“Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.”
–Sophocles
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to the President for challenging his profession of faith. Did you think I would forget?
Duke, brother. If you go back and check what you wrote,
as well as what I wrote,
you’ll see that I laid out a logical explanation of why Obama was a Muslim at birth.
You didn’t like the logic, but neither did you refute it.
He was born a Muslim. He had NO CHOICE in the matter.
I believe that he is, today, a Christian.
Why do I believe that ?
Because he said so. That’s good enough for me.
Faith is an adult choice. And there’s no evidence that, even as a child, Obama ever actually practiced anything.
You’re wrong about that and you ought to admit it.
I’m talking about identity and belonging and culture.
It’s just silly to proclaim that people don’t belong to any religion until they make a conscious choice as an adult.
But you didn’t exactly say that.
Golly, even our government proclaims 8-year-old boys to be Muslim militants, if they happen to be killed in a drone strike.
then you’re still off the mark. That implies a household full of Islamic culture, if not a presence in an Islamic community. The known facts are that he had neither. His parents separated when he was less than a month old, and his mother certainly never embraced or practiced Islam.
You’re pulling this out of thin air.
My point was that NO child is ANYTHING at birth…except an infant. I will let your non-apology explanation suffice, but only because I am such a nice guy…since birth. 🙂
thnx 4 the luv.
I was a practicing breast feeder and diaper filler…nothing more.
Please, Barron…stop thinking you have to fill in for elbee. Try to keep it real..OK?
I’d like to go back to respecting you, BX.
Because, you know, you and your 8 friends are the CONSTITUTION party so you oppose the equal opportunity for all religious views enshrined in the Constitution’s First Amendment and Clause barring religious tests for public office.
Claiming to be a constitutionalist while believing in exclusion based on religion is kind of like being a Christian without believing in Jesus, or a Jew without being a monotheist. (To avoid being outraged at you, I’m trying to remind myself that your bigotry is hilariously incoherent fringe lunacy shared by barely enough folks in the state to fill a Starbucks.)
And there are almost 30 of us, so we would fill a Starbucks, if it’s one of those really small ones.
You get to spend the next hour or so revisiting your stances and attempting to deflect criticism.
Congratulations.
too funny. by half.
I’m still laughing 2 minutes after reading it.
Business owners come in many different flavors.
Even the ones who operate businesses that the Government built.
There a lot of business owners who deceive…themselves.
I do not practice deception, quite the contrary. You may ask any of my many satisfied clients. It is just the Democrat in me, I suppose.
I made money off of having a unique take on things. If my competition found out my angle, they would have undercut me and left me without clients.
So, I was secretive about how it all worked.
Sort of like deception, but I think Sophocles was talking about deceiving clients, not competition.
business owner, not Democrat…nicht wahr? 🙂
If the prospect bites, I’m back in business.
2 weeks ago, I was wrestling household appliances in a Home Depot reset.
Last week, pushing a broom on a construction site.
60 days from now, I picture myself working on a laptop out of a Starbucks, one that the rest of the Constitution Party couldn’t fill. That gig would get me outta my Mom’s basement for over a year.
side of the coin, so to speak, is more important to my way of thinking. Those deceived, and essentially stolen from,have damages incalculatable. The pain and loss can linger for years, and even a lifetime.
Sophocles was a playwright. Ascribing everything he wrote for every character in every play he wrote as being a deep-seated personal belief would be utterly ridiculous.
Without knowing the context of this quotation, and I am unable to quickly find such, one can’t discern what Sophocles (or his play-written character) was trying to say.
. . . but then again, Willard has always seemed to me to be a badly-scripted character in a comedy, farce, or tragedy. There may be some connection.
I meant to reference the above Sophocles quote, “Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception” as it relates to his debate performance.
4 candidates showed up for the CU Regent @ Large debate last night at UCCS, but is was really only a 2-way fight, Ludwig v. Belmont.
The Republican and Libertarian candidates just didn’t have the fire in the belly.
Incumbent Ludwig was in top form, witty, funny, engaging.
18-year-old Belmont, still in High school, representing the Constitution Party, stood toe-to-toe, took some jabs, and parried with a few of his own, but even Belmont’s corner scored this round for Steve.
It doesn’t help that Ludwig has a campaign fund.
And I learned last night, from Steve, that even Camille has endorsed him.
A huge part of our four page ballot consists of eleven constitutional amendments, all offered up by the Republican controlled legislature. There were twelve, but one was struck down by the (ACTIVIST!) court.
Without going into detail of each one, the League of Women Voters has suggested a NO vote on all eleven. The local paper suggests one (lukewarm) YES, one MAYBE, your choice, and nine NO’s. See a pattern here?
Three or four of the proposed amendments have to do with giving additional homestead exemptions to certain vets, certain widows, first responders, etc. The rationale for a NO vote is the complexity layered upon existing complexities in the constitution.
OK, those amendments might as well have come from Dems, too. But here are the absolutely, definitely, Republican ones:
Amendment 1: To make sure that Florida doesn’t participate in………..you got it…..the ACA.
Amendment 3: To set a new cap on state expenditures….that will overlay the one we already have. Can you spell TABOR?
Amendment 5: Purely and brazenly an attempt to grab judicial power by the legislature. They want secret files on the (ACTIVIST!) judges, ability to remove them. The Pubes are working hard at removing three judges up for approval by the voters. What part of “Separation of Powers” do these parasites not understand?
Amendment 6: Enshrine federal law about funding of abortions into the state constitution. Redundant. Also narrows the scope of privacy as approved by voters in 1980.
Amendment 7: Given the boot by ACTIVIST judges.
Amendment 8: Under the guise of “Religious Freedom,” removes the state-church barrier to allow public monies “Except as prohibited by the First Amendment,” to go to religious bodies. Wow!
Amendment 12
So, there’s how Pubicans are trying to destroy the constituion of Florida, all the while ignoring the constitution of the USA.
The huge FL ballot (even longer than what you mentioned in several counties) coupled with early voting days cut in half will cause impossibly long voter lines resulting in voter suppression. This is how the GOP will steal the election this time in FL. Not to mention CO failing to mail “permanent” ballots to those who didn’t vote in 2010.
I’m getting angry now.
…how critical a few votes can be. Also, think Franken.
While perhaps not on the level of voter interference of 2000, every little bit helps.
Please direct everyone you can to http://www.govotecolorado.com, and remind them to check their registration status, address, and mail-in ballot status. Thanks!
A few days ago the ACTIVIST judges in Florida allowed our Republican SOS to proceed with voter roll purging.
Funny how ACTIVIST is OK when it helps them.
Isn’t it Federal law that no voter purges can be performed in the 90 days preceding an election?
And, I think the factor that denied the PA voter purge.
I can’t speak to the FL one, maybe the purge was at 91 days.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
Even the dumbest voters should be able to grasp that satire.
http://doonesbury.slate.com/st…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
I have no words except…Holy Shit!!!
Even if this guy isn’t in the mainstream of the GOP, he represents the magnetic north to which today’s Republican Party compass points.
…to endorsing executing children for acting up.
What’s in the water in Arkansas? From that page, there is a link to this Republican idiot (oops, redundancy) saying that slaver was good for blacks and that integration was a mistake.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
Dan Pabon gave a great speech at the Denver Democratic Dinner. It addressed some real issues and shows that he is someone to be reckoned with. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
Thanks to Owen Perkins for posting this.
On a night that John Lewis spoke, that literally moved me to tears after a long night of under-card speeches, this is what you want to highlight?
BTW why was he talking about Israel?
I was truly impressed by Dan Pabon’s speech Heightened my respect for who he is and what he stands for.
Wow.
agreement amongst election trolls. Now I know how to think about things.-snark-
Life will be better for this liberal when things get back to normal
but note the absence of ‘tad and his mentee. They must be at a clinic to understand how Rmoney is becoming a moderate
His Sunday column was about how Rmoney has gone moderate. He approves.
The big mystery is why it took him so long. Once he had the nomination sewn up, that’s the norm.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
The biggest problem with Obama is that he was a citizen of Indonesia which means he had to renounce his American citizenship or lie to Indonesia because they do not allow dual citizenship. Unless he lied or reapplied, he does not qualify to be POTUS or Senator.
No other responses should be forthcoming.
If you want more, go ask Paul Ryan about Obama’s status.
Gadfly’s status as the dumbest fucking guy on the blog is being seriously challenged here.
AJN is fr’real. He might win the state title if you’ve ever read any of his comments in the Denver paper
Libertad break his leg?
“A citizen of Indonesia….”
He was a RESIDENT. Not a CITIZEN. I frankly thought you knew the difference.
Horrible singer.
who sings the anthem so loud that you can’t hear today’s guest crooner.
I figure that, having stood guard on a post right on the MDL in the middle of the Korean DMZ, I’ve earned that right.
I would never get picked for “The Voice” or “America’s got Talent” or “Idol.”
But I also love it when I hear folks who sing even worse than me, giving it all they’ve got.
Being half Korean, that half was raised where she had to get up in front of her class and sing, frequently. No wallflowers in the home of KPOP.
If I have a point, it’s that I applaud the singer in that tape for having the gumption to get up on stage and go for it.
….
Was there something else to that post ?
I’m not so big on lapel pins or outward displays of patriotism. I’m watching what a person does, instead.
He didn’t “refuse” to salute the flag, he forgot.
And Obama the Muslim (snark) does support core American values, when he’s not killing folks extrajudicially, or detaining them indefinitely without charge.