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Along those same hypocrisy lines...
Joe Scarborough: The Right Carries Bibles But Misses Jesus’ Point About The Poor
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/joe-s…I don’t usually do this but I am going to do it now because it seems that Christianity is constantly being thrown into primary debates. It happened again this past weekend. How fascinating that, despite the fact that many on the right have brought religion up over the past 30, 40 years, they somehow missed the core of Jesus’ message?
Jesus was asked by his disciples, who is getting to heaven? How do we sit on the right hand of the father? This is what Jesus Christ said. By the way, Pastor Jeffress, if you open your Bible to Matthew, it is in red letters. That means Jesus said it. Then, the King will say to those on the right, come you who are blessed by my Father, take your inheritance. For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you invited me in. I needed clothes and you clothed me. I was sick and you looked after me. I was in prison and you came to visit me.And that was not Jesus talking about some side issue, some side board to his ministry. That was Jesus talking about, when asked, what His ministry was about. It was about taking care of the poor. We don’t see that from the very people who wave their bibles around the most.
- BonSeff0
wow, so now you are a fucking Dr in theology.. get fucked.
- what's that have to do with anything? I'm calling out Conservatives.********
- BonSeff is anti-you, pf, the way you are anti-Obama.locustsloth
- I suppose so...********
- what's that have to do with anything? I'm calling out Conservatives.
- BonSeff0
because bible thumpers already have to dole out 10% of their taxed income to their church, now they have to take care of the poor too?
that is their logic- can you clarify what you're saying here? Who's logic? Where is this opinion coming from?locustsloth
- "the very people who wave their bibles around the most. "BonSeff
- eh? Ohh boy. I'm talking about what's stated in the Bible and the hypocrisy of what some political figures are barking.********
- Really, JazX?DrBombay
- locustsloth0
have you heard or read someone give the above viewpoint ("? If so, that person or persons are ridiculous. If you are just creating other peoples viewpoints out of thin air and attributing them to people, i'm not sure what to say to you
- ablolutely, i live in the bible beltBonSeff
- my condolenceslocustsloth
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hey locustsloth, have a friend living in Montpelier, VT.
Local rep.
http://www.statesurge.com/member…yes a hyper liberal democrat. still my buddy, just because I disagree with his politics.
- name sounds familar. Not "i know this guy" familiar, but i'm sure i've seen his name on the ballotlocustsloth
- yeah, saw you were from VT. He's an awesome guy, related to some early Puritan types.********
- DrBombay0
JazX totally busted himself as Poopfeeder up here: http://www.qbn.com/topics/564613… in the comments.
Geology major! bing bong. Retire that account and start a new one, bitch.
- i think his bumping of ancient JazX centered threads already served that purpose. This is further evidence howeverlocustsloth
- DrBombay0
Blows my mind that he goes out and finds a picture of an innocent dude and starts a dummy email account and has done this like a hundred times. Alex Lau from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania is a fucking sociopath.
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Politics is as politics does.
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- "attack" is a bit hyperbolic, doncha think?locustsloth
- it's in their manifesto, or so they say...********
- Hi JazX!DrBombay
- I don't want to take anything from the rich. I want the rich to stop taking from me and the other 99%.
Kiino
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The 1960s radicalism of Occupy Wall Street will help elect a Republican in 2012
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/new…Protest is exciting when you are young, and everyone deserves their chance to burn something down. But the political reality is that voters don’t actually want the wheels of Capitalism to stop turning. They don’t want free love or a rainbow nation of stoners. They want a job. That’s why Barack Obama, Joe Biden and the Democratic Party have made a big mistake in expressing sympathy for the Occupy Wall Street movement. They’ve endorsed a happening that is moral in principle but politically toxic. Ordinary voters – the boring, unpretty folks who get up every day and go to work and never once complain – will reject it at the polls. The silent majority will be heard eventually, just like it was back in 1968.
- BonSeff0
so you go from quoting matthew 25:35 to calling the poor communist vermin, congrats.
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SunPower: Twice As Bad As Solyndra, Twice As Bad For Obama
http://www.humanevents.com/artic…How did a failing California solar company, buffeted by short sellers and shareholder lawsuits, receive a $1.2 billion federal loan guarantee for a photovoltaic electricity ranch project—three weeks after it announced it was building new manufacturing plant in Mexicali, Mexico, to build the panels for the project.
The company, SunPower (SPWR-NASDAQ), now carries $820 million in debt, an amount $20 million greater than its market capitalization. If SunPower was a bank, the feds would shut it down. Instead, it received a lifeline twice the size of the money sent down the Solyndra drain.
Two men with insight into the process are SunPower rooter Rep. George R. Miller III, (D.-Calif.), the senior Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee and the co-chairman of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, and his SunPower lobbyist son, George Miller IV.
Miller the Elder is a strong advocate for SunPower, which converted an old Richmond, Calif., Ford plant in his district to a panel-manufacturing facility.
The congressman hosted an Oct. 14, 2010, tour of the plant with company CEO Thomas H. Werner and Interior Secretary Kenneth L. Salazar to promote the company’s fortunes.
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Start here with your protests kids!
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Former Gov. Ed Rendell To Occupy Wall Streeters: ‘Made Your Point,’ Now ‘Organize At The Ballot Box’
http://www.mediaite.com/online/g…And again, look, I don’t agree with their message. I mean the guys in Philadelphia said they’re going to be here all winter. Well, that’s silly. You’ve made your point, you’ve gotten about all the publicity you’re going to get. Now get on with your lives and if you really care about this stuff, organize at the ballot box. You know, we can yell and, our side, we can yell and scream about the Tea Party, but the Tea Party folks understood how to make change in 2010. They got out and voted.
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DINO, Democrat in Name Only!
- Hi JazX!DrBombay
- he's right. All this uprising is for nothing if they don't organize, register people and vote.locustsloth
- If they actually get organized, it's possible that a liberal candidate who actually embraces their views could emerge to challenge Obamalocustsloth
- Obama. That'd be interestinglocustsloth
- yes locust, agreed, get out and vote, well they did for Obama, that was no CHANGE. Fraud!********
- the sad part, I bet most of these protesters aren't happy with BO, but sigh, they are stuck with him as candidate********
- They're not 'stuck' if they come up with a strong 3rd party candidatelocustsloth
- a better result would be Obama wising up and being the liberal he actually professed to be in 08locustsloth
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Karl Rove On Pastor’s Anti-Mormon Remark: ‘Cult’ Comment Will Hurt Perry; ‘Doesn’t Belong In Politics’
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/karl-…This is a terrible mistake on the part of the Pastor; it’s the kind of thing that doesn’t belong in politics. We want our candidates, we want our leaders to be people of faith, but we don’t get into and we haven’t gotten into since at least the 1960 presidential election in the determination over whether or not somebody’s professed faith is acceptable to the vast majority of Americans.
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Perry's "Reverend Wright!"
What Perry and that Texas pastor don't get, 90% of individuals who consider themselves Christians or in some eye's "believers" are loving and don't appreciate such hateful remarks against other Christian sects. It's opening the door for Cain and Romney to be the two to choose from, especially with Cain's no-nonsense talk.
- Hi JazX!DrBombay
- You ignoring me makes it even more evident, fuckface.DrBombay
- WTF do you keep babbling about asshole?********
- You are JazX, it is undeniable.DrBombay
- You are a creepy little sociopath that you invent these alter egos around here and have done so for a fucking decade.DrBombay
- decade.DrBombay
- You truly need to get a life and wake the fuck up, liberal moron!********
- You brought up Afrika the other day and spelled it with a 'K' and then were an expert on Geology today. Admit it you coward.DrBombay
- fucking cowardly cunt.DrBombay
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- JazX is a pussy.DrBombay
- you know he's JazX, we know he's JazX, he knows we know. Can we move on now?locustsloth
- You sure do like to tell people what to do, locustsloth.DrBombay
- actually you believe it is jazx, but you really don't know. and frankly i am offendedBonSeff
- that you think i would believe that.BonSeff
- that was fucking sarcasmBonSeff
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holy cow Newt Gingrich just called out Ben Bernanke and Geitner and said Barney Frank and Chris dodd should be in jail!
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Now Ron Paul calling out the fed!
http://www.bloomberg.com/tv/#ooi…
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@blue
Supply and demand is natural law. Everything living in nature runs on supply and demand. Markets are more advanced ethical form of natural selection. Governments provide security of peoples individuals rights and in doing so you take away the old fashioned tribalism/brute force forms of supply and demand. This sets up free trade. At this point the government can stop and just stick to protecting peoples rights (and contractual agreements) and you will see markets continue without need of further assistance. And that isnt ideology that just is.
Think of a lake with a health ecosystem of trout, salmon frogs and what not. It sustains and balances itself. Now think of god dropping some carp into that lake. What will happen to the ecosystem? Carp will upset the natural balance and change it. The carp had no way in nature to possibly get into that lake without divine assistance. Did that assistance distort and change the ecosystem? Is it the fault of the ecosystem? In this case its lucky to be god because it doesnt effect him and he really doesnt need to deal with any natural laws.
Switch out the lake for a city for say a college. Change god to government operating outside. They introduce 100% guaranteed payments incase of defaults. Would this not change the natural order of the banking system in how it would regularly compete and evaluate how it gives loans to the students? Is that not a distortion? Would the banks not see the positive incentives in marketing to more kids the loans and less checking to see if they could be paid back? Would that not influence kids who really didnt care for college to just go because loans are so easy to get and later declare bankruptcy after ten years of partying and fun social scene? Than would these kids feel cheated? Would people blame the banking industry for over lending and having tax payers front bills?
How far governments role and regulations play into it is more an "ideology" but not that its a more ethical form of natural selection. And have to say history seems to prove itself over and over again that ideologies holding these principles of least amounts of distortion through regulatory distortions to be the best methods for real progress and building everyone up. While the ideology that a centralized group of people can act as god and steer markets have never much succeeded. And when they collapse they collapse pretty hard, while the alternative takes a smaller hit and gets going again balancing itself out.
And it is not in mans best interest to grow your type of ideologies. Its fact that mans nature is incentive based in self interest. And that absolute power of authority and mans thirst will make him act in his own best interests, not of the people or for the people. We need less distortions and let market or natural forces of supply and demand govern us. Some peopel will say well what about those born in areas with less resources and such things. How will they get by and start thinking about ways to distort the markets to benefit others (politicians self interests in such actions are votes), voters self interests are in themselves, and play into mans nature without the ability to foresee any consequences like dropping a carp in a lake. That kind of pride and greed is bad juju.
Until the ideology and yes it's an ideology - of some sort of infallible god like men with no self interests (yea an impossibility) as some sort of prima facia thing in human existence disappears - we will suffer with this shit and with the bullshit that "insert name here" needs to believe in.
Im sticking with nature and history. And why bring up the handle? I have a ton of different monikers i use. I just took this one out of a book i was reading at the time. The naming of the character i thought was interesting. Nothing more than that. Or was that an attempt at one of those fallacies dealing with character assassination by making it seem like my name has some sort of bad meaning so everything i do must be bad. Like saying obama name barack hussein obama ooh hussein like that bad dead guy. Why else would u bring it up?
- You lost me @blueRamanisky2
- that could be the problem********
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that debate spiraled into patheticness quickly. Except for maybe Ron Paul and some Newt Gingrich
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