Dan Savage was brilliant, as it turns out, to make 'santorum' mean 'ass juice.'
There's just so many possibilities!
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Santorum is running somewhere between Romney and Gingritch...
Santorum surges... explodes in Iowa...
Santorum comes from behind. (Simple, yet elegant)
Santorum has unexpected burst
Santorum bottoms out
Santorum campaign leaks to press
Santorum Smears Romney's Magic Underwear
Santorum streaming video
Santorum in bed with Big Oil
Evangelical voters satisfied with Santorum
Santorum offices evacuate lower level
Marcus Bachmann prefers Santorum to Bush
Santorum dips in polls (homonymously cute, no?)
Barney Frank blasts Santorum!
(I have to credit my wife for that one)
Also:
Great name for a Gay Bar: "The Sanctum Santorum"
BADUMP-BUMP!
Disclaimer: I realized later that I had taken parts of pboy's jokes on the previous post and re-used them. Sorry. I give credit here for jokes 2 and 3 to pboy.
ReplyDeleteLike I needed to say this, but still......
So.... what else we got?
No need to credit me for 'the obvious' Brian.
ReplyDeleteHow 'bout, "Santorum, slicker than previously considered!"?
I like it!
ReplyDeleteOkay, change of topic. Was jokin' around with Emma, talkin' about Bear Grylls, I only watch him to see him eating the obligatory disgusting bug.
ReplyDeleteShe doesn't watch it so, I was explaining to her the stuff I've learned, if I were ever to get lost in the bush.
It's fairly easy to remember if it ever does happen. If I ever get lost in the bush or the woods somewhere, I am going to die. If I don't fall off 'that cliff', or drown in 'that river', I'm getting bitten by a snake, getting sucked dry by leeches or just hypothermia.
100% Guaranteed.
Well how do you like the change Obama brought to the table boys?
ReplyDeletedeeper in debt, fewer jobs, fed run health care, biger goverment, and now it looks like war is just around the corner Iran and we have the weakest leader of all.... Oh and by the way Biden says the taliban is not our enemy. f***Tards
I like Obama just fine. He has to clean up[ a mess that the R's have made since 1980 when they jammed trickle down up our ass. The R's are imploding, and after what they have done to our country, I am glad. W tried his best to run us into a depression, and it took Obama to stop the down slide. Get a clue.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Obama's okay lately, and getting better every day. He's finally saying what he should be instead of trying to COMPROMISE with the republicans. You can't meet evil halfway. It doesn't work.
ReplyDeleteAnd as Jerry noted, the R's are imploding nicely. Shallow idiots eating each other alive..... keep the attack ads flowing till the convention! Whoever gets out of it alive is gonna be weakened a lot by that point.
Yeah, I'm starting to feel better about another term.
So nice try, Mike. You republicans tried to neuter Obama and stop anything that he did so you could say things like "Well how do you like the change Obama brought to the table boys?" and get away with it. Prevent him from changing anything and then mocck him for not being able to. Well, that's smart... evil sin't dumb, no sir. You're not dumb when it comes to bringing people down... or killing them off, for that matter. You have your uses, huh?
Oh and by the way Biden says the taliban is not our enemy. f***Tards
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They don't like us, but wasn't it AlQaida that struck us? Not the taliban?
I mean, you're like 'damn chinks' after Pearl Harbor.... At least get the right people, okay?
Why don't you go watch some more Fox News Mike. Find out why you shouldn't shop at stores that don't have Merry Christmas banners and why you shouldn't shop at stores that DO have Merry Christmas banners.
ReplyDeleteFind out why your Congress never saw a tax hike they didn't hate unless it was on working people and it was Obama trying to give the tax break.
Find out the Repuglies plan to make jobs, jobs, jobs by laying off thousands of government workers!
Find out how the U.N. putting sanctions on Iran and Iran threatening the shipping lanes is somehow Obama's fault, because I'm dyin' to know.
Oh wait, I know, everything is Obama's fault, right? Even the final, horrible outcome of previous administrations' deregulation policies.
Never mind Mike, maybe things'll get better if you 'kids from Deliverance' types manage to vote in another shit-fer-brains like Bush?
Heck, Eric might be happy if he/she/it manages to put in a couple more judges that think corporations are people and people aren't really people.
Hey, I have an idea, why don't we keep Obama in and hope at least he isn't rooting for the World to end on Dec.21st. Who knows there might be some stuff in place WORTH destroying if he gets another four years, a chance to fix things up a bit.
Jerry said,
ReplyDeleteI like Obama just fine. He has to clean up[ a mess that the R's have made since 1980 when they jammed trickle down up our ass. The R's are imploding, and after what they have done to our country, I am glad. W tried his best to run us into a depression, and it took Obama to stop the down slide. Get a clue.
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Get a clue you say? How’s this for heads up poser. Clinton was the one who demanded lenders to make mortgage loans to people who could not afford to pay it back. So in short it was the Democratic President who brought the financial woes to America on Bush’s watch. Clinton was President for 8 of those years and he signed the NAFTA bill into law which sent American job south of the border. As for trickle down economics Reagan was the one who brought us out of the recession Carter had us waist deep in. People suffered from week to week in the burdensome days of Carter. Now here we are again under Democratic bondage and everything is as bad as it was in the Carters days. Its just like when we lost the helicopter and our military behind Iranian Carter said give us back our men, and now again we find ourselves in the same predicament with the advanced technology drone and Obama asking for it back. Democrats are not able to lead a nation such as the US. You’re just not intelligent enough. Yes you have book smarts but when it comes to common sense you’re dumb as shit….Hence “dumb shit.”
As for trickle down economics Reagan was the one who brought us out of the recession Carter had us waist deep in.
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Wow...
Wow.
Okay.
Whatever.
Yes you have book smarts but when it comes to common sense you’re dumb as shit…
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So you realize that you're 'book' stupid. So you try to take pride in what you see as 'common sense.'
Your 'common sense' is way off, though. You consistantly select the options that are not even in YOUR best interests, but you BELIEVE that they are.
What I see from where I sit, is stupid in both directions. No book smarts, no common sense... and no morality. In fact, you and MI are the two most ignorant people that I talk to on any regular basis. No contest.
But you BELIEVE that you have all of that, so you're satisfied, and so you'll NEVER HAVE IT. The circle of dumbness, is closed.
Sad.
I see that you are wrong but that you believe that you are right. This is maddening. I can't reach people like that. Nobody can.
ReplyDeleteYou however, are mad first. And only then decide that I am wrong. Because you do not like me or what I stand for. This influences your decision that I am wrong. To you, I MUST be wrong. You don't actually care if I am right... it's gotta be wrong to you, no matter. Because you hate me. What I am, at any rate. You've bene taught to, by immoral people pretending to be moral.
I dismiss you because you are wrong, and I blame that on your beliefs. But you dismiss me based upon your beliefs, which TELL you that I am wrong. You're not making the decision yourself. Your programming is answering for you.
I have a free mind. You are a slave.
Have a happy new year!
Mike,
ReplyDeleteHere's a secret:
Sometimes people with a lack of morality, tell certain types of people that they don't need no 'book smarts' because all they need is common sense. Then they, those people that said that, take advantage of the very people they just told didn't need no book smarts. Because, when you think common sense is all you need, you're like a ripe fruit just waiting to be plucked.
All 'smarts' are valuable. Bot book and common types. And guess what? When you get more [book smart,' and you also value common sense, you can even develop better 'common sense' based on your larger knowledge base.
This is what I always talk about, the value of both logic (book smarts if you will) and intuition (common sense.)
The ideal person, has both. To have only one, is imbalanced. Either way. You must strive for BOTH.
Clinton was President for 8 of those years and he signed the NAFTA bill into law which sent American job south of the border.
ReplyDeleteJust a point of info (and look it up if you don't believe me, Mike):
Clinto did sign NAFTA, but he had no choice. The agreement was hammered out under Bush I and Clinton didn't have a choice to back out.
"Following diplomatic negotiations dating back to 1986 (under Ronald Reagan -Ed.) among the three nations, the leaders met in San Antonio, Texas, on December 17, 1992, to sign NAFTA. U.S. President George H. W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mexican President Carlos Salinas, each responsible for spearheading and promoting the agreement, ceremonially signed it. The agreement then needed to be ratified by each nation's legislative or parliamentary branch.
Before the negotiations were finalized, Bill Clinton came into office in the U.S. and Kim Campbell in Canada, and before the agreement became law, Jean Chrétien had taken office in Canada."
NAFTA started as a republican idea, and the only thing Clinton did was sign the papers on the "done deal".
ReplyDeleteWow Mike. Seems that Obama has a lot to answer for. Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, what the CIA does with their drones, how he can't cut a deal somewhere between, "Let's get the economy going.", and, "Fuck off nigger." with the Reps.
ReplyDeleteHey, I lived through the Reagan Depression, where anyone who was paying any attention at all knew that Reagan had to throw all his policies out the window to get out of the depression that he caused.
Clinton, well everyone thought deregulation was a good idea, Alan Greenspan was the 'architect' of that bullshit. Heck, lots of you simpletons STILL think it's a great idea! NAFTA?
"Following diplomatic negotiations dating back to 1986 among the three nations, the leaders met in San Antonio, Texas, on December 17, 1992, to sign NAFTA. U.S. President George H. W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mexican President Carlos Salinas, each responsible for spearheading and promoting the agreement, ceremonially signed it. The agreement then needed to be ratified by each nation's legislative or parliamentary branch."
Damn Clinton for letting G.H.W.Bush do stuff, right, you fucking idjit.
See Mike how your 'common sense' evaporates when it meets 'facts?'
ReplyDeleteYou *should* be embarassed. You just made a mistake. Because you trusted your common sense but you lacked the 'book smarts' to know that you were wrong before you opened your mouth.
Self-confidence without knowledge equals stupidity.
You should be feeling embarassed. You made a mistake. You sounded so certain, too. You were really sure of yourself there.
But you aren't, are you? You're not embarassed. You don't even *believe* that you made a mistake, now do you? Somehow, it must be us, we must be the wrong ones, not you. Because after all, we're the hated atheists who are always wrong.
Isn't that the heart of it all here, Mike? You can't 'believe' us, even when we're right.
Even when we're right, we simply must be wrong somehow, because we can't be right, because that would mean that you were wrong, and you are DEFINITELY SURE that can't possibly even happen, with god on your side and all.
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Common sense to do what, be wrong all the time?
C'Mon here Mike, I'm trying to save you. Not that I think I can... but still, that's what I'm doing here.
WAKE UP!
The thing with common sense is, it's often not so sensible. How can you tell if it is or it isn't? You don't have the 'book smarts' to check! So a lot of the 'common sense' people are actually wrong a LOT of the time! The thing is, they're not smart enough to know that they were wrong. So to them, their common sense is working for them juuuuust fine.
ReplyDeleteHah, Mike's laughing at us. All he needs to do is tell us a straight out lie and we go all squirrelly correcting him.
ReplyDelete"Trickle down economics, why that was Clinton's fault." (LOL)
"Corporations are people? Blame Jimmy Carter for that!"(LMAO)
"Income taxes were John F. Kennedy's great idea!" (ROFL)
...and don't forget Lyndon Johnson settin' all the niggers free.
ReplyDeleteNot to be maudlin, but happy new year to everyone.
ReplyDeleteLet's hope things start to go in better directions.....
L'Chaiim!
If anyone happens to have a good telescope, focus it on the eastern inner edge of Mare Ibrium tonight at 12:00. I plan to be there. I'll be the one waving.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, I plan on ringing in the new year with ridiculous excess.
LOL, good one Brian.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year when it gets to you all of you guys and gals.
...and don't forget Lyndon Johnson settin' all the niggers free.
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Well, Lincoln was busy crossing the Delaware...
and now again we find ourselves in the same predicament with the advanced technology drone and Obama asking for it back.
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Ahh, the Christian wants another war.
No, Christian! NO! BAD Christian! Down! DOWN!
I'm starting to think that throwing chrisitans to lions was cruelty to animals. Call the ASPCA!
ReplyDeleteJust imagine, there's an outside chance that Santorum might end up the prez.
ReplyDeleteHe'd likely want to cut taxes for those 'job creators' busy 'creating jobs' in China, hoping that the riches might trickle down.
Be a helluva nickname. President Rick 'Trickle-down' Santorum.
Ewwwwwww.
Is it worth it to vote for a racist, sexist, political iconoclast simply because he dislikes Congressional hegemony as much as you do?
ReplyDeleteIs that what reasonable people are left with?
ReplyDeleteVoting for Ron Paul because he wouldn't do what Obama just did?
I had a hard time believing he would sign such a law. Total loser.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's a mistake to believe in the process of voting.
ReplyDeleteI had a hard time believing he would sign such a law. Total loser.
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-What law? What? Who? Did Obama sign something stupid again? WTF?
I think the best would be a benevolent dictator, but it would not be long before there would be a dictator that was not benevolent in the least. I think in the long run voting in a democracy is best. One of the big problems are getting people interested in what is going on. In part it is understandable for many people are simply to busy raising a family to pay a lot of attention to what is going on. Our problem at the present is the money to finance elections. We need to be buying off our own politicians, or rigging it so no one else can. Don't you just hate it that these bastards sell out so cheap.
ReplyDeleteIt was the law to imprison without showing cause, on the presidents approval.
ReplyDeleteImagine being stuck in prison 'cos the President doesn't like you.
ReplyDeleteWonder how many journalists would be in the slammer now if Bush could have went ahead and done that?
I think we're edging a bit too far towards fascism here. I wonder if, with a fair court system they'd even try this bullshit??
Oh yeah... I read about that. I did not expect him to sign it. It's crazy.
ReplyDeleteYa know what I wish...
ReplyDeleteThat Obama, having signed that order, arrests all the tea party members of congress and 'disappears' them forever. NOW THAT would be poetic justice.
I do not see this getting past the supreme court.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the point of having a court system if your government can just stick you in prison and say that they think you're a terrorist?
ReplyDeleteStupid thing is, if someone reacts to this by forming their own little militia and having a sanctuary in the woods they're going to be getting targetted by the damn government.
It's thought control, "You don't trust us not to abuse over-reaching power, well, off to prison with you then."
Oh yea, and I heard that your cops have drones now! Bet they're itching to fly over just anyone they don't look the likes of for 'fun'.
ReplyDelete¿Me pregunto si El Presidente seguirá los ejemplos de lÃderes magnánimos como Chavez, Strossner y Pinochet?
ReplyDeleteOur cops have drones?
ReplyDeleteWell it wouldn't surprise me. I think our border patrol does, so some suit's push for urban law enforcement to obtain *necessary* technology in the *wars* on terror and drugs is unsurprising.
Que lastima, parece que no.
ReplyDeleteLucky you Harry, maybe you've just typed in a few keywords and there's a drone circling your house right now!!!
ReplyDeleteWe have always been at war with Eastasia...
ReplyDeleteMaybe Orwell wasn't wrong after all.
ReplyDeleteJust early.
In fact there was!
ReplyDeleteYou'll be seeing a picture on the CBC news of this terrorist taking part in the unAmerican activity of putting out the recycling.
I also expect the Navy Seal team here shortly, and in honor of these "seamen" I will be wearing nothing but chaps and a sign on my back saying 'Get your Santorum right here sassy sailors!'
"Maybe Orwell wasn't wrong after all.
ReplyDeleteJust early."
Politics: a series of decisions making lunacy seem reasonable through rhetoric, obfuscation and codification.
Funny how Eric seems to forget that the Christians have a history of, and a habit of trying to force their religion down everyone's throat.
ReplyDeleteSeems to me that the whole idea of burning witches and trying to force the Jews to not be Jews would be to normalize 'their thing' like the Cosa Nostra, it being not so much a bad thing to torture and maybe kill a few people just so long as it's for 'the cause', if you know what I mean.
Guess if you're like Mike and you feel like you're one of the 'elect', it's your job to make sure that everyone else is at least chipping in, at least pretending, and if you have the power behind you a few public burnings or hangings or whatever just amounts to collateral damage.
Unless I am much mistaken, didn't Eric admit that Mike and MI are deluded fools, poorly informed ignorami?
Ignorami! LMAO (it's 'code', MI'll never 'get it')
My codeword is idjit. Mike wouldn't know one if he saw one in the mirror every frickin' mornin'.
What am I saying, "If."?
RECYCLING???
ReplyDelete(pointing finger and screeching a la pod people in 'Bodysnatchers'.)
Anti-consumerism! Communist! Fascist! Government-lover! God-hater! Constitution-unmisinterpreter!
Hey, question for libertarians. If all government is bad, socialist, fascist, democratic, republican, the lot, what kind of government does libertarians want? What would they call it, you know, to not be 'misunderstood'?
I'm thinking 'batshit crazy' but I'm a little biased.
Indeed. Recycling is in the Communist Manifesto and so is NPR. Marx was a true visionary.
ReplyDeleteAll hail the fourth Marx brother!
ReplyDelete(Or sixth, depending on how you look at it).
"Que lastima, parece que no."
ReplyDelete¿Por qué dices esto? Probablemente no te has dado cuenta pero yo estaba bromeando.
Ah, the good ol' days. Remember when the guys with the coal-scuttle helmets were definitely the 'bad guys'?
ReplyDeleteRemember 'habeus corpus' and 'the right to privacy'?
Remember when a carton of smokes was cheaper than a flat of beer or a bottle of rum?
Remember when the right to remain silent was an option?
Weird thing about that was that before the Canadian Charter of Rights, Canadians watching all the American cop shows assumed they had that right but didn't, now we do and Americans don't!
Unless I am much mistaken, didn't Eric admit that Mike and MI are deluded fools, poorly informed ignorami?
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I believe he alluded to such. But never to their 'faces.'
He's never corrected anything out of their mouths.
Only out of ours.
My god doesn't exist, theirs is an asshole... so naturally eric prefers they believe in asshole god rather than me believing in no god at all.
This is what bothers me about Eric's reasoning. He feels he has his 'good' arguments, Cosmological, Aquinas Five Ways, Morality and so on, but he avoids what, not being a dumb-ass, he must know is the most important thing to us.
ReplyDeleteWe don't give a crap about whether they want to imagine that Jesus was God incarnate and came to Earth to sacrifice Himself so that believers could have everlasting life, no.
It's the politics of the thing that gets it from just some peace of mind for him and his, to a total intrusion into the political systems of our governments.
It's obvious to me that MI and Mike are on the exact same page as Eric as far as that goes too.
Eric claims to be some kind of obscure conservative, amounting to paternalistic feudalism, where he, or at least 'his' would have some kind of influence.
But what kind of influence does organized religion want when it comes to 'nations', what's the 'national' agenda, and why is it so obviously libertarian(you for you and me for me) as opposed to socialist? There ARE Christians who are socialist, liberal, progressive, right?
What is wrong with a society where Christians are free to be Christians because they choose to be, and free to not be Christians if they don't.
I don't 'get' Mike and MI's attitude that they felt free to choose but wish to elect officials to make secular laws forcing people to break them if they wish to choose 'their conscience'.
It is a pointed irony, the legislated morality approved of by people who supposedly believe that free-will is the greatest gift god gave humanity next to Jesus.
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, it would be downright stupid to deny the socialist leanings of the early church. Those leanings didn't preclude business by any means but the church took care of its infirm, widows, orphans and the like through distributed wealth.
It's so goddamn plain in the text only a believer couldn't see it.
According to Mike, miraculous curing was for demonstration purposes only, plus, if Jesus WANTED everyone miraculously cured, he'd go ahead and do it, wouldn't he?
ReplyDeleteWhat he(Jesus/God) really want to do is to harden people's hearts against 'HIS people'.
All that namby-pamby 'looking after people' is just a cover for delivering 'the Good News' anyways really, isn't it?
No, Mike, being one of the Elect is getting a little 'short' and it's about time Jesus came down and cleared the non-Elect out, and there is absolutely nothing anyone could say that would convince Mike that he isn't one of the privileged few.
Likely MI and Eric think they're in that same dinghy.
Reminds me of Pharaoh the Phascist and Moishe the Zealot, god deliberately hardened Pharaoh's heart so he could *show his might* through him.
ReplyDeleteWhat a dick.
The amount of emotional rape the official hebrew/xtian scriptures condition believers to think is normal boggles the mind.
Yeah, 'hardening Pharaoh's heart' really says it all about that religion, if one has eyes to see it.
ReplyDeleteI remember wondering about that as a kid, even. If the Pharaoh needed his heart hardened by God, that means God forced a good man to SIN.
God, is Satan. It's really obvious.
Or he doesn't exist. It's definitely one of the two.
Eric, oh explanator of things inexplicable, explain to me please why God needed to harden the Pharaoh's heart. Explain how that is not the Pharaoh deciding to let the Israelites go but God intervening so that the Pharaoh decided not to. Explain to me, how that is not an evil act, one worthy and even typical of your Satan there.
ReplyDeleteI mean it. That's my question. Explain why that isn't God comitting a heinous sin against man, even against the Israelites.
It looks like Santorum might well take Iowa.
ReplyDeleteI have a bigger problem with his name than it meaning gay ass leak.
I have a superstition about people's names. When they have obvious connotations or cognates.
Santorum is far too close to 'sanitarium' for my comfort.
Superstition, the roots of religion.
ReplyDeleteJust like Herman Cain was an obvious choice for the role of 'sinner.'
ReplyDeleteMarcus Bachmann... well, that's rich territory.
Mark His Back, Man!
(He scratches!)
Michelle is just his enabler. She's a little like a man to him. Michelle being the diminutive form of 'Michael.' Plus definitely a christian person since her name means 'she who is like unto god. And she is! She has all of god's worst qualities!
Mitt uses "Mitt" to hide his real name, Willard. The Rat.
Plus 'Romney' is an obvious corruption of 'Romany.' He's the gypsy in the bunch. So there's no trusting him.
Who else should I 'do?'
ReplyDeleteRon Paul is two men! Ron, and Paul! And they are in love.
So hence the virulent strain of anti-gayness.
Rand Paul being even worse, since he's actually backwards. His first name Rand after Ayn Rand (delusional she-bitch and famous heartless person) so it's a fuced-up woman in front and a man following. He's very confused.
Plus much like Newt (half of Newton) Rand Paul is half of Rand MacNally. So both of them are half-smart, but the other half is strangely missing. A little learning.....
Jerry, what I'm doing here, is exactly what religious people do all the time. Just in different ways.
Superstition... it's fun!
Oh, and on Romney again:
ReplyDeleteA "Mitt" is a glove. He doesn't like to touch things personally. Doesn't like to get his hands dirty. Doesn't really like people. But can 'handle' them.
Numerology?
ReplyDeleteNot numerology... Although I sometimes notice odd numerological things as well. Just the sound of a person's name.
ReplyDeleteYou see, if all is mind, then it's a lot like a dream, and so it's to be expected that certain people will play certain roles in one's dream, and sometimes they are named appropriately.
Or so the theory goes...
Another one of those areas that has something going on, but not able to understand just what it is.
ReplyDeleteIn Hebrew, numerology with people's names is a lot easier since they use their alphabet for their numbers, too. So any person's name can also be read as a number right on the face of it, no translation required.
ReplyDeleteMaybe numbers apply to letters, maybe... but what does the collection of letters that is a persons name have to do with who that person actually is?
ReplyDeleteProbably less than where the planets happened to be when the person was born, that's what...
Maybe numbers apply to letters, maybe... but what does the collection of letters that is a persons name have to do with who that person actually is?
ReplyDeleteProbably less than where the planets happened to be when the person was born, that's what...
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I used to think that way. That it was thought of like that. They don't think of it like that, not really.
I doubt many serious occultists think of astrology as all about the location of the stars and their gravitational influence. They think of the archetypal symbols of the zodiac, which is actually a very good series of archetypes. Granted that astrology is a complex system, but those who claim to get value from it, I don't think are too concerned with the gravitational effects of the stars. Just their 'personalities.' It's more intuitive, than logical, so you can't explain it to yourself with logic. To some people, it feels right.
I thin much the same applies to numerology, except in the case of biblical numerology. THAT, is based on god giving us secret codes in the hebrew text, or inspiring the authors to and so forth. Modern numerologists think of the personalities of numbers, that sort of thing. And might use differing systems of thought about it at that.
I can apply kabalistic numerology to a name, for instance.
One reduces the name thusly:
B = 2
R = 18
I = 9
A = 1
N = 14
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44
4 + 4 = 8
"Brian" reduces to 8
8 is the number of Hod, the sphere of the Concrete Mind, the Yang mind, the logical side of the mind. Gods such as Mercury, Thoth, Hermes, Loki, and Coyote apply, as does mathematics and systematic thought. Words. Letters. With an aspect of 'trickster' in there somewhere.
P = 16
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O = 15
Y = 25
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5 + 8 = 13
1 + 3 = 4
4 is the sphere of Chesed, or loving kindness. it represents the Good King, sometimes too good for his own good, but representing growth and prosperity or love of that. It is also anabolism, as opposed to catabolism.
Of course, that being pboy's persona and not his name, that is what he wishes to be seen as.
ReplyDelete;-) This is fun
Now, let's see for the contrast...
I = 9
A = 1
N = 14
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24
2 + 4 = 6
6is the number of Tiphareth, the sphere of balance. (OF ALL THINGS!)
As in, perfect balanced person, like as in Christ.
Not saying that the person IS like that, but that is their desired personality.
Or whatever... it's all hooey, right?
This is a kind of gematria. One of the three systems of hebrew numerology, the other two being notarikon and temurah.
ReplyDeleteThe thinking among occultists about the zodiac, at least among the serious ones, is that it's the fact that so many people have believed in it for so many years that has made the archetypes work. Thus the reason for instance that the description of my sun sign is actually fairly close to me as a person, is that because people 'always' believed that it did, it is natural for me to conform as well.
ReplyDeleteSo it's not regular logic at work here.
Happy New Year to all in 2012..
ReplyDeletethat above post was me; wondering why it went through before I typed MI?
ReplyDeleteOh, well: Happy New Year !!
Maybe it didn't want to be associated with you.
ReplyDeleteWell, tonight's the Iowa caucus.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Santorum can squeeze past all the pricks blocking him...
Or maybe he'll peter out early and the others will wipe the floor with him.
ASSJUICE!
It's kinda the 'caucasian caucus.'
ReplyDeleteWhoever can convince the crowd that they are best capable of kidnapping Barack Obama and tarring and feathering him, wins!
I wasn't very politically aware during the Carter years, but to me (and correct me if I'm wrong) Carter seemed to be likely the nicest president ever. And that was his downfall. He was too easy a target for those crude right-wing hate mongers. I don't think he was so much incompetent as not able to get things done in the face of opposition. Kinda like Obama. Only Obama seems to have 'smartened up' now, hopefully.
ReplyDeletePoor Carter. A soft-spoken, gentle soul trying to live by Christ instead of just talking about it.
Natural target for christians much! The rabid dogs love easy meat...
Oddly enough it seems to me that the real die-hard bigots, like white supremacy groups and the KKK and the neonazis, all seem to gravitate toward Ron Paul of all people.
ReplyDeleteAs to Carter,
ReplyDeleteWhen you're nice, the righties laugh at you. At the idea of you being so soft as to be nice. At your perceived lack of courage, lack of 'balls.'
Republicans and schoolyard bullies, are a lot alike.
The pundits and polls seem to indicate the possibility of Santorum winning this thing tonight.
ReplyDeleteI don't know.
He seems kinda, well, nice. Not to homos or young mothers who need an abortion, but in general he seems one of the nicer candidates on that side.
And they want NASTY right now. Someone to slap that nigger down to his rightful place. They NEED that. Or their whole world is upside down. Their tiny, withered, shriveled hearts need their dose of hatred, and need it badly.
The only reason Carter was elected was Nixon. Carter was squeaky clean, and after Nixon it was automatic to get away from the usual republican ways of doing business. Eisenhower was the only good republican president since Wll.
ReplyDeleteWho are you guys rooting for?
ReplyDeleteFor me it's Ron Paul. I want him to win it. Santorum second, Romney third. That'd be nice.
Paul is as electable as a giant crab louse.
Romney needs to get a bit 'tarred.'
And Santorum, well he needs to fade away. Because he is the only evangelical that has a chance at the nomination, and he's so milktoast that he might even get some moderates to vote for him.
Why do we never learn?
ReplyDeleteWe 'try to get away from the usual republican way of doing business' like every eight years or so.... we try democrat, and it's a bit boring I guess, not much happens, they seem a bit wussy, so we try republican, and fucking disaster stries, we elected another dictator-wannabe, so let's go back to democrat, boring again, and not enough cockiness, so back to republican, another disaster.... can't we see that boring is a lot better than disastrous, and a moral pussy is a lot better than an amoral asshole, and just stop voting for the disaster again and again? Why are we that dumb?
I guess what I'm asking is, why does the republican party still exist? It's only America's Bullpen of Assholes.
Santorum has a real chance in Iowa, and if he can make it to Carolina he might have an outside chance. Him and Huntsman are the only two worthy of the job. I do not like santorum policy's but he seems like a straight shooter, at least as politicians go. Huntsman would be my choice, but if he doesn't do good in NH he is toast. Paul would be ok as the congress would stop most of his crazy ideas. I do like his military stand. He sounds like an old KKK.
ReplyDeleteRon Paul is proud to say on his website that he's been endorsed by some pastor that thinks being gay should be punishable by death. Put them all down, he says, basically. This pastor even said that the threat of the death penalty might bring a few of them around to being straight... So it'll have it's good points, I guess is what he means....
ReplyDeleteHow much you wanna bet that that pastor is a deeply closeted gay man himself, in total and complete pathological-level denial? That's the usual reason for the extreme level of hatred.... it's really self-hatred, thinly disguised.
ReplyDeleteThis self hatred that homo's have is caused by religion. Just a made up fear that some buy into. Of course religious beliefs is the cause of most hatred, both self and other.
ReplyDeleteBut we're supposed to assume that MI is being nice here, as if 'deep down' we're not sure that MI is a bully.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that right MI? Deep down we're all friends that you just happen to think of as dirt. What could be wrong with that since you're willing to go along with it I don't suppose you understand why we wouldn't be willing to go along with it.
Christians know that they're supposed to be 'nice.'
ReplyDeleteBecause of course, all good christians are nice. Except that, they aren't really sure how to be nice. So they fake it, but never really make it.
I can see MI in her own head saying 'well, I'll say happy new year to demonstrate how nice christians like me are, even in the face of them being such atheist scumbags...'
My christian family was a bit like that.
ReplyDeleteFace-to-face with the person, nice as pie. After they're gone, talk about how loathsome they were.
They don't get it. You have to BE nice, not ACT it.
I even think that some christians are 'nice' to atheists and other faiths (when they are) not from feeling good toward them, but out of pity that they're not 'saved.' Yet. It's a behavior that is designed not to make the others feel good, but to make themselves feel good, in a superior way.
ReplyDeleteHuntsman is the sanest republican I've even seen in a while, at the national level I mean.
ReplyDeleteSo basically, we can write him off.
They fucking hate sanity. It's not christian.
Huntsman actually WORKED for Obama, too.
ReplyDeleteWhen challenged on that he said 'when your president calls, you answer.'
Way too patriotic.
In the piggy minds of the republican electorate: "But... but... he's a nigger!"
It will be interesting what the R party is like after they rebuild, after this next election.
ReplyDeleteOoooooooooh, Brian, she is SOOOO going to pray for you, now!
ReplyDeleteI was just listening to Randy Travis sing, Better class of Losers. Maybe that will be the R party after the rebuild. A better class of losers. Well, we can hope.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see Paul win Iowa but not get the nomination, as that would signal the collapse of the GOP into potentially two distinct parties.
ReplyDelete- Ryan
Yes Ryan.
ReplyDeleteI see that too.
Let's cross our fingers.
Ooooooooooh, Brian, she is SOOOO going to pray for you, now!
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And I'll pray to satan for her.
After all, that's who they think we really worship.
It's inconceivable to them that we don't WORSHIP anything. So by default their tiny litle brains go to 'satan.' Just like Churchlady, but for real.
Bachmann should have went with that in her 'if you don't work, you don't eat' speech, and ended with, 'But we'll pray for you!"
ReplyDeleteLOL Classic!
To me, the most amazing thing that I've learned here on this blog, and elsewhere, but mainly here, is the nature of ignorance.
ReplyDeleteI never 'got' it before.
Ignorance; how simple it is to understand *now* after years speaking with christians, both of the sheeple and apologist class.
Why, it's simply confidently believing that you're not ignorant! Being satisfied with what you believe that you already know.
Belief, over facts.
That's all it takes.
That sums it up. There's no need for any other definition.
That poem I have on my main page, by Arne Lerma:
ReplyDelete"Slave chains forged of lies
are stronger than fine steel
And those enslaved see
neither shackle nor lock.
The mission must be,
in order to set them free:
show them how their chains were made
and where lies hid the key..."
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The poem is mistaken, unfortunately. You can show them all day long how their chains were made and where hid lies the key, and they will not be able to see it. Not. Ever.
In fact, all you will accomplish, is to create an enemy. They will hate you for your effort.
What christians really need, are lions. ;-)
I was just re-reading that, and was thinking about the word 'lion,' and some guy on the Dylan Ratigan show on the tv behind me made an analogy to lions and zebras. While I had the word 'lion' in my mind, while I was thinking about that one word... Heck, this time when I heard him start to speak, something inside of me *expected* him to say 'lion.' Which he did, at that second. And he gave no clues to what he was going to say beforehand, either. This time, I felt it coming. Only for about a half-second, but still...
ReplyDeleteThat's new.
The weird thing was, I wasn't concentrating on the tv behind me, UNTIL I heard that man start to say that sentence (but *before* he said 'lion' or 'zebra' or anything like it,) and then I focused on it, and was still thinking 'lion...' and only *then* did he say it. I had already changed my primary focus from the blog to the tv... and I had no reason to.... at the time.... I felt it coming. I can't conclude anything else.
ReplyDeleteI mean, that guy had already been talking for a good while, off and on, along with Dylan and two other people.
ReplyDeleteWhen he started that sentence, I literally started to listen with the thought in my mind "he's going to say 'lion.'" And that's when he did.
...and the lions will be needing a load of floss...
ReplyDelete"I mean it. That's my question. Explain why that isn't God comitting a heinous sin against man, even against the Israelites."
ReplyDeleteHere's your mistake Brian. You shouldn't use *that* to describe the *action* because of the *difference* *between* the demonstrative pronouns, 'this' and 'that.' While one is *unambiguously* representing the paradigm of blasphemy the other is more clearly associated *with* Augustine's thoughts on Justin Martyr's *penis.*
Ergo, mecca lecca *hi* mecca hiney ho, bippity boppity *boo.*
If you only *knew* a little more about *theism* you'd be *able* to understand.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/bachmann-confronts-cnn-anchor-over-gotcha-question-on-homosexuality/
ReplyDeleteMichelle Bachmann story...
I post it here, for the comments.
Check them out.
So much stupidity in one little place... Jeeze!
*Yes* Harry, *now* I *see* the *error* of *my* *ways.*
ReplyDeleteWhat happened Harry? Right after the lion statement a dental commercial come on?
ReplyDeleteHey I can't speak much 'Bible' but I noticed a distinct lack of the word 'schmekle' there!
Brian, Brian, Brian, you're speaking to the guys who want to put mind-shackles and chains on YOU! Showing them the key? Well they're just going to have to re-hide that baby now, hopefully from you!
Sorry if I overdid it Bri, his qualifying stars are more than a little annoying. They scream, "I'm being disingenuous!"
ReplyDeleteBachmann's way of telling Ms. O'Brien to back off, no more, no less.
ReplyDeleteWhaddaya bet Mr. Bachmann votes for Ricky.
Yes, even though Ricky Martin isn't on the ballot, Mr. Bachmann will be voting for him.
ReplyDeletelol
.. or a look-alike.
ReplyDeleteI think that the Repuglies are playing games with independents with this giant song and dance they're having for their primaries.
ReplyDeleteClaiming to be undecided and independent themselves they're hoping to convince actual independents to go along with the result of their final choice as 'the choice for president'.
It's always been Mitt Romney but what kind of show would that be when no-one is caring the least tiny bit.
No, it has to be a Mitt Romney that everyone is fired up over, that it's only a technicality of winning the election that is standing in his way of what everyone now 'knows' is right.
The bankers don't care if Romney or Obama get in, I think they fear Paul but their reaction to him is to dismiss him off-hand, coach the public to dismiss him out-of-hand, and that's exactly what we see on Faux News.
"Let us know if anyone 'interesting' says anything!", as if a guy who wants to go back to the Gold Standard, a guy who is totally anti-war and so on, isn't in any way 'interesting'.
Hah!
It's a three-way heat with 26% in... romney, paul and santorum, all at 23%.
ReplyDeleteNow it's a two-man race, supposedly. Santorum and Romney.
ReplyDeleteExciting.
If Santorum wins it, just imagine MI.
ReplyDeleteHer boy. And his boy. Anybody catch a glimpse of who I can only assume is his son trailing around after him at the caucus?
It's like a miniature republican, how cute! Rick's 'Mini-Me!'
Michelle Bachmann sounding so much as if she believes Barak Obama was running in that Replican primary and as if she, in her 6th. place is helping show that Obama can't 'even' place in that primary!!
ReplyDelete"..his liberal reign will end.."
She brags about blocking him at every turn then bashes that agenda that she refused to let him try.
I loathe that bitch and her fuckin' dog Boomer.
96% in and only a bit more than a hundred votes separate them... still a statistical tie...
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Rick Perry(translation):- Fuck the Yew-nighted States, I'm back to Gawd's country where they loves me!
ReplyDeleteVote for Santorum, you too can work in a coal mine 'til you're 75, for coupons!
ReplyDeleteSo, to be clear, you come into this world finding that you have some of perhaps boys, who you are told you must love because they're your brothers, maybe a girl or three, them you must love 'cos they're your sisters, your mama you must love 'cos she squoze you out between her legs along with, but not necessarilly at the same time as those brothers and sisters.
ReplyDeleteYou have to love 'em if they're idiots or bullies, if they steal your stuff or just ignore you.
THEN you're told you have to love this old guy 'cos he is responsible for all you kids on account of he fucked your mom.
He might be nice enough, he might be a drunk, he might be a wife basher but this is the guy you're supposed to look up to and who you're going to find yourself looking in the mirror 40-50 years later and saying, "Oh shit, I'm just like him!"
Having gone through that misery/bunch of laughs/whatever, you actually get to pick a woman to be with to hopefully get along with for the rest of your life, YAY!
One last snag. SHE comes with a mom, dad, assortment of sisters and brothers and you're stuck with these boneheads and all her baggage with these boneheads TOO!
Life is 'sweet'.
Hope the meathead neighbours don't come with guns and Bibles to force-feed you, unless you actually LIKE that kind of thing.
Rick Santorum: way to go!! Let the American citizens see how Presidential you really are!
ReplyDeleteAnd, yeah, he IS an attractive man with a charming personality on top of "all that"!
;~)
If you like dweebs.
ReplyDeleteHe's a bathtub-bubble-biter. Your type exactly, MI.
Ass-juice lost by eight votes.
ReplyDeleteHe did very well for a dweeb.
Let the American citizens see how Presidential you really are!
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Let's get a shot of him with a gun! Hunting! Yeah.... fuckin a.
I was reading an article online.... some US official was talking to some Chinese official... the chinese was quoted as saying 'please do not let the united states go down too quickly.' Too quickly... they know it's going down, they're just concerned that we'll take others with us. So please die a bit slower...
ReplyDeleteSantorum's son looks like Rachael Maddow at 17. Only more feminine.
ReplyDeleteBachmann dropped out. I'm surprised. People like her usually don't know when they're beaten.
ReplyDeleteSo that's good, at least. Not that she had a chance.
What if Santorum is just the next bubble?
Romney seems to have a lock on it now. Unless Santorum really takes off and stays up there.... and that's not following the pattern. He might last though, since the other bubbles burst because of hypocrisy mostly, things brought up by the press and in attack ads... . What's Santorum got to fear? He's milquetoast. His worst skeleton is how he doesn't un-screw his oreos right.
Unless of course his gay lover comes forward.
ReplyDeleteOr his son's. LOL...
And, yeah, he IS an attractive man with a charming personality on top of "all that"!
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Are you saying that he has a large penis? How can you tell?
I would have put him somewhere between hamster and marmoset in that department.
ReplyDeleteOf course, that's still better than Mitt Romney.
ReplyDeleteHe doesn't even have a penis. Just a coin slot.
Yes MI. Rick Santorum reads Brian's blog.
ReplyDeleteWhy wouldn't he, since you comment on it! He says that he loves a good suck-holer! And you are MI, you are nothing if not a great suck-holer.
Mike too. Both excellent suck-holers! Got to be good at something other than polishing those pews, eh?
Similar though, polishing pews and polishing greasy slick politician's rockets!
Wonder how fast he can get the working people you know personally back earning coupons for the benefit of big corporations and 'the flag'?
"How many holes must one MI suck, before she has sucked them all dry?
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind."
Never mind MI, my mom used to like Jean Claude Van-Damme! I'm not sure if she even realized he was just acting, same with you eh?
I was surprised to see Santorum's wife though. A skinny little god-slut. Needs meat. But not bad, really.
ReplyDeleteRick Perry's daughter, the one that was standing closest to him last night, is just fucking hot though. She's got those CRAZY WILD eyes, one drifts a bit, but very, very pretty.... Like she'd cripple you in bed. In a good way.
Of course it's likely all sublimated into nonsexual christian-approved channels and covered up with a huge pile of guilt which will eventually turn her into a ballripper lesbian....
MI would suck the santorum out of Rick's ass 'any day', and enjoy it. ;-s
ReplyDeleteRick Santorum wants to take america back.
ReplyDeleteI think it's too late for that. Our warranty expired. No refunds.
Back to what, is my question. To the day of his grandfather who HAD TO work in a hole for coupons till he dropped, just to bring up his kids? To the days of little-to-no opportunity, oppression of women, persecution of gays? Yeah, that's it. The Good Old Days.
MI said,
ReplyDelete"And, yeah, he IS an attractive man with a charming personality..."
None of which qualifies him for office. If your vote goes to him on those grounds, then you're as fickle and stupid as Brian keeps saying you are.
Hey, if it's good enough for MI to be in her place, santorum sucking, it should be good for men she has no respect for, right?
ReplyDeleteThe Scriptures tell her to shut up and suck santorum, but much like, "Love your enemies.", it's Christian men that she's interested in turning gay by allowing them to totally dominate her in every respect, not just anyone.
Now where's that damned hidden key again? Wait, that's right, MI wouldn't WANT to be free, she loves her JESUS and every single STD riddled male JESUS-little-helper.
Sing along. 'Down on your knees, can you hear Jesus-helpers calling, for a BJ?' (sadly MI is too easy and they'd rather force little boys to do it, excites them, y'see? Forbidden.)
When I was talkking to Eric and I said that no christian ever realizes that they're wrong, and he brought up several that did... what I meant was, christians like MI and Mike who are totally conditioned, not people that have just fallen into christianity or were born into it(as I was) and actually still can think and ask the right questions of themselves.
ReplyDeleteWhen the conditioning really 'takes' fully, when they're 'born again' in their religion, there's no going back. Not without a huge crisis maybe. Even then, likely not. Their minds aren't only closed, they're hermetically sealed.
Think about it.
ReplyDeleteMI knows that she's one of two things.
Either she's a good, godly woman who is saved and doesn't have to listen to us atheists and our 'facts' and 'science' because god has revealed himself to her, and so she's a better class of people than we are, and in the end she'll go to heaven and we'll all rot in hell...
...or...
She's exactly, precisely just as much of an ignoramus as we all tell her that she's being.
She knows it's one of the two. And she thinks that she 'knows' that it's 'definitely' number one, not number two.
So, she's very HIGHLY MOTIVATED to never admit to herself that she's wrong. She can't ever do that. That would be admitting to being number two. And that,would likely kill her.
She dug the hole, now it's too deep to ever climb out.
Santorum and Gingrich are both Catholic. Romney is Mormon.
ReplyDeleteBut wait, Do I hear a horse in the di'dance, pilgrim?! It's Rick No-brains Perry, still rooting for the No-brains-at-all vote!(and they're stacked like cord-wood down in the No-brains-at-all Belt!)
Yee HAW! P-choo! P-choo!
The no brains at all belt... I was in the buckle of that belt. Texas.
ReplyDeleteWhile I was down there, I realized that the white wimmin, were like, untouchable to me. They wanted cowboys. Seriously. I mean, I know this, because I helped them pick out their rings. One girl even referred to her fiance as 'her cowboy.' And they were REAL COWBOYS. Not like in the movies. Shitkicking dirty stinking ranch hands. With these gorgeous fiances. That they met at church. I couldn't play in that field. So while I dated a lot while I was down there, and had a lot of fun in that regard, I did not date one single caucasion woman. Black, Mexican, even one Puerto Rican... which isn't that easy in Texas, they're very rare down there.... but no white girls. A lot of incredibly hot women, tall blondes... all brainwashed to only like their own kind, which are, cowboys basically. Nauseating.
Santorum and Gingrich are both Catholic.
ReplyDeleteI guess he [Santorum] is, but he sure talks like an evangelical. Seems he's just playing the Huckabee right now...
- Ryan
You couldn't stick on a hat and learn to line dance?
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't, but.
LOL Ryan, Santorum is tryin' to be as flat as possible, trying to limbo under that bar they set. They'll get 'round to noticing, you betcha!
ReplyDeleteYou couldn't stick on a hat and learn to line dance?
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ANATHEMA!
Not willing to fake that then?
ReplyDeleteIt's only amazing to me that they're not totally enamoured with Nuke Gingrich. The End of World guys especially.
ReplyDelete(Come on, you KNOW it's 'Nuke'.)
LOL, I should try to pass that off on Emma, who knows less than a Fox viewer about politics.
ReplyDeleteThinking, "You know the End of the World prophecy by the Mayans(thanks for the help here on this important point), Dec.21st. 2012? Well the Americans are thinking of voting in a guy named Nuke Gingrich! WTF, eh?"
She'd be like, "OMGAWD, let's kiss our asses g'bye if he gets to be PREZ!"
I'll say, "WTF, we already HAVE 'BA-RAKKK! A-bomba!'"
She'll be under the bed for the rest of the year.
Very cute.. a-bomba.... and nuke...
ReplyDeleteWonder if your next nutbar Creationist PREZ is going to outlaw atheism?
ReplyDeleteShould be fairly easy to accomplish, no? Then we could hear the justification for it, the same justification for pot being illegal.
"Last year alone we spent billions tracking down and incarcerating millions of atheists! Now that we have criminalized it, we can see how obvious it is that it is a criminal activity!"
Ian; Phil is either mentally ill, or an AI, not sure which.
ReplyDelete- Ryan
Can't be AI, that has implications which I'm not detecting there.
ReplyDeleteNot willing to fake that then?
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It's not something you can fake, really.
Remember in 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers (remake) how the infected people would point that finger and make that scary noise in their throat with their mouths open? That's kinda like the Good Christian Texas Girl's reaction to a yankee atheist. With a command of the english languate. Being able to speak, down there, is like being a plague-bearer.
Which was okay.... I mean, at the time I was more interested in hispanic and black girls. And they didn't seem to have as much of a problem with me. Down there, they were the straighter ones, in the sense of not being as caught up in all the fundy christianity.
It's hard to convey the amount of fundy christianity that's in your face in rural texas. It's like, embarassing. Huge, mega-billboards for churches like every other block... two churches at many if not most intersections of main streets. A couple of young office girls in the jewelry store I was working in, eighteen years old or so, would read their *really* worn bibles on their breaks. Or discuss Survivor.
At first I thought, like, I'd be a 'big fish in a small pond' as in, different, maybe interesting, maybe smart.... sure it was ego, I know that, buit still the point is, was I ever wrong... They can smell you down there. I'm not a good liar... don't want to be. So all I could do was be me, maybe a slightly spuressed version, but still me... and to them I might as well have been a demon.
Indeed Brian, you are SATAN! Crazy Rev. Phil Brown is down in Texas, his bio explains that he's a part time preacher because he likes to get out among the peeps!
ReplyDeleteCouldn't be that his neighbours are all preachers too, no. There has to be something in the water down there, I don't know.
'Funny' thing, playing Evony, everyone I told that I was an unbeliever burned their computers I think, so that's not so bad eh?
Yeah Bri, it must be incredibly hard to not be an asshole when you're a western, caucasian, female.
ReplyDeleteEarly on they have a choice to make, "Am I going to be an object or a human being?" The social benefits for the latter are minimal.
Oops, I googled Rev. Phil Brown and came up with a bio that says he's a Texan. Seems that THIS Rev. Phil Brown is an Aussie.
ReplyDeleteI must apologise in absentia to the Texan reverend, who I'm sure is in no way totally bonkers at all. (pff-pff-pff-bwaHAhahaha, had you goin' there eh?)
There must be something about getting within a better-than-surviving-a-drop-off-the-Niagra-Falls-in-a-barrel's chance of being nominated for president that makes the candidates giddy.
ReplyDeleteI mean 'the blah people', really?
I resent this, some of my best friends are blah people. I'm still giggling about this, I mean, I'll take his word that he was insulting blah people but it sure SOUNDED like he said 'black people' to me.
He SAID 'blah people' but started coughing up a furball and it came out 'blah'-'kh' with a nice recovery, the show must go on.
And he 'must' be elected president to dig the USA out of 'Bla'-'hack'('scuse me) Obama's failure to overcome the Republican's constant stonewalling.
Santorum didn't try to say that he didn't say 'black people,' did he? He surely DIDN'T try to say that he was saying 'blah people?' I haven't heard this one in the news yet.
ReplyDeleteBlah people? If he said that, he's retarded.
Blah Community Outraged at Santorum's 'Ethnic' Attacks
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Oh god, he did say it.
I heard that speech. He said 'black people.' WTF?
ReplyDeleteRick Santorum-Linked Universal Health Services Facility: Fraud, Assault And Alleged 'Exorcism'
ReplyDeleteMore about santorum being just a blow hard that seems confused about life.
Imagine the giant balls it takes to be on camera, having just seen video of yourself saying, 'black people', then claim that you reviewed the tape, as if it were somebody ELSE talking and give that person some 'benefit of the doubt', as if there WERE any doubt at all.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised this doesn't happen more often, since it's obvious that anyone with the Republican ideology can hear 'blah' when someone says 'black', if they want to.
It's a divide and conquer strategy, split the lower class by race etc.
Your country is split into suckers and scape-goats.
Which are you? True or false:-
America is the greatest nation in the World, the greatest economic power, the freest society, they hate us for our freedoms!!
Bear in mind that if you're not a sucker for believing it's all true, then you will be ruthlessly scape-goated by those that are.
Don't you 'secretly know deep down' that white people are the very best people in the World?
We could go on and on about 'our' accomplishments.
The great Greek thinkers and warriors!.(World Domination)
The Roman Empire!(World Domination)
The holding back of the Arabs!(World Domination)
The discovery of the New World!(World Domination)
The domination of World economy!(World Domination)
The great victory over totalitarianism!(WWII)(World Domination)
Not to mention all those wonderful discoveries.
"Not to mention all those wonderful discoveries."
ReplyDeleteOf course I meant 'inventions'.
Wonderful, wonderful inventions geared, of course, towards, what else but 'World Domination'.
So you think I hate you?
ReplyDeleteI don't hate anybody.
All that, meaning Santorum's a great all around guy.
Stop bringing everything down to the lowest common denominator in reference to ignorant sexual speech.
All the hate's coming from y'all.
Well, we'll just have to wait to see who wins and how the country will be impacted by it.
So, you think America can't be "taken back" and that it's license is "expired"?
So, what you're saying is that capitalism is done for here.
What exactly are you guys wishing for to replace it? I'm curious because I'm not sure what you think the solution is.
Is it communism? What? Please describe how you want the country to look like after the next election.
I really don't understand your views, so please fill me in so that I might understand. Will there be a govt or will there be an elite govt or will there be a dictator? I don't understand what your desires are for this country.
Please 'splain so we low-life idiots who don't deserve to live because we're so unintelligent and disillusioned that we just can't see how this country *should* be.
I must say that I am considering voting my party line: democrat; obama.
ReplyDeleteI realize that must be dropping an awful bomb on you guys.
You see, after speaking with my father and then realizing the truth of what's going on in my husband's practice (as well as all other docotor's practices) I'm beginning to realize that the only real way to feed our family is to vote democrat.
Patients by the tens of thousands who, for whatever reason, don't pay their insurance premiums, deductibles, etc are ending up in doctors' offices paying their $15 or whatever copay, if the doctor's lucky. (Now with so many unemployed and so many single parents, etc and college grads wih no jobs ---- are coming into doctor offices saying 'either I pay my rent or my mortgage or for diapers.....or I pay you---and most doctors do not refuse seeing those patients; you know not poor enough for medicaid, who say they just don't have the copay right then, but need to be seen....so, in truth, the doctor, irregardless of his profession just got paid either $15 or $0 for treating that patient.
And, although many docs want to get into other fields rather than live like this (just how long can a doctor afford to feed his own family and pay his own bills?)
But,my husband loves what he does and well, if our country were to turn to obama care then he'd not have to worry about insurances and copays: he'd just get paid from the govt which would be guarunteed $salary.
So, who knows, sure I like Rick,but I also need to provide for my children.
But for us, it wouldn't necessarily be a handout; it'd be a nice salary earned and my husband wouldn't have to bust his butt treating patients every 15 mins and have to worry about all of those "emergency" phone calls from new moms who go loco when their kids get a sniffle.
Every patient given the *adequate* time they need to be treated-- as the medical schools and hipp oath always spoke of: one patient at a time - and all the time to accurately and properly diagnose and treat without the stresses of rushing.
Each patient has their turn when the doctor and previous patient have been satisfied with their visit. Sure, it might cause longer waits and maybe have to come back the next day to sit and wait for their number to be called--but, when they get in with the doc-- they know they'll be taken care of.
Finally, doctors can do what they went to school to train for. No more missed diagnoses, no more pressuring phone calls for patients to be "squeezed in" (just take a number) and well, no law suits as the docs will be employees of the govt.
So, who knows which way things will go.....
I definitely have things to consider...
As do the wives of so many doctors.
So, you never know: Obama just might get re-elected!
Starting to sound like a good thing !!
Go Obama! Go, Democrat party!
2012---a new year and a new chance at a better life!
I must say that I am considering voting my party line: democrat; obama.
ReplyDeleteI realize that must be dropping an awful bomb on you guys.
You see, after speaking with my father and then realizing the truth of what's going on in my husband's practice (as well as all other docotor's practices) I'm beginning to realize that the only real way to feed our family is to vote democrat.
Patients by the tens of thousands who, for whatever reason, don't pay their insurance premiums, deductibles, etc are ending up in doctors' offices paying their $15 or whatever copay, if the doctor's lucky. (Now with so many unemployed and so many single parents, etc and college grads wih no jobs ---- are coming into doctor offices saying 'either I pay my rent or my mortgage or for diapers.....or I pay you---and most doctors do not refuse seeing those patients; you know not poor enough for medicaid, who say they just don't have the copay right then, but need to be seen....so, in truth, the doctor, irregardless of his profession just got paid either $15 or $0 for treating that patient.
And, although many docs want to get into other fields rather than live like this (just how long can a doctor afford to feed his own family and pay his own bills?)
But,my husband loves what he does and well, if our country were to turn to obama care then he'd not have to worry about insurances and copays: he'd just get paid from the govt which would be guarunteed $salary.
So, who knows, sure I like Rick,but I also need to provide for my children.
But for us, it wouldn't necessarily be a handout; it'd be a nice salary earned and my husband wouldn't have to bust his butt treating patients every 15 mins and have to worry about all of those "emergency" phone calls from new moms who go loco when their kids get a sniffle.
Every patient given the *adequate* time they need to be treated-- as the medical schools and hipp oath always spoke of: one patient at a time - and all the time to accurately and properly diagnose and treat without the stresses of rushing.
Each patient has their turn when the doctor and previous patient have been satisfied with their visit. Sure, it might cause longer waits and maybe have to come back the next day to sit and wait for their number to be called--but, when they get in with the doc-- they know they'll be taken care of.
Finally, doctors can do what they went to school to train for. No more missed diagnoses, no more pressuring phone calls for patients to be "squeezed in" (just take a number) and well, no law suits as the docs will be employees of the govt.
So, who knows which way things will go.....
I definitely have things to consider...
As do the wives of so many doctors.
So, you never know: Obama just might get re-elected!
Starting to sound like a good thing !!
Go Obama! Go, Democrat party!
2012---a new year and a new chance at a better life!
dang it; sorry for double post.
ReplyDeleteaddendum to previous post: the reason the doc only got paid $15 or $0 for seeing the patient is because the insurance companies told our practice, and others, that if the pt doesn't pay their premiums or deductibles -- it's the doctor's choice to collect. If they CAN collect; good for the docs, but mostly they don't --so, if they cannot collect: they get $0 compensation from those insurance companies.
That's why the doc only earns whatever copay the pt pays.
Sure, some doctors are lucky enough to give up all insurances and take cash-only patients --- but, in this economy---who expects that to last for long??
Let me tell you: what I learned in my husband's office opened my eyes to so many things.
ReplyDeleteIt also opened my eyes to how other businesses are running in this economy.
The bubble will collapse sooner and later and well, more jobs will be lost.
I sure hope the govt has the ability to take care of all of the needy with a workforce in the teens, maybe 20 percentiles. And, in that workfoce, it will be manual labor and other non-Elite job positions. Where there won't be much taxes from which to collect.
So, hopefully, if we're lucky, we'd be able to sustain this socialistic way of life for hopefully a decade...who knows.
I jusst hope it works for our kids' generations......
Where the mone will come from, I don't know. I just don't know exactly how much more money the feds can manufacture to sustain things.
So, as long as that's okay, basically we don't have to worry about anything....I guess...
Communism?
ReplyDeleteWTF?
All we want is for there to be a buffer between pure capitalism and the poorest.
Pure capitalism sells to the highest bidder, which means that the growers of food can be starving on account of they can't afford their own produce.
This is not a 'good thing'.
All we want is for fairness, not this dog eat dog capitalism where some jerk walks away with 100s of millions just 'cos he was made CEO, like winning a frickin' lottery.
What's wrong with you MI, it's not laisse-faire capitalism or communism, there's a LOT of inbetweens and stupid libertarian feudalism, well, hopefully that is out of the question before it even gets tried.
I don't believe that you're being honest MI. I just think that you are wanting us to say that, sure we're a bunch of communists. But that would never work, 'cos people DO deserve to get credit for their hard work, but just because someone is payed a king's ransom, doesn't mean they worked hard.
It's too late now MI. The lessons of the dirty 30s aren't being 'learned'.
ReplyDeleteLOL
I don't believe you, no. There are suckers and scape-goats, and I don't think you can stand it to be a scape-goat, no.
You're a sucker. And suckers scape-goat scape-goats, that's what they do!
One more time, against my better judgement, I will give MI the benefit of the doubt regarding her last few posts. If she is not simply setting up another "stalking horse" or straw man, she has apparently finally had her eyes opened to reality, rather than simply accepting the right wing republican party line.
ReplyDeleteAs a physician for over forty years, I can attest to the accuracy of what she reports regarding the finaces of her husband's practice. Physicians still do not starve in this country, but between having the government (via the "big" third party health care insurers) dictate fees for service, ever more complex regulations which dictate how a physician may treat his/her patients, and our almost always counterproductive adversarial malpractice situation, most of us are forced to limit the quantity and, most sadly, the quality of the care we have sworn to provide to our patients. Although my career spans the time before third party health care insurers came into play, through the present, and includes stints of Navy Service and the VA, I have never been free to care for my patients in as kindly and careful manner as my ethics (not "morals", of course, since I am an atheist) tell me I should.
Without doubt, universal, government backed health care would go a long way to solving most of these issues. Whether or not the present law slated to go into effect (if the naysayers are not able to blow it out of the water through the Supreme Court) is the ideal way to go, it is certainly a vital first step to correcting all of the above impediments to our ability to provide at least minmum care to ALL of our citizens, regardless of their ability to pay. Certainly, "no fault" or abitrated malpractice events (taking fee for service litigation out of the picture) would also help a lot, but without a first step like so-called "Obamacare" (I hate this appelation), nothing will change. We may or may not still be the "greatest" country in the world, but, in my opinion, it is unconscionable that any person should be denied access to basic health care needs.
Needless to say, I do not believe that the pending health care law is even nearly perfect, it is clear that if the presidency or many more senatorial/representative seats go republican, our country will be set back for another decade or more in beginnign to try to rectify access to health care in the U.S.
ReplyDelete"Area resident Arnie Snood told Mr. Santorum: "You are the first political candidate I've ever come out to meet in my entire life. I listened to your speech in Iowa the other night and that’s exactly what I wanted to hear for so many years. I hate darkies and homos too. God bless you.""
ReplyDeleteI just think it sounds like a satire.
Guess you guys need a president with the balls to put that right on your money! "I hate darkies and homos too!"
Dammit Brian, that site IS a damned satire!
ReplyDeleteThe trouble with the Republicans these days is that it's almost impossible to tell when a satirist is being subtle, he's stating the Republican ideology as it is.
The blah people site? Well yeah, I know it's satire, but they're satirizing the fact that he did claim to have said 'blah people.' Which he did.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely do not believe that MI is voting democratic. Absolutely not. She wouldn't have any problem voting for the people that will cause her kids to starve. And then blame it on us liberals somehow.
ReplyDeleteIt's not in her character to be that intelligent. She votes her religion, not her mind.
I'm not buying it.
It's true though, that you can't tell the genuine repulican activity from satire.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it interesting that the very people that can't seem to *get* satire, manage to produce it so copiously without even realizing it?
The republicans like MI want to think that we democrats want socialism, when all we want is a slightly kinder, fairer type of capitalism. You know, one where people don't starve to death.
ReplyDeleteWAIT! I know why MI has had a change of heart about Santorum!
ReplyDeleteBecause she was personally insulted by his comment about blah people!
Who thinks Rick Santorum should be President?
ReplyDeleteBlah people are rooting for Santorum Ed.
ReplyDeleteThey hear they're gettin' off the welfare. Yippee!!
I have wondered how a person like Hitler could get elected to office. Watching the debates of people that are considered presidential material it becomes crystal clear how a person that is not competent to be president could be the next president. Bachmann, Gringrich, Santorum, Paul, Perry, for president; really?
ReplyDeleteHello strangers! I had an unfortunate bout of emergency surgery that silenced my small voice amongst the Interant. Did I miss anything? Other than further examples of Acute Fulminant Polyasterickia?
ReplyDeleteYou ok now Pliny? What a way to start the new year.
ReplyDeleteMI, your attempts at being genuine are revolting, insulting, and patronizing.
ReplyDeleteGet help.
Yes Jerry, I am well, thx.
ReplyDelete"Acute Fulminant Polyasterickia"
ReplyDeleteI was trying to make fun of Eric's liberal use of asterisks.
Apparently I failed.
The results were consistent with the earlier findings. As reported on-line in the journal Psychological Science, adherence to hand washing guidelines increased significantly when the signs emphasized patient risk and vulnerability, but not when the signs emphasized personal risk. In short, it appears that altruism is a better motivator than self-interest.
ReplyDeleteInteresting finding at this link.
Hand Washing: A Deadly Dilemma
****What**** in the ****world**** are you ****talking***** about?!*?!*?*!?
ReplyDelete" I had an unfortunate bout of emergency surgery that silenced my small voice "
ReplyDeleteHmm. You getting ready to tell us that a miracle happened??
No miracles, pboy. Just good old fashioned surgery.
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