... have taken their "who me?" religious privilege for a walk in GD and it ain't pretty....

Solly Take No Prisoners Mack is in da house!

...with a mean side is all.

They herp and derp about how mean we are, and then they dip their toes in GD... and the piranhas show up for lunch. It's hilarious.

with people in here. Sagan knows what I'd do out there in the real world...

And you're much more than appreciated here, scott.




My brothers and I used to fight like cats and dogs, I like to think AA people are family.

Meh, we disagree and move on.

don't let the assholes get you down.

So I will come hide in here with you. Whatcha up to tonight, BMUS?

Trying to use up what's left in the freezer before this years tomatoes are ready to pick.

How bout you, F4lconF16?

For my wonderfully stupid tattoo I plan on getting next week.

Veggie lasagna, eh? You should post that recipe, I'm in the mood to try something new tomorrow

Layers include an artisan cheese/ricotta mixture, spinach and shredded carrots with lots of onions and garlic for seasoning.

I also bake Italian bread from scratch with garlic oil on the side to go with.

My s/o begs me to make it and he's not even a vegetarian.

Now if I could just find a source for fresh cannoli shells I'd be all set.

SEVERAL. as in MANY MORE THAN ONE AND LESS THAN INFINITY. And chatrooms nonetheless!!! Why, Perhaps we should lot into our America On Line Eletronic Mail World Wide Web Page too while we're at it.

With all that chatrooming and world-wide-web surfing I just don't know how you can get any thing done. AT ALL. nothing. done.

It's not for lack of trying.

I can't help you evil do-badders plot to take over the world with dial up, now can I?

I'll just hold down the fort here.

Or so I've read. Religious believers are persecuted, and can barely get a post in edgewise, thanks to us hogging the boards with our atheisitic bullying.

Going back to my workstation now. Up there on the Grassy Knoll...

(Snorted Out Loud)!



You have your own workstation on the Grassy Knoll?

Is that Atheist Code for one of those "several off-site chat rooms" I hear so much about in another room?

Do they have a Geocities page, too?

Conspiracy nuts...

GD is cluttered with individual threads justifying or decrying rioting. Hey, everybody's got an asshole opinion, man.

It's not like humans can feel more than one emotion at a time.

Between the law n order folks and religious belief. Ya think?

What really bother me are the threads about sentencing criminals to prison time or the death penalty.

Watching people you once respected because they're liberal on other issues bragging about how they want others to suffer horribly is a real eye-opener.

Out hosts are the best!

I'm staying out of there. The cathartic poking of fun is on hold.

But being called a Walker supporter by one of my stalkers was even more unrealistic.

Or were you the captain of the team?

I can't keep it straight.

Once you realize these people never got over high school you know there's no reasoning with them.

Whatever, we all work for Monsanto now and that's all that counts.

Or are we the "right people" because we're not Dr. Oz groupies?

It's all so confusing...

Last year I learned that I'm in a "group" with bettyellen, zappaman and Sid. I think I play the triangle.

What adult uses the term "BFF"?



Makes you wonder if they're supposed to be up past their bedtime or if failure to logic is just another symptom of residing in mom's basement for too many years.

Sorry, spillover from Heddi's "library" thread. Couldn't resist:

FUCK

lol

What's really creepy are the list-makers and the score-keepers. "Oooh, mark that down, put it on their permanent record!"

Some people REALLY need to find new hobbies.

Of course that's when I thought that asteroid was going to hit the earth...

Which sort of perversely makes the people who take it SOOOOOOPER SERIOUS all that much more funny.

something you said to their friend five years ago.

I run into people who think I'm either their worst enemy or their best friend, because I agreed/argued with them or some member of their "team" 6 months, a year, 2 years ago.

...im all, no, actually, i try pretty hard not to make or take it personal, I dont hold grudges, and my opinions on things- which I am fairly up front about- have stayed fairly consistent over the years.

Nor do I have a "team". If I did, they'd probably kick me out.

It's especially glaring right now (and bound to only get worse) because I am literally neither pro nor anti HRC at this extremely early stage of the primary process. So people cant understand how I can question her more pablum-like campaign statements yet simultaneously make fun of some troll who comes in with "BENGHAZIIIIIII...derp"

The roving gangs of Hillary Sucks vs Hillary Rocks are looking for rubes to beat the hell out of because the poor things don't know enough to avoid their threads.

I can't hide threads fast enough and I'm trying to figure out if I should use ignore for the first time ever on the divas who post dozens of vanity threads every day.

Just wait until the primaries start…GD will be uninhabitable..

That was a sweet feature. It smelled like... victory.

Once it's primary time I'm out of there. Can't afford to risk what's left of my sanity.

I left DU for far too long, barring any computer and/or personal disasters I'll be sticking around with the rest of you heathens.

I swear they keep spreadsheets of every post you've ever liked. It's pathological.

Sheesh, it's a war zone.

Some jurors are real literalists.

Letting a group of cliquey clueless wonders who think popularity is more important that substance form a jury of "peers" is really working out well.

I'll hang out with you any day BMUS. I love this group,, my own island of misfit toys in our uber Christian country. The way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if we have to hide for real someday.

I read everywhere that religion is dying, but I guess I'll probably go first. Hell, the planet will probably go first.

That is perfect!

mountain grammy ---

I'm pissed off at the lack of tolerance of other opinions we see sometimes.

I don't know what you got yourself into elsewhere, but I can only assume that you decided to wade into the "rioters have every reason to be angry/rioters are just thugs" issue? Not me. I have my opinion, but it will serve no purpose to get into the fray.

I'm an expert swimmer but there be crocodiles in those waters.

Like I said, most of us can be split on issues. While I think some of the looters are opportunists, I won't sit in judgment of frustrated black folks who have to wonder if they or their kid will be the next casualty. I lived near the bottoms in a southern city, I've seen what it's like for them. Maybe I'm idealistic but I still hold public servants to a higher standard.

And unlike our detractors in the other forum who live to lecture atheists for being angry, I believe minorities are more than entitled to their outrage. It's not my place to opine about more appropriate ways to deal with it.

when I hear some pandering tool talk about the big tent we democrats have where all are welcome to enter and join in honest discussions about our diverse natures and our differing views I realize it's actually just pandering and absolutely without merit.

Every group has some distaste for dissent, but there are times when I believe there is an echo chamber mentality in some groups where if you miss your cue and forget the echo you are in the deep water and quite alone...no big tent, no welcoming handshake, just a breath away from perma-ban and good riddance to your dissent filled viewpoint.

Makes me think about the greatest generation, Ike's boys those democrats and republicans who fought the Nazis and the Rising Sun's attempts to enslave the world and knew that you often had to find commonality with those you don't see eye to eye in order to get important work done. They knew needlessly belittling or antagonizing didn't advance the dialogue and they knew that their opponents were also their countrymen.

Now each party hates the other and within each party disparate elements also hate each other. Instead of that big melting pot of assimilation we are dividing into factions of single issue blowhards who can't find commonality among their supposedly own kind.

No wonder we are where we are....

Things went to hell after the 2000 "election". As a native Vermonter I will forever be grateful to our late great Senator Jim Jeffords who switched parties in 2001. A courageous and thoughtful man who did the right thing even though he knew he would become a pariah.

It was not an easy decision, his fellow Republicans had been his friends for decades and he tried to work within the party, tried to reason with them, but he finally decided that he couldn't be a part of it anymore. He called himself a moderate but for them he was far too liberal and there was no longer any room for dissent. The way they viciously attacked him after made me swear I would do everything in my power to help defeat them for the rest of my life.

I voted for Jeffords more than once, even though he was a Republican he was more pro-choice than our catholic Democratic Sen. Leahy.

You can read more about him here: How Jim Jeffords single-handedly bent the arc of politics and here: James M. Jeffords, Vermont Republican who became independent, dies at 80.

What happened in 2000 changed the course of this country and it inspired three men to create DU.

You're a horrible person?

Why ruin it for people?

I'll be their huckleberry.

Love some of the remakes of old westerns, True Grit was another. The characters have so much more depth, it's not all white hats vs. black hats.

Of course when it comes to spaghetti westerns Once Upon a Time in the West will always be my favourite.

It's supposed to be tedious.

Like Confirmation classes or learning the catachism or trying to convince deluded people to wise up.

Thanks to my non-delusional parents. Dad was only a catholic long enough to get in trouble for asking questions during catechism.

You're not there to learn, dammit!

I spent the entire time, along with my buddy from our church, messing with the kid in front of us. He had a force field, you see? And we were tasked with overcoming his paltry magic.

The seeds of my religious skepticism were set long before, however.

But still.....


IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE FUN!


Ok...yes it is.

My s/o never made it to confirmation. His mother divorced his catholic dad and rescued him only to put him in bible study at her baptist church.

Out of the frying pan...

Then there's my ex who was busted getting stoned with his best friend in the balcony when they were supposed to be preparing to be born again.



No wonder they're so attracted to this heathen.