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Comment by Regina Goodwin on April 11, 2012 at 3:16am

Question:

I'm studying Spanish and I am the only atheist in the class.  :D  There is a transgender classmate that is about to be harassed by 13 xtians.  One started preaching Monday nite about this person needs Bubbles aka J.C. and instead of dictionaries in the classroom, we should have bibles. 

One woman was complaining about this individual using the bathroom.  My question is:

Should I inform this individual about the backlash and provide her with a name of an attorney?

This is starting to get ugly in the classroom and both this individual and teacher are oblivious to this situation.  5 members of this cult knows that I am an atheist and have told them where to take their religion.

Comment by Ava Wilson on March 5, 2012 at 1:59am

I wouldn't miss the rally for anything. I'm going with a friend.

Comment by Mitchell Baker on March 3, 2012 at 10:18pm

I'm giong to the rally....i got my bus ticket.

Comment by sk8eycat on December 22, 2011 at 4:03pm

The other line about W that I kept hearing that made me sick was, "He kept us safe."  Yeah, right.  Ask the people in New Orleans.

The unconstitutional UnPatriot Act "kept us safe" because nobody tried anything! 

I'm glad that I don't need to travel by air; I don't think I could tolerate the TSA searches and other intrusive procedures without getting snarky.  And arrested.

A tiny Nisei friend of mine ... in her 80s...diabetic...legally blind...was pulled out of line at O'Hare and given a thorugh search, luggage and body, a couple of years ago.  She was one of a group of Dodger fans on their way to a game in Denver.  Did those uneducated clowns actually think she was a potential hijacker? 

What really made me blow up when I heard about it was that she had already suffered enough injustice at the hands of the US gummint.  She spent her teen years in Manzanar during WW2.  Yes.

Disgusting.

I don't believe even a mildly intelligent terrorist group would ever try the same "trick" twice, anyway.

People...sheeple...just. Don't. THINK!

Comment by dr kellie on December 22, 2011 at 2:03pm

I felt the same way when W talked about our enemies.  It is sickening yet people eat it up.

Comment by sk8eycat on December 22, 2011 at 1:41pm

I just watched the intro to Part 1, and I'm not bragging, but I have known almost since 9-11-2001 that "International Terrorism" was a political invention.  As was most of the hysteria during the "Cold War."

And I said so, but nobody listened to me, or believed me.

Keeping America in a constant state of panic and false ostentations patriotism was the only way Prez Cheney and his stumblebum talking puppet, "W," could get re-elected in 2004.  (And while we were distracted, their cronies in congress quietly altered the laws that used to keep Wall St. in line.) Among other things.

I mean, really.  Every time I heard W say that our "enemies" hated America "because of our freedoms," I wanted to throw something ... or throw up.

I have to watch that entire documentary, but not this morning.  Busy-busy-busy.

I also just latched onto a reference to an excellent column in Forbes, 2-24-2011 by Rich Karlgaard: "Wealth and Fitness Secret."  Gotta see if I can find that online.

BRB

Comment by Steph S. on December 22, 2011 at 10:36am

Thanks for the video link -- checking it out.

Comment by George on December 20, 2011 at 5:43pm

The Power of Nightmares has been available online for some time - 

Google Video

Archive.org (downloadable)

Comment by TNT666 on December 20, 2011 at 5:32pm

I've recently watched an interesting, relatively multi-sided, documentary on the role neocons played in the rise of fundamentalist Christians and Muslims called "the Power of Nightmares". It shows a group of leading neocons developed tactics using both these religions to further neocon political ends. Many neocons were interviewed in the film, which made it quite interesting.

Comment by sk8eycat on December 20, 2011 at 5:13pm

Yes, It did....when the knuckle-draggers began to get organized. They copied the methods of the civil rights movement...because they worked.

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