I know that this has made you very angry, but it's the best I can do under the circumstances. I really have no interest in engaging you, and don't think doing so would advance Glenn's cause in the slightest.

-- William Timberman

You are way off as usual. You do not make me angry because you claim I am crazy since I think you are wrong. I see it as the normal reaction that one gets from an old collectivist. I asked for a country where governments have worked and lwm gave a list of colonial powers. Now that makes me smile. Oh well, compared to the USA they do look good, much like a girl in a bar at closing time when you are stinking drunk --- it is the closer inspection when you are sober that tells the real story.

However, I am behind schedule and must bid you farewell this evening.

Oh wait, before I go. Will you please tell me what all the ridiculous disruptions by lwm and puppets adds to "Glenn's cause" and would Glenn recognize this aid?

Check the exchange dearie, and you will find a snippy little post from yourself to me telling me you are female simply because I used a pronoun that can be masculine. That information is about body parts.

If I write 'men are destined for the stars' and you write back that you are a female; then you are the one bringing up sex. And as I point out, sex is of no matter to the inner person.

"Stick with the ineffable one, Bucky. She's the only one I know who'll let you win the lottery without buying a ticket." -- William Timberman

I knew you had no answer William, we have been through this before. You are waiting for a collection of 'bright young people' to take the rains of the central government and enforce peace and prosperity on the rest of us even if they have to kill us to make us like it.

Me, I just want one example of politics and government where it really worked. I will grant there may be such an example and if so, I have missed it. If you think of one -- pass it on to me, even with the snide little stuff to boot since it is your style.

The androgynous one, according to Bucky, who has never even met me. But seems to think that he/him will suffice for all of us, but never she/her. Hmmm....

-- Anonymust

You missed the point again. I need not see you in the flesh (God forbid!, and Wife forbid!) since the body is not you. You are the androgynous entity that may or may not come back next time as female. No one knows if it will be your choice, but I rather doubt it.

Of course, it is slightly presumptuous of me to think you will not escape this hell and be bound back to another life -- but hey, "I calls em as I sees em."

:-)

WT on politics: "It's an art, it involves other people, many of whom are just as cranky as you are. It takes patience, flexibility; hell, you might even have to learn how to be lovable."

I have read a lot of history, I had to do so. The stories there tell me that there has not been a whole lot of patience, flexibility or lovableness in governments.

Perhaps Timberman only refers to democracies, but even they do not have a wonderful record. Where is the shining example of mankind making government the servant of the people rather than the master? Where is one that does not brutalise its own given enough time?

Being white and upper middle class in 1950s small town America may have been peachy; being black and poor in the same town -- not so much.

So sweet willie, where does politics work?

ST. PAUL, Minn., March 19 (UPI) -- Someone with an urge to purge took it out on the Minnesota Homeland Security and Emergency Management office in downtown St. Paul, police said.

An unknown man defecated in several rooms Friday afternoon and left on foot before an officer arrived, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported Tuesday. Based on the suspect's description, he appeared to be homeless, a police spokesman said.

It turns out the Homeland office wasn't too secure -- a contractor working for the building's management failed to properly secure a door behind him, said Susan Lasley, spokeswoman for the Minnesota Department of Pubic Safety.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2008/03/19/
homeland_security_office_filled_with_feces/9759/

I swear I was in Florida all day!

"who did God screw?" Dan Brown? -- Chris Sinnard

Good one. But I thought old Dan made a few bucks off his books.

"If God doesn't have a dick, then how do you explain Jesus." -- omooex

Why should I explain Jesus? But I'll give a bit; just for you.

The Jesus myth cycle was an early reworking of the ancient Egyptian myth by Jewish gnostics to form a universal version of the perennial philosophy, or maybe just their own version. The Greeks did it, the Assyrians did it, the Persians, hell everyone did it. It was never meant to be taken literally. The myth cycle encodes certain mystic truths and there are 'outer mysteries' for the children or the beginner and then there are the 'inner mysteries' for the more advanced.

In all the middle eastern mystery religions, the Ultimate Divine, or the ineffable One was beyond all description and certainly was not a 'big man' in the sky with a dick.

But if he did have one and you believe in Jesus that was a historical man; who did God screw?

:-)