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That's their main selling point, actually. Remember who their base is.

Narcissistic, Midwestern born Tiger Mothers should guard our southern border!

Paine was well known and, for the time, well read. His book The Age of Reason sold 25,000 copies and had 18 printings. He was not an atheist, but a deist - roughly corresponding to nature-as-God - he strongly believed that the idea that God's ways were 'mysterious and unknowable' was crap - an idea designed to concentrate power to a few. He believed in transparent morality - no mystery required. As the century drew to a close, Paine was reviled by the colonial religious establishment and many of his countrymen and abandoned by many of his closest friends as a wave of fundamentalism swept the over the nation. Jefferson, notably, stuck by him. Franklin, pretty much an out and out atheist, warned him not to poke Christianity in the eye. In the end, Paine's funeral was attended by fewer than a dozen people. It wasn't until the mid 1800s that historians began to resurrect the great man and revolutionary that was Thomas Paine. Prior to that, the influence of Paine's books was falsely minimized. Even today, when you here evangelical zombies channel their fantasy versions of the founding fathers and their mythical guiding faith, you somehow never hear Paine's name mentioned.

The popular term for deists and freethinkers in 1776? "Infidel".

But hey, religion's always been big bidness, and we are the nation of bidness, if nothing else.

I'm just glad the Constitution doesn't include God. It damn near had God written all over it, but for the diligent efforts of a handful of principled Freethinkers. Had it been written twenty years later, during a particularly religious reactionary period, it probably would have mandated an official state religion.

You're a kind and gentle soul, despite being a heathen, Ivan.

Done. And I can't hazcheezburgr - see my nutrition assessment for why.

LOL Never ending entertainment!

Common sense: Need to keep things out: build a fence! Hell, the Chinese did it....

9 billion well spent!

Does America need to develop an anti-GanjaMissile system? StarWeed?

Jesus, them Mexicanz r clever.... GANJA TREBUCHE, CABRONES!

Figured you boyz deserved a big phat target, given the shit I let fly in your various directions!

LOL

Reading a good book by that title now. As my more historically savvy friend Ivan knows; Same Ole' Shit, Different Day. Still, it's surprising to see how far back the roots of any given cultural phenomenon go, and how tenaciously even the most egregious bullshit tends to stick around. Helpful when asking the question "Where did all these crazy thumpin mfkrs come from all of a sudden?"

Never put your food supply at risk.

When will baby tossing FINALLY be allowed to become an Olympic sport?

I just had a nutrition assessment by a master's student. Enlightening. Ivan, you're next.

source? having farmer family east of the mountains (small and large, including a head of a grower's org), and talking to them often about the vagaries of the biz, the above was feared but seemingly never became a big problem. somthing that WAS a big problem was the size of the cherry crop in '09, coupled with low demand. farmers were leaving fruit on the trees cuz it wasn't worth pickin! Didn't happen on Pappy's farm so it didn't happen, eh? It was all over the local papers in 06 (not 09). My ex and I went out to the Yakima area and saw 'pickers wanted' signs posted everywhere. You and Pappy must have been sleepin. linky

Offer a nutter some sound advice and whaddaya get? Oh well, 2 years in OH would do that to anyone.

Sounds like the problem doesn't lie solely with with the drunk couch-bitch, here. As always, it takes two to tango.

Frankly, I'm just a wee bit of party whose main policy ideas are born in their belief in a Great Big Fuzzy Kitty Way Up In The Sky Who Loves Us.

When congress was on its BUILD A BORDER FENCE kick a few years back, a whole lot of Eastern Washingtonians had to leave their crops to rot due to lack of farm labor. You wanna vote red, farm boyz? OOOOOKAY, this is what that looks like. Policies have real consequences for real people. Be wary of policies backed solely by 'popular wisdom'. True wisdom isn't very popular here. Not popular at all.

Most vegetarians are actually malnurished, whether they are aware of it or not. Ever notice how a lot of vegetarians seem to have frizzy hair? It's due to a protein deficiency. Like it or not, its really difficult to get everything your body needs without eating meat. Most vegetarians, predictably, don't. One of the few foods that contains all required proteins? That would be beef, baby! YUMMMMM.