Yeah, what an a-hole. What a friggin jerkwater is Alan Colmes.

The contrast between Usher's mannered responses and Colmes' verbal bullying was pretty stark. Sadly, this sort of macho bulldozer debate style is all the rage at foxnews, et al.

To sum it all up, The Democratic coalition evidently contains the following constituent groups:

* Feminists
* Hollywood/Entertainment Industry
* Environmental Movement

I could add to this the Academic establishment. These three or four vertical groups are all constituents within the political framework of the Democratic Party, as well as the social framework of Liberalism.

Thus Neo-Liberalism has taken on much of the utopian patina of classic Marxism, wherein individualism must conform to the ideals of the secular state.

Let's take the "Artifical Womb", for example. How long will it be before the state mandates that all children *must* be incubated through an FDA-approved Artificial Womb?

Who would argue against the medical superiority of the Artificial Womb over the religious rights of a few "home school" nutjobs who want to give birth to their children the old-fashioned way?

In my view this philosophy is essentially soul destroying, because it elevates the State above the individual right of a human being to define his own path to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Thus the hazard of secular atheism is revealed in marginalizing Individual Conscience.

Thinking of this, I am again struck by social ideations of Human Extinction. The Day After Tomorrow is a case in point. Here the people of the Northern Latitudes are the immediate victims of a natural disaster. Adding sweetness to the pie, the cause of this ecological disaster is presumed to be the very people who are most displaced by it: Caucasians.

The Day After Tomorrow possessed an evangelical commitment to Man-Made Global Warming, and presented a righteous desire to punish those it held accountable for the disaster.

It was saddening to watch this propaganda piece imprinting its Al-Gorian narrative on the masses: a social guilt trip. In my view the film was at heart cynical, pessimistic, and even genocidal. Total film gross to date: $652,771,772

TO BE CONTINUED....

But it appears that many people -- in many walks of professional life -- secretly envision the Extinction of the human race. We certainly see this theme in our books, movies, and TV shows. Going to back to the classic Earth Abides (George R. Stewart), the post-Apocalyptic Sci Fi drama has been in vogue.

Battlestar Galactica is just the latest in a long line.

And certainly Margaret Sanger and Adolf Hitler held a common set of beliefs regarding eugenics and the idea of breeding people like livestock.

But what about practical feminist theorists like Catherine Mackinnon?

Certainly Mackinnon harbors no particular eugenicist views of which anyone is aware. And yet the practical effect of Mackinnon's legal theories directly effect the disposition of the male-female social dynamic, wherein women are artificially empowered as a special class above that of men.

TO BE CONTINUED....

DaPoet said, "human race would be unable to reproduce and then die out which in my view wouldn't be such a bad idea."

I have come to the conclusion that the driving spirit of Feminist Theory is precisely the extinction of humanity.

Which raises the point: could Extinction be an intentional goal of unreconstructed Feminist theorists?

It appears Margaret Sanger -- the founder of the beloved "Planned Parenthood", was thinking precisely about "Extinction" -- though in her case is was more like selective genocide rather than the full Extinction of the human species.

TO BE CONTINUED....

"You get angry when someone doesn't say "God Bless You""

I have heard many sneezes over my lifetime. Sometimes people "God Bless You", sometimes not. I have NEVER heard anyone become angry if a sneeze was not followed by ritual verbs.

I challenge anyone to confirm RevWubby's claim above.

If anyone is angry, it is RevWubby and people like him, who appears to spend the precious moments of their lives making up tissue-thin stories to support their emotionally-derived opinions.

Your comment is rhetorical in nature and advances no ideas. Your twitters are in much the same vein: you write as an ideologue, carping mindlessly about ACORN, Republicans and "Faux News". . The quality of your logic is evidently poor and unpracticed, yet you troll the web and twitter in search of easy victims. It is not logic or inquiry that drives you, but a rather common need for attention.

In short, the chuckle is on you.

Ditto, shatteredmen. I've come to this realization as well, slowly, and by degrees.

I think the message of the new testament is summed up when Jesus talks about the "greatest commandment".... namely,
1) to Love God above all and
2) to love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 22: 34 - 46
http://is.gd/15FQ0

I also think that these two most important commandments are symbolized in the Holy Cross, wherein the first commandment is rendered as a vertical line between you and God above, while the horizontal plank of the cross symbolizes the second commandment to perceive your neighbors as lateral kin.

In my view, these two most important commandments represent an optimal psychological configuration for human beings: it encourages fair behaviors and ensures a conscience against common hubris.

was dead. not dead any more. which begs the question: what is a thing that cannot be, since "is" is a verb, and death a mere noun? Nevermind. Rhetorical question.

"when was the last time a tobacco kingpin was killed in a deal gone wrong?"

This is the key. The first principle here is that we have no choice. POT must be legalized.

As for the rest of the vices, I don't know what to say. Perhaps therapy is mandated (and subsidized by) anyone who uses a particular vice (eg., prostitution, porn or whatever).

I know the idea of mandating anything seems pretty preposterous, but if you can make a good argument that a particular vice has a net negative consequence on the body of society, then society is entitled to regulate said vice to whatever extent is required to legally solve the problem.