"And the thing that impressed me the most was his immediate comeback to Trump saying, "he's a vegan".

He said, "Look, I've been eating brisket since before Ken Paxton was first indicted."

Well, that that is very encouraging. I thought very very encouraging."

James Carville: What Just Happened In TEXAS

Vlad is also in good health (Yikes!):

"No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful."

Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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"For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings.

And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. 'Blessed are the merciful' in a courtroom? 'Blessed are the peacemakers' in the Pentagon?

Give me a break!"

Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

more from his last book published during his lifetime

#17

And a perfect fit!

- How many made it into the Bible?
When were they chose?
And most importantly, why?
Sycophant

#95

He's always treated women the same way... give out or be finger-raped.

Perhaps he can pay off Oman with hush money?

- Come on Cornyn, run as an independent.

Great idea! I would contribute to that. Texas Dems should help split GOP vote too.

F'n Unbelievable!!

Isn't it enough that Corporations are already Super Citizens that buy politicians and elections and laws to benefit themselves?

#41

Your stupid Whataboutism is stupid.

Nothing Kamala might have done would have given us the corruption and war and high prices and loss of power in the world that Your Lard Saviour has done.

And she wouldn't have lost every swing voter that voted for her and currently putting up among the WORST APPROVAL POLLS of any Pres ever.

- rhetoric

It's not rhetoric, it's Facts.

And your vote counts, even if you mail it in.

You spend your time here making excuses for the worst President in American history, twice.

Then you say say what he does has nothing to do with you.

That's downright laughable.

@jamestalaricoTX

The People vs. Ken Paxton

"Democrats hope this seat " and the Senate majority more broadly " could be attainable thanks to the divisions among Republicans in this race. Paxton's victory also reaffirms Trump's grip on the Republican party despite his falling poll numbers and other political upheaval.

Paxton came to the race with legal and personal baggage. Since he became a state official more than ten years ago, he's fended off criminal indictments, whistleblower allegations and an impeachment by the Texas House.

He was acquitted in the Texas Senate. His estranged wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, filed for divorce last summer on "biblical grounds"." (AHAHAHA!)

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"Look, if there were some honorable person ... who would do a good job, it would be far different," Cornyn told NPR. But Ken Paxton is "unrepentant for all the scandals he's been involved in and who doesn't really care about anything else other than himself."

Brandon Rottinghaus, a political science professor at the University of Houston, said it could be difficult for Republicans to unite after airing their dirty laundry in Texas.

"The stain of the fight has left a lasting problem for unity among Republicans," Rottinghaus said.

"There's a concern among Republicans that the rank and file are either abandoning the party by voting for Democrats ... to switch an election or they're simply not participating.

If either of those things happen, then it's a real liability for Republicans trying to get unity going forward in November."

I think you have no actual response for your Cult Leader murdering 100's of thousands of children by starvation to get tax cuts passed quickly for himself and his friends.

You obviously could not care any less.

And yeah, he likes Dictators like Vlad a lot better than he likes fairly elected Presidents in the EU.

He's a murdering Authoritarian traitor who's VP once called him, "America's Hitler". You know, before Shady V was bought and paid for.

Which is fine by you.

#88

She was between 14 and 16 at a time when 12 and 13 was common for marriage.

Before Christianity, in the Greco-Roman Empire, she could have been legally left outside the home to die in the woods as a baby if her father said so.

- I like playful jabbing.

Playful bathhouse jabbing from what I hear.

But you are also OK with a President who's first act this time was to needlessly cause the death's of 100's of thousands of people, most children, mostly by starvation.

All so he could give himself and his friends tax cuts... which was much more important than waiting until other nations could take up the Aid slack in Africa.

Plus, he basically gave Africa to China by doing so.

- Councils of Nicaea and Chalcedon to be right, wrong, otherwise?

They were highly politicized, but got some things right; mostly what books should or should not be included. Chalcedon was a, 'how many angels' thing... the nature of God and that of Jesus.

- Stone Campbell movement

Campbellism was like Frontier Justice... things turned back towards scripture with the most prominent theologian of the last century, Reinhold Niebuhr:

Cultural Christianity is a thing, too; it's why so many on the left are more akin to the teachings of JC than are the rwing white nationalist evangels... they have been 'weathered' over 2 centuries of what has been mostly culture heavily influenced by those teachings.

It's not easy to understand, as Tom Holland has said, that the Greco-Roman empires prior to Christianity were even worse than after it; unwanted daughters were legally left outside to die, women were mostly chattel, and it was Rome that invented crucifixions hundreds of years after the bible described in literally dozens of details how the Messiah would die of wounds that could only be caused... by crucifixion.

I like to note that one the most liberal commentators in this country has long been Chris Hedges.

Very popular with the left, well, for some until they find out he graduated Harvard Divinity, and is a registered Presbyterian Minister.

#76

Catholicism is wrong about a lot of things, having been structured several centuries after the original church, and in the middle ages became the antithesis of what the Church was meant to be, having been corrupted by power and money and war.

They've repositioned fairly well; the new Pope is proof of that, but they still hold onto their TRADITIONS.... which JC said, "make void the Word of God".

In just such ways as you mention.

- (I understand there are 3?)

I know, right?

This is a good way to look at it:

- just pablum

Perhaps, perhaps not. When some of the very best neuroscientists pull in the reins on materialism alone, it's time to at least hear them out.

Especially when some of the very best astrophysicists are doing the same on everything from space, time, gravity, matter...

- #15 | Posted by ClownShack

Doubting what the faux religious say is mentally healthy... but actual religious people say almost none of that.

Time is insignificant to an actual Time Lord; NT Wright noted recently that there could have just as well been an Adam Hominid and an Eve Hominid.

Or perhaps God likes primordial soup.

And many have noted that, 'a day is as a thousand years to God'.

The problem the New Atheists had was an edgy sort of conceit that, well, sort of resembled the conceit of some theists; it was their demise.

The idea that Matter created itself may have some value, but it also seems quite possible that it didn't; that it was created by immaterial means.... particularly when the universe appears to be so finely tuned... and so full of Information:

- I was accurately accusing Corky of being so desperate for validation of his intelligence.

Psychological Projection is SO fun to watch!

#60 -Donner

#30

Good point... Dems have almost always left the economy better off than Republicans have.

- Stole election.

Visitor - Cult-infected Liar.

The only one who tried to steal THAT election, according to the sworn testimony of his own DOJ, was Donald Traitor Trump.

- Donner, I have to ask.....under what circumstances were you taking showers with children?
#46 | Posted by eberly

Eberly taking notes?