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oldviolin

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Posted: Aug 30, 2010 - 5:07pm
ScottFromWyoming wrote: Rant of the Week! Freak of nature.

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Posted: Aug 30, 2010 - 5:05pm
Rant of the Week!

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Posted: Aug 30, 2010 - 4:59pm

miamizsun wrote:

Hmmmph. I suppose my hackles were raised un petit peu when at about 23 seconds in the stentorious voice over mentioned that "faith has driven us to become the greatest people the world has ever known"

Oh, OK then.

{#Yell}

Hey guys, yes you, the people who think that "faith has driven us to become the greatest people the world has ever known", we-ell, there are quiet a few of us, not many, just a few billion of us who don't quite agree? Those of us who've created the classical myths, calculated the diameter of the Earth thousands of years ago using geometry a big stick and two shadows, honed the science of mathematics in the middle east - introduced the concept of 'zero', fermented wine 5000 years ago in the city of Shiraz, plotted the passage of the stars across the skies before most of you even think the universe was created and on, and on, and on.

FFS, your biggest heroes, the Pilgrim Fathers, wouldn't have survived if it wasn't for the fact that the idiots who crammed themselves into one tiny vessel, the Mayflower, because the other vessel they chartered, the Speedwell, was such a pile of shite that it couldn't leave Plymouth, met a native American, whose name escapes me, but I'm mid-rant, google it yourself, spoke English on account of having been in London for many years, and helped them survive. I believe turkeys may have been involved.

They had no agricultural implements to speak of, they had little fishing tackle although they did, apparently and somewhat bizarrely, have lots of nice shoes.

It may be more appropriate that Thanksgiving should be in honour of the well-travelled local who saved their arses (I'm still not going to google his name because I'm determined to remember it myself). A most fitting example of multi-national and multi-cultural understanding and co-operation.

/rantfromasentientmemberofthehumanrace

samiyam

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Posted: Aug 30, 2010 - 4:58pm
Rupert Murdoch For Fuhrer!

islander

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Posted: Aug 30, 2010 - 4:46pm
rosedraws wrote: you got an extra "m" in there. < snork > that would be in "questions that need not be asked".

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Posted: Aug 30, 2010 - 4:37pm
islander wrote: Isn't Glenn Beck a Mormon? you got an extra "m" in there.

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Posted: Aug 30, 2010 - 4:34pm
islander wrote: Huh, not what I was expecting either. Isn't Glenn Beck a Mormon? Why does he get cred w/ the evangelicals but Romney can't? Mitt refuses to show his emotional side. (may be that his magical underwear is too tight)

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Posted: Aug 30, 2010 - 4:29pm
miamizsun wrote: Huh, not what I was expecting either. Isn't Glenn Beck a Mormon? Why does he get cred w/ the evangelicals but Romney can't?

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Posted: Aug 30, 2010 - 3:55pm

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Posted: Aug 30, 2010 - 3:53pm
musik_knut wrote: Not to defend Beck, but what racists rants? Or is this a continuation of the very tiresome and jaded race card in play? Silenced once and for all? Revoke his free speech rights? Again, not to defend Beck but at all costs, I will defend his rights. Perhaps if someone were to suggest you lose yours, you might not hold such a dangerous thought. Then again... Agree.

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Posted: Aug 30, 2010 - 3:52pm
Manbird wrote: Thanks for the flow chart - but I fear this will serve as Beck-campaign literature for some

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Posted: Aug 30, 2010 - 11:41am

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Posted: Aug 19, 2010 - 5:38pm

kurtster wrote:

Glenn Beck Desecrates The Memory Of Martin Luther King

On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King spoke to over 200,000 people from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. He gave what is regarded as one of the most inspiring speeches on behalf of brotherhood, liberty, and the peaceful struggle for equality.

Later this year, on the very same steps, on the anniversary of that historic speech, Glenn Beck will lead his congregation of predominately white followers at a "Restoring Honor" rally...

... Will Beck be permitted to tarnish this anniversary with his exclusionary fear mongering and conspiracy brigades?

This may be just one day in summer, but it is a day that should be reserved for uplifting recollections of our better nature - not the Apocalyptic negativity of racists and enemies of the poor and huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The anniversary of King's "Dream" deserves better than to be desecrated by the detestable likes of Glenn Beck ...

This event should be stopped. He should not be allowed to spew his hatred and racist rants on the very place on the anniversary of one of the most famous speeches in American history. He should be silenced once and for all, he serves no good to mankind.

Not to defend Beck, but what racists rants? Or is this a continuation of the very tiresome and jaded race card in play? Silenced once and for all? Revoke his free speech rights? Again, not to defend Beck but at all costs, I will defend his rights. Perhaps if someone were to suggest you lose yours, you might not hold such a dangerous thought. Then again...

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Posted: Aug 19, 2010 - 3:08pm

kurtster wrote:

Glenn Beck Desecrates The Memory Of Martin Luther King

The other side of the coin of the Mosque circus.

Everyone is entitled to say what they want to say, even if it offends people.

kurtster

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Posted: Aug 19, 2010 - 3:03pm

Glenn Beck Desecrates The Memory Of Martin Luther King

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Posted: Aug 4, 2010 - 9:19am

phineas wrote:

Bah, all three of them — Government®, Business™, Religion© — are corrupt to the core and each feeds off the other. Your calling out of government institutions is accurate. It's also incomplete.

Too bad it couldn't simply be about good governance, profitability based on real accounting, and enlightening spirits to help them grow.

I can agree with this.

Our constitution deals with most of the issues, but we don't uphold or adhere to it.

I'm not very worried about believers in the supernatural taking my justly acquired property by force, they don't have a police dept, military or an agency authorized to use force.

We could have a conversation about what's missing too.

Regards

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Posted: Aug 4, 2010 - 9:18am

miamizsun wrote:

I guess we might say he's attempting to use a popular belief system and a dash of constitution manipulation to square off against a decades long corporatist government takeover.

Will that work for you?

Regards

I meant I just don't believe that Beck has any ideological agenda other than lining his own pockets and/by spreading purposely-divisive opinions and misleading information. Maybe behind it there is a "smaller government" concept - who knows?

-Regards

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Posted: Aug 4, 2010 - 9:18am
phineas wrote: Bah, all three of them — Government®, Business™, Religion© — are corrupt to the core and each feeds off the other. Your calling out of government institutions is accurate. It's also incomplete. Eh, life ees sheet. Get eet over weeth.

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Posted: Aug 4, 2010 - 9:10am
Proclivities wrote: He's not combatting "government". I guess we might say he's attempting to use a popular belief system and a dash of constitution manipulation to square off against a decades long corporatist government takeover. Will that work for you? Regards

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Posted: Aug 4, 2010 - 8:52am
phineas wrote: Bah, all three of them — Government®, Business™, Religion© — are corrupt to the core and each feeds off the other. Your calling out of government institutions is accurate. It's also incomplete. Too bad it couldn't simply be about good governance, profitability based on real accounting, and enlightening spirits to help them grow. Freak.

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