Posted on 12/29/2013 9:46:32 PM PST by gooblah
Edwin Lyngar.....one sick a-hole
“At the same time I began reconsidering my personal Christmas obsession, the rest of the America started going bat-shit crazy over the fictional “War on Christmas.”
All of a sudden too much was no longer enough. We needed more mangers, “Merry Christmas” greetings and a whole lot more Christian overtones in public schools. If you dared hold an alternative view of the holiday, you were branded the “other.” Oddly the Christians who had for decades warned of the commercialization of the holiday became obsessed with all things retail.
Trying for the “right” Christmas cost me years of needless worry and pain, and just as I started to see the stupidity of it, the Christmas mafia began to demand that I celebrate their holiday with even more seriousness. This season seems filled with the salivating rage of Christmas mobs, and the more antagonistic it gets the more I want to replace the baby Jesus from the local nativity scene with a giant Swiss Colony summer sausage and two giant orange chocolate balls (my problem-solving skills are stuck in the 8th grade).
The focus on Christmas tradition and religiosity is just an attempt to enforce “uniformity of celebration.” It’s turning a once pleasant holiday into a Yuletide colonoscopy.”
http://goodmenproject.com/guy-talk/brand-a-christmas-cluster/
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I’m a Reno Atheist with five kids, living in the Northwest. I also perform weddings for Atheists / Agnostics etc. I am recognized by Washoe County as a wedding official through my nonprofit organization Secular Nevada — www.secularnevada.org.
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Kick ass
A Love Letter to Bryan Fischer of the AFA
Posted on October 30, 2013 by Edwin Lyngar
Dear Bryan Fischer: I adore you.
Ah, sweet Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, delightful, sentimental, hateful, misinformed, conspiracy theorist, and racist hatemonger. You are the greatest gift to the secular moment since Christopher Hitchens passed too soon from the planet.
Hitch was shrewd, funny, charismatic and intelligent—all the things that you are not, but still, Bryan, you are an inspiration to us all.
Your brand of Christianity is more offensive than the caricature many atheists create of Christianity to try and scare the people on the fence. Even better: Your opinions are real. For a while I was stuck on Poe’s Law, assuming your radio, television and media empires were just some elaborate joke.
But no. You, sir, believe every word.
I didn’t realize what a fan I was until I started following your twitter feed. My head ached in those first few days from the nonstop double-face palms. On every issue, every moment in our culture or policies, you offered an honest opinion that Christians are a persecuted minority. With Christians having only 100% of all presidents, 90% of legislators and 75% of the population, standing up for Christians takes courage.
Your enemies (like me) are always devil worshippers, communists, feminist, socialists, radicals or plain old elites. There’s always a derogatory label for the 80% of the country that you don’t know, yet you absolutely despise. I know you get a great deal of fan feedback from Christians during your many programs. Those Christians are just as extreme and reductive as you yourself, so I beg you to remember that your followers do not represent America. These fine folks are like prisoners, trapped in a permanent feedback loop where you all continue to reinforce your zany ideas to one another. It’s like a bad Star Trek episode.
http://www.armchairblasphemy.com/?p=580#more-580
Guess he had a pajama boy moment.
He became honest.
If you are liberal on social issues you are a liberal.
Might as well admit it to yourself.
Certainly you aren’t fooling everyone else.
1) I have brain damage.
2) I died and the guy in my precinct is stuffing the ballot.
3) I’m homeless and being bribed with cigarettes.
4) I’m illegal and they said something about giving me welfare.
5) I’m a fictional character and liberalism works in my world.
6) I’m crazy and the guy busing me to the polling place told me to pull the lever with the donkey.
7) I hate my life; thus I only find a happiness through the (proxy) control & manipulation of others - especially if they are happy with their own life and/or are successful.
And people scoffed when I said that ideological Democrats were signing up to be Ron Paul delegates and hijack the convention.
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]
Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften war stance...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.[Posted on 01/31/2013 5:08:50 PM PST by xzins]
Rand Paul's immigration speech...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt's Generals: 'How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?'Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt's military -- even as Cairo's security forces massacre anti-government activists. [by "anti-government activists" is meant church-burning Christian-murdering jihadists][Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat]
Note: this topic is from 12/29/2013.The only puke needed is for the pathetic excerpting. Here's an appropriate one:
After leaving my small town upbringing, I learned that libertarians are made for lots of reasons, like reading the bad fiction of Ayn Rand or perhaps the passable writing of Robert Heinlein. In my experience, most seemed to be poor, white and undereducated. They were contortionists, justifying the excesses of the capitalist elite, despite being victims if libertarian politics succeed... Yet I don't want to gloss over the good things about libertarians. They are generally supportive of the gay community, completely behind marijuana legalization and are often against ill-considered foreign wars, but a few good ideas don't make up for some spectacularly bad ones. Their saving grace is a complete lack of organizational ability, which is why they are always trying to take over the Republican Party, rather than create a party of their own.The subtitle for the article is "I was a Ron Paul delegate back in 2008 -- now I'm a Democrat. Here's my personal tale of disgust and self-discovery".
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