Profligate defense spending collapsed the U.S.S.R., as it's collapsing us. Your hero, President Reagan, helped, via the arms race and unfettered borrowing, collapse two countries: the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., and he did it in the name of Jesus, the Prince of Peace, that "turn the other cheek" guy.

I suggest this slogan for the Republicans: Killin' for Christ!

Thanks for the reply. It's cool that you're creative and I'm glad you know how much moxie it takes to lay your work open to critique.

Palin visited Ground Zero and wrapped herself in NYC's misery, then extends their misery by dismissing them as East Coast elite and denigrating their newspaper, which she strangely and suddenly reads.

Palin considers her ticket to be the mavericks. Here's what the Mavericks think about that: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/weekinreview/05schwartz.html?em

But at least she's Main Street. One of us. You know. Not a darkie.

Pride goeth before the fall and we are falling, all of us, thanks to Bush voters, who also happen to be McCain/Palin voters.

Regarding the Amish, they're well positioned for the demise of the American Empire. They lose no wealth as the markets collapse. Rising food prices just mean more money for them. And like America, they don't squander their resources on weapons. Wouldn't it be ironic if a lot of us ended up working for them, pitching hay and plowing fields?

Regarding Chryson and his "9 mil," is he a softy? Can't he protect himself without killing someone? Guys who pack heat are the veriest cowards, whether they're gangstas or Chryson.

I often reflect on personal responsibility. I think Bush voters should be responsible for the increase in the national debt. They don't want to pay for civilization, which is what taxes do. They want their grandchildren to pay. Well, I say, let them pay! They wanted their Bush and now let them eat it!

Damn those double entendres.

Like you, Mr. Jans, I also suspect that Palin has no bush skills and, as a Republican, she's already proven that she has no skill in electing a skillful president, for she voted for Bush. Given the state of America, all Bush voters should refrain from voting for ten years. They can spend that time studying the Constitution and learning that taxes are the price of civilization.

"That's so paulpsd7."

A funny, inventive retort. Well done.

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I warned you that it's scary. I think it's just killin' the neocons to not reach for the n-slur and a rope. So, instead, they reach for the t-slur and the threat of death. McCain has unboxed all their isms and at this point, we might as well call McCain, Pandora.

Well parried. That woman does love a strawbear.

You clutch your pearls whenever you perceive men as slighted, but when "gay" is used as a synonym for "bad," you're okay with that. Hey, anus-brain, there are gay MEN. Shouldn't you be defending them, oh Defender-of-Men? Or are you just the defender of straight guys? Likely, straight, white guys. Likely, straight, white, middle class guys.

You reveal yourself as a phony yet again. And you also reveal yourself as a guy quite comfy with guys who aren't your kind of guy being tied to a fence to die, for language leads to such horrors. Murderers of gay people get their permission from people like you.

Stay away from salon.com. Your site is godhatesfags.com. I'm serious. You are seriously sick.

You got it. Parson Jim whines about the menz, again and again and again and again, but feels quite comfy denigrating the gay menz. I do have some respect for his position, but I have no respect for him, given the degree of his hypocrisy. He's revealed his compassion as being cruelly narrow.

Free speech arguably isn't in the Constitution. Rather, it's in the Bill of Rights, which amends the Constitution.

But don't stash your bigotry behind that fine document. That's like storing your collection of cockroaches behind Michaelangelo's Pieta.

Just stand in front of us and say, "My name is Parson Jim and I'm a bigot."

And we'll all leave the room.

And your "gay friends," if they exist, should follow us out of the room. If they don't, they're self-loathing and that loathing of gay people is what binds you to them. However, I doubt that you have gay friends. You might know some gay people, but I doubt that you gather them in your home and feed them. Do you take time for tete a tetes, or is your alleged "friendship" based upon slinging slurs at them?

Free speech. Blech. Next you'll be nuking a city and hiding behind the freedom to bear arms.

C'mon now. It isn't coarse speech that had you clutching your pearls. It was that I named you. I'll do it again:

She who dispatches 52 syllables to do the work of 3.

She who must reiterate that she's Irish, forever and again.

She who is oddly obsessed with The View.

She who didn't procure a fancy education, but by golly, she sure slings a lot of fancy words.

She who insults in every third sentence, but takes a brave stand against insults!

Now, maureenodonnell, you've read some books. That's clear. But you present as an intellectual puffball, a person who doesn't realize her limits, when you write about bears.

And you require a word other than circumlocuting, given your propensity for jarring non sequiturs. Thus, I give you a new name: a circu-herka-jerka-loctuer!

You recite whatever you'd like! My ears are yours.

redeemable for cash and valuable prizes!

JimAK1, you can finally get that Little Orphan Annie Decoder Ring that you've pined for all these years. Now, be a good boy and go do some decoding. I bet you'll decode the Beetles White Album and discover that Barack is the AntiChrist and that Jesus loves, loves, loves to hunt wolves from airplanes.