Hey. It’s no WITCHCRAFT REVELATION! — which as we know will kill a candidacy absolutely dead (even if you’d still vote for an ersatz witch whom you think tacky and wacky, and whom you fear will be laughed out of civil society by the all-important sophisticates); but at least it’s something, right?
Right?
(h/t Riehl)
You know, I saw that the first day it was up at powerline, and saved a screenshot of it
http://powip.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/pline-irony-cover.jpg
Because, the irony is a delicious; just below the lede they have an ad running for what looks like a new-agey kind of book that talks about awakening the power within you, and has a lady’s silhouette and a pentagram on the cover!
You expect something true to trump a big lie? And you claim some sort of expertise in language usage?
Don’t look now, but the guy selling you that bridge, it might be a scam.
As JD will attest, I have a flowing mane that would make a young Barry Gibb reach for the Rogaine in a panic. So, in my opinion, the biggest knock against Coons is that he’s a chrome dome. No offense to any baldies that hang out here. (including baldilocks)
That Coons dude is one whipsawed son of a gun, ain’t he? Maybe he’s simpler than he thinks he is.
Yeah, I’m thinking the beard may have been from Kenya, but the Marxism was from Amherst.
Cultural Anthropology inspired a fascination with other peoples, and undermined the accepted value of progress and the cultural superiority of the West.[…]
Obviously it never occured to him to ask if our culture wasn’t superior, why were there Cargo Cults in New Guinea?
Bob, no doubt Google inserted that ad precisely because the post contained references to witchcraft; it’s still funny, but I’m not sure it qualifies as irony.
– I would imagine Leftist poly-sci profs everywhere are giggling watching all the havoc and confusion they’ve wrought.
– Yes we fall short of our ideals. The point they avoid is not one damn country in the world besides ourselves even try. They’ve made a good living out of parsing the truth to their advantage.
– Maybe we’d all have been better off if that huge boulder would have squashed Indiana Jones.
So this guy goes all the way to Kenya to become a Marxist? Shit, Kenyan’s have been coming here for years for the same reasons.
It does seem like ‘a coals to new castle’ problem. when’s the last conservative that went to Amherst, there is a difference between testifying her faith, by showing where he faltered, and actually stating
a policy preference
Yes, but kevin Kline was genuinely funnier than you
Wanda was smarter than UR, george. So were the chips stuffed up Michael Palin’s nose with ketchup.
“Apes don’t read Nietzsche!”
“Yes they do, Otto. They just don’t understand it.”
Legacy opinions like legacy admissions don’t have anything real behind them.
Who ate him alive and spit out a clone.
“Aristotle was NOT Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is NOT, “Every man for himself.” And the London Underground is NOT a political movement.”
Speak for yourself, fascist.
On second thought, he might be ‘stuttering Ken’,
“The central message of Christianity is not “Every man for himself”.”
You don’t believe in free will?
Yeah? What did you find?
– It’s not that they don’t believe in it. They see any sort of free will as the enemy of the state. Denying it just makes it easier for them to subvert it.
– It’s impossible to subjugate and control people who have free will, or even think they do.
Dang. Still cannot embed an image to save my life.
Prediction: It is discovered that O’Donnell has human heads in her freezer and she still wins by six points.
Because this is the position we are in, people are awake, and you-kno-who’s got his mits on the levers of power.
LOL…Lee, you hoisted the idiot by his own petard. Nice. Free will and Christianity are synonymous. Maybe not free will and the church, but those are different things entirely.
That’s for divine eternity, not politics. It also goes without saying that Jesus was saying it is harder for a rich man to get into heaven than a poor man, due to earthly desires. Hard. Not impossible. Jesus didn’t give a shit about politics or forced wealth redistribution. Much, MUCH smarter people than you have tried to make that connection and failed miserably. Give it up.
I know it’s confusing, but there it is.
You seem to be the only one confused around here. What is the central message of Christianity?
Watch it, folks, or UR will stump you by asking if God can make a rock so heavy that even he can’t lift it.
One of which was desire for money. Desire to acquire and keep money is what makes rich men rich.
Which is not to quibble with your larger point, just to hook it and the rich man more firmly together.
Jesus also said: “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
I sense an XBox game out of this: dueling scriptures.
Sucks to have your ass kicked by a bloke with tertiary syphilis, doesn’t it?
What I don’t understand is that I took cultural anthropology and it made me think the rest of the world was even more fucked up than I thought.
O’Donnell is NOT the choice of a sophisticated Republican!
It is better to smear her than stand back and be silent, so STFU you purity purists.
Pragmatism works I tell you.
(OK try to guess which blogger I’m mocking)
Coons has his Churchill backwards. I am paraphrasing, but isn’t it a man who isn’t a socialist in his youth has no heart, and a man who is not a conservative by middle age has no judgment?
No one important, Jim. That’s my best guess.
UR, find me a scripture where Christ commands that charity happens at government gunpoint…. or in public at all.
And I’m sure that as long as Coons isn’t a lifeydoodle he qualifies as staunchest…..
The central message of Christianity?
“Drink more Ovaltine”
Yeah, I thought so too.
Pffft. Interpretation of Quantum Physics? Free will as an uncollapsed wave function?
Free will is clearly a manifestation of this.
Keep that in mind when addressing me, mortals.
I sense an XBox game out of this: dueling scriptures.
Be careful that you don’t just wing him… you might make him a Unitarian.
Really UR? You’re bringing a site purporting to be about textual criticism to PW?
Interesting ploy. If Jeff decides to drop by, I’ll have to get my popcorn because that could be fun to watch.
Just take it for the Parthian shot that it was Darth and mock him for his lack of aim.
More Christie pron:
N.J. Gov. Christie: You may hate me now, but ten years from now you’ll be sending me a thank you note
Every time I hear this man speak I feel like there is hope for this country because there are actually people out there who really get it AND are in a position to do something about it.
he is a very good governor though he’s probably a lot less effective when he’s in California
William is exceedingly stupid, he doesn’t get ‘Render unto Caesar’ just one notable verse that comes to mind
Thoughts, happy?
Link
Only the faithful have a chance of truly comprehending God’s word, George.
Pearls before swine, and all that.
None of the “get” what the “Render unto Caesar” passage means and demonstrates.
“You shouldn’t do that, Dave”
N.J. Gov. Christie: You may hate me now, but ten years from now you’ll be sending me a thank you note.
You know what, though? I didn’t like the other video, the one with the hecker.
I hate “people like you are dividing us; we’re here to bring people together” rhetoric. Hate hate hate hate it.
Because who cares whether we’re being divided? Free people will always be divided! Isn’t it more important to identify where the fault lines are and tell people to decide where they stand—just don’t lie to yourself about the implications of where you’re standing or whom you’re standing with?
As Jonah reminds us, unity for the sake of unity is crap. North Koreans are plenty united, the Soviets were plenty united, the Chinese have unity down to a science.
To paraphrase Matthew 10:
Christie should have identified what side he’s on, told the heckler what side that puts HIM on, and make him own it.
“The central message of Christianity is not ‘Every man for himself.’”
It’s “Every man will reap what he sows.”
The Left can interpret that as a free-for-all as much as they want, but it don’t make it so.
You know what, though? I didn’t like the other video, the one with the hecker.
My comments were directed more at the second video. I agree that his response to the heckler was kinda lame and uncharateristic of him. Your “…identified what side he’s on, told the heckler what side that puts HIM on, and make him own it” suggestion was spot on.
“You shouldn’t do that, Dave”
Think James Kirk and the M-5 computer. Or James Kirk and Nomad. Or James Kirk and Landru.
(I never realized until now just how many times they used that idea)
Jesus was saying it is harder for a rich man to get into heaven…
The “eye of a needle” that the camel can’t easily get through was one of the gates of Jerusalem, which had a really low clearance. A camel that wanted to get through the Eye of the Needle had to do it on its knees, i.e., humble itself, just as a rich man has to humble himself to get into heaven.
Which, you’ll find more kneeling camels than humble rich men in this world.
BECAUSE OF THE ARROGANCE!
I never realized that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a Democrat.
Who knew?
I do not have a comment just an overwhelming sense of sadness
mrs. O! says that eating fruit daily helps to prevent sadness
my sister is bringing me a summer lemonade cupcake later maybe that will help
Why the overwhelming sense of sadness happyfeet?
oh. I was replying to #44 is all Mr. Bob
Any particular part? The Don Surber link?
mostly the image was very saddening… the Surber stuff I’ve looked at twice today and didn’t really follow the bouncing ball on it… it’s a lot of work to wade through and I don’t know if there’s a pay off there
Don’t let the image get tp you happyfeet, it’s meant to be amusing!
Disconnect from you political opinions for a moment, and just enjoy the irony of the juxtaposition.
well it’s nice how she’s sharing a tasty beverage with him even though he’s black and all
She’s a very good person.
new other guy can hear when I’m in here laughing out loud and he knows I’m not on the phone
They make an attractive couple, just don’t tell; Michelle or Todd. They may not appreciate it!
Ummm, you know that’s not really them, right?
If Darleen had drawn that exact same scene, the usual suspects would be livid with denunciatory rage. What with the CODE WORDS and dog whistles and all.
Dicentra – Why did Christ let his followers carry swords? If only Bill Maher and his ilk could teach us the true meaning of Christ’s words. The opponents of Christianity have so much to teach us ignorant fly-over fools. Think of the scholarly treasures in Obama’s work. I guess we are not worthy of his intelligence.
#25
I think it goes back to the Greeks and surely the Hebrews. Everything that ever was, is, or is going to be has already been seen in all it’s permutations.
Boethius, I think, or Aristotle.
One of them fuckers.
Ecclesiastes, Mueller: “There is nothing new under the sun; all is vanity.”
He was a bugger for the bottle. Hobbes was fond of his dram, too.
Drink enough beer and everybody’s Belgian.
Just like everybody that comes down with a cold is Flemish.
Bloody Belgian Bastards!
(As it so happens, my family name is Belgian. After a spelling change for the new world.)