LiveBlog for Friday, August 27, 2010

As I understand it, all objectivists are Libertarians, but not all Libertarians are objectivists...

And the thing which we should ALWAYS remember is that Citizens United was NOT the original name of that organization- that was Citizens United, Not Timid, and it was originally founded to oppose the candidacy of, wait for it... wait for it... Hillary
And yes, the acronym was deliberate on their part...

Bye, All.

Bye eMooks. Have great weekends.

Nice chattin' with y'all. Have a great weekend.

Remind me never to try to figure out what movie Steph is talking about. Good weekend everybuddy.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

What are the chances that Bristol will get knocked-up before she gets knocked-off the show?

On/In? Preposition problem.

203: i'd hit it too, if she's wearing it.
---- oohh look. i think the penalty box needs mopping. i'm on it.

Listen very carefully... I'm lying right now.

KRISTALANITY:
always being wrong.

Mama's been hittin the holy water again.

Poor Tom Brokaw feels llleft behind and Lilliputian

>> Amy around the corner from Randi Rhodes says:
>> #193 Very true. I’ll bet when they were alive, they sat around discussing religion and put down less radical Muslims. Every religion has multiple branches, and most branches feel they’re superior to the others.

I have had so many Muslims say to me, "Oh, the 911 attackers where not real Muslims" as if that settles the issue.

That's just too glib of an answer for me.

I say this, with full humility, as a Christian in a religion that has George W. Bush, Mel Gibson and a small army of sicko priests among our ranks.

Catfight!

192/193: clearly demonstrates the danger of allowing people with too much time and money on their hands to try to write public statutes.

HUUUUUUGE!

>> domnogin says:
>> NPR’s MORNING (S)EDITION

I still miss Air America's "Morning Sedition" show. That was hellagreat radio -- some of the best ever aired, IMHO. (and I listen to a lot of radio from all eras.)

#193 Very true. I'll bet when they were alive, they sat around discussing religion and put down less radical Muslims. Every religion has multiple branches, and most branches feel they're superior to the others.

#194 Tea-baggers likely haven't read it either. Beck should offer to rewrite it as a pop-up book.

#191 I agree, I've tried to read the Fountainhead a few times, and I can't keep at it. It's the opposite of a page turner.

I have a problem with not calling the 9/11 attackers "real" Muslims.

Radical Muslims are real Muslims. They clearly aren't average Muslims but they are a real part of the religion.

(and they aren't the only major religion with the very real problem of radicalism.)

NPR's MORNING (S)EDITION interviewed an NYPD detective-turned-P.I. about whether no-fault divorce would affect his occupation. He described a man who thought his wife, a schoolteacher, was cheating on him; she was, with another female schoolteacher! P.S. Iran outlaws the public ownership of dogs.

182: the problem with ayn rands books is that they are too dry to get past a few pages. - i simply can not get into ayn rand because there's something in the real world called competition. - if ayn rand wants to become more widely read, ayn rand simply needs to improve the writing by a couple of magnitudes.

Thanks, John. You are a gentleman and a scholar. :)

#187 The Great Pumpkin (who only visits the most sincere pumpkin patches) has never made a stop at a GOP pumpkin patch.

Ja wohl, mein Führer!

Giving up money is the ultimate test for conservative sincerity.

KNOW YOUR YID-CHICK RADIO SHOWS:

steph knows that it's never okay to speak of das schwarzen, by using the "negger-word", unless one uses both at the same time.

"AAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH - I BROKE MY FEEMAH !!"

#181 After Lehman Brothers failed, I wanted to say, "Where's your god, now?"

#180 A Palin/Angle ticket in 2012 would ensure Obama's reelection.
A gal can dream...

For me, the Lincoln Memorial is sacred ground and there should be two-block "asshat free zone" around it.

#156, 165 - Yes, "Atlas Shrugged," is fantasy land. Rand's protagonists are also practical people. They understand that gouging people for profits is destructive to the people who buy from them, as well as for their business. They self-regulate by realizing that the biggest profit can be gained from teaching other people to profit (out of their own free will, not something like government job-training programs).

Most libertarians, or anarcho-capitalists, or high school students love "Atlas Shrugged" for its empowering message of being able to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and profiting without regulation, and never realize that Rand's protagonists are self-regulating with a painfully strict moral compass. They haven't seen, or have blinded themselves to, people who are unregulated having no care or conscience to building a culture where everyone profits through industrious hard work and self-motivation.

That's my understanding.

"It's only hallowed ground if God stood on it."

The World Trade Center stood there.

Money is their God.

Ergo: "Hallowed ground".

#175 I agree, Amy. If the assumption is that each one represents one of the two major political parties, I'll choose Canada.

If we're choosing the candidate to run against, I'll vote for Angle. She's crazy ten-ways!

Republican Senate candidate in Nevada

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharron_Angle

Speaking of crying, Abraham Lincoln will be weeping in his grave. I suggest a healing ceremony at the memorial the day after Beck defiles it.

173: sharron angle is an OPENLY completely deranged wanker running for office in nevada. - some sharron angle info is even rotating at the bottom of the steph page.

#175 - Agreed.

#171 Ron Paul versus Sharon Angle, choose relocation to Canada.

Yep, there's a whole lot of ugly in Beck's fan-base.

168 can you enlighten me who Sharon Angle is?
I know who Ron Paul is and would not want him as pres even though I have agreed with him on a few things

Damn, my spelling and grammar are really bad today.

#168 - I agree totally, but let's keep this in perpective. If you had to choose between Ron Paul and Sharon Angle as President, who would you choose? There are different levels of Hell.

Mama's brother-husband, the saintliest mook -FUGE!

#159 Spot-on, Ron!

#156 - I am so sick of these anti-tax rants by these people.

How many of you think the phrase "Taxes are the price of admission to a civillized society" is appropriate?

#165 From what I've heard, the government only holds down Libertarians. Everyone else is responsible for their own misfortune, it's just Libertarians that are victims. :eyeroll:

#159 - bingo, you are the smartest boy in the class today!!!

#156 - but that is the problem! Why should a person "down on their luck" have to depend on volunteers? Especially when it is government policies that created the situation!!! Basically, I am so fed up with the Rand Pauls of the world that when I come across one I go off on them, leaving them very afraid of this angry liberal. All you have to look at Europe to see the benefit that a strong social safety net provides. I think if I could go back in time once it would be to go back and put a bullet through Ayn Rand's head. What damage has been done by Atlas Shrugged!!!!