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Sunday, February 15, 2009 12:02 AM

Which is causing us more harm?

The rare cases of people like this woman,

or

a large percentage of Americans thinking that they can, with a little information, a few pictures, and no training, decide:

why this woman did what she has, how it should be resolved, including her punishment, the raising of her children, and how to prevent it from happening again?

This is the type of problem that professionals in mental health and the judicial system have a hard time dealing with.

Things are complicated. The human mind. The financial system. Fixing the health care system. Simple answers aren't really answers, just lack of understanding.

Monday, February 16, 2009 06:52 AM
Original article: Watching Republicans grieve

To "self reliant" Americans:

Stop:

- driving on our roads

- relying on our police and fire protection

- welcome all into our country, unchecked and uninspected

- stop fighting wars, unless it is fought by you, with your gun , ammo, and risk

- stop breathing our cleaner air

- stop drinking our cleaner water

- stop using our courts, banking system, and business system

Buy yourself a few hundred empty acres somewhere, strip naked, and rely on yourself alone already.

You ignorant hypocrite.

Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:57 PM
Original article: Eggs are people, too

Monkey holding USB drive = Human being

Just more proof this guy doesn't know a thing.

From the bill:

"Human being" means any organism, including the single-cell human embryo,irrespective of the method of reproduction, who possesses a genome specific for and consistent with an individual member of the human species.

Since the genome is digital, a copy on a USB drive, printed on paper, or in DNA form in a cell are all "the genome."

It says nothing about the organism having to have been developed using that genome, just possessing it.

Mosquitoes with human blood in your guts and monkeys with USB drives, welcome to the human race!

Thursday, February 19, 2009 01:07 PM

Where do they go from here?

If they're calling Obama socialist now, what are they saving for later?

Sunday, March 1, 2009 11:33 AM

"All we need is the right candidate."

They call themselves a movement of ideas, but they know that's a lie, so they fall back the hero worship model.

They call liberals "socialists," but it was their heroes Reagan and baby Bush who spent us into our current mess. Yet they still push Reagan as god and tolerate Bush.

This is why Limbaugh and his peers pull audiences and liberal radio stuggle: it's about the guy on the mic, not what's being said. Just like Bush, they can't take the chance someone will out argue them, making them look weak. The man must look good, no matter the lies needed.

Saturday, March 7, 2009 04:25 PM
Original article: Ask the Pilot

Emergencies are the job for pilots

If he got on the plane AFTER it hit the birds, he'd be a hero.

The reason experience is valuable in a pilot isn't because the've done the same LA to NY run a thousand times without a hitch. It's that he's had engine trouble a few of those times. Been diverted to other airports a few times. Dealt with mechanical problems. Hazardous passengers. Trained thousands of disasters in simulators.

He now has the temperment for emergency.

This is the value in time in the seat. Anyone with a couple hundred hours could get you 99% of the time.

But when a bird hits the turbofan, you need someone to do his job. The job he has the skills for, not some above average character for, but experience and training for.

There are heroes, but you can't make them. We need good pilots. We can make them.

Sunday, March 8, 2009 07:24 PM

Government's role

Killing people:

proper

correct

efficient

Helping people:

wrong

wasteful

Why?

Accurate?

Evidence?

Thursday, March 12, 2009 06:23 AM
Original article: PBS's latest infomercial

Learn how to think

World leaders and other successful people all breath air. Will PBS have a Dr. Hallelujah on with his Power of Oxygen program?

Most Americans lack critical thinking skills and let pandering politicians lie to them about public funding of media and arts. We get the programming and politicians we deserve.

Sunday, April 5, 2009 11:22 PM
Original article: Ask a Wingnut

"Undisclosed location"

You don't disclose any of your writers' locations, do you.

Cut the BS drama. No need to hid this guy. Same right-wing crap. No secrets. No honesty. Just right-wing self delusions.

Friday, April 10, 2009 12:36 AM
Original article: Ask the pilot

If Sully really is a hero

If one of your flights gets in trouble, your're screwed.

Airlines hire pilots. They train pilots. Pilots fly your flights.

Unless your flight is in the fiction of clueless reporters minds, your uniformed delusions (despite Patrick's repeated good efforts), or a movie, you've got a pilot up there.

You better hope that's enough. That's the best available.

Friday, April 10, 2009 12:08 PM

"We are awash in evil"

You losing at least improves the condition.

Sunday, April 12, 2009 11:44 AM

A lie to avoid facing the truth

How Christian.

Religion is based on the lie that ancient myths are real, even as the proof against them piles up.

What's one more lie when you have to lie to yourself daily.

Sunday, April 12, 2009 06:05 PM

How is this not a lie?

He said, "We support Prop 8." on video. Straight to the camera.

Then, on Larry King, he said, "During the whole Proposition 8 thing, I never once went to a meeting, never once issued a statement, never—never once even gave an endorsement in the two years Prop 8 was going."

Lie. Plain. Simple. On its face.

Now are you lying, rockybalboa, or just ignorant?

It's all out there. On the internet. Check it out for yourself, if you dare.

Sunday, April 12, 2009 07:19 PM

Why the drama?

Why the "undisclosed location?"

Why the "undercover?"

Why the anonymousness?

Keep the drama, but tell us something we don't know. That we can't figure our ourselves. That requires you to keep yourself hidden.

But to give us a column that any conservative, public and upfront could write and cloak it in this sillyness is embarrassing.

We want to know the secrets. But if this is the best you can do, then conservatives must really be as obvious and obtuse as we thought.

Sunday, April 12, 2009 11:16 PM

Stalin, Pol Pot, and Hitler = God?

You're holding people to the same standard as the one you claimed created them?

God created a whole opposite being to take the heat for the evil in the world, but meanwhile his crimes are more than evil alone.

When we Stalin-based programs and taxed exempt status for Hitler worshiping centers, get back to us. Your hyperbole might approach a valid comparison then.

Or maybe all of Stalin's victims were just pork eaters. Pol Pot got all the men who sat in a menstruating woman's chair. Just doing god's work, right?

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