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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 05/19/2007 : 18:17:30
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YO: This will make you gag:
Gingrich: Challenge 'Radical Secularism' 14 minutes ago
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Liberty University's graduating class Saturday to honor the spirit of school founder Jerry Falwell by confronting ''the growing culture of radical secularism'' with Christian ideals.
Orwellingly Yurz Sez: If you can stomach reading more, all of this is on the NYTs/AP headline web site. Gingrich has a spotless record to be telling people what Christian ideals are and warning us about "radical" secularism.
Announcing to his former wife who was hospitalized with cancer that he wanted a divorce speaks volumes, not to mention his wonderful Contract ON America from the 1990's.
I was hoping this asshole would stay under his rock after being run out of the US House of Representatives.
OY --- Triple Vey.
OY!
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"The modern conservative...is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
If dogs run free
Then what must be,
Must be...
And that is all
--Bob Dylan
The neo-cons have gotten welfare for themselves down to a fine art.
--me
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."
--J. Paul Getty
"The great thing about Art isn't what it give us, but what we become through it."
--Oscar Wilde
"We have Art in order not to die of life."
--Albert Camus
"I cling like a miser to the freedom I lose when surrounded by an abundance of things."
--Albert Camus
"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
--Oscar Wilde |
Edited by - Orwellingly Yurz on 05/19/2007 18:18:23
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 05/19/2007 : 23:16:38 [Permalink]
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I have an odd feeling that this clown could well be the Republican nominee next year. The super-fundies don't much like the current front-runners, but they've always loved the despicable Newt -- why, I can't imagine.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
529 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2007 : 01:08:57 [Permalink]
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YO: Well heck Filthy, if they liked Jerry Falwell, they're silly enough to like The Newter. There are some really jerk politicos out there today and, other than G. War Bush, I think Newt may be the biggest asshole of them all. Whoops, forgot "GFY" Cheney. So many assholes, so little substance, right?
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"The modern conservative...is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
If dogs run free
Then what must be,
Must be...
And that is all
--Bob Dylan
The neo-cons have gotten welfare for themselves down to a fine art.
--me
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."
--J. Paul Getty
"The great thing about Art isn't what it give us, but what we become through it."
--Oscar Wilde
"We have Art in order not to die of life."
--Albert Camus
"I cling like a miser to the freedom I lose when surrounded by an abundance of things."
--Albert Camus
"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
--Oscar Wilde |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 05/21/2007 : 06:16:52 [Permalink]
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| This was brought up over at TPM. And indeed, given how unpopular atheists are in this country, it's hard to imagine how "radical secularism" is at all a threat to Christians. |
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 05/21/2007 : 07:03:53 [Permalink]
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| You have to have a enemy in order to maintain unity. The nebulous "satan" just isn't good enough unless you can objectify it to a person or group of people. |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 05/21/2007 : 07:43:32 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by pleco
You have to have a enemy in order to maintain unity. The nebulous "satan" just isn't good enough unless you can objectify it to a person or group of people. |
I agree, pleco. This is the same reason that certain conservatives go on about a mythical "war on Christmas" and so on. Constantly repeating myths about a looming "radical secularist" threat-- and suggesting (implicitly or otherwise) that only by supporting conservatives-- is just a ploy to keep a certain side in power. It's the only way that the small plutocrat side of the Republican Party can stay in power-- by tapping into the much larger theocrat side with whom they otherwise have little in common! |
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Newt: Consummate Media Whore
