AbsolutBlue's Comments (29)

“Sorry, Absolute Blue...it was "kill". It was church leaders who wanted to change things to be in agreement with their meat eating ways.

"thou shalt not kill".”

“LOL!

Smart Girls made by Mattel.”

“why would a democrat want to sabotage health care reform
Your comment reflects the disconnect from reality that the republican party keeps revealing more and more”

“They are, about 20% of them by my count. This was not what the thought they were voting for. And its nothing us conservs want any part of.”

“A USA Today reporter on C-Span Thursday said she had been to 4 Town Halls and her associate went to 4 other Town Halls as part of an article - they asked "dozens and dozens" of people if they had voted for Obama - the reporter said not ONE person out of 8 Town Halls indicated they'd voted for Obama.
Dems? Nah”

“Most of the people at the meetings are democrats, because when it comes to doing something good, Dems are more likely to take time out from making money or doing selfish things to show up. But the protesters are pretty much rethugs.”

“That is completely laughable. Democrats, yeah right”

“I've heard that Obama wants to send Granny to England so her hip replacement can be denied!

The protesters are not "actually Democrats" They are actually anti-Amercian far right zealots and ignorant Right leaning lemmings. The comment that they are "Democrats" is meant to confuse the issue and disfuse the understandable anger that any American should feel when our political process is subverted. The Great Oxycotinist says that Hilter was a "Leftie". Utter nonsense.

People showing up at town hall meetings with guns are not using theeir second amendment rights-they are domestic terrorists. Try arguing your political views with someone with a loaded weapon on their hip- You will temper your views if you dare to speak at all.”

“You don't get them because you don't make the effort to understand their points of view. You automatically assume all of the protestors are uneducated cooks that don't know the first thing about government. And you assume that everyone listens to Rush Limbaugh. Then you shout down or insult anyone who has a differing opinion from you and accuse them of being racists and uncaring about the poor or rich, greedy people. And you wonder why you don't understand?”

“I feel your pain. In my experience, Hindus also have polytheistic beliefs which do not deter them from respecting the beliefs of other religions. The problem is religions which are intolerant of those outside the faith. If all faiths would subscribe to a policy of respect for other faiths, we might be able to move forward as a species. There are many ways up the mountain; the view from the top is the same.”

“Oh, Lady, what I wouldn't give to see some of these maniacs get a dressing down from some Heathen clergy I know.

Frankly, they should let Pagan, and probably particularly Heathen, clergy into the prisons where this racist nonsense breeds. If there's any hope for any of them, they'd be shocked at their own ignorance, and just maybe find a more honorable path with the old Gods. A lot of kids *are* actually a bit starved for a sense of heritage. No one said it had to be a hateful or fearful one, cause that's not what's happening.”

“Not really fair to blame Jesus for people's shortcomings. I am still a Christian and am constantly amazed at what some self professed Christians say and do - but I know that is not what Jesus teaches and they'll have to answer for their actions one day.”

“"I'm actually not a Christian, but I used to be and these are exactly the sort of people that precipitated my looking in another direction for spiritual fulfillment."


I sure can give you an Amen to that, AbsolutBlue (good name BTW). It would be great if scores of outraged "normal" xtians who do not hat e would issue protests en masse, but I doubt that is happening. After 9-11 xtianity under GWB turned very far to the right. If BO can turn that tide and shift the country away from the sheer cliff of religious fundamentalism he will deserve a peace proze for that alone.”

“Well said, but, sadly, it will bounce right off them.”

“The evil we see in others we dimly perceive in ourselves . no caps no exclamations .”

“Pagan Norse? That religion was quashed by Christianity centuries ago. It had to be reconstructed in the last 100 years based on Norse texts, with most of your rituals being just made up by the new (re)founders. You of all people have an axe to grind with Christians and other expansionist monotheistic religions.

Pagans worship nature herself, not a separate deity. I don't believe this falls under the intended category of religion. There are other beliefs systems like some Buddhists or Taoists that are benign or even helpful to society.

It is totally reasonable for atheists to be angry and use CAPS when someone tells them they are going to BURN IN HELL FOR ETERNITY. If you do not believe that we will burn in hell for our lack of belief, then this article and hostility is not directed towards you and you are being egotistical and insinuating yourself into an argument that does not involve you.”

“We don't get to use italics on the HP. The caps are a substitute. Relax.”

“"...excuse me if I find it deeply offensive when someone tells me that I might as well believe in unicorns and that I'm somehow suspect or an idiot for believing in something...."

And it's less offensive to us that people tell us that we are idiots because we DON'T believe in anything???? Or worse, that we will BURN IN HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY because we don't believe in anything????

I'm not saying that you say things like that, and I'm not normally the one who will say things like you're an idiot for believing, but I'm tired of the Christians coming out here and complaining about religious persecution whenever someone says that maybe they ought to be not so much in the public eye!!!”

“My Dad who is a WW II Combat veteran, and anything but a union man, he is a life long Republican.

Is voting for Obama.

Although he would rather vote for Michelle.

P.S. I have observed that the more combat an individual has seen the less likely he is to talk about it.”

“This is not a response to a cash flow problem. This is a message from Ahnold to the Legislatures that they WILL pass the budget or all the state workers will be flogged. Um - does anybody else see the problem with his logic?”

“Believe it, please. This is the problem. We don't think we have to pay much attention to our government officials because we believe they have our best interest at heart. But really, the citizens of California are as much to blame for electing the governor as the governor is in robbing the 200,00 state workers. We have failed our nation and our children by ignoring these authoritarians as they conduct business. I've heard some people say,"I can't stand politicians so I don't listen" or "I just can't believe a single word that a politician says". If these people thought long and hard, they might soon realize that their difficulty trusting and believing what politicians say is all their fault. What I mean to say can be better explained in this example of a mother who dispenses numerous sugary treats to her young child, who later grows up to become a diabetic who still insists on consuming numerous sugary treats to their own detriment. It would only make sense to conclude that because the mother introduced the treats to the child so early in life, that in spite of continued consumption by the child as an adult, we can clearly suggest that it was the child's mother who is the initiator of this destructive cycle. So, in our case regarding Arnold and other politicians, we have to accept the blame for letting them indulge in the sweetest treats life has to offer for a very, very, long time.”

“Precisely. That's why older women like me feel so threatened by her. She, as a black woman, has achieved what many of us white women (including Cindy) have only dreamed about. Michele Obama has risen above not only racism but sexism to become a great mom, lawyer, and wife. That is threatening to all sorts of folks who had 'better' advantages and achieved less. We can 'accept' Laura Bush because, for all her connections, she achieved nothing on her own. And Cindy McCain, she validates the reality most women breath - what do I look like? Does my husband still love me? Etc. But Michele has real power and real beauty and that is threatening because achieving that takes hard, disciplined work. Who would you want your daughter to emulate, Cindy or Michele?”

“Typical of the generation gap defining this election. I'm 65, but I say, thank God for the young people. I'm a college professor who teases his students about their knee-jerk PC values (which I support, just not the knee-jerk part), but thank God we've succeeded in this country in raising a couple of young generations who are post-racial and post-feminist, because they take it for granted that racists and sexists (and homophobes) are simply morons. These are the post-Boomer generations who rightly love the Boomer-mocking, and edgily "edgy"-mocking Sarah Silverman. It's so great for America that Michelle and Barak are literally Gen-Xers, not the slacker variety, but the variety which gave us the hard-working, practical, down-to-earth, in love with irony creators of things that work in America: like Yahoo and Google, for starters. Michelle and Barak have that same irreverent focus on what's stupid (the war In Iraq, for starters) vs. what works. Of COURSE, Michelle's great. And of COURSE she makes Edith and Archie as upset as Silverman would in her different way. These people will never, ever "get" it. But fortunately Obama's going to crush them and McCain in November anyway. The times they have a changed.”