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President Obama?!?!? Not standing up for principles?!?!? Who woulda thunk it? . . .
Standard Operating Procedure for our great DLC President.
Actually the NAZI's were not a nation, they were a political party (a very warped political party, but a political party non-the-less). Not all NAZI's were German, not all Germans were NAZI's. Japan is a whole 'nother story too. Also is it really illegal to have a NAZI symbol next to the Holocaust museum, I can understand it being reprehensible, and disgusting, but is it illegal? I thought that such hate speech was protected under the constitution.
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Nation of Islam isn't a "nation" any more than "Fox Nation" is a country.
@Gene, Catholics have too many problems within herself to concentrate on other people and religions.
But Charlie Rangle is being run out on a rail. What the hell is wrong?
"Don't we live in the same objective world?" a disciple once queried his guru. "Yes," his master replied, "but you see yourself in the world, and I see the world in myself. This minor perceptual shift makes all the difference between freedom and bondage." (Deepak Chopra)
That was a good point that caller made about Obama not being the non-official leader of Islam. It would be equivalent of saying David Koresh, or Jim Jones are non-official leaders of Christianity. In reality, in all these cases, these megalomaniacs are aberrations, they are more or less the wolf in sheeps' clothing.
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We should remember the Eleventh Commandment that was given to us by Jesus at the Last Supper. LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS I HAVE LOVED YOU!
The fight over the mosque says much about our hatred and lies that are rampant in the United States of Mortal Sin. Hatred is a sin against the Fifth Commandment. Lies are a sin against the Eighth Commandment.
Tom DeLay is not being prosecuted?????? What????????????????
Another great result of keeping Bush's Justice Dept. intact.
@Maxrot: All I can tell those idiots is do we burn the Constitution to save the flag?
From Tom Lehrer: The Catholics hate the Protestants, and the Protestants hate the Catholics, and the Moslems hate the Hindus, and everyone hates the Jews;
But not in National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week, Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark are dancing cheek to cheek,
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Step up and shake the hand of someone you can't stand; it's only for a week so have no fear, just be glad it doesn't last all year!
@Thom - Ask the righties about the size of their cigars.
@Jeanie is on a roll!
And not just Christians. I sat with a group of Jews Saturday morning after a Torah study class on justice, no less, and heard venom and bigotry based on irrational fear the likes of which I haven't seen since the South of the 50's and 60's. Unfortunately hysteria and irrational fear can't be quelled by rational discourse.
Gawd I'm sick of people talking about flag burning, mostly because that is the official way to dispose of an American Flag. Have pictures at an Elks picnic where a ceremony was done and retired flags were thrown into a pit of fire. The G-D Elks, a mostly conservative minded men's club. For petes sake if you want to desecrate the flag, let it touch the ground, soil it on purpose, etc... but stop whining about flag burning, it's not even happening at protests or the like. Morons.
Anyway that's my pet peeve rant, for all those out there that lie awake at night with images of burning flags keeping them awake.
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It's not as if the building being built is the Al Queda Recruitment Center (regardless of what the rightwing nuts say). Why are rightwing people so afraid of everything? Except what they should be afraid of (American jobs being sent overseas, the destruction of the middle class, our deliberate creation of enemies worldwide by our actions, etc.) It almost makes me think that the right wingers aren't the brightest.
Delay off the hook. WTF???????????????????
16 Aug 2010 // Washington, D.C. - In response to the Justice Department’s decision not to prosecute disgraced former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX), Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) Executive Director Melanie Sloan released the following statement:
“It’s a sad day for America when one of the most corrupt members to ever walk the halls of Congress gets a free pass. As we continue the work of building a Washington that is worthy of the American people, the Justice Department’s decision not to prosecute Mr. DeLay for his actions sends exactly the wrong message to current and future members. The fact that Jack Abramoff and Bob Ney (R-OH) are the only two people who went to prison for one of the worst corruption scandals in congressional history is shocking. The Hammer belongs in the slammer. Mr. DeLay still has crimes to answer for in Texas – generally not considered the best place to be a criminal defendant.”
@Jeanie, hits a home run!
Thom should ask rightwing callers if we should put the stoppers on Christian churches whenever Christians blow up women's health centers or abortion clinics. Christians commit violence in the name of Jesus Christ, but it's not popular to condemn Christianity or to not allow them to build yet another church wherever they want.
I believe that the fundamentalist Christians are running frightened because Islam is a growing religion in the United States of Numb Nuts. My articles on Thom's Blog, August 16, 2010, reveals that Christianity is in a free fall away from their principles.
NOT. A. MOSQUE. -----------------------
A "community center" with a swimming pool and a gymnasium is not a mosque. It has more in common with a YMCA than a church. Stop calling it a "mosque".
Depleted Uranium
Scientists are going to study depleted uranium and its effect on the American population. As depleted uranium filters into Iraqi oil, many gallons of Iraqi oil will be brought to America to help America continue her gluttonous ways.
As the depleted uranium is let out through exhaust fumes, it will be in the air and on land for 4 billion years causing many, many health problems in the years to come. Americans will die, become sick, and babies will be born deformed. America’s environment will be deadly for 4 billion years.
Insurance companies will be happy because there will be no need for insurance. Born in America will mean that you have a pre-existing condition and you are not entitled to health coverage.
America’s attack upon Iraq will bring forth unintended consequences. Terrorism will come to America through Bush’s policies and exhaust fumes from Iraqi oil. Bush’s non-scientist board will say to not worry about Iraqi oil. It is safe. Right!
Project for a New American Century will be elated because their goal of a planet with only 500 million people will be well underway.
Perhaps there isn't monuments to the Japanese in Pearl Harbor, but we haven't banned Japanese Embassies since then, we haven't banned Buddist temples. Along the WWI Trench lines in France there are (though they are few) monuments to dead German Soldiers. Countries learn to move on, and the animosity and hate of yesterday cannot be allowed to rule today, or we would forever be doomed endless wars, not unlike generations of family feuds in Appalachia.
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America has its Fundamentalist Christians, Islam has it's Fundamentalist Sects. A Fundamentalist will admit to being wrong only one time - the one time they thought they were wrong. Fundamentalism is closely tied to Nationalism. Fundamentalism is a disease.
It seems the whole world has lost it's mind with the "old" religions. Perhaps it's time for a new paradign.