[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'A')gent, now you just spout nonsense and act like you are really making an argument.

[Pops]

You guys are pretty funny.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'Y')ou guys are pretty funny.

[vision-master]

No, the Rethugs don't give a crap about poor ppl.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'N')o, the Rethugs don't give a crap about poor ppl.

[vision-master]

Yeah, they can become just like you, except 'color' could be a problem down there, no?

[AgentR11]

While I won't say we don't have problems down here, its also fair to say that the media over-hypes it quite a bit cause it makes a great story.

[rangerone314]

2 terms of Bush (Republicans in White House), Republicans controlling Congress and at the same time having a Supreme Court majority.

Result?

The lot of the poor and the Middle Class declined and the lot of the rich rose; both decline and rise in unusual proportions (even for this country) for those years.

[sparky]

.
I'm a bit confused
is this topic about a crypto equivalence of the Jews as Sauron breed
or a general criticism of East Texas as unfit for intelligent life
as for the Orcs , I think they are cute proletarians born of the earth
and sticking it to pretentious post medieval wannabee

[rangerone314]

I think I've figured out conservatives: they hate Jews because they killed Jesus; they support Israel only because it pisses off the Muslims, who they hate more (for possessing their oil that they need for SUVs) than Jews.

[rockdoc123]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') think I've figured out conservatives: they hate Jews because they killed Jesus; they support Israel only because it pisses off the Muslims, who they hate more (for possessing their oil that they need for SUVs) than Jews.

[AgentR11]

While there probably are a few remaining nutbars who do the whole "Jews killed Jesus" thing; they are easily outnumbered on the right by a more modern trend of religious practitioners seeing each other as primary allies against an encroachment of anti-religious fervor from government and secular sources.

Something that I wonder about though...

What happens when Bob the Baptist, Charles the Catholic, and Joe the Jew come to the realization that they have a heck of a lot more in common with Sam the Sunni and Sarah the Shia than they do with Howard the Humanist from New York. Thats a road bump I'd like to occur *after* I'm gone, tyvm.

For now, we remain subject to indoctrination on each side; such that Iran is the Enemy of US (even though Howard despises practicing Christians much more than Sarah does)....

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rockdoc123', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') think I've figured out conservatives: they hate Jews because they killed Jesus; they support Israel only because it pisses off the Muslims, who they hate more (for possessing their oil that they need for SUVs) than Jews.

[efarmer]

Jesus was a Jew, there really is not much doubt about that, even though I have seen him African and also look like a blue eyed Brit in pictures. Jesus died from the exact same situation as someone who would preach a different flavor of Islam in Afghanistan, have the local Islamic hierarchy protect their turf and trump up a scenario or request for ISAF to take him out as being an insurrectionist.

People are people, you have to get to know each one and sort them out, it is risky and tenuous, and not as easy as painting with a broad brush to play factions against each other, which is the quick way to power.

I believe Conservatism is a potent, valid, and viable political approach, I also think that it using the tactics of divide and conquer within the fabric of America has come down to having to court the most ignorant and easily manipulated people in society to screws themselves out of a future while at the same time gradually making the Conservative movement a money rake to extract any and all wealth for the people who have hijacked Conservatism to make a nation mulcher which pulls out anything valuable to line the pockets of the top 2% and grinds up Joe and Jane Sixpack's lives while they are out marching at a Tea Party Rally.

Belief in God is a leap of faith, belief in trickle down is a leap of wraith.

[PrestonSturges]

While everyone believes roughly the same thing, each religion claims that there is some subtle nuance determines who goes to the big Disneyland in the sky. You not only have to believe a whole laundry list of specifics, but you have to have just the right emotional repsonse and strength of belief. Of course, your neighbor would constantly move the goal posts, so that he is your natural superior and spiritual master.

Do you and your girl friend have exactly the same emotional response to "Titanic?" Kittens? Boxing? Religion has no room for individual variation like that. You must interpret, feel, and speak about your religion exactly the same as everyone else or be damned. The payout is that you entitled to power over others because you are right and they are evil, and they should kiss your feet in gratitude.

Nice to know they can be so cionfident that they are being faithful to the original gospel of nomadic goat herders of 3000 years ago, because the slightest misinterpretation means eternal damnation.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rockdoc123', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') think I've figured out conservatives: they hate Jews because they killed Jesus; they support Israel only because it pisses off the Muslims, who they hate more (for possessing their oil that they need for SUVs) than Jews.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'b')ecause the slightest misinterpretation means eternal damnation.

[efarmer]

My goodness Preston, are you implying that he was the result of a grudge pregnancy?
(Someone had it in for Joseph?)

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'J')esus was a bare foot long haired communist Jew bastard. Deal with it.