President’s Energy Plan “o, Lord, sweet baby Jesus. Please send down more oil.Amen”
(George W. Bush)
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Really?
I don’t find this very funny based on the fact that it’s………not.
Was this really voted into the front page? This one might be the saddest one yet.
I liked the one where he was sad about the myspace stuff.
Running… out… of… … funny…
I agree. It’s more scary than funny, because Bush really thinks God talks to him. He thinks the End Times are nigh, and all the good Christians will be Hoovered up into heaven. That’s scary.
I don’t care if that is fact or not, that mental image made me lol. Bush and a huge number of fundamentalists being sucked into space while praising their creator by a giant Hoover. Now I want to watch Spaceballs.
Sounds kinda Douglas Adams to me.
Now I want to watch Hitchhiker’s Guide and read the book. Hmm, I am feeling oddly easily swayed today or just easily reminded of cool things.
*give me money…*
*give me money…*
Forget the movie. Just read the book. Read the whole series. The movie was a pretty big disappointment.
I lol’d at the movie but books are usually better. Though I can watch the movie with my four year old and then get him the book later.
Anymore I feel that is always the case when you make a movie based on a book. I have to go into it pretending that the movie is completely it’s own entity and has nothing to do with the book it was based on. It’s the only thing that allowed me to somewhat enjoy Stardust on a very basic label.
I thought the movie was well done (I’ve read the books too). Even though it didn’t try to remain faithful to the exact events of the book, they captured the spirit of the books, and did hit on the major important themes rather well.
i did like the addition of the point-of-view gun. Especially when
Marvin got ahold of it.
Come on, really? You are so stretching here. Who are you trying to piss off?
Christians? rofl…sorry, go ahead and call me crazy.
I won’t go so far as to call you crazy or piss anyone off, but getting a photo-op with banners saying “King of Kings” and “Lord of Lords”, not to mention the plethora of religious rhetoric in his speeches and supposedly reported in private meetings (such as with James Robinson, Nabil Shaath, Mahmoud Abbas, etc…) don’t leave much question as to his motivations and debatably his intentions.
And I frankly believe this is what the Republican party has come to represent. Sure, they still lower taxes, but they’re not about true fiscal conservatism, haven’t improved the economy, barely ever mention returning power to the states (except in the case of abortion and gay marriage, which… surprise!… is driven by religious beliefs) and haven’t really done much right since the Contract with America.
I find it hard to believe we’d put another elephant in the white house after the last eight years…
Stretching how? It’s all ON RECORD! This is stuff Bush has said himself. I’m not making stuff up, and I’m not guessing. Bush is an admitted religious fundamentalist who thinks God talks to him, and the last days are at hand. Seriously.
So, we should keep professing Christians out of government then? I wonder if Obama who says he is Christian believes he is guided by God at all in any way?
Or simply insist that our leaders keep their religions to themselves and just, I dunno, lead… Talking about how much God loves us has yet to mean anything for our country. So how about more work and less talk about how we are on God’s mission or Christmas Card list or Prayer of the Month list.
Hell, I want any and all candidates to shut up about religion and just focus on the issues. I am voting for a leader, not a faith.
Religious “Don’t ask, Don’t tell” policy? Interesting idea. Too bad it’d piss too many people off.
They are already pissed that we can’t kick out other religions and burn witches again. Nothing will really change, just some more protests and whining. I probably wouldn’t even notice.
But I want to burn a witch ! She turned me into a Newt!
Then you need to be thankful that she made you a more intelligent creature.
And yes I get the refference, but I’m not going to sit here and quote monty python with a troll.
But you got better.
Some people need to be pissed off every now and then. It would be good for everyone.
As to Mr Obama’s beliefs, whether he does or doesn’t believe he’s guided by God, he doesn’t make a political issue of being guideder-than-thou, unlike some people.
LOL!
“guideier-than-thou”
LOL
Yeah, I lol’d too.
Ema, honestly, does God talk to you? If another Christian said to you, “God talks to me and tells me how to make day to day decisions,” would you think that is a little weird? Do you and your Christian friends believe that Judgment day is coming soon? Bush is a loon even by mainstream Christian standards.
Hmmm, what you saying here has merit, and I wasn’t saying that what you were saying was false, I was just saying it seems picked out of thin air.
And mind you, the idea of “God talking to you” can happen in multiple forms. Yes some people ‘hear voices’. But some people feel God speaks to them through art, or other people or nature. Yes I know you’re saying, you speaking of strictly voices. The idea of God speaking though is not as crazy as everyone makes it out to be.
Secondly until I actually meet the politican, I can’t really say if they are christian or not.
Picked out of thin air!? It is entirely on topic of the lol and your ‘not teh funneh’ comment. Bush is a religious loon who thinks God talks to him directly. This lol made fun of that fact. You said it wasn’t funny. How is my comment picked out of thin air?
Alright alright, maybe I thought there was more to your comment that. My bad.
In all honesty, I don’t care if McCain and Obama both are in a religion where they dance naked by a fire together and whomever chants the loudest will be king of the Ritz Cracker dance and wear funny hats. I don’t care as long as I don’t have to hear about it all the time. I don’t care if Palin has to wear red at the ceremony and arm wrestle Biden and whomever wins gets to eat the most candy that night.
I just really don’t want to hear about it in speeches all the time. As long as either group can actually do the job, that’s fine. God has been used to white wash way too much crap in my lifetime and the constitution writers knew that Church and State should be separate.
Oh god… Now I have images of that ceremony. *headdesk*
I totally want to go to that ceremony so I could pwn biden and palin in arm wrestling for candy.
I wish you luck and may your belly not rupture from the joys of your success.
Ema, I think on this one point we may diverge a little. I believe that one’s faith is a personal matter and should not be used to prop up one’s ‘image’. Also, one’s faith should not be the cornerstone of whether they are fit to lead.
I asked if we should keep professing Christians out of government? Which usually means you believe you are guided by God in some way or another. I never said someone should use their faith to prop up one’s image. How did you get that?
I find that those most professing their belief in God are usually doing it as a distraction. I also find that those who don’t bother professing are usually too busy, thus let their actions do the professing.
I can state something all day long but if my actions don’t back it, is it a lie?
What I mean by professing Christian is that you say, I am a Christian. Now, Obama says the same doesn’t he? So either he is lying, or he believes many of the same things GW does.
Um, by being Christian doesn’t mean you believe the exact same things as other Christians, otherwise all Christians would be Catholics. As for Obama stating his faith, if I remember right, it was in response to people trying to misrepresent his faith.
Though if you have evidence of him stating the Apocalypse being nigh, etc, by all means, link us.
Uhhh, I have to disagree with you in a major way. If all Christians’s agreed with each other exactly, they would not be catholic. They would be Apastolic. The catholic church did not come about till the Nicea council, 323 AD.
And I don’t know of any but the oddest that profess Christianity that don’t think the end times are nigh. I also believe that Jerimiah Wright preaches an end time message. He also makes the impression that God speaks to him, tells him the wrongs of America.
And just so you know, Apostolic by action, and not the denomination.
Thanks for the clarification.
That does not make any sense considering that St. Peter was the first Pope of the Catholic church. The Nicene Council may have taken care of some formalities, but it was still the Catholic church. And even if you were right, the Catholic church was, at one point and time, THE Christian religion. From then on, all Christians would have been Catholic if they believed the same thing.
Well, I could be wrong, but I thought I remembered from my religion classes that prior to the Council of Nicea they just refered to themselves as Christians and their religion Christianity. Also, at that time there were so many different factions and beliefs and individual sects of Chrstianity that it wasn’t a unified religion by any means. The roman emperor (was it Constantine?) at the time wanted to unify Christians in their beliefs so that they had one message as he felt that this would help unify the empire when he made Christianity the official religion. After the Council of Nicea you could then refer to the church as being the Catholic Church, but I am also thinking that Eastern Orthodox is as old if not older and splintered from Catholics at this time. Again, I could be wrong but I thought that was what I remembered from my Religion professor.
Maybe just the ones that attribute their elections to “witch-hunters”?
I think any one in this day and age that declares a woman to be a witch and then terrifies her into moving from her home under the guise of spiritual warfare is a loon and a danger.
Palin thinks he is “bold” and the reason she is governor.
I would rather have bush praying for oil than Palin setting up witch hunting camps.
in bed.
She’s a witch! BURN HER BURN HER!!!
but but but… How about we love thy neighbor instead? Like some Extra loving just to be sure. Then maybe after we wake up, love them again.
Fire doesn’t cure everything, just almost everything.
Fine, first let’s see if she weighs the same as a duck. That sounds fair.
>_>
<_<
What if I have other ideas on how to test her loyalty? If we don’t allow that, a duck will suffice.
For the last time, I do NOT have three nipples. Stop asking me!
We are going to need photographic evidence ma’am… Um, for the records of course.
Last time I was asked to show my boobs I made twenty dollars. Due to the economy I’ve raised the price to fifty.
Dang, I hate it when I misread something.
I think, when you have a president who claims to make decisions based on what God wills of him, how does he know that’s God’s voice and not his own? More to the point, how do WE know?
Only 144,000… It’s sort of Pascal’s wager within Pascal’s Wager…
This is why Christians are funny and dangerous in equal measure, since you don’t know if you’re dealing with one who’s all ‘peace and love’ or all ‘peace and love through superior fire power and camps for folks who hold counter or no views’
Praise god and pass the ammunition!
Stupid song. *sigh*
That is one belief, and certainly not the mainstream. 144,000 refers to a special group during the Revelation, not to the only people ‘allowed’ into Heaven.
Dangit, I hate misinformation and preconceived ideas!!
Amen. 12,000 of each of the tribes of Isreal, when God is done with the Gentiles.
The Catholic church teaches that the entire Book of Revelation is religious symbolism. Not the true story of the end times. Also, St. Paul flat out said that man cannot know the time of the end. That is in the Bible as well. So who is right? St. John or St. Paul?
If you read the Bible in context, the apostles have been saying it’s the end times since right after Christ was crucified. Remember, you’re dealing with an infinite being to whom time means nothing.
I really don’t know how much you know about the church, the Bible, or different religions, so I’m going to assume you know the basics and go from there 
Besides, I’m not Catholic and don’t agree with the Catholic church on a lot of seriously fundamental things
As far as the religious symbolism goes, I can see that to a point, but you have to understand that John was seeing into the future and had no point of reference for the things he was seeing. The locusts with hair like women who shot death from their mouths could be helicopters, and there is a pretty good description of a tank in there as well.
I know you and I don’t agree about the church, but I’m speaking to you as if we do
How exactly did we get on the time of the End Times from talking about the 144,000? lol
I LOL’d so hard I Plotz’d
But, on a serious note, you’re right. It’s the saddest presidency in the history of our generally great country. Maybe we can do better next time. Oh! That’s right! We can’t POSSIBLY DO WORSE! ( Unless option McB dies immediately and leaves us with a lying bimbo as Prez )
PS I stand by my choice of the word BIMBO. Look up it’s original definition. No need to defend the word lying because that’s public record.
I think he’s adorable. Judging on the most recent Bush lols I am reclaiming him as my adorable but slightly retarded brother. He’s cute, but don’t let him use scissors.
Trainwreck… have you no sense of humour?
You guys have no sense of humor, this is ROTFL!
ha… so sweet
Actually, that’s pretty much ALL of his policies, ain’t it?
Pretty much, yep. I got a chuckle out of this one.
I thought it was hilarious. Guess God can just make that oil materialize, since dinosaurs were here only 5,000 years ago or so. It can’t possibly take several million years for that kind of decomposition!
And not to mention that the scientists are even questioning the ‘fact’ that decomposing dinos make up the fossil fuel. Just an interesting _FACT_.
Shake off your preconceptions! Science changes.
Hmm…
Dude! Just because a couple scientists have decided to take the evangelical payouts does not mean that any REAL scientist truly believes that. Oil is the result of more than a billion years of decomposing swamp scum. The dinos only comprise a teensy bit of it. The dryer areas formed coal and you can see the actual ferns and other detritus in it with the naked eye. That is why it is call “fossil fuel”
I was going to say the sorta the same thing. This is different from his past energy policy HOW? Oh, wait, Dick made that policy. Never mind.
I didn’t LOL, honestly, but it made me smile. It’s true, you know!
Yawn….sorry.
lol it made me rofl hardcore. His expression. Totally “OOOOOOOOOOOHHH lord!!1″
Goodness. I think it’s quite funny to envision Bush praying to Baby Jesus Talladega Nights style.
“Look, I like the baby version the best, you hear me? I win the races and I get the money!”
…That actually fits far better than I even originally intended.
Old man, I’m gonna come at you like a spider monkey! I’m all jacked up on Mountain Dew!
I vote for atheist state. All for? All opposed?
Still a religious state, sorry.
Boring.
Is it? It shouldn’t be.
Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.
Atheism still requires a certain amount of faith. It still can be considered a religion. Some argue it requires more faith not to believe in God then to do so.
Your argument wins no points here. Atheism requires no faith, in the same way that not collecting stamps requires no stamp collecting equipment. Atheism requires one to accept the universe as one sees it, without faith, just as it is. It does not require one to make up stories, or suspend one’s logical abilities.
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The fact that you can present the argument, apparently in all seriousness, that it requires more faith not to believe in God than to do so, is ludicrous. Not believing in things is the default state. Note that disbelief is actually a type of belief, but that simply not believing or disbelieving anything is how we start out.
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Personally, I have seen NO evidence of God’s existence. Everything that people CLAIM is evidence is simply their wishful thinking projected onto everyday things. They want to find evidence and so they make up ridiculous ideas like sunsets, babies, and rainbows somehow prove God exists.
Accepting evolution as it is taught requires a lot of faith. I personally believe firmly in natural selection, but that isn’t evolution.
It doesn’t require faith if you actually understand the science.
Even Darwin was kerflummoxed by the eye. The odds of something that complex just happening are so astronomical as to be impossible.
Evolutionary science has come a long way since Darwin, which you would know if you actually read about it. Besides, what are the odds that god exists and that it diddit?
God and evolution are not mutually exclusive. I have no problem believing that the earth is millions of years old and that species that exist today didn’t exist millions of years ago.
Ya, I doubt God would have made something that would totally remain static.
Indeed, those that believe that are putting a limitation on god.
For once I agree with you Froofrou, and I am an Agnostic leaning towards Atheism. If you believe in God it is entirely resonable to believe that he was responsible for the first spark of life, the first single celled organism that would eventually evolve to all life on this planet. If you don’t believe in God it is just as resonable to say that it was pure random chance that set off that spark and set us on our evolutionary path. Neither viewpoint negates anything that happened after that initial spark of life. However, not all Christians are willing to reconcile the two. And I won’t even get into the difference between scientific theory and Joe Schmo down the block saying, “I have a theory on that!”
There are quite logical and very solid descriptions of the development of the eye. In fact, anything with photo-reactive pigments in it’s cells has a homologue of the eye involved. EVEN PLANTS!
It might be astronomically improbable for it to spontaneously occur but that’s why it’s called EVOLUTION.
“Accepting evolution as it is taught requires a lot of faith.”
That’s true, but only because evolution is so very badly taught. Properly taught by someone who knows what they are talking about it’s one of those things that once explained become obviously true.
“I personally believe firmly in natural selection, but that isn’t evolution.”
Which pretty much proves you don’t understand evolution or natural
selection, and that you’re using “evolution” to mean something it doesn’t really mean.
Oh sad. The theory is the theory of natural selection. Evolution isn’t a theory, it is a fact. The theory is there to explain how the observed fact of evolution happens. Speciation and the creation of new traits, like the ability to eat man made materials that never existed in nature, have been seen in the lab, over and over again. I REPEAT: evolution is a FACT, it is something that has been observed happening, and the THEORY is natural selection. When you say you believe in natural selection, but not evolution, it makes me feel hopeless about the state of American science education. I say ‘American’ because we are the only country on earth with any significant doubts about evolution, so I assume you must be from here.
Natural selection is simply stated as “survival of the fittest.” If a species cannot adapt, it dies, thereby leaving the stronger species to prosper.
And honestly speaking, I may be so against the term “evolution” simply because of the way I was raised and be mixing the two terms up in an effort not to cause my brain to explode.
Either way, I don’t think that whatever you call making a monkey from a fish (even after millions of years) is right, but I totally accept whatever it is you call causing a longer necked breed of giraffe because the foliage grows too far off the ground for a short necked giraffe to reach it and survive.
I think the terms you seem to be fishing for are that you believe in micro-evolution but not macro-evolution.
Thank you! I was waiting for the fish to grow legs and come to me, hehe.
I really dont’ have a problem believing in millions of years of evolution, micro- or otherwise, and still believing in a Creator. After all, if you do accept the notion that there is an infinite being out there, then time means nothing to said infinite being, and a day may be a thousand years. Or more. So seven days of creation may go on forever.
I don’t know that I have ever met a true atheist, lot’s of agnostics though. The problem with atheism is that while people deny the existance of God, any God, they tend to transfer that belief to something else.
Yeah, I’m agnostic, not atheist. Most real atheists were raised Christian and were so turned off by it, they rejected it completely. My family tried to tech me to respect other people’s beliefs, but they never pushed anything on me. So I never felt the need to reject the notion of God altogether. But the Christian idea of God makes me laugh, it’s like the story a four year old playing make-believe would come up with. It’s not even self consistent, let alone consistent with the evidence the world shows us every day.
Well, I wouldn’t go that far. There are a lot of the things mentioned in the Bible that have been proven to be historically correct. I can understand people having issues with some of the prophecies, but I wouldn’t discount the entire book based on that. Now I am what most would classify as a mainstream Christian, but I don’t belong to a specific church, and my beliefs are based on what I have determined to be correct based on the Bible and not what some Preacher has told me is correct.
“Atheism still requires a certain amount of faith. It still can be considered a religion.”
No, atheism itself isn’t a religion. You *can* have something that’s very much like a religion and includes atheism as part of its beliefs, but it’s not the atheism part that makes it a religion. Stalinism is a good example of that.
To continue the analogy: collecting bugs is a hobby, and it’s *not* collecting stamps, but it’s the collecting bugs part that makes it a hobby, not the not collecting stamps part.
If atheism is a religion then so is the stance that unicorns, the tooth fairy, and the FSM do not exist.
Atheism requires certainty, not faith. It is for this reason that I classify myself agnostic. I -suspect- that all religion is a load of fertilizer, but I have no evidence either way. In the absence of evidence, I go with the more likely answer, as provided by Occam’s Razor.
Then you must have LOADS of faith not to believe in ME!!
I vote for a secular state!
Funny. Because he’s an idiot who couldn’t lead his way out of a flaming sack of dog crap, but got elected by a bunch of religious nuts who thought that having one of their own in office would do great things for the country.
Well, it hasn’t. Our armed forces are stretched thin by fighting two anti-insurgent wars at once on the opposite side of the world. Our economy is in the toilet, being led by the big businesses that the Republicans try to pass themselves off as being good for, and that failure actually will trickle down the average American the way the wealth was supposed to but never did. Oh yeah, and even with 2 years of a Republican dominated House, Senate, and White House, they still didn’t pass a lot of the agenda they were supposed to stand for.
I have some optimism left for McCain, but Bush and anyone who still thinks he hasn’t been a complete waste of oxygen for the last 8 years belongs over on Failblog.
I love it when people insult a little over half the voting public in one fell swoop
Generalizations ‘R’ you.
If a little over half the voting public would come forward and apologize, there wouldn’t be any need to insult.
Ok, I apologize that put my vote towards Bush. Seriously, I am, but it isn’t going to change the situation, is it? But, and this is the major issue for me, I couldn’t vote for the alternative in both elections. I honestly felt that Bush was the lesser of two evils and well. I don’t know that Al Gore or John Kerry would have been any better though. While Bush may be a bumbling idiot, Gore and Kerry are so full of themselves that I don’t think they would have been able to see past their own ego. So what’s left? And this election, sadly it isn’t getting any better folks. And feel free to laugh at me, but from the Republican side, I would have much rather seen either Romney or Huckabee get the nod.
Isn’t it time to give the other guy at least a chance, though? Personally I can live with the ego as long as they’ve got the IQ to back it up.
Ya, we have seen what happens when we decide to vote for “one of us” so shouldn’t we let the smart guy have a chance? And what might be ego could just be ambition and feeling they are the best for the job.
Bush claims a servant’s heart but I doubt we will get an apology. He has simply stated that the history books will be who really get to judge him… Ya, no ego there.
The problem with ‘giving the other guy a chance’ is it will the be same crap with a slightly different smell. Now I think if you want honest to God change, clean out Congress of the old farts that have been there since time in memorial and THEN you will see some change. Until then, SSDD (Same Sh*t, Different Day.)
And what happens to continuity? It would be very satisfying to clean the closet, but someone with a knowledge of how government actually works needs to stick around so we don’t spend valuable time re-inventing the wheel.
What encourages me to vote for Obama/Biden is the combination of new and seasoned politician. Each has his faults, to be true and how much more ego driven must a person be to run for President of the United States (duh), but as I listened to Obama on 60 Minutes last night, I heard a man answering questions and laying out plans in stark contrast to McCain who spoke in generalities and harked back to his days of youre.
Whoops, “yore”. Damn skinny boxes….
Oh, I don’t mean clean it out in one fell swoop, that would be governmental suicide. But I honestly think there should be term limits just like there is for the Presidency.
I second this. Rather nice to be on your side, my friend.
I’m just wobbling down the center.. it’s bound to happen on occasion..
I don’t think any Senator or Congressman should be able to sit there for more than 12 years.
AMEN!!!!
And Joe bless.
Is that Joe Boo from “Major League?” ’cause is verrah bad to steal Joe Boo’s rum. VERRAH bad.
Joe Pesci actually.
Bazooka Joe?
I don’t buy the SSDD argument. It seems a tad bit cynical and (please to not be taking this personally) lazy. Apathy’s more presentable cousin. The candidates are clearly different except for the fact that they are politicians. And we’re not going to elect a non-politician, because it seems we like at least some experience.
That’s ok, I won’t take it personally. I think you may have missed the intent though. The problem isn’t with who is President, the problem is with who is in Congress. Take care of that problem, and everything else just may have a chance of fixing itself.
I have to agree here IMO. His above point describes one of the biggest problems in goverment. Presidents change every 4-8 years but Congressmen can stay in and rot as long as they keep getting reelected. And they hold more power as a group.
Well what’s keeping them alive so long? Are they drinking unicorn blood or do they just have access to great health care?
Naw, I see the point and concede.
I think it is the great health care that we are paying for but can’t get for ourselves.
All I can say is, whatever Strom Thurmond was drinking, give me some! Geez, that guy was in Congress well into his 90′s (even though he could barely speak or stay awake.)
I am wondering who is keeping him in office.
He’s still there?!?! My God, do the people from South Carolina have no shame? Oh, I get it, weekend at Strom’s! Actually, he carked it 2003 so I don’t think he’s still there.
Who’s left? How about a myriad of third party candidates, as well as a write in option so you can pick someone who is more in line with your beliefs and hopes for the country? You don’t have to pick the lesser of TWO evils. You can actually vote for someone who stands for what you believe.
And you can do the same thing in this election.
The only problem with that is, it’s basically a throw away vote. I don’t disagree, but what ends up happening is the guy you really DON’T want to get elected ends up winning. Now if there was a big enough push to get someone elected other then from the two major parties, I would be on it in a heartbeat.
I think that’s a rather cynical way to look at voting. If more people voted for third parties instead of “choosing the lesser of two evils” then more third parties would have a chance. But not voting for a third party perpetuates the cycle of feeling locked intd two choices. And if the person you don’t want to get elected happens to win because of all of the third party votes, you can still say that you didn’t vote for him.
I think it’s sad that the public has come to think that voting for what you truly believe is throwing away your vote.
Generalizations? Seems pretty specific to me, as well as pretty accurate. The religious right were a large factor in re-electing Bush and their agenda included being against gay marriage and abortion, neither of which issue has been changed. If that happens to be a little over half of the voting public, then so be it.
I personally do not understand how blind people can be – I understand that at the beginning of the war after 9/11/01 the fight was necessary. However, the continued fiasco to which we are submitting our wonderful troops is a never-ending spending spree that no one is benefiting from if you aren’t working for some business like Haliburton. We now have a debt that will never be paid, and there is still the expectation that taxes still won’t go up. We keep bailing out businesses, but no one is trying to bail out the economic mess that the general public is in. I’m not talking welfare, just trying to help the average working stiff from having to keep on working until they’re 90.
Remember George Carlin’s comment;
“Think about your average guy. Pretty dumb, right? Then, when you think half of the guys are dumber than that…”
and the perennial
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
Winston Churchill
And, based on one man one vote, rather than electoral college, then he’s probably not insulting over half the voting population, based on 2000 and 2004
Thanks, Uncle Fester. I needed that!
Ha, pretty great quotes. I DO, obviously, believe in democracy, but so often I think, wow, it’s just a joke that really idiotic people’s votes count as much as mine.
When talking about jury duty one christmas, my brother-in-law the entertainment lawyer was saying lawyers don’t really want juries that will analyze information too closely or who know much about the legal someone, they want a jury that can just be told how to vote. The idea of the justice system is that the people you ride the bus with have the power to determine if you’re innocent or guilty. If I were on trial would I want the people I ride the bus with to have the kind of power? Uh, defintely not, some of those kooks scare me.
I am reminded of Mark Twain. “The business man, the editor, the teacher were all turned away for having too much information. No, only idiots could mete out proper justice this day.”
Granted I am paraphrasing but the idea is there.
Steady… remember what happened to Russell Brand…
A gentle cavity search at customs?
Don’t want to offend anyone but the image USA gives the world about things like religion and science is incredible. There are religious people everywhere, I know, but in your country they have too much influence.
Atheism is NOT a kind of religion. Faith in what? Nature not needing anything to be? I can actually see that every day. Religion is just a way to manipulate people because they feel lonely and dissapointed.
You can’t believe in natural selection and NOT believe in evolution.
As they said, evolution is an observed FACT. Like the Earth orbiting the Sun. Then, HOW it happens is the thing, natural selection explains 99% of life history, the other 1% they’re investigating other mecanisms.
And most religious people think that if you find something that doesn’t fit, you distroy the entire scientific theory, and.. sorry but NO. The fact is that it doesn’t work in that specific situation, and another solution will be found. Sometimes is like fighting with 5 year olds.
oh my…another Bush joke, how predictable…seriously…those jokes are getting old…
Don’t worry. Only 3.5 more months.
That is only if he gets out of the public eye. We are still seeing Clinton jokes and it has been almost ten years.
That’s only because Hillary keeps popping up everywhere. If she wasn’t in Congress, I doubt we would see as much of Bill. I have a feeling Bush will lay very low after he’s gone.
Though I am morbidly curious how he will dodge subpeonas after he is out of office when he doesn’t have executive privilege to use…
I think people will be so glad he’s gone they won’t want to keep dredging up the past and just let it lie.
Considering how vindictive Democrats are… I dunno.
Yeah, Republicans sure let the whole Clinton BJ thing die when he left office.
That’s only becasue Monica kept popping up everywhere..
I haven’t heard a peep from her since the year it all happened.
That’s because she was taught not to talk with her mouth full.
He’ll pardon all his cronies on the day before he leaves office.
Damn…
If the libs in Congress would get off thier butts and pass some real energy bills…
Apparently none of you have seen “Talladega Nights”.
praying is probably more effective than any of his energy policies, lol
That’s some funny shit people! It’s like the VP debate when Palin’s plan for alternative energy was to drill for oil in Alaska. It’s the same damned thing. This is how the Republicans in charge think (not all Republicans but the ones in charge and some other crazies out there). And the use of Sweet Baby Jesus always makes me laugh thanks to Talidaga Nights.
I love his expression so much.
To be fair he did describe it as “sensitive” and not “gentle.” Better or worse?