Rapture Ready board responds to Middle East violence
14 July 2006 - gk - reactions
Rapture Ready message board responds to the violence in the Middle East: Is it time to get excited?:
Is it time to get excited? I can't help the way I feel. For the first time in my Christian walk, I have no doubts that the day of the Lords appearing is upon us. I have never felt this way before, I have a joy that bubbles up every-time I think of him, for I know this is truly the time I have waited for so long. Am I alone in feeling guilty about the human suffering like my joy at his appearing some how fuels the evil I see everywhere. If it were not for the souls that hang in the balance and the horror that stalks man daily on this earth, my joy would be complete. For those of us who await his arrival know, somehow we just know it won't be long now, the Bridegroom cometh rather man is ready are not.
Then there's this little gem after a few posts declaring how great it is that the region is quickly slipping into regional conflict:
We are glad that some can turn death into Rapture Porn.
Bugman, Squished
4 April 2006 - gk - reactions
Goodbye Bugman.
...From Atrios, looks like Tom DeLay is a wimp:
DeLay said he is likely to leave by the end of May, depending on the Congressional schedule and finishing his work on a couple of issues. He said he will change his legal residence to his condominium in Alexandria, Va., from his modest two-story home on a golf course here in the 22nd District of Texas. "I become ineligible to run for election if I'm not a resident of the state of Texas," he said, turning election law to his purposes for perhaps on last time. State Republican officials will then be able to name another Republican candidate to face Democrat Nick Lampson, a former House members who lost his seat in a redistricting engineered by DeLay.
In the end, this is good for America, but if only the Bugman had stayed on longer to get trounced in the general election... One can at least dream, right?
The Four Horsemen
21 March 2006 - gk - reactions
Members of President Bush's senior staff, from left to right: National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley; Press Secretary Scott McClellan; Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove; Counselor Dan Bartlett; look on as Bush takes questions at a news conference at the White House, Tuesday, March 21, 2006 in Washington. Bush said Tuesday there will be "more tough fighting ahead" in Iraq, but denied claims that the nation is in the grips of a civil war three years after the U.S.-led invasion. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Fools! You can't operate the strings from the sideline!
Photo by The Asociated Press
Your Republican Congress
8 March 2006 - gk - reactions
Spineless Republicans just rubber-stamped warrant-less spying yesterday:
In lieu of fulfilling their pledge to discover the scope of the Administration's warrantless eavesdropping on Americans, Sens. Hagel and Snowe decided instead that they would support legislation which would create a 7-member Subcommittee (4 Republicans and 3 Democrats) to which the Administration is required to report all warrantless eavesdropping activities...
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What the legislation does, on its face, is replace FISA judges with Republican Senators in approving the government's eavesdropping activities. Whereas the country agreed to a framework 30 years ago which allowed the government to eavesdrop on Americans only if the Government persuaded a FISA judge that such eavesdropping was warranted, this proposed legislation eliminates that requirement and allows warrantless eavesdropping as long as 4 Republican Senators agree with the White House that such actions are warranted.
Just remember what happened: the President and the administration broke the law, and then some so-called moderate Republicans started squawking about this and that, then once the White House brought them in line, the Republican Senate decided it was better to giveaway all oversight power to the Executive.
Ding dong the witch is dead...
3 March 2006 - robio - reactions
Well, actually he's not dead, but Pat Robertson did get voted off the the National Religious Broadcaster's board of directors. I guess they finally had enough of his B.S. after he called for the assassination of the Venezuelan President and blamed Sharon's stroke on the Gaza pull out.
Personally, I can't believe it took this long. I guess when he declared that only Christians and Jews should be in the government was no big deal.
Or when he called Episcopalians, Presbyterians and the Methodists the antichrist.
Or when he compared liberal american's to Nazi Germany.
Or that gays want to destroy Christians.
Or his call for restricted democracy to protect the white minority in South Africa.
Or when he accused feminist of being anti-family socialist who encourage women to "leave their husbands, kill their children, practice wiftcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians."
Or when he accused Planned Parenthood of "teaching are kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism-everything that the Bible condemns"
Or when he said the role of a married woman is to accept that the man, her husband, is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife.
Or when he said that atheists "should not be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots"
Or his belief that Congress can simply ignore the Supreme Court; "They can ignore a Supreme Court ruling if they so choose."
Or his belief that the Constitution does not mention the separation of church and state. It's all a lie of the left.
Or his goal to bring back God and the Bible into public schools to drive out secular humanism.
Or his claim that his goal is a Christian nation and that they have a Biblical duty to "conquer this country."
Or when he said that many of those people involved with Adolph Hitler were homosexuals.
Or when he called for the end of Halloween.
And finally his call for guerilla warfare.
You can find all these quotes and many more at THE ANTI-PAT ROBERTSON / CHRISTIAN COALITION SITE. Hats off to them and their research!
Coulter's Oscar Pick
2 March 2006 - robio - reactions
Before you link to this page, let me say right off the bat...I'm sorry. I mean it, I am.
This year Ann Coulter decided to give her Oscar predictions. However, it's just another way for her to bash gays. I'm just warning you people...it's bad. You can go ahead and start the bath water because you're going to feel real dirty (and I don't mean in the diirtay kind of way).
It amazes me how much these people focus their energy on gay people. In all their travels, have they never actually met a homosexual? Is that possible? I'm telling you, Ann thinks more about gays than Boy George and George Micheal combined.
Freedom, Religion, Press...Doh!
1 March 2006 - robio - reactions
Quick, name the five members of the Simpson's family...now name five freedoms on the Constitution. You can't do it? Don't sweat it, most people can't. (Answers below)
In a contest between Americans' knowledge of "The Simpsons" and what they know about the First Amendment, Bart and Homer win hands down.
About 1 in 4 Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment (freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition for redress of grievances.) But more than half of Americans can name at least two members of the fictional cartoon family, according to a survey.
The study by the new McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum found that 22% of Americans could name all five Simpson family members, compared with just 1 in 1,000 people who could name all five First Amendment freedoms.
This shouldn't be too surprising and this really shouldn't bother anyone. Seriously, the Simpson's have been on air for seventeen years! Thanks to reruns, it's been on every day for the past ten years. Even a casual fan has seen many episodes more than once. When was the last time you we're forced to look at the Constitution, college?
We're Americans, we watch TV. My grandmother could probably tell you a lot about forensic evidence thanks to CSI. Most of my knowledge of the legal process comes from watching 'Law & Order' reruns on TNT.
Yes, people should know about that little doc call the Constitution. But in reality, I would be more concerned if you couldn't name any members of the Simpson's family. That would be sad.
Answer: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie - Freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition.
Shock and Awe Photo Shoots
1 March 2006 - robio - reactions
President Bush made a surprise five-hour visit to Afghanistan today to meet with President Hamid Karzai and to see for the first time the country created after the United States went to war against the Taliban in retaliation for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Four years after we 'won' the war in Afghanistan, I have to ask, why does our President only make 'surprise' visits? I mean seriously, despite all the "success" in both Afghanistan and of course Iraq, Bush Inc. can only do surprise visits, dare I say, shock and awe photo ops with the troops. He doesn't make surprise visits to Germany, Japan, Bosnia or any other place U.S. troops are located. Based on Bush Inc. positive comments about both these countries, Bush to this day still can't make an announce visit to either country. Sad.
That's the problem with this war President...he's not very good at it.
Worst President Ever
28 February 2006 - robio - reactions
Poll: Bush Ratings At All-Time Low
The latest CBS News poll finds President Bush's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34 percent, while pessimism about the Iraq war has risen to a new high...
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...Just 18 percent said they had a favorable view of the vice president, down from 23 percent in January.
Jesus, how awful do you have to be to have only 18 percent of the population like you?
Americans on Bush: We still Hate Nixon More!
27 February 2006 - gk - reactions
Wow - 34% approval rating - you have to really, really work hard to push below 40 in any approval poll. How much farther can he go? There is an obvious shelf where the numbers will bottom out due to the sycophants, but as the whole Port Problem illustrated, BushCo is heavily in the lame-duck territory.
Well, at least he's not as unpopular as Nixon:
Bush's low job approval is far below that of some of his two-term predecessors at this point in their second terms. In November 1985, President Reagan had a 65 percent approval rating, and Bill Clinton's job approval in November 1997 was 57 percent. Bush's rating is higher than Richard Nixon's was at the same point in his administration.
We think this is perfect time for the President to roll out that Health Care Savings Account plan, or perhaps to try out ending Social Security again. This is just too good.
The real question is when will the President's staff start deserting him for potential successors? That will be fun to watch.
Ohio Senator intros legislation to ban Republican couples from adopting
27 February 2006 - robio - reactions
GAY ADOPTION. State Senator Robert Hagan (D-Ohio) says he will introduce legislation to ban Republican couples from adopting children. According to Hagan, "credible research'' shows that adopted children raised in GOP households are more at risk for developing "emotional problems, social stigmas, inflated egos, and alarming lack of tolerance for others they deem different than themselves and an air of overconfidence to mask their insecurities." Hagan agrees there is no scientific evidence backing his claims about Republican parents -- just, as Hagan notes, there is none backing State Representative Ron Hood's (R) bill banning gay parents from adopting. Hood claims children purportedly suffer from emotional "harm" when they are adopted by gay couples. Hagen admits he created his proposal to mock Hood's proposed ban on gay adoption in a way that people would see the "blatantly discriminatory and extremely divisive" nature of the bill. The GOP House leadership does not support Hood's proposal.
Healthcare Funding for Business OK; to You, Not so Much
24 February 2006 - gk - reactions
So, the US Government is paying large businesses billions not to end their retiree health plans, but single-payer health care is the communist devil:
America's largest companies expect the federal government to pay them about $4 billion over the next four years to help keep their retiree health plans alive at a time when such benefits are increasingly on the chopping block, according to a new study by Credit Suisse First Boston.
The money is due to start flowing to employers this month as part of Medicare's new prescription drug benefit. When Congress authorized the Medicare drug benefit, it also agreed to start subsidizing the drug component of employers' retiree health plans, to keep them from shifting their retirees into the government program.
Just remember: the Bush administration has no problem putting business on the dole, but your grandma and you and your kids netter fucking get a job. And the President thinks you already have too much health care anyway, so don't worry about preventative care.
Losers.
Tired of being right
23 February 2006 - robio - reactions
Civilians Executed as Iraq Edges Closer to Civil War
Revenge Attacks for Shrine Bombing Creates Sectarian Mayhem
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Feb. 23) - Gunmen shot dead 47 civilians and left their bodies in a ditch near Baghdad Thursday as militia battles and sectarian reprisals followed the bombing of a sacred Shiite shrine. Sunni Arabs suspended their participation in talks on a new government. At least 47 other bodies were found scattered across Iraq, many of them shot execution-style and dumped in Shiite-dominated parts of Baghdad.
Bush wanted this war and now he's got it. Even Billy O'Reilly wants to cut and run. Maybe both Bush and Billy should have listened to Murtha a long, long time ago.
CSI Ballistics... In Your Face
18 February 2006 - gk - reactions
So, did "One Eye Dick" actually shoot Mr. Whittington from 30 yards? As this video show, probably not. At 30 yards, the birdshot doesn't even go through two light layers of clothing. We don't understand why some entrepreneurial producer didn't go all CSI on this story - ballistics tests can't be that expensive.
But we guess that lying would be a natural tendency for the Vice President - especially when he shoots a 78 year old man... in the face.
Blaming the Victim
17 February 2006 - gk - reactions
Blaming the Victim - Screengrab @ 17:46 17 Feb 2006
Man, must be nice to be able to shoot someone - in the face and then have the victim apologize for being shot - in the face! As if Whittington had unwittingly stepped into the path of the Vice President's bullets.
"My family and I are deeply sorry for all that Vice President Cheney and his family have had to go through this week," Whittington said.
Right...
Never too early to say you're sorry
17 February 2006 - robio - reactions
One day our generation will be apologizing for the decisions Bush Inc. have made. Growing up, I never thought we would be in this position. The sixties gave us Vietnam. The fifties gave us the South fighting segregation. Even the greatest generation of the forties had to apologize for interment camps for Japanese-Americans.
When history looks back at our generation, there will be plenty we’ll be sorry for; pointless war, unforgivable national debt and the continuation of the environment…all of which we are responsible for since it was our votes, or lack of, that allowed Bush not one, but two terms in office.
But are greatest sin may be the damage we have done in Cuba – and I’m not talking about Castro. I’m talking about Guantanamo Bay. Currently we are holding over 400 prisoners down there. We’ve been told over and over again these are terrorist that will stop at nothing until America is destroyed. However, it appears that Bush Inc. has lied yet again. I know, you’re shocked, too. According to a study published in the National Journal, only ten prisoners have been charge with anything at all. As for the rest, most weren’t caught on the battlefield in Afghanistan and over 80% were never members of Al Qaida (many were also not members of the Taliban.
According to Slate.com, “Most detainees are being held for the crime of having "associated" with the Taliban or al-Qaida—often in the most attenuated way, including having known or lived with people assumed to be Taliban, or worked for charities with some ties to al-Qaida. Some had "combat" experience that seems to have consisted solely of being hit by U.S. bombs. Most were not picked up by U.S. forces but handed over to our military by Afghan warlords in exchange for enormous bounties and political payback.”
We’re supposed to be Americans. We’re supposed to be against all of this. We’re supposed to be against torture. But we’re not. Any person who voted for Bush or choose not to vote at all in the past two elections, you are at fault. Thank you. I look forward to that apologize soon.
Cheney Shooting Update
16 February 2006 - gk - reactions
Yup, Vice President Cheney still shot a 78 year old man... in the face.
And only decided to make a statement five days later - on Fox News no less. Nothing like choosing to hide behind Fox's skirts. What a maroooon.
Mommy will kiss your boo-boo, as long as you don't shoot her...
in the face...
with a 28 gauge shotgun.
Vice President Cheney Shot a 78 year old man in the Face
15 February 2006 - gk - reactions
The situation hasn't changed much; but just to reiterate, Vice President Cheney, shot a 78-year old man... in the face.
The first sitting Vice President since Aaron Burr to shoot someone...
...in the face.
With a 28 gauge shotgun...
...in the face...
Carry on.
Republican Congress set to Validate Imperial Presidency
15 February 2006 - gk - reactions
Congressional Probe of NSA Spying Is in Doubt:
Congress appeared ready to launch an investigation into the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program last week, but an all-out White House lobbying campaign has dramatically slowed the effort and may kill it, key Republican and Democratic sources said yesterday.
Senators Olympia Snowe and Chuck Hagel have the weakest spine in the world.
Folks, we fought a war over warrantless searches, and your Republican Congress is set to roll over to Daddy Bush quicker than you can say, "I'm scared of the big bad terrorists."
What a 28 Gauge Shotgun Blast Means
13 February 2006 - gk - reactions
More on Cheney's Shooting from a hunting prospective:
One of the first things my dad taught me was how to move around in the woods or in a field to maximize my safety. Aside from the blaze orange requirements today for visual safety, you stay behind the person with the gun, you keep your muzzle pointed away from people and dogs who are your companion animals (and reports are that they were using dogs to flush out the birds, so guns would have been pointed skyward to minimize potential accidents for the dogs), and you never, never, NEVER squeeze off a round without first ascertaining the entire visual in front of where you will be shooting, within the designated path of your particular firearm (different guns have different ranges and shot patterns, depending on caliber and load) -- in other words, look very carefully before you ever pull the trigger.
That Mr. Whittington was in the line of sight for Dick Cheney is regrettable. But no matter whether Whittington walked into the line of sight or whether Cheney turned to shoot at quail and placed Whittington within his line (which is a more likely hunting scenario, given that you generally try to walk up on a hunting party from behind if at all possible if you are at all experienced, to minimize possible accidents), it is the hunter's responsibility at all times to be secure in what he is seeing before he ever pulls the trigger. Period.
And more on the type of gun Cheney was using, and what that does to someone at 30 yards:
Well, that's interesting. A 28-gauge shotgun is a fairly specialized firearm. My dad called it a "ladies gun" when I learned to shoot as a kid -- it was the first gun I ever took out for target practice at the quarry. It shoots a fairly small pattern, compared to the spread you get from a 12-gauge, say, so the buckshot comes out in a fairly concentrated pattern, and there is little to no recoil -- which means you don't get that smack into your shoulder when the gun rebounds from the pressure of the shot like you would with a higher-gauge (stronger) shot.
...Katherine Armstrong told the WaPo that the 28-gauge has a "smaller shot pattern." What she meant to say, I'm sure, is that the shot pattern is "more concentrated" - meaning that the pellets stay in a small circumference as they move forward, rather than rapidly spreading outward in a larger pattern like you get with a 12-gauge.
Which means that at close range, a 28-gauge can do some serious damage. And at 30 yards, give or take, it explains why the blast pattern on Mr. Whittington was limited to face/neck/chest.
Cheney shot - shot - a man, and we only heard about it 22 hours after the fact - from a third party?
What's up with that?
