It's terrible to see the country slide backward down the ladder of technological pre-eminence due to these wackos. Decades of badmouthing government are going to take a toll on us pretty soon.
Hillbillies aren't the problem. The problem is politicians who cater to their ignorance for political gain.
I swear, who the fuck is letting all these half-wit people decide how to teach kids when they don't seem to have the first goddamn clue about what they're talking about?
Because sensible people aren't as fanatic about good sense as nutbags are about their nutbaggery.
People need to get off their asses and vote for people who aren't catering to extremists.
If Christianity becomes the "official" religion in the U.S., the question immediately becomes *what* form of Christianity.
From what I read, the reason Cromwell became dictator after he won the English Civil War is that all the groups in the religious coalition behind the revolt couldn't agree on enough basics to run the country.
Which is why Republicans have been pretending to support religious extremists[*] for the past 32 years. It's just another part of their strategy to get people to vote against their own interests so they can continue running the country for the benefit of the richest.
Se also: Southern Strategy (appeal to anti-Black bigotry), Soutwestern Strategy (appeal to anti-Hispanic bigotry), unnamed strategy based on anti-Gay bigotry, etc.
[*] I call them extremists because they want the government to force their views on everyone else.
No, you can teach *about* any religion, including Christianity. It's when you start teaching some particular religious superstition as fact that you get into trouble.
Or, as in the current case, when you start teaching facts that an influential cult doesn't want you to teach.
He is a political annoyance, not a massive threat.
The politicians and other powerful people who look bad after a leak do consider him a massive threat. It's not like all these people are engaged in good statesmanship rather than looking out for #1.
I never understood the whole "antibacterial" hype.
Chant mar-ke-ting over and over real slowly, and soon enlightenment will descend upon you.
I was on an areoplane Monday, and the lady that plopped down beside me immediately whipped out some kind of sanitary wipe and started cleaning the food tray and the back of the seat in front of her.
Forgive me for undercutting the basis for your idiotical ideological rant, but the VC don't run Viet Nam and never did. The government of the north disbanded them in 1975.
Probably he's sitting in his rocker, listening to Barry Sadler and having traumatic flashbacks about some Damn Hippie that spit on him when he was home on leave in 1968.
This goes out to all those hippies who flew Viet Cong flags and were oh so sure that if the Evil Wicked Americans would just lose the Vietnam War that the peaceful VC would make a wonderful People's Republic and everything would be rainbow shitting unicorns
Name a few?
Or you you ready to admit you were just traitors yet and that it wasn't even in a good cause?
Funny sentiment to express in a discussion about governments suppressing free speech.
The title of this article claims that being a blogger in Vietnam could cost you your life. But the only person to lose their life was a non-blogger who set herself on fire in protest at the new law. So a more accurate title would be, "In Vietnam: Being a Blogger Could Land You In Jail. Setting Yourself On Fire Could Cost You Your Life".
Or: "Being a Blogger Could Cost Someone Else Their Life by a Rather Indirect Mechanism".
Same reason it's happening in America. Gov't likes the power. The only difference is that the US gov't hides it better. For example, there are actually lists of topics that churches are not allowed to preach about. One of them is politics.
AIUI, that's just for maintaining their tax exempt status.
We're not just talking about Assange. We're talking about thousands of Americans who took to the streets last year to exercise their constitutional right to peaceably assemble. Over 7000 people have been arrested as part of OWS, including Presidential candidate Jill Stein.
I've only followed it casually, but ISTM that the problems were almost entirely limited to a few cities (NYC, Okland) where the authorities decided they needed to take a proactively militant/confrontational approach to the protests. In my town the City Council basically said "more power to you".
I'm curious if NBC saw a traffic spike (and how big of one) when they stopped broadcasting the closing ceremony live and switched to streaming it while they switched to whatever the sitcom was.
I haven't had the telly on, but based on experience I'd be astonished if NBC isn't continuing to "cover" the Olympics this week, in hopes of milking a few more nickles out of it.
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It's terrible to see the country slide backward down the ladder of technological pre-eminence due to these wackos. Decades of badmouthing government are going to take a toll on us pretty soon.
Hillbillies aren't the problem. The problem is politicians who cater to their ignorance for political gain.
Also, relevant, that in Uni (biology majors, doctors etc), where this matters, every one studies evolution without fuss. No one gives a damn, frankly.
The basic problem is that a group of politically influential cultists think it's the duty of the public schools to help them brainwash their children.
I swear, who the fuck is letting all these half-wit people decide how to teach kids when they don't seem to have the first goddamn clue about what they're talking about?
Because sensible people aren't as fanatic about good sense as nutbags are about their nutbaggery.
People need to get off their asses and vote for people who aren't catering to extremists.
levine is a jewish name?
learn something new every day!
Anything can be a Jewish name... though I've never met a Rabbi Anything.
If Christianity becomes the "official" religion in the U.S., the question immediately becomes *what* form of Christianity.
From what I read, the reason Cromwell became dictator after he won the English Civil War is that all the groups in the religious coalition behind the revolt couldn't agree on enough basics to run the country.
Please remember that when people talk about a "war" on religion, this is the kind of stuff they're referring to.
For the US Religious Right[*], if you don't let them force their views on you, you're persecuting them.
[*] Popular euphemism for "sex-obsessed control freaks".
well, hey, cheer up everybody, we just landed the most awesomest rover evar on mars!
Did you learn to spell in a Kentucky school?
God said I'll make some D N A
If he was clever he would have called it 'GACT'
Good luck with that. If you didn't have religious cranks in Congress, the Democrats would win every time
Which is why Republicans have been pretending to support religious extremists[*] for the past 32 years. It's just another part of their strategy to get people to vote against their own interests so they can continue running the country for the benefit of the richest.
Se also: Southern Strategy (appeal to anti-Black bigotry), Soutwestern Strategy (appeal to anti-Hispanic bigotry), unnamed strategy based on anti-Gay bigotry, etc.
[*] I call them extremists because they want the government to force their views on everyone else.
No, you can teach *about* any religion, including Christianity. It's when you start teaching some particular religious superstition as fact that you get into trouble.
Or, as in the current case, when you start teaching facts that an influential cult doesn't want you to teach.
He is a political annoyance, not a massive threat.
The politicians and other powerful people who look bad after a leak do consider him a massive threat. It's not like all these people are engaged in good statesmanship rather than looking out for #1.
Is that the best you've got? To accuse someone who disagrees with you of being a paid, "shameless" shill?
Unfortunately, it happens. Though it's usually impossible to tell whether it is actually happening in a particular case, such as this.
I never understood the whole "antibacterial" hype.
Chant mar-ke-ting over and over real slowly, and soon enlightenment will descend upon you.
I was on an areoplane Monday, and the lady that plopped down beside me immediately whipped out some kind of sanitary wipe and started cleaning the food tray and the back of the seat in front of her.
... is how you put a competitor out of business.
Slip a little Triclosan into their vodka?
You can't prove a negative.
Got a proof for that?
Forgive me for undercutting the basis for your idiotical ideological rant, but the VC don't run Viet Nam and never did. The government of the north disbanded them in 1975.
Are you off your meds again?
Probably he's sitting in his rocker, listening to Barry Sadler and having traumatic flashbacks about some Damn Hippie that spit on him when he was home on leave in 1968.
hindsight is always 20/20
It didn't take much hindsight to realize that the USA took over a failed French colonial war. And tried to prop a brutal dictator.
It also doesn't take much wit to find a few basic facts with Teh Google, though you've apparently only got half enough.
This goes out to all those hippies who flew Viet Cong flags and were oh so sure that if the Evil Wicked Americans would just lose the Vietnam War that the peaceful VC would make a wonderful People's Republic and everything would be rainbow shitting unicorns
Name a few?
Or you you ready to admit you were just traitors yet and that it wasn't even in a good cause?
Funny sentiment to express in a discussion about governments suppressing free speech.
Whose side are you on?
The title of this article claims that being a blogger in Vietnam could cost you your life. But the only person to lose their life was a non-blogger who set herself on fire in protest at the new law. So a more accurate title would be, "In Vietnam: Being a Blogger Could Land You In Jail. Setting Yourself On Fire Could Cost You Your Life".
Or: "Being a Blogger Could Cost Someone Else Their Life by a Rather Indirect Mechanism".
Same reason it's happening in America. Gov't likes the power. The only difference is that the US gov't hides it better. For example, there are actually lists of topics that churches are not allowed to preach about. One of them is politics.
AIUI, that's just for maintaining their tax exempt status.
We go to WAR!!! That will teach them.
We're talking about blogs, not oil reserves.
We're not just talking about Assange. We're talking about thousands of Americans who took to the streets last year to exercise their constitutional right to peaceably assemble. Over 7000 people have been arrested as part of OWS, including Presidential candidate Jill Stein.
I've only followed it casually, but ISTM that the problems were almost entirely limited to a few cities (NYC, Okland) where the authorities decided they needed to take a proactively militant/confrontational approach to the protests. In my town the City Council basically said "more power to you".
I'm curious if NBC saw a traffic spike (and how big of one) when they stopped broadcasting the closing ceremony live and switched to streaming it while they switched to whatever the sitcom was.
I haven't had the telly on, but based on experience I'd be astonished if NBC isn't continuing to "cover" the Olympics this week, in hopes of milking a few more nickles out of it.
I thought it said "redesign the furniture".