- Funny: 1

The good Rev was running to win the Dem primary for Pres, and came in a respectable 3rd to Hart and Mondale.

Stein was running as a Spoiler to raise money for the Green Party.

JPW... thanks for posting this, but I got 'cha by a few mins:

"Colbert appears to have done the interview, but it did not air on Monday's broadcast. The late night host suggested the reason given for the canned interview was the FCC's "equal time rule," which requires broadcast networks and radio stations to give equal time to all candidates in an election.

"It's the FCC's most time-honored rule, right after 'no nipples at the Super Bowl,'" Colbert quipped."

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"He added that talk shows have usually been given an exception, however in January, Trump-appointed FCC chairman Brendan Carr issued new guidance dropping the blanket exception because some are "motivated by purely partisan political purposes."

"Well sir, you're chairman of the FCC, so FCC you," Colbert jeered. "Because I think you are motivated by partisan purposes yourself. Sir, you smelt it 'cause you dealt it."

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"He continued: "Let's just call this what it is: Donald Trump's administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV, OK? He's like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diaper."

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Here's the interview:

Killing lots of kids quickly in a school shooting is hard to do without certain kinds of weapons, Major BS.

This should be self-evident.

Trans Am Car Antenna Murders Must Stop!

This is what the Oligarchs who own Trump and his Cult want you to focus on... and not on how the have bought your Government and your freedom.

"Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds."

I Caucused for Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition in Austin in '84... and was very happy to do so.

He wasn't going to win, but he was going to push for needed change.

RIP

#51

Dominion isn't considered a groudbreaking book because the author has nothing new to say.

His point is the dramatic influence that the sayings of one obscure rabbi have had in shaping Western Culture... including atheists.

Which is much more than most have said about the historical Jesus. And which is no empty sack.

Of course, it may not be what Bluto wants hear, but there we are.

And if the words and actions of this obscure figure could have such profound influence on Western Civilization, might it not lend credence to much else of what he said and did?

But hey, I'm sure that pretending that neurons can create thoughts will be just as useful.

Or relying on the circular logic of saying that, "miracles can't happen, and anyone who says they can happen is a false reporter, because miracles can't happen... ad infinitum.

#13

Raping underage girls is an atrocity that should be punished by death. Immediately if not sooner.

Then again, how much worse is it than ordering your DOJ to change the results of the Presidential Election for you?

How surprising is it that someone who would do the former would also try to do the latter?

Inquiring minds.....

#49

One supposes you've never made a post that while you were writing it had already been answered... sounds like magic!

#45 |

Which is pretty much exactly Holland's point, per the quote in #3.

The world was never the same after the Sermon on the Mount, and the other sayings of Yeshua, no matter what else did or did not happen in the stories.

The short vid in the thread link covers that more thoroughly; nothing else matters as far as Western Culture is concerned than that his message was received, and believers or not... atheists make some of the best Cultural Christians, as they were, as the author puts it, 'weathered by centuries' of the at least attempted implementation of those messages.

- Plagiarism was more than sufficient.

Of which particular plagiarism do you speak?

(and don't Monkee around!)

I'll have to check out the Beethoven Letters, never even heard of that one. (he may not have heard them, either!)

Thanks!

Saw an interview of him saying that his portrayal of Stalin was a role that he felt he did some of his best work in.

I'm not sure I've ever seen that.

"Robert Duvall's portrayal of Joseph Stalin in the 1992 HBO television movie Stalin is widely recognized as a major, acclaimed, and challenging role in his career, for which he won a Golden Globe.

Duvall sought to portray Stalin as a complex human rather than a one-dimensional monster, focusing on his paranoia, cunning, and contradictions."

#38

Which is why when we have THE expert scholar on people like Muhammed, who's story WAS written 200 years later, or Augustus Caesar, a contemporary of JC... it might be wise to hear out his analysis.

- One early version of the Bible taught that Lilith was Adam's first wife, not Eve.

That's a much later version:

"The legend of Lilith as Adam's first wife, created from dust alongside him before Eve, originates from medieval Jewish folklore"specifically the 8th"10th century text Alphabet of Ben Sira"rather than early versions of the canonical Bible.

While Lilith is not in the Bible as a human, she is sometimes interpreted from a single mention of a night creature in Isaiah 34:14, though she was traditionally understood in literature as a demon."

#35

- Jesus didn't write the Bible,

If you ever find someone who said he did, you'll be the first.

- religion is a means of controlling people by manipulating them.

Yes, it can be used that way, just as nuclear power can be used for bombs or home energy, for evil or for good.

Perhaps you need to clear your mind with a twink or two?

See if JPW will volunteer!

(although I cannot attest to his, um, 'twinkiness', you could ask BillJohson.)

- Bronze Age goat herder myths beyond simple faith.

Aww... the tawdry old standards. You need some new material... and obviously prefer reading Wiki rather than the thread link, or even the Except from #3, which I see you are definitely still afraid to do.

Here, I'll help:

"I think there is no one who's more
culturally Christian than the atheist...

who says, "I don't need some, you know,
bronze age sky [music] fairy telling me
how to behave because I just know how to
behave. I'm a good person.

I don't need the Bible to tell me to care for the
weak and the poor and the refugee...

... manifesting the fact that they are the
result of centuries worth of biblical
weathering." - Tom Holland

or perhaps you need someone to explain the concept of a 'Cultural Christian' to you.

- en.wikipedia.org(author)

Um... not the Actor Tom Holland.

"Tom Holland is an English historian and author who, while not identifying as a traditional Christian believer, argues that Western morality, secularism, and human rights are profoundly shaped by Christian, particularly Catholic, history. His 2019 book, Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind, explores this foundational influence."

#38

Fact is that Dem voters on average have higher education levels than Republican voters... which is why Trumpublicans hate education. Along with Hating America.

#2 - jajaja!

from the excellent article

"Robert Hines, president of UAW Local 2359 and a worker at the Conn-Selmer plant in Ohio, said Paulson's latest decision smacks of hypocrisy.

"To go publicly on CNBC to support the Trump administration's positive views on tariffs and all that stuff, and then you turn around and [say you] want to go send the work right over to China," Hines told The Guardian. "It's a slap in our face."

Overall, U.S. manufacturing jobs have declined since last spring, when he first implemented his aggressive and wide-ranging tariffs " which he promised would lead to a renaissance of blue-collar jobs, according to Reuters.

The industry shed 8,000 jobs in December, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. And since April employment in the sector has fallen by more than 70,000 to about 12.69 million as of December, marking the worst reading since March 2022."

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Thanks, Trumpers!!

- He knows that we know what he's done.

He also appears not to care that we know what he's done.

He reminded us again the other day that he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose any votes. I mean, he's been Impeached, convicted by a Jury of his Peers, openly lied into the faces of his Cult... with little to no effect on the Base.

Fortunately, it takes more than the Base to win, and he's already lost the middle voters.

- who don't understand the concept of "medical bankruptcy."

We fund Billionaires rather than health care and education.

Because that's better for us; just ax' Trumpers, it's best to keep the Oligarchs happy so they will Tinkle Down on us and not enslave us, which they already have when they bought all our politicians.

This is because of Urgent Important Issues... like trans, immigrants, liberals, and anything that women or dark skinned people do.

"Donald Trump told us that even though he had dinner with these people in NYC and West Palm Beach, that he would be transparent," Massie said.

"But he's not. He's still in with the Epstein class. This is the Epstein administration."

"The people who are funding the attacks against me, they may or may not be implicated in these files, but they were certainly rubbing shoulders with the people who are in these files," he said.

"They're billionaires who are friends with these people and that's what I'm up against in Washington, D.C."

Despite the president's attempts to thwart him, Massie reported some of his best fundraising ever last year, particularly in Q2 after he began championing the release of the Epstein files."

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Massie, Ro Khanna, MTG... the new Three Amigos!

(Martin Short as MTG! Which reminds me, have you ever seen he and Steve Martin in the tv show Only Murders in the Building?... one of like 2 shows I watch sometimes &)

AND both of you are afraid to even read or hear what the renowned secular scholar of ancient history, and best selling author, has to say.

Just like any Trumper avoids any information that might possibly differ from what they already believe.

This Gangster Government and it's brain damaged crew don't know the definition of, 'Ethics'.

If they did, they would not have and still be murdering 100's of thousands of children through starvation and lack of medicine... so that they can give tax cuts to their Oligarch owners.

#27

The thread vid (w transcript) is by a secular scholar of ancient history, and guess what? The 'magic of religion' is never mentioned.

But you already KNOW EVERYTHING, so why would you ever learn anything?

You prolly don't even know that 'faith' isn't a religious word.