What man in his right mind would want to be married to this creature?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/09/sharron-angle-nevada-cand_n_605754.html

The Fifth and the Seventh Commandments

These are two commandments that Americans and corporations willfully commit mortal sins that damn their souls. They are the signature commandments of the United States of Hell and her people. Let us take a look at each commandment and the breakdown that leads Americans and corporations to commit mortal sins.

The Fifth Commandment – Thou Shall Not Kill

Killing of a human being, murder, abortion, willfully trying to hurt another human being, wishing harm to another person or persons, driving dangerously and recklessly, driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, willfully harboring hatred for another person or persons, self-mutilation, promotion and involvement in euthanasia, and bigotry are some examples!

The Seventh Commandment – Thou Shall Not Steal

Willfully destroying or defacing another’s property (such as in wrong and immoral wars), defrauding workers of their wages (such as slave wages and outsourcing of jobs), taking advantage of the poor, simple, inexperienced, less fortunate and the middle class, denying help to the poor, needy, destitute, and the middle class, fraud (such as our politicians who take money or accepting of a bribe), price fixing (such as our oil companies and their involvement in this practice), tax evasion (such as the rich and corporations who have offshore tax havens), excessive waste (such as oil spillage, Massey mining, entering wrong and immoral wars), and slavery are some examples!

As you can read, the United States of Hell routinely commits mortal sins that damn her soul. Mortal sins are the American way of life.

I'm not sure if the question should be WHY IS BP enforcing a no-fly zone? I think it should be HOW IS BP enforcing a no-fly zone?

N

The relationship between the progressive movement and the Democratic Party has always been a marriage of convenience. The Democratic Party, first and foremost, is the party of the South; the party of Jefferson and Jackson.

The TFR appears to be sensible. 3000 feet above ground level can be justified because of low level operations involving planes spraying chemicals. A whole bunch of sightseers could get in each other's way.

uh oh, Thom is beginning to sound like rladlof, he might just start calling Obama a DLC boot lick if he continues on this line.

As I discovered my progressive frame of mind, I couldn't in good conscience join the Democratic Party, I couldn't ally myself with a party that pays lip service to its progressive platform. The Greens may be powerless, but I rather be in a party that shares my idealism, than be in a party that I must beg and plead to consider my ideals.

N

What's really insulting is Democratic politicians who feel they have to distance themselves from us. According to the main$tream media, failure to do so makes them 'out of touch' or 'out of tune.'

But where is the DLC itself in the dominance/submission hierarchy?

Libertarians (in the American sense) aren't idealists, as their a priori assumption is that human nature is inherently selfish. They are, to their credit, hobgoblins for consistency.

When I was a kid, the Democrats with union support were considered the 'machine' Democrats. Now the DLC's are firmly in control of the party machinery.

Libertarian dogma in a nutshell: Public sector bad! Private sector good!

Reminiscent of the sheep in Animal Farm.

@MAXROT:

How would I treat the situation of finding my spouse in bed with someone else? First, I would have to assume that you are referring to someone other than my four year-old daughter . . . AND that you are typing about something other than just being ‘in bed.’ So, if you are truly asking me, my answer is: Videotape . . .

From the stand point of Jewish tradition, the finding one’s spouse in bed with another is rather well-defined. If the spouse stepping-out is male, the finding individual would recognize that her husband has taken another spouse as is his right (The thousand year prohibition against polygyny lapsed several years ago). If the spouse stepping out is female, she and her paramour have enacted a property crime against her husband’s right to bed her. Truthful testimony from two (2) witnesses is required and a decision by the court against the trysting gal and her bang-buddy THEN the biblical prescription is the death of both (I vote from old age). The killing of a spouse and her lover is unjust until due process has run its course. If the court rules for the traditional punishment, the killing would be passionless . . . and just. If it were anything else, it would be unjust.

Jewish tradition, also, stands on the ideal that Jews must live with the customs and laws of the nation in which they reside. If I felt hurt by my wife getting hot and sweaty with someone else, divorce is an acceptable solution BUT in my case, such an occurrence would result in me reviewing my behavior within the relationship. As a responsible adult . . . if I am not delivering, her nasty-naked time with someone else is my fault. Contrary to popular Christofascist principles, marriages are more than just sex.

I have gone on the record many times before typing that the Tanakh this is not the basis of the American justice system and I am way beyond damn happy that this is so. The problem is compounded when folk from Christian traditions attempt to applying ‘biblical’ principles to legal standards because it is NOT their book and they do NOT understand that farging thing . . . In fact, their traditions preclude them from understanding the Tanakh AND, therefore, their attempt of inserting ‘biblical’ traditions into the law gives me the willies in a BIG way. The problems with imposing Christofascist principles on Americans is Americans are not necessarily Rapturian or supportive of fascism.

I know that, for Gerald, looking through the prism of his religious principles grants him a valid lens to understand his interpretation of the world BUT it is not my understanding of the universe AND I remain willing to passionately speak-out against it.

I think Rove took on Dubya as a challenge. "I can make anyone President, and here's my proof."

IT staffing firms don't like to have good reasons for hiring H-1B workers. They want to sue to protect what they believe is their right to hire foreign nationals here at home.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9177886/IT_staffing_firms_file_su...

So not only should we outsource our tech jobs, we should also import cheap labor for the few tech jobs left here. So much for retraining for an IT job fellow americans.

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Bobby Kennedy pointed out that when we want to arrest a criminal in New York City, we don't blow up the entire block where we think he may be.

Here is an early Christmas song for the United States of Hell.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Oh-Come-All-Ye-Hateful-by-Darren-Wolfe-100609-787.html

RFK Sr.

Another Red Neck story:

There is a History Channel story in which the striking miners who assembled and armed themselves to fight the coal operators and their thugs in West Virginia wore those red kerchiefs.

@Gene Savory:

Two thoughts:

1. Golda Meir died in 1978.

2. It should be noted that there is no evidence that the folk presently calling themselves ‘Palestinians’ are direct or even indirect descendants of the occupying Hellenistic Greeks who had renamed the region to Palestine during their 28 years of occupying the region as spoils of war over two thousand years ago. After the Israelites re-claimed the country (Hooray Chanukah!), Palestine officially ceased to exist forever. Largely the folk who people call ‘Palestinians’ are the Ottoman Empire underclass which lived in Transjordan during to the British Mandate (1917-1948). In truth, some of them have roots going back centuries . . . Perhaps even a millennia or two . . . But I have yet to see any evidence that they are descendants of Hellenistic Greeks. You appear to have reached the conclusion that Israel is a roguish state enacting malfeasance based partly on faulty reasoning.

@rladlof, I know this may found disrespectful, I don't mean to be, but other than the religious significance of Israel, is there anything else that makes the area desirable? Natural resources, or key trade routes or something like that? I know the question may seem simplistic, but I still wonder what actually makes the land so important.

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Albert Einstein was brilliant. We need more Albert Einsteins in the world.

@radloff: Golda Meir said that when she was alive. Haven't heard anything from her lately.

The question of whose dirt is it in easily remedied by all sides accepting the United Nations Resolution 48 . . . The Transjordan portion of the British Mandate was trisected into Jordan, Israel and what should have been Palestine.

Now . . . Having typed the above, I am more than willing to admit that the situation is far from perfect. Religion or not has little to do with my views on Israel’s existence. Folk deserve dirt they can call their own . . . Dirt where they can be guaranteed a chance to be free from attacks by malicious outside forces. This includes Israelis, Palestinians, Darfur refugees, Afghanis and everyone . . . Even Libertarians and Republicans. Where that is for each folk in question is the eternal question . . .

A quick review of the proposed plan from Resolution 48 resulted in Israel being founded with indefensible borders. I suspect that the original intention was largely designed to finish off the remaining Hebrews. Fortunately, Israel’s defense against the attacks by its newly minted neighbors reconsolidated its borders into something almost manageable. We have to remember that the Palestinian camps were foisted off onto Israel by its neighboring Arabic nations. The Israelis are charged with defending and supplying folk sworn to their destruction AND the world is pissed off that they are still around to attempt to do so.

I see the basic issue as: One sovereign nation is being told by the whole world to make peace with a marketing campaign design to de-legitimatize that nation’s status . . . If the Palestinian leadership stepped up and declared themselves a nation and worked towards that goal . . . The issue would be solved.

Hey Rahm . . . flush this! Signed, A "f**king retard," and proud of it!!

Shalom

Here is what America and the world need in order to attain peace and justice on our planet for all of God’s children. Here is also what I believe God wants for His children and His vision for the world.

Shalom translated means peace but it is much more than peace. Shalom is a vision of social wholeness; a state of well being for all, where everyone has access to the goods of creation intended to meet the needs of all. Shalom is the substance of the biblical vision of one community embracing all creation where all enjoy the resources that make communal harmony joyous and effective.

Shalom is nothing less than God’s intended vision of the world, a dream of God that resists our tendencies for division, hostility, fear, lust, and misery. If there is to be well-being, it will not be just for the isolated and insulated individuals, it is security and prosperity granted to the whole community: the poor, the widow, the orphan, the immigrant, the tax collector and the sinner, the despised and the rejected, young and old, the have and the have nots, the powerful and the dependent. We are in it together. Together we stand before God’s blessings and together we receive the gift of life. Shalom comes only to the inclusive embracing community that excludes no one.