Tired_Old_Man

Which groups do Bill Maher and Al Franken attack? Bill Maher says "all religion is stupid", so he doesn't single out Jews, Christians or Muslims" for fighting over the alleged teachings of their holy books. Both Maher and Franken come down on Neo-Cons, but they explain nuance, something that members of the right usually overlook. The listeners and followers of Savage and Coulter tend to be more violent and vulgar IMHO than the listeners of Maher and Franken. I have spoken to advocates of Savage and Coulter, and they are glad they have their NRA membership and their guns for the coming (violent) revolution in which they will "take back our country from the Liberals and Liberal media". The Liberals want to take back the country from the Neo-Con's and Christian Fundamentalists by the ballot box and by education. Both sides want their agenda to win. But there is a difference in the reasoning and the methods.

Cheap Labor?:girl_hug:

Buy dry food. The rat poison was in the wheat gluten which is used to moisten the food. Dry food is supposed to be safe.

Let's Harass BubbleButt until tells us her most embarrassing moment or event. We have 12 replies in her Your MOST embarrassing experience? Spill it people! thread and I think we should harass her until she spills it!!

Are You Chicken?

Jack, your dictionary learning is wonderful and I complement you on your research and intellect, however the appeal to the intellectually weakest, but vocal and belligerent groups by people like Michael Savage and Ann Coulter is strong and their power is magnified by being seen as an authority figure on mass media, plus the mass media itself magnifies both their powers and reach. You may be able to split the hairs, but to too many only a blunt object will do.

How about the new soft-drinks that children are swallowing in huge amounts that are loaded with caffeine? Are we creating a generation of speed freaks?

:amen: :kev:

Which has the power of multiplying the hatred of one person and re-enforcing the hatred in millions.

You should have been like Kenny and Stan, and gone to Mel Gibson's home to get your money back.

My friend used that famous, "I never knew Jesus suffered so much for us" line and I replied, "With the biggest crucifix in the world around your neck, that is so big that you can see the spikes in Jesus, you know how much he suffered every time you comb your hair". He didn't talk to me for over a week and when he did he asked, "do you think this cross is over the top?" He had it specially made a fews years ago. It cost thousands of dollars and reminds me of something from an early Madonna video.

Because you might have the intelligence and knowledge of history to see that he might mean "that by refusing to stand up for their rights in the first place, they lost the opportunity to stand up for their rights in the second place...and the third, etc...." doesn't mean that others will take it that way. He is catering to antisemetic hatred.

I am glad that talking about that horrible incident relieved some pent up stress and maybe some anger too. Holding things like that in is not healthy. I am proud of you. :boy_hug:

BJean, you were not raped, but you could have had him charged with quite a few lessor crimes that together would have got him a few months if not years in prison and would have cost him his job, his license and carreer.

Ice Cream:hungry:

They discovered RAT POISON in the tainted food. The poison is illegal in the USA. The company, Food Menu, recently started buying Wheat Gluten from China. The suspicion is that the RAT POISON was in the Wheat Gluten from China. Wheat Gluten from China is also used in foods for HUMAN CONSUMPTION.

Oh, I forgot. I'm married.

Speaking of these people who claim to speak to the dead, there is a new book out called "The Secret Life of Houdini" that claims that Houdini was exposing those same kind of frauds (of his time) and that they may have murdered him. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle author of the "Sherlock Holmes" series is also mentioned as a possible assassin of Houdini because Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was not the detective that his "Sherlock Holmes" character was and actually believed in these psychics and wanted to start a religion based on communing with the dead. There has been a request by the family of Houdini to exhume his body which was buried after his death without an autopsy being performed. The cause of death; being playfully punched causing Houdini's appendix to rupture, is now known to be far-fetched at best.

If I wear falsies and eyeliner, can I go? I will not however, shave off my beard!!

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Caught by my brother.:faint:

I spoke to my son and he agreed that his mother should not know about it until at least after she gets home. Tina would likely burst out crying and have no one, but her sleeping mother for support. He is undecided about holding it in until after her birthday. I could always wait until the day after her birthday and if she takes it too hard, I could say "APRIL FOOL". Her birthday is March 31st.

BubbleButt. Where are you??

That is almost as bad as the "South Park" episode in which Satan calls Saddam Hussein evil (or some similar term).

Thanks for the financial info. Tina will not take it well. She has always been afraid that I will leave her by dying either from illness, doing dangerous work, being killed by criminals or being fat. One of the main reasons that I got my Lap Band was to show Tina that I was serious about being around for our 50th wedding anniversary (7-7-2017) which I have repeatedly promised that I be would be there for. Oh, she also worries that I will be killed by someone in an argument over politics. I sometimes make cracks to people when I see a "Support the Troops" bumper sticker. I ask, "So you want the Troops home too?" or when I see people with the optional Florida License Plate Logo, "Choose Life", I sometimes say, "So you are against the death penalty, want the Troops home and want to fund food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid. Right?" Life is short. You got to have fun.