why was the WWII generation the 'greatest' generation? Are we the 'pretty good' generation?


WTF is god's boot camp?

i wonder how many of my neighbors are watching this...the only one i think it could is the 70 year old that lives by himself below me

what is he even talking about?

pacino wrote:yeah, you just support them by rooting on candidates they explicitly and implicitly endorse

The candidates I've wanted to win primaries haven't overlapped much with the ones she has endorsed

Dwight Schrute's Mussolini speech was much better.

we're at a crossroads. you know, you don't see too many crossroads anymore

Fat Bastard arrives

is this scotland or something. THIS IS AMERICA BUDDY GET OUT THE FIDDLE AND START FIDDLIN'

he didnt know how to pay for this...then he decided to promote it on a national news network

Everyone on that stage is at least 60 years old

this isnt even about anything? the thing i can get mad at is that this is wasting everyone's time and using up the mall

That last preacher thanked God for the President. He better watch himself on his way out of there.

jerseyhoya wrote:Is there a more predictable columnist in America than EJ Dionne?

Krauthammer and Will? I guess the Washington Post likes predictable pundits, that way they know they're balanced on the issues.

I thought there was a decent chance Beck would try to fake an assassination attempt on him today. Guess not?

Some of the Teabaggers honor veterans by using the WWII Memorial as a swimming pool.

allentown wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Is there a more predictable columnist in America than EJ Dionne?

Krauthammer and Will? I guess the Washington Post likes predictable pundits, that way they know they're balanced on the issues.

Dionne's seven most recent columns:

"A Party Too Far Right" - About the GOP nominating insurgent right wing extremists
"The Politics of No" - About the GOP refusing to repudiate extremism
"Chris Dodd, The Senate's Happy Warrior"
"Is the GOP shedding a birthright?" - Attacking Republicans for being too extreme in wanting to repeal birthright citizenship
"The auto industry lives"
"In American politics, stupidity is the name of the game" - Attacking Republicans for their adherence to tax cuts, as well as the political system in general
"Enough right-wing propaganda" - Attacking Fox News, Glenn Beck and other right wing extremists

We have 41 Senate seats, 170ish seats in the House, and every goddamn Dionne column is about how evil the right wing is.

I don't think Will is predictable for a columnist, at all.

I think I'm in trouble.

I posted a quote from MLK that pretty much goes against everything Glenn Beck stands for (a quote about a nation needing to put more money into uplifting its people than pumping up its military), and this was met with a response from someone who goes to my church against what MLK said. My whole point, really, was that Glenn Beck was trying to link himself to MLK in the aftermath of "whoops, that speech was really on that day?" and really had no idea what he was talking about.

So I responded, essentially saying some stuff to try to smooth it over.

Enter one of my former seminary classmates, who makes me look like a hardcore righty. He yells at my church person, who yells back. I'm going to have an interesting conversation tomorrow morning, I think...

Rev_Beezer wrote:I think I'm in trouble.

I posted a quote from MLK that pretty much goes against everything Glenn Beck stands for (a quote about a nation needing to put more money into uplifting its people than pumping up its military), and this was met with a response from someone who goes to my church against what MLK said. My whole point, really, was that Glenn Beck was trying to link himself to MLK in the aftermath of "whoops, that speech was really on that day?" and really had no idea what he was talking about.

So I responded, essentially saying some stuff to try to smooth it over.

Enter one of my former seminary classmates, who makes me look like a hardcore righty. He yells at my church person, who yells back. I'm going to have an interesting conversation tomorrow morning, I think...

Was this facebook? My advice--delete your account.

Yeah, this was Facebook. I try hard not to say anything too engaging there, because you never know what might happen. I failed at it this time.

I'm really thinking about getting rid of my account. We'll see.

Rev_Beezer wrote:I think I'm in trouble.

I posted a quote from MLK that pretty much goes against everything Glenn Beck stands for (a quote about a nation needing to put more money into uplifting its people than pumping up its military), and this was met with a response from someone who goes to my church against what MLK said. My whole point, really, was that Glenn Beck was trying to link himself to MLK in the aftermath of "whoops, that speech was really on that day?" and really had no idea what he was talking about.

So I responded, essentially saying some stuff to try to smooth it over.

after the fact I know Rev, but I could a told you this tactic has a dismayingly high failure rate.

Take comfort in the truth of the observation you made; urge the antagonists you inspired (who don't know one another otherwise, as you do?) to respect you, and respect themselves, by respecting one another - "it's ok to differ", etc, etc

Beck is a transparently phony sociopath preying on the boobs who give credence to his self-aggrandizing blather. If he's prepared to embrace King's truly dangerous (dangerous not to "us", but to "them") economic convictions - the ones who got him killed - bring it on, Glenn.

arson at the construction for a new islamic center in Tennessee:

Special Agent Andy Anderson of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives told CBS News that the fire destroyed one piece of construction equipment and damaged three others. Gas was poured over the equipment to start the fire, Anderson said.

The ATF, FBI and Rutherford County Sheriff's Office are conducting a joint investigation into the fire, Anderson said.

WTVF reports firefighters were alerted by a passerby who saw flames at the site. One large earth hauler was set on fire before the suspect or suspects left the scene.

Digging had begun at the site, which was planned as a place of worship for the approximately 250 Muslim families in the Murfreesboro area, but no structure had been built yet, according to Saleh Sbenaty, a member of the planning committee and a professor of engineering technology at Middle Tennessee State University.

pponents of a new Islamic center say they believe the mosque will be more than a place of prayer; they are afraid the 15-acre site that was once farmland will be turned into a terrorist training ground for Muslim militants bent on overthrowing the U.S. government.

"They are not a religion. They are a political, militaristic group," Bob Shelton, a 76-year-old retiree who lives in the area, told The Associated Press.

Shelton was among several hundred demonstrators who recently wore "Vote for Jesus" T-shirts and carried signs that said "No Sharia law for USA!," referring to the Islamic code of law.

No religious law to rule the day!