Rollory agrees! Wait, who the fuck is that? I don’t know, all he/she said was that he/she agrees. Must be important!
Bizarre 180 there Denny; earlier you had no problem throwing out an assumption that this issue was bred in Alabama, but now you’re aligned to the popular relativist platitudes.
I wonder how far the one-liner brigade of P&R idiots will run with the suggested Cleve comparison?
Deep thoughts: there are idiots everywhere. Sadly, a deeper one: there are more some places than others.
Oh, Alabama and Mississippi both have more than their fair share of fundamentalist wackos.
But to suggest that the entire south should be wiped out because of that is nuts. Plenty of smart, sane people in the south.
California has hippie wackos, gang wackos, and plastic surgery fiends. Oregon has survivalist wackos. Washington has one-line post fiends. Vermont has socialist milk farmers. The wackos do differ by state.
I’ll show you a one-line post fiend!
Subtle difference with rest of country: we’re not interested in forcing you to do stuff with the government.
Hell, I live in the capitol of the old South and I hope I’ve made my feelings about the religious right clear in other threads. It’s extremely idiotic to think most Southerners even agree with those nutty conservatives. Ya’ll do know we have educated people, women and minorities down here right? We’re not all Falwell Jr.'s. In fact, if anyone has to be smarter and tougher to qualify as a moderate or liberal it’s someone living in unfriendly territory. Any New Yorker or Californian can fire off at the lip and expect hugs all around. Folks down here have to have their facts straight.
Could have fooled me.
;)
What the fuck kind of comment is this? I agreed with Kyle that Anax was being one hell of an idiot. I wanted to say so, so I did. Did I forget to fill out a few forms in triplicate explaining my background and qualifications for making such a judgement along with an application for permission to attempt to influence the opinions of the mighty Qt3 readership?
Yes, my opinion is important. It’s a damn sight more important than yours, for instance, because it happens to be mine, and I’m the center of the universe. Got it?
Like in the Middle East. There are even more idiots in the Middle East than in the American south. I’ve had a revelation! Anaxagoras is right! We should just kill them all. That would simplify matters tremendously.
Since this may not deserve a thread of its own…what the hell are evangelical missionaries doing in Iraq? Is that not a bad call all around?
Five Americans missionaries were shot in the northern city of Mosul a day earlier, leaving four dead and one wounded. The Virginia-based Southern Baptist International Mission Board identified the dead missionaries as Larry T. Elliott, 60, and Jean Dover Elliott, 58, of Cary, N.C.; Karen Denise Watson, 38, of Bakersfield, Calif.; and David E. McDonnall, 28, of Rowlett, Texas.
Now that, that, is Darwinism in action. If the religious right wants Iraq so badly I think they might just deserve it.
You said this?!? Mister “Libertarians are anarchs”? The staunchest defender of classical big-government Democrats this board has?
Cognitive…dissonance…imploding…brain…
Rollory: the point is what the fuck kind of post is “Second.”? Again, wow, Rollory said it agrees (AND NOTHING ELSE AT ALL). Your authority derives from being fat enough to cause nearby objects to go into orbit?
Fear the non sequitur singularity at the center of the universe! Anaxagoras, one of the best posters here (spare me the comparison with the Koontz quote, maybe even spare me “brown-noser!” accusations…nah that one is inevitable), gets dogpiled by P&R lurkers for something that somebody of his intelligence clearly wouldn’t mean literally? Friend rants, you laugh; somebody else rants, you take paparazzi pictures and Photoshop a white sheet onto his body.
All together now, “IT’S A CESS- POOL” clap clap clapclap clap
You said this?!? Mister “Libertarians are anarchs”? The staunchest defender of classical big-government Democrats this board has?
Cognitive…dissonance…imploding…brain…[/quote]
Ok, I didn’t even think of taxes, because you know what? I don’t think it’s that big of a deal! And you’d be surprised how much socialism is lurking under the surface in the south, hidden by hatred of yankees, racism, and their culture war…
It’s extremely idiotic to think most Southerners even agree with those nutty conservatives.
How do they get elected, then?
I’m sure fundamentalist Christians don’t think that acknowledging god as the source of all justice and governance is that big of a deal, either. In fact, I’m sure that concept seems so obvious to them that they are honestly surprised when everyone else doesn’t just take it for granted. The reality is that both you and they are very much interested in “forcing people to do stuff with the government,” despite your protestations to the contrary. You only differ on the matter of which things you want the government to force people to do. And like them, you think that they things that you want the government to force people to do are right and just, and the things that other people want the government to force people to do are wrong and evil.
I find it genuinely funny, sometimes, watching the right and the left engage in these epic clashes of will when it seems to me that their political philosophies are actually more similar than different.
Good to see you’re so above it all. I suppose you think government shouldn’t do much of anything? And assuming that’s not entirely the case where does the money come from? While McCullough’s obviously missing the point himself, and you do have one, there’s a world of difference between the rational and societal values of the differing sides of this argument. That’s where meaningful debate happens. The alternative of a completely passive government leads to, well, you do remember studying The Industrial Revolution don’t you?
That’s a fair point, and obviously anyone who believes in having a government at all (including myself) believes in having the government force people to do at least some things (which is sort of the whole point of having a government). Maybe I overstated my case a bit… I just found it funny that Jason seems to honestly believe that the key difference between himself and the religious right is that the religious right wants to have the government force things on people, while he doesn’t.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/National/County_Gay_Ban.html
Gotta’ run them tool grinders out of the county!!
You’re right, I don’t consider the “forcing” involved in taxes to be comparable to the things SBC members want to force people to do.
“That government is best which governs least.” - Thomas Paine
Of course, going around quoting people like him is liable to get one marked as a dangerous individual these days.
You misspelled “massively clueless and consistently disconnected from reality”. Hope this helps. Have a nice day.
Thank you. Of course I didn’t mean it literally, you twits. Jesus. I almost mean it literally for the great state of Oklahoma, but even there there were a few decent people. I would offer an argument showing the dangers of allowing any government to descend into the blood bath that I described, or the simple cost of bulding the mother of all Dairy Queens that large enough to feed all the fat asses in the South. However, if you don’t get it now, you won’t get it after the argument, so I won’t fucking bother.
I’m not wearing any pants. They split, so I’m not wearing any. Now who wants to party with baby '33?
Man, I was drivin’ in North Carolina the other day and saw a sign that said “Coloreds for Sale.” I was surprised to say the least! Upon further investigation, the dude had mispelled “Collards.” Gosh, we had us such a laugh. :lol:
I know that. It was a stupid thing to say anyway. To take a momentary tangent into serious argument here, I can’t see what the point of saying it was, or what it added to the discussion, or what you were trying to convince people of by saying it, or what. It was just a massively stupid comment. Not necessarily any stupider than the proposed legislation that started this whole thing off, but that’s not the point; you shouldn’t descend to their level, and don’t even need to in this case.
Mind, I haven’t been anything like swayed towards your positions by anything you’ve said in any other posts of yours I’ve read; I see you as generally lacking much perspective and/or willingness to consider viewpoints that aren’t yours. But that’s just me. (Just the center of the universe, that is.)