Open Thread (1/7/2008)

Although not overtly Mormon, imho anyone who believes, as a basic belief of his religion, that Jesus physically came to North America after the Ascension, or who believes as a matter of religious conviction that the Garden of Eden was near present day Kansas City Missouri is a little too much of a whack-job.

The same can be said for any religious myth.

If you're going to believe in a place where a dude was created from dirt and his rib created a woman, then they ate some fruit because a snake told them to, why are you suddenly a "whack-job" if you believe it happened near KC?

"that Jesus physically came to North America after the Ascension"

He could smell the BBQ smoke and went to KC to scarf some down!!!  I would recommend, Arthur Bryant's, Gates BBQ or Jack Stacks, It's a religion in KC!!!!

William Kristol, most famous perhaps for being the son of Irving Kristol who is one of the founding fathers of the neo-conservative movement, has started writing for the New York Times.  I am sure the Times is attempting to court conservative readership, and Kristol is about as conservative as they come (or so I would guess, though who knows, right?).

Anyway, his article is fairly ridiculous.  Here's a quote:

Some of us would much prefer a non-liberal and non-Democratic administration. We don’t want to increase the scope of the nanny state, we don’t want to undo the good done by the appointments of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, and we really don’t want to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory in Iraq.

Pretty standard stuff, but did he really just saying "snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory in Iraq".  Wow, I want what he is smoking.

"A common misconception and smokescreen argument for all those trying to get everyone to believe in cloud-beings and bebe jeebus."

...and WMD in Iraq---the list goes on and on and........

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. Huckabee isn't someone that is interested in gaining power to try and make you drink. Huckabee spoke about freedom as one of the key principles of our Constitution and of his core principles and was the only one that did until he brought it up in the Fox debate. You can of course look for any reason you want to not vote for him but just remember he has been Gov. of Arkansas for 8 years and LT Gov. before that. Elected by a state that is over 80% Democrat if he had tried to create a State Church I don't think that would have happened.

That one makes more sense IP but I guess I could say the same for Rudy, except New York is a heck of lot more liberal then Hope.

"Well, I guess compared to Camargo, Royal, and some of the other one-horse-towns around here, Little Rock is practically a bastion of enlightenment and liberalism."

Step lightly around Royal, friend.  The future first female POTUS has already started organizing her fifth grade class out here.  And yes, she's a "union made" lib'rul dem...

Actually I think they said 80% of the leaders sorry I will be more careful.

Kevin I like the POTUS your talking about much better then the other one, but don't you give the other a chance?

"Huckabee spoke about freedom as one of the key principles of our Constitution and of his core principles and was the only one that did until he brought it up in the Fox debate."

If I decide to vote on the basis of lip service, I promise to vote for Mike Huckabee.