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why the hell did I read that

what's a pink donut?

$250, same as downtown

hat tip to difficult listening hour for discovering this fabulous remark on a Derbyshire post.

There are Bible passages where it points out that you cannot earn salvation, it comes by grace; that God saves whom He wills; that some people were called to salvation before they were born. The Bible quotes about justice have to do (as I recall) with rendering justice to the widow and orphan, and without regard to a person's income level. It is instruction to the judges, not the government in general that the poor should have their needs paid for by everyone else. In fact, that interferes with opportunities for interpersonal charity.

the last line is really flawless: alleviating the suffering of the poor would infringe on the right of the rich to toss them quarters. what is this, russia?

What, one of these idiots completely misses the point of Scripture? How could that happen?

Lay some King James down on those clowns:

Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

"interpersonal" is one of those words I have to cross paths with daily.

another good one today:

Big Labor’s victory over John Kasich’s reforms in Ohio is a reminder to conservatives that we’re still a long way from closing the deal. A majority of the citizenry seem to agree that the nation’s mired and that their homes and jobs and futures are sinking with it. But that same majority is not yet sold on transformative rollbacks of government and the public sector. They seem to think that out there somewhere there’s a way to get the good times back that’s more or less pain-free. More fool them – which is to say Obama & Co will have a pretty good shot at fooling them.

always nice to see the right reduced to the grumbling misanthropy i grew up thinking belonged to the left

Big Labor appears to have won in Ohio. Combining heavy spending with relentless messaging . . .

those scoundrels! it is so unfair

what's a pink donut?

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, November 9, 2011 2:15 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

$250, same as downtown

― dense macabre (DJP), Wednesday, November 9, 2011 2:20 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

new favorite exchange in the history of ilx, mega thanks to both parties

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/282643/cain-lost-labyrinth-victor-davis-hanson

this guy's amazing. every sentence sickens.

Note there is no exemption for Cain even though the charges date from over a decade ago, and even though Cain in the interval was given a 30 percent chance of survival from stage-IV metastasized colon cancer.

wha...?

"Although he may have assaulted a woman, readers should bear in mind that Cain had cancer."

seriously, just about each phrase needs its own post

"evidence" of Cain's "serial" transgressions

"victims"

"sexual harassment"

Cain’s supporters bewail the unfairness of it all — the three previous anonymous accusers, the fourth identified when coaxed by Gloria Allred, a fifth, and who knows how many more, who years later suddenly feel pangs of conscience — as they reckon up the relative media uninterest in sex-poodle Al Gore

I had to stop reading here

how the hell did I miss the "crazed sex poodle" stuff re: Gore last year

it can be a real boon to a patient's recovery, knowing that they've generated a surplus of life points they can diminish abusing others
xxxxp at alfred

he makes some great points about Clinton's indiscretions never being mentioned in the media.

also did you guys know that affairs are the same thing as sexual harassment?

Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey keep coming up doncha know.

it's really the small slights of fact that are most infuriating, like this:

As John McCain closed in on Barack Obama in 2008, the media floated rumors of his purported affair with a Washington insider — in contrast to their lack of interest in just how much cocaine Barack Obama had really admitted to using or how exactly he had gone from Occidental to Columbia to Harvard Law School, or how patently untrue were his characterizations of his relationship with Bill Ayers.

mccain was only "closing in" on obama for about three weeks after the GOP convention and selection of sarah palin. the nyt story that contained all the speculation of his affair had already been "floated", aired out and then dumped months before that, when even hillary was still a candidate, if i recall correctly.

this is the only us politics thread i read. i love it!

just out of unwise curiosity, what is the ostensible suspicion wrt this?:

how exactly he had gone from Occidental to Columbia to Harvard Law School

lol i think i read the daily mail thread more often than the cleggeron one

otm

how exactly he had gone from Occidental to Columbia to Harvard Law School

basically, because Obama fucked around at Occidental and didn't have a STELLAR GPA, they are saying he didn't deserve to be at Columbia or Harvard, even though (AFAIK) he became more serious about his academics and got much better grades as a result once he got to Columbia

Must've been the cocaine that Bill Ayers was putting up Barry's nose.

i am still trying to read the whole thing tbh

it is so deeply fucked up

good luck to you, i can barely get past his picture

basically, because Obama fucked around at Occidental and didn't have a STELLAR GPA, they are saying he didn't deserve to be at Columbia or Harvard, even though (AFAIK) he became more serious about his academics and got much better grades as a result once he got to Columbia

― sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 21:57 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

ty, am into this roomy ruminating, lots of space for nonspecific, probably governmental interference

it has also been implied by certain right-wing figures that occidental, despite having produced a republican vice-presidential candidate, a member of monty python, the managing editor of the new yorker and at least one blogger, is not a good enough school for its students to transfer to columbia

Youth versus age was seen only in terms of administrative authority, not in terms of the erotic power of youthful beauty.

yeah the middle stretch of this thing, where he relates all of this tales of departmental basic-instinctism committed by women in grad school, is just beyond

the erotic power of youthful beauty reminds me of the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night’s light

KJL still beating the Santorum drum

do wish Santorum would have his moment. As people keep commenting, there’s a there there and it shows, consistently. And no one has voted yet, and he is putting in a lot of work into this run, tirelessly campaigning. We’ll see.

there's a there there!

KJL is beating something, all right

I suspect it is "a dead horse"

http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/abstractexpressionism/images/Abstract-Art-Beating-a-Dead-Horse.jpg

Time to polish your resumes:

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Applications to be Rich LOLry's catamite.

the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night’s light

i had forgotten all about this, thank you max

i had to google it, lawl

Kathryn, I don't understand why you keep dragging Taylor Swift into discussions about conservative politics. What does she have to do with the conservative movement or the Republican Party? She is a commercial music artist who sells records to teen and tween girls. I don't see any political connection - we are talking about apples and oranges here. For some reason you seem to have been brainwashed into believing that Taylor represents your side in a culture war, a belief for which there is no evidence. Your political commentaries raise many good points, but I think you are mistaken on this issue.

link?

same post as santorum's dorothy parker cred

LKJ : 11/10/11 01:23
There's some kind of symmetry to The Band Perry taking down three CMA awards while the number three is so much crueler to Governor Perry on this evening.

Imagining what a Corner-sponsored version of EMP would be like.