I saw a 70 year old couple celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary holding hands on an Old City Jerusalem street stoned by people who saw them.
I also have seen recent news reports of Christians in the UK being killed by various "exorcisms". And of course Christians in the US not infrequently kill homosexuals or abortion doctors who (they say) violate their holy books.
It's true that Christian and Jewish theocracies are not national (though Israel is fundamentally a theocracy, and working on becoming a fundamentalist one). But in communities that are theocracies old testament punishments are handed out. And the lack of judeo-christian theocracies (excluding the Vatican City, which is more corrupt in greed and baby rape than in extreme punishments) is due to the secular people taking power from the theocrats, not because the theocrats themselves abandoning their creeds voluntarily.
Actually, capitalism is the fastest growing socio-political force in the world. Far more of the 60%+ of humans in Russia, China and India have converted to capitalism in the past generation than have adopted sharia worldwide.
"The left", whatever that actually is, doesn't "sympathize with the Islamist". People who aren't crazy, stupid or evil understand that there are limits to what you do to even your enemies. Because not only is human decency real to most people, but we also realize that doing those things to your enemy makes it easier to see it done to you.
This is of course all exactly what Jesus taught, and what Christians like to claim is their governing ideology. But fake Christians like you just want to claim the legacy while doing exactly what Christianity teaches must be avoided at all worldly costs.
BTW, extremist Muslims hate Hollywood almost as much as Hollywood hates them. You really are good at being wrong.
Nonsense. The Democratic Party isn't even very liberal, and it's certainly not the official definer of "liberal".
More to the point, many liberals have both criticized Obama and backed him up and made excuses for him. Because liberals aren't slaves to the binary thinking required of Republicans and "libertarians". "Better than Bush/McCain/Romney" is good enough to defend against the alternative, even if that's not good enough to be proud of. A reasonable adult can handle the nuance. Or they can vote Republican, and enjoy the lack of nuance that comes with always being wrong.
Contraception saves insurers all the costs that come with pregnancy and also STDs. Insurers paying for contraception reduces the costs to everyone who buys insurance.
You Republicans can't understand insurance. Or any other kind of investment, or risk management. All you understand is that your tribe is always right, and everyone else isn't human. You're stupid.
The Easter Bunny isn't part of the New Testament or any other official Christian religious text. But it's definitively Christian.
Religion is as religion does. The actual scriptures are mostly just CYA boilerplate, except when they're invoked for wildly derivative attacks by theocrats on threats to their power.
Of course they were very "Conservative". Nobody is ever "truly Conservative". Because nobody wants corporate anarchy. "Truly Conservative" is as mythical as "true Communism". What "Conservative" really is is a pack of impossible lies nobody ever really believes will happen, wrapped around the worst ripoffs, abuses and tyrannies.
What's most powerful about "Conservatism" is the ironclad faith in it that so many people are unable to wake from, no matter how "Conservatives" actually act when they're so frequently given power. It's a scam.
BTW, the Republican filibuster abuse is far larger than any filibustering Democrats did to Bush. The problem with the filibuster isn't just that it's anti-democratic and easy to abuse. It's that "Conservatives" use it far more than the rest balance it by using it against them.
Yes, the Afghanistan we're still at war with because, as everyone knows, we spent at least the first 4 years just pretending to fight there while we did what you Republicans really wanted: invade Iraq no matter what.
There were no WMD, you idiot, no matter what kind of lies you twist yourself around. You're a cheerleader for the war crimes in Iraq, just for starters. Actual violence that you're actually guilty of helping deliver.
I threaten violence? You're completely insane. Just like a good Republican.
There's all kinds of crimes that your gang wreaked on the US and the world that were never charged. "Not charged" isn't a severity standard for you Republicans, except maybe in inverse proportion.
To be a Republican ever since Nixon your only ideology must be "it's not a crime if you don't get caught".
The details like they had no WMD, and you Republicans lied us into war over them?
Details like they went to war in Iraq because they wanted to, instead of in Afghanistan where they had to?
Details like you never stop lying about the terrible crimes you Republicans are responsible for, while you try to talk like you have some standing to whine about details? Details that are true?
Shut up already. A decent country would never let you say another word again without getting slapped in the face.
A lot has changed other than just rhetoric. A lot has gotten a lot better. For one, few if any whole new categories of abuse are being opened, even if not enough old ones are being closed.
But as we see here, in the military/intel realm, practically nothing has changed. And with the passage of time it's gotten worse: institutionalized, unchallenged, accepted, upgraded.
In general executive privilege, whether the US Chief Executive (president or their whole branch), or a military commander, or even a troop commander (or a lone soldier making "executive decisions"), or corporate executives - all executives have privileges that exempt them from paying the costs of their decisions.
Yes, Obama has destroyed hope for changing that from what Bush established as our offensive national priority. Though it's not quite that bad outside that essential scope, it's bad enough to hate it.
Republicans have a very limited playbook: commit a crime, and blame the Democrat who catches you. It's a mental disease.
... proving my point. Thanks for noticing.
As for karma, I've been trollmodded literally thousands of times on Slashdot for well over a decade now. There have been whole armies of trollmods, organized globally to attack me - I've seen their websites and IRCs (not dedicated to me, but I had my high slot in their rotation). Who cares? They're the ones with the mental disease. I'm the one with time to waste posting the truth.
Humanity? This is faith in the courts. If SAIC had been convicted instead of merely agreeing to keep a little more than it originally contracted, it could have lost much of the government contracts that are over 80% of its very big business.
The court told SAIC that its gamble here didn't pay off, but it didn't lose anything either. Try it again with a different city, a different court, and the law of averages (or bribery) could give you a 5:1 payoff!
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I saw a 70 year old couple celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary holding hands on an Old City Jerusalem street stoned by people who saw them.
I also have seen recent news reports of Christians in the UK being killed by various "exorcisms". And of course Christians in the US not infrequently kill homosexuals or abortion doctors who (they say) violate their holy books.
It's true that Christian and Jewish theocracies are not national (though Israel is fundamentally a theocracy, and working on becoming a fundamentalist one). But in communities that are theocracies old testament punishments are handed out. And the lack of judeo-christian theocracies (excluding the Vatican City, which is more corrupt in greed and baby rape than in extreme punishments) is due to the secular people taking power from the theocrats, not because the theocrats themselves abandoning their creeds voluntarily.
You really don't know what would happen to you if you pissed on the bible or torah on a Jerusalem street? Try it. I won't expect you to post results.
Actually, capitalism is the fastest growing socio-political force in the world. Far more of the 60%+ of humans in Russia, China and India have converted to capitalism in the past generation than have adopted sharia worldwide.
The Bible also says all kinds of stuff about killing people who have "sinned".
It's obvious that superstition used to abuse people is the problem, no matter which brand of superstition is being used.
"The left", whatever that actually is, doesn't "sympathize with the Islamist". People who aren't crazy, stupid or evil understand that there are limits to what you do to even your enemies. Because not only is human decency real to most people, but we also realize that doing those things to your enemy makes it easier to see it done to you.
This is of course all exactly what Jesus taught, and what Christians like to claim is their governing ideology. But fake Christians like you just want to claim the legacy while doing exactly what Christianity teaches must be avoided at all worldly costs.
BTW, extremist Muslims hate Hollywood almost as much as Hollywood hates them. You really are good at being wrong.
Nonsense. The Democratic Party isn't even very liberal, and it's certainly not the official definer of "liberal".
More to the point, many liberals have both criticized Obama and backed him up and made excuses for him. Because liberals aren't slaves to the binary thinking required of Republicans and "libertarians". "Better than Bush/McCain/Romney" is good enough to defend against the alternative, even if that's not good enough to be proud of. A reasonable adult can handle the nuance. Or they can vote Republican, and enjoy the lack of nuance that comes with always being wrong.
Contraception saves insurers all the costs that come with pregnancy and also STDs. Insurers paying for contraception reduces the costs to everyone who buys insurance.
You Republicans can't understand insurance. Or any other kind of investment, or risk management. All you understand is that your tribe is always right, and everyone else isn't human. You're stupid.
You're stupid. Your "American way of life" is the same theocracy as Muslim jihadists, but with a different trademark brand.
You're stupid.
Lots of Arabs are Christians. "Arab" is an ethnicity, an extended tribal family group. "Christian" is a religion that anyone can join.
Beirut is very Arab, no matter how many are Christian, Baha'i, Muslim or other.
So you're screwed by the system that takes your alimony and child support, but you're dedicated to exploiting it to hide from taxes.
Yep, you're a Republican all right. A Cleveland Republican. How's that working out for you?
The Easter Bunny isn't part of the New Testament or any other official Christian religious text. But it's definitively Christian.
Religion is as religion does. The actual scriptures are mostly just CYA boilerplate, except when they're invoked for wildly derivative attacks by theocrats on threats to their power.
Of course they were very "Conservative". Nobody is ever "truly Conservative". Because nobody wants corporate anarchy. "Truly Conservative" is as mythical as "true Communism". What "Conservative" really is is a pack of impossible lies nobody ever really believes will happen, wrapped around the worst ripoffs, abuses and tyrannies.
What's most powerful about "Conservatism" is the ironclad faith in it that so many people are unable to wake from, no matter how "Conservatives" actually act when they're so frequently given power. It's a scam.
Only if we let you Republicans steal it.
BTW, the Republican filibuster abuse is far larger than any filibustering Democrats did to Bush. The problem with the filibuster isn't just that it's anti-democratic and easy to abuse. It's that "Conservatives" use it far more than the rest balance it by using it against them.
How could all of that be worse than Bush when it's exactly the same?
Republican logic is faithy.
Yes, the Afghanistan we're still at war with because, as everyone knows, we spent at least the first 4 years just pretending to fight there while we did what you Republicans really wanted: invade Iraq no matter what.
There were no WMD, you idiot, no matter what kind of lies you twist yourself around. You're a cheerleader for the war crimes in Iraq, just for starters. Actual violence that you're actually guilty of helping deliver.
I threaten violence? You're completely insane. Just like a good Republican.
There's all kinds of crimes that your gang wreaked on the US and the world that were never charged. "Not charged" isn't a severity standard for you Republicans, except maybe in inverse proportion.
To be a Republican ever since Nixon your only ideology must be "it's not a crime if you don't get caught".
The details like they had no WMD, and you Republicans lied us into war over them?
Details like they went to war in Iraq because they wanted to, instead of in Afghanistan where they had to?
Details like you never stop lying about the terrible crimes you Republicans are responsible for, while you try to talk like you have some standing to whine about details? Details that are true?
Shut up already. A decent country would never let you say another word again without getting slapped in the face.
Bush/Cheney outed Plame to interfere with her husband's denial of Bush/Cheney's faked Niger uranium "evidence" lying us into war with Iraq.
Everyone knows this is true. Even you. Why do you Republican bother to lie about this stuff? Don't you have lies about birth certificates to peddle?
A lot has changed other than just rhetoric. A lot has gotten a lot better. For one, few if any whole new categories of abuse are being opened, even if not enough old ones are being closed.
But as we see here, in the military/intel realm, practically nothing has changed. And with the passage of time it's gotten worse: institutionalized, unchallenged, accepted, upgraded.
In general executive privilege, whether the US Chief Executive (president or their whole branch), or a military commander, or even a troop commander (or a lone soldier making "executive decisions"), or corporate executives - all executives have privileges that exempt them from paying the costs of their decisions.
Yes, Obama has destroyed hope for changing that from what Bush established as our offensive national priority. Though it's not quite that bad outside that essential scope, it's bad enough to hate it.
The fortune at the bottom of the page in which I'm posting says:
But evidently Timothy doesn't read to the bottom of the page, either.
They're probably trollmodding me because of
As for karma, I've been trollmodded literally thousands of times on Slashdot for well over a decade now. There have been whole armies of trollmods, organized globally to attack me - I've seen their websites and IRCs (not dedicated to me, but I had my high slot in their rotation). Who cares? They're the ones with the mental disease. I'm the one with time to waste posting the truth.
Except that it's Obama's Federal attorney who got the money back. It's Republican Bloomberg who helped SAIC rob it.
You Republicans have a very limited playbook: commit a crime, and blame the Democrat who catches you. It's a mental disease.
SAIC is a CIA asset.
Humanity? This is faith in the courts. If SAIC had been convicted instead of merely agreeing to keep a little more than it originally contracted, it could have lost much of the government contracts that are over 80% of its very big business.
The court told SAIC that its gamble here didn't pay off, but it didn't lose anything either. Try it again with a different city, a different court, and the law of averages (or bribery) could give you a 5:1 payoff!