All the republicans have done is the same thing they've been trying to do for 40 years now... destroy the federal government. It takes someone especially stupid not to see what's going on, but then, that pretty much describes the dipshit head-up-ass fascists that they GOP has become.
And to make it real simple for you... while you may think what Hillary did was a crime, the people who are actually responsible for making that decision didn't... so your opinion is either uneducated, ignorant, or just a whiny little lie to make yourself feel better.... although in your case, i'd probably go with all three of those.
To answer acrimonious howard's question.. it's because there's a dedicated little group of neo-nazi's and fascist on this site that toe the fascist conservative line, and down vote anything that remotely resembles reality.... or are apologists there of.
Cherrypicking a few things he hasn't completely fucked up yet (while giving him credit that he doesn't deserve) doesn't mean he's been a boon to this country; it means you can't be trusted to pull your hyper-partisan head out of your ass long enough to live in reality.
I'm pointing out how fake christians do not follow the teachings of Jesus.
If you're standards are to lie and hate, and to live exactly opposite of how Jesus tells you to live, then yes, these fake christians have standards. Really shitty standards, but they're standards none the less.
These fake christians focus on the things they do, gay marriage and abortion, because they follow false prophets who do not teach the words of Jesus, but teach their own twisted opinions and lie about those opinions being Jesus' teachings. They're not, they're abuses of the religion. The only time abortion is mentioned in the bible is when the priest are told they MUST carry one out if the husband requests it (Numbers). All other bible verses used to suggest Jesus, or God had an issue with abortion are generic verses that have been interpreted to mean abortion in recent years. Again... nothing more than abusing the bible through lying by false prophets.
Additionally, Jesus would have lives under Roman rule in Judea. Everyone there would have been knowledgeable of Roman society, whether they liked it or not. The Romans used an herb to induce abortions fairly commonly, and by that i mean: so common was the herb used that they literally drove it into extinction. Yet Jesus said the following about the procedure:
....
And if we need any more evidence from the bible about God's sincerest compassion for the unborn, we can look to a verse that doesn't need any "interpretation" at all:
Hosea 13:16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Anyone who tells you Jesus was against abortion is lying. They are a false prophet.
Abominations in the bible... clearly you haven't read the bible. I'm not even going to try to list your "few" abominations, there's sites that do.... here's a list of 50 or 60 of them:
So, while "men laying with men" is on the list, so is idolatry (like that cross people wear as jewelry, or that statue behind the later, or making images), eating unclean things (like pork, shellfish, shrimp and a whole shitload more), adultery (you know, getting a divorce then remarrying), sowing discord (you know, like Limbaugh, Hannity, Trump), and wearing cloths of mixes fabrics. If you've ever worn polyester, or a 60/40 cotton mix, you are as much an abomination in the eyes of God as a man who has lain with a man. And that whole eating bacon thing... yeh, you're going to hell for that one.
Biblical marriage? Which version. Again, someone saying the bible defines marriage simply shows you've never actually read the bible (and you're spreading lies... which is another abomination, btw). I'll let Betty explain it, as she's certainly a far better christian that you:
So, anyone teaching that abortion and gay marriage are the big ticket items (or even items on the ticket at all) for Jesus is a liar. They are false prophets, and anyone following them (instead of Jesus' teachings) are not Christians.
Third seems to be you attempting to say this is a christian country. it's not. Again, another lie told by religious people to attempt to gain power over others (and nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus)... oh yes, lying is another abomination.
Fourth... there was no attack on Merry Christmas. Really whiny people who need to play the victim may think so because their ego's are bruised or they don't understand why everyone doesn't believe their lies, but those people are narcissistic (yet another abomination) and delusional.
I'm shocked that people who despise the teachings of Jesus still claim to be Christian. I'm shocke
....is a holiday that has a focus on peace, good will toward others, welcoming strangers, and generosity toward others.
....Pope Francis had a lot a lot to say about being welcoming to refugees.
The people most likely to complain about "Merry Christmas" not being used are people who do not practice those things you mentioned. They call themselves "christians," but they live pretty much the exact opposite of Jesus' teachings. Their only focus is gay marriage and abortion, and not the things that Jesus teaches are important. IF (conservative) christians in the US actually lived as Jesus taught them to, instead of following their false prophets, this country wouldn't be in the downward spiral we are now... and i'd be more than happy to say Merry Christmas all they want.
Seriously, do you think Jesus would give a shit about the choice of greetings when there are people living in the streets, people starving, people sick who can't get treatment, and people being killed simply for being different? Anyone who thinks his concern would be which greeting to use over all of those other things is NOT a Christian.
The Declaration of Independence is not the reason this country exists, it was a declaration, mid-war, that the colonies would no longer submit to rule by the crown; that the relationship between colonies and crown were dissolved. It said nothing other than that about the future.
....as for religion....
You should check out the Constitution where the only references to religion is:
Article VI, subsection 3
....but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
...or the Bill of Rights....
Amendment 1
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof....
Both of those are explicit prohibitions on government from promoting any given religion over any other.
Or check out the Treaty of Tripoli....
Article 11
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.....
The Treaty of Tripoli was signed 10 years after the Constitution, and was passed unanimously by congress. Over half of the members of congress at that time had also signed the Constitutional.
Not sure exactly who your responding too, but the way the thread seems to work for me is you're responding to my joke about twinkies and mt dew. If that's the case, you haven't read any of my other posts that are a bit more serious, one of which points out the exact points you've posted saying that i don't seem to "get." I'll summarize: i have no doubt sentient aliens exist, somewhere out there, because quite frankly, there's a whole hell of a lot of "out there," more than anyone can begin to imagine. What that doesn't mean is every amorphous hint of a shadow you catch out of the corner of your eye is an alien. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.... and we don't even have a little bit of moderately maybe evidence, let alone extraordinary evidence.
That said, if aliens ever do show up, they better be the lgms (little green men), as opposed to the lgms (large green motherfuckers).
Right. i was trying to demonstrate that i'm not one of these people who summarily dismiss the idea of alien species and just because. I'm sure they exist, somewhere in the universe, but probably not podunkville earth.
I'd would think that with current technology we'd have better evidence than grainy, out of focus, short, wobbly videos as the only thing to go on, although the caveat there is, if they can travel to us, they may have technology that is well beyond what we can capture (evidence wise) with our technological level. It's still going to have to be extraordinary evidence to go with "they're here" at the moment.
That one would be easy to confirm if we had a sample of their samples, but that's what it would take; actual physical evidence, and not some charred hunk of rock that fell from the sky. Would i believe that the military would keep secrets from the public? Oh yeh. But i'm going to actually have to see these "alloys" before accepting they exist... and i'm going to need a side order of mass spec to go with them.
It certainly could fail... the one in Netherlands performed better than they anticipated, though. There were a lot of people thinking those horseless carriage contraptions were stupid too. I'm saying, innovation doesn't happen because people sit around complacent and never trying things, and people in this country seem more and more to think thumb-up-ass-doing-nothing will keep us competitive with the rest of the world.... it won't. If we loose those races to place like China where they have the people and the resources, we may never catch up.
Depends....will we be able to analyze the lemonade?
I think a lot of the issue with "UFO's" is that by definition it's something that's unidentified, yet the immediate go to for a number of people is "ohhh, it must be aliens!" I can guarantee the video i saw (i'm assuming we're talking about the one that made the news here the past couple days...not the Falcon rocket thing) is deffinately a UFO. I can't identify it, and clearly the pilot couldn't either. That doesn't make it an alien. Without a good frame of reference, you can't tell it's motion in difference to the aircraft nor it's size, and the picture isn't good enough to make out details either.... so, it's unidentified. Is it alien? No evidence of that.
And don't get me wrong.... i think the mathematical probability of their being sentient alien race out there, somewhere, is 100%. The universe is simply really big. We have, realistically, a single planet that's been somewhat explored (or perhaps somewhere between "somewhat" and "piss poorly"), and there's life on it....an exceptionally large variety of life. Some of that life lives in extreme (to us) conditions, and we know that some of that life can even live for years in the vacuum of space.
But that doesn't mean everything we can't identify in the air is aliens. For us to call it alien, yeh, we will need extraordinary evidence.
Clearly these so called "experts" haven't ran their little tests on Twinkies or Mountain Dew... there's nothing in either of those that can be identified.
And? Remember the internal combustion engine... the airplane... vaccines... building fires.... and pretty much EVERY OTHER THING we've ever done that has worked out? Pointing out one thing that failed doesn't mean everything will fail... that's just an asinine argument on, well, every level. If the only thing you got is really stupid strawman arguments, at least make them entertaining so we're not laughing at their utter ridiculousness (in a bad way).
Well hell... we don't need to do anything you don't think will work now do we, after all you seem to think you know everything that possibly can work.
Science is asking "why," innovation is asking "how," and stupidity is sitting around with your thumb up your ass making excuses for not even bothering to try.
You sound like a guy who's stuck on "if i can't do it, no one can." I haven't seen any of these "sound scientific reasons" yet, just speculation and some bullshit. Here in 'Merkica all we seem to have anymore is stupid people who don't want to keep pushing technology... obviously too stupid to realize that if we become complacent, everyone else will pass us by.
You think they haven't done a little R&D on this before they decided to build it?
This post really nails the new reality of our world. People in the US coming up with ways things shouldn't work, while other countries make those things work. It's too bad stupidity dosn't lead to innovation.... the US would be #1 indefinitely, but miles and miles..
If a woman opposes abortion, then fine, she doesn't have to have one. It's her choice. What it shouldn't be, however, is a little ratfuck piece of shit like you having a say over what the women who choose an abortion, for whatever reason they choose it, can or can't do. Get it through your empty little head: women are not property. I get it, your mommy probably regrets not having one when you came along, but try not to be such a hateful little shithead. Seriously though, why is it you are so scared of women making their own choices? Why is it you hate for other people to have constitutional rights?
Why don't you post with your name instead of being a fucking little bitch anon coward.. have a little conviction, if you can figure out what that word means.
Hitler was a national socialist, which has different goals than a socialist, but i do understand, this is the dog whistle that really stupid (i'm sorry, really really uneducated... and proud of it) conservatives use to try to play down the fact that NAZI-ism is a far-right position just like straight fascism.
You're probably confused by the fact that many ignorant people today use the term socialist to describe a capitalist welfare state
No, i'm not confused by social democracies, i'm confused by how someone can elect to be as stupid as whoever wrote your post. What doesn't surprise me is you had to post it anonymously so people wouldn't know which stupid person to mock.
...or you can check out pretty much any site that isn't run by partisan hacks for the right-wingers lying through their teeth (i'm sure not all are lying, some might simply be too fucking stupid). Better yet, we can do an experiment... you go down to one of these alt-right neo-nazi group meetings, and you yell out at all these guys that they're nothing but a bunch of left wing socialists.... and we'll see how that goes for you. And do remember when they're curbstomping what's left of your skull into the concrete.. if you'd filled your head with something other than lies and bullshit, you wouldn't be getting that shit kicked out of you.
Everyone is ignorant, stupidity is not wanting to know or learn. Preferring to live in a fantasy instead of reality is stupid, and stupid should never be acceptable.
But you're right, my post does explain much of what's wrong with this world... people who prefer to be intentionally ignorant, and liars. Next up would probably be the people who want to anonymously defend intentionally stupid people and liars. Past that... rap and country music, although that may just be my opinion.
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All the republicans have done is the same thing they've been trying to do for 40 years now... destroy the federal government. It takes someone especially stupid not to see what's going on, but then, that pretty much describes the dipshit head-up-ass fascists that they GOP has become.
And to make it real simple for you... while you may think what Hillary did was a crime, the people who are actually responsible for making that decision didn't... so your opinion is either uneducated, ignorant, or just a whiny little lie to make yourself feel better.... although in your case, i'd probably go with all three of those.
To answer acrimonious howard's question.. it's because there's a dedicated little group of neo-nazi's and fascist on this site that toe the fascist conservative line, and down vote anything that remotely resembles reality.... or are apologists there of.
...and republicans are with republicans, even when they're pedophiles. http://goodizen.com/list-of-co...
Cherrypicking a few things he hasn't completely fucked up yet (while giving him credit that he doesn't deserve) doesn't mean he's been a boon to this country; it means you can't be trusted to pull your hyper-partisan head out of your ass long enough to live in reality.
It's a timeless question forever asked, right up until someone gets eaten.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If you're standards are to lie and hate, and to live exactly opposite of how Jesus tells you to live, then yes, these fake christians have standards. Really shitty standards, but they're standards none the less.
These fake christians focus on the things they do, gay marriage and abortion, because they follow false prophets who do not teach the words of Jesus, but teach their own twisted opinions and lie about those opinions being Jesus' teachings. They're not, they're abuses of the religion. The only time abortion is mentioned in the bible is when the priest are told they MUST carry one out if the husband requests it (Numbers). All other bible verses used to suggest Jesus, or God had an issue with abortion are generic verses that have been interpreted to mean abortion in recent years. Again... nothing more than abusing the bible through lying by false prophets.
Additionally, Jesus would have lives under Roman rule in Judea. Everyone there would have been knowledgeable of Roman society, whether they liked it or not. The Romans used an herb to induce abortions fairly commonly, and by that i mean: so common was the herb used that they literally drove it into extinction. Yet Jesus said the following about the procedure:
....
And if we need any more evidence from the bible about God's sincerest compassion for the unborn, we can look to a verse that doesn't need any "interpretation" at all:
Hosea 13:16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Anyone who tells you Jesus was against abortion is lying. They are a false prophet.
Abominations in the bible... clearly you haven't read the bible. I'm not even going to try to list your "few" abominations, there's sites that do.... here's a list of 50 or 60 of them:
http://richardwaynegarganta.co...
So, while "men laying with men" is on the list, so is idolatry (like that cross people wear as jewelry, or that statue behind the later, or making images), eating unclean things (like pork, shellfish, shrimp and a whole shitload more), adultery (you know, getting a divorce then remarrying), sowing discord (you know, like Limbaugh, Hannity, Trump), and wearing cloths of mixes fabrics. If you've ever worn polyester, or a 60/40 cotton mix, you are as much an abomination in the eyes of God as a man who has lain with a man. And that whole eating bacon thing... yeh, you're going to hell for that one.
Biblical marriage? Which version. Again, someone saying the bible defines marriage simply shows you've never actually read the bible (and you're spreading lies... which is another abomination, btw). I'll let Betty explain it, as she's certainly a far better christian that you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
So, anyone teaching that abortion and gay marriage are the big ticket items (or even items on the ticket at all) for Jesus is a liar. They are false prophets, and anyone following them (instead of Jesus' teachings) are not Christians.
Third seems to be you attempting to say this is a christian country. it's not. Again, another lie told by religious people to attempt to gain power over others (and nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus)... oh yes, lying is another abomination.
Fourth... there was no attack on Merry Christmas. Really whiny people who need to play the victim may think so because their ego's are bruised or they don't understand why everyone doesn't believe their lies, but those people are narcissistic (yet another abomination) and delusional.
I'm shocked that people who despise the teachings of Jesus still claim to be Christian. I'm shocke
A Glorious Saturnalia to all.
No, we don't. We actually live in a society based on the format of laws from the codex of Hammurabi.
....is a holiday that has a focus on peace, good will toward others, welcoming strangers, and generosity toward others.
....Pope Francis had a lot a lot to say about being welcoming to refugees.
The people most likely to complain about "Merry Christmas" not being used are people who do not practice those things you mentioned. They call themselves "christians," but they live pretty much the exact opposite of Jesus' teachings. Their only focus is gay marriage and abortion, and not the things that Jesus teaches are important. IF (conservative) christians in the US actually lived as Jesus taught them to, instead of following their false prophets, this country wouldn't be in the downward spiral we are now... and i'd be more than happy to say Merry Christmas all they want.
Seriously, do you think Jesus would give a shit about the choice of greetings when there are people living in the streets, people starving, people sick who can't get treatment, and people being killed simply for being different? Anyone who thinks his concern would be which greeting to use over all of those other things is NOT a Christian.
You should check out the Constitution where the only references to religion is:
Article VI, subsection 3
....but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
Amendment 1
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof....
Both of those are explicit prohibitions on government from promoting any given religion over any other.
Or check out the Treaty of Tripoli....
Article 11
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.....
The Treaty of Tripoli was signed 10 years after the Constitution, and was passed unanimously by congress. Over half of the members of congress at that time had also signed the Constitutional.
The lack of caring in this one is great. No, really.... i mean great as in: beyond your wildest dreams.
Not sure exactly who your responding too, but the way the thread seems to work for me is you're responding to my joke about twinkies and mt dew. If that's the case, you haven't read any of my other posts that are a bit more serious, one of which points out the exact points you've posted saying that i don't seem to "get." I'll summarize: i have no doubt sentient aliens exist, somewhere out there, because quite frankly, there's a whole hell of a lot of "out there," more than anyone can begin to imagine. What that doesn't mean is every amorphous hint of a shadow you catch out of the corner of your eye is an alien. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.... and we don't even have a little bit of moderately maybe evidence, let alone extraordinary evidence.
That said, if aliens ever do show up, they better be the lgms (little green men), as opposed to the lgms (large green motherfuckers).
I'd argue that the deity(s) that most of congress worships are twofold: power and money.... and nothing more.
Right. i was trying to demonstrate that i'm not one of these people who summarily dismiss the idea of alien species and just because. I'm sure they exist, somewhere in the universe, but probably not podunkville earth.
I'd would think that with current technology we'd have better evidence than grainy, out of focus, short, wobbly videos as the only thing to go on, although the caveat there is, if they can travel to us, they may have technology that is well beyond what we can capture (evidence wise) with our technological level. It's still going to have to be extraordinary evidence to go with "they're here" at the moment.
That one would be easy to confirm if we had a sample of their samples, but that's what it would take; actual physical evidence, and not some charred hunk of rock that fell from the sky. Would i believe that the military would keep secrets from the public? Oh yeh. But i'm going to actually have to see these "alloys" before accepting they exist... and i'm going to need a side order of mass spec to go with them.
It certainly could fail... the one in Netherlands performed better than they anticipated, though. There were a lot of people thinking those horseless carriage contraptions were stupid too. I'm saying, innovation doesn't happen because people sit around complacent and never trying things, and people in this country seem more and more to think thumb-up-ass-doing-nothing will keep us competitive with the rest of the world.... it won't. If we loose those races to place like China where they have the people and the resources, we may never catch up.
Now that is a book too scary to read.
Depends....will we be able to analyze the lemonade?
I think a lot of the issue with "UFO's" is that by definition it's something that's unidentified, yet the immediate go to for a number of people is "ohhh, it must be aliens!" I can guarantee the video i saw (i'm assuming we're talking about the one that made the news here the past couple days...not the Falcon rocket thing) is deffinately a UFO. I can't identify it, and clearly the pilot couldn't either. That doesn't make it an alien. Without a good frame of reference, you can't tell it's motion in difference to the aircraft nor it's size, and the picture isn't good enough to make out details either.... so, it's unidentified. Is it alien? No evidence of that.
And don't get me wrong.... i think the mathematical probability of their being sentient alien race out there, somewhere, is 100%. The universe is simply really big. We have, realistically, a single planet that's been somewhat explored (or perhaps somewhere between "somewhat" and "piss poorly"), and there's life on it....an exceptionally large variety of life. Some of that life lives in extreme (to us) conditions, and we know that some of that life can even live for years in the vacuum of space.
But that doesn't mean everything we can't identify in the air is aliens. For us to call it alien, yeh, we will need extraordinary evidence.
Clearly these so called "experts" haven't ran their little tests on Twinkies or Mountain Dew... there's nothing in either of those that can be identified.
And? Remember the internal combustion engine... the airplane... vaccines... building fires.... and pretty much EVERY OTHER THING we've ever done that has worked out? Pointing out one thing that failed doesn't mean everything will fail... that's just an asinine argument on, well, every level. If the only thing you got is really stupid strawman arguments, at least make them entertaining so we're not laughing at their utter ridiculousness (in a bad way).
Well hell... we don't need to do anything you don't think will work now do we, after all you seem to think you know everything that possibly can work.
Science is asking "why," innovation is asking "how," and stupidity is sitting around with your thumb up your ass making excuses for not even bothering to try.
You sound like a guy who's stuck on "if i can't do it, no one can." I haven't seen any of these "sound scientific reasons" yet, just speculation and some bullshit. Here in 'Merkica all we seem to have anymore is stupid people who don't want to keep pushing technology... obviously too stupid to realize that if we become complacent, everyone else will pass us by.
You think they haven't done a little R&D on this before they decided to build it?
This post really nails the new reality of our world. People in the US coming up with ways things shouldn't work, while other countries make those things work. It's too bad stupidity dosn't lead to innovation.... the US would be #1 indefinitely, but miles and miles..
http://archive.defense.gov/pub...
You living in your own private fantasy land doesn't mean jack shit to reality.
If a woman opposes abortion, then fine, she doesn't have to have one. It's her choice. What it shouldn't be, however, is a little ratfuck piece of shit like you having a say over what the women who choose an abortion, for whatever reason they choose it, can or can't do. Get it through your empty little head: women are not property. I get it, your mommy probably regrets not having one when you came along, but try not to be such a hateful little shithead. Seriously though, why is it you are so scared of women making their own choices? Why is it you hate for other people to have constitutional rights?
Why don't you post with your name instead of being a fucking little bitch anon coward.. have a little conviction, if you can figure out what that word means.
You're probably confused by the fact that many ignorant people today use the term socialist to describe a capitalist welfare state
No, i'm not confused by social democracies, i'm confused by how someone can elect to be as stupid as whoever wrote your post. What doesn't surprise me is you had to post it anonymously so people wouldn't know which stupid person to mock.
...or you can check out pretty much any site that isn't run by partisan hacks for the right-wingers lying through their teeth (i'm sure not all are lying, some might simply be too fucking stupid). Better yet, we can do an experiment... you go down to one of these alt-right neo-nazi group meetings, and you yell out at all these guys that they're nothing but a bunch of left wing socialists.... and we'll see how that goes for you. And do remember when they're curbstomping what's left of your skull into the concrete.. if you'd filled your head with something other than lies and bullshit, you wouldn't be getting that shit kicked out of you.
https://www.indy100.com/articl...
https://www.snopes.com/2017/09...
http://www.newsweek.com/nazis-...
Everyone is ignorant, stupidity is not wanting to know or learn. Preferring to live in a fantasy instead of reality is stupid, and stupid should never be acceptable.
But you're right, my post does explain much of what's wrong with this world... people who prefer to be intentionally ignorant, and liars. Next up would probably be the people who want to anonymously defend intentionally stupid people and liars. Past that... rap and country music, although that may just be my opinion.