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If you can't feed them, don't breed them. Of course, no employed parent EVER lost their job in the great recession. 1) Unemployment insurance is not an 'entitlement.' 2) The first condition of welfare should be that any recipient (to include covered offspring) must be subjected to a reversible sterilization process. 3) If, during one's childbearing years, one cannot afford the reversal process, one sure as hell cannot afford children. 4) If the potential for unfettered reproduction is more important than the check, good for you. Addressing poverty and overpopulation in a single policy is the way to go. No more 'kids as a cash crop.' If you love them, spay them. BSBD, Winsor

You are saying there are no laws on the books in this country that are based on Biblical Law.....? Back to school for you counselor What would you have instead? Edit to add: Leviticus is in the Old Testament. You know this. Jesus himself said the Mosaic laws were bogus. mh . According to Roman Approved accounts that was what he said. Yup, when the Romans wrote down verbatim what he said, it turns out that the Romans were the good guys and his extended family consisted of Very Bad People. There is NO CHANCE WHATSOEVER that the accounts of Jesus' words and deeds described in Roman documents had any flaws. None. God said it, I believe it, that settles it. As an aside, we do not refer to the appended prequel as the "Old Testament." The issue is Hebrew vs. Christian Scriptures, and the Christian Scriptures in question are those that were adopted after the Messianic Movement of Judaism, and editorial privileges for those writings, were co-opted by Rome.

And verily, from the rear of the crowd came a stone that smote the woman mightily in the forehead. Said Jesus, "aw, mom..." btw, Vayiqra ('Leviticus') is Bronze Age lore from an extended, very dysfunctional, family. It is one of 4 prequels to Devarim ('Deuteronomy'); incorporation of the Tanakh, and Torah in particular, in other works is an infringement of copyright (hey, we answer to a higher authority and all that). BSBD, Winsor

If you can't feed them, don't breed them. Having been skinny because I could not afford food (starving student is not just a turn of phrase), I am singularly unsympathetic about food stamp recipients being limited to buying staples with public funds. Xin loi. BSBD, Winsor

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You'd be amazed at the credentials of some of the posters here. Anyone who thinks that 'climate change' is, by any measure, the biggest issue faced by humanity is somewhere between clueless and delusional. I'd LOVE it if that was the worst of our problems. As it is, it is about as significant as worrying about what is the best hangnail treatment for someone with a sucking chest wound. BTW, was 'weather or not' an attempt at humor? BSBD, Winsor

Elvis has left the building.

“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.” Mark Twain

Sure, but part of the debate is figuring out who the wrongdoers are. ISIS is an obvious wrongdoer. Pot smokers? Less obvious. Pot is bad. If you smoke pot, your babies will be born naked.

You needn't work so hard to vindicate that standpoint, though your efforts are appreciated. There is an old saw that a slut is someone who will sleep with anyone, but a bitch is someone who will sleep with anyone but you. Add to that the principle that any female who does not find one attractive MUST be a lesbian or asexual or whatever. Thus, when said entertainer claims that a particular group of women's sexuality is universally consistent with their response to him, there are those whose experience is quite different whose response is "dude, it's you they find icky." Oddly enough, the racial policies of Rhodesia were positively enlightened when compared to those of Zimbabwe, but since the racism of the latter is not directed at those with a fashionable skin color, the racists get a pass. If the people who bitch about perceived injustices in Israel were equally strident about the treatment of Jews in, say, Saudi Arabia or Egypt or Pakistan or , I might consider their point to be Fair and Balanced (tm). Anyhow, people who think his humor is okay should love negro jokes and hispanic jokes and the like (they're every bit as funny). BSBD, Winsor

Wow, seems like a miracle of God that such a typical family history has survived all the way to what it has become today... It is what it is. We still hold the copyright on the original.

I do not get a lot of input from Christian sources regarding Torah, but Rabbis I know tend to agree that the sources of these books vary greatly. One Rabbi, who is a degreed Historian, indicated that the 'first' four books are effectively 'prequels' to the preexisting text, which was Deuteronomy. His contention is that the four books were transcriptions of oral lore, and incorporated a great deal of Mesopotamian content that was absorbed during the Babylonian Exile. There is significant commonality between Cuneiform records of that region and those in the non-Deuteronomy parts of Torah, in Deuteronomy not so much. Asked about the literal veracity of the books, the response was that it is a Bronze Age family history, typical of writing of that era, and that one should not read too much into it. It strikes me that if one had to select a big neon sign for places of worship: The one in the Church would say "Believe!" The one in the Synagogue would say "Think!" The one one the Mosque would say "Believe or Die!" BSBD, Winsor

I heard that if it ain't the King James Version you're a readin... you are goin straight to hell!!!! See you there.

Oddly enough, the founder of Fascism as we know it was a lifelong communist/socialist - Benito Mussolini. National Socialism better represented successful socialism than did any of the other Socialist regimes that come to mind. None of the Socialist Workers Paradises (tm) I visited in my youth were any more likely to have trade unions than did the Third Reich. Beyond the religious whacko factor on the right, I do not see a lot of difference between the two. P J O'Rourke, however, put it succinctly in his claim that God was the model for the right and Santa Claus was the model for the left. Both God and Santa Claus know if you have been naughty or nice, but God imposes consequences for transgressions, while Santa Claus never does anything about it, and provides endless free stuff anyway. On both sides of the aisle, the scum rises to the top. T'was ever thus. BSBD, Winsor

I am sure that this approach is different from that of the Democrats, but I can't quite put my finger on how. Think in terms of climate change is bad, and you will start to finger it. Oh, I don't know. That one sounds suspiciously like Herr Doktor Goebbels' work as well.

Because the GOP has taken the playbook of one Josef Goebbels and run with it. If you tell the same lie often enough people will believe it's true. I am sure that this approach is different from that of the Democrats, but I can't quite put my finger on how.

Disagree, I see nothing wrong with policies encouraging companies to hire those with a physical or mental handicap. I think TSA's experience would recommend against hiring the mentally handicapped for some positions.

I think it is a positively brilliant idea. Mr. Rocket, you always look at the negative possibilities. There need be no penalties, since ensuring that everyone votes is easy. If, for some reason, you do not or can not cast your ballot yourself, we will cast if for you. With scientific precision we can identify which candidate best represents your interests in every race, and we simply record your vote for that person. Since we know who you would have voted for, this amounts to a great time saver, and ensures that every voice is heard. What could be more fair? BSBD, Winsor

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) $193.07 Million Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) $81.63 Million Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) $76.30 Million Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) $65.91 Million Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) $55.07 Million Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) $52.93* Million Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) $45.39 Million etc. Btw, Feinstein's husband's company just got the near billion dollar contract for the High Speed Rail project in California. That was a total coincidence. I think that Democrats, hearing of the Golden Sentences of Democrates, simply go for the gold.

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) $193.07 Million Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) $81.63 Million Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) $76.30 Million Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) $65.91 Million Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) $55.07 Million Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) $52.93* Million Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) $45.39 Million etc. Unless any of them are also a Democrates, I stand by my statement. I see what you did there...

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) $193.07 Million Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) $81.63 Million Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) $76.30 Million Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) $65.91 Million Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) $55.07 Million Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) $52.93* Million Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) $45.39 Million etc.

Do they have an elk? Wapiti are notorious left wingers. They are very popular among pinkos.

Repent. The end is near.

Not any more than repeating the same exact statement over and over is a sign of dementia... Au contraire, mon petit chouchou. It is said that neurotics build castles in the clouds, while psychotics live in them. Welcome to the world religious. Dementia, as typified by Alzheimers, etc., has a variety of indicators, and "repeating the same exact statement over and over" is not on the short list. Repeating the same exact statement over and over is the lot of songwriters and poets (z.B., "Quoth the raven, `Nevermore'"). BSBD, Winsor

I have to call bullshit on this one, Sparky. I do not defend the failings of other isms, particularly when taken to extremes. Religion, in general, is but a socially acceptable form of psychosis - holding discussions with invisible people can get you put in a laughing academy if the invisible person is addressed by the wrong name. In any event, the origins of Islam (whether Sunni or Shi'ite) are massively at variance with those of other popular systems of delusion. The closest parallels are Mormon and, perhaps, Scientology, which were also created from whole cloth by shameless hucksters for the basest of reasons. Records of Jesus are singularly unreliable (God only knows what the truth is...), but he apparently occupied an historical socio-political niche, and was posthumously exploited by various groups of 'followers.' Mohammad, OTOH, was by all accounts an illiterate, narcissistic, perverted, mass-murdering psychopath; a 'Prince of Peace' he was not. I have an abiding problem with anyone who would revere such an individual in precisely the same sense as I have a problem with people with swastika tattoos. I have had extensive dealings with both groups. Again, while full expression of any religion is psychosis, that of Islam is psycopathology. BSBD, Winsor