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Yep. I've never been able to listen to that generic pop stuff for more than ninety seconds straight.

None of the active musicians I really enjoy - John Hiatt, Lucinda Williams, Joe Jackson, Eleni Mandell, Iris Dement, Mark Knopfler, the Decemberists - to name just a few, would stand a chance with the taste-deprived "Idol" judges and audiences.

With that many abortions, you have two parents per, plus all the other enablers and coercers.

Question for discussion:

Should the women whose babies were killed by Gosnell be prosecuted as accessories?

I don't see why not.

I just got these blueprints via torrent. Shiver me timbers!!

Don't suppose the d-bags at State have ever heard of the Streisand effect.

I spend about 30-40 minutes each morning browsing several news and investment sites, including FR.

Using Firefox with AdBlocker, NoScript, and PrefBar makes it possible. I see no ads, no graphics, no Flash .... just the text.

If I had to wait for all that background crap to load at each site it might well take two hours to see everything I see in one fourth that time.

If I lived on that street, saw evidence that people were being held against their will, and wanted the cops to take more drastic action, I would call in with a tip about drugs being stored there for dealing.

And give the address of the house next door.

D) Await collapse

The electorate has overwhelmingly and repeatedly chosen D.

Exactly.

A more articulate Freeper than I put it very well a few weeks ago:

"Everyone should enjoy the government checks while they got ‘em. You won’t get ‘em forever. When they stop, nobody will care whether you “worked for it” or whether you are “entitled” or whether “someone else” should have been cut first."

If He Drops Sarin On His Own People, What’s That Got Do Do With Us?

I don't find anything inappropriate about that comment.

Exactly, there are millions and millions of Catholics and Jews, and a fair number of Protestants, who have no problem reconciling their faith with paleontology and astronomy.

A creator who could so construct a universe that over billions of years life forms would arise and develop based on natural laws he set into place with the Big Bang would be a far greater creator than one who had to constantly get in there and tinker, bringing along extinction events now and then when he went down a wrong path and had to start over again.

I still put the majority of the blame on the government.

In the sense that those who bought all that toxic paper had (good) reason to believe that the taxpayer would be forced to eat their losses, I quite agree.

"a cosmic accident" and "in 10,000 years or less as per the Old Testament chronology" is a false dichotomy.

There are other worldviews that provide a valid moral foundation.

Dear Karl:

I have no interest whatsoever in your opinions about political strategy.

Not because you are a moderate Republican. I can get along reasonably well with some moderate Republicans.

No. The reason why I have no interest in your opinions is that you are a loser.

So go take your whiteboard, coat it well with Vaseline, and insert it somewhere where it will no longer be visible.Because loser.

When Palin formally announces her candidacy she will get a check from me. Until then not a penny.

The overwhelming majority of the actual liar loans written under the CRA, and most of the junk loans in general, were written by dodgy firms like Countrywide etc., who didn't give a damn about the soundness of the borrower or the soundness of the house's value, because they intended to sell that note within days of its being executed.

Those loans were combined into "tranches" and assigned fantasy ratings of "AA" or "AAA" by Moody, S&P, and their fellow criminals.

Then the investment banks who were later bailed out by TARP stupidly bought these stacks of dog feces at face value, although no law passed by Democrats or anyone else required them to do so. So allow me to break out the world's smallest violin in sympathy for their plight......

The earth does not have to be 4+ billion years old, nor dinosaurs 60+ million, to bust the YEC position.

Because if one holds not that "the Earth is younger than science says" but rather "the Old Testament chronology of births and deaths is an accurate timeline of the Earth's age" then all it takes is a clear indication of 20,000 years or thereabouts.

I remember when the NASCAR threads did that...

I've only been on FR since 2007, but I'll take a guess that the NASCAR threads "did that" back when the Cup wasn't a spec series, still raced at the Rock and North Wilkesboro, and a single car team occasionally won a race??

Why not go all the way?

"To be hanged, drawn and quartered (less commonly "hung, drawn and quartered") was from 1351 a penalty in England for men convicted of high treason, although the ritual was first recorded during the reigns of King Henry III (1216–1272) and his successor, Edward I (1272–1307).

Convicts were fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where they were hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded and quartered (chopped into four pieces). Their remains were often displayed in prominent places across the country, such as London Bridge."

It would make a bundle on pay per view, I don't doubt.

It should not be difficult to figure out whether murder rates were lower when hanging, versus electrocution, versus lethal injection, were in effect.

What I support is what works best as a deterrent, but only as determined by the statistical evidence.

Whether a particular method of execution mollifies some sensitive liberal on the one hand, or slakes someone's desire for public retribution on the other, should not be the issue.

By the summer of 2005, it was clear to anyone with three functioning neurons that housing was massively bubblicious. Those who did not recognize it were either mentally challenged, or had personal, corrupt reasons to delay the "pop".

I am no financial genius, but when I saw my neighborhood of $175K houses become $500K houses within three years - prices that no current owners could cover on their current salaries without signing a suicidal note - I bailed immediately. We sold our house $50K past the peak and never looked back, except to pity the fools that bought it.

There were two things Dubya could have done in late 2005/early 2006 to avert the 2008 meltdown (and possibly the election of Obama, which of course he could not have foreseen).

(1) - make it crystal clear through public and private channels that not one taxpayer dollar would ever be used to backstop overvalued mortgage paper during his presidency, that "bailout" would be used by him only to describe what his dad did every year on his birthday.

(2) - announce SEC investigations into the ratings agencies to see if their AAA scores were objective or in any way tainted, with prosecution to follow if warranted. (Still needs doing in my view, the statute of limitations has not yet run out)

No action by any legislator, Democrat or GOP, required.

McCain: Wrong.

White House: Right (though for the wrong reasons)

Not to mention Dick Cheney.

Kenseth robbed, and Penske too.

In all the countless cheating episodes by the 48, did Jimmuh ever lose a single driver point? I don't think so.

Must be that what Bwian thinks would be good for NASCAR would be to have the admitted felon's teams win another 4 or 5 cups in a row.

You and me both. For 2008 and 2012, the score is:

Mainstream Pollsters - 2

Delusional Freepers - 0

My pick would be Jimmy Doolittle.

I have in my library his "Wings of the Luftwaffe" which is Brown's memoir/pilots reports of all the German planes he tested immediately after the war.

One of the most informative and fascinating flying books ever.

people don't mind stealing the boss's time

It's pretty easy to block facebook access from any PC logged into a corporate internet account. Problem solved with no privacy violation.

Embraced ignorance like that is self fulfilling, enjoy your eternity!

You sound like one of those Christians who will chortle with unrestrained delight while viewing the tortures of the damned in hell.

Have a nice day.

I've said many times (and my posting history backs it up) that Judaism and Christianity have been good things for human freedom, especially when leavened with a little of the Enlightenment. (I'll pass on that Thirty Years' War sort of activity, thanks very much).

But "Christianity is a good thing to have in the culture" is not at all the same thing as "Christianity is true".

Still less is it the same thing as "Christianity is true, and Notary Sojac is one of God's elect".

“Heywood Jablome” has always been my favorite.

Anyone can see what's being posted on John Q. Public's facebook account without possessing the password.

The employer can then say, "Keep our corporation out of your postings, or find work elsewhere" and I have no problem with that.

I have a major problem with giving the employer the ability to log into every employee's account and post comments or images under the employee's name, which is what giving him the password allows.

Imagine that an employee gets on the wrong side of some drone in HR or IS, and next week kiddie porn "mysteriously" shows up on that employee's facebook page.

Bush’s fault.

Why do you assume that (at least) the Judeo-Christian God is indifferent to anyone?

My grandmother's generation was the last in my family to have been devoted Christian believers.

God's demonstrated indifference in her hour of need turned my father's generation, then mine, then my children's, to agnostics and atheists.

An all-knowing God by definition knew that would be the result.

So among all the Christian sects, only the Calvinists to me have a theology which fits the facts on the ground. If God exists, he has tapped us for the un-elect.

Dick Yuengling would tell gun grabbers to piss up a rope.

Can you show me a quote?

Yuengling's Black and Tan is far and away my favorite "grocery store brew" and I'd love to have a reason to drink even more of it.

There is a God. He’s not your enemy.

I can't entirely rule out the possibility that there is a God who loves some of us, yet is indifferent to others.

It's certainly a hypothesis that fits the observations made over my six decades of life.

I agree that the idea of the universe arising out of pure chance is difficult to defend, and I don't pretend to "know" that it began in that way.

But when I look at Earth and the universe as they are today, they seem to me to be indistinguishable from the construct of a deist's impersonal God.

And the difference between a disinterested deist creator, and no creator at all, is not material to me.

Ted Turner is one of the canonical liberal asshats of our time. Nonetheless, a week does not go by when I do not thank him for this channel.

Atheists fail to understand that having faith does not magically prevent a person from wanting to know about the universe around us.

This is certainly true of the Catholics and Jews with whom I've conversed.

It is true of some Protestants also.

But fundamentalist young-earthers? Ummm.....nope.

"No Amnesty Pushers!!!"

And we really mean it this time, not like when we all said "No Romneys!!!!"

It depends on whether you think that the doctrine of the Trinity is something upon which people of good faith can disagree, or not.

If the latter, then I do agree with Ingersoll.

America

I dunno. Seems to me that a lot of the rest of the world has access to secret underground reserves of bandwidth, while the US is perpetually running out of the stuff.

Maybe we could use some of those hundreds of bulk carriers rusting away at docks around the world to ship us some cheap bandwidth from Europe or Asia.

Because you can always find another road (i.e. ISP) where you can go 200 mph.

For the first three days of the month, until you hit the "mileage cap". After that you have to drive at 12 mph.

I don't have any idea who did this.

It could be a lone nut, it could be an Islamist, it could be a left wing terrorist, it could even be a right wing terrorist.

But whoever it was, he wins if he gets everyone freaking out, demanding that we become more of a police state, and forgetting what a free republic is supposed to be.

What we have are the two wings of the Perpetual Incumbency Party.

The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.

Theodosius called a council at Constantinople in 381, and this council decided that the Holy Ghost proceeded from the Father. Theodosius, the younger, assembled another council at Ephesus to ascertain who the Virgin Mary really was, and it was solemnly decided in the year 431 that she was the Mother of God.

In 451 it was decided by a council held at Chalcedon, called together by the Emperor Marcian, that Christ had two natures -- the human and divine. In 680, in another general council, held at Constantinople, convened by order of Pognatius, it was also decided that Christ had two wills, and in the year 1274 it was decided at the Council of Lyons, that the Holy Ghost proceeded not only from the Father, but from the Son as well.

Had it not been for these councils, we might have been without a Trinity even unto this day. When we take into consideration the fact that a belief in the Trinity is absolutely essential to salvation, how unfortunate it was for the world that this doctrine was not established until the year 1274. Think of the millions that dropped into hell while these questions were being discussed.

- Robert G. Ingersoll

Neither one of them would have been employable, much less president,

First good thing about the "War on Drugs" I've heard in a long time.

Well, somebody is going to have to take fewer benefits from Social Security and Medicare.

The only question is whether: some people take slightly fewer benefits in a graduated way, or a decade or two later, everyone takes 100% fewer benefits all at once.

Do you think it matters to God?

If so, I suspect it is mostly as a marker of hypocrisy, as we have grown more corrupt as a nation each and every year that slogan has appeared on our currency.

These "atheists" do not speak for me.

I am completely indifferent to whether "In God We Trust" appears on the currency.

Now let me turn the question around.

We added "In God We Trust" to the dollar bill and "One Nation Under God" to the pledge, both in the mid fifties.

In what way has America become a more moral nation as a result? Does your God appreciate the difference between the slogans a nation mouths and the behaviors it exhibits??

I don’t agree with every single thing Rand Paul has proposed

How can you possibly call yourself a Freeper if you support a candidate who is not in agreement with you on every single thing, right down to his favorite brand of beer and the way he ties his tie???

(grin....)

An excellent point. With Bernanke hard at work, no Cyprus style confiscation is ever necessary.