May your days be even fewer and may the Lord number you amongst those He places on His Left Hand, that is, those who are damned!

If you want a religion-based civil war, just keep it up and the USA will be torn apart in the same way that the Reformation crazies tore apart Germany!

in a recent 'Doonesbury' cartoon strip, one of the characters asked 'Explain to me why Twitter is not just another pointless social media time-suck.'

How many 'innocent' Vietnamese did Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon kill?

Look for a newspaper called 'National Catholic Reporter'. This bi-weekly or monthly newspaper often has a decidedly liberal viewpoint as opposed to the more conservative viewpoints of the diocesan newspapers and the articles and editorials reflect this viewpoint.

and now I know

they were chosen by God to be the butt of every asinine ethnic joke on the planet

rather than wait for California to shake, rattle and roll itself off the continent and into the Pacific, is there some way that we can shove South Carolina off the continent and into the Atlantic? would anyone miss South Carolina?

Remember, though, that women, as defined by the conservatives, are brainless, soulless beings who exist merely to cook meals for men, pick up the clothes strewn about by men, satisfy the sexual desires of men and generally be servants to men.

Thus, women do not need any education, women do not need prenatal care, women do not need any health care (if a woman becomes ill in Oklahoma, the man is perfectly free to shoot her, then toss the body into the local dump and then pick up a new servant at the local brothel).

Oklahoma deserves to be the national depository for all nuclear related waste.

there are three felonies here:

1) the statutory rape and/or molestation of a minor,

2) the conspiracy to conceal knowledge of a felony before the fact,

3) the conspiracy to conceal knowledge of a felony after the fact.

The first felony was usually committed by a relatively small minority of religious men and women in the Church, while the second and third felonies were committed by the interlocking diocesan and archdiocesan hierarchies within the Church.

The Vatican representative to the U.N. can deflect questions about these felonies from now until Doomsday but the laity of the Church know that the 'smoke of Satan' originates within the cloistered mindset of the hierarchy.

The 'old boys club' of the hierarchy will probably continue to evade justice here on Earth: in the hereafter, though, they have special reserved seats in the hottest part of Hell.

It is part of the collective guilt of the Western nations for failing to take action back in the late 1930's when Hitler began to eradicate the European Jews.

was wrong!

We dropped more iron bombs on Vietnam than we dropped in Europe, the Pacific and Japan during World War II and what did it accomplish? Nothing!

We dropped Agent Orange, Agent Purple and other vile chemical compounds on Vietnam and what happened? Vast environmental damage but no victory!

In the end, the Vietnamese simply did not need us or want us and that is why we 'lost'. Even if we had burned all of Southeast Asia to a crisp with nuclear bombs [and there are a bunch of idiots in the USA who still demand that very option], unless the survivors had said 'We surrender', we would still have 'lost'.

who wrote 'Stranger In A Strange Land'

in which that gentleman explained his denial of the Holocaust:

he continually asks what role did the Palestinians play in the genocide of the European Jews, and why are the Palestinians being made to pay the blood price for the Holocaust instead of the Europeans and the Americans (the Nazi government had permitted several attempts to send large numbers of German and Austrian Jews by transport ship to Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Canada and the USA during the late 1930's; all of these countries turned those ships away and the Jews aboard those ships were eventually sent to the death camps); it is in this sense that he is a Holocaust denier

I can see his point; trouble is, seeing his point of view is not going to help reslove things

that Mr. Higginbotham ought to buried immediately in an unmarked grave.

the local municipal power utility, City Water Light and Power, is putting the finishing on a new coal-fired power generating plant with modern scrubbers on the smokestacks that will burn high sulfur Illinois coal

to remove listerlee's wildly off-topic sales promotions?

in about one or two billion years [1,000,000,000 to 2,000,000,000 years], our Sun is expected to swell into a red giant star and simply engulf the planet Earth and vaporize it in solar fire

the human race, though, can still vaporize itself in a much shorter period of time via nuclear war, massive climate change, striving for the Ultimate War To End All Wars, or simply drowning in an unending mound of discarded plastic water bottles

and the Roman Catholic church has declared that the priest celebrating the Mass ought to facing away from the congregation towards the East so as to be ready when Christ Returns for the Second Coming [it has been revealed to the Pope 'somehow' that when Christ Returns, He will appear in the Eastern Sky, thus in anticipation of that event, the priest must no longer face the congregation during the Mass but must instead revert to the ancient way and face away from the congregation]; this idea conveninetly ignores the fact that church altars worldwide are aligned along every conceivable compass direction, from East-West to North-South to North by Northeast-South by Southwest and all points in between but the Pope is Infallible in Matters of Faith and Morals so all devout Catholics probably consider me to be an apostate for simply mentioning this item