CommentsDisplaying RavenMaven's 10 most recent comments.

• Sex-Slave Want Ad: Female Infidels, Preferably ‘Blondes’ From ‘Russia,’ Need Apply

  June 14, 2011 at 1:18pm

  In reply to dixiedog.

  @AP “unbridled” being the key word. It’s time the bureaucrats took the handcuffs off the military once and for all. We should never fight “halfway”. When we engage our troops, our greatest defense is the most potent offense on earth. Unleash all living hell on anybody who stands opposed. The world must know that if we involve our military, there will be no limit to what our military will do to achieve victory. You can’t wage a politically correct, culturally sensitive war. We could end any nation on earth in less than 48 hours. They have to know that we will do exactly that if they mess with us. PEACE THROUGH UNBELIEVABLE STRENGTH!!! Reagan proved this. But our little pencil pushers get our our own boys killed by only committing to a politically palatable engagement – just enough to not seem like a bully, and don’t have the spine to finish the job. If you finish one strong, you won’t be likely to have another one for quite a while.

• ‘A Down’s Syndrome Baby Will Expand Your World’: Sarah Palin’s Poignant, Moving Email About Her Unborn Son Revealed in Email Investigation

  June 13, 2011 at 12:04pm

  In reply to Biff Marupis.

  @VerySenior — I don‘t doubt your qualifications or statements related to the needs of Children with Down’s Syndrome. I am sure you are speaking from personal occupational experience on the matter. However, I do think you are painting with a broad brush and making wildly unsubstantiated assumptions as to the type and quality of care Trig is receiving, and your statement of “Her actions speak louder than her words” could only be interpreted as an assertion that she does not love her child. I think that is a slanderous and false accusation that reveals that your political dislike of Palin is clouding your “professional experience”. The fact is, you have no idea how much time she is spending caring for her son, or how much time her husband is spending caring for his son, or how much time his sisters spend caring for their brother, or how much love he is receiving each day from a family that is obviously very caring and loving, or how much stability he has.

• Dem. Sen. Al Franken During Hearing: Obama Could be One-Term Prez

  June 9, 2011 at 3:01pm

  Nobody seems to get what he was trying to say. He was trying to say that if they extend Mueller’s term, this Bush appointee will remain in office and Obama won’t have a chance to put some liberal academic ideologue in that office to take his place. He was warning his fellow libs that they risk losing the opportunity to spread their influence and power further throughout the government by leaving Mueller in there. I say extend his term!

• ‘Extreme Radical Attack on Religion’: Rabbi Goes Head-to-Head With Author of San Fran Circumcision Ban

  May 29, 2011 at 10:37am

  Yeah right. Mutilation. OK. sure. Well then I am sure those folks who want that ban have also included language that prevents parents from getting their daughter’s ears, noses, or belly buttons pierced and disallows anyone under 18 from getting a tattoo. Surely if this has nothing to do with religion, and they are just concerned with the “intactness” of the body, they will have thought of those things as well, right? I wonder if any of these folks has a daughter who wears earrings. To say nothing of the hypocrisy of the fact that they support the parent’s “choice” to kill the baby in the womb, but once it is born, then they feel they can control what choices the parent’s have. Absolute idiocy.

• Beck Challenges Claim That Anti-Israel Church Chaos Is Case of Free Speech

  May 19, 2011 at 1:03am

  In reply to RationalMan.

  @RationalMan – You are confusing Doctrine with Principals. No one is arguing that the United States was ever intended to be a theocracy. No one is arguing that the Government should force religious beliefs of any kind on anyone. The argument is that the Constitution was written and the country was founded on the premise that people have Unalienable Rights, endowed by their Creator, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This concept did not originate with Aristotle, as you suggest, it was originated by the Creator himself. I know that statists have a hard time with the concept that Rights do not get handed out by Government, but this is the truth. The Constitution is based on Common Law, an extension of Natural Law which supercedes the laws of Nations. It is God’s Law. To deny the existence of God is to deny the existence of these unalienable rights. If rights are given by government, then rights can be taken away by government.

• Beck Challenges Claim That Anti-Israel Church Chaos Is Case of Free Speech

  May 18, 2011 at 2:52pm

  In reply to Joshua Tyler.

  @joshua “They meant the God of Deism. Jefferson, essentially, gave the God of Deism a new name, right there in the penning of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson, it seems, was devilishly cleavor in his initial push towards a secular American government.” -JT

  No. I think you gave God a new name as you penned your post. The quote I provided clearly indicates that he was referring to the God of Moses, Jesus, Muhammed, The Pope and John Smith.
  Most of the world’s religions all pray to the same God, they just differ on doctrine. And Yes, the framers did want the government to not be in the religion business, which includes atheism. If you notice, the establishment clause specifically limits government’s ability to influence religion, but places no limitation anywhere in the Constitution on faith influencing government. They had no such intention. They expressly stated that the country was founded on the laws of God.

• Beck Challenges Claim That Anti-Israel Church Chaos Is Case of Free Speech

  May 18, 2011 at 2:42pm

  In reply to Joshua Tyler.

  @joshua – I didn’t leave anything out. I quoted the relevant part. I am arguing that the country was formed on Judeo-Christian VALUES AND PRINCIPLES, not that the country was somehow intended to governed by a theocracy. Jefferson’s rejection of organized religion is of no consequence to his strong faith in God and his belief in the teachings of Jesus. As a Deist, he was undecided as to whether Jesus was a Messiah or a Rabbi, but that did not prevent him from recognizing the Truth of His word. The inclusion of the terms Nature’s God and Laws of Nature are undoubtedly more influenced by the thinking of John Locke than of any of the other Framers, as Jefferson was a student of Locke. Locke’s treatment of natural law is such that it represents that moral sense we each have innately, given by God, that let’s us decipher right from wrong, and gives us our freedom and free will. Locke, like Jefferson, recognized that to be part of our spirit rather than our flesh, but expressed it in a way that was not dependent on any particular religious doctrine. These basic tenets transcend religion, man made law, and politics, and installed in us by God.

• Beck Challenges Claim That Anti-Israel Church Chaos Is Case of Free Speech

  May 18, 2011 at 11:51am

  In reply to RavenMaven.

  By the way Joshua, Just which God is it that they mean when they say Nature’s God? Do you think he meant Zeus? Buddha? Or Maybe it was the God of Moses, to whom he gave the commandments which are referred to as Nature’s Law, because even people who have never heard them still instinctively know them.

• Beck Challenges Claim That Anti-Israel Church Chaos Is Case of Free Speech

  May 18, 2011 at 11:26am

  In reply to Joshua Tyler.

  @Joshua- You are just giving me Rachel Maddow talking points. Do the actual research and get back to me. I’ll give you a head start:

  “To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence….” – Thomas Jefferson

  Jefferson, like myself, rejected most of the precepts of organized religion as man made doctrine that can not be ascribed to God. yet he Embraced God and believed in Jesus. He just didn;t swing with whole Catholic thing. Your use of the word Deist in your post infers that he was an athiest, when clearly he was not. Since Jefferson was The framer of the Declaration of Independence I suppose your sweeping plural statement about the Framers all being deists was really just talking about him.

• Beck Challenges Claim That Anti-Israel Church Chaos Is Case of Free Speech

  May 18, 2011 at 11:12am

  In reply to quizibo.

  @ Quizibo – If GDP per capita is the best indicator of Freedom, wouldn’t Qatar be the freest nation on earth? There is no direct correlation between freedom and GDP, although freer peoples are generally more productive. Freedom is completely incompatible with State controlled economies and state controlled religion. You do realize that government control is the exact opposite of freedom, don’t you? You also realize that democracy does equate to freedom either don’t you? A democracy is useless if all the choices result in the same state controlled outcome. You are equating good monetary policy with freedom, and that is just wrong.