Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[rjs246]

Hooray for the Hippos!

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Serious. Business.

[Munson]

She would never abort me...i'm her little handsome boy!

So, this is her "big ugly" boy?

No...no that's pretty much me.


Rusty, don't blame me on this one. It was a nice serious discussion until the usual's had to continue their munson cock gobbling.
Thank godGF there's a no hippos board.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Gregg Easterbrook (aka TMQ) has a great bit on the mosque:

Why Isn't the Pentagon Mosque on the Front Page? There's a small chance you have heard about a plan to build a mosque near (not "at") Ground Zero in New York. The controversy is puzzling on many levels, most important, that this is America! Freedom must not be an empty concept. Freedom of religion means freedom of religion. The basic bargain of the First Amendment, as regards speech as well as faith, is that the sole way to protect the right to opinions and beliefs is to protect all opinions and all beliefs, keeping government out of the business of deciding which ones we like or don't like.

The people who attacked the United States on 9-11 may have called themselves Muslims, though clearly were breaking the tenets of their faith. All religions have produced a few murderous fanatics -- we don't hold this against the faith when Christianity or Judaism is involved. Baruch Goldstein, raised as a Jew, used a machine gun to murder 29 Muslims in 1994 in Hebron. Goldstein was a monster, not a religious believer, and was breaking the tenets of the faith he claimed. No sensible person would say that because of Baruch Goldstein, synagogues should not be built on the West Bank. Timothy McVeigh, who called himself a Christian, murdered 168 people with a terrorist bomb in Oklahoma City, and it's clear to everyone he was breaking the tenets of his faith. Why can't we understand the same thing about the 9-11 killers? No one would object to a Christian church being built near the Oklahoma City terror bomb site.

Here's what really puzzles me -- with all the snarling hatred on display regarding the proposed downtown New York mosque, there's been no discussion of the mosque that already exists inside the Pentagon. Islamic services are held in an interfaith chapel quite close to where a plane flown by murderers struck on 9/11, and that has caused no problems. The Washington Post buried the story on page A-11, while most newspapers and newscasts haven't mentioned the Pentagon mosque at all. If the people who work inside the Pentagon can see past their differences and embrace religious tolerance, how come this is impossible for people such as Newt Gingrich?

Not that his political leanings matter much, but he tends to be a libertarian/skeptic.

[rjs246]

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/09/prison-without-walls/8195/
Pretty good review of the prison system, technology, and how our laws have failed us. 

Finally got around to reading this. Great article.

[Diomedes]

What a spectacle this thing in D.C. is.

Ad rates must be great for Fox and the rest of the cable news gang.

[Rome]

Building A Nation of Know-Nothings

Amazing read.

[Diomedes]

A vietnam vet friend who rarely initiates political conversations recently complained to me out of nowhere that Glenn Beck amounts to an imam for the American Taliban.

[General_Failure]

The model that married David Bowie?

[Diomedes]

The what?

[Tomahawk]

Iman:

[ice grillin you]

another old white brilliant republican


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUPKKbmWMZ8

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

another old white brilliant republican


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUPKKbmWMZ8

Old women serve no purpose and should all be thrown into the sun.

[Sgt PSN]

I thought you were opposed to Obama's death panel health care plan. 

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I thought you were opposed to Obama's death panel health care plan. 

Is "all old ladies get thrown into the sun" in the fine print or something?  Admittedly, I didn't read all 1500 pages.