1 Wars and rising sea levels are caused by health care opponents.

2 Not having sex is caused by interns.

3 My experience has been that wars are most often caused by idiots who misjudge the other side.

4 A burning desire to rid the world of assholes like Maher should lead to at least some wars.

5 And speaking of wars, from all the stories it looks like Thailand is about to break down into full bore civil war. We will have to wait and see who Obama supports in order to determine that they are the bad commies and the other side are the good guys.

It looks like the so-call3ed red shirts though are the commies so that is who he will probably support.

6

I might have messed that last one up

no, you didn't .        you wrote what we were all thinking.

 

7 The real question of the day is "why do idiots like Bill Maher still have a TV show to even display their Saturday Morning Stupid on"?

8

Man you have a stronger constitution than I sir, I cannot stomach watching Walter Mattheau and jack lemmon's bastard son for more than about four minutes.

 

Hats off. 

9 So, which religion is causing it in Thailand...communism?

10 Bill Maher is the posterchild for brain dead liberalism.

11 #10   So, which religion is causing it in Thailand...communism?

Maher did say that Communism is a "state-religion", which I do agree with.

12 What's with all this talk of war? War. War. War. I came here for the bacon.

13 13 What's with all this talk of war? War. War. War. I came here for the bacon.

How many wars have been fought over bacon?  It is a valuable resource.

14 6 And speaking of wars, from all the stories it looks like Thailand is about to break down into full bore civil war. We will have to wait and see who Obama supports in order to determine that they are the bad commies and the other side are the good guys.   really? we have to wait for retoric?  damn, I figured the  promter was ready at a moment's notice epic fail , I'm guessing

15 The Crusades are topical and stuff.

16 16 The Crusades are topical and stuff.

Posted by: Cincinnatus at May 15, 2010 10:37 AM (r60xu)

I've lost count of how many times the Crusades are used by brain dead libs(BIRM) that make excuses for Islamic terrorism.

17

16 cincy,

absolutely....we westerners are expec ted to hang our heads in shame to this day for the ddefense of Christiandom from jihadi Jim, but don't you dare call in to question Islam's pecadillos from last week.....

 

"we have a nation to heal" after all.....

steamers don't explode unless you clamp down the lid.

18

17 UncleFacts,

about as often as the activities of fellow leftist travellers in Germany being used to stifle classical liberalist thought on why more and more goveernment control is evil....

FDR detested that short Austrian fella his table manners not his methodology.

19

You guys would be more understanding to my point of view if you were beaten up and your lunch money taken by nuns. 

20 What is that burning at ground zero?

21

>> Maher did say that Communism is a "state-religion", which I do agree with.

I agree too, although I'm not sure he meant it in context.  If he realized that he'd probably dissemble, but yeah, it's right on.

22 Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Professional Debate Team
I've lost count of how many times the Crusades are used by brain dead libs(BIRM) that make excuses for Islamic terrorism.

I thought the Crusades were leading the fight against that era's Islamic terrorism.

23

22 dave in texas,

Communism is no more a state religion than neo-Gaia worship disguised as "enviromentalism".  Which is to say by way of being coy it is absolutely a state religion.  Both government philosophies require magic thinking and have severely enforced dogmatic thoughts.

If barack were half as passionate about defnding the body politic as he is destroying our economic engine the nation could sleep soundly knowing we had a true guard dog.

24

23,

You would be correct sir, the Crusades were a defensive war in response to Islams destruction of 700+ churches in North Africa and the Middle East, but let's not let facts get in the way of leftards doing the supine butt thrust on our behalf okay?

25 14
Those who own the bacon, rule.

26 OT:  But of course, It's Bush's Oil Spill.

27 My black little soul is warmed whenever Maher is beaten down.

Also, mmmm bacon.

28

>> Communism is no more a state religion than neo-Gaia worship disguised as "enviromentalism".

 

I understand, I am referring to the requisite elements of faith from the followers.

29 Okay I watched about 2 minutes of that before I got too bored and annoyed to go on. But that's why I don't watch liberal tv.

30 #27  Matthew Yglesias

Say.  No.  More.

31 Maher and Cupp should get along swimmingly. Both are Godless Pagan's.

32 I thought the Crusades were leading the fight against that era's Islamic terrorism.

Posted by: scituate_tgr at May 15, 2010 10:45 AM (8CRSC)

Yes they were exactly that. My experience with shithead libs is that they use the Crusades in the context of "Well those evil Christians were just as evil as anything modern day Islamofascists are doing". I have seen that equivalency over and over with them.

33

29 Dave in Texas,

Right sorry I was being a bit tortured.  Communism, Environmentalism, and Atheism have all turned rather "evangelical" in their bent in the last twenty years.  Well to be fair Communism is probably calming down a good deal without an active industrial power cranking out the AKs and other cut rate military kit for slave labor wages.  The Thais are managing to get their inner Marx on using outdated tech, and as opposed to 30 years ago the Chinese and Russians expect a profit margin for their troubles these days.

It saddens me deeply that the leftoids who are so pious in attacking their fellow Americans on their "lack of faith" on the matters near the moonbat heart can't be bothered to focus that rage at outside threats.

"er uh um I find your lack of faith disturbing Teabagger....."

-Darth Ogabe

34 S.E. Cupp talks and writes like a high school girl. I heard her on the radio recently being interviewed by a conservative host about her book, and she was a total embarrassment to the conservative movement.  This affectation of using her initials instead of her first name is also cringeworthy.

35 37 I mean Muslims seem to agitate for war over cartoons.

Posted by: CDR M at May 15, 2010 10:57 AM (5I8G0)

Seem?

36 Matthew Yglesias

Say.  No.  More.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 15, 2010 10:52 AM (c0A3e)

The comments are très amusing too.  Yeah, I said it.  Très.  'Cuz I'm all Frenchie sophisticated 'n' shit.

37

34 Unclefacts,

Quite, "well Nervous Xians 900+ years ago did some bad stuff so you have to be willing to tolerate a bit of anger on islam's part" is the starting point for leftoid thought but *oddly8 for the life of themselves they can't understand why Conservatives are still upset by hippie excesses during Vietnam.....

Logic ain't their strong suit and neither is logical consistency.

38 The Notorious PAB > S.E. A Cups

all. day. long.

39 S.E. Cupp talks and writes like a high school girl. I heard her on the radio recently being interviewed by a conservative host about her book, and she was a total embarrassment to the conservative movement.  This affectation of using her initials instead of her first name is also cringeworthy.

Posted by: Never Mind at May 15, 2010 10:57 AM (GCEkp)

You're an ugly woman, a gay man, or a liberal.  Which is it?

40 sven, remember when Ann Coulter wrote her book "Godless" aimed directly at liberals?

I think they indeed have a god of their own: HYPOCRISY

41 The Notorious PAB > S.E. A Cups

QFT.

42

45 Unclefacts,

Yup aided by Hypocrisy's son Avarice.....

I'd say the moonbat trinity is

-------------------------Hypocrisy

 

---------Avarice-------------------------Shamelessness

Ted Kennedy is Barack o'Bama'sjohn the baptist

43 Yes they were exactly that. My experience with shithead libs is that they use the Crusades in the context of "Well those evil Christians were just as evil as anything modern day Islamofascists are doing". I have seen that equivalency over and over with them.

The other great anti-religion myth they like to propagate is the "Spanish Inquisition" and how it tortured and killed countless hundreds of thousands in the name of religion.

Serious students know that the Spanish Inquisition throughout its entire history killed fewer people than a good year in New Orleans. 

44 I mean Muslims seem to agitate for war over cartoons.

Posted by: CDR M at May 15, 2010 10:57 AM (5I8G0)

Muslims live for war, the acquisition of land, and the submission of all.  That is islam.  Well ... add a bunch of stupidity and primitivity and you've got islam in a nutshell.

45 Posted by: sven10077 at May 15, 2010 11:03 AM (2WyQz)

It's gonna have to be a quaternity: smug self-righteousness.

46 I could only take 3 minutes of that. The audience pissed me off more than the idiocy. Bunch of trained seals.

47

Muslims live for war, the acquisition of land, and the submission of all.  That is islam.  Well ... add a bunch of stupidity and primitivity and you've got islam in a nutshell.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 15, 2010 11:04 AM (Qp4DT)

Don't forget hunting down and exterminating clitorises.

48 OT, but I thought I would share. It's been rainy and gray all week, and I've felt pretty good. Not great, but okay. No sniffles, no sneezes, no congestion. This is unusual for me at this time of year. I began to think that it presaged a good weekend. I mean, if it's nasty out and I feel okay, then good weather should make me feel great. Alas. I wake up to a truly gorgeous Minnesota spring day, clear blue sky and warm sun, birds singing, feeling like the Jolly Green Giant shit on a baseball-bat and then beat me with the shit-covered bat. I've sneezed so many times this morning that I think I destroyed the part of my brain that used to like The Beverly Hillbillies. And still I must venture out to plant my front flower-garden today because...well, because I'm a boring single white guy, and this is what boring single white guys do on spring weekends, apparently. Leaving the garden to bide as a patch of naked dirt is not an option; the neighborhood would think ill of me. So I will take my ague-ridden body and swollen sinues out to do battle with spores, molds, pollen, and worm-shit, all in the name of having pretty, pretty flowers. There had better be some spiritual purpose to this, because I've got a hell of a headache. And I just sneezed all over my computer screen.

49 #54  Abhisit Vejjajiva.

50 From two-bit comic to great intellectual-- who sez America ain't the land of opportunity?

51

Every time I listen to that crater-faced fuckhead, I see a good commercial for what cocaine does to destroy your cortex.  And what short bus transports those assholes in his audience?

S.E. Cupp sounds pretty fucking dumb too.

52

51 Fubar,

or maybe more apt is a pentegram, add in prideful ignorance of data.....

ask a moonbat about Mann-made global warming theorist cooking of books and watch the fun begin.

 

53

57,

They already have if you pay attention to Holder and neopolitan running their cakeholes.....

the first rule to recall when coping with the self-annoited "betters' is that they always default back to a position of "I am right and it is my right to kill you to prove it if need be"

54 #55  And still I must venture out to plant my front flower-garden today because...well, because I'm a boring single white guy, and this is what boring single white guys do on spring weekends, apparently.

There's that, or play GoW3 again, .

/Hope your aliments get better, Monty. 

55

I was at the mall last weekend while the woman was shopping, so I decided to sit down in the lounge area and watch the hi-def TV there.  Mahar was on but muted.  And here I didn't think anyone was more smug and self-satisfied than Barky. 

The guy is literally unwatchable. 

It's great when rich assholes like him and Michael Moore bitch about rich people being assholes.  That was the last time I ever heard Mahar's voice.

56

Don't forget hunting down and exterminating clitorises.

Posted by: FUBAR at May 15, 2010 11:06 AM (1fanL)

Aside from the standard need to force everyone into submission, muzzies consider that entertainment.  The ideology doesn't include any days of rest or joyous holidays, so they blow off steam with the clitorectomies.  Western girls have a coming out.  Muzzies have a cutting out.

57

From two-bit comic to great intellectual-- who sez America ain't the land of opportunity?

And Senator, don't forget that!

58

Abhisit Vejjajiva.

Gesundheit.

59 so I decided to sit down in the lounge area and watch the hi-def TV there.  Mahar was on but muted.  And here I didn't think anyone was more smug and self-satisfied than Barky. 

Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 15, 2010 11:17 AM (fLHQe)

Maher on HD??  **shudder**

60 Both of those quotes came out of Thailand today and you can easily imagine our own leaders saying the same damn thing directed at the Tea Party movement and those opposed to Obama policies.

Posted by: CDR M at May 15, 2010 11:10 AM (5I8G0)

It would be no surprise, at all, considering that The Precedent already took the same sort of position in his insane attack on Honduras - trying to claim that violating the Constitution is no reason to throw out a "democratically elected president".  Unfortunately, many "conservatives" are simpering wimps and agreed with the Indonesian Imbecile.

61

69 PoP,

Ordinarily I'd agree with you but as the Soviets thought of the US during the cold war-you will not trade NYC for Berlin" it is hard for people to think "well we need to raise hell with the indonesian imbecile over Hondo....

I supported it, but I would.

62

"I am not a militant atheist"

It's the ideological militance of Maher that proves he worships at the alter of a higher power [his intelligence (he assumes)].

If 80% of America believes in God, that would prove that Maher is technically insane, insanity being the belief in things ("God does not exist"... and he has no proof of his belief) that go against the grain of the masses. Kind of makes a sneering joke of his meme.

Dumb ass. Disbelief in God doesn't prove intelligence/sanity but is merely a lack of belief. Cupps' understanding of this puts Maher's reasoning inability on parade.

 

 

 

63

52 I could only take 3 minutes of that. The audience pissed me off more than the idiocy. Bunch of trained seals.

That is the first time I have ever watched Maher, and it will be the last.  Yes, the audience isobviously heavily loaded with idiot suckholes.

 

Then again, S.E. Cupp has a great rack, if somewhat tightly confined.  Breasts yearn to be free!

64 Talk About Sat. Morn Stupid:

Woody Allen wants Barack Obama to be dictator for for a few years so that he can completely socialize America. The article published today, May 15, 2010, did not make it into any English-language paper.

Why is it these lefties never think that a dictator will come after them?  (rhetorical)


_{stolen from Gateway}

65 Posted by: sven10077 at May 15, 2010 11:24 AM (BVSTA)

sven,  Honduras was but one example of many.  I didn't expect many people to raise holy hell over it, but I did expect them to understand what was going on and to understand how it paralleled the Indonesian Imbecile's own position, here - which was too obvious for words.

66

The other great anti-religion myth they like to propagate is the "Spanish Inquisition" and how it tortured and killed countless hundreds of thousands in the name of religion.

Serious students know that the Spanish Inquisition throughout its entire history killed fewer people than a good year in New Orleans. 

Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2010 11:04 AM (6taRI)

Yeah no kidding.  And the really sad part is you would actually need someone to listen to even get close to arguing that the Spanish Inquisition wasn't really that bad.  Because let's see, they have no clue what the process was.  They don't know the reason for its existence.  They don't know why anyone would want it painted negatively to begin with.  No they just go with the kneejerk reaction of Spanish Inquisition is bad and shows how evil the church was.

67 Lars Vilks goads Islamists into (attempted) firebombing of his house by, you know, having a house. When will he ever learn?
/sarc

68

In the epic battle between Maher and bacon, bacon always wins.

It's far smarter.

69

75 PoP,

Yeah i know we discussed it back before I was thrown out of HA, the thing is we are an idiot nation as is shown with Reality TV ratings and our American idol President.  Expecting people to be able to leap over the whole "it can't happen here' thing until it does start happening here is wishing for a lot.  The good news is I suspect Obamacles earnestly believing he will get away with calling 70% of the American people a "vocal fringe" on the AZ law will be the first leak in his Little Dutch Boy wall....

70 please don't let bill ever have children

71
speaking of stupid...

talk about repeating history...

^{(Ace posted that vid in Dec '06 and I just saw it again while goin thru the AoS archives)}

72 Do you know how a lot of wars start?  With the idea that people who don't believe the same way you do are deluded...

73

81 PHXGrl,

The nice thing about hybrids is God usually renders them sterile......

74 Someone should remind Yglesias and his Patron Saint Barack that there is clear precedent, established by the Democrats themselves, that anything bad that occurs after 8 months into a President's term is his - 100% his, to own.  Google it.

75

How many wars have been fought over bacon?

All of them.

76

Hey check it out - caption for the still shot at the video link above:

"Damn, I wish I could pop the next two buttons on that blouse with my mind!"

77

My experience has been that wars are most often caused by idiots who misjudge the other side.

Vic, the Falklands War is a very good illustration of your theory.

78 lars vilks home was attacked by the amish....i mean the lutherans.....no the baptists....damn it what's that religion of peace called?

79 Fuck Maher. When's his trial?

80 Just saying hi from 33,000 feet. I hate to fly, but having the web is a nice touch!

81 91 was me, damn sock!

82

It saddens me deeply that the leftoids who are so pious in attacking their fellow Americans on their "lack of faith"

That to me is the very definition of 'liberal'...someone who turns on their own.

And still I must venture out to plant my front flower-garden today because...well, because I'm a boring single white guy, and this is what boring single white guys do on spring weekends, apparently.

There's always Left 4 Dead...blasting away at the zombie horde is good therapy...

83
where ya headed to, Doc?

84
Are you flying Jet Blue? I've never flown Jet Blue.

85 what blog is this?

86 ORD - PHL on American I'm a groomsman in a wedding tomorrow in Dover DE at the same time as the NASCAR race. Should be fun trying to get there on time.

87 Yes, Monty is up there in the great frozen North in the land of Mini-haha just now getting Spring to plant his garden.

Meanwhile we down here have had our Spring and are now getting Summer. It has already been to as high as 96 here and we have had numerous days above 90.

88

Maher did say that Communism is a "state-religion", which I do agree with.

So he is religious after all.

Secondly, I'm sick of this crusades crap. The entire area was Roman and then by extension, Christian--if we are talking state religions, with a minority jews until Mohammad et al and his bands of warriors converted everybody by the sword. The Crusades sought to take it back after Europe built itself up after barely deflecting the Muslim tide. Why the idiots think that the crusades were some great Christian evil compared to the way that the muslims spread their religion is beyond any intelligent reading of history. (Yeah, I know, they aren't intelligent and they don't read history).

89 What a waste of time.

90

89 Amish...or Quakers; take your pic.

 

Unclefacts, while you correctly surmised that the Crusades are a "reason" for Islamic terrorism, never forget that some moral relativists appear to believe that the settling of Canaan is the reason for it. 

 

91 Can take only so much of Bill Mahar. He is so creepy and obnoxious.

92 Yeah, I never killed anyone - it's just religious people.

93 Why the idiots think that the crusades were some great Christian evil compared to the way that the muslims spread their religion is beyond any intelligent reading of history.

This BS didn't start until the PC crowd took over at the end of the 60s. There was no effort made to even look at real history, they just jumped on the all things of the West are bad and all things of the communists are good.  The Muslim crap got thrown in after the 70s just as a sideline because it was viewed as anti-West.

What is really funny is what would happen to 99% of these liberal idiots if the actually lived in one of those Muslim theocracies and spouted some of their crap in public. They wouldn't last a week before some turd cut their head off. 

94

Spanish Inquisition

Country is over run by Muslims. Christians/europeans retake Spain. Said Spanish want to make sure all the muslims are outed. Seems reasonable to me. I wonder if the jews were sympathizing with the muslims? Sounds far fetched until you look at how the american jews are leaning today.

95 Communism is not a religion because religion is the opiate of the masses.  I hate that this guy thinks my economic system is a religion.  What an idiot.

96 77 That is a bit of a flaw in their basic notion -- however, I think most lefties are more than willing to switch sides at the drop of a hat.  I haven't met any here that I would call spinal endowed.

97
BAL wouldn't be closer?

98
^{btw, speaking in airport code is fun!}

99 Ummm, I was creating a race of people and not a religion you idiot.  Why isn't this lunatic locked up in a rubber room so he can stop humiliating himself?

100 Posted by: dagny at May 15, 2010 12:02 PM (v+Vt0)

Jews were left alone by the Inquisition in the beginning.

101
worst airport I've ever been to was EWR in the 1980's

102 "89 lars vilks home was attacked by the amish....i mean the lutherans.....no the baptists....damn it what's that religion of peace called?"
---
I think they are called "Asian Youths"

103 110 Well, you actually were -- but not in the traditional sense.  You wanted a state religion that would supplant what you saw as "weak Judeo-Christian beliefs" that "infected" your chosen people...didn't seem to work out too well; I'd appreciate it if that experiment wasn't tried again.

104 Yes, if religion is the opiate of the masses, then communism is the economic philosophy of the lame, lazy, and looters who are eternally jealous because their bad habits always lead to poverty and ignorance.

105 Alot of the nonsense about the Inquisition came after the Reformation.Protestant anti Catholic pamphlets were printed in every language of Europe and widely disseminated.

106 SE doesn't always wear the glasses though.

107 Apparently unknown jane is in pc-laden freshman history class and doesn't know I am an atheist and wanted a new RACE and not a new religion.

108 I stick by name 24/7

109 Why is it when I'm in the mood to talk about titties, everyone else wants to talk about fucking gardening?  Why is that?

110 118 Apparently Adolf here hasn't read up on some of his own attempts to get rid of traditional religion...SS marriages Adolf, and the adoption of Wagnerian/Germano-Norse mythological themes; any of those ring a bell?

111 God that was painful to sit through. First off S.E. Cupp instead of sitting and giglling like an idiot - the Israeli - Palestinian conflict is about religion. It is an anathema for there to be a non Muslim state in the region and people blow themselves up to get their 72 virgins because of religion. Also John Avlon is a boob who is married to an even bigger boob named Margaret Hoover.

112 120  Sometimes when I'm out gardening or doing work around the farm, clippings drop down into my cleavage...how's that?

113 108 BAL wouldn't be closer? It's about the same either way, and this was cheaper. And the worst airport is ATL. It's a zoo, and every time I've flown through there they lost my luggage.

114 Thanks for meeting me halfway, jane, you're a real trooper.

115 I hate Bill Maher to the extent that I can't click the link. I am not sure how you can get that fucking stupid. God must just shake his head. I allow everyone at least one mistake, albeit a bitter fail.

116 As much as I love S.E., I can't click on that clip because of Maher and Avlon. They are both permanent memebers of my Do Not Watch list.

117 123 120  Sometimes when I'm out gardening or doing work around the farm, clippings drop down into my cleavage...how's that?

Posted by: unknown jane at May 15, 2010 12:12 PM (5/yRG)

BUNK!

118 125 I endeavor to please.

119

Jews were left alone by the Inquisition in the beginning.

Yeah I know. I was just guessing at why they were examined later. I guess I have spent too much time trying to figure out why they currently live like episcopalians and vote like puerto ricans.

120 We can haz photoz?

121 131 Of Bill Maher?  Well, no accounting for taste...

122 the Israeli - Palestinian conflict is about religion. It is an anathema for there to be a non Muslim state in the region and people blow themselves up to get their 72 virgins because of religion.

Posted by: Travis at May 15, 2010 12:12 PM (9ui6r)

That conflict is not just religious - even aside from the fact that islam isn't even a religion, but a political ideology at its core.  The conflict is highly cultural/tribal, too, as arab nationalism was the driving factor for some time before islam was given a great boost by Carter's incompetence with Iran.  Before islam gained its great boost in the modern era, marxist arabs were being supported by the USSR - the biggest supporter of arab terrorism before the latest ascendance of jihadis.

The fact is that arabs will fight anyone and everyone they can (if they think they have a chance of winning) and they will base their fight on anything they think can help them.  Islam is little but the operational arms of arabs and persians, as the arabs happen to own sunni islam and the persians happen to own shia islam.  The source of all of their power lies in the gulf oil fields, and only in those fields, which is why I constantly remind people that all threats from the arab/persian/muslim world start and stop with their control of the gulf oil fields.

123 Damn, why am I always getting mis-underanticipated?

124

134  What makes you think you'd want to see my boobs?  I might be doing you a favor, no?

(ok, maybe not a favor with the Billy quip; you can crack back at me for that one, but perhaps with the witholding of boob pics)

125 Why is it when I'm in the mood to talk about titties, everyone else wants to talk about fucking gardening?  Why is that?
Will a mention of water jugs and watering cans help?

126 Speaking of stupid, Hey Bruins how's our ass taste?

127 Bork was a solicitor general.

128 Au naturel, baby. Swing low, sweet chariots.

129 racism + exercise = White Womans Workout

130

I can remember a time when Bill Maher shunned religion but stated a basic believe in a higher power.

I suppose he was a mediocre thinker until he got a contract with HBO.

131

Somebody tells jane and me to "get a room" in 3, 2, 1....

132 133 Too true -- the religion issue is just the shit icing on the vomit sundae; it isn't just about religion, and if religion was taken out of the equation it would be something else.  A history of the area readily points that out.

133

True story:

Bill Maher was molested by a preacher, - and he liked it!

134 51 Posted by: sven10077 at May 15, 2010 11:03 AM (2WyQz) It's gonna have to be a quaternity: smug self-righteousness. Posted by: FUBAR at May 15, 2010 11:05 AM (1fanL) Envy is the deadliest vice, and the root of all Progressive theory

135

And another thing....

It's just as easy to state that magical thinking could be equated with the belief that an incomprehsibly complex universe came about from nothing, and for no reason at all.  I haven't heard Dawkins, Hitchens, or the small-minded nasty little man Maher offer any response to that point.  

136

Some rather pleasant viewing for fellow morons:

http://tinyurl.com/y8b4pfy

137 142 I'm not so sure you'd want that either; I'm in a wicked naughty mood today.

138 I hope the broad your friend is marrying ain't a local-bred. There's a separate scale for D-Breds. Close questioning usually reveals they were foaled in a different state.

139 imagine the anger the rabid atheists will have upon death.....as a believer.....i'm certain there is a GOD....if by chance there isn't what have i lost in believing? by their not believing......they lose everything!!!!!!!

140 Posted by: unknown jane at May 15, 2010 12:28 PM (5/yRG)

Yep.  The islamic connection is what spreads it worldwide, but the real forces behind this war are arabs and persians, funded by petro-dollars and the stranglehold on the world through the physical oil - which the other Hussein demonstrated so clearly for Americans when he intentionally dumped 40,000,000 barrels of oil into the gulf and lit just about every oil well in Kuwait on fire.

islam is a great danger because it can be set off by the slightest touch, but it's the arab/persian push and the fire of oil revenues that makes the threat a reality.  WIthout that, islam would be nothing more than a primitive ideology keeping its people in the stone age (where they belong, frankly) but with little effect on the world.

Of course, islam has now, separate and distinct from its arab/persian benefactors, happened onto the realization that the Western world is happy to provide muslims with all the tools they need to attack the free world from within (because we stupidly import these savages who hate us and everything we stand for).  That, of course, is just suicide on our part, as almost half of the West has been bent on cultural suicide for the better part of 100 years.

141 You can't unfuck the Supreme Court. Lifetime socialists getting appointed for 30, 40 years. This latest nominee has me scratching my fucking head. Europa, here we come.

142 150 imagine the anger the rabid atheists will have upon death.....as a believer.....i'm certain there is a GOD

I have often thought perception is truth and thus reality. Wouldn't it be great if believers got what they deserved and non believers get what they deserve?

143 And the really sad part is you would actually need someone to listen to even get close to arguing that the Spanish Inquisition wasn't really that bad.

Yep.  The Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition was created to rein in religious vigillantism (as well as to fight Protestantism).  I remember reading that one year, because of bad harvests or plague or similar, something like 5000 'witches' were killed outside the judgments of the Church and the hierarchy was pretty appalled.

144 151 Fortunately the Arabs and the Persians still hate each others' guts -- islam is but a thin veneer of "brotherhood" for them.  Cold comfort indeed.

145 if by chance there isn't what have i lost in believing? by their not believing......they lose everything!!!!!!!

Nice.

146 153 lol  Ok tulip...if you insist.

147 84 The nice thing about hybrids is God usually renders them sterile......
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So I don't have to worry if I see a pair of Priuses in the parking lot?

148 159 No, that you need to worry about -- a Hummer and a Prius...well now that would be against the laws of nature and should not be tolerated.

149 OT - AP (says that) poll says Americans want Democrats to control Congress this fall.

Did I wake up in Stupid this am or is this still my home universe ?  Someone throw me a reality check.

150 Nice multiple smackdown of Maher there. His 2002 schtick on religion was old in 2001. Somebody call Eric Estrada to straighten Maher out.

151 It looks sort of Land Roverish.  I wonder if the design dates from when Ford owned them.

152 I want everyone to know that Islam had nothing to do with my sock error.  Nothing to see here.  All is well.  Move along.

153 162 Consider the source; also consider that the MFM now considers video of a cat wagging its tongue somehow newsworthy.

154

Looks like a Hyundai Santa Fe to me.

155 161 I rest my case from 160.

156 American's ... Democrats ... Democrats ...  Republican's

I see you subscribe to the theory that apostrophes should be apportioned randomly rather than by rules.

157 The comments are pithy.  Pithe on everything else.

158 The grille, for starters.

159 Actual vodka news and I have to go to FreeRepublic to find out about it? I think I can see how this day is going to be shaping up and I don't much like it.

http://tinyurl.com/34w5npk

160 Jon Cryer shouldn't even open his mouth unless it's to apologize for Superman IV.

161 S.E. Cupp is hot

162 Best line: Even respected, intelligent students from normal, sensible backgrounds are vodka eyeballing.

163 The world would be a place fit for heros is a half ton of loose bricks were precariously suspended over Bill Maher. 

164 I just wish they imported some of these.

165 In the spirit of smack down Saturday heres a vid of some nice push back to Al (I'm melting ) Gores speaking engagement in Tenn.http://tinyurl.com/2ehhqvt

166 The not-so-militant atheist has a nice rack.  She can stay on the island - I'll make it my project to save her.  I'm a giver like that.

167 I wish it would quit raining; I have a backlog of outside chores to do.

168 Or these, actually, even though they carry all the typical Limey automotive hexes.

169

Jon Cryer shouldn't even open his mouth unless it's to apologize for Superman IV.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 15, 2010 01:01 PM (P33XN)

He should apologize for every fucking thing he did in the '80's and then hoist himself upon a sword.

170 146, Scientists do not argue that our Universe came from nothing. Instead it is hypothesized that our Universe came from energy that already existed. Accepting that our Universe came from something else and that that something else was very different from our Universe does not involve magical thinking. It just means we are learning more and more as time goes by. Natural processes are required to be mundane, nor bound by preconceived notions as to what is fantastical and what is reasonable. As for the Afterlife, I refuse to believe things simply because they comfort me.

171 Sit on a potato pan, Otis: "Bunch of trained seals."

Yep. Probably the most sycophantic audience in media. Talk about "religious." Maher's set is as cultish as any religion, their messiah a condescending, misinformed buffoon.

172

186 That beggars the question: and from where did the energy come from?

As for the afterlife or lack thereof -- I suppose I'll find out in good time.

173 188 I would define him as an obnoxiously smirky, little twerp.  His audience are a bunch of trained seals though, but what else is new?

174 Bill Maher is an ugly Mo-Fo that would still be a virgin if not "famous" Actually, having money is the only reason he has had sex.
Poor goat.

175 186 eman:  stop trying to suck up to my new girl Cupp.

Seriously, I'm in the same boat.  Read David Horowitz's book on his own mortality sometime (can't remember the title right now) - it's hits you where you live (and someday won't). 

I've been an atheist Objectivist since my teens and I can't say it's in any way comforting, for all that it's what I believe.  That's why I can't understand the anger and hostility so many Libertarian atheist Reason mag-types bring to the table when discussing religion.  If you don't believe, what's your beef ?  That's what tells me most atheists are rebelling against God rather than simply disbelieving him - a sort of metaphysical adolescence.  That also explains their over-the-top irrationality and emotion about the issue.

176 186, oops make that "not required"

177 182 The not-so-militant atheist has a nice rack.  She can stay on the island - I'll make it my project to save her.  I'm a giver like that.
Posted by: societyis2blame

You should see her on red eye! Holy Moley!

cripes...I don't know how to use tiny url....just put the two parts together

that didn't work...ok, tinyurl is not that hard
http://tinyurl.com/2aruesp

178 193, Yep, my beliefs are mine and if other folks believe other stuff, ok, no biggie.

179 ...and thus Monty did plant his garden. And yea, though the mucus ran as floodwaters and tears ran in freshets down his cheeks, he did plant the lilies and the columbine and the azalea. The neighbors looked upon the flower-filled garden that yestermorn had been but dirt, and were satisfied. Then did Monty come into the house and lie upon his pallet, dreaming of the sweet embrace of death which endeth his suffering.

180 197 Congratulations on planting the garden; take it the allergies are acting up?

181 take it the allergies are acting up? A wee mite. Yes indeed.

182 IN more bad lefties news: Law & Order Cancelled: Bush & Cheney Walk http://tinyurl.com/26tpqxg

183 Monty, diphenhydramine is your friend.

184 What are you taking for it?

185
Then did Monty come into the house and lie upon his pallet, dreaming of the sweet embrace of death which endeth his suffering.

Posted by: Monty at May 15, 2010 01:27 PM (O3eFQ)

Watch a Jon Cryer movie. If that doesnt get you to eat a bullet nothing will.

186 What are you taking for it? Blondes.

187 176 S.E. Cupp is hot

Posted by: logprof at May 15, 2010 01:01 PM (Mmw0q)

I'll say it again  PAB > SE Cup.  all. damned. day. long.

188 204  Well, I've heard that for some they work better than brunettes and redheads -- allergies do not afflict everyone in the same way after all.

189 Law & Order used to be a badass show. Then the Left Virus struck. Freekin' zombies now.

190 Is PAB still on?

191 208 Is PAB still on?

Posted by: Skookumchuk at May 15, 2010 01:34 PM (btzPD)

She's been on redeye a number of times lately

192 Monty: "...and thus Monty did plant his garden."

You know we have illegal aliens for that sort of thing. It's why they're here doing jobs you shouldn't do.

193 The thing I don't get about militant atheists is that the same in-your-face proselytizing that they accuse Christians of (sometimes justly) is what they themselves are doing, and much more often on TV.

Relax Bill, and maybe you can be as happy as S.E.

194 Monty; You get azaleas to grown up there in the great white North?

195 My hay-fever is actually a little better now. Mornings are usually the worst for some reason -- maybe because my sinuses are all filled with crud when I wake up which gives me one of those vice-gripper sinus headaches. It's always better for me to get up and doing when I feel like this; staying in bed only makes it worse. OTC meds don't seem to help much. What I have isn't an actual allergy; it's just a hypersenstivity to mold and pollen. Pollen counts go up (especially tree-pollen), and I can count on a couple of days of dripping misery. It is a pretty day out, though.

196 Monty; You get azaleas to grown up there in the great white North? I started them inside about six weeks ago. I'm usually able to get my garden in by the last week of April; it's been a pretty chilly spring even for Minnesota this year.

197 211 It is a bit hypocritical imho.

198 Mayor Booker is an Anti-Semitic asshole.  I have first hand experience with his hatred of Jews. He's another pro-Pali black politician.  Nothing new with Mr. Booker.

199 And to all you Morons who worship at the later of PAB;

she has her own web site now:

http://tinyurl.com/234wkbx

200 Woody Allen.
The only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself, and I'm not the first person to say this or the most articulate person on it. It was said by Nietzsche, it was said by Freud, it was said by Eugene O'Neill. One must have one's delusions to live. You look at life too honestly and clearly, life does become unbearable, because it's a pretty grim enterprise, you must admit.

201 Started them inside?  We are talking about shrubs right?

202 So far - red and yellow tomatoes, romas, yellow bell peppers and eight jalapeño plants in upside down planters.  First time for those - we'll see if they work out.

203 So "SE" doesn't stand for "size E"?  Bummer.

204
speaking of allergies...

one of the radio talkers was talking yesterday about a NYT piece about how almost all allergies are bullshit, something like 90%, if I remember rightly.

Anyway, I didn't read it, but I'd guess the conclusion was that most 'allergies' are psychosomatic.

205 As far as atheism goes: it's just as much a religious belief system as any other. It's no more grounded in fact (or lack thereof) than Christianity or Judaism or Islam. An atheist expresses a belief in the unprovable, and depnds upon faith rather than facts to maintain this belief. On a somewhat related note: you can only imagine the fights I get into with my Baptist brethren over my belief in New Synthesis evolution. But these arguments certainly do a lot to make me understand what I believe and what I do not believe, and why I believe (or do not believe).

206 213  Excercise is probably the best recourse -- there isn't much a person in your situation can do other than get the junk loosened up and hopefully expelled (I know, gross, but then again, this thread is ostensibly about Bill Maher and now we have Woody Allen mentioned, so perhaps phlegm isn't so verboten and icky).

207
Another clip of JAW DROP.

Not than it's a surprise that Nanny State Pelosi is an admitted welfare-state hugger.

208 220 I have four entire flats of summer veggies that cannot be put out yet, thanks to this turn in the weather.  This happens every year; you'd think I'd learn by now.

209 We are talking about shrubs right? Eventually, if you let them grow and have a long-enough growing season. Mine aren't that big. I grew them from suckers I got at the nursery. This is the first year I've planted them (I miss the south, and azaleas make me think of Charlotte). I'm not sure how they're going to do in this climate, but I'll give 'em a shot.

210 Posted by: societyis2blame at May 15, 2010 01:17 PM (7ZyYf)

--Amen!

211 Michelle Wie made the cut, but shot a 76, today.  Why does Bush hate Korean people?

212
As far as atheism goes: it's just as much a religious belief system as any other. It's no more grounded in fact (or lack thereof) than Christianity or Judaism or Islam. An atheist expresses a belief in the unprovable, and depnds upon faith rather than facts to maintain this belief.

On a somewhat related note: you can only imagine the fights I get into with my Baptist brethren over my belief in New Synthesis evolution. But these arguments certainly do a lot to make me understand what I believe and what I do not believe, and why I believe (or do not believe).

Posted by: Monty at May 15, 2010 01:44 PM (O3eFQ)

One only needs to be reminded of Christoph. His militant brand of atheism was evangelical in nature and he felt an overwhelming need to gain converts and turn the subject to religion on every thread. The irony is, he was the very thing he professed to hate.

213
lauraw wrote a poem about weeds

y'all need to ask her about it...every time you see her.

214 Here in the Pee Enn Dubya, azaleas and rhodies do great.  Magnolias, too.  Camelias, not so much.

215

Just spent an hour hacking back an unruly bouganvilla and I feel like I've been thru a shredder. Weapons-grade thorns but it keeps the neighbors on their side of the fence line.

216
We are talking about shrubs right?

No, we talkin 'bout practice. Practice? We talking about practice? Practice. We talking about practice. What are we talking about...practice?

217 The irony is, he was the very thing he professed to hate.

Posted by: Blazer at May 15, 2010 01:47 PM (t72+4)

Well, he is Canadian, so self-loathing is a feature, not a bug.

218 Anyone who can sit through 8 minutes of Mahar, even for SE Cupp, is tougher than I am, I couldn't get past about 3 minutes. What an ass.

219 Here in the Pee Enn Dubya, azaleas and rhodies do great.  Magnolias, too.  Camelias, not so much.

Posted by: Skookumchuk at May 15, 2010 01:48 PM (btzPD)

Don't forget about moss.  Moss does very well here, too.

220

Just spent an hour hacking back an unruly bouganvilla and I feel like I've been thru a shredder. Weapons-grade thorns but it keeps the neighbors on their side of the fence line.

Posted by: Tommy Gunnar at May 15, 2010 01:49 PM (rQTdM)

Almost sounds like you had sex with Janeane Garofalo.

221

had sex with Janeane Garofalo.

Maybe, but the bouganvilla smells a lot better. God, what a harpy.

222 233 - Yeah, we have some strange, green, fence-climbing shrub with small white flowers and razor wire inch long thorns.  Wear a Carhart jacket when cutting it back and it protects as much as a cotton t-shirt. 

223 Belief in God is an intuitive belief, you either possess it or you do not. I have never begrudged an atheist his beliefs, because I too sought an intellectual answer to God in the face of tangible evidence that seemingly does not exist.

My ego and my sense of reasoning and logic simply would not permit an intuitive belief. Fortunately, thru a set of miracles and the last recorded statement of Christ I was set free. In the end, letting people believe what they want is respectful. I have nothing to gain from imposing my beliefs nor seeking like minded individuals to wag tails with. It is a beautiful place to be and far removed from the world wherein people like Bill Maher sneer at others. In fact, that's one of the reasons I can't stand the dude.

Saddling up the big six carb beast. Y'all have a great day while I lean thru the pine scented turns...

224 This is the first year I've planted them (I miss the south, and azaleas make me think of Charlotte). I'm not sure how they're going to do in this climate, but I'll give 'em a shot.

Checking my book, BH&G Complete Guide To Gardening, all of the different varieties call for zones 5 - 8. Most of MN is Zone 4 with a small part in the South as Zone 5.

I doubt if they are going to do very well that far North.

225 237: Moss does very well here, too.

Yeah, when we were first married we moved into a small beater of a house with a moss covered roof.  All we could afford.  I went up to check it out and it felt like walking on a mattress.

And an empty Jack Daniels bottle in the back yard.  And - a dessicated Christmas tree, still on the wooden stand.

226
God, gardening...

and guns?

227 217 ...who worship at the -->later<-- of PAB ------- Innocent typo or Freudian slip?

228 Still raining here; I think I'll just go ahead and get some stuff done in the rain or in spite of it, or whatever.  Otherwise I will make excuses and accomplish nothing all day...blech.

229 New Ad

230 244: It is a nice magazine in some ways, though rather pretentious.

231 Innocent typo or Freudian slip?

LOL, that was supposed to be alter so I'll go with dyslexia.

232

I'll say it again  PAB > SE Cup.  all. damned. day. long.

Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Professional Debate Team at May 15, 2010 01:32 PM (erIg9)

--PAB is spoken for. S.E. is still up for grabs. Not my grabs, but somebody else's.

233 Moss roofs are not that bad, actually.  It's when you try to remove the moss that you get in trouble.

234

Don't forget about moss.  Moss does very well here, too.

Posted by: Editor at May 15, 2010 01:50 PM (YX6i/)

--I'm starting on my lawn moss beginning yesterday.  From my house it looks like the spray I put on is working already, but I can;t wait to take a closer look.

235 Hey, Uncle, how goes the XS this weekend?

236 186 146,

Scientists do not argue that our Universe came from nothing. Instead it is hypothesized that our Universe came from energy that already existed.

Already existed?  Why did it exist?  What was it's source?  Where was it's beginning? What set it into motion?   I'm not saying that atheists believe in "magical thinking".  They have a legitimate point of view that I happen to completely disagree with.  My point is that it is just as easy to make that accusation of atheists as it is those who believe in a higher power.   

237 Editor:  My first roof replacement.  Highly educational.

238 Alas, there's no video on the PAB sire unless I'm not looking on the right places.

239 Moss roofs are not that bad, actually.

Around here all the moss is full of red bugs. That could make for an itchy roof.

240 Alas, there's no video on the PAB sire unless I'm not looking on the right places.

u-tube is your friend there. She has a ton on u-tube.

241
Dagnabit!

I'm one of you. I really am. Build the danged fence! Fuck those illegal bastards! See? I'm just like you.

242 she has her own web site now:

No topless photos, though. Dang.

243 BTW; she does have links to a couple of videos under the links tab.

244 256 Alas, there's no video on the PAB ---->sire<---- unless -------- Hmm. Another suspicious PAB typo.

245 Already existed? Why did it exist? What was it's source? Where was it's beginning? What set it into motion? You're thinking in terms of cause-and-effect, which is only an artifact of a universe where time moves in one direction. There's no reason other dimensions/planes/externalities would have to work that way. "Time" (or "distance"; same thing) only have meaning in our physical universe. They are not (necessarily) a universal property. A Christian believes that God is omniscient and omnipotent; but this is only a way of saying that he can exist in all times at once, and does not experience time as a continuum. He sees it all at once, like a snapshot -- Alpha and Omega, beginning and ending. Beings in other realities or universes might experience reality in a completely different way, and not be bound by the arrow of time as we are.

246 A good George Jonas take

247 Is Glenn Beck really LDS? Whooaaahhh.

248

WTF ?

249 And in other good Hollywood news, Wanda Sykes' show has also been cancelled.

250 Gee, Blazer, how about a Not Safe For Cheeks warning for your link?!

251 #266  How about a ghey warning please next time, Blazer?

252

My seedlings are up! Tomato, Pepper, Eggplant,  and Baby Greens.

Can't get them in, uncovered, until the 15th of June...F'n Montucky!?!?

I love the Garden, but hate the Northern Tier- High Stakes planting game.  I've had hard frosts up to the 24th of June, here.

 

253 Leave Blazer ALONE!!!!

254

Yea, but can they do that with a pc tower or a desktop ?

255 Unbelievable

256 Isn't today Armed Forces Day?  I'm surprised DinT din't put a post. 

257
266 That's why Algore invented the 'tubes.

258 Glad I didn't click on Blazer's link.  Thanks for the warning, everyone.

259 105

Spanish Inquisition

Country is over run by Muslims. Christians/europeans retake Spain. Said Spanish want to make sure all the muslims are outed. Seems reasonable to me. I wonder if the jews were sympathizing with the muslims? Sounds far fetched until you look at how the american jews are leaning today.

Posted by: dagny at May 15, 2010 12:02 PM (v+Vt0)

Actually I believe even this is wrong dagny.  At the time of the main Inquisition Spain was a Catholic country.  There were Jews there as well and the king didn't like that.  So he forced them to convert.  The pope negated their conversion and said they could remain jewish.  Some did choose to remain Catholic though.  And it was these converts that the Inquisition began with targetting.  Because people accused them of being phony Catholics and actually remaining as Jews.

260 AoSHQ Rule 1743.2 - Never click on Blazer's llinks while eating.

261 OT: Gail Collins' NYT article reaches a whole new level of hypocrisy.  She complains that gun rights supporters are forcing their views on the entire nation, and why can't we just be federalists and allow the poor liberals to have their states with tough gun regs.  But federalism for health care and every other liberal policy? Of course not.

262 AoSHQ Rule 1743.2 - Never click on Blazer's llinks while eating.

Posted by: garrett at May 15, 2010 02:37 PM (bsTaG)

Yeah, and 1743.2(a) is Never click on chemjeff's links when he's been drinking.

263 265 Is Glenn Beck really LDS? Whooaaahhh.

Posted by: dr kill at May 15, 2010 02:23 PM (w9bVp)

--Someone's a little slow on the uptake. . . .

264

Gail Collins is proof that the NYT doesnt have a good dental plan. Lady looks like her favorite pastime is chewing on bricks.

265

Yeah, and 1743.2(a) is Never click on chemjeff's links when he's been drinking.

Posted by: Editor at May 15, 2010 02:42 PM (YX6i/)

--Is that about the Lemon Party stuff?

266

I am off to go hunt/pick Morel's. 

Thinking like a Mushroom, starting in 3...2...1...

267 Damn, American Thinker rip The Pacific today.

I'm glad I passed on it, and now I doubt I'll bother watching it at all.

268 Hey now, I didn't actually link to Lemon Party, just a bunch of other lemons

269 Never click on Blazer's links while eating.
Especially if it involves buns.

270 One must have one's delusions to live. You look at life too honestly and clearly, life does become unbearable, because it's a pretty grim enterprise, you must admit.

Posted by: snapdragon at May 15, 2010 01:40 PM (5Etcj)

I'm sure Mia Farrow has some choice comments about Woody's view of life

271 A little help for a moron, please. Two things are bothering me. First, I know you guys make fun of me, but I can't remember exactly why. I know I woke up sober one Saturday morning and said "Sunrise? Never heard of it", or something equally brilliant. I just can't remember the exact wording. More importantly, why can't I get Captain Kangaroo on Tee Veeee-eeeeeeee?!?!? Thanks,

272 "Damn, American Thinker rip The Pacific today."

And they use the word "fascist" awkwardly.

273 And in other good Hollywood news, Wanda Sykes' show has also been cancelled.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 15, 2010 02:24 PM (7b1Uc)

That is makes me laugh more than her standup act ever did

274 Hey now, I didn't actually link to Lemon Party, just a bunch of other lemons

Posted by: chemjeff at May 15, 2010 02:58 PM (wbr+

How are we supposed to know that?  It's not like we're going to click the link. 

275 Scientists do not argue that our Universe came from nothing. Instead it is hypothesized that our Universe came from energy that already existed. Already existed? Why did it exist? What was it's source? Where was it's beginning? What set it into motion? I'm not saying that atheists believe in "magical thinking". They have a legitimate point of view that I happen to completely disagree with. My point is that it is just as easy to make that accusation of atheists as it is those who believe in a higher power. Posted by: Reggie1971 Yes, there are unanswered questions. It is just as easy to make the accusation, but not as easy to support it. Religions make use of the supernatural to explain and promote their narratives and creeds, science does not. Science uses only natural forces. The fact that science has not answered all questions and can not answer all questions is not proof that science and religion use the same thinking or tools.

276

Hey now, I didn't actually link to Lemon Party, just a bunch of other lemons

Posted by: chemjeff at May 15, 2010 02:58 PM (wbr+

How are we supposed to know that?  It's not like we're going to click the link. 

Posted by: Editor at May 15, 2010 03:07 PM (YX6i/)

I did. you could tell me beforehand that clicking on a link will cause me to tear my eyeballs out of my skull with a claw hammer and I'll still click on it. Must be the masochist in me.

277 Yes, there are unanswered questions. I heard Kip Thorne speak about the origins of the universe using the analogy of living inside a closed box -- we can only know what is inside the box. What's outside the box is forever beyond our ken. Even the concept of "outside" is a hypothetical on our part; we assume that there is an outside because we are "inside". But there is no way, even in principle, to tell for sure. We don't know; we cannot know. Science cannot tell us because our science comes from the world inside the box, not outside of it. Causality, the arrow of time, and the physics of energy and matter, are of our universe. These concepts only hold meaning in this universe. (And even now we might be fundamentally mistaken about some core concepts like gravity.) To ask "what came before our universe?" is a nonsense question for this reason -- the concept of "before" only has meaning if the arrow of time moves in one direction. And our concept of "time" didn't begin until the Big Bang. Don't think of the Big Bang creating a Universe by spewing matter into an existing void, by the way; this is incorrect. Space and time did not exist in any meaningful sense until the Big Bang created it. Think instead of a balloon inflating very suddenly, creating both time and space with it. Our universe is like the membrane of that ballon (ignore the air inside it for right now). In the same way two-dimensional space on the membrane of a balloon is affected by inflation, so were we affected in three-dimensional space by the Big Bang.

278

147 Some rather pleasant viewing for fellow morons:

I no shit was going post something asking who the hot chick was in all the ads. You rock Reggie.

279 Isn't it time for "Saturday Afternoon Stupid"?

280 253 Hey, Uncle, how goes the XS this weekend?

Posted by: Tommy Gunnar at May 15, 2010 02:03 PM (rQTdM)

wheels are broken down, cut out all the rusted spokes and am done wire wheeling the front rim, getting them prepped for flat black powder coat. hubs and lower fork legs are up next. going to cut the frame tomorrow I think, and order up a tc bros hardtail.

281 21 What is that burning at ground zero?

Posted by: carnac the magnificent at May 15, 2010 10:42 AM (zIUsq)

 

I hope its that fucking mosque next door.

282

I am off to go hunt/pick Morel's. 

Thinking like a Mushroom, starting in 3...2...1...

 

Be vewy vewy quiet!!!

283

297

Any theory on what the move was that inflated it? The first cause so to speak?

284

You know, I almost felt bad making fun of Uncle Walty after he died and wishing that he was forced to nibble on the barbed cock of Satan for all eternity, but after the recent newest revelations that he was indeed actively helping the NVA I am dissapointed with myself that I didnt write even more unsavory and disgusting shit about that cockholster..

285 Am I wrong for assuming that when a woman has "Cupp" in their name, theres a physical expectation?

286
Am I wrong for assuming that when a woman has "Cupp" in their name, theres a physical expectation?

Posted by: CAC at May 15, 2010 03:31 PM (Gr1V1)

2 Girls 1 Cupp ?

287 Major OT, but I'm stationed in Baghdad and Mary Katherine Ham was visiting and was saying hello/interviewing troops this evening (it's 10:30 at night here).  She couldn't have been nicer.

288 God, I wanna cup S.E. Cupps breastssss in  my hands so fuckin' bad.

289

#306

I was thinking of the more mammarian kind, fecal matter is expected already with Maher...

290
Major OT, but I'm stationed in Baghdad and Mary Katherine Ham was visiting and was saying hello/interviewing troops this evening (it's 10:30 at night here).  She couldn't have been nicer.

Posted by: Matt at May 15, 2010 03:32 PM (78lTe)

Thats awesome. Stay frosty and stay safe brother and thanks for what you're doing.

291 Any theory on what the move was that inflated it? The first cause so to speak? Posted by: dagny Check out something called M Theory. Crashing branes. Yes, branes.

292

I was thinking of the more mammarian kind, fecal matter is expected already with Maher...

Posted by: CAC at May 15, 2010 03:33 PM (Gr1V1)

Amen brother.

293

I was thinking of the more mammarian kind, fecal matter is expected already with Maher...

Posted by: CAC at May 15, 2010 03:33 PM (Gr1V1)

*ahem*

294 Any theory on what the move was that inflated it? The first cause so to speak? All kinds of theories. But we don't know for sure, and we'll probably never know for sure. Our science stops at the moment the Big Bang occurs. It is an artifact of the universe we live in. Anything outside of that event is unknowable even in principle (at least, in a quantitative sense). Some theorize that our universe was caused by a perturbation in "quantum foam", or that we were the endpoint of a newly-formed quantum string. There are physicists who theorize that we live inside a holographic universe -- that our universe is just a projection in the same way that your shadow is a projection of yourself. But as I said: it's impossible to know for sure unless we travel "outside"...which we cannot do.

295 Interesting when you open the next thread above:

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296

Because people accused them of being phony Catholics and actually remaining as Jews.

Well, no shit. If someone forced me to convert, I would remain whatever I was beforehand.

The inquisition did not start out targeting jews but rather heretics. There had been huge amounts of heretical problems from first century christianity onward. In fact, had the church not put themselves in a vunerable position it would still not have been separated by heretics.

297 Heh

San Diego Asks Arizonans To Overlook Its Immigration Posturing

San DiegoÂ’s tourism industry leaders are in panic, and some politicians too, as some Arizonans cancel their summer trips due to the San Diego City Council and School Board condemning ArizonaÂ’s illegal immigrant enforcement law.

Tourism officials are advertising in Arizona an open letter urging Arizona residents to overlook local politics and come to San Diego just as they always have to escape Arizona's summer heat.

298 but after the recent newest revelations that he was indeed actively helping the NVA I am dissapointed with myself that I didnt write even more unsavory and disgusting shit about that cockholster..

Posted by: Blazer at May 15, 2010 03:30 PM (t72+4)

It's never too late.

299 Interesting when you open the next thread above:

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Posted by: Skookumchuk

Like Purple Avenger said "(yo, Ace dude - about 80% of the disk space is being consumed by comment spam!!!)"

Then again, could just be a coincidence, or not, but I'm going with the spam.

300 Heh, part deux

Austin's AZ boycott spawns backlash

AZ immigration law supporters plan rally in Austin

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Thousands of people are swearing off spending money in the Austin after the City Council passed a resolution to ban city travel to Arizona based on their new immigration law.

301
but after the recent newest revelations that he was indeed actively helping the NVA I am dissapointed with myself that I didnt write even more unsavory and disgusting shit about that cockholster..

Posted by: Blazer at May 15, 2010 03:30 PM (t72+4)

It's never too late.

Posted by: Editor at May 15, 2010 03:52 PM (YX6i/)

I hope he's the meat in a Merv Griffin/ Ted Kennedy sandwich right now.

Hows that?

302 *ahem*

No offense Sandra but again I was going for the mammarian kind, not "I married David Duke's retarded cousin"

 

on an unrelated note I just found that MST3K's Future War is available full-length on google, so after watching Maher's horrible attempts at humor I need a good 90 minute shot of actual comedy

303

Yes that's the medieval inquisitions.  The Spanish Inquisition though is the primary focus.  And that came about because of the coversos

Here's an article you might find some interest in reading.  I do believe you can consider this guy something of a real historian rather than a liberal revisionist.  He's got a few National Review Online articles too including one covering this topic only much shorter.  He's also got articles and books concerning the crusades.

304
I hope he's the meat in a Merv Griffin/ Ted Kennedy sandwich right now.

Hows that?

Posted by: Blazer at May 15, 2010 03:55 PM (t72+4)

A warm up.  I know you can do better.

305 Comments seem to be broken on the new 'Top Headline Comments' post...

306 Sorry, Dave.  It's the new Canadian filter.

307 Since the headline thread is broken (this blog is so fail) I'll post this here:

Business insider is reporting a quiet 23 billion dollar bailout of our unionized public school teacher overlords.

308

 @327 Sorry, Dave.  It's the new Canadian filter.

Aww...it was just a damn hocky game.... 

309 What's wrong with the new top headlines comment thingy?

310

Unclefacts, while you correctly surmised that the Crusades are a "reason" for Islamic terrorism, never forget that some moral relativists appear to believe that the settling of Canaan is the reason for it. 

 

Posted by: unknown jane at May 15, 2010 11:59 AM (5/yRG)

True, but I was more thinking along the lines that leftists point to the crusades as an attack on Christianity by using them as a comparison to modern day jihadism by the islamic terrorists. When in fact they are completely dissimilar.

311 kbdabear

Aside from dirty, dank beer holes in the wall and fecal matter spring fed natural pools and one over boated lake, party on Austin?

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Thousands of people are swearing off spending money in the Austin after the City Council passed a resolution to ban city travel to Arizona based on their new immigration law.

312 Purple Avenger was going through and deleting all the comments spam over the last 6 years or so to save disk space...maybe it broke something?  Maybe he did a Select-->Inverse and nuked all the comments instead?

313
Maybe he did a Select-->Inverse and nuked all the comments instead?

Posted by: CanaDave at May 15, 2010 04:19 PM (s9lI2)

It's the only way to be sure.

314 Somebody's gonna have to go out there with a remote terminal and patch in manually...

315 The Muslim pirating of European coastal settlements and their white slave trade started the ire motivation to Crusade in response.

There was an interesting historical article this week, either American Thinker or The American Spectator, debunking the contemporary media fallacy designating Muslims with the cultural golden era postulated in the 20th century by the leftist liberal Marxist revisionists of history.

316 hey, does anyone have that link from earlier in the week about the 'award-winning' 'energy-neutral' house that used more therms than the 1950s house it replaced?  tyia.

317
Somebody's gonna have to go out there with a remote terminal and patch in manually...

Posted by: CanaDave at May 15, 2010 04:24 PM (s9lI2)

Well, it aint gonna be me man !

318 That new post is like Obama's policies: full of FAIL!

319 I can't let you do that, Dave.

320 I'm the only one who can do that....cause i'm a robot....why did they build me to be so ugly, anyway?

321

Well, it aint gonna be me man !
Posted by: Pvt. Hudson at May 15, 2010 04:26 PM (t72+4)

I'll go...I'm the only one qualified to remote pilot the ship anyway...

322 Ever like a song but when you listen to its stupid lyrics?

323 I like COOL CHANGE, but damn those lyrics are fuggin' goofy.

324 Bill Maher is a pseudo-intellectual.  He is actually a fool charading as an intellectual.  Who does Bill Maher hate more than this guy?  That makes me like him even more.  The enemy of Bill Maher is my friend.

325 The albatross and the whales they are my brothers. WTF?

326
and the whales they are my brothers.

WTF?

Posted by: Mr Whoopi at May 15, 2010 04:35 PM (uFokq)

Mine too.

327 345 Ever like a song but when you listen to its stupid lyrics?
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Swan swan hummingbird hurrah
We are all free here
What noisy cats are we

328 hey, does anyone have that link from earlier in the week about the 'award-winning' 'energy-neutral' house that used more therms than the 1950s house it replaced?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/ 2010/04/28/ zero_energy_house_not_so_much /print.html

329 I can't help somehow liking C cups and still thinking C Cupps is not doing us any good at all. There's no necessary reason for conservatism to join hands with stupid and fraudulent in order to regain the White House and Congress. Americans want to be conservative and believe themselves to be conservative, which is normally kind of winning combination; but they also know that these days much of conservatism is singing kumbayah with stupid, and they dislike that so much it overcomes their natural inclinations. Making them look at how stupid and fraudulent liberals can be is worthy work, but not if the chosen way is to go stupider and more fraudulent. Calling Obie a hypocritical liberal accommodationist sell-out is accurate; calling him a commie and a nazi and a moron and a plant is stupid and fraudulent. Worse: it doesn't work. And worst of all, it backfires. One of the reasons I really like Ace is because of his open-eyed realism about the news from the fronts, eg: Afghan insurgency rebel chieftan smoked by multilateral culturally-sensitive cooperative counterinsurgency and drone-delivered war head, but mostly drone-delivered war head. C Cupps, on the other hand, is all about combining some unarguably good stuff, tits and ass, with a fraudulent bullshit premise and an idiotic set of conceits. I was going to call it moronic, but it doesn't rise to that level and I'm not looking to hurt any feelings.

330 43 S.E. Cupp talks and writes like a high school girl. I heard her on the radio recently being interviewed by a conservative host about her book, and she was a total embarrassment to the conservative movement.  This affectation of using her initials instead of her first name is also cringeworthy.

Posted by: Never Mind at May 15, 2010 10:57 AM (GCEkp)

You're an ugly woman, a gay man, or a liberal.  Which is it?

I have to agree with Never. SE isn't doing anything for me. She looks and acts like a hot, dumb chick who is trying very hard to appear smart.

Plus, I think she's a lipstick lesbian and trying to hide that too.

331 why did I watch this? Now my brain is going to hurt all day.

332 I admire Bill's profound happiness and positive attitude. It shines out from him like warm sun rays. Is that a by-product of militant ego-based atheism? Can I achieve such greatness? After I do, I'll preach my religion everywhere I go so people know the way.

What a dick.

333

S.E. Cupp's rack varies in size from one appearance to the next. That's odd.

334 I suspect that when people claim to be atheists, they have experienced or witnessed a horrible tragedy for which they have blamed God. Hopefully, they will experience or witness a miracle which will bring them back to God.

335

363 I suspect that when people claim to be atheists, they have experienced or witnessed a horrible tragedy for which they have blamed God. Hopefully, they will experience or witness a miracle which will bring them back to God.

I suspect that when people claim to be religious, they have experienced or witnessed a horrible tragedy which has made reality too much to bear. Hopefully, they will experience or witness something comforting which will allow to return to reality.