At 10:32 PM Tuesday 11/29/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Nov 26, 2005, at 11:51 PM, Dave Land wrote:
On Nov 26, 2005, at 9:47 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Nov 21, 2005, at 2:05 PM, David Brin wrote:
Two very strong points. Though please remember there
are some honest and intelligent Republicans. I even
know a few.
FWIW, my state has McCain, and my stepfather
is without question one of the most upstanding
men I've ever known and as a County
supervisor, does his best to be a damn good Republican too.
There are a few, but they're the ones who have
not been polluted by religion.
That's the difference.
Rather a simplistic formulation, wouldn't you say?
Probably I'm confusing correlation with
causation again. It does happen to me from time
to time. Maybe a better formulation is that
those who are vicious, money-grubbing bastard
Republicans who weep crocodile tears *after*
getting caught (as opposed to those who try to
bareface their way through it by denial, denial
and denial) are not too dissimilar from those
who have been thoroughly polluted by
fundamentalist Christianity; and that there
seems to be a rather large intersection between those groups.
There does seem to be a common ground in both
groups apparently mourning a Golden Age that never was.
Then again, this, too, shall pass.
The problem is that a lot of innocent people
will suffer and die in the process. I guess
that's why I vacillate between disgust and
intolerance for such idiots, but never anything
like a quiet shrug. So on my good days I'm often
tempted to advise them to shut up; and on my bad
days I'm more tempted to advocate firing squads.
The only problem with that suggestion is that
it's people who feel like you do who believe in
gun control, while it's the conservatives and the
Christians who have all the firearms . . . :P
-- Ronn! :)
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners
are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
-- Robert A. Heinlein, _Beyond the Horizon_, 1942
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