the damn things those conservatives say!!! (including sista sarah)
I like this paragraph about “them” THINKING they have a monopoly on Christianity.
“It amazes me how some Republican politicians claim a monopoly on Christianity and then go out and say and do some of the most un-Christian things imaginable,” said Charleston attorney Mullins McLeod, who participated in a candidates forum in Columbia along with Bauer Saturday. “… Bauer’s comments are despicable and the total opposite of the Christian values Bauer espouses.”
Right on target, the greatest grifter alaska has ever produced, scary though, with new SCOTUS ruling we might all have to worship at the alter of POTUS palin.
flyinureye – High marks for your hi-jinx once again. Under your leadership, the Mudflats Art Dept continues to excel. Time to ask for a raise.
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I think it was AustinTx who posted a link to creation museum photos yesterday, and reminded me of a video I’d seen back in ’07. It seems that Cold Springs, KY is home to (a or the?) Answers In Genesis: Creation Museum. That may not have been the most convincing place to build it. That area is within a large geologic area known as the Cincinnati Series, named for a rock layer that formed in an ancient sea bed and one of the richest fossil areas anywhere. Literally millions of 440 million-year-old fossils were excavated for construction of the foundation for a building dedicated to the premise of a 6K-yr-old earth. Woops. I love that the defenders of indefensible ideas so often become their own best parody. (For geology buffs, the creator of the video also posted a virtual library of links to other sources.)
Part 1 (10:11) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezQhVjGy6ME
Fossils: years ago, I visited a very conservative church (Wisconsin Synod Lutheran). The sermon claimed that God planted fossilized “dinosaur bones” under the earth at the time of creation (about 6000 years ago) as a test of faith. When the fossils were dug up, which would you believe: some old fossils, or the scriptures? Anybody who made the wrong choice and thought the fossils disproved the recent creation related in scriptures . . . well on the way to hell.
Just read the full article about that South Carolina twit Bauer. And if his comments aren’t bad enough, some of the commenters are equally callous. I think what most of them don’t realize or don’t want to realize is that not everyone getting help from the government does is by choice. And many of them have one or two jobs and it’s just not enough.
I think they all should go back to Sunday School with the pre-schoolers. They apparently need to reread part of the Bible that starts with Matthew 25: 34. Clearly, they missed the finer points of that passage, which is my favorite.
Another thing – it makes me wonder if Sanford refused to resign knowing that Bauer would replace him. Here I thought he was just being clueless, but maybe he was actually doing the state a favor.
It’s so depressing the face some people put on Christianity. It’s like they missed the entire point. It’s like someone watching a game of football and deciding punting on first down is a great strategy. Just no connection to the game at all.
Cute pic. Here’s hoping Fox forgets about Sarah before that show becomes a reality.
Why do fossilized trees stand vertically through layers of supposedly “millions of years old” strata? Without showing ANY signs of wear or rot on areas of different “ages”? Why are more geologists converting to “global Cataclysm” theory, the more they learn? Why did the man who cracked the code of D.N.A. sequencing say something like ” I spent 60 in the laboratory, only to discover what I had learned in Sunday school?” Why are their NO “transitional stage” fossils? Why have Human footprints been discovered at the lowest strata level? Perhaps http://s8int.com/ has some answers. They certainly raise more questions for the open mind to evaluate. Please remove blinders as neccassery. A true scientist KNOWS nothing is impossible until tested and proven. I reccomend SEEING and Testing for yourself as many use religion as a political tool for Mass Persuation to control their populations. This is evident in the coming Numerical Contropolis described in Revalations (revealings, as in seeing) Also see http://bibleprobe.com/300great.html for more answers. May we never stop learning… BTW, I’m not red. -PEACE-
Everyone – but particularly Alaskans – should check out Shannyn’s latest posting about the cruise ship industry and its hold on government officials. I can’t do anything about making changes, but if enough Alaskans raise hell, maybe things can change.
60% of the votes are needed in the chamber that’s least “representative”, and 41% of the votes in the Senate is enough to control the Country without actually doing any filibustering. Freedom’s on the march!
Is Sarah Palin qualified to be president – PBS poll
I just got an action alert re Palin. Mudflats seems like a good place to share.
“PBS has an online poll posted asking if Sarah Palin is qualified to be president. Apparently the Right Wing knew about this is advance and are flooding the voting with YES votes. The poll will be reported on PBS…”
Voting is a simple click, no sign in or anything. When I just responded it was just over 50 percent saying yes to qualified.
Oh jeez – that stupid poll rears its stupid head again! Many letters were written to NOW at PBS about taking down that piece of sh*t poll, esp. since you could sit there and click a million times if you felt like it. I wrote at least four times myself and never got an answer. They put up some stupid reason on the main part of their site (NOW on PBS) and basically it was a load of crap. I can’t find that now since this is over a year old. No one will be publishing any results of this – let the whack jobs wear out their fingers and keyboards.
Sites like this, just like the ADN did, keep this crap up because it generates hits. That’s IT. That’s ALL. Hits translate into money. I ignore all polls – they mean nothing.
I meant online polls. Unless they have controls on registration and IPs, they are worthless. And none of them have any controls. Generating bucks, that’s it!
Don’t waste your time on those online polls. They are not scientific and mean nothing.
Palin’s fans are like rats frantically pulling the lever to get their treats when they vote repeatedly in those polls. They may obtain the illusory reward that their gal is “ahead in the polls” but they’re still rats in a cage. And Palin’s still a loser.
Crablewi — The Creationists claim of there being no transitional stage fossils is so easily disproven I can’t believe they keep bringing it up. It’s right up there with Palin’s Death Panels. as is pointed out by a Christian who is also a scientist in this video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4GdZOlPrX8
Tomorrow is Tuesday, are you going to have some news for us AKM? Does it have to do with the mysterious envelope? Does it have to do with princess sparkleburst? I can’t wait!!
The Creationists have many fake science and fake news sites all over the Internet. The first time I hit one of the fake science ones, I sat there reading (I was doing research on sea water’s similarity to human plasma) and got the most puzzled look on my face. It started out fine and reasonable for about two paragraphs, then the rest got so weird so fast that I should have caught on sooner than I did. As in catching on in 30 seconds, instead of five minutes. I just didn’t know that they had posted all this crap out there masquerading as fact. I laughed so hard I almost fell off my chair. They really do believe people are stupid, or hope they are so they can shove this crap down someone’s throat.
They’ve been doing this for awhile – so remember that in case one of these comes up in a search or research. This is their version of free speech – open mouth, get out keyboard, and lie like he11! I’m sure many of you have gotten all the fake history lessons (always trashing some liberal either new or old) sent around in email – the two first clues: 1) it’s usually all caps 2) it says to pass on to everyone you know! There are tiny tidbits of facts or truth, like some dates and names and legislation. The rest is lies and twisting. Gee – think there’s a pattern here?
I’ve been trying to catch up on desk work and my business site the past days but can’t fight the desire to jump in here once or twice a day . ( ok…. maybe three/five times)
Watched POTUS w/ Diane Sawyer tonight and at the end felt that he continues to leave me believing that his intentions are truly good and that he has a balanced mix of insight, humility, spirit strength and a daily ” how am i doing and how can i do better ? ” query.
Missed Shannyn today. Actually missed most of life today unless it was sitting squarely on my desk and growling at me. I did manage to make a potato/mushroom/roasted garlic soup for dinner though. It will be available for upload to the ‘Flats in about 30 minutes. Place your orders early.
2nd day in a row of nearly 40 degrees in Bflo at the end of January. Pouring rain and nearly overflowing creeks. Weird!
Bauer’s comments are not Christian (at least my God would not approve), and are beyond stupid. So he thinks the children of people on welfare should be punished because of what their parents may or may not do. How many people would the state have to hire to check into all of the parents; it would probably cost more than the free lunches, etc. would cost. Bauer’s way would practically guarantee many of the children will become drop-outs and unable to get decent jobs. Maybe that’s what Bauer wants, a steady stream of workers who have to work in menial jobs with very low wages. Sounds like a mean, ole Republicant to me.
Our local TV station does a lot of polls on various stuff. A few weeks ago they asked about marriage equality.
At the end of the evening over 70% were for equality. So they kept it up for over a week. I think they finally got about 45% for h8te.
It’s always fun to hear the anchor on the late news have to report results they don’t agree with. I vote because I think it may give them some idea that not everyone who watches is a backer of Kevin McCarthy and his thugs. BTW, I tune in for the weather.
1laingirl@26 Says:
Bauer’s comments are not Christian (at least my God would not approve), and are beyond stupid. So he thinks the children of people on welfare should be punished because of what their parents may or may not do
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Not only not Christian but totally devoid of logic. Eating for sustinance and the drive to procreation are the two most powerful drives. One does not negate the other. Bauer’s momma was right that if you don’t feed cats they will go away – away to find somewhere else to feed or to die. So is that really the analogy he wants to make? That poor kids that could do better in school if they had a provided lunch than not should just “go somewhere else or die?”.
Also, taking away food does NOT equate to “Oh, I didn’t get a free lunch, guess I wont have sex”. What idiot would think that?
Martha Unalaska Yard Sign — I attribute that phenomena to the Right Wing Truth Formula: A tsp of truth in a bucket of bs = a bucket of truth. It’s a proven formula that’s been making evangelists and Rush Limbaugh wealthy for a long time.
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One of my favorite utterly twisted bits from the creationists is “teach the controversy,” falsely implying first off that there is a scientific controversy involving a scientific theory and something completely outside the realm of science. But it gets better when you consider that there are legitimate scientific controversies – many, many of them – debated every day among learned scientists. By their convoluted logic such controversies should be settled in classrooms by as-yet uneducated students.
I have pointed out to several creationists that there is also an abundance of unsettled theological topics still debated. My suggestion that perhaps those should be turned over to Sunday school classes for resolution seems to have been rejected w/out discussion. Go figure.
repugs & conservatives need constant (supervision) recorded debates to prove that their self-serving, always changing interpretations (of law/Constitution/or Bible) are bogus and they need an a** whippin’ to go with it. I still like the very soft example of when Arlen Specter challenged michelle bachmann over bachmann’s request to pass Prosperity and Specter reminded her that Prosperity wasn’t a bill…that’s what I’m talkin’ about!…we need more of THAT! …constant on-the-spot, in-your-face corrections…NEVER let them get away with the bullcrap!…these are the loons running our country allowed by their barefoot bass ackwards constituency that will believe just about ANYTHING! More in their face retorts (levels they understand) and less intellectual reasoning…gotta do it! …just do it!
Scrooge: “Let them die, and decrease the surplus population.”
Dickens called Scrooge, as I recall, a “miserable old sinner.” I don’t think anyone equates Scrooge prior to his epiphany, as any type of Christian.
Another great one, flyinureye! Thank heavens for a sense of humor. I don’t know what we’d do if we couldn’t laugh at this bimbo.
the damn things those conservatives say!!! (including sista sarah)
I like this paragraph about “them” THINKING they have a monopoly on Christianity.
“It amazes me how some Republican politicians claim a monopoly on Christianity and then go out and say and do some of the most un-Christian things imaginable,” said Charleston attorney Mullins McLeod, who participated in a candidates forum in Columbia along with Bauer Saturday. “… Bauer’s comments are despicable and the total opposite of the Christian values Bauer espouses.”
but alas, there’s more…the complete article from Mother Jones:
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/01/sc-republican-plan-starve-poor-stop-breeding
Great pic! The only thing missing is an American flag plopped [read: prop-ed] oh-so-casually (and “patriotically”) onto the end of the desk… beth.
Yup – we need a good laugh. If we lose our humor then all is lost. Thanks Flyinureye!
What horribly crass and heartless comments from an alleged Christian who has obviously not read some really key parts of the Good Book.
Right on target, the greatest grifter alaska has ever produced, scary though, with new SCOTUS ruling we might all have to worship at the alter of POTUS palin.
You certainly do have talent flyinureye! Thanks for the chuckle!
I agree…kudos to flyinureye
flyinureye – High marks for your hi-jinx once again. Under your leadership, the Mudflats Art Dept continues to excel. Time to ask for a raise.
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I think it was AustinTx who posted a link to creation museum photos yesterday, and reminded me of a video I’d seen back in ’07. It seems that Cold Springs, KY is home to (a or the?) Answers In Genesis: Creation Museum. That may not have been the most convincing place to build it. That area is within a large geologic area known as the Cincinnati Series, named for a rock layer that formed in an ancient sea bed and one of the richest fossil areas anywhere. Literally millions of 440 million-year-old fossils were excavated for construction of the foundation for a building dedicated to the premise of a 6K-yr-old earth. Woops. I love that the defenders of indefensible ideas so often become their own best parody. (For geology buffs, the creator of the video also posted a virtual library of links to other sources.)
Part 1 (10:11)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezQhVjGy6ME
Fossils: years ago, I visited a very conservative church (Wisconsin Synod Lutheran). The sermon claimed that God planted fossilized “dinosaur bones” under the earth at the time of creation (about 6000 years ago) as a test of faith. When the fossils were dug up, which would you believe: some old fossils, or the scriptures? Anybody who made the wrong choice and thought the fossils disproved the recent creation related in scriptures . . . well on the way to hell.
That God — what a sense of humor.
Nice one, flyinyoureye. Thanks for the chuckle.
Just read the full article about that South Carolina twit Bauer. And if his comments aren’t bad enough, some of the commenters are equally callous. I think what most of them don’t realize or don’t want to realize is that not everyone getting help from the government does is by choice. And many of them have one or two jobs and it’s just not enough.
I think they all should go back to Sunday School with the pre-schoolers. They apparently need to reread part of the Bible that starts with Matthew 25: 34. Clearly, they missed the finer points of that passage, which is my favorite.
Another thing – it makes me wonder if Sanford refused to resign knowing that Bauer would replace him. Here I thought he was just being clueless, but maybe he was actually doing the state a favor.
It’s so depressing the face some people put on Christianity. It’s like they missed the entire point. It’s like someone watching a game of football and deciding punting on first down is a great strategy. Just no connection to the game at all.
Cute pic. Here’s hoping Fox forgets about Sarah before that show becomes a reality.
Anyone else seen this? The often re-subbed Hitler in the bunker scene, but in this one he finds out Sarah Palin resigned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svf0vhVZ3Fo
Why do fossilized trees stand vertically through layers of supposedly “millions of years old” strata? Without showing ANY signs of wear or rot on areas of different “ages”? Why are more geologists converting to “global Cataclysm” theory, the more they learn? Why did the man who cracked the code of D.N.A. sequencing say something like ” I spent 60 in the laboratory, only to discover what I had learned in Sunday school?” Why are their NO “transitional stage” fossils? Why have Human footprints been discovered at the lowest strata level? Perhaps http://s8int.com/ has some answers. They certainly raise more questions for the open mind to evaluate. Please remove blinders as neccassery. A true scientist KNOWS nothing is impossible until tested and proven. I reccomend SEEING and Testing for yourself as many use religion as a political tool for Mass Persuation to control their populations. This is evident in the coming Numerical Contropolis described in Revalations (revealings, as in seeing) Also see http://bibleprobe.com/300great.html for more answers. May we never stop learning… BTW, I’m not red. -PEACE-
Lainey: Republicans are embarrassed by Jesus. They much prefer the Old Testament God and the stories of stoning and genocide.
They might like Eternal Life, but they don’t really want to stop storing up Treasure at Citibank instead of Heaven.
Love your enemies? Who was that wus?
That should read “60 years”. My sincerest apologies…
Everyone – but particularly Alaskans – should check out Shannyn’s latest posting about the cruise ship industry and its hold on government officials. I can’t do anything about making changes, but if enough Alaskans raise hell, maybe things can change.
If The Senate Were Based On Population
60% of the votes are needed in the chamber that’s least “representative”, and 41% of the votes in the Senate is enough to control the Country without actually doing any filibustering. Freedom’s on the march!
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/01/if-the-senate-were-based-on-population.html#more
Is Sarah Palin qualified to be president – PBS poll
I just got an action alert re Palin. Mudflats seems like a good place to share.
“PBS has an online poll posted asking if Sarah Palin is qualified to be president. Apparently the Right Wing knew about this is advance and are flooding the voting with YES votes. The poll will be reported on PBS…”
Voting is a simple click, no sign in or anything. When I just responded it was just over 50 percent saying yes to qualified.
http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html
This is an old one that’s getting recirculated. I think it’s from September of 2008. But no harm to vote now! AKM
Oh jeez – that stupid poll rears its stupid head again! Many letters were written to NOW at PBS about taking down that piece of sh*t poll, esp. since you could sit there and click a million times if you felt like it. I wrote at least four times myself and never got an answer. They put up some stupid reason on the main part of their site (NOW on PBS) and basically it was a load of crap. I can’t find that now since this is over a year old. No one will be publishing any results of this – let the whack jobs wear out their fingers and keyboards.
Sites like this, just like the ADN did, keep this crap up because it generates hits. That’s IT. That’s ALL. Hits translate into money. I ignore all polls – they mean nothing.
I meant online polls. Unless they have controls on registration and IPs, they are worthless. And none of them have any controls. Generating bucks, that’s it!
Don’t waste your time on those online polls. They are not scientific and mean nothing.
Palin’s fans are like rats frantically pulling the lever to get their treats when they vote repeatedly in those polls. They may obtain the illusory reward that their gal is “ahead in the polls” but they’re still rats in a cage. And Palin’s still a loser.
Hey Snoskred,
I have some new security software from Malwarebytes.
Every time I open the Mudflats it says it has blocked a malicious site with the IP address of 88.214.197.206
Thought you should know about it.
DD
Crablewi — The Creationists claim of there being no transitional stage fossils is so easily disproven I can’t believe they keep bringing it up. It’s right up there with Palin’s Death Panels. as is pointed out by a Christian who is also a scientist in this video –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4GdZOlPrX8
Tomorrow is Tuesday, are you going to have some news for us AKM? Does it have to do with the mysterious envelope? Does it have to do with princess sparkleburst? I can’t wait!!
The Creationists have many fake science and fake news sites all over the Internet. The first time I hit one of the fake science ones, I sat there reading (I was doing research on sea water’s similarity to human plasma) and got the most puzzled look on my face. It started out fine and reasonable for about two paragraphs, then the rest got so weird so fast that I should have caught on sooner than I did. As in catching on in 30 seconds, instead of five minutes. I just didn’t know that they had posted all this crap out there masquerading as fact. I laughed so hard I almost fell off my chair. They really do believe people are stupid, or hope they are so they can shove this crap down someone’s throat.
They’ve been doing this for awhile – so remember that in case one of these comes up in a search or research. This is their version of free speech – open mouth, get out keyboard, and lie like he11! I’m sure many of you have gotten all the fake history lessons (always trashing some liberal either new or old) sent around in email – the two first clues: 1) it’s usually all caps 2) it says to pass on to everyone you know! There are tiny tidbits of facts or truth, like some dates and names and legislation. The rest is lies and twisting. Gee – think there’s a pattern here?
I’ve been trying to catch up on desk work and my business site the past days but can’t fight the desire to jump in here once or twice a day . ( ok…. maybe three/five times)
Watched POTUS w/ Diane Sawyer tonight and at the end felt that he continues to leave me believing that his intentions are truly good and that he has a balanced mix of insight, humility, spirit strength and a daily ” how am i doing and how can i do better ? ” query.
Missed Shannyn today. Actually missed most of life today unless it was sitting squarely on my desk and growling at me. I did manage to make a potato/mushroom/roasted garlic soup for dinner though. It will be available for upload to the ‘Flats in about 30 minutes. Place your orders early.
2nd day in a row of nearly 40 degrees in Bflo at the end of January. Pouring rain and nearly overflowing creeks. Weird!
Bauer’s comments are not Christian (at least my God would not approve), and are beyond stupid. So he thinks the children of people on welfare should be punished because of what their parents may or may not do. How many people would the state have to hire to check into all of the parents; it would probably cost more than the free lunches, etc. would cost. Bauer’s way would practically guarantee many of the children will become drop-outs and unable to get decent jobs. Maybe that’s what Bauer wants, a steady stream of workers who have to work in menial jobs with very low wages. Sounds like a mean, ole Republicant to me.
Our local TV station does a lot of polls on various stuff. A few weeks ago they asked about marriage equality.
At the end of the evening over 70% were for equality. So they kept it up for over a week. I think they finally got about 45% for h8te.
It’s always fun to hear the anchor on the late news have to report results they don’t agree with. I vote because I think it may give them some idea that not everyone who watches is a backer of Kevin McCarthy and his thugs. BTW, I tune in for the weather.
Flyinureye, you’re the best!
1laingirl@26 Says:
Bauer’s comments are not Christian (at least my God would not approve), and are beyond stupid. So he thinks the children of people on welfare should be punished because of what their parents may or may not do
* ** * ** * ** * ** * ** * *
Not only not Christian but totally devoid of logic. Eating for sustinance and the drive to procreation are the two most powerful drives. One does not negate the other. Bauer’s momma was right that if you don’t feed cats they will go away – away to find somewhere else to feed or to die. So is that really the analogy he wants to make? That poor kids that could do better in school if they had a provided lunch than not should just “go somewhere else or die?”.
Also, taking away food does NOT equate to “Oh, I didn’t get a free lunch, guess I wont have sex”. What idiot would think that?
Martha Unalaska Yard Sign — I attribute that phenomena to the Right Wing Truth Formula: A tsp of truth in a bucket of bs = a bucket of truth. It’s a proven formula that’s been making evangelists and Rush Limbaugh wealthy for a long time.
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One of my favorite utterly twisted bits from the creationists is “teach the controversy,” falsely implying first off that there is a scientific controversy involving a scientific theory and something completely outside the realm of science. But it gets better when you consider that there are legitimate scientific controversies – many, many of them – debated every day among learned scientists. By their convoluted logic such controversies should be settled in classrooms by as-yet uneducated students.
I have pointed out to several creationists that there is also an abundance of unsettled theological topics still debated. My suggestion that perhaps those should be turned over to Sunday school classes for resolution seems to have been rejected w/out discussion. Go figure.
repugs & conservatives need constant (supervision) recorded debates to prove that their self-serving, always changing interpretations (of law/Constitution/or Bible) are bogus and they need an a** whippin’ to go with it. I still like the very soft example of when Arlen Specter challenged michelle bachmann over bachmann’s request to pass Prosperity and Specter reminded her that Prosperity wasn’t a bill…that’s what I’m talkin’ about!…we need more of THAT! …constant on-the-spot, in-your-face corrections…NEVER let them get away with the bullcrap!…these are the loons running our country allowed by their barefoot bass ackwards constituency that will believe just about ANYTHING! More in their face retorts (levels they understand) and less intellectual reasoning…gotta do it! …just do it!
Scrooge: “Let them die, and decrease the surplus population.”
Dickens called Scrooge, as I recall, a “miserable old sinner.” I don’t think anyone equates Scrooge prior to his epiphany, as any type of Christian.
Here is part of the problem….
http://i.imgur.com/9DGgJ.jpg
If only Sarah could see China from her house, this wouldn’t have happened.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0125/US-oil-industry-hit-by-cyberattacks-Was-China-involved
Yep, some of your favorite oil companies were compromised. But never fear, Alaska, oil drilling is safe in their hands.
Earlier today, on NPR, I heard this very powerful and clear rebuttal to the inscription of bible verses on rifle sights issued to our troops.
“As a Marine invading Iraq in 2003, I thought we actively separated church and state from our motives.”
Hold The Hallelujah: The Perils Of Rifles And Religion
Benjamin Busch
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122945924
Once again, Flyinureye, you capture the tacky/trashy tone perfectly. Have you thought of selling a collection of your Palin Flypapers?