Azalin

if it's just a small minority of Muslims that take every word of the Quran literally, then why paint with such a broad brush in the way you regard them?

I hope you don't think that'll shut him up.

fixed.

absolutely correct. this is a rogue tiger:

Harry Reid finally sets the record straight. all the horror stories about the rollout of Obamacare are lies! whew! what a relief! http://video.foxnews.com/v/3265468418001/gop-slams-reid-for-calling-obamacare-horror-stories-untrue/?playlist_id=928378949001#sp=show-clips&v=3265468418001

why should all religious texts from ancient times be held as immutable truth when we hold nothing else to the same standard? is the message of love and acceptance taught by Jesus Christ to be deligitimized because the bible also says that the earth is the center of the universe? is it cherry-picking to acknowledge the obvious truth that we're made of the same stuff as this earth (ashes to ashes, dust to dust) while also believing that humanity evolved from a lower form of primate? is it blasphemous to equate the big bang with the biblical 'let there be light', or is it scientifically ignorant to compare the two? understanding life - past, present, and future - requires thought. both religion and science attempt to explain life, this world, and how it works. science is always changing. it grows as we do. in order to keep science from making religion irrelevant, religion needs to evolve as well. do you believe that one man defeated an entire army using nothing more than the jawbone of an ass? do you believe that the entire globe actually produced enough precipitation to flood itself, killing every non-aquatic creature save for one family and a male & female from every species until the waters finally (and very mysteriously since it had nowhere to go) receded? or that the first woman was built around a rib taken from the first man? the problem with some followers of religion is that they have no imagination, and either no capacity for thought or no desire to think. they either need to be told how to live, or to tell others how to live, and when they see others acting outside the established parameters of their belief system, they scorn them. they condemn those that believe differently. they see bad behavior among a segment of another group and call them infidels, unbelievers, sinners, or fools, and condemn them all as being the same, as being ignorant or evil. just as there is intolerance among those who adhere to the absolute, literal word of their faith, so is there intolerance on the part of another who comdemns all people of that faith as being ignorant or dangerous. both groups are simply retarded.

at least we know he'll never be a tight end.

wouldn't he make a better wide receiver?

does Joe Biden count?

“The fact that we had both higher temperatures and an ice age at a time when CO2 emissions were 10 times higher than they are today fundamentally contradicts the certainty that human-caused CO2 emissions are the main cause of global warming,” Moore said.

that wouldn't surprise me in the least

I resent that. I am not a hallucination.

because there are a lot of 30K+ per year jobs out there that don't include the risk of walking into an armed ambush or being arrested. I know that sounds smarmy, but there was a time many years ago when I had the opportunity to make that choice, and I opted for legal employment instead. my freedom and my life were, and still are, too valuable to me.

I don't like it. if an abortion is necessary, then I believe it's up to the individual (or couple) to fund the procedure.

it's the government's involvement in health insurance via regulatory practice that's caused much of the problem in the first place. employer provided insurance plans used to be used mainly for catastophic illness and major surgeries, not for every little day-to-day maladies that everyone experiences. every single state has their own set of laws that effect the way doctors, caregivers, and insurance go about their business. in fact, government presence in health care has been around for so long that people now refer to health care as a 'system'. it isn't. it's a private industry that provides one of the most basic and essential needs for human beings. who in their right minds would hand over control of something like that to the government? I'm 56 years old. when I was a child growing up in WNY, doctor visits cost five dollars. our doctor made house calls. that's unthinkable nowadays. why? it's not the greedy doctors that drove up the cost of medical care. insurance companies didn't just arbitrarily raise the cost of their coverage. the expense came from a series of interventions by state and federal government. hospitals were mandated to treat any patient who came to the emergency room, regardless of their ability to pay. sure, that's a comassionate thing to do, but what were the ramefications? hospitals offset their losses by increasing the cost to those who could pay. soon, everyone needed insurance to cover even the simplest of procedures. have you seen how much it costs for a doctor to confirm that you did indeed break your finger? it didn't use to be like that. in the state of Texas, it costs a minimum of $90,000.00 per year for a doctor's malpractice insurance. laws that allow frivolous and overly-punitive lawsuits are to blame. more government interference. the ACA, among other things, is adding a tax to the cost of medical devices (as if ultra sounds and cat scans weren't expensive enough already). a certain amount of oversight is understandably necessary in a field as important as medicine and health care, but to look to the government for a fix to the problem is in my opinion idiotic since they're the ones who have done the most to make it inaccessable in the first place.

a representative from the house will always fight to keep bases in their district open, because their loss will mean the loss of jobs & income for many in their disctrict. even the most fiscally conservative house members have to be perceived by their constituents as doing work that's beneficial to those that they represent.

“We want the public to know that we are holding ourselves to this standard.”

- insert the sound of crickets chirping -

I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.

I'll give them credit for being able to take a verbal beating, but I've seen little from either except talking points, platitudes, stereotypes, and sarcasm.

I asked you to man up and answer the questions that were put to you, not for more smarmy throw-away lines. both TYTT and 3rd have asked you some very direct questions. if what they believe is so wrong, then it ought to be easy enough to refute them without having to resort to partisan talking points.

and neither is your constant need to avoid backing up what you've said by tossing out some idiotic throw-away line and calling someone a name. your words are empty. continuous reptition of them will not give them substance.

that is one of the lamest dodges I have ever seen. grow a pair, little man.

if I had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin.

beat me to it.