Perhaps I've been spending too much time giggling at the Rapture Ready message board, and found it too attractive to pass up the chance to throw a little of their own Bible-quoting back at them. And if you think some of them don't read here, you're wrong.

That caught my eye and I've always had my suspicion about it. Maybe it's like Derbig reading Mrs. du Toit (and, again, I won't succumb to the temptation): see what the other guy/gal is saying/thinking. Although I don't think of them as enemies, the idea of what they would wreak upon the rest of us terrifies me. Let us assure ourselves of no wreaking.

GoodCelery!, you're right, I have no machine gun. I am unarmed (except for my wits, such as they are) and say so disarmingly. But still, I won't surrender.

GoodCelery!:

The bible is an antique volume--Written by faded Men as suggestion of Holy Scriptures-

Beautiful. And I mean that seriously (and, thus, with no disrespect to believers).

I just saw this quote (from your letters' thread):

Please join with me as we visualize this impenatrable wall that will stop Obama while protecting us from the evil he represents. Dear Father God, We join together and are humbly pleading that you will protect us ,your children. Please separate Barak Obama from the POTUs by a supernatural wall that he cannot penetrate. Let the wall that he cannot penetrate be a barrier of protection for we that belong to you and that are covered by the blood. I pray that the precious blood of your Son Jesus cover this wall and not allow Obama to pass into the presidency. We ask this is name of our Savior, Jesus Christ- Amen and Amen

This so utterly perplexes me (note that I don't say "astonishes") that I find I'm at a loss for words. Okay, not really. Let me say that we are seriously fortunate that these people don't (or, no longer) run things. As of, what, January 20, I think? Let all of us hold on to the faith of our forefathers--sanity, rationality and decency.

that was a long post but I think the upshot was that there was little disagreement among commentors at Salon.com

What is most odious to me about this whole thing is the claim that anyone who doesn't exhibit some level of personal emotional outrage is somehow an accomplice to the Bush crimes.

That wasn't my read on the situation. Rather, it was the idea that criminality is discussed with such dispassion as to merit the idea that the crime is somehow legal (because it was discussed dispassionality).

Does anyone remember this Onion article? It was spot on. I was outraged when we invaded Iraq and when the Abu Ghraib photos came out, or perhaps I would have been if I had not already known about the Cold War, Latin America, Operation Gladio, our financing of Saddam and the Taliban, etc.

And so? What's that have to do with the current matter at hand? Has anyone argued that US policy in the past wasn't unjust? If so, I don't recall it. Still and all, I'm glad you were "outraged when we invaded Iraq," etc. etc.

What Jebbie said.

BTW, I disagree with Greenwald's characterization of Kerr (I would suggest that everyone here goes through all his old posts on the matter and make up their own minds)

God help me, I can't. See, I've got this hypertension problem ...

Remember to take your meds! I have to when I read that tripe...

Will do. These people are killing me, yet here I am. Still!

Actually it is sooo much easier for Glenn to make up our minds for us.

As Homer once said, "I am so smart, I am so s-m-r-t, I am so smart."

ever since the Supreme Court of 1997, in Idaho v. Coeur d'Alene Tribe, No. 94-1474, performed one of the most startling contradictions to the foundational federal Indian law decision in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 5 Pet. 1 (1831) you should not trust them white lawyers (yourself) - or judges anymore! Because they speak with forked tongues!

I'm an Idahoan, white (though an unlawyerly non-lawyer) and speak with a forked tongue. I utterly reject everything you wrote. Wait, maybe not. See, this is what happens with fork-tongue-edness.

Why can't you just say that Professor Kerr, the Fourth Circuit, Congress, the President, and the President-elect on the one hand, and you on the other hand, have a policy disagreement, and you think all these people are wrong as a matter of policy and as a matter of interpreting the Constitution? -- Asher Steinberg

No, no, no. That is utterly disgraceful and unworthy of any human, Asher.

L.W.M.

Fool me once, shame on you. Whatever.

That's okay, I just corrected upon reading.

And the Borg, those Swedish bastards ....

Good Grief. These are the moments when I get the feeling I've showed up to the game with one minute to go in the fourth quarter. I've only been here about a year but often feel completely at sea.

Paul Daniel Ash

You're fast. I wasn't even sure that was him at first.

I have an acute sense of smell, though I'm particularly proud that I beat you, given that you are the unquestioned expert on this matter. GG

I was reading through the comments, saw one that gave me pause, saw a bit later on Glenn's response. Then I thought, "wait, what'd that guy say again?", but couldn't find it upon return. I ran back and forth a few more times and came to believe I'd never read it.