Posts by Village Idiot

As I've been saying they are not the same. Hillary as president would have left this nation the same as she got it - the status quo. Trump will bring it down to the Abyss.

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Help from you fine folks here. "Hope and wishes for baby"

by James Mixon in

jw
friends

baby shower for my son (raised a jw) and his wife mormon, a baby boy.

so a "hopes and wishes list" for the baby was handed out , any ideas.. i hope you know________________.

and i hope_______________________.. love grandpa.

Village Idiot

I hope you know that wisdom comes hard but is well worth it.

I hope you learn a little bit of this and a little bit of that instead of a lot about just one thing.

I hope you experience many lifetimes within this one and only.

I hope you respect those who are different than you.

I hope you love the mother of your children.

I hope you try all the best beers, smart and life extension supplements and drugs.

I hope you aren't afraid of bullies.

I hope you become an example to us all.

I hope you never forget friends and family when they need you.

And I hope that you live long and prosper.

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New Religion where to look?

by Alostpuppydog in

has anyone found any religion that makes more sense than the watchtower organization?

obviously catholics make even less sense than them so don't say that.... the reason i ask is because i still believe the bible is the word of god, but just that the jw's have twisted it for their own benefit, as most religions seem to do....

Village Idiot

@ Heaven:

“This knowledge is of divine origin; and it is from the Bible of the creation that man has learned it, and not from the stupid Bible of the church, that teaches man nothing.*

*The Bible-makers have undertaken to give us, in the first chapter of Genesis, an account of the creation; and in doing this they have demonstrated nothing but their ignorance…

Thomas Paine - The Age of Reason. From The Online Library of Liberty: The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume IV, Page 192-193.

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Sam Harris on Trump - The Most Powerful Clown

by cofty in

harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.

we should all be committed to his success.

prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....

Village Idiot

Straight from Huffington Post:

Earlier in the year, before Mike Pence was chosen as Donald Trump’s running mate, former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, using Trump’s analogy of running a business to explain how he’d run the country, told HuffPost’s Howard Fineman that the vice president of the Trump administration would really be the “CEO” or “COO” ― or, the president of the company ― while Trump would be more like the “chairman of the board”:

“He needs an experienced person to do the part of the job he doesn’t want to do. He seems himself more as the chairman of the board, than even the CEO, let alone the COO...There is a long list of who that person could be.”

That person turned out to be Pence, and, before and after the election, there’s been some analysis and commentary suggesting that Mike Pence could be “the most powerful vice president ever.” And now, just days after the election, his power has increased tenfold as he is replacing Chris Christie as chairman of Trump’s transition team, filling all the major positions in the incoming Trump administration.

Mike Pence is perhaps one of the most anti-LGBTQ political crusaders to serve in Congress and as governor of a state. Long before he signed the draconian anti-LGBTQ “religious liberty” law in Indiana last year, he supported “conversion therapy” as a member of Congress, and later, as a columnist and radio host, he gave a speech in which he said that marriage equality would lead to “societal collapse,” and called homosexuality “a choice.” Stopping gays from marrying wasn’t biased, he said, but was rather about compelling “God’s idea.”

Ben Carson, who compared homosexuality to pedophilia and incest, is a vice chairman of the transition team and so is Newt Gingrich, who has attacked what he called “gay fascism” and, in 2014, “the new fascism” around LGBTQ rights.

And right on cue, already appointed to lead domestic policy on the transition team is Ken Blackwell, formerly the Ohio secretary of state. Blackwell compared homosexuality to arson and kleptomania, which he called “compulsions.” In an interview with me at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul in 2004, he explained:

“Well, the fact is, you can choose to restrain that compulsion. And so I think in fact you don’t have to give in to the compulsion to be homosexual. I think that’s been proven in case after case after case...I believe homosexuality is a compulsion that can be contained, repressed or changed…[T]hat is what I’m saying in the clearest of terms.”

Expect each of these individuals and more bigots to have prominent positions in the Trump administration.

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Sam Harris on Trump - The Most Powerful Clown

by cofty in

harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.

we should all be committed to his success.

prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....

Village Idiot

Brokeback Watchtower,
Anyway I think we need to wish the best for Trump's presidency for the next four years and I'm hoping that he gets the best advisers on his team to get some good things done for the country.

It is his vice President who has been entrusted to pick out the advisers. A little research will show that they are conservative radicals beginning with the VP himself.

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Election Post-Mortem

by Simon in

i'm sure many people, republicans included, are shocked at the results of the 2016 presidential election.

really, wtf!.

the polls were wrong and although it's tempting to blame voter suppression and fbi interference, that would just avoid looking at the real issues for the loss.

Village Idiot

Simon,
The media most likes drama and disruption. They don't want "slow news days".

FTM.

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Sam Harris on Trump - The Most Powerful Clown

by cofty in

harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.

we should all be committed to his success.

prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....

Village Idiot

Finkelstein, your hypothetical situation has several flaws. Through no fault of your own since you don't seem familiar with nuclear weapons.

First, any bomb that ISIS might get would be in the kiloton range (1 kiloton = 1,000 toms of tnt). That would not be able to kill 10 million people; it would not even be able to destroy all of Manhattan with a population of 1.6 million. Hundreds of thousands maybe.

You also underestimate our ability to find out a lot through forensics as to the origin of said devices. They can be traced back to its country of origin because the radioactive residues of Uranium have their own particular radioisotope "fingerprint" depending on who produced it.

There are much easier ways of wreaking havoc, which I won't detail, that can kill thousands without any explosion. It would be a ridiculously small weapon whose raw material is easily available. It's a good thing that these terrorists have little imagination; they'd be much more effective if they did.

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Election Post-Mortem

by Simon in

i'm sure many people, republicans included, are shocked at the results of the 2016 presidential election.

really, wtf!.

the polls were wrong and although it's tempting to blame voter suppression and fbi interference, that would just avoid looking at the real issues for the loss.

Village Idiot

Whatever those dastardly liberal media said was in response to what Republicans were saying. That is not a contribution to polarization, it's a mere response to the polarizers.

One thing Republicans don't have is a sense of responsibility. They simply cannot own up to their actions and instead blame the victim.

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Sam Harris on Trump - The Most Powerful Clown

by cofty in

harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.

we should all be committed to his success.

prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....

Village Idiot

Cofty,
Harris explored the hypothetical situation where an Islamic state obtained long-range nuclear weapons.

You cannot eliminate ISIS with a nuclear bomb. Eliminate the bomb perhaps but not the organization. Also, they would have to experiment dozens of times in order to get a reliable ICBM with a functioning nuke. That can be dealt with by non-nuclear means long before it's completed.

North Korea, which continues to develop its short range missile technology has yet to miniaturize its nukes so that they can fit into a missile of any size or range.