How To Tell If You're A Liberal

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haha i never had any idea nic, what in his work would give that away?

― deeznuts, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

There was an atheist couple who had a child. the couple never told their daughter anything about the Lord. One night, when the little girl was 5 years old, the parents fought with each other and the father shot the mom right there in front of the little girl....then he shot himself. the little girl watched it all. She was then sent to a foster home. The foster mother was a christian and took the child to Sunday school...the foster mother told the teacher that the little girl had never heard of Jesus and to have patience with her. The teacher held up a picture of the Lord and asked, "Does anyone know who this is?" The little girl replied, "I do, that's the man that was holding me the night my parents died."

― rps, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

man i wish my philosophy classes had more proving-god-doesn't-exist and chalk-dropping and calling-christians-fools and less kant

― max, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

please stop guys i didnt come here to cry.

― deeznuts, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Mussolini was the fascist it was cool to sympathize with

wasn't dude on the cover of Forbes in 1934 or so, telling everybody to embrace his brand of "corporatism"?

― kingfish, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

300 students stayed and listened as he told of God's love for them and of his power through Jesus.

they then went on to attack the persian army, etc

― kingfish, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.kalonaorganics.com/images/peach.jpg
"organic yoghurt that will transform your taste buds!"

^^^ seriously this is like an encapsulation of everything the right hates about us

― gff, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

you should see the great leap forward brand pole vaulting kit

― and what, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Geologists working somewhere in remote Siberia had drilled a hole some 14.4 kilometers deep (about 9 miles) when the drill bit suddenly began to rotate wildly. A Mr. Azzacov (identified as the project's manager) was quoted as saying they decided that the center of the earth was hollow.

Supposedly, the geologists measured temperatures of over 2,000 degrees in the deep hole. They lowered super sensitive microphones to the bottom of the well, and to their astonishment they heard the sounds of thousands, perhaps millions, of suffering souls screaming.

― rps, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

what kind of vocal cords does a human soul have?

― and what, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://snopes.com/religion/graphics/wellhell.jpg

― rps, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

wot, peaches?

― kingfish, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

five year plan tax and investment consulting

― gff, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

i was more offended by milton bradley's 'gang of connect four' game

― and what, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

The teacher held up a picture of the Lord and asked, "Does anyone know who this is?" The little girl replied, "I do, that's the man that was holding me the night my parents died."

That's not very nice of the lorbd & savior to make her witness a murder!

― Abbott, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

less glurge bashing more mao puns

― and what, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

little red songbook ohwait

― gff, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Right here, right Mao...watching the world wake up from history.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g34/talie_costumes/University/In%20progress/DSC01308.jpg

― Abbott, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Little Red Book of Adobe LiveMotion: A Radical Guide to Flash Animation

― kingfish, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://home.earthlink.net/~cbrownsf/pirate.jpg

― Abbott, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

wow, i was just about to post "obv capra + rockwell were liberals, since when has optimism = conversatism?". but capra sounds downright creepy.

The conservative subtexts were there from the late thirties onwards! Mr Deeds and You Can't Take it With You are particularly grueling for that.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

abbott i missed a step somewhere but i'm happy you posted that first pic all the same

― gff, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

what lady wouldn't want to relax with a cup of organic yogurt and a copy of http://www.e-magazine-subscriptions.com/cover-image.png?img=redbook

― and what, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

xposts damn u all

― and what, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

why the Redbook not taking pride in its cultural roots what w/the pastels and all?

― Abbott, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

I mean if they want something 'pretty' they could have at least pictured a thousand flowers blooming.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

9-mile deep hole = teh roflz

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.perfectduluthday.com/hello/95/2036/640/menards_guy.jpg
"Menards Garden Center... let a hundred flowers bloom!"

― gff, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://photofile.ru/photo/netnazgul/2557691/large/47983026.gif

― Abbott, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

"organic yoghurt that will transform your taste buds!"

I think the right is a little more comfortable eating Yoplait with Chinese characteristics.

― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060414/060414_walmartGuns_hmed_12p.hmedium.jpg
where low prices come from a barrel of a gun!!

― and what, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/02/26/night.light.recall/night.light.cpsc.jpg

Make sure your home has a shining path!

― gff, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Katharine Hepburn, who starred in his 1948 picture "State of the Union," thought him "quite liberal"

in the mcbride book, she talks about how he was a very patriotic immigrant american, and very much not the liberal his movies suggested. the mcbride book is pretty fantastic, btw.

― stevie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

― and what, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

haha i never had any idea nic, what in his work would give that away?

It's not really his work, I just remembered reading a few articles that discussed the Mussolini/Franco stuff so I assumed that it was widely known.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

IAWL is republican propaganda to begin with, and basically one ethnically stereotypical surname from being a christian white power movie

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

if only all our lawmakers would just try to open camps for young boys instead of levying taxes and shit

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://insidetheusa.net/images/blogs/jesus-camp.jpg

― Abbott, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

i suppose the anti-potter stuff in it slots easily enough into a fascist contempt for "finance"

― gff, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

clmaossic thread

― and what, Thursday, 25 September 2008 21:02 (seventeen years ago)

You thought Walt Disney was saccharine sweet and terminally cutesy-pie - until it made "Pocahontas."

Wau. Usually strawman viewpoints still represent SOMEONE's actual view SOMEWHERE.

― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Thursday, 25 September 2008 21:05 (seventeen years ago)

what kind of vocal cords does a human soul have?

― and what, Wednesday, March 28, 2007 6:01 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

soulcal cords

― Brosef Stalin (latebloomer), Thursday, 25 September 2008 21:11 (seventeen years ago)

haha i'd forgotten our run of vanguardist retail ads up there

― goole, Thursday, 25 September 2008 21:12 (seventeen years ago)

ah, "cultural revolution" was what that yoghurt was called. yikes.

― goole, Thursday, 25 September 2008 21:13 (seventeen years ago)

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/02/26/night.light.recall/night.light.cpsc.jpg

Make sure your home has a shining path!

― gff, Wednesday, March 28, 2007 6:20 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

lmaoooooooooooooo

― 12HOOS2012 (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 25 September 2008 21:27 (seventeen years ago)

Frank Capra managed to fool just about everyone; even his wife was unsure of his political affiliations. Longtime co-workers who were Democrats assumed he shared their political convictions. Katharine Hepburn, who starred in his 1948 picture "State of the Union," thought him "quite liberal"; others applied the term "radical" to him. And why shouldn't they have, when Variety was calling a sympathetic character in "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" "quasi-communistic" and The Saturday Evening Post was reporting that in the Soviet Union Capra was "hailed as a comrade"? But as Mr. McBride, the author of previous books on Howard Hawks, John Ford and Orson Welles, tells us, Capra was a lifelong Republican who never once voted for Roosevelt. He was an admirer of Franco and Mussolini. In later years, during the McCarthy period, he served as a secret F.B.I. informer.

i don't know about the later years but plenty of old-time progressive republicans from the la follette era disliked roosevelt and thought the new deal was corporatism disguised as reform (the first new deal, at least, was arguably modelled not on old-time progressivism but on wilson's wartime socialism). frankly, reading about the national recovery act (which suspended the sherman anti-trust act and, in william leuchtenburg's words, "created a series of private economic governments" or private trusts run by big corporations), it's easy to see what they meant.

that's not to say that capra didn't grow more right-wing in his later years -- i really don't know. but it's simplistic to think he was an insane reactionary just because he didn't care for roosevelt. politics wasn't that simple.

― J.D., Thursday, 25 September 2008 22:15 (seventeen years ago)

i don't know why it's shocking, State of the Union is very much fascist

― goole, Thursday, 25 September 2008 22:18 (seventeen years ago)

I just remember he didn't like gay people too much in his autobio.

― Office Cat is Eating the Monitor Again (kingfish), Thursday, 25 September 2008 22:24 (seventeen years ago)

whoa wtf is the story with those insanely creepy religious stories?

where did they come from,who writes them,etc?

is that sort of thing common in america?

i'm far from being a militant atheist but there's something really unnerving about them

― robin l, Thursday, 25 September 2008 22:48 (seventeen years ago)

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