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'Arrest and Detain Giuliani Right Now,' Say Critics, After Trump Lawyer Refuses Congressional ...
bobwjr comments on Oct 17, 2019:
Did it before with Mitchell under Nixon
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 25, 2019:
Excellent precedent!!
Tough republicans when they face a woman, same ones now pussies.
MojoDave comments on Oct 10, 2019:
What? 😡 The f**king hypocrites!!!
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 10, 2019:
That is their MO!
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau _ Hey Bookworms! I'd like to ...
BirdMan1 comments on Oct 9, 2019:
Now reading Neil DeGrasse Tyson's "AstroPhysics for People in a Hurry." Recently read J.R.R.Tolkein's " translation of "Beowulf." Despite its place in the pantheon of major ancient myths and texts, I found it uninspiring, and thin. I've read a lot on cosmology and Quantum Mechanics for the ...
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 10, 2019:
@Hastur someone else recommended Grendel, but neither of my libraries has it. I am going to try to connect with a rather local college system, by way of the OLLIE program, and see whether, or not, I can gain access to their library system, but thanks.
I borrowed/modified this from someone else
yvilletom comments on Oct 9, 2019:
Good move. In 7th & 8th grades, once a guy’s fists were out of my way, I stepped in close, grabbed him by his waist, turned him over and bounced his head on the ground. I didn’t then wonder how he felt but sometimes now do.
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 9, 2019:
Oh shit, was his name Donny? That might help explain our situation!
How I feel, but can't say nearly so well.
Redheadedgammy comments on Oct 9, 2019:
Beautifully written. I should copy and send to my two worthless asshole Senators, Cornyn and Cruz.
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 9, 2019:
Sadly, I suspect, they would not be moved at all, just like my wonderful senators Rubio and Scott, both awesomely miserable.
no truer words ever spoken
KKGator comments on Oct 9, 2019:
I do my level best to live up to this. Even if it doesn't have anything to do with me, I still feel an obligation to take a position. Especially when people are suffering and being mistreated. Always reminds me of this, too...
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 9, 2019:
A wonderful, though sad, and all too accurate sentiment. I have it embedded in my computer's notes.
So, a friend of mine knows of a woman who has posted, elsewhere, that she "knows" that "the ...
NHjulie comments on Oct 8, 2019:
Sounds more like what they were saying about Obama.
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 8, 2019:
Of course, 😉, that was the superior plan: accuse the next guy of exactly what you are being accused of, or in this case what you expect to be accused of, down the road. You know, offense is the best defense.
Exclusive: Official who heard call says Trump got “rolled” by Turkey and “has no spine” ...
Freedompath comments on Oct 7, 2019:
Th words of this lunatic is becoming poison to my psyche!
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 8, 2019:
@Freedompath Maybe not. doesn't there need to be something below a cesspool that acts as a sub-basement, if you will. I mean there is land under the oceans, neither they nor a cesspool go to the center of the planet. You know the famous statue of Hercules, I think it is, holding up the Earth? It's like Dumpy has been the postule containing "THE cesspool!" And, now, it is leaking.
Pence is still doing his evil
bobwjr comments on Oct 7, 2019:
Evangelicals take note
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 7, 2019:
THEY do not give a rotten rat's ass!
I saw this quite awhile back on Facebook. Any thoughts?
Sticks48 comments on Oct 6, 2019:
"Ghosts Riders In The Sky"...Sung by Vaughn Monroe, later recorded by a bunch of folks including Johnny Cash.
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 7, 2019:
As did Frankie Laine.
Exclusive: Official who heard call says Trump got “rolled” by Turkey and “has no spine” ...
NHjulie comments on Oct 7, 2019:
OMF#$@G..I just saw this somewhere else and came here to see if it was talked about. I thought it was a satire, NOT. How can people look at this and think he is mentally stable and good for the country? Holy crap. Remember when the biggest problem was that G Bush said he didn't like broccoli or ...
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 7, 2019:
@chalupacabre This is where true lunacy will take a person! It is being put out that this kind of "wonderful" idiocy will finally get the last of his congressional supporters (well maybe not a Rubio, and his ilk) to kick his sorry ass out.
Exclusive: Official who heard call says Trump got “rolled” by Turkey and “has no spine” ...
BirdMan1 comments on Oct 7, 2019:
So, is the asshole working to get into Erdogan's asshole, hoping for support when he declares that he is "President For Life?" He will, likely, next, invite the NK "President For Life," over for pizza and some cold brew. Or, has he finally REALLY lost it?
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 7, 2019:
@chalupacabre Exactly!
There are so many out there.
KKGator comments on Oct 7, 2019:
I've been having to weed those people out of my life. They are completely convinced he's being "attacked". I can't deal with that much deliberate ignorance.
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 7, 2019:
@mistymoon77 In my opinion, Fox (aka:Faux) News took that concept to something like perfection. and then, of course, as any proud to be Republican would do, they accused everyone else of exactly their operation.
There are so many out there.
KKGator comments on Oct 7, 2019:
I've been having to weed those people out of my life. They are completely convinced he's being "attacked". I can't deal with that much deliberate ignorance.
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 7, 2019:
DELIBERATE AND INSISTENT!
Since this is the "Joker" Weekend at the movies, i was reminded about some Joker quotes.
HippieChick58 comments on Oct 6, 2019:
This is the nightmare that will not end....
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 7, 2019:
Not soon, anyway.
Our president
TheDoubter comments on Oct 7, 2019:
maybe he has stock in the company
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 7, 2019:
He can't have stock in the company, as that would indicate "business acumen."
Just saw this on Facebook. Yup, that's what we're dealing with.
KKGator comments on Oct 6, 2019:
Hasn't shown up on my fb page yet, but when it does you can trust that I will tear it apart. It's time to clean up my "friends list" anyway. I'm not waiting until Spring.
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 7, 2019:
@KKGator Either of you might be interested in a site called "Politics Plus," and TomCat's blog thereon.
Just saw this on Facebook. Yup, that's what we're dealing with.
BirdMan1 comments on Oct 6, 2019:
This is a bit long, and maybe the fool who posted what you have shown us will not be able to concentrate long enough to read it, but I've saved it for just this kind of situation: er that question. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Via a friend...
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 7, 2019:
@NHjulie PLEASE, PLEASE, be my guest!
Exclusive: Official who heard call says Trump got “rolled” by Turkey and “has no spine” ...
Freedompath comments on Oct 7, 2019:
Th words of this lunatic is becoming poison to my psyche!
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 7, 2019:
Breathe deeply, and keep your expectations (of behavior from him) REALLY low.
Exclusive: Official who heard call says Trump got “rolled” by Turkey and “has no spine” ...
NHjulie comments on Oct 7, 2019:
OMF#$@G..I just saw this somewhere else and came here to see if it was talked about. I thought it was a satire, NOT. How can people look at this and think he is mentally stable and good for the country? Holy crap. Remember when the biggest problem was that G Bush said he didn't like broccoli or ...
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 7, 2019:
Yes, this is not "the Onion," though it would certainly be nice if it were!
Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Pema Chödrön on transformation through difficult times: “The...
icolan comments on Sep 28, 2019:
It is well said, except for the first statement. The rest of the statement is just a long way of saying that theists believe in god and non-theists don't. "Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there’s some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take ...
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 6, 2019:
@icolan I stand corrected, thanks.
Me either ashamed
Sticks48 comments on Oct 3, 2019:
There are times I have a hard time believing this is really happening. l have known we are a country with a large number of stupid people, racists and hypocrites, but the fact the numbers are what they are is still somewhat of a shock to me.
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 3, 2019:
Yes, here too. And that they are so stubbornly, adamantly stupid and so on! Pres. Eisenhower was, reportedly shocked to learn that 1/2 of the U.S's population was below average in intelligence. That is statistically the norm, but I'll bet he had no idea of just how fucking dumb the population was!
Sorry for the profanity within the image.
Cutiebeauty comments on Oct 3, 2019:
Not gonna happen... They may be stupid but they aren't dumb...
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 3, 2019:
Don't bet the farm on that!
Exactly how I feel.
JackPedigo comments on Oct 2, 2019:
Here's a good way to explain how we feel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCQGQ5qBQTA It's called schadenfreude.
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 3, 2019:
Schadenfreude is a most marvelous perspective in this context!!!!!
Exactly how I feel.
CarolinaGirl60 comments on Oct 2, 2019:
I feel this way about all the Trumps, both Graham siblings(and televangelists worldwide), plus every Republican in office. Yeah, I’m pretty fucked up!
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 3, 2019:
No, you are just appropriate, cool, fine!
A moot point, really...
NHjulie comments on Oct 2, 2019:
So now he doesn't even remember the stupid shit he comes up with.
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 3, 2019:
That's the problem with lying, a normal person might have trouble remembering the shit, but he does not even care, because he thinks he can just cover it up with more shit. Sadly, some of his followers, or any who still can follow him, buy into whatever hit he produces. He is, or was in The Villages, in Florida, today, home of rabid, bonzo, conservatives! Tomorrow, they will say he walked on water to greet them!
All rise...
OldGoat43 comments on Oct 2, 2019:
I hope they are there to capture his moment of implosion on video for posterity.
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 3, 2019:
Would that ever be wonderful! Nixon said "I'm the only president you've got." Dumpy will say "This is a hoax, this is a sacrilege, I'm the only god you've got!"
I think it's too late for this
wordywalt comments on Oct 3, 2019:
I want the idiot talking. The more he talks, the more he legally imperils himself.
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 3, 2019:
Yes, I agree, but this picture is an "after" the party picture. Oh, OUR party!
I think it's too late for this
Sticks48 comments on Oct 3, 2019:
No! His mouth is the gift that keeps on giving. He will talk and tweet his ass right out of office.
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 3, 2019:
@LucyLoohoo Lucy, you really nailed it!
No comment as Trump goes over clfff with GOP.
DharmaBum50 comments on Oct 2, 2019:
For both of you, I hoist a glass:
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 3, 2019:
I'll drink to that!
About right
Our_existence comments on Oct 3, 2019:
Space ( between the ears) the final frontier. Going where no one has gone before
BirdMan1 replies on Oct 3, 2019:
But, one can't go there, as there is no there there.
Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Pema Chödrön on transformation through difficult times: “The...
icolan comments on Sep 28, 2019:
It is well said, except for the first statement. The rest of the statement is just a long way of saying that theists believe in god and non-theists don't. "Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there’s some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take ...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 30, 2019:
@icolan We are a social species, and only thrive as individuals when we accept that. For a wonderful treatment of this see "Mind, A Journey to the Heart of Being Human,"- byDan Siegal.
Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Pema Chödrön on transformation through difficult times: “The...
Jolanta comments on Sep 28, 2019:
Well there are people who have a need to believe in something or someone to help them threw life and that is fine with me, as long as they don't impinge on me and my life by trying to ram it down my throat as I don't try to do it to them either.
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 30, 2019:
It is the ramming that both insults and enrages me.
Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Pema Chödrön on transformation through difficult times: “The...
Mofo1953 comments on Sep 29, 2019:
No crutches here, no security blankets, what i have is what i have achieved myself without any help except my effort, hard work and intelligence, i never look for a hand to hold, never abdicate my responsibilities but i delegate when necessary, specially in business at work, never equated this to ...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 30, 2019:
@Mofo1953 For what it is worth, I think that you are both saying similar things , but from different perspectives. Mofo is doing his thing with no reference to a particular concept.
"We should always be prepared so as never to err to believe that what I see as white is black, if ...
BirdMan1 comments on Sep 30, 2019:
Good question! I was not indoctrinated into any fairy tales, so I only see what appears to be silliness there. But I like the "pisseth behind a bush," part
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 30, 2019:
@nogod4me No, I have not had that experience, but can easily see it happening. That is what happened with "Mr. T." on South Park. He apparently had no problem lampooning other religions, until they wrote an episode lampooning Islam! I have not much contact with nonbelievers, in person.
Do You Hate God? | The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser
Beowulfsfriend comments on Sep 30, 2019:
Being human, one can hate anything, even an unreal thing. We are weird, aren't we? No matter, we are what we are by chances and coincidences and occurrences. Thus we are natural. Anyway, it isn't logical or healthy to hate something that you don't believe in. Only angry believers can hate their ...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 30, 2019:
@Beowulfsfriend I finished J.R.R.Tolkien's translation today. I expect that I will, indeed, seek out Healy's version, as well as Gardener's version. Tolkien wrote a story, of his own, "...suggesting what might have been the form an style an Old English folktale of Beowulf." Tolkien finished his translation in 1926, and his son edited the work and the book. Tolkien also wrote two songs, or lays, of Beowulf, that are quite charming, if a bit gory, included at the end of the book.
Do You Hate God? | The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser
Beowulfsfriend comments on Sep 30, 2019:
Being human, one can hate anything, even an unreal thing. We are weird, aren't we? No matter, we are what we are by chances and coincidences and occurrences. Thus we are natural. Anyway, it isn't logical or healthy to hate something that you don't believe in. Only angry believers can hate their ...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 30, 2019:
By coincidence, this is the first time I've noted your presence here, being relatively new. the coincidence is that I am in the midst of reading "Beowulf.!"
Why Evolution Is True … I never realised that there was still so much opposition to science.
BirdMan1 comments on Jul 31, 2019:
@PontifexMarximus Starting with Ronald Reagan's comment, "Facts are just annoyances," and seeing the ridiculous encouragement of stubborn intentional idiocy by Trump, we have been shown yet another (besides vulgar racism) side of the underbelly of the American culture!
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 30, 2019:
@Remiforce Very well put!
There is a mental health diagnosis, called Follie a Deux: Folie à deux - Wikipedia ...
LucyLoohoo comments on Sep 29, 2019:
(Thanks for sharing your CONSIDERABLE knowledge of this subject, my friend.) Would this be something like Hitler and Goebbels? Hitler and Goring? Interesting how they found one another. Do you think this means people like Rudy are always wandering around, looking for their counterpart? Or does ...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 30, 2019:
I can not really speak to the Hitler crazies, but, as Jared Diamond once commented, every culture, or county, has thousands of psychopaths within it. And a person like a Drump, or a Hitler, is like a magnet for some of them, perhaps the more extreme of them. Their kind of sickness just draws the outlier sickness to them.
I thought I'd pass along this very special invitation.
bobwjr comments on Sep 28, 2019:
LMAO refuse will go to impeachment party instead
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 28, 2019:
@LucyLoohoo, @zeuser Party! Party! Party!
I thought I'd pass along this very special invitation.
bobwjr comments on Sep 28, 2019:
LMAO refuse will go to impeachment party instead
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 28, 2019:
@LucyLoohoo Party! Party! Party!
As a former English teacher, I concur!
LucyLoohoo comments on Sep 27, 2019:
This is the same fool who told us how he graduated with "honors' "
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 28, 2019:
@WonderWartHog99 A Texas George Carlin? Funny, thanks. I'm sure you are on to something there.
As a former English teacher, I concur!
LucyLoohoo comments on Sep 27, 2019:
This is the same fool who told us how he graduated with "honors' "
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 28, 2019:
@WonderWartHog99 I believe that the professor said that Dumpy was the dumbest student he'd EVER seen!
As a former English teacher, I concur!
bobwjr comments on Sep 27, 2019:
Is English his major or hurdle
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 28, 2019:
@DharmaBum50 The latter, I'm willing to bet!
An explaination of Drumps amazing abilities to stay in oriface..
chalupacabre comments on Sep 28, 2019:
Somebody in the party must've pissed in the water and called Trump home. https://youtu.be/QQWgUht-ObI
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 28, 2019:
@LucyLoohoo Bitch on!
Do you know?
LucyLoohoo comments on Sep 28, 2019:
(Restraining myself here....) A dick is a dick is a dick. I've known far too many.....but will admit that the one on the right is ''unique.''
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 28, 2019:
Lucy, you nailed it! Now, the impeachers need to do so. It was fun, in a sense, to hate King Richard, but Mr. Total takes me, and so many others, it seems, right past hate to loathing, banging on one's forehead, and to a quiet watching from a distance as the sickness unravels.
I thought I'd pass along this very special invitation.
bobwjr comments on Sep 28, 2019:
LMAO refuse will go to impeachment party instead
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 28, 2019:
Now, that's something I could host!
What we know and do not know about Greta Thunberg?
TheMiddleWay comments on Sep 25, 2019:
I too have a problem with her. Not personally, I think strong convictions are a credit to her. But to the notion that just because she is young she is somehow speaking a greater truth, a stronger truth, that we should listen to her more. I just don't get it. She is not saying anything new. She is...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 26, 2019:
@TheMiddleWay You are right about our being unable to predict the future with any specificity, but I do not know of any "scientific" prophesies about doomsday. And, yes, I'm being my position on second hand knowledge, but it seems to be evidence based, unbiased, knowledge, rather than agenda based gibberish. "Evidence" can be interpreted in a variety of ways, I agree, or it can simply be ignored, or worse. The minister who established the Creation Museum, in Kentucky, Minister Hamm, did so in response to what he, himself, on live TV at the time, called "overwhelming" evidence for evolution. It bothered him so much that he just stuck his head even deeper into the sand of his god delusion! The evidence for human caused global warming is, also, overwhelming, and that is what I base my opinion upon.
What we know and do not know about Greta Thunberg?
TheMiddleWay comments on Sep 25, 2019:
I too have a problem with her. Not personally, I think strong convictions are a credit to her. But to the notion that just because she is young she is somehow speaking a greater truth, a stronger truth, that we should listen to her more. I just don't get it. She is not saying anything new. She is...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 25, 2019:
@TheMiddleWay But, the sky is falling, has been doing so for decades, just slowly, incrementally, with plant and animal species gradually moving north,and/or to higher ground, which is he same. Before any outcry was begun scientists on the ground, with no ax to grind, were reporting these migrations. Lately, the increments have been getting larger, and it is harder to "reasonably" deny the changes in climate. Sadly, some do not consider reason, as in evidence worthwhile.
What we know and do not know about Greta Thunberg?
TheMiddleWay comments on Sep 25, 2019:
I too have a problem with her. Not personally, I think strong convictions are a credit to her. But to the notion that just because she is young she is somehow speaking a greater truth, a stronger truth, that we should listen to her more. I just don't get it. She is not saying anything new. She is...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 25, 2019:
Because she is not so dismissible as a scientist who Trump can command to not say anything he does not want to hear, because, maybe precisely because, she is extraordinary, in the dictionary sense. Her message is not "I am right because I've done all the homework and have figured it out," it is simply "Listen to the scientists." So, who might be most threatened, (the remaining) Charles Koch, who's has spent millions supporting, and spreading made up stories about a "debatable" climate change? And others, who worry about their bottom line, rather than the bottom falling out for life as we know it?
What we know and do not know about Greta Thunberg?
DotLewis comments on Sep 25, 2019:
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/why-is-greta-thunberg-so-triggering-for-certain-men-1.4002264?mode=amp=dlvr.it=twitter=IwAR3U8WVBXH6nYrB2ZhctS-5Q5eiiUeUbYeAXNZoZKZtBgb32Ew4kDlQuinI
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 25, 2019:
Good article!
The 10 year old girl, form Texas, who contracted brain eating amoeba, has died.
lookinhard comments on Sep 23, 2019:
Im sorry,but do you have a fucking heart? no.Have you ever lost a child? I hope not.Let me share this with you.I have.And if any heartless scumbag had talked about whatever it was to put me at peace with losing my child I would have said....as I will say to you...."shut the fuck up and let those ...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 24, 2019:
I was referring to the silliness of putting one's efforts into prayer. Sorry if I offended you.
The 10 year old girl, form Texas, who contracted brain eating amoeba, has died.
Diogenes comments on Sep 24, 2019:
These diseases will be more prolific as the planet warms. I'm sure these 'devout' will drive their gas-guzzlers to churches and because they are morons they will vote for evil and dim, Trump. They will not be informed about science and medicine to CURE these diseases- because that would help to ...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 24, 2019:
Which they alone think the can understand!
I get this sick feeling inside that the only reason Trump isn't going full nuts on Iran is that he ...
RPardoe comments on Sep 20, 2019:
Actually, I think Trump is squeamish about starting a war. Like any bully, he swaggers, waves a big stick, says we are "locked and loaded" but when push comes to shove, very little happens. Remember, Bolton was a Iran hawk who was itching to get into a conflict with Iran, yet he was dismissed ...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 20, 2019:
@RPardoe A good point. tRump is seen as a "present hedonist," one who lives utterly in the moment with no though to consequences, but, presumably, also no capacity to plan ahead.
I wonder if there are any Christian neuroscientists?
BirdMan1 comments on Sep 20, 2019:
Yes, and no. We are more than just the wiring in our heads, or bodies; are not some form of automatons. I am currently reading "Musicophilia," by Oliver Sacks, who was a neurologist. Here and much elsewhere, I have read that what people refer to as religious experiences, out of body experiences,...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 20, 2019:
And, no, there's no soul.
I wonder if there are any Christian neuroscientists?
Truthseeker1968 comments on Sep 20, 2019:
Wonderful @josh_is_exciting. Thats in the same family as when we discovered that the sun was not in fact a god. And disease was not in fact demons. And that weather patterns were not in fact actions of a super natural being. Actually, I guess a few are still around that would characterize those ...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 20, 2019:
Sadly.
I wonder if there are any Christian neuroscientists?
Sierra4 comments on Sep 20, 2019:
Yes Ben Carson, HUD, is a pediatric neurosurgeon and big time right wing christian.
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 20, 2019:
And a jackass, I might add; not necessarily just because he is a Christian.
A stark reminder of what has its grips on our lives and government
altschmerz comments on Sep 17, 2019:
Modeling is all *she's* good for. And him? Uh ... I'm thinking ...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 18, 2019:
Well, when he eventually dies, he'll return some nutrients to the soil...just saying.
Check this idiot out! I don't even know what to say
NHjulie comments on Sep 17, 2019:
I'm speechless as well. Hopefully he doesn't reproduce.
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 18, 2019:
I'll be happy to give him his Darwin Award!
Check this idiot out! I don't even know what to say
mcgeo52 comments on Sep 17, 2019:
I hope that someone who knows him saves this picture to post on his social media account when Trump is sentenced to prison.
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 18, 2019:
He'll find some imbecilic way to convince himself that "They" were wrong to do that.
Check this idiot out! I don't even know what to say
Redheadedgammy comments on Sep 17, 2019:
Bet he hasn't been fucked in years....LOL
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 18, 2019:
Sorry, you are wrong...he's been mind-fucked by his god!
Check this idiot out! I don't even know what to say
dkp93 comments on Sep 17, 2019:
And they wonder why we compare them to brainwashed cultists.
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 18, 2019:
Could it be because they are?
How would you respond to "You can't have true love without God"?
linxminx comments on Sep 16, 2019:
I would say, "I know my own mind and myself, and I know what I feel for others is real." That is a hefty egotistical proclamation to say that a person's emotional side isn't real without god. He's just another preacher/minister trying to control people, and trying to get them to buy into ...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 18, 2019:
Infants show compassion for others, before they even have language. Also, the evolutionary value of love for one's offspring, which in humans, with our totally helpless offspring, is, apparently, what helped bonding of the parents develop, in our species distant past. With such dependency, one parent, the one who gave milk, was, presumably, pretty much focused on the child, and less available for gathering, or hunting early in the child's life. Please do not take that as support for the idea that biology equals destiny.
How would you respond to "You can't have true love without God"?
AtheistReader comments on Sep 16, 2019:
Not according to 1st. Corinthians chapter 13. Which essentially says that you cannot serve God, if you do not have love. In that chapter, love comes before everything else. Even before faith in God. That is, God is not real without love. Not that I believe in either as something ...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 18, 2019:
That, of course,is ridiculous, even from their perspective. IF god is not real without love, then WE create god when we love? So, their god did not exist until beings were capable of love? Wow, who, then created the universe? Even if we assume that "Adam" fell in love with "Eve" in the first instance of seeing her, how could a god who had not existed until then have created them? It' all such bullshit!
What’s a Jew to do during the high holy days when they question the existence of a higher power?
BirdMan1 comments on Sep 15, 2019:
The culture I come from is Jewish, but I am 3rd generation atheist on one side, maybe both. What are called the High Holy days, and, in spring Passover, are an annoyance to me . Well, no, just Passover is, with its food restrictions. As a teenager, a friend and I wanted to see what it was all ...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 16, 2019:
@genessa Yes, I would think that that is what they are supposed to do, as well. I applaud your schul!
Newly Nominated Secretary of State is a Holy Crusader - TheHumanist.com
Rudy1962 comments on Mar 31, 2018:
The Christian right better enjoy their time in power because a snow storm is coming
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 15, 2019:
@Rudy1962 My thought, exactly.
Let’s play another round of compare the quotes
BirdMan1 comments on Sep 14, 2019:
Modesty on the face of the universe, and imbecility!
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 14, 2019:
Modesty IN the face...."
Lying Donald strikes again!
bradnyijuan comments on Sep 14, 2019:
How can he lie so much? How do people believe him? Is it money that lets him get by with it?
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 14, 2019:
He can lie so much because he needs to defend/hide his emptiness from himself and the world. He has no center of substance, or anything, is empty, and must maintain his delusion that he's the only one who has it all together...not even the generals. People who believe him are showing a cultish obedience, paying blind obeisance to their chosen leader (Fuhrer), who they believe will save them from their own empty, miserable, hopeless lives. It's just like those who ned to believe in a god, and a reward in a next life, after their current mortal torments.
Here’s Neil deGrasse Tyson, in Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, 2017, on page 17: “In the...
BirdMan1 comments on Sep 12, 2019:
Is there a way for you to put, in a nutshell, what Lerner's point of view is?
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 13, 2019:
@yvilletom so, what is his alternative explanation for our existence, us and the universe?
Where did you first learn about God?
BirdMan1 comments on Aug 30, 2019:
Somewhere in my early childhood, i had an illustrated book about the bible, or some such. I can recall seeing the color plate of a "God Sky," with the sun's rays pouring through clouds, and maybe there was a standard bearded old white man god illustration,as well. I do not know why I had that ...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 13, 2019:
@GROG all good here. It is on the west coast of Florida, and, obviously, Dorian did not get here...or to Alabama.
I expect that some of you have heard of psychologist Stanley Milgram and his "authority " experiment...
silverotter11 comments on Sep 12, 2019:
A certain bias was applied and some are more suggestible than others. Willing to go along to get along, some people just have a mean streak and it doesn't take much to bring it into fruition. What we have happening at the border, in the immigrant detention centers and with some of our police is ...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 12, 2019:
Yes, Trump is energizing, enabling and encouraging the cruelty. Cruelty is part of the package of Malignant Narcissism that makes up his being.
I expect that some of you have heard of psychologist Stanley Milgram and his "authority " experiment...
HippieChick58 comments on Sep 12, 2019:
Stockholm syndrome
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 12, 2019:
Not quite, I think, as that requires one to become a hostage, and that's a bit of a stretch, here.
A message putin's puppet.....
BirdMan1 comments on Sep 12, 2019:
Can we run George Carlin for president? Can you imagine what he'd be saying if he were among us now?
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 12, 2019:
@LucyLoohoo You bet!
I expect that some of you have heard of psychologist Stanley Milgram and his "authority " experiment...
Freedompath comments on Sep 12, 2019:
It is simply heartbreaking...that a lot of our fellow citizens, would treat other human beings...inhumanely! Some being our own family members! I understand research, but I am bogged down in understanding how people living close to me, can treat other humans with evil intent! And it is evil!
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 12, 2019:
@LucyLoohoo Vous et Raison!
I expect that some of you have heard of psychologist Stanley Milgram and his "authority " experiment...
LucyLoohoo comments on Sep 12, 2019:
Mmmmm...reminds me of the old experiment where a group of subjects wound up delivering what they believed to be lethal doses of electricity as the study went on! You probably know of that one, BirdMan.
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 12, 2019:
Yes, that was the Milgram experiment.
A message putin's puppet.....
BirdMan1 comments on Sep 12, 2019:
Can we run George Carlin for president? Can you imagine what he'd be saying if he were among us now?
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 12, 2019:
@altschmerz And that's not the first time, either.
I expect that some of you have heard of psychologist Stanley Milgram and his "authority " experiment...
Freedompath comments on Sep 12, 2019:
It is simply heartbreaking...that a lot of our fellow citizens, would treat other human beings...inhumanely! Some being our own family members! I understand research, but I am bogged down in understanding how people living close to me, can treat other humans with evil intent! And it is evil!
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 12, 2019:
Yes, it is evil. I have cousins I do not speak with, and a neighbor, likewise, who are just thrilled with Dumpy, or were, to be accurate, the last time I checked with them. I expect one of those cousins is embarrassed to speak with me, after having professed such admiration for the clown!
"Hamlet's Mill," by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, is what comes to mind with that ...
Flowerwall comments on Sep 12, 2019:
Yes you are right the title does involve ideas relating to a mill stone in the sea. It also refers to other ideas as well. A full five paragraphs of explanation as to the meaning of the title can be found in the introduction actually, lol! Impressive! I've only gotten partly through the ...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 12, 2019:
It is not a "quicker," sit on the beach and read for fun, and to pass the time, kind of book. It has been years since I read it, and might consider reading it again, but my book list grows so much faster than ai can read. I started "Thus Spake Zarathrusta," yesterday, by Nietzsche, and am close to giving it back to the library. Despite the explanations about it, in the introduction, it seems like so much gibberish, to me, anyway. I read a bio. of Nietzsche a while ago, and generally think highly of him, but this is a bit much. I read a some of Keroack's classic, "On the Road," and put it aside, some years ago. It was not gibberish, but seemed like a child's later from camp: We did this, today, and then we did that, and then we did that, on and on. Truman Capote's review of the book was "This is not writing, this is typing." But, Hamlet's Mill, became engrossing, despite being, as I recall, dense.
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bookofmorons comments on May 3, 2019:
love it . . they should make greeting card out of them and sell them
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 11, 2019:
At Christmas time!
Texas Baptist pastor who advocated executing women for abortion faces child sexual assault charges ...
brentan comments on Aug 20, 2019:
Perhaps the common denominator is control.
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 11, 2019:
For them, I think, it is indeed, control rubber alles!
Twitter Users Find A Way To Get Chrissy Teigen’s Filthy Trump Nickname To Trend [huffpost.
Freedompath comments on Sep 10, 2019:
Wonder if it will ever dawn on trump, that he is the ‘laughing stock’ of this Country and even around the world? His every move is becoming a ‘laughing stock’...because it is just that!
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 11, 2019:
@LucyLoohoo There is an old saying about this kind of thing, probably having emanated from politics: "There is no such thing as bad publicity." That is just what got the PAB elected!
The UK ambassador forced to resign after he called Trump 'inept' and 'incompetent' is being made a ...
Killtheskyfairy comments on Sep 10, 2019:
I don’t know if itrises to the level of receiving a peerage. I was calling Trump that before that guy.
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 11, 2019:
I was calling him worse, accurately, as you did..
"Hamlet's Mill," by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, is what comes to mind with that ...
Flowerwall comments on Sep 11, 2019:
I will get to the book at some point soon too. Right now I am wondering about the title. Do you know anything about why it is titled as it is?
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 11, 2019:
My recollection is that it i so named because of an old myth about a "Mill" of some sort in the North Sea, near Denmark.
As was pointed out, if Obama had planned to meet with the Taliban on American soil, conservatives ...
HippieChick58 comments on Sep 7, 2019:
He is such a moron.
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 9, 2019:
And he is too much of a moron to know that he is a moron. He is the embodiment of the Dunning-Kruger effect, its poster boy!
Who else here is old enough to remember the rhetoric we heard in the late 60's and early 70's while ...
mcgeo52 comments on Jul 15, 2019:
I remember "Love it or leave it." I remember the response: "Fix it or fuck it."
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 9, 2019:
@Charlene They were old fashioned Utopian communists, with a small "c," no fans of Stalin, whatsoever!
Who else here is old enough to remember the rhetoric we heard in the late 60's and early 70's while ...
CarolinaGirl60 comments on Jul 15, 2019:
I remember. And I’ve had it thrown at me again by xenophobes here. I told them, get out of your comfort zone, widen your horizons. Otherwise, you choose to be ignorant.
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 9, 2019:
Too many folks indeed choose ignorance, determinedly, stubbornly, insistently!
Who the hell is approving this stuff?
BirdMan1 comments on Sep 8, 2019:
Yes, it is so easy to fall into line, and lick boots, if one is in a position that depends on the emperor's approval. I had not known that NOAA hit its own people, but, I assume that (Since February 25, 2019 Neil Jacobs, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction, ...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 9, 2019:
@altschmerz could well be. The news has come out about NOAA staff "ordered" to not contradict the big orange fool!
Who else here is old enough to remember the rhetoric we heard in the late 60's and early 70's while ...
mcgeo52 comments on Jul 15, 2019:
I remember "Love it or leave it." I remember the response: "Fix it or fuck it."
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 8, 2019:
@Charlene My parents were Communists! I'm not, but I am no fucking republican! No hard feelings meant.
Speaking of sharpies
Killtheskyfairy comments on Sep 7, 2019:
Don’t do that to cats!
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 8, 2019:
I have a photo of the rear end of a horse, which I have used to portray his Dumpiness, and received similar comments. I have apologized to the horse in driving by its corral, since then.
Speaking of sharpies
glennlab comments on Sep 7, 2019:
perfect
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 8, 2019:
My thought, exactly!
San Francisco has just added to its claim to fame, has declared the NRA a domestic terrorist ...
Redheadedgammy comments on Sep 4, 2019:
Did anyone read some of the gundamentalists comments? These people are so delusional about their guns.
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 5, 2019:
I never thought to read such stuff, and it would not be good for my B/P, anyway.
We've had 5 category 5 hurricanes in the last 4 years.
Freedompath comments on Sep 3, 2019:
If trump would get out of his imposed cocoon...he might just witness what is happening in the world...the same one we all live in! But, he liked it best...his way! So let him ‘rot’ where he is.
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 4, 2019:
@LucyLoohoo Succeed? With his little, teeny winkie? He can pay them, but can he do anything else with them? No, that's not really important. What's important is that he's fucking the world with what little he has got, and the sycophants, and corporate whores are aiding him.
We've had 5 category 5 hurricanes in the last 4 years.
RobertNappi2 comments on Sep 3, 2019:
Puppet, racist, liar, fraud and down right STUPID!!! Feel free to add on...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 4, 2019:
How about traitor?
We've had 5 category 5 hurricanes in the last 4 years.
Our_existence comments on Sep 3, 2019:
What a piece of shit. All I can think of day in and day out is getting this MF out of my life.
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 4, 2019:
@Our_existence And that is going to be his legacy,!
We've had 5 category 5 hurricanes in the last 4 years.
Nightshade1313 comments on Sep 3, 2019:
Moron...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 4, 2019:
@Freedompath He is being exposed, by his very own self. Running for president was the dumbest decision he ever made. His entire façade is crumbling, and he is the only one who does not see it...well, except for the Evangelicals, who also live in a delusional world.
We've had 5 category 5 hurricanes in the last 4 years.
Freedompath comments on Sep 3, 2019:
If trump would get out of his imposed cocoon...he might just witness what is happening in the world...the same one we all live in! But, he liked it best...his way! So let him ‘rot’ where he is.
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 4, 2019:
He can not get out of his self-imposed cocoon, it's the only place in the world wherein he succeeds, at anything!
Trump’s Hurricane Dorian Map Looks Mighty Suspicious
Redheadedgammy comments on Sep 4, 2019:
He's such a pathetic little man. This is what a narcissist does. They NEVER ADMIT THEY ARE WRONG OR APOLOGIZE!!
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 4, 2019:
Wrong would mean "not perfect," which he can not accept. Oh, but he is the perfect idiot!
Conversion therapy leader McKrae Game comes out as gay
AmelieMatisse comments on Sep 4, 2019:
No Surprise at all. I still think Pence is closeted. I truly believe that if this guy is sorry for what he did and wants to pay back society for his bullshit then he needs to do a speaking engagement around the country explaining everything he did that was wrong and also outing these programs in ...
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 4, 2019:
Another vote for Pence. Also guessing that he is so constricted emotionally, that he is legitimately unaware of it.
"Hamlet's Mill," by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, is what comes to mind with that ...
Flowerwall comments on Sep 3, 2019:
I should read this book.
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 3, 2019:
If you do, please let me/us know what you think.
Struck by a nun! As a child of seven or thereabouts, I was slapped soundly on my thigh as I sat ...
Canyonrunner comments on Aug 30, 2019:
Start with repression, add copious guilt, near unlimited power and do not be surprised with the resulting psycho-sexual-sadism.
BirdMan1 replies on Sep 2, 2019:
There you go, pot on!
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