LeBelAge's Comments (796)

“No, it is not equal. The Catholic Church's defense is also about hypocrisy and corruption, the use of parishioner's money to commit those acts, and also sublimating rape. Defending Polanski could come from a lot of different things including questioning whether or not the justice system that is gunning for him is doing so at the cost of civil liberties. No one who is a credible human being is saying rape is ok, but defending civil rights is now the same as defending rape.”

“#1. bet is NOT owned by african-americans. bob johnson sold it YEARS ago, to viacom - the same company that owns mtv.

#2. bet;s programming has been the subject of complaints and actions for YEARS within the black community.

#.3. i'm pretty sure there are italian-americans in leadership positions at mtv/viacom who greenlighted this project.

#4. if we don't have the right to complain about how we're portrayed in the mass media, why do they?”

“Fail! BET is owned wholly by Viacom, not African-Americans. BET and VH1 go for the lowest common denominator when it comes to showing AAs and I have not heard these law makers calling for them to end. It seems like they are cherry picking. Who can say that Flavor-Flav is not a walking, talking caricature of AAs? I dislike politicians leveraging their offices to influence what is in the media, no matter how offensive. It is wading into 1st Amendment territory and we have already had our civil liberties legislated away by FISA, the Patriot Act, or an outright refusal to enforce the laws against government agents who violate the rights of the people. This is just another sign that politicians know they can trample on our rights under the guise of doing the right thing and we won't make a peep. These 8 people, all of whom are over 21 (most of them are close to 30), are far less dangerous than these politicians.”

“BET is NOT owned by black people. IT WAS SOLD!!!”

“Actually, MTV's director of programming, Tony Disanto, is Italian-American.”

“Fox News is the outgrowth of what Cheney's staffer once said about inventing a new reality. Republicans apparently can't handle the real world so they have to take refuge in an idealized version where they're always right and everyone else is wrong (and intends to be wrong, takes a peverse pride in being wrong. As in, they're willfully wrong.)

It points to a severe and fundamental character flaw. Look at most of their leaders...these guys are in the Nixon mold; they came up with a chip on their shoulders and it's overcome them.”

“What it really comes down to is over population of Humanity.
As you point out, resource scarcity exacerbated by the number of Humans swelling out of control. Yet religion is the main resistance because of it's anti - birth control platform
No matter what Humanity does, unless Humanities number reverse and diminish it is simply inevitable that there will be too many people, using too much of everything, depleting everything as well.
Understand that the Ten commandments are not rules for everyone, they are " Property" rights of a man!
There is nothing there that says, protect Women and children!
Women and children are not even mentioned!”

“It all goes back to one central issue: How can I keep my senate or house seat? If anyone thinks that either side of the aisle is for the American people, you are dumber than a box of rocks!”

“Maybe if dems came up with a bill that actually provided meaningful reform there wouldn't have been a problem.”

“why do Republicans hate the little people?”

“with 60 votes, who needs the Republicans? Dems OWN this, and they will pay dearly for it. (as will we)”

“I agree. Obama can't legally take any action on his own. He needs support from congress to make any agreement binding. Unfortunately, there are still too many obstructionists bought out by corporate lobbyists. We still have a lot of work ahead of us because this is not just Obama's fight, it is our fight.”

“Waaah, they are using our playbook.”

“I'm not sure you got the message.”

“I believe it's a one party system.”

“You are both wrong and are incapable of understanding that, frankly, the L brain and the R brain just don't understand each other. I am a proud member of a tea party. Call me a bagger if you want. Perhaps you need to start by recognizing it takes all types to make the world go 'round. It ain't all about you.”

“The cozy Wall street relationship won't matter at the ballot box, unless unemployment increases, or fails to decrease.”

“And you really believe we do not recognize radicalism within the Christian faith? We do not support it in any way.”

“Look at other verses.. the two are NOT mutually exclusive.. The bible does not preclude public prayers.. 1Theselonians 5:17 LK 22:40, LK 6:28 and many more

Matthew was warning against prayer that was mean to build up the prayer in the eyes of those around him.. just the opposite here were athletes quietly ask for strenght, courage and honorable victory.”

“There's no historical evidence that Socrates existed. A thousand years from now, there may be no historical evidence that Martin Luther King existed. If you begin with the belief that the accounts in the New Testament are altogether wrong, then yeah, that's hedging your bet. If you further accept the notion that all accounts that were rejected by the Church were wrong (hence in a weird strange way, the Church was right in those cases), then yeah, the case get better. If you are willing to discard the usual standards for accepting historical accounts, and decide it was all just one, big conspiracy - then yeah, it's sounding pretty air tight. But to do that, again, it would be nothing a thousand years from now to believe that President Obama was a mythical figure invented by people called Americans. And since I know that to be true, no matter what they say a thousand years from now, I'll accept that Jesus lived. Son of God? That's another matter. But lived, yeah, I can handle it.”