Comments on: While We Are Asking Questions About Rev. Hagee…

By: Mungencakes

Mungencakes — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:05:18 +0000

BECK: How freaked out were you when you saw the chips now that we can implant that are RFID chips that will do that very thing? And they’re even making them, I understand, to fuse with the body because they’re afraid of theft.

HAGEE: Yes.

BECK: So once they’re implanted in you, you cannot cut them out.

HAGEE: That’s exactly right.

BECK: When I heard that, I went, oh, that’s not good.

OMG. What do they think will happen? You try to remove the device and it explodes? Or do they think they’re like an ink tag but filled with anthrax instead? Is the device clamped around the spinal cord, impossible to remove without crippling or killing?

That’s some amazing fear-mongering. Amazingly stupid.

By: texanna

texanna — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:31:37 +0000

You know, in Amsterdam the whores are located in a particular area of town and they stand in a window clearly advertising their wares so you know when you’re looking at one. Here, we put them in our government and make sure they wear a flag lapel pin. Also, I miss Molly Ivins, too. She was the only person that ever managed to make any sense of the mess that is our state government.

By: nellieh

nellieh — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:24:52 +0000

Trying to figure where these “theologians” are coming from is an exercise in futility.They are like the “Rainman” and his obsessive need to watch “Judge Wapner.” They can have all the evidence in front of them to the contrary and they still will come up with made up bullshit. Hagee is just another in the line with Fallwell, Robertson, Dobson, Swaggert, Bakker and their ilk. They just pull it out of their asses. Religious nutsos. Thank god for athiesim.

By: Bluetoe2

Bluetoe2 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:23:22 +0000

Will Russert ask St. McCain on his position vis a vis Hagee? I think we all know the answer at the moment. Time to contact NBC to encourage them to follow the story.

By: questioneverything

questioneverything — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:38:58 +0000

Christy, I have come late to this string, but we all must ask everybody, especially the MSM before the Sunday shows, if they plan to question the intentions of a candidate so intent on the Hagee endorsement if he wants to see the end of the world. We should have asked Bush and Cheney the same several years ago. We are well on THEIR way to destruction, regardless of what all of us want, regardless of what should be done to save our planet and humanity from their perverse superstition (or is it something much more sinister?). I believe it is indeed evil intent based on ignorance and I do not choose to agree to their agenda.

By: cinnamonape

cinnamonape — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:21:19 +0000

Well, if we are on the topic of the Mayan Calendrical End Times, I bring you the amazing Anton Barbeau and “When I was 46 in the Year “13″

And watch with what aplomb the poor lad confronts disaster when he loses his gitar-jack! Typical rollicking free-form from the Pretender-Prince of folk-psychedelia!

Anton is popular in both Oxford-Cambridge and in the Sacramento-area (though we see him less and less in these parts nowadays).

By: JoeBuck

JoeBuck — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:13:48 +0000

I have the feeling that John McCain’s admirers in the press are counting on his cynicism. They seem to want to believe that he is just stringing the wingnuts and the fundies along. They persist in believing that he is a maverick and a straight-shooter no matter how hard-right his voting record is, no matter how many times he tells obvious falsehoods.

The weird thing is that they’ll actually pay attention to this whack job from the Catholic League.

By: wesgpc

wesgpc — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:13:28 +0000

Re St John McCaon and immunization/autism:
My main reactoin is that McCain is a day late and a doller short on this topic, as in most others. The key reason he is whiffing on this is below form the Tapper column referenced in comment above:
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Moreover, he made it sound as if the thimerosal is still in vaccines — though as I understand it, **thimerosal is all but gone in almost every childhood vaccine now**, and has been for years.

This could be quite controversial.
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Tapper gives the wrong impression with the phrase *has been for years* It has been gone for only 7 or 8 years, barely enough time to get reliable statistical data on effect the preservative may have had on incidence of autism using time series statistical analysis. That is one reason why there is still controversy over causative role the preservative may have had in the rise in incidence of autism.

By: Biodun Iginla

Biodun Iginla — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:11:41 +0000

Antarctica

As for that, I’ve been to Patagonia–not quite Antarctica but close..

By: cinnamonape

cinnamonape — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:11:00 +0000

Wondering about those polls and why they can go ”so wrong” this time. Well look at these demographics that the pollsters use in ”massaging” their results to fit their prediction of who will be a likely voter in the Texas Primary.

http://www.pollster.com/blogs/.....s_poll.php

Tell me if they really think that the number of African-Americans turning out will be the same as it was in 2004, or if the relative numbers of over-65 year old voters will be proportionately the same in an election with high interest amongst your voters?

It seems most of the pollsters think that the turnout will mirror 2004…I think they are very wrong, and that the figures they are using almost all diminish likely Obama turnout. Maybe, I’m wrong but given the fact that Obama is leading in many of these polls that should ”lean Clinton” could it be that Texas may actually turn out to have a net gain in delegates FOR Obama?