shooter242 is a ticking time bomb, himself.

When he condemns bigotry, I do agree with him.

But given the right circumstances, he endorses the bigotry of barricading New Orleans, of neither letting people get out nor of letting aid get in.

Given the right circumstances, this noble critic of leftwing bigotry is a foul murderous bigot himself, and not only in a momemnt of panic, but even many months later, upon due reflection.

Don't forget that Gods aren't just in heaven. They walk the earth. Octavian deified his adopted father, then started calling himself the son of god. Not too subtle.

There's no question that North Korea's "Juche" (Kim-il-Sung-ism) is a religion.

To a lesser extent than Kim-il-Sungism, Stalinism and Maoism certainly had elements of being state religions.

And don't go so easy on the FSM. She smeared marinara sauce all over my brother.

What do you want the federal government to start doing, keep doing, or stop doing?

Unitarians tell a joke about their "Jefferson Bible" approach to scripture. "Bible class Thursday night. Bring your own scissors."

American Catholics joke about being "Cafeteria Catholics" and very few of them endorse all of the pope's positions against abortion AND against birth control AND against the death penalty AND against communism AND against capitalism AND etc.

Some Islamic American citizens whom I've known were refugees from the I.R.I. (Islamic Republic of Iran) and they don't want to be part of any kind of Islamic Republic. No how, no way, never. Even back home in Iran, Khomeini never succeeded in his attempt to stamp out Norouz (Persian New Year), the biggest holiday of the year and a decidedly non-Islamic event. They bring their own scissors to the Q'ran.

Scissors, cafeterias, anti-authoritarian Iranians - - freethinkers are running rampant.

Thank god.

http://haloscan.com/comments/upyernoz/111136781756889069
How exactly did [Bush] "treat [the French] like shit?" Was it at the UN, where we begged them to just sign off, no heavy lifting required or expected, on letting us destroy the monster Saddam?
- - Golden Boy | 03.20.05 - 10:10 pm

http://haloscan.com/comments/upyernoz/111136781756889069
You dislike Bush and were against the war in Iraq so you approve of our "allies" giving us the finger.
- - Golden Boy | 03.22.05 - 1:19 pm

http://haloscan.com/comments/upyernoz/112385328361229263
I'm sure your priority radar was screaming yesterday when the NY Times buried the Clinton-era Able Danger fuckup on page A14.
- - Golden Boy | 08.12.05 - 10:59 am

http://haloscan.com/comments/upyernoz/112385328361229263
Obviously, "the will of the people" is not always and was not set up to be the final say under our system of government.
- - Golden Boy | 08.12.05 - 11:21 am

http://haloscan.com/comments/upyernoz/112385328361229263
'Noz doesn't need a civics lesson. He's a pretty smart guy but he was unfortunately bitten by a moonbat in his youth.
- - Golden Boy | 08.12.05 - 12:41 pm

http://haloscan.com/comments/upyernoz/430262033966095639
I guess I should have figured the default Lefty position, as it is every time America's enemies clearly do something wrong or something good happens in Iraq, would be silence.
- - Golden Boy | 03.28.07 - 5:30 pm

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/05/22/polls/permalink/3e8a69e1a52e53352d3515f2bfa5deba.html
I am a thoroughly atheistic progressive.
- - Golden Boy - - Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:15 PM

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/05/22/polls/permalink/ecdd1293099a40123224892257352188.html
If you want a specific criticism of our current administration, I'm happy to give it. I'd say number one on the list is starting an illegal war by staging an invasion of Iraq under false pretences . . .
- - Golden Boy - - Wednesday, May 23, 2007 07:28 AM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/22/AR2007052201463.html

Survey: U.S. Muslims Assimilated, Opposed to Extremism
By Alan Cooperman

Wednesday, May 23, 2007; Page A03

Unlike Muslim minorities in many European countries, U.S. Muslims are highly assimilated, close to parity with other Americans in income and overwhelmingly opposed to Islamic extremism, according to the first major, nationwide random survey of Muslims.

The survey by the Pew Research Center found that 78 percent of U.S. Muslims said the use of suicide bombings against civilian targets to defend Islam is never justified. But 5 percent said it is justified "rarely," 7 percent said "sometimes," and 1 percent said "often"; the remaining 9 percent said they did not know or declined to answer.

By comparison, Muslims in France, Spain and Britain were almost twice as likely to say suicide bombing is sometimes or often justified . . .

This would seem to indicate that there are some things that the U.S.A. is doing right and/or that France, Spain and Britain are doing wrong.

The poll shows the U.S. Muslims largely resent and disapprove of the current administration's foreign policy and domestic policy, and see those policies as discriminatory and disrespectful, so I think it's reasonable to conclude that whatever, if anything, the U.S.A. is doing right is something else, and perhaps something more fundamental - - something about the U.S.A. that makes Muslims here feel less resented and less disrespected than they feel in France, Spain and Britain.