Fox News' Tucker Carlson asked Trump about 'filth' in U.

wordywalt comments on Jul 2, 2019:

They need to clean out the filth at Fox News.

I left the UK in 1997 when Tony Blair was elected Prime Minister, another tosser, I've never looked ...

wordywalt comments on Jul 2, 2019:

I won't run. I will stay and fight the corrupt malignancy to my dying breath.

Whistleblower exposes $7 billion no-bid Defense Department contract

wordywalt comments on Jul 2, 2019:

Remember that Cheny was president of Halliburton before he became vice-president. We are not getting a clearer picture of how corrupt he was from the very beginning.

Trump Has Now Shifted $1.3 Million Of Campaign-Donor Money Into His Business

wordywalt comments on Jul 2, 2019:

Exactly what I would expect from this corrupt sociopath.

Ark Encounter founder warns ‘kids of all ages’ that libraries are becoming dangerous - New York ...

wordywalt comments on Jul 1, 2019:

That shows how twisted the thinking of many vocal evangelicals has become. They genuinely fear learning and critical thinking.

RAND Study: Hospitals Charging The Privately Insured 2.4 Times What They Charge Medicare Patients

wordywalt comments on Jun 29, 2019:

There is collusion between hospitals, physicians, medical equipment and diagnostic services provides and drug companies to allow each to charge as much as they want, so long as the insurance company gets its profits. That is why we NEED a non-profit Medicare for all. It will decrease the overall cost to us and provide better services.

A story of a returning American. Can you say police state? [theintercept.com]

wordywalt comments on Jun 29, 2019:

The behavior of the federal employees in this incident was despicable. All of them should be fired, if not imprisoned.

Lets see if Trump can bash Carter? [youtube.com]

wordywalt comments on Jun 28, 2019:

Carter has more charter in the tip of his little finger than Trump has in his entire body.

Name Something that's more believable than anything Trump says...

wordywalt comments on Jun 28, 2019:

Number one answer -- anything else. Number two answer -- the opposite of what Trump says.

Those of you that prune indeterminate varieties of tomato- How many main stems do you allow to ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 28, 2019:

I do not prune my tomatoes. I make my own tomato cages from fence wire or concrete-reinforcing wire. They are sturdy and durable -- I have several that have lasted 20 years. By training the shoots on the frame, as the plant grows upward, that allows the plant to grow up to 9 or 10 feet tall and form a canopy with the tops of plants in the next row. The plant will then produce from 3 to four levels of blooms and fruit.

What truly baffles me is how anyone who has ever worked for 45, doesn't publicly stand up to him?

wordywalt comments on Jun 27, 2019:

Damned good question!

Since becoming an atheist, I've been looking out for other atheists.

wordywalt comments on Jun 27, 2019:

If you politely make it known that you simply do not talk about religion, most people will get the message, and it will seldom be brought up in your presence. I do not care if a person is religious, so long as they (1) treat me with and all others with full dignity and respect, (2) do not try to proselytize around me, and (3) do not try to force their beliefs on me a religiously based moral edicts.t

For-Profit Health Care Is a Merciless Sham

wordywalt comments on Jun 27, 2019:

Any essential service which is commercialized winds up stressing profit over everything else and cuts corners on quality and real service.

"Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises...

wordywalt comments on Jun 27, 2019:

I agree with Madison. There are times in history in war has been thrust upon us as in World War II, and in which we are forced to defend our democracy and freedoms. But, those times are rare.

How do you teach your teenagers ethics and values?

wordywalt comments on Jun 27, 2019:

There are several things you can do. First, you can model the behaviors you want to instill. Second, you can tell them that you believe that all people should develop and live by strong moral codes on their own without relying solely on religious ideology. Third, you can point out to them, respectfully, that religious people who are judgmental of others are not living up their own purported religious beliefs.

Who else will be watching the Democratic debates?

wordywalt comments on Jun 26, 2019:

I favor Elizabeth Warren, but in the general election will vote for anyone running against the idiot Trump.

How to be worthy of being loved...

wordywalt comments on Jun 26, 2019:

If you are capable of reaching out to others and of being willing to be vulnerable enough to share your true self with other, you are capable of being loved.

We in the US seem to be having a bitter fight over the issue of the separation of church and state, ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 26, 2019:

ALL countries in which the dominant religions are fundamentalistic have governments which are ruled by that dominant religious dogma. And, we still have countries struggling to establish and main democracies, like the USA, in which substantial fundamentalic or evangelical sects are engaged in a battle to maintain that democracy against the forces of dogmatic religious demagoguery trying to create theocracies.

I thought I had a date with Destiny... Turns out Destiny ghosted me.

wordywalt comments on Jun 26, 2019:

I have no clue as to what you are trying to say.

As a gay man, my biggest fear is that I might reincarnate as a lesbian.

wordywalt comments on Jun 26, 2019:

First, if you believe in reincarnation, you are a religious believer. Second, what is so frightening to you about being lesbian? Sounds like you may have a big hang=up.

On living by your principles:[brainpickings.org]

wordywalt comments on Jun 26, 2019:

Hannah Arendt was a brillianht and principled person, and all of her works are well worth reading.

The Cruelty Is the Point - The Atlantic

wordywalt comments on Jun 25, 2019:

Absolutely true!

Trump loses bid to halt Democratic lawsuit over foreign payments [reuters.com]

wordywalt comments on Jun 25, 2019:

Now the trail will get hot!

Honey berry across between a blueberry and a Saskatoon berry

wordywalt comments on Jun 25, 2019:

What do they taste like?

Fuck me jesus! A meme on FB said in 1776 that the British demanded we hand over our firearms.

wordywalt comments on Jun 25, 2019:

There are no depths that Trump is not willing to plumb.

Map: The United States of America, ranked from best to worst

wordywalt comments on Jun 24, 2019:

Being a Florida resident, I think that the ranking of Florida is much too high.

Yale psychiatrist explains why Trump’s aborted Iran attack is a ‘mental health issue’: He ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 24, 2019:

No doubt in my mind.

So, the host of Republican Atheists has blocked me from her group.

wordywalt comments on Jun 24, 2019:

I agree with KKGator. I seriously believe that Admin and the Community Senate should take a hard look at eliminating he Republican Atheist Group. They are anti-democratic and Anti Democratic Party. They represent bigotry, ethnocentrism, hate, fear, xenophobia and other pernicious beliefs which are contrary to the beliefs and values fostered by this site. They simply want a site where they can reinforce their own perverted version of politics and social values without interference.. We should not give them that platform. In fact, I believe that we should eliminate all political groups from the Agnolstic.com site and let anyone post their political posts on the general forum and let them express and defend their beliefs. It would take long before they would get the message that they are not respected by the majority of agnostics and atheists.

Administration refuses to release aid to Puerto Rico. [washingtonpost.com]

wordywalt comments on Jun 24, 2019:

Ethnocentric bigots!

Should churches be maid to pay taxes

wordywalt comments on Jun 24, 2019:

Sure.

Study: Trump Tax Cuts Failed to Help Anybody But the Wealthy

wordywalt comments on Jun 23, 2019:

Exactly what Trump really intended.

California's Income Inequality Now Worse Than Mexico's; Poverty Level Highest In America | National ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 23, 2019:

The Republican miracle in action.

Texas Republican: Migrant conditions in his state the 'worst' he's seen | TheHill

wordywalt comments on Jun 23, 2019:

A Republican is being honest for a change.

Propaganda Is The Root Of All Our Problems [caitlinjohnstone.

wordywalt comments on Jun 23, 2019:

An empty diatribe. The biggest problem in the governance of our country today is the lusts of the Republican Party for maintaining privilege, increasing their partisan and personal power, and maximizing their personal profit.

Where’s Waldo? Oregon On The Lookout For AWOL Republican Politicians

wordywalt comments on Jun 23, 2019:

Nail their morally bankrupt asses!

Devil's Punchbowl — An American Concentration Camp So Horrific It was Erased from History

wordywalt comments on Jun 23, 2019:

Southern racism has always been capable of great viciousness and brutality. The little town I grew up in in north Florida had no Black residents, because all had been chased out, of if they would not go, killed during period 1910 to 1920 by a gang of white residents led by a man named Randall Rowe.

ICE Detention Center Says It’s Not Responsible for Staff's Sexual Abuse of Detainees | American ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 23, 2019:

A damnable stance.

Trump dismisses UN request for FBI to investigate Jamal Khashoggi's murder | World news | The ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 23, 2019:

The Saudis and the Russians own the traitor Trump.

FACT CHECK: Donald Trump's 'Nuclear' Speech

wordywalt comments on Jun 23, 2019:

He is a blightering idiot.

Two Questions??

wordywalt comments on Jun 23, 2019:

I have buried remains of my cat friends in my vegetable garden. As for my own, My body is to be cremated and the ashes scattered on a windswept point in a lake in which I loved to fish.

What do you think about Deism?

wordywalt comments on Jun 23, 2019:

The beginning of skepticism.

Ok,,, if I start an atheist "church",,, how many of you will join?

wordywalt comments on Jun 22, 2019:

Why do we atheists need a church????

Has Trump ever told the truth? Ever? [dailykos.com]

wordywalt comments on Jun 22, 2019:

I doubt it.

Oregon Republicans flee to avoid voting on climate change bill.

wordywalt comments on Jun 21, 2019:

Great for Governor Brown. Fine them. Haul their asses back -- in chains, if necessary -- and ,make them do their job!

Yellow alert ! From this morning.

wordywalt comments on Jun 21, 2019:

Stay safe!

As a liberal, what is one thing you think Donald Trump is doing right as President?

wordywalt comments on Jun 21, 2019:

I cannot think of a single thing that Trump is doing right.

McConnell"s Wife Gave Him a Special Reelection Present: $78 million in Federal Funding VANITY FAIR...

wordywalt comments on Jun 21, 2019:

McConnell is corrupt to the core.

Remind you of anyone?

wordywalt comments on Jun 21, 2019:

Somewhat. Hitler was more literate than Trump.

Why So Many People Believe Conspiracy Theories

wordywalt comments on Jun 20, 2019:

It is only logical. If your range of knowledge, access to information, and reasoning power are limited, one is more likely to attribute events to unexplained forces.

New Study Shows Medicare for All Would Save US $5.1 Trillion Over Ten Years

wordywalt comments on Jun 20, 2019:

And, it it absolutely true!

Here is a simple and sensible immigration plan to address the following problems of illegal ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 20, 2019:

Twisted hogwash! Some elements of truth, but a great deal of shallow garbage.

Philadelphia pulls 72 cops after watchdog finds thousands of the officers' violent, racist social ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 20, 2019:

Good to see Philadelphia taking action. Hope other cities will emulate their action.

If any, which 3 public figures have inspired you to make ANY change in your life that had staying ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 19, 2019:

1. John Gardener, founder of Common Cause and member of the Kennedy cabinet. 2. Bobby Kennedy. 3. Erich Fromm, from his writings.

Whilst having a slightly drunken conversation with my daughter, the subject of pedophile priests ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 19, 2019:

Probably teachers and recreation workers.

Would it appease the Trump haters if a Republican beat him to the White House in 2020 and not a ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 19, 2019:

It would take a Republican with the stature, courage, and commitment to the well-being of our nation like a Lincoln or Teddy Roosevelt. But, there are no current Republicans with such stature, wisdom, morality, or courage.

Trump refuses to apologize to Central Park Five after their criminal convictions were vacated

wordywalt comments on Jun 18, 2019:

Not at all surpising. That would be contrary to his remarks from the past -- and he cannot admit that he was ever wrong about anything.

China Is Cutting Tariffs—For Everyone Else As Trump focuses on disruption, Beijing is evidently ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 18, 2019:

Exaxctly what any sane person woiuld expect. Trump is in the process of screwing us all.

Should we all become teetotalers because there are alcoholics?

wordywalt comments on Jun 18, 2019:

That is about like asking if we should abstain from politics because there are Trump fanatics.

This pretty much sums up the Trump mentality.

wordywalt comments on Jun 18, 2019:

Not brainwashing, but idiocy!

When did everyone start gardening?

wordywalt comments on Jun 18, 2019:

I did some vegetable gardening as a teen-ager. Bit, I did not start real gardening until I bought my first home at the age of 37.

Orlando Sentinel announces 2020 endorsement: Not Trump - POLITICO

wordywalt comments on Jun 18, 2019:

The Sentinel, historically, has a pro=Republican bias. At least some Republicans are showing some moral integrity.

CNN panelists say Trump officials leaked polling data to “stop the madness” and as a “cry for ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 18, 2019:

I doubt it. He is not that bright.

I Helped Sell the False Choice of War Once. It’s Happening Again.

wordywalt comments on Jun 18, 2019:

Trump continues to prove what a stupid, dangerous, destructive man he is.

Conservative Christian Activist Warns Masturbation Is Gay Sex | Michael Stone

wordywalt comments on Jun 18, 2019:

What an ignorant, stupid demagogue!

Cognitive systems that underpin religious belief:

wordywalt comments on Jun 17, 2019:

What you state as almost inevitable belief is not inevitable. It requires the prior belief that ancestors still exist as living spirits today, and that they can and do influence today's events. Those thought and faulty cognitive structures which ensue from those assumptions are NOT inevitable in human beings. Hundreds of millions of people living today have no such false assumptions and no such subsequent erroneous cognitive structures.

Do you have to be a rationalist to be agnostic/ atheist? Is there space for magical thinking?

wordywalt comments on Jun 17, 2019:

Only if one has a muddled mind.

Top 20 most and least religious countries The 20 most religious countries Ethiopia - 99% feel...

wordywalt comments on Jun 17, 2019:

Note how impoverished, economically backward, and less educationally open the most religious countries tend to be?

Church Tax - yes, that is a thing in countries around the world.

wordywalt comments on Jun 17, 2019:

The degree of religiosity in most European countries is much less than it is in the USA. Tithing is not a widely acdepted idea in Europe. If if were not for the Kirchen Steurn, most churches in Germany would do bankrupt.

Does anyone else think the depth and breadth of discourse about religious detriment on this site has...

wordywalt comments on Jun 17, 2019:

Define what behaviors you see and why that is superficial.

How and when did you lose your religion?

wordywalt comments on Jun 17, 2019:

In my mid teens. By the ime I was 15, I had read the bible from cover to cover 3 times. Each time that I read it, I saw more and more that did not make sense. I also hated feeling sinful for having normal teenage thoughts. And, I disliked spending so much time in church, when I could have been much more enjoyable and productive things. By the age of 18, I was an agnostic. Since my late 20s, I have been an atheist.

A Pastor Who Wanted Women Executed for Abortions Was Arrested for Raping a Child ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 17, 2019:

Not surprising. Evangelicals have always had a strange relationship with the topic of sex.

We Have Five Years To Save Ourselves From Climate Change, Harvard Scientist Says

wordywalt comments on Jun 16, 2019:

If the Republicans stay in power, we are screwed in every sense of the phrase.

Trump: My Faith In Jesus Helped Get Me Through The Mueller Investigation - The Intellectualist

wordywalt comments on Jun 16, 2019:

What a *&#@** liar!!

7 Reasons I Hate Trump

wordywalt comments on Jun 16, 2019:

Your reasons are just a bare beginning of the entire list.

HAHAHAHAHA! More hallucinations!! Trump boasts voters will ‘demand’ he remain president after ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 16, 2019:

There had damned well better not be a second term!!

The Belief That Trump Is a Messiah Is Rampant and Dangerous | Psychology Today

wordywalt comments on Jun 16, 2019:

That is damned hard to believe. I find it hard to believe that anyone can be that ignorant, stupid, and morally bankrupt.

Does anyone else struggle with hating religion?

wordywalt comments on Jun 16, 2019:

I do not hate religion. It simply is not a part of my existence.

Citing Trump’s ‘character,’ D.

wordywalt comments on Jun 15, 2019:

Tjhese people have more courage and patriotic spirit than all the Republican members of Congress. Bravo!!

WHO NEEDS GOD?

wordywalt comments on Jun 14, 2019:

The difference is the willingness to suspend belief to examine all the facts.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables us to recognize a mistake once we make it again.

wordywalt comments on Jun 14, 2019:

Some people maker the same mistake repeatedly and never learn from it. I once fired a teacher who had been teaching for 18 years. After close observation of his instruction, I could see that he was making mistakes that a beginning teacher should not make. He did not have 18 years of experience, but one year of experience 18 times.

The Anger of the White Male Lie – Ijeoma Oluo – Medium

wordywalt comments on Jun 14, 2019:

What this post is talking about is the lie of white bigoted and white privileged culture. I grew up in the deep south, but in a poor family. I was taught by my parents (and it was pretty obvious to me) that if I was going to be and do anything, I had to work hard for it. I was never told that lie.

Lindsey Graham repeatedly busted for lying to defend Trump’s threat to cheat in 2020 ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 14, 2019:

Without John McCain to keep him in line, Graham has proved that he has no internal character.

Christian TV host: Vegetarian hamburgers are a ‘Luciferian’ plot to change human DNA – ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 13, 2019:

What idiotic demagoguery!

Yaaaaa! Now, who can lie better?? Sarah Sanders leaving White House post, Trump says [cnn.com]

wordywalt comments on Jun 13, 2019:

I hope I never see her face or hear her voice again.

Kellyanne needs to be fired. [npr.org]

wordywalt comments on Jun 13, 2019:

Absolutely agree.

Non-stop lying's not such a new thing with Trump andrew kaczynski: ‏one of my favorite ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 12, 2019:

Of course not. The man is simply incapable of not lying.

Maybe there's something to this reincarnation stuff.

wordywalt comments on Jun 12, 2019:

As an old southerner, we would call them both real lardasses.

Trump invokes executive privilege ahead of House Oversight contempt vote for Barr, Ross [cnn.com]

wordywalt comments on Jun 12, 2019:

Let us hope that the courts say no to trump

OPTIMISTS ALL OVER THE WORLD. Post your obituary for Donald Trump here!

wordywalt comments on Jun 12, 2019:

Donald Trump left us today. He blindly stepped in a pit of liquid horse manure in Iowa today, and it was impossible to separate him from the original contents.

New little feature.

wordywalt comments on Jun 11, 2019:

Okay.

Trump says ‘devalued’ currencies put US at a disadvantage and the Fed doesn’t have a ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 11, 2019:

It is Donald Trump who doesn't have a clue about a single thing in the entire universe.

Trump ‘more aggrieved than ever’ as he fumes over lack of recognition for his imaginary ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 11, 2019:

The more PO'ed he gets, the better for us and our country.

LOL.

wordywalt comments on Jun 11, 2019:

You deliberately misportray the situation. No prosecutor undertakes a case until he or she has amassed a preponderance of evidence against the defendant with the most skeptical of jury pools. You, like all Republicans, are trying to hurry the process so that it will fai8l. Be honest, for once.

Iowa voter: Trump’s lies don’t change my vote for him Now what else we democrats need to ...

wordywalt comments on Jun 11, 2019:

Trump is not a doer and never has been, except in his continuing perpetuations of numerous frauds. Anyone who supports him has a broken crap detector -- unless the supporter is trying to hook a ride on the greed gravy train.

Trump offers a corrupt bargain to the Supreme Court [thinkprogress.

wordywalt comments on Jun 11, 2019:

Abhorrent and corrupt moral and legal reasoning.

I am playing around with a subject for an upcoming video.

wordywalt comments on Jun 10, 2019:

A personal relationship with God is simply a fantasy -- like Jimmy Stewart's relationship with the fantasy bunny "Harvey." It enables true believers to feel personal support and security that is simply false.

Pennsylvania swing voters are sticking with Trump in 2020 [axios.com] Wow. Just, wow.

wordywalt comments on Jun 10, 2019:

I doubt that.

As an atheist and raising my sons as such I found the philosophy Stoicism a fantastic alternative to...

wordywalt comments on Jun 9, 2019:

No. I am an existgentialist.

Religion in a relationship

wordywalt comments on Jun 9, 2019:

Yes. My wife and I have been happily married for almost 24 years. She is a devout Catholic. The key is respecting each other's right to believe as we choose.

In you mind, what are you first?

wordywalt comments on Jun 9, 2019:

I am a person first, and a US citizen second.