Here, Merry Christmas. Write this down for future ammunition. Larry Kramer thinks Lincoln was gay. Here's an article about it . I go to Google, I type "Lincoln gay" without the quotes, and click the first thing on the list. Then once I have the name, I search it on Wikipedia, and suddenly I have a bio and a pic. Voilà! Something more than a grunt and a sc
Again, why not something specific? Why not quote someone, by name? How about posting a link to a news article, or some reference to this train thing you keep talking about? Which gay group in particular? I would think according to your opinion up there that there are a lot more than one group trying to "normalize" being gay. Who made the specific accusation against Lincoln? As for an excuse for my writing, I don't need one. I think I hold my own pretty well. You seemed to
Oh, and if you were to notice your posts looking like William Carlos Williams poems, maybe crack open a case of punctuation and capitalization... so much depends upon the unused shift key covered with dusty crumbs near the period key
"so again i ask you why is my opionion no more important than yours just becouse i am not able/will not write as good as you people do." I don't think one leads to the other, I think they are both symptoms of the same problem. The carelessness with which you express your opinions is akin to the carelessness with which you form them. Given that you have shown you know almost nothing about Muslims, Gays, and Liberals, it's tough to really have much confi
But aren't the sacraments, themselves, works, lula? You aren't talking about salvation being made of ONLY works, but works are required, right? Even works of third parties who enact these sacraments. Do you really believe any part of our salvation relies upon mortal men?
Hrm, well then you'll have to explain to me what the heck it means. Ask the Emperor of Ice Cream if there aren't standards involved with getting the title as an immigrant. Yet, we call child molesters sitting in prison Americans. To me it is one or the other. If we are going to be protectionist and bubble with pride over the word "American", then we damn well ought to apply some standards to people that are born here too. We should have to earn it as much as anyone else. Ot
"I don't know what world you live in but you seem to be ignoring the ones making the treats and only focusing on the ones who are hiding in fear or the one here in the US who don't seem that dangerous to you." Yeah, in the same way that I wouldn't tar black people for everything mumbled by Louis Farrakhan or Jesse
"Again like he said...NOT ALL MUSLIMS, just the radicals and fundamentalists. And he's right you do seem to keep missing that." No, and you know better. When the flow of the conversation goes against him he makes the distinction, and then next week he'll be calling Islam a cancer again with no intention of prefixing "fundy" on it. You've
"wow lula, so me a Jew scored as someone that seemed profoundly against Jews. sigh.." Don't knock it, Woody Allen has made a career out of Jewish self-loathing. "gee baker, well read, well educated,.. I hate you! lol" Bah, Robert Tilton is a televangelist. Most often now on BET at night. The fact that I know who he is is more of a shame than a credit.
I would like to know what exactly do you mean when you say "a title that 99.9% of people don't really do anything to achieve". Further more I would also like to understand what you meant when you said "We were lucky enough to be born here". Exactly what I said. They day you were born you were an American. All the long workweeks, etc., thereafter didn't have a thing to do it. I didn't do a thing to decide where I was born. That's what I mean by "lucky
"American Muslims aren't constantly propagandized and indoctrinated from the womb to hate the Jews and the Great Satan, either, as they are in the MidEast." Nope, they aren't. They're still Muslims, though. Kind of defeats your point, huh? Obviously, if Islam was the problem, the indoctrination would be anywhere the religion was found. Instead, you only find it in places where the people are politically and economically oppressed, and radical Islam is
LOL... Robert Tilton. I watched him back in the 80's, and he's still going strong.
The real test would have been Afghanistan's border with Pakistan. Our decision not to treat Pakistan like the friends of Al Qaeda they were has gutted our efforts around the world.
"How can we have a war on terror? Terror is a tactic not a country or a government" Quite easily, believe it or not. The key to terror isn't what we do, it is what we WON'T do. They balance their violence carefully to ensure that it is just enough so any overreaction will receive negative play in the world. Sadly, we give a damn. Look at Israel. Hezbollah won their recent little tiff if Lebanon. The world looked at the ongoing bloodbath and
Do you think the war in Iraq has done much to hamper the efforts of international terrorism? Really? You could make the case that they lost a breeding ground in Afghanistan, but then the jury is still out on how much of that country we actually control, and whether the tribal leaders will just revert back once we lose interest. I'm not saying Bush hasn't done anything at all. I appreciate the fact that Hussein is gone, and Hussein did support terrorism in his own small ways. What I
"Isn't it great to just say, "right wing bs" and you don't have to actually think for yourself. The fact is, fear tactics are done on both sides... which was my point." Isn't it great to just say, if you don't buy the hype you don't believe that terrorism exists at all? I don't agree with Sean very often, and I literally despise Keith Oberman, but come on, you have to see this for what it is. If I chide Clinton for tossing missiles to distract from Mon
You'll forgive me if I am growing a tad annoyed with this constant need to defend a title that 99.9% of people don't really do anything to achieve. We were lucky enough to be born here. I have mixed feelings about immigration, and I don't think anyone has a decent answer that both works ethically and would work in reality. But, I don't think anything is served by all this worrying about what names and titles people use. If we want to be taken seriously about immigration we need to st
One more thing. People like Rightwinger vilify the "Christian" position on this. The idea of turning the other cheek, of allowing people to be innocent until proven guilty., etc. is to them weakness. After all, it just makes us sitting ducks to them, right? No, if I had to pick one aspect of American culture that serves Osama bin Laden's purposes, it would be people like Rightwinger. A terrorist site wouldn't want to link anything I write, because it proves them wrong. They'd proud
"and that's not even considreing our actual military. that's IF they got by them. which is more likely if the attack is from within." Nah, if 1% of American Muslims decided to attack us THEY'D be the insurgency. Imagine 50,000 armed Muslims running amok, about what, half the number of troops we have in Iraq total? American Muslims have the ready ability to make this nation total chaos. The reason that Iraq is a bloodbath is because the people
"In my case, I don't acuse an entire race or religion of being terrorist or hateful. But I can not ignore that, at the moment, it is a particular race with a particular religion, that has declared war on our way of life" Have they? Who is their spokesperson? Was it democratically decided to declare war on your way of life? We're talking 1.3 BILLION people, one in five people in the whole world. The Muslim family down the street has no contr
"You're right there, sure....Nazism itself didn't do a thing....except provide the rationalization for their acts of evil, just as Islamic Fundie nutbars use Islam as their justification. You just won't see that, will you? " And for well over a thousand years we used Christianity as a justification. Yet, oddly, Christianity is still here, and we don't behave that way. Christianity wasn't to blame, evil people were. We didn't change the Bible, we just
"I have a certain fascination with madness in all its forms. And he is very mad." Nah, mad is interesting. daniel is tediously "garden variety".
"Maybe I am a fearmonger...but you're an apologist and an appeaser, and I'm at least trying to save lives, and our way of life, doing what I do. " Who am I an apologist for, terrorists? An apologist in these terms is someone who comes up with an excuse, a scapegoat for evil people. You divert the focus from evil people because of your own little hateful religious biases. It isn't terror and the terrorists to you, it's Islam. This is like peop
From my perspective, I'm wondering why people ever address daniel directly at all after the first response. A jab here and there is fun, but a debate is like talking to the old conversational bot A.L.I.C.E. After a while you realize that the responses really don't have a damn thing to do with what you are saying. Like Alice, he keys on particular words, and the context is totally lost on him. That's why he sees Gid as a liberal.
LOL... come on, when has he not jeered at my inhibitions. I recall you guys laughing hysterically about me talking about seeing gay guys having sex on Oxygen. Something about 'pelvic thrusts and all'. You can't tell me it wouldn't be the perfectly predictable time for him to wander in and tell us how naive we are. It wasn't meant as a slight.
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