jemiltd's Comments (170)

“but she will have so much money, that she will not be judgment proof. and if she thought she had attorney's fees from some simple little ethics complaints, just wait 'til she sees the fees she is going to incur defending a libel suit! hmmmm, maybe todd quit his job too soon.....”

“precisley.

DUNN's book will unearth long-buried skeletons!”

“Oh snap...tha­t was great!”

“OMG. Best. Comment. Ever.”

“Didn't we hear this already on the Daily Show?”

“HENCE, HYPOCHRISTIANS”

“He didn't give away everything he owned. He packed it up, like any soldier who was being deployed would do. He gave the owner of his building a Spanish Language Quran (In and of itself a sign he wasn't a radical, since they maintain that the only true version of the Quran is in Arabic.) and asked her to give his security deposit and last month's rent to people who needed it.

He did also give some items to his neighbours, but he by no means gave everything away.

The fact that he seems to have gone out of his way to be kind to the people around him before he started his shooting rampage indicates to me at least, that his anger was directed at the US military specifically, and not America at large.”

“That is sick. Any so-called "bullying" in the military is simply not tolerated. He had “issues!“ The bully is drummed out of the service quickly. The man hated his country and his fellow soldiers. Obviously your views are tainted by your lack of contact with reality. The killer was an Islamist terrorist - now the loony left is trying to make him into a victim. He had "issues." How shameless you people are. Liberalism is a mental disorder. Thanks for proving it. Deninor”

“He gave away a NEW Quran - not his. And only his landlady knew that - how omnipotent do you expect the government to be?”

“"People aren't rewarded anymore for having genuine talent or skills as much as they are rewarded for the controversy and contention they create."

I agree with some of what you say but not everything.

We elected a black man to the highest office in the world and it wasn't because he created controversy and contention.

Just saying...”

“jem,

Open a book about Johannesburg, the siege of Leningrad, Nazi occupation in Poland, apartheid in South Africa or the genocide in Rwanda, and then try to tell me with a straight face that it is fair to characterize child poverty in the contemporary United States as, 'being surrounded by gunfire'.

I contend that it certainly is not.”

“Fanned. Could not agree more. I have been making full payments for 4 months while waiting for a loan modification. The bank Fed-Ex'd me in the 4th month and said they needed the paperwork we had already sent. When I called the bank for verification of what they needed, they said, oh, we sent that out to everyone..­.now I'm still waiting for my loan modification and was told by the bank they need 2 more temporary full payments. Meanwhile, we pay what we cannot afford--I leave the house 1 time a week to keep costs minimal--and wait and wait and wait for a modification. Our bank is JP Morgan Chase...I hear they're doing pretty good right now. Concurrently all my credit cards have been raised to 30% and credit limits lowered, so my balance to limit ratio diminishes and my FICO is freefalling.”

“If a worker has only a hammer then every job must be treated like a nail. Thus it is with religionists. They can't understand that it is possible to be moral and ethical without ascribing to ghosts and gods, each notions that are created by man. Why would you fear anything if you treat your neighbor well?”

“Incidentally, you might be interested in learning about a discovery in the 1970's, where a new strain of bacteria evolved in the contaminated ponds adjacent to a nylon factory. These bacteria evolved the ability to metabolize synthetic nylon byproducts, providing a nice example of mutation and natural selection in the formation of a new species:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria”

“I think you can believe God is the creator

1. by not believing man was created by him in a single day, perhaps God did it over millions of years which to him may be a blink of a humans eye.
2. perhaps adjusting your concept of God. Instead of God being a separate entity perhaps God is simply the force that connects all living things--- a force that can be used for good or bad. In fact, if you replace the world "Love" for the word "God" in any part of the new testament you may see that love is the true teaching of the bible and while love is not necessary to create life, it is necessary to sustain it.”

“Evolution explains all of this; it is your conception, not the concept, which fails.

Why hasn't mankind evolved into a better species? We have, we are, and we will. But nature is not at all concerned with your conception of "better", and works strictly according to population genetics.

Where is there evidence that one species turned into another? Everywhere. Consider any modern species, none of which existed hundreds of millions of years ago. The problem here is your conception of "species". Forget whether we label an animal one species or another, and just consider the actual creatures and their populations over millions and millions and millions of years, and you might begin to understand evolution.

The best evidence for evolution does not come from fossils; if you only look at phenotype (the form of the creature) there is little surprise you are unaware of it. That evidence comes from biology (notably DNA), where it can be quite conclusively proved beyond any doubt whatsoever that while species always 'breed true', the minor variations pile up over the eons and eventually appear so distinct we are forced to declare that a new species appears. There is no "mixing" going on, only divergence of populations.

Your quote illustrates the notion of God as creator perfectly; you fear evolution because you don't understand it, and when you don't understand, you leap to the assumption that God is the creator. It is hard to accept God as creator because it simply isn't true, that's why.”

“You misunderstand the "concept of evolution". It is not a relentless drive toward "better species". It's simply states that any genetic trait that results in an organism having more offspring will become more prevalent. That's it.

That's also why you don't see any "evidence that once species turned into another". There's no sharp dividing lines to evolution. It's a continuous progression and its humans that force categories onto it. So your objection is akin to saying that the wave theory of light isn't satisfying to you because it doesn't show where one color turns into the next.

Also, you're completely wrong when you say that "animals only reproduce as themselves unless man tried to mix one species with another". If that were true, you'd get the flu once in your life and that would be it. The reason we get the flu year after year is that the influenza virus *evolves* and your body doesn't know how to deal with the *new* virus that results.”

“The concept that human conciousness is the basic building block of matter/energy was explored by the now-defunct Natural Law party. Although elegant and beautiful, it is still circular reasoning, as if looking into a cosmic mirror.”

“Thanks for sharing the link. Rachel Maddow is right! I'm proud of the President winning the Nobel Peace Prize.”

“That's already been happening - but the left hasn't acknowledged it because it's come under the title of 'Tea Parties'. Both GOP & Dem politicians have been taken to task over their DC actions and inactions.”