[Obamination]

You appear to have engage in bald-faced lying, brave anonymous Guest.

What memo suggested that Bin Laden was probably going to use planes as missiles?

Actually there was a FBI memo on this very issue. What the dumbocrats keep forgetting to mention is that the orginal memo was issued on Clintons watch however Bill was more interested in finger painting blue dresses.

That's not an inconvenient truth. There were plenty of terrorists in Iraq prior to the invasion (though not necessarily affiliated with Al Qaeda), and Richard Clarke (remember him?) famously suggested that Bin Laden might "boogie to Baghdad" after being flushed from Afghanistan.

[Dad & Lad]

Sit back and wait? Paszkiewicz hit the ground running with his preaching.

You're obviously just annoyed that he didn't get away with his inappropriate and unethical actions. Your ridiculous description of waiting for someone to trip up and pouncing on them could be equally used to describe the police, you realize.

When someone is trying to demonize

Cite just one example where Matthew or Paul called themselves heroes. Just one. Can you do it? Or are you going to prove once again what a pack of liars people like you are?

I think you need to go back and RE:Read pauls posts in a good majority of them he calls little matty a hero. matty and paul are arrogant, I don't recall one student standing up and saying " please matty save us from this evil teacher" Nor did they want him to.

More stupid lawyer-bashing. Grow the hell up--frivolous lawsuits are the fault of the people doing the suing, not the lawyers.

Again your 50/50 right Ambulance chasers aka personal injury lawyers often encourage hefty lawsuits. When your charging 1/3 the payout amount you want to make sure your well compensated. It's the lawyers dummy who keep fighting tort threshholds, you know dummy capping the amount you can sue for

He sure gave Paszkiewicz more of a benefit of the doubt than he deserved, so I wouldn't run my mouth with that nonsense. Paszkiewicz did and still deserves to be fired, yet the LaClairs made no attempt to get him fired even though there was plenty of justification for it, ESPECIALLY considering that the preaching bozo still has NEVER admitting to ANY wrongdoing whatsoever. None.

[Saudis Get a Gift From Monkey Boy]

It's someone obviously unfamiliar with the FACTS that believes Clinton let OBL slip anywhere.

Sudan offered to place OBL in Saudi custody, they declined. There was insufficient evidence to harge him here.

Typical Democrat apologist. If the Saudi's would'nt take him, then we should have demanded the right to come to Sudan and seize him dead or alive. Boohoo the Saudi's won't take him so we'll let him go and he can kill 3000 People on 9/11. How does it feel to have the blood of 3000 on your hands democrats

[Obamination]

lol, stupid little liar. Bush completely ignored the memo that said Bin Laden was determined to strike America, and that he was probably going to use planes as missiles. Tell the 3,000 corpses created on 9/11 that Bush protected them from terrorists, punk.

Then there's the inconvenient truth that Iraq had no Al Qaeda in it UNTIL Bush invaded. There are more terrorists who want to kill us now than there were before 9/11, all thanks to the Bush administration.

Who was it who dropped the ball when he had a chance to bag bin Laden, Who was in charge when Al Quida bombed the USS Cole. I believe that was Clintoon but hey he was getting a BJ. As much as it pains me to say this 9/11 was'nt Bush's fault, if you want to blame anyone blame the democraps. Their the ones who truly love screwing Americans. Thats what you get from the tax and spend party.Bunch of Jackass's

[Matthew's work]

Some recent posts containing the usual reflexive swipes at Matthew prompted me to open this topic.

If you study comparative social organization among various social species, you’ll see that one of the most vigorously enforced norms is conformity. Evolutionary theory suggests that this probably conveyed a survival advantage.

If you’re satisfied with the kinds of social organizations that characterize ant colonies and wolf packs, you need think no further. But if you’re interested in sophisticated human concepts like individual freedom, democracy and rational thought, you realize that human beings have moved beyond those primitive forms of social organization. The grand vision of our founding fathers was that ordinary people could exercise power through knowledge and deliberation, in communities of people actively engaged in thoughtful discussion to promote the common good. In every vision, it looks like something from a Henry Fonda film. In no vision does it look like what you see on Fox Noise or sound like what you hear on right-wing talk radio. The vision is of a deliberative and thoughtful citizenry.

If you study history, you see that most or all the great leaps forward in human progress (which are unknown in any other species) are triggered by independent thinkers who buck social norms and conventions. The story is always the same. The non-conformist is first vilified, then given a grudging respect. Eventually, if what he was doing was worthwhile, it becomes the new norm.

Matthew used to wear a t-shirt to school on occasion, which read: “You laugh because I’m different. I’m laughing because you’re all the same.” It amazes me that people can live in the twenty-first century USA, use the Internet and yet not understand that their sense of social norms is nothing more than a product of their evolutionary past. Their behavior doesn’t rise above the level of more primitive species. The prime imperative is conformity for its own sake - the exact opposite of what makes a deliberative democracy function and keeps it vibrant. Young Kearnian has it right: people who miss no opportunity to beat back any hint of non-conformity are acting reflexively, not thinking. I don’t call people unthinking for disagreeing with me. I call people unthinking when they don’t think.

I know it puts a lot of people off when I speak the truth about that, but the fact is, we have more in common with other species than most of us care to admit. What sets the human species apart is our ability to realize it and rise above it. If we don't do that, then we have failed morally and ethically. Even Christian theology says that.

There is no dignity in reflexively acting like an ape. Yet that’s what I see in many of these posts, along with a complete unwillingness to engage. Tell these folks what they don’t want to hear, and they just plain refuse to hear it. Post nine reasons why evolutionary theory is an established fact, and people who don't want to believe it won't touch it - it's not that they agree or even that they disagree, they won't even process it. If you asked these folks what I wrote on that subject, or others have written on that and many other subjects, they couldn't tell you. They have refused even to acknowledge the argument. The vision of the people who founded and built this country cannot be achieved or maintained in that fashion.

On the other hand, I don’t know who Young Kearnian is, but reading a post like that is deeply gratifying. It’s great knowing that some people get it.

Matthew’s stalker may have noticed that he hasn’t been in school this week. He has been attending three back-to-back conferences in Washington, D.C., where he has had the privilege of meeting Judge Jones (who decided the Kitzmiller case), the author Philip Pullman and many others. Matthew has received two additional awards, and is finishing out the week in leadership training through the ACLU and the Secular Student Alliance.

I encourage anyone who might be interested to contact him to help him in his work. What began here probably won’t end here. It began by chance, but it’s going to be very interesting. To those who have supported him and offered kind words, you have my thanks. If you’re interested in joining in the causes he is fighting for, just give us a call. We’re in the book.

Still trying to force your beliefs down the throats of those who don't conform to your ideals I see.You've never been interested in having a discussion with anyone on this board it's either your way or the highway. when will you ever stop riding juniors coat tail and have an original thought of your own.

[New American Leadership at Work]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com:80/20...ened-by-floods/

Obama fills sandbags in Illinois town threatened by floods

Posted: 09:30 AM ET

Watch Sen. Obama fill sandbags Saturday in Illinois.

QUINCY, Ill. (AP) — Barack Obama has stopped by the Mississippi River city of Quincy in his home state of Illinois where he used a shovel to fill sandbags as a precaution against the rising river.

The Democratic presidential nominee-apparent says his thoughts are with the people of Iowa, where flooding has chased thousands from their homes.

Obama said since he's been in public office he has not seen "this kind of devastation."

Obama pledged to push the federal and state governments to provide aid to the stricken areas.

Wow I guess Obama must be turning a blind eye to the devastation of Katrina or Greensburg Kansas.I wonder what else the dumbocrat will forget about if he becomes president