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• CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Has Awkward Moment With Okla. Tornado Survivor After Asking If She ‘Thanked the Lord’

  May 23, 2013 at 10:42pm

  In reply to pink slip john boehner.

  Speck says, “Your argument is predicated on the idea that taxes are charity.” No it’s not. Taxes aren’t charity, nor did I say they were. You say that “people have free will” and can choose not to follow God’s commands. And if they do follow the direct commandment of God to avoid the implied punishment, that’s charity? If you give to others because you are afraid of the punishment of eternal damnation, that’s charity? And if you give to others because you hope to live in eternal bliss, that’s charity? Giving to the poor because you hope of a reward in the afterlife – eternal bliss – or giving because you fear spending eternity in pain and suffering in Hell, that’s “charity?”

  What if an atheist gives to the less fortunate as Christ taught, with no hope of eternal Heaven, nor fear of eternal Hell? This atheist gives only because they empathize with and have compassion toward the poor. How does God compare that person to those who gives because he’s afraid of Hell or trying really hard to get to Heaven?

  Anyway, charity is not the issue. I’m afraid I don’t have words left in this post to make up for neglected education in how groups function together. And it’s not “every man for himself.” We’re all in this together Speck. And that street in front of your house, or that school your kids went to? They were paid for more by the people richer than you than you. That’s makes you a thief.

• ‘We…Aren’t Going to Take S**t From Homophobes’: Mysterious Pro-Firearm Ads Use Gays, Seemingly Topless Lesbians to Rail Against Gun Control

  May 23, 2013 at 8:49pm

  In reply to RDavis49.

  Assman and Commonsenselies, I see you both have responded by saying that being attracted to one gender or another is a “choice.” If you believe that it’s because you are on the fence about which gender you are most attracted to. That’s fine, that’s your situation and it’s a difficult one I agree. Do you find it more pleasurable to talk to, associate with and imagine living the rest of your life with someone of your own gender or the opposite gender? You see that as a choice because you could go either way. Personally I don’t, but that’s me and that’s you. I’m sorry that you’ve had to work through those ambiguous feelings.

  You, and I mean you Assman and commonsenselie could “choose” to flirt with, fall in love with, marry and spend the rest of your life with someone of your own gender. You could do that because your identity as a male or female isn’t well defined. That’s why you call it a “choice”: because you could go either way.

  Most people don’t feel that way. The idea of flirting with, then becoming enamored with, then feeling affectionate towards and then maybe looking forward to kissing someone of the same gender isn’t a “choice” to most, although it is to you evidently.

  I do appreciate your honesty. That’s difficult to admit. But to most who aren’t bisexual it’s not a “choice” about whom they are attracted to.

• ‘We…Aren’t Going to Take S**t From Homophobes’: Mysterious Pro-Firearm Ads Use Gays, Seemingly Topless Lesbians to Rail Against Gun Control

  May 23, 2013 at 3:12pm

  In reply to RDavis49.

  Why is it when the topic of gay marriage comes up that the only thing the right wing fringe can think about is sex? Weird. When your children – let’s say they’re straight – announce plans to get married, is the only thought that comes to mind that they are going to have sex? “Oh, my little daughter is going to have sex!”

  You do realize that in most cases the people who are most fervently against gay marriage are none too sure of their own sexuality. That’s why you always hear them talking about being gay or straight “a choice.” It’s only a “choice” if you feel like you could swing either way.

  RDAVIS says, “When we start enforcing the laws, IMO we’ll see the immorality and corruption decline in America.” Remember Prohibition? Yep, in those days drinking was considered immoral. Anyway, I think it’s odd the desire of the right wing fringe to focus on sex with gay people (which says something) and has the strange urge to install cameras in the bedrooms to see if they are committing acts of sodomy. I see a pattern here.

  Hey, guess what, straight people commit sodomy too. In fact, many recommend the practice.

• CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Has Awkward Moment With Okla. Tornado Survivor After Asking If She ‘Thanked the Lord’

  May 23, 2013 at 1:38pm

  In reply to pink slip john boehner.

  Speck, I’ve got a hard question for you. The Bible says, ““For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’” Deuteronomy 15:11.

  So when God commands you to give to the poor, is He robbing you? Notice God isn’t making a suggestion, He is making a command. You are given no choice. He’s not asking nicely, he’s demanding you do it or else.

  Is God a thief?

  Here’s a harder one. When the government takes your taxes, and pays firefighters to save lives and property, or you being robbed because they don’t save your life?

  In the opinion of many, to some degree “we’re all in this together.” Your argument suggests the opposite: every man for himself. And that if you breath polluted air, drink water containing carcinogens and mercury, eat food infected with e-coli, have no roads or utilities to your house, no police, no fire fighters that’s okay because nobody owes anybody nothin’. Because you are being robbed to pay for something you may or may not use or want. It’s robbery to take from you to support your city, your state or your country. Some patriot you are.

• ‘We’re Not Going to Tolerate It’: Colo. Sheriffs Unite to Block ‘Unenforceable’ Gun Control Legislation

  May 23, 2013 at 1:12pm

  In reply to critterbait.

  DARKJELLO and a few others make this argument: “Will background checks stop criminals from getting guns?” Now think about the logic of that for a second. Now, let me try. Stop signs and stop light don’t prevent people from running them, so why have stop signs and stop lights? Let’s see, every law there is can be broken, so why have laws at all? Why have any definition whatsoever of what is legal and what is not. That argument might appeal to an anarchist, but is ridiculous on the face for most people.

  Second, sure background checks prevent criminals from buying guns. You go to buy a gun, you fail a background check, then you don’t get the gun. And if you do, the seller has committed a crime and at least can be held accountable. That’s what laws are for.

  As it stands now the guy just walks over to somebody in the parking lot of the gun store, pays a legal guy the money to buy a gun, and the straw purchaser hasn’t committed a crime because he doesn’t “know” the criminal cannot pass a background check. Of course he probably suspect just that, but he’s still free and clear.

  Face it, the NRA is more interested in gun manufacturers making a profit than anything else. That’s why the support the rights of terrorists and murderers and crazy people to buy guns whenever they want.

• CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Has Awkward Moment With Okla. Tornado Survivor After Asking If She ‘Thanked the Lord’

  May 23, 2013 at 9:30am

  In reply to pink slip john boehner.

  4truth2all, I don’t doubt you. The Bible is chock full of contradictions. So you got with the Jesus who said don’t feed the poor unless they’ve got a job – in which case they don’t need the food – and I’ll go with this quote: Matthew 25:41-45

  Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ He will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least among you, you did not do for me.’

  I don’t think Jesus is talking about people who have jobs. But hey, believe what you want!

• ‘We’re Not Going to Tolerate It’: Colo. Sheriffs Unite to Block ‘Unenforceable’ Gun Control Legislation

  May 22, 2013 at 11:37pm

  In reply to critterbait.

  Here’s the quote: ““These bills do absolutely nothing to make Colorado a safer place to live, to work, to play or to raise a family,” Weld County Sheriff John Cooke explained at a recent press conference. “Instead these misguided, unconstitutional bills will have the opposite effect because they greatly restrict the right of decent, law-abiding citizens to defend themselves, their families and their homes.”

  How can background checks restrict the rights of “law abiding citizens”? If they were law abiding they could pass a background check and buy whatever gun they wanted. That kind of remark is so stupid I can’t even understand how anyone who isn’t totally irrational could actually accept that line of logic. A background check, which determines if you can legally buy a gun, is a threat to people who law abiding citizens?

  Why not let anyone buy dynamite without a background check? Is that a threat to law abiding dynamite buyers?

  You have to be totally addled by the NRA talking points, or running for office on NRA dollars to buy this kind illogical thinking.

  Sorry, states have a right to make laws. These guys can take their case to the Supreme Court if they want, but the Court has already decided that these restrictions are legal.

  The citizens of Colorado have decided the issue, and it’s not unconstitutional. With Gabby Giffords and the theater shooter Coloradans have had enough.

• Wild Surveillance Video Shows Clumsy AK-47-Wielding Madman Shooting Up Strip Club

  May 22, 2013 at 11:01pm

  In reply to ComingUnglued.

  ComingUnglued you’re poorly informed. The Second Amendment insures that any insane person, any suicidal person any terrorist foreign or domestic can buy a weapon a drum and ammunition enough to can kill 100s of people in a matter of minutes. A practical matter the only use of these weapons is to kill lots of people really quickly and that’s really all they’re used for. A real hunter only needs only one shot. But if you want to kill lots of people an AK 47 is the way to go, preferable with a 100 round drum.

  The Founding Fathers were wise. They foresaw the future of weapons and that any American could be instantly be able, without a background check, to kill dozens of kids in a minute or two or dozens in a theater. They realized that terrorists or other crazy people would also have access to that ability: to kills dozens or hundreds in the same way. They knew that. They knew that children or others would be killed accidentally by guns. They knew that most gun deaths would be suicide.

  But they were wiser than you. The knew that if individuals didn’t possess the means to kill dozens or hundreds of people, that government would become tyrannical, enslave you and then kill you. All the accidental deaths, deliberate mass murders and so on are just the price of freedom.

  Just look at a country like Japan, where guns are banned. The Japanese government is just about to impose an absolute dictatorship. Might happen any day now.

• CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Has Awkward Moment With Okla. Tornado Survivor After Asking If She ‘Thanked the Lord’

  May 22, 2013 at 2:43pm

  In reply to pink slip john boehner.

  VRW Conspirator says, “using the argument against God existing by saying “why would He allow…” is not only disingenuous but also a logical fallacy.” I didn’t say that VRW, although you just did. I asked what you should say to God about sending (or allowing) the tornado. I guess your answer is that you shouldn’t broach that subject with God.

  You also say, “Yes, God could have made the world perfect…but what would that do and how would that teach?” What does it teach that kids are killed for no reason? That s- happens? Build tornado shelters? You do realize that if those kids weren’t “saved” they’re now in the bad place (unless that punishment was revoked).

  Life is short. Presumably if the world not being perfect is good, wouldn’t Heaven not being perfect be even better considering the people spend until the end of time there (like trillions of years)? Why would God make Heaven perfect? What does that teach? Why should Heaven be a like a “Progressive-Statist-Marxist government” where everyone is equal and so forth?

  “God is the ULTIMATE Capitalist, if you don’t work, you don’t eat.” What Bible are you reading? “For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’” Deuteronomy 15:11. Notice the word “command.” No choice there, nor any qualification about the person “working.” Pray for forgiveness for yo

• CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Has Awkward Moment With Okla. Tornado Survivor After Asking If She ‘Thanked the Lord’

  May 22, 2013 at 9:45am

  In reply to pink slip john boehner.

  If you’re going to thank the Lord for surviving the tornado, what should you say to Him for sending it?