lew's Comments (35)

“"As the story goes, Jesus of Nazareth was a liberal preacher who began spreading the of word of God that all should be just and fair and minister to the poor and downtrodden while shunning the wicked, the hypocrites and the moneychangers. This so infuriated and scared the Pharisees (the phony, corporate preachers) that they betrayed him to the Romans(con servatives ) who then promptly executed him. Has anything really changed in 2000 years? We have the modern day Pharisees who are just as morally corrupt as ever doing the bidding of the new age conservatives who would surely murder the next Jesus Christ who came along if he interfered with their lust for greed, power and control of the masses. My only hope is that there is a God and all these people burn in hell."

I fully quoted you because your post reflects much in the way of insight and foresight.

And you are so correct: Jesus Christ would be tried and executed today if he were here, and by those who profess to "know" him.

Thanks for your post, lew.

Fanned!

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/blue-dog-leader-works-wit_b_298087.html”

““Has anything really changed in 2000 years?”

Quite a bit, actually a complete reversal of things.

Old Testament: “Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth...With the sword purify the evil from among you.”

New Testament: “Do not use force to overcome evil. If they smash you on the right cheek, turn to them the other also... Whole world is under the control of the evil one...The power of death and deadly force – that is the devil.”

And so, as all this world does is go from bad to worse, when will things turn toward the good? Immediately after things could not possibly turn any worse.”

“Same here. Well said.”

“By not blaming Obama you are putting yourself on the otherside...against the people.

Answer why Obama hasn't ended H-1B visa regulations even during the worst unemployment in a century? Bush loved H-1B too.

What financial industry regulation has he passed? None. Neither did Bush. Have you payed attention to PPIP? Its similar to Bush's TARP.

You realize that Obama is making deals to not compete with Pharma which is what Bush did with Medicare Part D.”

“While I sat tongue-tied you came up with the perfect response. Thank you!”

“Sounds like you are as prejudicial against whites in Alabama as Sessions is against minorities. As the Bob Dylan line goes, 'I'd become my enemy · In the instant that I preach'.

Oh but right, the one group of people you can insult without any reprecussions is white males from the south.”

“Hey, its the best government capitalism can buy!”

“Thomas Jefferson's letters make it clear that he was anything but a deist. Here is just one quote:

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."

Those are not the words of a man who takes anything about religion seriously.

The "actual events" in Genesis are no more actual than the events described in a Grimm Brothers fairy tale. Life began as a matter of chemistry and physics 4 billion years ago, not with some dust gathered up into which an invisible man in the sky with magical powers breathed through the dusty nose. The story is not even a good one. The Incas have better origin stories. The one in Genesis is bad copy, and not even consistent within the distance of few verses; first we're told god made Adam and then Eve from his rib; then we're told he made both together. There are no "actual" events in Genesis.”

“You are exactly right, for the most part these attitudes exist outside of the public debate that we are having here, often in rural pockets that re-enforce themselves internally, and protects their ideology unconsciously by aligning themselves in automatic opposition against any outside or "liberal" element that happens to make it's presence known to the group.

We must devise a strategy to address and highlight the reality that exist beneath that "Good Olde Boy" narrative we must highlight the "insider" corruption and unchristian "intolerence" that is prevalent within the "Good Olde Boy" society that has generally ascribed to educated "liberals" and democrats, we must fight the temptation to attack these constiuencies as uneducated "red****s" because while the GOP is using our comment to rally these voters, they are they one actually treating them like uneducated votes, they have been trained to believe that recieving anything from the government they pay taxes to is a sign of weakness, laziness and sloth, when oftentimes their elected officials are recieveing kickbacks, and payoffs from the corporate elites and captains of industry that Republicans claim are in the pockets of liberal democrats, we have to do 2 things to turn this around.

1.) Hold our liberal officials to higher standards
2.) Highlight double standards and doublespeak of GOP officials who, claim to be products of the small town realities they represent , but act like the big corporation spin-miesters and lap dogs that they accused democrats of being.”

“I've seldom heard it phrased more precisely or accurately than that.”

“You are correct. It is the right wing only that would actually kill someone to make a point and then argue first amendment rights to justify it.”

“I have asked the same question........."why is it that pro choice people are not prone to violence in order to support their agenda"........I asked my brother if there were any statistics as to if a pro choice person has ever murdered anyone who was anti choice to prove their point of view........and his answer was "Why would they? I think that says it all, why would someone who is "Pro Life" murder Anyone to prove that he/she was against murder? I know all about the argument that you may have to sacrifice one life to save the lives of many, but I am not sure that this argument works in this situation. Any thoughts on this topic?”

“Very true and quite frightening.
I've never heard anyone in the liberal media suggest violence or incite hatred against someone on the right.
The intensified hate is likely due to the right's realization that their rabid base is getting smaller but it will only take one nut with a gun and that is what worries me.”

“No, it's still a dream. I'm sure they said the same thing when the lamplighters got laid off after electification.”

“religious organizations love to use words like liberty and freedom and truth and the irony of course is that they have none of those things.”

“Your Head Bro In Charge must be pretty ignorant to have given these folks their "illegal" bailout money without knowing these bonuses were right around the corner.

Or, as I stated earlier, this whole thing was orchestrated just so Big Bro could finalize the destruction of an already crippled company and they would be forced to nationalize and submit to the will of the federal govt./Big Bro.”

“The only people who seem to be "Cheating on Taxes" these days are Obamas Cabinet !!”

“Couldn't have said it better myself. The same observation I've had for yrs.”

“Metal 4th Gen jets like the F-15/16/18 are flying targets for SA-20/300/400. We also don't have thousands any more--we have 450 25+ yr old F-15s. They are also more than matched by the Su27/30/35 and MiG-29+/35, so rather than waste tax$$ on new models of obsolete jets, so we must buy new ones. Fact: For 40% more than F-15 you get F-22 for $140M, and it can kill 6 enemy jets in 2 min without being seen. Problem is to fulfill our National Military Strategy you have to have more than 183, as in like 60-200 more. 30+ DoD&AF studies agree.”

“5 times the cost at current expense. If you add inflation, R&D and initial costs, I would bet they will cost the same when the last F-22 rolls out. The f-15 is a beautiful machine, but it is at the end of it's life, or will be, by the time we have a replacement ready.

This is not one of the bad guys, but there are many out there. I have another post to help explain. I had to split the damn thing up..”

“Most of the cost of the plane is R&D. So a HUGE portion of the cost per plane is based on how many we buy. If we buy 200. Then they are 265 million each. Buy 400, they are 180 million each, 800 then they would be 120 million etc.

Mostly we are going to replace or F-15, and F-16s with the F-35 "Joint Strike fighter" made cheaper because more will be sold, and because much of the technology it uses come from all the research they already did on the F-22's.”

“You are all symbolism, no substance. I have spent over 25 years serving this nation with hard work and I dont need any damn flag or ribbon on my car to prove I care about my country or my felllow veterans. Those stickers arent for THEM, its for YOU ego. If you cared about them you would do away with crappy VA hospitalls and give em proper medical care.

Americans ship toyotas, sell Toyotas, build Toyotas, and maintain Toyotas. They are just as American as any piece of crap Chevy. And good PATRIOTIC AMERICANS drive toyotas you fearmonger.

This nation has been run by a bunch of fools in the White House with the American Flag and Yellow ribbon stickers plastered all over their huge piece of crap American vehicles for years. Sure, everyone else is UNAMERICAN except you Bushies. Everyone else is the problem with America, not you. Here you are saying that people who drive a Japanese vehicle are UNAMERICAN. Well tell me then, why is AMERICA being asked to bail out your crappy American auto industry AGAIN? Oh yeah, its OUR fault, the Honda and Toyota drivers....couldn't possibly be the fault of overpaid, overweight, incompetent Republicans in the auto industry could it? You Republicans have a real problem with blame dont you? Its always someone elses fault, the Unamericans, the terrorists, the liberals. It couldn't possibly just be YOUR fault for making stupid leadeship and management decisons in industry and government could it?”

“"Buy American" philosophy partially caused this mess. For a long time we "bought American", so the Big 3 got weak. When the imports finally got way better than American, we had to switch. If we had never "bought American", but rather always "bought best value", the industry would be strong today.”

“"The Japanese won't buy our products, not because of the quality, but because of their loyalty to their own brands."

I'm not sure about that. Could you ever see a Japanese person driving a Buick, a Mustang, Camaro, a Malibu, or Impala?? I sure can't.”

“Exactly. this is nothing less than class warfare - wall street vs mainstreet

and mainstreet isn't winning

Never midn that tit the financil meltdown caused by these suits that hav made it harder for people to buy cars, and car companies to finance themselves


Taxpayers will be stuck picking up a much larger tab for the unemployment, health care and retirements of the out of worker auto workers at a much greater cost than loaning the industry 3.5% of the 700 billion given to wall street”

“It was front page in the Chicago Tribune (a conservative paper)”

“One way or another that sounds like the plan.

It doesn't seem like McCain put much reasoning into why else might the Neocons would want Sara Palin to be Vice-President.”

“"God help the USA." I know what you're thinking, but I prefer, "God helps those who help themselves." Electing Obama/Biden is helping ourselves. Sarah Palin is rooting for the Rapture to whisk her and her fellow Plastic Christians to Heaveningly World.”

“A good comment. I agree. Palin is the "Alaskan Candidate"!”

“Scary isn't it?”

“I said that same thing last year
but the neos won't actually do it
they will convince some Religious Fundamental Extremist to do it”