en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/784135 Comments by Lary9 http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/in-texas-traffic-stops-for-women-regularly-include-searches-of-their-vaginas/discrimination/2013/08/05/72516#IDComment694924788 Every time I read one of these bizarre Texas tales, I have to take a shower. Yech! Please secede! Tue, 6 Aug 2013 14:50:13 +0000 http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/in-texas-traffic-stops-for-women-regularly-include-searches-of-their-vaginas/discrimination/2013/08/05/72516#IDComment694924788 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/christianity-islam-and-atheism/#IDComment632110942 If Obama is a messiah, then he's a laughably poor and ironically transitory one---furthermore, if you think POTUS is a liberal, then you misunderstand the concept. He socially liberal, probably owing to his background in law & community planning, but he's no liberal on much else. Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:12:56 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/christianity-islam-and-atheism/#IDComment632110942 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/christianity-islam-and-atheism/#IDComment632107288 Secular humanism isn't a religion anymore than democratic government or existentialism or cubism in art. This is an accusation I hear all the time. It arises from the filter through which they view the world---not the reality. I think it comes from the confusion of human passion for certain ideas with the religious passion of zealots, thinking that since they both bear a committed intensity then they must be alike. As for "much bloodshed"---it makes little sense when compared to the overwhelming majority of war waged in this world that is directly related to religious belief. What? Are you arguing that Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot were secular humanists? Ridiculous. But all these side bars are irrelevant to the truth at the heart of the matter. Either there is a God or there isn't. Religious war is waged between believers in the affirmative over the details of their own faith, (usually Abrahamic),and its private revelations, now institutionalized---wherein the devil lies. It's as clear as the nose on a human face. Religion has been giving ground for centuries and is poised to act either on malicious world destruction or enlightened capitulation---your loss of adherents is accelerating. And the great squealing protests by religious groups are nothing more than frightened victims, still locked in the mass delusional hysteria of religion, as they watch their offspring leaving the madness in droves! Religion itself is the genuine "elephant in the room" of terrorism and armed conflict that few target head-on. Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:06:16 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/christianity-islam-and-atheism/#IDComment632107288 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/christianity-islam-and-atheism/#IDComment628506128 <“A secular society… can’t fight a spiritual war,” Kilpatrick writes.> Of course it can and it has been doing it since The Enlightenment. Secular humanism (regardless of what it's called at any given time) continues to gain ground inch-by-inch...closing the gaps of knowledge with science & rationality one new truth paradigm at a time. Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:23:58 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/christianity-islam-and-atheism/#IDComment628506128 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/07/25/brave-ricky-gervais-evangelical-atheism-finally-jumps-shark/#IDComment177869291 As an atheist, already well on the road to self-acceptance and social connectedness to other atheists without Gervais, I recently commented on a Gervais-fan web site that he ought to "Shut up and go away"...that he was "embarassing us [atheists] as a group with his raucous, unsolicited antics". His fan base howled in protest and hammered me hard! The bottom line is Ricky ought to just keep quiet and learn a bit more about the growing and life-affirming movement of atheists that already thrives globally before he steps forward to assume some unneeded leadership role. After all, I've heard it said that organizing atheists is a lot like trying to herd cats. Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:46:38 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/07/25/brave-ricky-gervais-evangelical-atheism-finally-jumps-shark/#IDComment177869291 http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2011/06/06/me-and-the-pussys-weiner-sends-intimate-home-pic-apparently-relishes-double-entendres-too/#IDComment160106127 I owe Mr. Breitbart an apology. I just saw Rep. Weiner's statement and, although I was not surprised, I really didn't believe he had those kind of demons in him (albeit moderate enough as demons go). One thing I have concluded, is that I must be under-sexed because after three daughters and a son as well as 6 grandkids, I have never cheated on my wife...never felt these impulses running through me that the recent avalanche of politicians have. Maybe it's something in the water at the Capitol. Mon, 6 Jun 2011 20:39:10 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2011/06/06/me-and-the-pussys-weiner-sends-intimate-home-pic-apparently-relishes-double-entendres-too/#IDComment160106127 http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2011/06/06/me-and-the-pussys-weiner-sends-intimate-home-pic-apparently-relishes-double-entendres-too/#IDComment160080190 Intimate pictures? Bare chested? Where? I'm no big fan of Rep. Weiner, but he's in a frakkin' T-shirt, for chrissake. C'mon, Breitbart, get a real job, you flunkey. The last good thing you did was the de-mythologizing of Bob Dylan. That was a real service. This is chickensh*t. Mon, 6 Jun 2011 18:51:27 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2011/06/06/me-and-the-pussys-weiner-sends-intimate-home-pic-apparently-relishes-double-entendres-too/#IDComment160080190 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jwhiteside/2010/04/28/folk-lies-joni-mitchell-outs-bob-dylan/#IDComment144580528 I can usually guarantee disagreement with everything Mr. Breitbart writes or gins-up, but here's a topic that even I, as a life long radical leftie, find refreshingly candid and, more importantly, totally accurate. I've known about Bobby Zimmerman's little secret (that he's a self-invented plaigarist) since the second or third albums and never cared much for his music anyhow. It rankles to realize how gullible Americans are when a wanna-be 'Da-da poet' with average talent throws together a few incoherent rhymes--- a vacuous, jaded, uneducated public can find layers of brilliance and Joycean allegory in a pile of dog feces. Bob Dylan is horrible in concert, (I've seen him twice), lousy in the studio and a self-absorbed grouch on the public sidewalk. To this day, I become nauseous whenever I hear "The Times They Are A-changing". You know... I don't really care for him much either. Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:06:59 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jwhiteside/2010/04/28/folk-lies-joni-mitchell-outs-bob-dylan/#IDComment144580528 http://wonkette.com/442788/tennessee-gop-bravely-votes-to-teach-creationism-in-public-schools#IDComment142250898 Don't you see what a slippery slope you're on? If they manage to actually implement this bill's goals, then others may come along with a third view of creation based upon the suras of the Quran. Would you like that? What if the courts mandated that now we must teach Quran Science, including ideas about a disk-shaped earth, in 6 stages, and 7 separate heavens with angels flying around and man being ceated from a clot of blood? Imagine all those devout Muslims in Tennessee demanding equal time? Maybe we'd all just have to share the time in 5tth. period science or, worse, teach the controversy! You'd blow a gasket then! Keep stealth religion out of science class! Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:38:23 +0000 http://wonkette.com/442788/tennessee-gop-bravely-votes-to-teach-creationism-in-public-schools#IDComment142250898 http://inewp.com/?p=7514#IDComment142246376 ~concluded~ [part3] PS: Don't you see what a slippery slope you're on? If you manage to actually implement your goals, then others may come along with a third view of creation based upon the suras of the Quran. Would you like that? What if the courts mandated that now we must teach Quran Science, including ideas about a disk-shaped earth, in 6 stages, along with 7 separate heavens and angels flying through them and man being ceated from a clot of blood? Imagine all those devout Muslims in Tennessee demanding equal time? Maybe they'd just have to share the time or, worse, teach the controversy! You'd blow a gasket then! Keep stealth religion out of science class! Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:16:54 +0000 http://inewp.com/?p=7514#IDComment142246376 http://inewp.com/?p=7514#IDComment142244276 ~cont~ [part2 of above comment] The problem you have is that their convictions are undoubtedly not identical to Christian fundmentalists who base their entire understanding of creation upon Genesis. Suppose I believe in God yet also in evolution as a manifestation of God's original creative impulse? Imagine further that I don't defer to the Bible as a sacred canon nor do I believe that the Bible is the inerrant direct utterance of God? See? There's your patently sectarian problem in a nutshell. You want everyone who studies biology on your watch to be cookie-cutter Christian soldiers---and that just ain't kosher constitutionally. Stop lying to people by way of implying that it's either evolution and atheism or creation via Genesis and Theism. Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:06:54 +0000 http://inewp.com/?p=7514#IDComment142244276 http://inewp.com/?p=7514#IDComment142244072 Mr. Cummings, I believe we've had this exchange before. I had hoped that you might have revised your errors in incorrectly presenting the case that biological evolution is equivalent to atheism---but you have not. There is not a single atheistic sentiment in Darwin's "Origin of Species", in fact, he even closes the book with some rather blatantly spiritual comments. Why don't you get over yourself. Evolution can be metaphysical or materialistic. There are many scientists who subscribe fully to the ideas in contemporary evolutionary science and still have strong theological convictions. Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:06:04 +0000 http://inewp.com/?p=7514#IDComment142244072 http://inewp.com/?p=7421#IDComment138461130 Balderdash! Pure balderdash! (Harrumph!) Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:42:04 +0000 http://inewp.com/?p=7421#IDComment138461130 http://inewp.com/?p=7369#IDComment136802581 Where do these goobers come from? You know, more and more, these fundamentalist-types that support the Creation Museum, et. al., strike me as indistingiishable from persons with a mental disorder. Seriously. There ought to be a diagnostic category in the DSM-IV for a Genesis Disorder. "...Herman Cummings. I’m the leading expert on the book of Genesis." quoted from the article PS: Who? Herman Cummings is THE EXPERT on the Book of Genesis? What about my Grandpa Joe, the Christian Socialist? Everybody in my family thought gramps was the expert on that. Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:59:55 +0000 http://inewp.com/?p=7369#IDComment136802581 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/03/17/is-there-a-moderate-islam/#IDComment127640260 The Quran is essentially hermetically sealed against contemporary exegesis by virtue of its divine corporealization. As long as faithful Muslims regard the text of the suras as the impregnable embodiment of Allah's nerve ganglia on earth, there will never be an Islamic reformation. That being said, without reformation, there may be moderate individual Muslims, but no moderate Islam. This is an unavoidable madness among religious fundamentalists wherever a religion has sacred texts that are elevated from canon to divine incarnations. Ask any right wing evangelical Christian. Sun, 13 Feb 2011 03:32:03 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/03/17/is-there-a-moderate-islam/#IDComment127640260 http://www.vawatchdog.org/10/nf10/nfmay10/nf052810-5.htm#IDComment123134184 So how about someone who has been in the system with a permanent service connected disability for 20 years? No changes right?__ Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:25:05 +0000 http://www.vawatchdog.org/10/nf10/nfmay10/nf052810-5.htm#IDComment123134184 http://theberry.com/2010/07/13/i-think-their-plastic-surgeon-used-a-butter-knife-28-photos#IDComment114888399 How do you know who they are? Is there a list of names for people like me who don't read tabloids? I looked...couldn't find any reference list to all the before & after pics. Thanks. Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:47:04 +0000 http://theberry.com/2010/07/13/i-think-their-plastic-surgeon-used-a-butter-knife-28-photos#IDComment114888399 http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/Music/2010/11/26/Willie-Nelson-arrested-for-pot-possession/UPI-74731290821827/#IDComment112728494 Isn't this obsessive, nonsense getting tiresome with the unconstitutional laws regarding marijuana? Jeez! I'm not even a pot-smoker and I'm pro-legalization. What a prosecutorial waste of national energy and money. Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:18:36 +0000 http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/Music/2010/11/26/Willie-Nelson-arrested-for-pot-possession/UPI-74731290821827/#IDComment112728494 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/10/21/a-nuclear-chavez/#IDComment108716968 Thanks. I'm an old traveler with survivor's instincts. I will certainly be circumspect about where my boots go. If you like, go ahead and send it: <lary9@comcast.net.> That would be cool. Tue, 9 Nov 2010 04:08:25 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/10/21/a-nuclear-chavez/#IDComment108716968 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/10/21/a-nuclear-chavez/#IDComment108704834 You can count on it. I'll have relatively unrestricted access through my group and I'm not carrying any blind pretensions about the glowing purity of the revolution. On the other hand, I'm not looking to condemn "la voz del pueblo cubano" either. I'll check in when I'm there if I can get connectivity. Do you know if there are mobile hook-ups? Tue, 9 Nov 2010 03:22:15 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/10/21/a-nuclear-chavez/#IDComment108704834