Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[MDS]

there are loonies for every subset of human....but atheists by and large are nonviolent free thinking peace freaks

i highly doubt there are droves of militia's planning to kill in the name of nonexistent god. in fact most of us either dont care about anything or just complain about stuff on the internet. but i welcome to be corrected.

[Rome]

You realize militant has more than one meaning, right?

When I said "militant," I was referring to those non-believers who are every bit as strident about their philosophical bent as believers.  The "in your face" iceholes who seem to be compelled to cram their views down the throats of anyone in their presence or sphere of influence.

Personally I couldn't give a farg either way.  If you're passionate about your faith or non-faith, good for you.  My standard response to any sort of proselytizing is, "whatever," and the same goes for people who are aggressively non-religious.  In short, both groups are fanatics and should be avoided whenever possible.

Understand now?

[Diomedes]

For the record, I have never meet one of these atheists you describe as strident.  I suppose they exist, but I haven't encountered one.  Religious zealots, those I have known.

[MDS]

You realize militant has more than one meaning, right?

When I said "militant," I was referring to those non-believers who are every bit as strident about their philosophical bent as believers.  The "in your face" iceholes who seem to be compelled to cram their views down the throats of anyone in their presence or sphere of influence.

Personally I couldn't give a farg either way.  If you're passionate about your faith or non-faith, good for you.  My standard response to any sort of proselytizing is, "whatever," and the same goes for people who are aggressively non-religious.  In short, both groups are fanatics and should be avoided whenever possible.

Understand now?

i wouldnt use the word militant anymore

[ice grillin you]

I love the man but im not sure if there is anyone on earth more bipolar than romey

[PhillyPhreak54]

Rand Paul has announced he's running by saying "we've come to take our country back"

Oh yeah? From whom, Rand?

[SD]

Wasn't that the Palin/Mccain war cry in 2008?

[Rome]

A New Phase in Anti-Obama Attacks

By THE EDITORIAL BOARDAPRIL 11, 2015

It is a peculiar, but unmistakable, phenomenon: As Barack Obama's presidency heads into its twilight, the rage of the Republican establishment toward him is growing louder, angrier and more destructive.

Republican lawmakers in Washington and around the country have been focused on blocking Mr. Obama's agenda and denigrating him personally since the day he took office in 2009. But even against that backdrop, and even by the dismal standards of political discourse today, the tone of the current attacks is disturbing. So is their evident intent — to undermine not just Mr. Obama's policies, but his very legitimacy as president.

It is a line of attack that echoes Republicans' earlier questioning of Mr. Obama's American citizenship. Those attacks were blatantly racist in their message — reminding people that Mr. Obama was black, suggesting he was African, and planting the equally false idea that he was secretly Muslim. The current offensive is slightly more subtle, but it is impossible to dismiss the notion that race plays a role in it.

Perhaps the most outrageous example of the attack on the president's legitimacy was a letter signed by 47 Republican senators to the leadership of Iran saying Mr. Obama had no authority to conclude negotiations over Iran's nuclear weapons program. Try to imagine the outrage from Republicans if a similar group of Democrats had written to the Kremlin in 1986 telling Mikhail Gorbachev that President Ronald Reagan did not have the authority to negotiate a nuclear arms deal at the Reykjavik summit meeting that winter.

There is no functional difference between that example and the Iran talks, except that the congressional Republican caucus does not like Mr. Obama and wants to deny him any policy victory.

On April 3, Colbert King, a Washington Post columnist summarized a series of actions by Republicans attacking the president's authority in areas that most Americans thought had been settled by the Civil War. Arizona legislators, for example, have been working on a bill that "prohibits this state or any of its political subdivisions from using any personnel or financial resources to enforce, administer or cooperate with an executive order issued by the president of the United States that has not been affirmed by a vote of Congress and signed into law as prescribed by the United States Constitution."

The bill sounds an awful lot like John C. Calhoun's secessionist screed of 1828, the South Carolina Exposition and Protest. Laurie Roberts of The Arizona Republic wrote that it was just "one of a series of kooky measures aimed at declaring our independence from federal gun laws, from the Affordable Care Act, from the Environmental Protection Agency, from the Department of Justice, from Barack Obama."

Republicans defend this sort of action by accusing Mr. Obama of acting like a king and citing executive actions he has taken — on immigration and pollution among other things. That's nonsense. The same Republicans had no objection when President George W. Bush used his executive authority to authorize the torture of terrorism suspects and tap the phones of American citizens. It is not executive orders the Republicans object to; it is Mr. Obama's policies, and Mr. Obama.

The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who declared war on the new president in 2009 as minority leader and used the filibuster to paralyze the Senate, essentially told foreign governments to ignore the carbon-emission goals Mr. Obama was trying to set by international agreement. Because climate-change deniers in Congress and in some states oppose the effort, setting those goals is pointless, Mr. McConnell pronounced last month.

If this insurrection is driven by something other than a blend of ideological extremism and personal animosity, it is not clear what that might be. But it is ugly, it deepens mistrust of government and it harms the office of the president, not just Mr. Obama.

* mic drop *

[Diomedes]

destilupfrontating

shtein cracks me up every time

[PhillyPhreak54]

But but Obama is bad for the country and he's a Kenyan mooslim! Take this country back NOW!

[ice grillin you]

the ghost of obama bin laden disagrees

[ice grillin you]

this makes me want to murder someone.....

http://amp.twimg.com/prod/multibr_v_1/video/2015/04/14/18/d56d3cc8-uploadedvideo-libx264-main-2028k.mp4?bpAgkgr6NWFPQug39wFftnWxk80j1zzOFMTF1QX1IG8%3D

[PhillyPhreak54]

lol the media is funny to watch

[smeags]

President Barack Obama has submitted the request to Congress to rescind Cuba's designation as a state sponsor of terror, the White House National Security spokesperson announced in a tweet.

The State Department had recently made the same recommendation to Obama prior to his trip to Panama for the Summit of the Americas, where he had a historic meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro.

now teabaggers will add communist to the long line of jackass labels they pin on obama. 

[General_Failure]

Voting machine password hacks as easy as 'abcde', details Virginia state report

Anyone within a half mile could have modified every vote, undetected, Epstein said in a blog post. "I got to question a guy by the name of Brit Williams, who'd certified them, and I said, 'How did you do a penetration test?'" Epstein told the Guardian, "and he said, 'I don't know how to do something like that'."

Reached by phone, Williams, who has since retired, said he did not recall the incident and referred the Guardian to former colleagues at Kennesaw State University who have taken over the certification duties he used to perform for Virginia and other states.

"You could have broken into one of these with a very small amount of technical assistance," Epstein said. "I could teach you how to do it over the phone. It might require an administrator password, but that's okay, the password is 'admin'."

Bypassing the encrypted WEP wireless system also proved easy. The password turned out to be "ABCDE", according to the state's security assessment – and getting the password "would take a few minutes and after that you don't need any tools at all", said Epstein.