Sounds like he was stressed out until he succumbed to changes in belief, also a common cult technique for getting members. Not that I’d want someone who stresses out that easily from nothing at all to become President, but really. I have enough informatio­n. Who cares about what he imagines the rest of the details of his conversion to be?

On the other hand, when he finally “reveals” this informatio­n, it will probably be more embarrassi­ng than he realizes.
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Michele Bachmann is now channeling Jesus 100% of the time. We must obey.
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Bachmann is still convinced that God wants her to run and unable to accept that either it was a delusion on her part or God messing with her. How do they explain away to themselves the fact that all the other candidates also claim to have been sent by God?
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We read Beowulf in the context it was written. The Bible is most often read in modern context, ignoring the cultural difference­s that made much of it mean something very different from what dogma would tell us it should mean to us.
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What’s a little financial mismanagement? A million here, a million there…
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I don’t know if I should be making snarky comments about kids these days or the education system.

…and burns to the ground.

It sounds to me like God was trying to tell someone something, if you’re the kind of person that believes that the hand of God is actively guiding and causing everything that happens.

I really don’t understand the attitude that says that god deliberately created everything the way it is, then turns around and gives god credit for the good stuff, while blaming Satan for the bad stuff. And then they want to punish people for not being lousy human beings greedy, vengeful, and small-minded, for wanting “social justice”.

Yeah, if you want to do that you might have to rewrite the Bible to get rid of the liberal parts. Which they’re doing. Yeah, they’re doing that. They’re just going through with a marker and getting rid of all the inconvenient stuff that goes against the modern wingnut creed of greed, racism, and classism. They’ve decided that shouldn’t be there, is only there because of a mistranslation, the same mistranslation that forgot to tell us that Jesus rode on dinosaurs, and loved baby dinosaurs too, no doubt.

Do you suppose they’re going to write that in? In fact, the more that I think about it, the more I am convinced that God did it to show them how pissed he was about the biblical revisionism project.

Either that or it was natural for lightning to strike the highest object around.

So we all think it ought to be okay for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan to be a lesbian, although there seems to be a consensus among her long-term friends that she’s straight, and has just committed herself to her career.

But what about Scalia? Now there’s a person with abnormal atypical sexual proclivity if I ever heard of one, far more unusual than teh gay. Why, he’s got 9 kids! How can he possibly identify with the lives of normal people?

Inquiring minds may or may not want to know (I know I didn’t want to think about his sex life). I just assumed that he’s one of those ultrafundamentalists who believes that it is murder not to conceive as many babies as humanly possible. Yeah, we really need people like that on the Supreme Court.

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Now personally I don’t think she is especially well-qualified for the job. Although she has education and employment background, she has no track record as far as most issues are concerned.

I would like to see someone like a defense attorney for a change or a consumerist like Elizabeth Warren.

But Constitutionally speaking, the bar is pretty low. There isn’t even a requirement that the person be a lawyer.

The right wing can’t get their heads around any of the real issues, so they talk about her sex life, gender orientation (she’s not as cute as Sarahpalin, so she must be a dyke!), her softball skills…

And the fact that she is Jewish.

First Pat Buchanan:

Indeed, of the last seven justices nominated by Democrats JFK, LBJ, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, one was black, Marshall; one was Puerto Rican, Sonia Sotomayor. The other five were Jews: Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.

If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats.

Is this the Democrats’ idea of diversity?

But while leaders in the black community may be upset, the folks who look more like the real targets of liberal bias are white Protestants and Catholics, who still constitute well over half of the U.S. population.

What a shame we’ve used up our quota of Jewish nominees.

And Pat, I thought you were opposed to immigrants like Hispanics. Catholicism, your religion, is a small minority that is way overrepresented on the court, even when you take into account Hispanics, which I don’t think you intended to do, since you never have given them any consideration before.

And now conservative judicial activist Manuel Miranda

MIRANDA: I think the real concern is, the question has to be, is Elena Kagan still a socialist? And the reason I say that is because in her early writings, in her early life, in the formation of her political sense, it is pretty clear that she is an American socialist. She comes from that background. I grew up in New York, she grew up in New York. I’m very familiar with the sort of Jewish socialist culture in New York, which has an enormous pedigree, has done wonderful things in promoting a way of life and developing American society, but at the end of the day is still socialist.

Seriously. We know all Jews are socialists, don’t we? And socialism has done great things for American society, except for the fact that it is totally evil and needs to be eradicated.