2012 Elections Part I: All Politics is Yokel

[Old Pio]

Re: 2012 Elections Part I: All Politics is Yokel

To be fair, a lot of the Old Testament goes back before the Roman Empire.

Snark aside, the philology of Bible stories is fascinating.

Back in the olden days, in freshman english, we studied Greek and Roman Mythology and the Old Testament, from a literary perspective. Can you imagine the kerfuffle now days if a comprehensive public high school tried that? Even worse, in grade school I attended a comparative religion course held across the street from the school during school hours. All the WASPS in that class made little mezuzot among other things. Gasp.

 

[Foxton]

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Back in the olden days, in freshman english, we studied Greek and Roman Mythology and the Old Testament, from a literary perspective. Can you imagine the kerfuffle now days if a comprehensive public high school tried that?

None what so ever except the religious types who would freak out that their book wasn't taken as history. Oh and my high school did have classes that covered Greek and Roman mythology. Nobody gave a ****.

Frankly I can't think of a better way to get kids away from xtianity and religion in general than to have a class that discusses the bible from an objective standpoint. Especially the old testament.

 

[Old Pio]

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None what so ever except the religious types who would freak out that their book wasn't taken as history. Oh and my high school did have classes that covered Greek and Roman mythology. Nobody gave a ****.

Well then, your school has something in common with most of the posters here, who don't give a **** what you think. It's none of my business, of course, but maybe once in a while you could dial it down a notch, just to reassure the rest of us that you're not a raging dik all the time, about everything.

 

[Foxton]

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Well then, your school has something in common with most of the posters here, who don't give a **** what you think. It's none of my business, of course, but maybe once in a while you could dial it down a notch, just to reassure the rest of us that you're not a raging dik all the time.

So do you or don't you want mythology taught in school?

 

[Old Pio]

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So do you or don't you want mythology taught in school?

What is this, a Socratic dialogue? Bugger off. When, oh when Lord, are you libtards going to let it penetrate your thick skulls that I'm not a social conservative?

 

[Foxton]

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What is this, a Socratic dialogue? Bugger off.

Since discourse is impossible with you I'll assume the two different possibilities.

Yes - in which no one would raise a "kerfuffle". The time where it does is where myth tries to dress up as science or some public/gov't entity is promoting a religion with tax dollars. Like school lead prayer at graduation. (like it happened in Bastrop, La resulting in harassment and being disowned for the student who brought up that it was a violation of the 1st amendment after the email was linked to faculty and students)

No - Why did you bring it up that it was in what I assume you consider the good old days? (Probably when such mythologies were still new and exciting) Surely there's some value in looking at the myths and history that have helped shape western society?

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When, oh when Lord, are you libtards going to let it penetrate your thick skulls that I'm not a social conservative?

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So you just play one on the internet? When have you ever NOT promoted a social conservative talking point?

 

[Old Pio]

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Since discourse is impossible with you I'll assume the two different possibilities.

Yes - in which no one would raise a "kerfuffle". The time where it does is where myth tries to dress up as science or some public/gov't entity is promoting a religion with tax dollars. Like school lead prayer at graduation. (like it happened in Bastrop, La resulting in harassment and being disowned for the student who brought up that it was a violation of the 1st amendment after the email was linked to faculty and students)

No - Why did you bring it up that it was in what I assume you consider the good old days? (Probably when such mythologies were still new and exciting) Surely there's some value in looking at the myths and history that have helped shape western society?

*crickets* Do you think anybody gives a **** about your "horrific" annecdote from Bastrop, Louisiana? Only you, and the ACLU, and the rest of the First Amendment hypocrites.

As far as "promoting social conservative talkng points" is concerned, I assume you're referring to my many posts against gay marriage, or gays in the military or abortion, or in favor of "ID," or abstinence-only. No? I wonder why. Oh yes, it's because no such posts exist. Your prejudices are so comprehensive you've lost what ever ability you may have had to reason. But you can take consolation from the fact (see previous posts on this thread) that you're not the only one suffering from these delusions. Defending Sarah Palin from slander or unfair attack is not "promoting social conservative talking points." So buzz off, jerky boy, you're wrong and as usual, you're wrong at the top of your lungs.

 

[Foxton]

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As far as "promoting social conservative talkng points" is concerned, I assume you're referring to my many posts against gay marriage, or gays in the military or abortion, or in favor of "ID," or abstinence-only. No? I wonder why. Oh yes, it's because no such posts exist. Your prejudices are so comprehensive you've lost what ever ability you may have had to reason. Defending Sarah Palin from slander is not "promoting social conservative talking points." So buzz off, jerky boy, you're wrong and as usual, you're wrong at the top of your lungs.

You just gave an example above when you talked about the ACLU and "first amendment hypocrites". And I couldn't find anything about you supporting gays in the military only you saying how you HAD posted about it. Now of course the board's search function doesn't seem to be doing all that good of a job but considering you often use gay negatively, I find this suspect. And that's not even taking into account all your "clever" little phrases that don't use the word gay.

Here's a couple examples just from a search of "gay" for Old Pio.
http://board.uscho.com/showthread.p...&p=5139740&highlight=gay+military#post5139740
http://board.uscho.com/showthread.p...y-1-14-11&p=4991503&highlight=gay#post4991503
http://board.uscho.com/showthread.p...ar-or-Two&p=4909067&highlight=gay#post4909067

Honestly digging any deeper is a waste of time even more than asking you a simple question that you turn into a "kerfuffle". Hell I wasn't even disagreeing with you that mythology should be taught in schools, only that such a thing would not raise any notice from the ACLU. But why don't you go back up to the moral highground instead of being down here with us "libtards"

 

[Old Pio]

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You just gave an example above when you talked about the ACLU and "first amendment hypocrites". And I couldn't find anything about you supporting gays in the military only you saying how you HAD posted about it. Now of course the board's search function doesn't seem to be doing all that good of a job but considering you often use gay negatively, I find this suspect. And that's not even taking into account all your "clever" little phrases that don't use the word gay.

Here's a couple examples just from a search of "gay" for Old Pio.
http://board.uscho.com/showthread.p...&p=5139740&highlight=gay+military#post5139740
http://board.uscho.com/showthread.p...y-1-14-11&p=4991503&highlight=gay#post4991503
http://board.uscho.com/showthread.p...ar-or-Two&p=4909067&highlight=gay#post4909067

Honestly digging any deeper is a waste of time even more than asking you a simple question that you turn into a "kerfuffle". Hell I wasn't even disagreeing with you that mythology should be taught in schools, only that such a thing would not raise any notice from the ACLU. But why don't you go back up to the moral highground instead of being down here with us "libtards"

Of course you don't want to "dig any deeper." It would reveal how detached from reality you are and that you're an obsessive wanker. I guess I should be upset at your implication that I'm a liar or don't know my own opinions. But I'm not. So you just keep on working it, Inspector Clouseau, and building on that reputation of yours. I'm guessing you don't need me to tell you where you can stick your g.d. "suspicions." What I actually said was I HADN'T posted complaints about gays in the military, etc or in favor of other social conservative manias. But feel free to keep on misquoting me if it serves your purpose. Most of the posters who disagree with me understood what I said and what I meant. Your weak libtard arguments need all the help they can get.

And the posting where Kepler and I are talking about TV and films and American virtues reveals how hysterically ignorant you are. We mentioned Hitchcok's "Rope". A film that involves two "very good friends" who live together and commit a thrill killing. And it is universally understood these two "very good friends" are gay (like Leopold and Loeb). But for me to point it out, worse, to kid about it, reveals some dark truth. Reminds me of the punchline from a favorite joke: "I've got a sexual hangup? You're the one who keeps showing me the dirty pictures."

And in this latest round of libtard rage directed my way, there are probably a dozen or more posts where I explain what I'm talking about when I refer to "First Amendment hypocrites." Disagree if you like, but please pull my other leg that somehow I haven't made it clear.

 

[Almington]

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I have to believe that a transcript of the Obama-Boehner discussions would read just like this thread of late.

 

[Old Pio]

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I have to believe that a transcript of the Obama-Boehner discussions would read just like this thread of late.

Not quite as many "neeners," probably.

 

[5mn_Major]

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Pios point about Christianity is on the mark.

Jesus is pretty much continuously misunderstood both by extreme evangelicals and by most non Christians who criticize his positions.

 

[Slap Shot]

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Somehow liberals are obsessed with Palin yet every time she is mentioned negatively neos get defensive so quickly it would make Pavlov blush.

 

[Old Pio]

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Somehow liberals are obsessed with Palin yet every time she is mentioned negatively neos get defensive so quickly it would make Pavlov blush.

Just a guess, but it might be because the PDS sufferers, in their delerium, have blamed her for a mass killing in Tucson, joked about her 14 year old daughter hooking up with a baseball player and called her handicapped child "retarded," and much more. All in a day's work for liberal phonies.

One of the most strident PDS sufferers here (UNO fan) exlains that while he respects her First Amendment rights, he just wants her to "shut up." He also claims he doesn't hate her, but if he did, she "deserves" it. Thus speaketh the libtard.

 

[Slap Shot]

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Just a guess, but it might be because the PDS sufferers, in their delerium, have blamed her for a mass killing in Tucson, joked about her 14 year old daughter hooking up with a baseball player and called her handicapped child "retarded," and much more. All in a day's work for liberal phonies.

One of the most strident PDS sufferers here (UNO fan) exlains that while he respects her First Amendment rights, he just wants her to "shut up." He also claims he doesn't hate her, but if he did, she "deserves" it. Thus speaketh the libtard.

Not what I'm talking about. How many times have we heard that she'd be absent in the media were it not for the great liberal conspiracy, despite the fact she herself ran as VP, exposed herself during the campaign, quit her job, participated voluntarily in a reality cable TV show, went on FOX News ad naseum, joined the GOP trumpet circuit without any declaration of an actual campaign.....

 

[Old Pio]

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Not what I'm talking about. How many times have we heard that she'd be absent in the media were it not for the great liberal conspiracy, despite the fact she herself ran as VP, exposed herself during the campaign, quit her job, participated voluntarily in a reality cable TV show, went on FOX News ad naseum, joined the GOP trumpet circuit without any declaration of an actual campaign.....

Reads like a Nuremburg indictment. I haven't had a second cup of coffee yet, so I'm not taking your point. Of course "exposing herself in the campaign" sounds like a libtard ratonalization for the despicable things that have been said about her. Look, our politics are rough and tumble, and always have been. But would it be so hard for libtards to just admit that they've crossed the line with the lady, instead of rationalizing their b.s.? I guess what you're saying is, to avoid being accused of everything from the disappearance of Judge Crater to the spread of STD's she should just "shut up." Bingo, she's brought this on herself. It's her fault libtards have no sense of decency, no sense of proportion and certainly no sense of what profound phonies they are on this issue.

 

[Foxton]

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Having someone complain about calling a handicapped kid retarded and in the same breath calling these name callers "libtards" has made my day.

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[Old Pio]

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Having someone complain about calling a handicapped kid retarded and in the same breath calling these name callers "libtards" has made my day.

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Thus speaketh ANOTHER libtard, who is incapable of distinguishing between an innocent child and adults being criticized for their stupid opinions. One of these days you're gonna say something important or relevant or even true and I'll need my Obamacare card.

Watch out for the dust bunnies.

 

[Slap Shot]

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Reads like a Nuremburg indictment. I haven't had a second cup of coffee yet, so I'm not taking your point. Of course "exposing herself in the campaign" sounds like a libtard ratonalization for the despicable things that have been said about her. Look, our politics are rough and tumble, and always have been. But would it be so hard for libtards to just admit that they've crossed the line with the lady, instead of rationalizing their b.s.? I guess what you're saying is, to avoid being accused of everything from the disappearance of Judge Crater to the spread of STD's she should just "shut up." Bingo, she's brought this on herself. It's her fault libtards have no sense of decency, no sense of proportion and certainly no sense of what profound phonies they are on this issue.

Hyperbole at its finest. No one is being persecuted nor strung up on a cross so stop crying wolf. Parise, you come off as a Justin Bieber fanboy and it's most unbecoming.

 

[Old Pio]

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Hyperbole at its finest. No one is being persecuted nor strung up on a cross so stop crying wolf. Parise, you come off as a Justin Bieber fanboy and it's most unbecoming.

So your standard for politics is the absence of persecution or crucifiction. Anything else is okay. Nixon would be pleased. Thus speaketh yet ANOTHER libtard.

note: I'm sure the Parise reference sends a tingle up libtard legs, but I don't get it. And don't care.