Comments on: I’m in Heaven being proud of my country

By: ookimo

ookimo — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:13:31 +0000

Thank you for the smile. What a great caption!

By: Heather Mac

Heather Mac — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:26:26 +0000

Aw, come on, I’m an atheist too but I can still appreciate the sentiment.

By: Heather Mac

Heather Mac — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:25:08 +0000

Aww! *wibble*

By: Failerella

Failerella — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:37:13 +0000

wha? when did she come out (I damn sure know she’s not Muslim)

By: Failerella

Failerella — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:35:44 +0000

what n8 said!

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:52:38 +0000

ROFL!

By: ema

ema — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:00:52 +0000

Well, ok you can have that one then, no one else uses it!

By: Xavier

Xavier — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:36:44 +0000

Or, at least, the candidate who thinks before acting. By all accounts in the Newsweek year-long behind-the-scenes reporting on the various campaigns, the only one who wasn’t acting impulsively was Obama. Now, I am sure there is some portside list to their favorable coverage, but we will be forced to assume that it wasn’t *all* lies…

By: Jamieteevee

Jamieteevee — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:26:36 +0000

Alas, no kids for me, KTHNXBAI. I do know a couple kittens who would like a home though!

By: ShadowVenus

ShadowVenus — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:08:14 +0000

If that is your assumption, then I must ask if you ever actually watched MTP while Russert was host?

By: debra

debra — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:58:15 +0000

I miss Tim.

By: FaileV

FaileV — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:28:57 +0000

i would disagree there, certainly there would be no self inclusion with the idea of country. in heaven there wouldn’t be americans or british or whatever, I think that they could easily look on at groups of people, recognize them as different and be proud of them each equally for their accomplishments. There would be no “hey look my country totally beat your country” nonsense but more “look, that group of people accomplished something to better humanity”

By: FaileV

FaileV — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:20:24 +0000

I don’t know enough about Alan Keyes to agrue for him, but that set aside, an unrelenting stand can be considered psychopathic yes. It is one thing to be steadfast in your belief. it is another to be set firm and against any change or adaption no matter what experiences or new information you have. That is the difference between those that feel the world is only 6000 years old, and those that believe the christian moral code and use that to deal with everyday life.

By: FaileV

FaileV — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:13:46 +0000

let’s study this phenomina for a moment. Why are there Religous specific holidays. I believe there are two answers to this, or one depending on how you want to split hairs.
1. taking pre existing traditions to retcon them and draw the followers to their own religon (or just take their older traditions and change it to better fit their view of the world) Most of the major christian holidays are just versions of older holidays. Christmas, Easter (ever wonder why we have bunnies and eggs? it’s left over from honoring a previous goddess) halloween…there’s more but i’ll leave you to research things as you get interested.
2. To keep the followers in the faith interested and stopping a melancholy. Going to church every sunday is great for the devote but days tend to run together, specific holy days are like a jumpstart to faith, it brings people together and is a further time for “hey, god is awesome”

why are there no athiest specific holidays? Atheism has just recently (taking into account human history) become a mainstream practice as religon is used less to try and explain the world around us. Atheism does not need holidays to push or keep faith up because atheism has no faith to push or keep up.

As far as I am concerned no new holiday needs to be invented. I like to celebrate the end of the year like any other person, it’s a social time where i can show my feelings for those close to me via presents. What else is there to do, and what is specifically Atheist?
“I don’t believe in any gods” day? christianity may as well make a “this is totally not about the roman pantheon” day.

By: FaileV

FaileV — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:53:34 +0000

I find her acting to be rather annoying “I’m the witty sassy black lady” type thing, and it annoys the crap out of me, her stand up is better when she isn’t trying to fit into a stereotype.

By: jerseygirl in GA

jerseygirl in GA — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:35:12 +0000

Wanda’s stand-up is insanely funny, and she is really funny on impromptu situations (I fell over laughing when she was on Celebrity poker)… but there is no one like The Cos!!! The Cos is the best!

By: lowly grunt

lowly grunt — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:59:31 +0000

jamieteevee, that was the best comment ever

actortitude is going into my lexiconaryity

By: slanagat

slanagat — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:59:23 +0000

And yet strangely, compellingly attractive….

By: dropping in

dropping in — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:52:26 +0000

Why does no one on the right seem to recall the 1990s? The media, and Congress committed witch-huntery…sometimes they fall with you, sometimes against. Logically I have a hard time buying the Obama was given more pleasant coverage out of a bias- while most reporters to admit to being more liberal- their bosses (Rupert Murdock) are Republican activists and leaders in the RNC…so that plays a role too in my head…

By: jules

jules — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:58:47 +0000

Misdirection! That’s the key!

By: jules

jules — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:55:32 +0000

Yeah, I’d like to add the adjective “batsh*t” to her description.

By: jules

jules — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:52:16 +0000

Add gay to that.

By: jules

jules — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:51:47 +0000

Oh god she’s awful. The way I feel about her can be summed up by one of my favorite comments, one made by Bill Cosby at some music awards (I believe it was BET). When Wanda Sykes asked him how he and other comedians of his time came to be such respected black comedians his answer was “We spoke proper English”.

By: jules

jules — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:44:49 +0000

Haha, seconded!

By: alleee

alleee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:25:23 +0000

Sigh.
Facepalm. Why I’m an atheist.

You’d think that finally, in heaven, we’d be rid of the concept of “country.”

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:41:40 +0000

Just like if Sarah Palin or John McCain had said any one of the dumbass things Biden and Obama said, that would have been trumpeted non-stop.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:39:26 +0000

That scares people who lack belief in something.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:36:58 +0000

Well, when Obama gets more stories with more positive spin and McCain gets fewer stories with more negative spin…I mean, seriously, if McCain was friends with an abortion clinic bomber, went to a white supremacist church, or purchased his house from a slum lord at a price dramatically below market value, you better freakin’ believe that would have been an issue. It would have been the only story, over and over again.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:34:21 +0000

Seconded.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:33:25 +0000

Tim Russert would have actually asked Obama tough questions, unlike every other “journalist” in the last 20 months.

By: ladyrazzle

ladyrazzle — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:21:55 +0000

Good Lord, your eloquence has given me some sort of intelectual erection.
I don’t suppose you’d like to have my babies, at all?

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:53:47 +0000

Perfect! You sound almost like a tour guide.

By: froofrou

froofrou — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:54:10 +0000

Hang on now, Alan Keyes is labeled as a psychopathic nutjob because he has a very narrowly defined set of morals given him by his specific religion and he stands by them no matter what? So anyone who stands firm on what they believe in is a ‘psychopathic nutjob’ by your definition. Alan Keyes is just dedicated to what he believes.

By: alice

alice — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:53:23 +0000

Wikipedia calls Kwanzaa “…meditation and study of “African traditions” and “common humanist principles.”
There ya go – a humanist holiday. No religion involved.

By: pittypat

pittypat — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:18:09 +0000

ah well, winsome*/lose some.
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*(bad) pun intended.

By: Musicmom870

Musicmom870 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:07:04 +0000

Ok, welcome to pundit kitchen. The lols posted here refer mostly to current events, politics, culture, etc. There is a certain level of familiarity with political coverage assumed among the commenters, because otherwise the jokes just wouldn’t be very funny. Like when my son first started watching the Daily Show, I made him watch the real news first, because otherwise he just wouldn’t get any of the references. There is a short-cut, however, which allows you to avoid uncomfortable gaps in your knowledge. It’s called Google, and using it might help you enjoy the lolz, or it might just help you learn a little something. You can click on my name to begin your adventure.

By: Rvo

Rvo — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:31:55 +0000

Look him up. He was pretty freaking fantastic.

By: ema

ema — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:28:48 +0000

But, there really aren’t any specific “atheist” holidays to celebrate anything specific to atheists. All those you mention are shared by everyone. I was just kidding anyway…

By: Rvo

Rvo — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:23:32 +0000

I vote Green Party, and I think she’s a nut job. Not in the good way, in the cop punching way.

By: headslammer

headslammer — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:17:55 +0000

Good man. I am sure he is.

By: Jamieteevee

Jamieteevee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:26:54 +0000

Jesse Jackson has some major flaws. He manages to piss me off, immensely, at least every 4 years. He is a media whore. I will not refute that. On the other hand. He has done more for tolerance in this country than anyone since Martin Luther King Jr. and he deserves respect for that. If you think that being a media whore is evidence of unworthiness then please name ANYONE in the news that IS worthy.

By: Jamieteevee

Jamieteevee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:23:00 +0000

no, he was a completely psychopathic nutjob.
Please look up the actual definition of psychopathic and apply it as necessary.

By: wundawomun

wundawomun — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:14:54 +0000

Yuk, Wanda Sykes is totally obnoxious. She is not funny to me at all. I think there’s only one movie that she didn’t thoroughly annoy me in. Her show was lame.

By: Jamieteevee

Jamieteevee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:14:34 +0000

If you mean “holidays” as in Holy Days. You are right. No day is “Holy”. it’s a day. If we choose to honor a day for some special reason and call it a holiday, what’s the difference? I can assure you that Christmas will still be in effect, not because it signifies the “birth of our savior” but because it is an important day near solstice that signifies the hope of a new year. That is what “Christmas” has ALWAYS signified. Your “Mass” was arbitrarily deposited on the yuletide to represent it’s function. Every major religion has a holiday on or near this day for a very significant reason, it is the first day of the year that you can actually see the day beginning to get longer. Spring is coming and you know how long it will be to get here. Rejoice! An end to the dreary, unending days of cold and bitter days!
Wait, but there’s more! Independence Day! What a remarkably NONSECULAR holiday! Hurray! We won independence from our forebears. O and Thanksgiving! A day we set aside to honor the trust put to us by the people who lived here before us before we betrayed them and slaughtered them wholesale. Be sure to add an “AMEN” when you finish your list of all things you are thankful for before you eat your farm raised, steroid injected, anti-biotic fed turkey.
Do you actually think that “we” would not honor Veterans or those who died in service to the country? What’s left? Oh, Columbus Day and President’s Day. You are probably right, I am no longer in favor of Columbus day, I never have been. Nice to have a day off in school but what are we really celebrating? President’s Day is a little homogenized but worth recognizing. Why not?
You can bet your ass that we would be rocking the house with such honorable days as Martin Luther King Jr. Day. A man that is martyred for the cause of equality? I would not sanctify anything less.
We know how to have fun. In fact we know what “fun” is and it’s not a government sanctioned holiday. It is the celebration of something relevant to the life you live and the joys you hold dear.

By: Jamieteevee

Jamieteevee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:53:23 +0000

I needs me some Wanda Sykes!
Hell Yeah!

By: Jamieteevee

Jamieteevee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:50:06 +0000

McCain was born to United States citizens on US territory, (a military base on foreign soil), he was a citizen at birth and there was never a real contest of his fitness for Presidency. A few foolhardy people put up a lawsuit, primarily, to contrast the lawsuits in progress against Barack Obama.
McCain is a citizen and a patriot, no doubt.
Obama is a citizen and a patriot, no doubt.
I am glad that Obama won. I think that he has a clearer vision of what needs to be done to fix the economy, the healthcare system, the “war” on terrorism, and many other pressing issues. I am also ECSTATIC that Palin is out of the picture for, no less, than 4 years. She is a detriment to ALL progressive ideals like women’s equality, women’s right to choose, freedom of religion, equality of all race, gender, age, identity of Americans. She would NOT break any glass ceiling, but would rather nail impregnable shields in place that would take generations of suffrage to eradicate.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:40:01 +0000

Tooooo Kewt! I wish my monsters would twine tails like that–How fun!

By: Jamieteevee

Jamieteevee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:33:53 +0000

sorry but it was a punFAIL.
even the lolexclamation didn’t save it.
moving on.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:31:51 +0000

Those tears were real, Ma-a-a-an!

By: Jamieteevee

Jamieteevee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:31:20 +0000

By the way, I met Tim a few times and he was a really nice guy. He brought Luke into the frame shop I worked at and framed the famous “dry erase board” of the 2000 elections. Luke was giving it to the charity of his choice for auction. I am sad to say I forget what it was.