Comments on: Another patriotic American

By: wickets ebil twin

wickets ebil twin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:23:42 +0000

I heard you mom was a kn0cked-up $lut

By: loch

loch — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:09:15 +0000

Would you support programs that would take care of these kids once they’re born? Y’know like the products of rape or the ones born into families (or maybe just a single mother) who cannot afford to take care of them? Or the horribly mutated ones who probably won’t live longer than 6 months? Will you support programs aimed at helping them? If not then STFU.

By: loch

loch — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:55:47 +0000

I’m going to tell you a story. It’s about my aunt.
She has two kids neither of which are old enough to work. Their father is a deadbeat who has left their lives many years ago. Recently her kidneys and liver failed. Not because she was a drunk or anything like that, but because of Hepatitis. She had major intrusive surgery to replace them, and right now her immune system is depressed so that it doesn’t reject the new organs. No one else in my family can support them, we just don’t make that much money. She certainly can’t “fish” and her kids aren’t old enough to. They only survive because of welfare (and until recently unemployment). How would they survive without welfare? /rant

By: you

you — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:09:00 +0000

Possible, if they let her keep and invest HER MONEY which they TAKE out for SS and Medicare in the first place.

By: NSK Shadrach

NSK Shadrach — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:26:06 +0000

Bad caption. we PAY into SSI and Medicare for the entire time we are employed during our lives. Of course I would partake of the benefits of Social Security and Medicare, I paid for them. I just don’t think we need more taxes for little or no foreseeable gain

By: KestrelRedfern

KestrelRedfern — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:50:00 +0000

I think the “organized atheists” call themselves secular humanists. I’ve never heard of anybody being killed in the name of secular humanism….but I could be wrong.

By: Captain Obvious

Captain Obvious — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:57:26 +0000

You watched Fox “News” all day while you weren’t working? Were you collecting welfare, unemployment, or workman’s comp? (For the kids at home, those are all programs designed to give money to people who don’t work. You can even collect WAY MORE THAN YOU PUT INTO THEM. Isn’t that neat, kids?)

By: Captain Obvious

Captain Obvious — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:51:10 +0000

Dear bleeding-heart, blame-America-first, CONSERVATIVE pussies: your guy lost, get over it. Things aren’t going the way you’d like them? You’re more than welcome to leave and go find a country that will allow you to have your way no matter what the majority of people want, (we call the leadership in those places dictatorships).

Good luck in 2012. Until then, though, enjoy your shit sandwich.

By: LB

LB — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:28:33 +0000

This attempt at humor is EPIC FAIL.

Social Secuirty and Medicare are both organizations that you automatically pay into with each payroll check you receive (this is assuming your work doesn’t replace SS with a pension like most government jobs do). It’s more like a forced savings account. The more you put into it and the closer you are to the actual retirements age, the higher your pay rate will be.

Socialism would be saying “Ok, everyone gets to have a SS check once they reach 65 years old, even if they never had a job or paid into it.”

I also agree with Marco, give me back all the money I paid already and we’ll call it even.

By: -Redsands-

-Redsands- — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:48:46 +0000

Socialism is the slippery slide that deposits you into communism !

By: Les

Les — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:01:27 +0000

ooooh you came up with 3 and 1/2

bush- catholic

did more damage to the world you live in than any other. and liked to make his connection with “God” know. lol you argument doesn’t stand up does it?

By: Les

Les — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:49:11 +0000

you seem to me like you are a fundamentalist christian, by you lack of the use of logic. if you were logical in the least you would realize that the comment you relied to referred to logic in the sense of evolution vs creationism. and yes they do STRONGLY discourage thinking for yourself outside of their conventions. I ask you that before you call some one else a liar that you try some black magic (logic and intelligence). you your self are a horrible christian for the way you berate others.

By: Sigma

Sigma — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:12:49 +0000

So where does it say that?

By: Sigma

Sigma — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:45:14 +0000

‘1984,’ awsome book.

By: Sigma

Sigma — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:36:41 +0000

The latter is better.

By: Sigma

Sigma — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:30:06 +0000

That’s cool dude, you can do whatever you want. Just do be hostile to your fellow worshipers.

By: Sigma

Sigma — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:22:40 +0000

…Yea.

By: Sigma

Sigma — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:15:58 +0000

Well, some of them are, but it doesn’t mean they think ALL those women are like that.

By: Sigma

Sigma — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:11:53 +0000

Socialism roles right into morality issues.

By: Sigma

Sigma — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:09:09 +0000

WE try do every day.

By: Sigma

Sigma — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:06:21 +0000

Yes, things are good AND bad in some way, shape, or form. It’s just that most people tend to see mostly the gloom of the bad things in life and not enough good things.

By: Sigma

Sigma — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:01:06 +0000

‘TWIT!?’ [LOL]
O.K., you’ve hade some loss. I’ve had loss, too. I can see how you feel.

What I’m trying to say is that A) It’s natural, B) it happens, and if we can’t stop the loss of life it means it was their time. Fatalists and theists have almost the same acceptance.

By: Sigma

Sigma — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:50:33 +0000

Thats because it’s a good conversation, dude!

By: Sigma

Sigma — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:47:13 +0000

To brak:
My organization is the Western Roman Catholic Church;-)

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:18:59 +0000

I don’t think you understand how it works. I’ll gladly not take Social Security or Medicare if the government gives all of my money back that I’ve already put into those programs. I could take the money, put it in a IRA or CD, and by the time I retire be a millionaire- assuming I’m not one by the time I get there.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:06:17 +0000

Oh well, you can just decide not to pay into social security, and instead of a NEGATIVE rate of return on your investment, put it in a mutual fund and GAIN 12%. Uncle Sam loves freedom so this is of course both legal and possib…. wait, what? You can’t opt out of SS? BECAUSE IT’S A HUGE PONZIE SCHEME wake up people WAKE THE F UP

By: MrSeagull

MrSeagull — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:15:01 +0000

Take a look at the three powers of the government during the last two years of Bush’s 2nd term. Who controlled two-thirds of the federal government? Don’t be apologetic when your views are disputed.

By: Anniee451

Anniee451 — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:44:08 +0000

You people are wacked. This bigorty and fear of Christians is so over-the-top it would be funny if it weren’t so insane. You know when fundamentalist Christians tend to use the word “logic” as a curse? When assh*les like yourselves bludgeon them with FALSE logic and tell them how stupid they are for not accepting it. That’s when.

Crow I’m not calling you a *liar* – at least not at this moment (though you very well might be) but I really have my doubts as to whether your employer (gee, he must not be too brain-dead, must he – he’s your boss, though I’m sure that’s no huge feat) ever made such a statement and that you’re not completely twisting it. It is possible – what is he, some kind of snake-handler? Does he live on a compound with an arsenal? In which case what is he doing running an ordinary business and being your boss? Because people who really believe that are *that* far out on the fringe, to the point they don’t function in ordinary society.

Well, maybe I am calling you a liar. Liar.

By: Seth

Seth — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:26:50 +0000

Calling cancer bad is shallow? I would say just the opposite, someone who claims cancer is NOT bad is shallow and heartless beyond belief. My mom is dying of pancreatic cancer. It is not ‘good,’ unless you twist the definition of good and bad to the point of meaninglessness.

It is all about semantic framing. On one semantic level, good and bad are meaningful words that transmit fairly definite ideas. On another semantic level, nothing is good or bad, it just is. But on that level, ‘good’ is not in all things. In fact, there is no meaningful semantic level on which the idea of good exists without the idea of bad.

You can say, ‘nothing is good or bad,’ and you can say, ’some things are good and some bad,’ but you can not say, ‘it’s all good,’ without negating the meaning of the word good. Get it?

By: Crowtalker

Crowtalker — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:19:15 +0000

Hey Ed, when was your last fire for which you called the Fire Department? When did you last call the Police?

So, ARE you utilizing these “society as a whole” services, or not?

By: Crowtalker

Crowtalker — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:17:57 +0000

JC is right on. Some of you want a Chinese Menu to pick from — some “socialist” concepts and programs are clearly more acceptable than others in this American society, but guess what? They are all “socialist”.

By: Crowtalker

Crowtalker — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:11:17 +0000

Not only is “logic” a “curse-word”; the term “intellectual” is as well. Boggles the mind, doesn’t it? In order to be a fundamentalist Christian (which by the way, according to them is the ONLY Christian denomination), once must reject logic and intelligence. I know this because an employer of mine IS a fundamentalist and has told me flat out this is what he (and those of his church) believe.

Scary, scary stuff.

By: Kt

Kt — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:18:36 +0000

I have two part time jobs, two more sub positions, a full load in college, no health care and no SS coming when I turn 65 and I’m complaining…

By: Kt

Kt — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:00:37 +0000

Bingo. And who ever said banning abortions prevents them, anyway?

By: Kt

Kt — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:56:52 +0000

Understanding of the Real World fail: I’m paying for the Social Security of everyone over 65 now, and in 40 years, there will be nothing left for me to receive. Oh, wait. My parents were on welfare for six months when I was three, so I guess I deserve whatever I get, yes? Of course, I’m sure that this is just an exception to the rule, right? Actually, no, but you go on believing that so you can keep knocking welfare instead of fixing it to stop the minority that does take advantage of it.

By: mishu

mishu — Sun, 10 May 2009 04:43:30 +0000

Actually, she won’t be cashing in on Soc. Security and Medicare because Obama pissed all that money away in his first 100 days.

By: commissar

commissar — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:02:14 +0000

Hitler was an Occultist.

Atheism isn’t an organized religion. There is no ‘Atheist’ community or group.

Religion is organized and people kill for it. No one kills in the name of Atheism.

By: brian

brian — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:59:16 +0000

Buddhism is very much a politheistic religion. Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) is “The Awakened One” who achieved godhead. As such he is one of the many avatars of a god in Buddhism, as are each of the 28 Buddhas

By: brian

brian — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:52:54 +0000

King Richard – Catholic
Napoleon – Catholic
Andrew Jackson – Christian
Spanish conquistadores – Catholic
Osama Bin Ladin – Muslim
Idi Amin – Muslim

sycophants, despots and mass murders span all religions, races, ethnic groups and creeds.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:44:01 +0000

lmao, perfect point. How did this get to religion?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:41:03 +0000

No, Buddha said that he shouldn’t be worshipped and never stated that Buddhism is or should be a religion. If Buddhism were a religion, it would defeat the entire purpose of Buddhism.

The point that’s attempting to be made is that most of the world’s most aggressive entities have utilized religious convictions as a method of convincing their countries/justifying their actions that war against another country is moral.

Note that they were religious… but not moral. There is a distinct difference.

By: TigerShark

TigerShark — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:36:53 +0000

check your sources…modern atheism as we know it didnt exist until the late 19th century…and it was inflated by a scientific movement to release scientists from the bonds of morality and ethics concerning a supreme creator

By: Cecilia

Cecilia — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:36:48 +0000

Nope. People left England because of religious persecution, because feudal society left zero space for moving up, etc. Pretty sure socialism had nothing to do with it.

By: Cecilia

Cecilia — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:33:48 +0000

Am I the only person that thinks the Saduccees would be a great name for a rock band?

By: Cecilia

Cecilia — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:32:53 +0000

Yeah, he was a good kid. The only time he ever got mad was because he wanted people to pay less attention to money and more to God. What an idealistic naif.

By: Cecilia

Cecilia — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:24:31 +0000

Not always 46…by that definition, people with Down’s syndrome wouldn’t be human. They definitely are.

By: Cecilia

Cecilia — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:23:31 +0000

In particular, foster or adopt a child who has fetal alcohol syndrome, downs syndrome, or other diseases that are either developed or can be tested for in utero.

By: Cecilia

Cecilia — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:13:29 +0000

Here’s one. A mother takes 8 medications a day that she needs to live. Several of them have warnings about potential significant harm to a fetus. Her birth control method fails. Does she stop taking the pills and risk her life and the fetus’ in a gamble? Does she have an abortion? Or does she continue to take the pills, saving her life, but knowing that she will always blame herself for any fetal disabilities, and that even if her baby is miraculously born healthy, every time that child has a health problem or trouble at school, she’s going to wonder if it’s her fault for taking those pills.

By: Cecilia

Cecilia — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:07:56 +0000

They are free to get another job. If selling alcohol would be against your religion, you don’t become a bartender. What’s more, for many of these ‘conscientious objectors to abortion,’ they went into the specialty IN ORDER TO refuse to perform procedures, thus denying patients access. See, unlike bartending school, there are a limited amount of slots in med school. If the OB-GYN residencies are all taken by right wing crazies who then ‘exercise their rights’ as they had planned, they are making women’s decisions for them, de facto if not de jure. It would be like if temperance people took all the slots at all the bartending schools in the country and refused to serve alcohol. If there were no beer or wine.

By: Cecilia

Cecilia — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:00:33 +0000

It would be tough to perform an abortion on someone who wasn’t “knocked-up,” as you so politely put it, wouldn’t it?