Was it Poe wrote the one about the virulently anti-gay lawyer who unwillingly revealed his true sexual attraction? “The Tell-Tale Hard”, was it?
And shipped out Rob Lowe, exactly.
:dubious: I wouldn’t think so, really. But maybe. There’s some amount of Christianism in the base, and I suppose a Jew might be regarded with a little suspicion by a few people. Not so much for racial reasons as for not being “born again.”
As for the billionaire donors: I don’t know those guys, they may be Nazis. :shrug:
I would note that he just won re-election unopposed, because the Dems didn’t even put up a candidate for State Auditor. That’s the first time I remember a statewide office not being contested by the Democratic Party since I started voting.
We joke about Missouri politics sometimes, but it may be getting crazier.
Is there something wrong about making Readers’ Digest the main source of scientific information to Congress?
I’d like to point out that according to this article, the final vote whether it goes to the senate is up to none other than Oakie Inhofe.
And you do remember what source Inhofe claims that refutes all the climate-control data and knowledge we have, right??
The Bible
Now why does everyone get on MY ass when I use him as an example that those who are devout shouldn’t be allowed to represent, unless it’s in a church?
It probably is now.
So when do they get done grandstanding and start governing? There’s only about 600 days to the next election, guys. Need to have something to show for it, don’tcha?
Well, they ran for office on the precept that government is evil and can’t do anything right. So, in order to be successful, they have to prove that, right?
It’s been well on its way since Blunt’s reign of terror.
Matt Blunt?
Emily.
Rollo?
James.
Ben Carson says homosexuality is a choice because many people “go into prison straight – and when they come out, they’re gay.”
Fear, I can’t help but think that there are any number of people out there, including Dr. Carson, who sit down and study the worse possible impulses of the most narrow-minded and willfully ignorant of our fellow citizens and then deliberately opt to follow that course. There are matters on which reasonable men can differ, but the stuff this guy and others of his ilk are throwing out eliminates the reasonable demographic from the discussion. Someone said that 30% of the electorate will believe any thing, no matter how irrational. That I believe to be true.
We can’t really rule out the possibility that he sincerely believes every bit of it. Liberal/agnostic/sane incredulity on that point is why Poe’s Law exists.
Brain, some comedian said that he tries to be as cynical as possible but he just can’t keep up. I am afraid I’m ahead of you on the cynical scale. I don’t think for a minute that Dr. Carson has not taken a premeditated stand on this and other questions, like the interplay between religious faith and observational science.
I don’t buy it. If Carson were smart enough to think that way, he would also be smart enough to know that it is all pointless, that he will never be the GOP presidential nominee in this or any adjacent alternate universe.
brain, you assume that he is looking to be President. Clearly. he should know that just isn’t going to happen. It seems more likely that he is shooting for something less lofty, like Surgeon General US in a Perry/Huckabee administration or Dean of Medicine at Liberty University --they have a law school, why not a college of medicine, now or in the future.