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Sun. 11/22/09 10:57 PM

Applebee

Hunsacker, murder, theft, fraud? You don't find mention of these crimes anywhere--etched in stone, perhaps?

What is the basis for laws against the above? Must be something or someone transcendent, no? Open to pursue this?

Sun. 11/22/09 10:52 PM

Signs of the Times, You say you want a Revolution?

Muddy, have you asked your doctor about upping the mg's in your Valium prescription? Or in the Viagra? Whatever. LOL

Sun. 11/22/09 10:48 PM

Charity begins at home.

Drew, promoting science is what you say the schools are doing these days? Let's see:

It can't be the science of history because textbooks do a good job of keeping the presentation pretty much along the path of the precepts of the religion of liberalism.

It can't be traditional science classes, either. There's the religion of Algore telling us that the polar bears are disappearing while actual headcounts tell a different story. And then there's stand-pat evolutionism which stands pat at the Cambrian marker and can't get over it.

Drew, there's a helluvalot of "religion" still to be excised from the curriculum. I know y'all don't like my callin' it religion, but when it is based primarily on faith or belief in something that can't be corroborated by facts and actually contradicts facts, then "religion" is a more accurate description of it than "science."

One faith overthrows another and would call itself science instead. Whatever, as the kids say.

Sun. 11/22/09 10:35 PM

Refractometer

Refracto, please explain how the electorate could reject conservatism when neither of the two major parties has in recent decades ever acted on conservative principles when in power.

Perhaps your shunning me says you don't have to answer that sort of question.

Sun. 11/22/09 06:05 PM

Separation of Church

Selensky, that's quite a leap from "love your neighbor" to "pay his insurance for him." While I expect government to help the truly needy, wanna bet that many of those deaths you refer to are more the result of misplaced priorities than actual need? When last did a "journalist" ever spend time finding what an individual's actual circumstances are? Of course, they cannot really do this because of privacy considerations; but the mere reportage of death due lack of insurance is incomplete at best.

Sun. 11/22/09 04:33 PM

CyberSurvey: Backing Palin?

D.F, Given that one system of pronunciation of the old Latin has the "v" pronounced as a "w," perhaps Obama will say: Wainey, weedee, weewee."

Sun. 11/22/09 01:47 PM

RACIST REV WRIGHT AND PRESIDENT OBAMA:

Shotgun, the more important question is "Why did the electorate pay such little attention to what was not hidden knowledge about candidate Obama? Fixated on Idol and the msm, they had no time or inclination to find other news sources. They've since awakened. Or have they?

Sun. 11/22/09 01:43 PM

Grandholm Palin

Garyd, be nice now! Don't call Berman an ignorant columnist. That's inflammatory. Just call her a suburban liberal. It means the same thing, but it doesn't get the "progressives" and "independents" nearly as upset. LOL

Sun. 11/22/09 01:37 PM

Palin

Refract, we'll never know whether Obama had a ghost writer or three because your sort of press is only interested in going after conservatives.

By the way, what say you about Salman Pak and the presence of bomber Yasin in Iraq before 2001, to revive a debate you had to run away from? Oops, I forget, Cedar--er, Refract, you are now shunning me. Ah, yes: turkeys. LOL

Sun. 11/22/09 01:30 PM

CyberSurvey: Backing Palin?

Vercengetorix, why bother with the usual leftist blab about Palin. She garners the support of those with conservative values, and if the GOP can get its own act together it will get behind a conservative candidate who can find a place for Palin in delivering the message.

Perhaps you know that the name of the historical figure you took for a username is spelled with an "i" after the "c." Perhaps, too, I'm being presumptuous.

Sun. 11/22/09 01:22 PM

Biden says Senate handed Obama a big victory

Jakedude, there never was any serious bloodflow above Biden's neck, not even before the hairplug thing. In fact, the plugs are an indication in themselves that he didn't have anything upstairs or he wouldn't have done that.

Sun. 11/22/09 10:55 AM

Lori Lamerand

People in the business of actively promoting killing and actively interfere with parental rights regarding their daughters have absolutely no qualms about the matter of lying. I've said the same about that which we sent to the White House last year. "That which" is deliberately chosen.

Sun. 11/22/09 10:50 AM

Senate Health Bill

GIG, not quite the case about the 51 votes. The next stage is actual debate on the particulars of the bill. To end that debate requires 60 votes, unless Mouse Reid can force a Senate rules change to permit a simple majority vote. It is doubtful that Mouse will get all his side to agree to this, and it is probable that debate cannot be shut off until significant changes are made to it, likely enough to make the whole bill unacceptable to a majority for different reasons. God is Good!

Sun. 11/22/09 10:43 AM

Palin

(Un)Reasonable Man, you're leaving important details out of this matter of the AP "fact-checking" Palin's book: The AP is a "news" source that chose NOT to give Obama's books the same examination. They probably knew that critics would point this out to them but didn't care. On the other hand, it is not at all unreasonable to assume that they are so buried in the muck of their liberal bias that they cannot see the double standard that is their foundational principle.

Remarking that "others" have examined Obama's material does not equate with the AP having made discriminating choices in its own decision. "Decision" might be too strong a word because "deciding" means acting from reason. Or maybe it doesn't.

The AP and "others" are apples to oranges in this debate, not that such niceties of logic mean anything to liberals.

Sat. 11/21/09 10:28 PM

Health care bill faces a crucial Senate vote

When 30 November rolls around, I wonder which of the senators will be the first to demand a full reading of the text before any debating of amendments begins. That's a senator's privilege. If I'm not mistaken, the request can be reinstituted after the adoption of any change as well. That's one way to strangle the damned beast.

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