Topic: Culture Wars (Read 78145 times)

McDohl · « **Reply #200 on:** August 20, 2009, 07:04:12 AM »

in b4 lolcat obamahitler images

Brentai · « **Reply #201 on:** August 20, 2009, 09:28:41 AM »

McDohl · « **Reply #202 on:** August 20, 2009, 12:07:31 PM »

The Artist Formerly Known As Yoji · « **Reply #203 on:** August 25, 2009, 12:43:33 PM »

John McCain booed for saying Obama understands the Constitution

What gets me is the question that started all that.

Quote from: Wingnut

I would like to know how the president is getting by with all of this… money… it’s against the Constitution. Doesn’t he know that we still live under a Constitution?

Uh... as in taxes? Like the kind we've had since a bunch of totally-not-gay guys in wigs and tights scribbled an idea for a government on a cocktail napkin? Because we've been over that before.

McDohl · « **Reply #204 on:** August 25, 2009, 12:56:17 PM »

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sei · « **Reply #205 on:** August 30, 2009, 12:56:13 PM »

Maybe this just belongs in the religion thread.

Pastor Steven Anderson inciting violence against Obama.

(Death threats up 400%? Wonder how high they were to begin with.)

SCD · « **Reply #206 on:** August 30, 2009, 01:22:52 PM »

Interesting. I brought up my concerns with Constantine but have failed to follow-up due to other shit on my plate.

Keep in mind that it only took one out-of-place individual with a mission to do his thing. This sort of lunacy can and will destroy the hopes of a nation.

Also considering that Cheney is going on the offensive to the tune of Saddam or Milosovic when they went before courts, any prosecution needs to go forward independently of any political process. It's about time those hounds of justice were sent free.

Mongrel · « **Reply #207 on:** August 30, 2009, 02:25:48 PM »

Quote from: sei on August 30, 2009, 12:56:13 PM

Maybe this just belongs in the religion thread.

Pastor Steven Anderson inciting violence against Obama.

(Death threats up 400%? Wonder how high they were to begin with.)

Oh hey, he's from Tempe AZ.

[THAD SIGNAL]

Brentai · « **Reply #208 on:** August 30, 2009, 02:44:27 PM »

It sounds like both sides are playing it up.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #209 on:** August 31, 2009, 07:45:19 PM »

The Story of Cameron Todd Willingham

Not quite culture war, per se, but it relates to the underlying nature of the death penalty and the various social differences that line it. It's a sobering read, as Willingham is found to be completely innocent of the crime, but legal traps and unethical boards end up never even hearing the evidence. It's sickening. If you know someone who supports the death penalty, make them read the whole article.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #210 on:** September 03, 2009, 05:20:21 PM »

Everybody heard about this new thing, right? Obama is going to give a speech to schoolkids across America, like just about every President has done since Bush Sr., and there's now a call from Conservatives to keep kids out of school on that day.

The sheer audaciousness and ridiculousness of the lengths these people go to contradict the current administration has struck a new low. It may not be their most terrifying moment, that still goes to the people who brought loaded assault rifles outside of the building Obama was giving a speech in. But this? This is just gross. This is their bias at its most bare.

Brentai · « **Reply #211 on:** September 03, 2009, 05:34:05 PM »

Why do they hate America so much?

Catloaf · « **Reply #212 on:** September 03, 2009, 05:48:29 PM »

Because they worship a false god that tells them to, be it JeZeus, or the FrYveigh market. And they actually realize it subconsciously but can't bear to consciously form coherent thought and that makes them more angry and easier to control.

Norondor · « **Reply #213 on:** September 03, 2009, 07:00:17 PM »

Quote from: Catloaf on September 03, 2009, 05:48:29 PM

FrYveigh

this is like right on the fulcrum point between being clever and being idiotic.

Brentai · « **Reply #214 on:** September 03, 2009, 07:15:07 PM »

Quote from: Disposable Ninja on September 03, 2009, 05:20:21 PM

Obama is going to give a speech to schoolkids across America, like just about every President has done since Bush Sr., and there's now a call from Conservatives to keep kids out of school on that day.

Cherry on top: The subject of the President's speech is (not surprisingly): The importance of staying in school.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #215 on:** September 03, 2009, 07:22:50 PM »

Well, yes. It's nothing more than a typical "Education is good" speech that every public speaker who goes to an elementary school gives. But this whole thing seems to stem both from the running right-wing crazy fear that Obama is planning "indoctrination camps" to convert our youth to socialism and encourage them to brutally kill their capitalist parents, but also from the level of discourse that just thinks everything Obama does is going to be wrong. I imagine the people who are raising hell over Obama's Schoolgate are also in line with Birthers and Deathers.

Catloaf · « **Reply #216 on:** September 03, 2009, 07:55:08 PM »

Quote from: Norondor on September 03, 2009, 07:00:17 PM

Quote from: Catloaf on September 03, 2009, 05:48:29 PM
FrYveigh

this is like right on the fulcrum point between being clever and being idiotic.

Which is just where I meant it to be.

The Artist Formerly Known As Yoji · « **Reply #217 on:** September 04, 2009, 10:54:39 AM »

Here's a link to go with DN's post.

Quote from: Eric Kleefeld of TPM

It should be noted that Obama's address isn't really a new thing, though -- and furthermore, the subject matter of Obama's address is pretty tame compared to past Republican presidents. As DailyKosTV points out, George H.W. Bush gave an address on education policy -- not just education itself as a virtue -- to American classrooms in late 1991. And Media Matters notes that a lame-duck Ronald Reagan spoke via TV to schoolchildren in 1988, and promoted tax cuts during the course of the discussion.

I think I need a gun, a tin foil hat, and a hug.

Catloaf · « **Reply #218 on:** September 04, 2009, 11:24:58 AM »

Quote

• Denver-area mother Shanneen Barron is keeping her kids home from school on Tuesday. "Thinking about my kids in school having to listen to that just really upsets me," said Barron. "I'm an American. They are Americans, and I don't feel that's OK. I feel very scared to be in this country with our leadership right now."

And to say anything bad about Bush, especially when it was about something that actually effected the entire world in a considerable way, was equivalent to saying "Fuck America, Heil Communist Hitler!" to them.

Fuck you cuntfaced mother fuckers! I hope you all die of super AIDS in the butt!

sei · « **Reply #219 on:** September 04, 2009, 12:49:33 PM »

Way to elevate the discourse.

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