CommentsDisplaying WTFnorm's 10 most recent comments.

• Are Dems, Libs Really Less Likely to Believe in the Christian Bible?

  July 9, 2011 at 10:51pm

  In reply to turkey13.

  Tifosa:

  While anyone can be a hypocrite (and most of us are at some point(s) in our lives), the truth doesn’t change. Just because someone doesn‘t live up to the ideals he or she espouses doesn’t mean those ideals are any less relevant or worthy of living up to (or speaking about).

  If I say that smoking is bad but decide to smoke, my decision to smoke doesn’t make the, uh, badness of it go away or make me disbelieve its badness. The same with cheating on a spouse–just because some who talk about its immoral nature cheat on their spouses doesn’t mean they were wrong when talking about its immoral nature.

  I know, I know. It’s off-putting to hear hypocrites on a soapbox. But what does that have to do with the price of tea in China–or this article? Remember, Christians are human, therefore sinners, too.

• Is the U.N. Trying to Strip Americans’ Second Amendment Rights?

  June 7, 2011 at 11:23pm

  In reply to TheGreyPiper.

  @ Creestof

  I read once that when it’s time to bury your weapons, it’s time to dig them up.

• ‘Indoctrination’: Did These Elementary School Students Just Sing ‘Boycott Big Business’ in Earth Day Rap?

  April 22, 2011 at 7:10pm

  In reply to Rayblue.

  @CATB

  “Waiting for Superman” has some valuable information in it. However, I got the feeling that the makers’ of the movie are attempting to persuade the audience that the fifty different state systems in place need to be replaced by one centrally planned system. After all, they do talk extensively about how the standards in one state are not necessarily the same as in other states. It seemed to me that the remedy for disparate standards, according to the filmmakers, would be one standard.

  Maybe I was missing something…or maybe not.

• ‘Peanut-Sniffing Dog’: Parents Peeved at School’s Draconian Peanut-Allergy Precautions

  March 17, 2011 at 1:06am

  In reply to Keluvan.

  @USAMAMA

  I think the problem, or contention, here is that it is not a request. It is mandated by the school’s policy.

  I have a feeling that most of the people on this site, regardless of which side they take in the peanut allergy argument, would voluntarily keep peanuts out of their kids’ lunches.

  Again, the problem is the slippery slope.

• Which GOP Senator Opposes Defunding Planned Parenthood?

  March 13, 2011 at 1:57am

  In reply to justice.

  Yep. Wish we had Joe, what since I voted for him.

• Which GOP Senator Opposes Defunding Planned Parenthood?

  March 13, 2011 at 12:51am

  In reply to LIBSALWAYSLIE.

  savingtherepublic.com

  Don’t blame all Alaskan republicans (or conservatives) for Murkowski. Many of us did vote for Joe Miller–enthusiastically, I might add. But a whole lot of democrats defected (the dem wasn’t going to win anyway) and voted for her along with the squishy republicans in the cities. Include the corporations around the state that supported her (IOW, the Native corporations that want to keep getting their federal money) and you get what we got.

  Begich is up in 2014. We’ll see what we can do at that point.

• Audience Member Freaks Out as Bill Maher Slams Treatment of Women by Muslim Men

  February 20, 2011 at 7:38pm

  In reply to teachermitch32.

  @13th

  The big differences between your two examples is that the Muslim guy cutting off his wife’s head is legal and fully encouraged–as well as relatively commonplace–in countries with Sharia Law; whereas the Mormon raping his daughters is illegal, egregious, and not so commonplace. (Well, men raping their daughters might be more commonplace in Sharia Law-controlled countries…I don’t know.)

• Soros: Tea Partiers Are Being ‘Used and Deceived’

  February 20, 2011 at 6:41pm

  In reply to dawg of gawd.

  @ Chet Hempstead

  You might want to do a little more research in regards to union pension plans and their funding. The “crisis” didn’t start the problems with the union plans. Underfunding (because of too little contribution from employees and too generous of benefits, to name two reasons) has been a problem for years. The economic downturn just exacerbated the problem.

  Here’s an interesting tidbit from the below link: “Our analysis finds that pension plans for the officers and staffs of unions were much better funded than those for the rank-and-file.” Who would have thought?

  Though I have to admit that the morons in elected positions who were negotiating with the unions for those extravagant pensions are to blame as much as any union. At the end of the day, something’s going to have to give. Period.

  http://hudson.org/files/publications/UnionVsPrivatePensionPlans.pdf (Compares union and non-union pension plans before and to the year 2005–before the “meltdown”)

• Alaska Governor Refuses to Implement ObamaCare

  February 18, 2011 at 9:10pm

  In reply to idrathermisstotheright.

  I like your sentiment, but states should ignore all unconstitutional laws. Period. It wouldn’t make sense to implement something like Obamacare just because the federal government decided to enforce immigration laws. One has nothing to do with the other.

• ‘Hooters’ Hullabaloo: MSNBC’s Mika Offended by GOP Reps Success Story

  February 10, 2011 at 1:30am

  In reply to Marylou7.

  Pete:

  I see where you’re coming from. I agree that she didn’t make very good choices when she was laying down at 15 or working at Hooters to support herself and her child. And this fallacy that it was either that or stripping or prostituting or living off of welfare doesn’t fly. She could have been a waitress at another restaurant–it was probably easier for her to make more money if half her rear and most of her chest was on display for God and everyone–or taken another job somewhere else. Easier, as we know, does not always equal better.

  That being said…I think we all have made mistakes in our lives. It seems that she is no longer the Hooters girl of her earlier life. Maybe she regrets it, maybe she doesn’t. That does not mean she isn’t the person she is today based, in part, on the choices–good and bad–that she made.

  And, as many have said, we were (and are) not in her shoes. Though we can guess what we might have done in her situation (from a 20/20 rearview perspective), we don’t know anything other than a very thin veneer of what went on. Nobody’s asking you to admire her for (some think) bad choices…rather for overcoming them and creating better circumstances for herself and her child. Basing our opinions of her on what she did when she was so young says far more about us than it does on her.

  Besides, this story isn’t about her. It‘s about the clowns who think they’re better than everyone else and get to judge what we see on the “news”. It‘s pretty astonishing that they can’t see how absurd their behavior is.