Posts by Hittman

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House votes to require pledges to the flag...problems coming the Witnesses' way?

by passwordprotected in

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20090313_16_a1_oklaho6369.

house votes to require pledges .

the bill would make oaths to the state and u.s. flags a daily classroom event.. .

Hittman

It simply means "Hey, while I'm in this country, I'll try to be a good citizen and uphold the values of this nation."

No, it says you're pledging your allegiance to a piece of cloth and the government it represents.

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Cramer gets Whacked by Stewart

by sammielee24 in

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if you want a really important lesson on how everyone has been scammed, if you want to see the lies that took place and if you want to see that the little subprime mortgages had nothing to do with the massive crash you are in - go to the daily show or hulu and watch last nights interview between cramer and jon stewart.

cramer is through.

cnbc is through.

Hittman

I even have a specially photoshopped poster of Ayn Rand over my bed.

Birth Control?

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House votes to require pledges to the flag...problems coming the Witnesses' way?

by passwordprotected in

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20090313_16_a1_oklaho6369.

house votes to require pledges .

the bill would make oaths to the state and u.s. flags a daily classroom event.. .

Hittman

So how to Jay Dubs protest the moment of silence? Hum?

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Bill O'Reilly

by megaflower in

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his latest book, "a bold fresh piece of humanity is a good read.

its been on the bst seller list for 6 months now.

yes, i know he is conservative and is not liked by liberals.

Hittman

I've read as much of his books as you can without getting dirty looks from the bookstore clerk, and the writing is competent, but not anything special.

But that excerpt from his fiction – wow. That was just bad.

I watch his Wednesday show for the Dennis Miller segment. He used to follow that with Mary Katherine Ham, the "internet cop," and she was fun – she'd often argue with him and tell him he was over-reacting. He's replaced her with a different woman who is more of a lap dog.

But at least now I get to DVR Glenn Beck, whose show I enjoy.

I've just started watching Beck. I like him. He's smart and funny, but most importantly he treats the audience like they're smart too. O'Reilly thinks he's smarter than you, and it comes across as pompous and arrogant. Beck also avoids the deadly mistake if taking himself too seriously.

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Lets welcome Hittman to the board!

by asilentone in

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i noticed that he did not have a welcome mat here yet, so lets welcome him here.

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Hittman

I don't scare too easily.

Except when recording episodes of Blood Witness. It's scary!

Sorry, I couldn't resist plugging it again. But seriously, if you like horror or vampire stories, and/or dislike the Witnesses (I think there might be a couple of people here who don't like them) check it out. You won't be disappointed.

And thanks again for the welcome, everyone.

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David H. Splane

by VM44 in

david splane is a member of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses.. he became a full time minister in september 1963. a graduate of the 42nd class of gilead, the jehovah's witness missionary school, he served as a missionary in senegal, africa, then for 19 years as a travelling overseer in canada.

he and his wife, linda, have been at bethel (jehovah's witness headquarters) in the united states since 1990, where he has worked in the service and writing departments.

since 1998, he had been a helper to the writing committee.

Hittman

He has the same middle initial as Jesus Christ.

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This kid makes Witness kids look like Charlie Manson

by Free in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjb5t0balsu (someone please make this link clickable) sorry.

this kid should take some karate classes, i think he may need them someday soon.. .

Hittman

What's messed up is that he isn't very caring about less fortunate.

You're making assumptions. He never said anything for or against the less fortunate.

He was talking, very specifically, about applying some basic principles to government. Nothing more, nothing less. And they are pretty common, and common sense, principles. (I suspect his "respect for life" includes anti-choice nonsense, but he never got into it.)
he certainly does a better job at being interviewed than I would do, indeed better than many adults would.

While he's not saying anything original, he is saying it clearly and articulately for a kid. I've seen an awful lot of adults (of all political persuasions) that can't put a single sentence together as well as this kid has.

The knee-jerk reactions I've seen here are nothing more than very juvenile insults that don't address anything he said. The very title of this thread is appalling. I expected it to be about some redneck racist or screaming preacher.* Instead I see a well-mannered kid talking about some very basic conservative principles that most thinking people would agree with. And rather than a constructive, legitimate debate on what he said we get a screen full of insults so childish they'd be considered lame by any other 14 year old.

Help me out here--I can't for the life of me figure out why you're attacking him.

I can only guess, but it smells like pure fear to me. The left loves to attack personalities rather than ideas. (To be fair, the right does this too.) They lump mouth breathing idiots like Michael Savage and Ann Coulter in with smart, thinking people like Glen Beck and Thomas Sowell and The Cato Institute to spare themselves the pain of thinking about what's being said. It's become such an automatic response the words go whizzing by their ears, unheard, as they gleefully slam the person saying them. I don't see a single anti-kid post that presents an argument against what he said; they're all personal attacks on him. And worst of all, they're tiresome, juvenile and unfunny attacks. At least use some imagination, people.

*<old joke> I'm compelled to note that Screaming Preacher would be a good name for a band. </old joke>

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This kid makes Witness kids look like Charlie Manson

by Free in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjb5t0balsu (someone please make this link clickable) sorry.

this kid should take some karate classes, i think he may need them someday soon.. .

Hittman

What's messed up? Sure, he wears way to much lipstick, but he's well spoken and, at least in this clip, not saying anything outrageous. If the left so afraid of articulate opinion they have to label it as Nazi?

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Do not Disassociate, Anull your baptism

by jwfacts in

i am now a jedi, so trust me on this.. .

why dis-associate, you are just playing by the wts rules?

how can you dis-associate anyway, you never thought you were baptised as a watchtower society member, you thought your dedication was to god, so why formally disassociate from something you did not formally join?

Hittman

Who cares what kind of label is attached to you by a collection of idiots?

Agreed, but I can think of one cool advantage to this.

The look on their face when you tell them you weren't DAd ar DFd.

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Lets welcome Hittman to the board!

by asilentone in

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i noticed that he did not have a welcome mat here yet, so lets welcome him here.

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Hittman

Blood witness sounds interesting. I have a long reading list but will check it out sometime.

It's a podio book, released as weekly epsidsodes as an audio file, so you listen to it rather than read it.