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Re: Erick Erickson insulted by claim he incited violence against Planned Parenthood, incites violence against Planned Parenthood

Indigo — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:57:53 -0000

Offending Eric Erickson is easy. Just mention his name in a context that includes facts and he's offended.

Re: Pope Francis says we can’t address AIDS epidemic until we eradicate poverty

Indigo — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:54:19 -0000

Superstitious and bloodthirsty nomads, perhaps, but they weren't ignorant. Moses had the finest education available in Ancient Egypt. And they weren't savages, not in any ordinary sense of the word. Thugs, maybe.

Re: Better, worse and worst

Indigo — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 16:11:02 -0000

Obama could have done that but instead of closing Guantanamo and pulling out of the Iraq-Afghanistan quagmire, he stuck around and now we're embedded in that region. If the next president gets aggressively warlike, we could wind up with an impressive oil-rich empire not easily governed unless we get domineering in a way the world hasn't yet seen. No coffin needed.

Re: Better, worse and worst

Indigo — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 13:51:32 -0000

I'm with whomever the convention nominates but for now, I like Bernie but he puts me in mind of Eugene McCarthy (1968) who was genuinely inspiring but not really national winning material. I'm for Hillary unless the convention says otherwise. She's got what it takes to rattle the Congress and put 'em to work!

Re: Democrats need to stop playing politics with the terror watch list

Indigo — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 20:20:08 -0000

It occurs to me that a workable watch list should be a government secret, accessible only to whoever is monitoring the list. That would be one of the functions of the "Secret Government" that we don't actually know about in any detail. The lists talked about here are for show, the real surveillance, if there is any, goes on at a more clandestine level.

Re: So what now?

Indigo — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 17:04:46 -0000

As long as our Lords & Masters continue to profit from these skirmishes, attacks, bombings, and mini-wars, that entanglement won't be undone because it's too profitable to keep the fighting going.

In my mind, at any rate, the thing we need to do is to constantly harp on that to the point where the shame of it becomes transparently obvious to every citizen. Then we can hope for a citizens' revolt. But the media prefer the carnival of slaughter and social disruption, that has to change and I believe that shaming them will at least make a start on it.

Re: So what now?

Indigo — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 17:01:36 -0000

The Peace of Wetsphalia (1642?) managed to establish that principle and it held for a good long time. It wasn't that anybody won or lost, it was that they were equally over the slaughter that was the Thirty Years War. They stopped fighting and got on with the business of living their lives. I doubt we're at that point but we're getting there.

Re: Ben Carson breaks with Donald Trump on immigration, but his plan is no less insane

Indigo — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 21:04:24 -0000

Beyond the nuttiness is a layer of nuttiness known as the GOP committee which is tolerating this. What are they thinking? How do they imagine this happened? And what do they intend to do about it?

Re: Ben Carson breaks with Donald Trump on immigration, but his plan is no less insane

Indigo — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 21:02:34 -0000

But wait . . . there's a platform?

Re: Every argument against automatic voter registration, debunked

Indigo — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 19:04:53 -0000

Voting isn't difficult. Getting registered can be a challenge and certain social demographics are known to oppose and conspire against the voting rights of certain other social demographics. And that's a crime. It should be prosecuted. The suggestion in favor of automatic enrollment is the most sensible and democratic option but that's the obstacle because democratic process is exactly what certain social demographics try to prevent. That, of course, is tyranny and treason. We should not tolerate it. We should name it loud and clear. We should prosecute it.

Re: Christian UN staff in Kenya refuse aid to gay men fleeing persecution

Indigo — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 19:00:27 -0000

That's nice but it doesn't work. There's far too much water under the bridge since Constantine to get away the nice-guys argument. Oh, no! Disassociate! Call your self Gnostic or Nag Hammadi or Coptic or even Mithraic, but drop the Nicene facade, it doesn't work without an emperor to hold it up.

Re: Christian UN staff in Kenya refuse aid to gay men fleeing persecution

Indigo — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 18:54:13 -0000

Yes, but problem area: sin is a Christian category. How does the source of a category also be a category of itself?

Re: Ben Carson’s campaign doubles down on claim that China has a military presence in Syria

Indigo — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 07:51:52 -0000

There's no Klown Kar like a Republican Klown Kar. I can hardly wait for the main event.

Re: I guess it’s time to cap the voting age — at 65

Indigo — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:40:17 -0000

Okay, I missed the obvious. It was the riff on Floridians that threw me off.

Re: I guess it’s time to cap the voting age — at 65

Indigo — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:33:22 -0000

I've read the article three times now. Maybe I'm missing something (that happens more than I'd like) but at best it seems like it's either a) the product of a very foolish professor or b) an Onion like satire. As angry professors go, it sounds likely. As satire goes, it's not all that clever. So I'm standing by my assessment of angry old coot running off at the keyboard.

Similar arguments were made in the late 1960s about us dirty hippies. So what? Apparently times don't change, the people acting out however, get old and young ones come along. Okay.

Re: Anti-HERO campaign leaders have shockingly hateful past

Indigo — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:31:57 -0000

Are we to understand that all this was known, the documentation was in place, but whoever-knew just sat on it until after the votes were counted? Is this another "too little, too late" incident that could have been prevented but wasn't? Who among the knowledgeable profited from this reticence? Or is all this just now coming to light for the very first time and nobody knew? Nobody?

Re: Obamacare contraception rule headed back to Supreme Court

Indigo — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 22:18:52 -0000

That's the problem, they want to impose their notions as if they had the legal right to do that. They need State Church. Christianity cann't work without it.

Re: Kentucky Governor-elect Bevin will bail Kim Davis out on day one

Indigo — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 22:16:01 -0000

Exactly how President Trump will work. Stay turned.

Re: Obama rejects the Keystone Pipeline

Indigo — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 22:13:06 -0000

And then the Conservatives lost in Canada, prices dropped, Trudeau's government opposed it, and the bid was shut down. That made it safe for the State Department to recommend opposing it.

Re: Reform Judaism approves major resolution providing for transgender inclusion

Indigo — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 20:05:42 -0000

Ha!

Re: Ben Carson proposes separate but equal bathrooms for trans people

Indigo — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 18:42:52 -0000

Oh, I'm not talking about my physician, I'm talking about social acquaintances. MDs are often surprisingly nuts when you get acquainted with them socially. It's frankly alarming to me how under-informed several of them that I know personally are. Unbelievable ignorance outside their field.

Re: Registered Florida voter Ben Carson doesn’t know much about national policies that specifically affect Florida

Indigo — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 21:38:46 -0000

Many have tried but none have succeeded . . . yet.

Re: Voter suppression expert Kris Kobach speaks to white nationalist publishing group

Indigo — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 18:12:30 -0000

In that case, there's trouble in River City.

Re: Who is responsible for the collapse of the two-state solution?

Indigo — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 13:55:11 -0000

Eek!

Re: Donald Trump blows up negotiations for GOP debates, will Art of the Deal with networks directly

Indigo — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 21:00:42 -0000

He's going to be our presidilident. It's happening while we craft our witicisms. That's how bad off the nation is.