tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post2444406017158220844..comments2024-03-05T19:50:31.497-08:00Comments on World O' Crap: Fill It To The Rim...With Brimley!Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02798340582589737829noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-47252097860599741592011-11-08T03:51:52.139-08:002011-11-08T03:51:52.139-08:00Why should we call him something he never called h...<i>Why should we call him something he never called himself?<br />"Like the good socialist he is, Obama wants to pick the winners and losers in the world of business..."<br /> ---Warner Todd Huston, October 1, 2011</i><br /><br />Oh NICEly played, sir!<br /><br />*polite golf clap*<br /><br />Martini?Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03664920037425489644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-21815924753291318372011-11-06T16:16:01.428-08:002011-11-06T16:16:01.428-08:00Does Warner Todd Huston know what a Deist is?Does Warner Todd Huston know what a Deist is?bgnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-69370021609422423202011-11-05T15:49:29.496-07:002011-11-05T15:49:29.496-07:00Exactly. I've never heard Warner Todd Huston c...Exactly. I've never heard Warner Todd Huston call himself Christendom's Premier Fucking Fool, so there.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-33053921277151912712011-11-04T23:31:19.777-07:002011-11-04T23:31:19.777-07:00Actually, this is brilliant. No, really. See, if...Actually, this is brilliant. No, really. See, if you can't call someone something they didn't call themselves, imagine the possibilities! People must name themselves racists before we can call them that; just because they hate black people and brown people et al is not enough reason. And unless G W Bush called himself an idiot, well . . .<br /><br />Brilliant.Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13636853512160544410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-44124441045555737132011-11-04T23:12:00.891-07:002011-11-04T23:12:00.891-07:00He might not believe it, Merlallen, but if you sla...He might not believe it, Merlallen, but if you slathered enough brown gravy on it...<br /><br /><br />As for the subject at hand... Seriously, Does Warner Tood really think that there is anyone out there that is going to change their religious views based on what Thomas Jefferson may or may not have said 220 years ago? Is there anyone who is going to look at that billboard and say "Wow, I've been a devout Christian for 70 years, but now that I found out that Thomas Jefferson criticized my faith, well that's it! I'm going to firebomb the Methodist Bean Supper!"?<br /><br />If he's worried about sinful billboards he should be more concerned with those ones that purport to be direct quotations from God. I'd guess it's shaky theological ground to manufacture pithy blurbs from the Almighty.<br /><br />(Bonus Wilford Brimley fact to make people feel old: Tom Cruise is now one year older than Wilford was when he was in The Thing... Say what you want about Scientology and/or the lack of oatmeal based diets, but SOMETHING seems to be keeping Tom looking fresh as a newly minted Thetan)Brian Schlosserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03661141625930661327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-86764542111085739872011-11-04T16:53:37.243-07:002011-11-04T16:53:37.243-07:00you could shove the truth in his face and he still...you could shove the truth in his face and he still wouldn't believe it anyway.merlallenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01023548198899856438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-18287128298123661472011-11-04T15:43:16.478-07:002011-11-04T15:43:16.478-07:00Well, I guess one must pick and choose the officia...Well, I guess one must pick and choose the official founders carefully. Being products of 18th century rationalism, the founders whatever faith they privately held, were more influenced by Voltaire than the bible thumpers du jour. I mean does Thomas Paine make the grade as a founder. His views on religion were so radical that not even the Quakers would allow him burial in their churchyard. Franklin stopped attending Cotton Mather's services in his teens because as he put it, it cut into what little time he had for reading. <br /><br />This atheist group may have misquoted Jefferson, but it's clear he had grave doubts about Christian dogma. He viewed Jesus as a moral teacher and not a god. He wrote to his nephew advising him to "Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear." Jefferson also wrote that the bill of rights was based on the English common law that predated the introduction of christianity into Britain and thus had nothing to do with the Ten Commandments. The Christian right today condemns people with more traditional faith than that, as atheists in everything but name so why is Jefferson given a pass. <br /><br />Then there's the Treaty of Tripoli with its famous article 11: "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."<br /><br />The wingnut spin on this one is that the Arabic version lacks this article so it's obviously a forgery, as if Adams had presented the treaty on the senate floor in Arabic. Unfortunately for the separation of church and state is a myth crowd, after being adopted unanimously by the senate, it was published (in English) in several newspapers with Adams endorsement and the article 11 language included. There are extant copies of the newspapers in the library of congress. It wasn't even considered controversial at the time, so even if Adams was not a Deist, his belief in reason would still be condemned as anti-christian by virtually all of the fundamentalists of our benighted times.<br /><br />bidzilibaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-54754286002136360652011-11-04T03:50:16.434-07:002011-11-04T03:50:16.434-07:00Well, they're all posthumous Mormons now, anyw...Well, they're all posthumous Mormons now, anyway. Problem solved.<br /><br />Then again, in my many years of reading and appearing as Teddy Brewster in local amateur productions of <i>Arsenic and Old Lace</i> I've never once seen Jefferson refer to the germ theory of disease, so let's put him down as a Christian Scientist.Doghouse Rileynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-14448167742326319622011-11-04T00:33:38.426-07:002011-11-04T00:33:38.426-07:00We can't have any of that pansy-ass Frenchie s...We can't have any of that pansy-ass Frenchie shit up in our nice pure manly anglo christian country, now can we Anonymous?<br /><br />Just be glad Huston doesn't call him "Freedom" Morris.<br /><br />(Hee. Word Verification = "sinstic." That's what Huston is gonna whip up on the atheists with.)StickIthttp://stickitblog.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-87106684651508182152011-11-03T21:10:58.300-07:002011-11-03T21:10:58.300-07:00Also it should be noted that scholar and savant Wa...Also it should be noted that scholar and savant Warner Todd Huston persists in calling Gouverneur Morris "Governor Morris". Why does Huston persist in calling Morris something he didn't call himself? I'd be more inclined to trust his (ahem) scholarship if he knew the names of the figures he is discussing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-28897192890770853492011-11-03T18:03:40.419-07:002011-11-03T18:03:40.419-07:00Ah, if you could paid for demolishing fools, you k...Ah, if you could paid for demolishing fools, you kids could give up this bloggin' thing and buy your own island. Folks like Warner Todd Huston (why do I get that shivery "all the REAL nuts use their middle names" feeling?) always baffle me. The founders were all True Christians? yay. Now, why the fuck should I care? To quote Ferris Bueller - "They could be Fascist Anarchists for all I know; it still wouldn't change the fact that I don't own a car". Seriously, if they were every one of 'em Freemasons, would I hafta get Freemason approval for my girlfriend to have an abortion? Should laws then be written to conform to 200+ year old Freemason ideaology? For fuck's sake. yer the ones who believe in an Afterlife! Why would would you want to torture poor Jeremy Bentham by pretending he hasn't answered all these silly tropes you call arguments a hundred years ago? You want to worship an Invisible Sky Wizard? Knock yerself out! You live in a really great country for that sort of thing. Kindly leave me out of it. Also, the fact that your previous "writing" on the subject of Honesty is totally invalidated by your new-found love of strict public accuracy in billboards makes you look like a buffoon, which situation you clearly have a high tolerance for.Kordohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567628870354015474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-11503918831364781802011-11-03T17:15:19.195-07:002011-11-03T17:15:19.195-07:00What an ass (not in the good, Las Vegas way)What an ass (not in the good, Las Vegas way)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-5857157516389128732011-11-03T17:11:47.227-07:002011-11-03T17:11:47.227-07:00Mr. Huston believes that George Washington chopped...Mr. Huston believes that George Washington chopped down the cherry tree, too. And then confessed it to his father. (George's father, not Mr. Huston's.)Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-15148583648594211082011-11-03T16:30:41.589-07:002011-11-03T16:30:41.589-07:00Disparaging? Far from it -- I wish I could find s...Disparaging? Far from it -- I wish I could find some. Right now the only thing I have to clean up cat spew is...well, the other cat.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02798340582589737829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-42148141918316372162011-11-03T16:29:16.785-07:002011-11-03T16:29:16.785-07:00Stop disparaging Handi-Wipes. They're great fo...Stop disparaging Handi-Wipes. They're great for wiping up cat spew.Slywyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01424323662407341123noreply@blogger.com