Nero fiddles while Rome burns ......

No doubt if the Founding Fathers had such an attitude, we'd still be slaves to the Brits.

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"What I mean by "long term" is the basic tenet that the bigger they are, the harder they fall, and what goes around comes around. In St. Luke's gospel, the CEO wound up in hell, begging for a sip of cold water, and the homeless man sat at God's right hand. This happens over and over again in Scripture, and in America we believe that the guy who gets the $100 million bonus today is on a chute that leads to a bad cocaine habit, a car crash, serious head injury and 16 months of speech therapy before he can write his Crash & Redemption memoir and go on Larry King to promote it. Just wait and see."

Don't bet on it ...... these people's greed knows no limits and their consciences were stamped out a long time ago by themselves ....... they will not repent ...... and what in the hell does scripture have to do with reality ? Do you think some invisible man is going to make it all alright ...... people have to create their own freedom and justice ...... there is no hereafter .....

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"Among the young and ebullient, there's no worry about interest rates because they have no savings -- they spend their weekly earnings and a little bit more on hair gel, iTunes, phone bills, $4 coffee and $100 jeans beautifully pre-ripped. They don't see the headlights in the soybean fields at midnight, only the lights in the bars where they go to be beautiful and cool and maintain text-message contact with friends from coast to coast and then have sex."

Yes, they are a petty, shallow, selfish, unconscious bunch ........ and to think they called the hippies the "me generation"

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Mr. Keillor suggests we ignore corruption, evil and madness because we can't do anything about it while the opposite is true ....... we can't do anything about it because we ignore it.

People who think this deserve to get screwed by everybody from their mechanic to the president.

And if the citizens themselves have become as amoral and corrupt as those who oppress them, then the american people will continue to get what they deserve.

Letterman was going to have money Taken Away From Him ........

and he knew that if he paid once, he would have to (horror of horrors) continuously give up more money in the future, so he decided to blow the whistle and take the heat.

Obama and the Congress are having money Given To Them by the lobbyists of the Insurance and Pharmaceutical companies (not taken away) and they happily look forward to the continuing payouts in the future for their loyalty today.

Dealing with the public ...... why would I want to see any more of it ???

She is a construct ........... not a real person.

Or as George Carlin said, "Your invisible man is different than my invisible man".

How can anyone who claims to believe in superstitious dogma attached to people who lived 2000 years ago talk about "reason"?

"the Western way of reason" ..... there is no reason applied in America except where the intention or goal is money or power ...... and this reason demands lying and stealing and cheating and killing to maintain that money and power and empire.

Because such "reason" is not for the good of the whole, it is not reason but cleverness ..... and cleverness is shortsighted ....

"Declaring Islam to be "Christianity's most enduring and impressive foe," Douthat says that many Christians .... "

No the greatest foe of both Christianity and Islam is common sense and reason ..... something that seems to be in as short a supply in America as in some Muslim countries .....

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"Christians argue with Buddhists; Hindus mistrust Muslims; Muslims fight with Jews. Wars are fought over who owns the rights to holiness. Does God have one face, many faces, or no face? Say to me the right words with the right inflection and we are "brothers". Answer incorrectly and well, we know what will happen. People despise and even try to destroy one another in the name of God that they profess is love. ..... "

Guy Finley

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Let me make it clearer :

"....... but it seems certain that during a three-hundred-year period between three and five million women were tortured and killed by the "Holy Inquisition", an institution founded by the Roman Catholic Church to suppress heresy. This surely ranks with the Holocaust as one of the darker chapters in human history."

Eckhart Tolle

Duh ..... Hitler bad ..... Catholic Church good ....

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The Catholic Church has never been anything but an oppressive organization interested in money and power (a business).

The major American denominations and franchise churches are interested only in tithes (cash flow) and real estate accumulation (investment).

But the "show" or "entertainment" found in these churches is easy for the masses to swallow ........ as they already believe that the internet and television represent reality.

To meet the irrational self-serving actions of one group of dogma spouting fools with the actions of another dogma spouting group of fools is insanity.

In fact, the actions of the religious leaders are profane in their goals while justifying their actions to the masses behind the "face of god".

Churches are nothing but a manifestation of a collective ego and collective egos are usually more unconscious than individual egos.

"Nations not infrequently engage in behavior that would be immediately recognizable as psychopathic in an individual."

Eckhart Tolle

Can there be hope for a species that still clings to medieval superstitions ?