s more powerful than religion.
Just like the Constitution says.
“Just like the Constitution says.”
You’re stupider than a box of rocks vegetable matter.
Yeah, parsnip. Everyone knows that the country was founded by those well known atheists Washington, Jefferson, et al.
I was thinking “Bag of hammers” but “Box of rocks” sums it up nicely.
I was going to ask our resident self-embarrasser for a quote from the constitution to back up his latest silly assertion…
Upon review, that forces me to engage. I refuse to take the mental back-steps required.
Better to read it’s droppings and laugh!
“…Trix® are for kids!”
Hmmm, no. What other spokesanimal did you have in mind for this new cereal?
If Obama cuts off their funding, do you think the churchies will abide by the will of the people, or run to the courts?
“If Obama cuts off their funding, do you think the churchies will abide by the will of the people, or run to the courts?”
C – None of the above
If the funding gets cut off Baracky will blame Harry and Nancy or some committee chair. This is not a brave man we’re talking about here. He’s sort of a punk.
Oh, and to get back to it, why don’t you tell us how comments like “Godbotherers, biblehumpers, and silly dogma” do not constitute bigotry. Rationalize away, parsnip.
The same way Baracky’s hate-whitey church what him and his Afrocentric baby momma supported wasn’t racist Bob.
“If Obama cuts off their funding,”
Yea because the Catholic church is in it for the money. You’re dumber than a carrot.
Why do I keep calling you Bob?
I’m Big D, Happyfeet. Twice in one thread. Man, those must be some good enchiladas!
Coffee time I think.
You can call me anything you want, just don’t call me late for happy hour!
Federal funding means federal control. Most churches, and especially sects like the Amish, understand that and want no part of it. That’s hard to empathize with if, like so many do-gooders, you believe that the government should control everything so long as liberals control the government.
Big D, Bob’s yer Uncle.
“Coffee time I think.”
If by coffee you mean booze, then yes, yes it is.
snippy, grow a brain.
Thoare, suck my sphincter.
My work here is done for the evening.
Big D, Bob’s yer Uncle.
Could be I suppose. Family tree has a lot of branches. I have a brother named Bob, except he spells it backwards.
daleyrocks,
You owe me a new laptop, Bro, for that Blackie O quip; I spewed red wine all over it before I fell on the floor laughing…
May I feel free to casually drop that one, you know, in conversation with my lefty friends and relatives?
“Let’s just run that up the flagpole so to speak.”
Okay happy,
Just when I finished cleaning the wine off of my laptop, you had to come along with this line, eh?
I need another rag…
And, I mean, it’s not gonna be able to stand hittin’ the floor many more times, I don’t think…
Learned that a while back, Bob. Whenever I see a comment from Happyfeet, I put the drink down before reading!
“Haha Bob,
I don’t believe government is omnipotent.
I just think it’s more powerful than religion.
Just like the Constitution says</i?.”
Actually parsnip, it defers to religion, much like it does for everything else it considers an individuals most intrinsic private property; property that the government, nor any other individual, can confiscate, dictate, or specify…
So if government is sooooo much more powerful than religion, why is it that the same entity is so deferential to it..?
Riddle me that, parsnip…
It’s because our constitution respects the quintessential right of the responsible individual to their most valuable privte property…
My wife just brought home, and I quote her, “a Damn nice Merlot.” I’ll check back later to see if snippy has answered (Not likely). Happy Saturday to all!
As was said so eloquently by McGoohan’s character number 6 in the series, “The Prisoner”; I will not be pushed, filed , stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered!”…
Kentucky Coffee, Big D.
Bob,
I gotta say, this superstitious Dog whistle->Dog ears stuff is lost on me.
It’s true, Obama plans to cater to religious Hispanics just enough to put Texas in the “Blue” column next time around.
But I think the days when cracker pharmacists can refuse to sell medicine they consider bad vodoo is coming to an end.
For them, I would suggest a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries.
As for “Rape Gurney Joe,” he seems to be behaving like a good little poodle since Obama took over.
because, by golly, if you live in Oregon and one particular pharmacist refuses to sell you the stuff so you can kill yourself, you’re entitled to sue him out of a job rather than just go next door to another pharmacist that will be happy to help you commit suicide.
“If Obama cuts off their funding, do you think the churchies will abide by the will of the people, or run to the courts?”…
How will Obama cut off their funding parsip; he can only propose budgets, congress has control of the purse-strings so to speak…
Remember? It’s right there in that Constitution you claim to know oh-so-well…
Or does the one! govern by fiat now..?
And I don’t think folks will take him cutting off money to faith-based charities very well, at least no when he’s sending money overseas to fund
genocide of brown peopleabortions..?And all when we are suffering such a financial crisis at home, non-the-less..?
Sounds out of touch to me…
I think you’ll be amazed how powerful the Presidency has become, Bob.
*giggle*
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Comment by Big D on 1/24 @ 7:08 pm #
Oh, and to get back to it, why don’t you tell us how comments like “Godbotherers, biblehumpers, and silly dogma†do not constitute bigotry. Rationalize away, parsnip.
Answer the damn question parsnip.
how powerful the Presidency has become
The UN, too. And also greasy thug labor unions. And ACORN. And also NPR and eunuch academics and Orlando Bloom and the American Bar Association. But definitely not America per se. Baracky don’t play that way.
It’s all about soft power these days, happy.
I’m not intolerant of religions, Big D.
They just crack me up.
No it’s not at all about soft power. Baracky will fuck you up. His media went postal on that poor little plumber guy. Imagine what he’ll do now that he has direct reports.
“It’s true, Obama plans to cater to religious Hispanics just enough to put Texas in the “Blue†column next time around.”
Careful parsnip!
You’re making it sound like O! can be disingenuous, manipulative, or Machiavellian…
YOU’RE BADMOUTHING THE DEMOCRAT MESSIAH!!1!1!OHNOES!1!1!!eleventy!1!11!
Just don’t do it again, or the black helicopters will be comin’ for you…
The thing about black helicopters is, someone has to order them. We would like to take delivery of three helicopters please. Err… black I think will do nicely. Yes. Three black helicopters please. Oh. Hahaha. Right… black helicopters… like we’re those black helicopter guys. Oh that’s funny. Um. Ok then. Thanks.
I didn’t say you were intolerant, snip, I said you were a bigot. Nice deflection. Your answer speaks for itself.
I’m not intolerant of religions, Big D.
They just crack me up.
Let’s just try that out, snip.
I’m not intolerant of Puerto Ricans….
I’m not intolerant of blacks…
I’m not intolerant of asians….
I’m not intolerant of jews….
They just crack me up.
Doesn’t look so funny now does it, parsnip?
“Comment by parsnip on 1/24 @ 8:06 pm #
I think you’ll be amazed how powerful the Presidency has become, Bob“…
I think that if people like yourself go around crowing about this too much, even those that pay no attention to current events will recognize the hypocrisy of the crowd that soent the last 7 years breathlessly decrying the president as a Dictator! and talking about BusHitler!…
Now, stop weaseling around; either affress my refutations of your idiotic taunts at #’s 73, 79 and 85 or dry up, blow away, and STFU. Because if you can’t back up your rants, then you are simply detracting from the conversation here…
Why are you folks wasting a Saturday night arguing with a fascist telephone pole?
happy,
I was implyin’ that baracky’s brownshirts would be monitoring parsnip’s blasphemy and they would be sending the black helicopters, the same ones they have been nattering about over the years…
I was tryin’ to be witty; but I guess it was more nit-witty!
Don’t go away mad, parsnip, just, well you’re familiar with the rest. You’ve heard it plenty.
oh. no. I got your point. I was just being random. alphie is very bigoted but mostly I think he’s just kind of excited that he feels he is part of something bigger than himself even if he doesn’t really understand it. You see that a lot here in the Hollywood part of Los Angeles. Most of them aren’t bad people it’s just awkward cause you know they just have to learn on their own.
I agree hf,
It must be hard sometimes for you in L.A.
It may be the only place in the country that is to the left of NYC…
Except I think San Francisco’s got them both beat!
he’s just kind of excited that he feels he is part of something bigger than himself
Don’t mean to sound like a broken record on this, but…
Well, SPB, it bears repeating. I almost feel like getting hold of a copy of “It Can’t Happen Here”. Or maybe just “V”.
I’m not ashamed to admit I’m seriously worried about where we’re headed.
Answer the damn question snippy.
oh. It never occurred to me to be ashamed to say omg we just elected a logo. A dirty socialist jug-eared doofus nothingburger logo what has control of two houses of congress and his own private media and his own private cult of empty empty pipples and a sympathetic dirty socialist bureaucracy and an army of greasy union thugs and his own private arrangements with international socialists what hate my little country. We are so so fucked.
happyfeet,
You forgot his eeeeeeevil, perpetually angry woman, Blackie O!, as daleyrocks so pithily named her…
She is the real reason that he hung in Rev Wrights church all those years…
I believe that she is a succubus…
I’m now off to teach my oldest kids about the finer points of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Their first time and my bazilionth time. Have fun all. 100
She is angry but, more, she’s aggrieved, and her whisperings will be the last thing Baracky hears at night. Every night. This is not the stuff of hope.
Just knowing that she is the last thing Barky sees before going to sleep and the first thing he see when waking up is scary. Who the hell wants to sleep with a Yeti?
I’m not intolerant of religions, Big D.
They just crack me up.
Let’s just try that out, snip.
I’m not intolerant of Puerto Ricans….
I’m not intolerant of blacks…
I’m not intolerant of asians….
I’m not intolerant of jews….
They just crack me up.
Doesn’t look so funny now does it, parsnip?
I have this one marked. I will throw it at you until you answer it parsnip. Answer for your bigotry.
Somehow, I think money will trump faith.
I don’t think you even know what that means.
“And don’t even start on the majority Catholic hispanics…You don’t think their Priests will be telling them how the government oppressed their religion, their culture!, by trying to force abortion on them..?”
The Hispanics have too many children. What isn’t there to understand about this? Why do you think that Planned Parenthood was founded?
As for the humor and funny stuff that parsnip expects… people of faith will die for it. If given no choice but an OB that is willing to kill babies, women will have their babies without medical care. If forced to provide abortions, hospitals will close. If the government tries to force either the hospitals to stay open or women to have medical care for births, it will go the way of the midwives in the time of Moses, who seemed always to arrive too late to carry out the dictates of pharaoh.
It’s not just the doctors who would face being forced to violate their consciences.
I don’t think that parsnip has any notion how many women are strongly pro-life and how many of them *now* will not see an OB that they know performs abortions and who would not see one if they were given no choice.
alphie has decended so far into the dumb that he thinks the President of the United States can cut off funding to the Roman Catholic Church?
ALCON – stop talking with someone that stupid. You’ll sprain something.
You can choose religion, not so much with ethnicity, ya illogical hooha.
And yet… freedom to make that choice, to have freedom in our minds and sovereignty over our conscience was seen as vital to anything resembling liberty.
The Right to conscience, to not be forced to worship contrary to our faith, or limited in our rights to participate in public life due to our faith, was so enormously central to the founding of our nation.
And now the “enlightened” see no conflict in restricting the liberty of what we hold in our heads and hearts, to choose what belongs there, because it is a choice? Our only freedoms belong to our birth? None to our thoughts? None to our conscience?
So illogical of us. So quaint. To think that freedom of thought, belief, conscience, religion… those things… have any intrinsic value to our identity as something more than a creature of physical attributes and animal reactions.
What do you imagine liberty *is*?
What do you imagine it means to be human?
America, a collectivist land of the intelligent
Stay off the guy’s property. What’s so hard about that?
Heehaw.
And I’m confident everyone will pay their fair tax share.
I’ve been wondering, snippy. Are you going to tell us why you think Geert Wilders is a racist? And while we’re at it, how are you not a racist?
I noticed that for the 2008 elections, a lot of faithful Catholics voted Democratic. The Catholic church is politically the very model of the “Compassionate Conservative” stereotype. They’ve coupled anti-abortion with anti-capital punishment and anti-war under the pro-life banner, and made big points to being in favor of “social justice” and “immigrant rights” (read universal health care, “living wage” and against crackdowns on illegal immigration.) As such, a fair number of faithful Catholics voted Democratic in 2008. Of course, it helped the Democrats that the media ignored Obama’s strongly pro-abortion views.
With the war in Iraq and Afghanistan fading from political importance, issues like this will only serve to push the Catholics back towards the Republican party, as it exposes how pro-abortion the Democratic party is and begins to dig into the Democratic parties claims regarding government run health care.
About 24% of Americans are Catholic. Barky got 52% of the vote.
Many of them may have voted for him this time, but I strongly suspect that would change if Catholic hospitals and schools started closing down.
Then there are all the non-Catholics who use those resources (I personally prefer Catholic hospitals, even though I’m not Catholic myself).
Maybe somebody in Barky’s posse can do arithmetic?
Interesting book SBP.
“Written circa 1951, he studied the Nazi’s, the Fascist’s, and the Communist’s because it was here where the successful techniques of conversion had been perfected and applied.”
I’m pro-choice when it comes to abortions. Each hospital should decide for themselves whether they want to conduct them. To force them would be fascist, no?
I find it fascinating/horrifying that Parsnip is so cavalier about promoting the genocide of brown babies.
Speaking of which, didn’t Obama just kill 3 innocent babies in that missile strike in Pakistan?
Does anyone know if the left wept or cheered? I knew the answer on Jan 19th.
The justification contortions have been equally fascinating.
Thanks for the link; by the way the first amendment clearly states that the goverment shall not pass any laws that prohibit free expression of religion, and the founding fathers were more clear on freedom of conscience than any other topic.
Speaking of which, didn’t Obama just kill 3 innocent babies in that missile strike in Pakistan?
Does anyone know if the left wept or cheered? I knew the answer on Jan 19th.
The time for clinging to “The News” has passed Mr. B.
Can you ladle soup at the mission while watching the news?
Can you get in your neighbor’s face and wake him up to the importance of all of us acting as one big do-gooding blob of humanity while watching the news?
No. The answer is no.
how many women are strongly pro-life
Radical feminists would have you know that such women are not really choosing such a stance on their own … they are merely the puppets of oppressive, patriarchal men and hate other women. They are incapable of voting in their own self-interest.
Pro-life females are inauthentic women and cannot be ever listened to.
There’s just something about feeling a child move in your womb, you know.