Answer - they gave us Abrahamic religion. Christianity. Islam.

One wonders what would be different had the Canaanites held them back the first time?

Answer - bagels.

Ah, I suppose they get to live.

Jews have no more or less value as humans than anyone else. Yet they have made a new enemy of continue to subjugate Arabs as if they were superior in some way.

Replace Jews with Whites, and Arabs with Blacks, and it is easier to see who is simply resisting oppression and who is morally bankrupting themselves and their decendents for generations to come.

Jews are not superior to Arabs, and there is no promised land, nor no God to grant it.

I'd rather history remember the people that gave us the latke and the bagel than the people that gave us World War III.

I think we will be hearing the terms "block" and "GOP" in close proximity for the next 16 or so years.

Let's also have Anton LaVey Jr give an invocation, the Grand Wizard of the KKK, and Charles Manson. Warren is the intellectual equivalent, if not subordinate, of all three.

Yes. You are correct. And?

Shortly after the Freedom Fries brouhaha in Congress (a stupid and embarrassing waste of tax payer money back in the halcyon days when my money was just being wasted on unnecessary wars and bridges to nowhere), some thug wrote on a bathroom wall in a dive bar frequented by a large cross-section of my fellow citizens in response to some brave soul's defense of the French the phrase:

"The United States has no permanent allies, only permanent interests: freedom."

Judging by the fact that the same hand went on elsewhere on another wall to disparage the French in familiar terms ("cheese eating surrender monkeys" or some such), I could extrapolate from that some sense of the author's political and ideological slant.

Some smart ass with handwriting remarkably similar to mine scribbled over the "freedom" quote in bright pink paint pen: "Free Palestine. US troops out of Saudi Arabia! End US blood for oil hegemony!"

Smart ass kids.

Anyone who really paid attention to the 2000 debates knew what was what: intellect versus frat-house glad handing. The morons didn't win the election, but their lawyers won the litigation. At the time, I resented Gore for conceding, but understood that he was being, well, Al Gore, Southern gentleman.

No one in the history of America has been less deserving of the title of President of the United States that frat-boy, AWOL, combat avoiding Yale legacy and raconteur George W. Bush.

But rejecting study, critical thinkers and great ideas has always been the theme of the playbook of scoundrels like Bush and the GOP as it exists in its current form; the only idea Bush has ever had is that he truly is first among equals.

He never earned the right. A shit-filled shoe is too good for him. Drowning in pigs blood too poetic.

Fuck George W. Bush.

Indeed. For a politically engaged person, it is truly difficult to conceive of how any year could ever be more satisfying than one marked by riveting scandals over shopping sprees, bickering among campaign operatives, and an extramarital affair of someone who, at the time of disclosure, held no political office and was running for absolutely nothing. Anyone surveying this mountain-high pile of Pulitzer-worthy investigations can do nothing more than echo the observation of Newsweek's legendary Senior White House Correspondent, Richard Wolffe, who famously gushed: "the press here does a fantastic job of adhering to journalistic standards and covering politics in general." Who could review Calderone's glorious list of the year's top "scoops" and disagree with that?

Sarcasm!

Sadly, I can clearly hear Richard Wolffe's effete Londoner accent even now.

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haha.. comments.. section.. of this.. article.. too.. hilarious.. for... words..

*peeing on self*

..Ensure that this idiot can keep making money defending the lie of Christianity from here to Kingdom Never-will-come.

So, you are welcome.

Chuck got his ass handed to him by Bruce Lee.

Need I say more?

Baal is cool, but I always thought Anubis was cooler since he was half ascended, and I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Apophis (you're one true God!).

Happy Mithra day, you fucking goat hearder worshiping retards!

I have an alibi, I swear..

"Turning up the Heat with G. Garvin" is the most entertaining cooking show currently on air.

Link in .sig

The Caroline Kennedy for Senate bid is dead. A non-starter.

If I'm wrong, I renew my sub.

Kill the Christians, feed them to the poor.

No room for common sense in the Church.

Ask Copernicus.

Religion is the enemy of reason.

I must give you credit for sheer gumption. You are wrong about every thing. You are on the wrong side of every issue I can imagine. Yet you go on, like the energizer bunny, blindly, blatantly wrong.

How'd Sarah Palin work out for you?