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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 13, 2006 -> 08:19 AM) Did I ever claim it didn't? I was adressing a falsehood in LCRs statement, not the history of Christianity. Believe me I know if I asked, I would get a thesis on every evil ever done in its name. The thing is that Pipes' invisible radar seems to kick in just when there is somebody who disagrees with his hardline stance. That's the comedy I was addressing.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 12, 2006 -> 08:51 PM) Where the hell is Granada? https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/gj.html

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 12, 2006 -> 07:28 PM) And thank God we invaded Grenada. Imagine what the world would have looked like if we hadn't. Hey, Reagan was just looking out for those medical students!

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 12, 2006 -> 08:23 PM) Exactly. But but but...he's a *gasp* Muslim and prays to a different invisible man than me! This faux outrage in this thread is almost as comical as Daniel Pipes' "invisible radar" in his head that tells him who the people are that want to create an Islamic state in the US. I know a guy who was in the Nation when he was younger as well. He's a really nice guy and we get along great. But I'm sure that he's just waiting for me to get my guard down before indoctrinating me or taking my white devil ass out, right EM?

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 12, 2006 -> 04:51 PM) I'd rather not close this thread, given its topical. Anyone have anything to add re: the agenda and the new Congress? We're just trying to add a little humor here. Nothing meanspirited on my side and I assume the same on PA's. We're just trying to make the place a little less tense with some of the snark that has been in here.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 12, 2006 -> 04:44 PM) I'm sorry all I got from that is you want to wrestle Ted Haggard. must be the new firefox 2.0 update Yes, that's exactly it. Hooked on Phonics worked for PA!

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 12, 2006 -> 04:21 PM) it couldn't have anything to do with you and others being needling SOBs Uh, I haven't really been around thanks to work and doing stuff around my apartment outside of a few posts in wrestling threads and still laughing about Ted Haggard. But point taken nonetheless.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Nov 12, 2006 -> 03:44 PM) Yea. It's all my fault. Science H. Logic, who the Hell pissed in your corn flakes? Talk about snarky the past few days, jeez.

Critic, if you want to talk stinker...new SS match Team Cena Cena, RVD, Sabu, Lashley, Kane vs Team Big Show Big Show, Umaga, Finlay, Test and Montel Vontavious Porter

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Nov 8, 2006 -> 05:39 PM) Boy....Rumsfeld and K-Fed both kicked to the curb within 24 hours of each other.....who would have thunk it????? Britney and Rummy sitting in a tree!

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Nov 7, 2006 -> 09:41 PM) Now that Ms. Pelosi is Speaker, and the world is ALL YOURS, what are you going to do, besides go to Disney Land? I seriously want to know, since most of the platform couldn't be discussed because "Karl Rove would tear it apart". Dean spoke about that in depth earlier this evening on MSNBC.

2 more Dem pickup House seats. 5 left for the majority in the House.

Need 7 House seats for the majority. Need 3 Senate seats for the majority. And oh yes, where's Nuke?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 7, 2006 -> 07:45 PM) Early results are starting to come in... 19 of 74 precints in Laporte county have been counted, with no distinction as to how many are in MC... Right now I am in 3rd of 4, but the totals are 334-323-307, so its really, really close, and early. Did you make sure to vote for yourself?

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 7, 2006 -> 08:22 PM) So, here is something I am finding very interesting in the IL Governor election. Current results in, from Chicago Tribune, as of a few minutes ago: Governor - Illinois 154 of 11692 Precincts Reporting Baar Topinka , Judy GOP 23,774 44.55 Blagojevich , Rod (i) Dem 23,527 44.09 Whitney, Rich Grn 6,061 11.36 The line in bold is telling, I think. Whitney isn't some one-shot phenom. That's a protest vote, and a big one, by Illinois voters saying that the two major party options they were given were just complete garbage. And I agree. We'll see how that holds up as more precincts report - since only a fraction have done so. But since Topinka is leading these precincts, I'd say they are majority downstate - where the Greens won't usually do well. Urban voters may actually increase that number. 11% is HUGE for a Green party candidate for Gov. Whitney was the 'f*** You' vote to Topinka and Blago. I really wish there was a true 'None of the Above' option on the ballot and if 'None' won, we have another election with new candidates.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Nov 7, 2006 -> 06:21 PM) Wow. I wonder how many family members they have, to BOOST THAT BUYRATE!!! Yikes, that is a craptastic match. Anybody want to bet HHH and HBK want to hold down CM Punk physically now too in a swerve heel turn?

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 7, 2006 -> 12:01 PM) "RENT! Is. Too. Damn. High!" Pretty catchy tune. That it is. Man...I dunno, let's start an IL Rent Is Too Damn High Party and a FL Rent Is Too Damn High Party!

Voted mostly Green, a few Dems, every judge out and yes on the referenda in my local area.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 7, 2006 -> 06:13 AM) Yeah, if you guys all hate Haggard, you must really be harboring some awesome grudges against the poster child for lying and hypocracy, Bill Clinton right? I mean not only did he lie about his stuff for how long, but he got up on national TV and accused everyone else of lying, unlike Haggard who just had a congregation to lie to, and on top of it all he lied under oath about it. Wow, this guy must be super unpopular right now. Then again, Clinton was never an anti-blow job bigot for years either. I see where you're going with the same lie thing and yes, they both lied. However, Clinton was never actively opposed BJ's for years to the extent of using the White House to get an anti-BJ initiative passed federally or by the states. I have no problem if he wants to engage in paying for gay sex and doing meth. He just shouldn't have had the facade where he was actively involved against the gay movement then to the extent of using his connections with the White House to affect that sort of bigotry.

If (and this is a big if, given O'Reilly's typically lazy brand of "journalism" -- if we want to use the J word in reference to O'Reilly's body of work) this is true, then this is good whistleblowing. If it is not true and just more allegations to play the pro-lifers (and likewise the pro-choicers) like a cheap fiddle at the polls for election ballots towards a certain candidate and drub up ratings...well, I wouldn't put that past O'Reilly.

SBC is a f***ing genius. How he stayed in character through all that...absolutely brilliant. That whole high society dinner was hysterical. I could not stop laughing throughout that film.

CM Punk telling a story of he and Corino in England. Comedy gold. Also, Cyber Sunday tonight...

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 5, 2006 -> 02:26 PM) At the same time you have to admit it's hard to try to look past E-ticket hypocrisy like this. And the conversation could very quickly be derailed with this tangent, but I'd very much like to see an increase in the numbers and in the voices of the branches of Christianity that better reflect a 'radical inclusiveness' of the sort the J-Man used to espouse back in the day. Now, that's the sort of Christianity an atheist can almost regret not being a part of. Ding ding ding! Haggard set himself up with this (his now "lifelong sexual problem" after supposedly never having met the prostitute) by committing himself to such a hardline stance. People in glass houses don't throw stones. I could really care less what he wanted to do -- just as long as his personality and opinions matched those actions which he was undertaking.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Nov 4, 2006 -> 06:09 PM) Why can't gay couples enjoy the same rights as straight couples thru a civil union? That law change would be alot easier to make, and would let the straight people keep 'marriage' to themselves. If the ultimate objective is to get the same legal rights, what difference does a name make? Well, there's the wingnut side that says that merges the state and Christian theology (I'm looking at you Dr. James Kennedy and James Dobson from Focus on the Family) so that would not be possible with a large voting block of conservative evangelical voters. Logic, reason driven people like the two of us who agree in giving the same legal rights to people would be fine with 'civil unions', 'marriage' or whatever the Hell else they want to call it. But this growing movement against the Enlightenment values that founded America and to replace it with a strict quasi-Puritanical sense of Christianity that has resonated with a large population of voters will greatly inhibit any progress. Too many people think that being gay is a 'choice' without thinking that if a person's sexuality is a choice, do people then choose to be heterosexual? Marriage is a civil contract in our society and should be given to adults who would like to partake. Unfortunately the crew jackboot Christians who have a lot of power and publicity want government to impose their moral code on everybody, like it or not. And to add to Rex's legal basis... In 1872, Burns vs State and the Alabama Supreme Court declared a ban on inter-racial marriage unlawful. Relying on the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 14th Amendment, the court stated that marriage was a contract and that blacks had the right to make any contract which a white citizen may make. Just put in "straight" and "homosexual" in for black and white. You can even add Loving vs Virginia (1967): "Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man," fundamental to our very existence and survival. To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discriminations. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State."

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Nov 4, 2006 -> 10:22 AM) I hope he gets the help he needs. True, the true hilariousness comes, however, from his consistent backpeddling and getting his comeuppance for saying one thing for years and then doing the exact opposite. I could care less if he likes gay sex, prostitutes or has a meth habit. Whatever he'd like to do responsibly. The true fun comes from his public persona being so opposite to his true nature and he really set himself up with that.