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You don’t think this shows an incredible lack of judgment and taste? Here is an article on it.
Yes, but how many of those people are on TV, have thousands of people listening to them, write best-selling books, or are actively courted by mainstream candidates? And yes, I understand the political side of it, but I don’t get why anybody with integrity would associate with such awful people, or why the media doesn’t call them on it.
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Not bad at all, we have one here too, it’s a voluntary participatory event for seniors. The other kids at the school bid on the seniors and the seniors need to do anything (legal and within reason) the Juniors ask (drive them to school, make cookies, crossdress etc). It was originally called the “senior slave trade” many years ago, got changed to “senior sale” and this year got changed to (for some reason) “green elephant sale.” Most kids at the school still refer to it as the senior slave trade though and noone really sees anything wrong with it.
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Not bad at all, we have one here too, it’s a voluntary participatory event for seniors. The other kids at the school bid on the seniors and the seniors need to do anything (legal and within reason) the Juniors ask (drive them to school, make cookies, crossdress etc). It was originally called the “senior slave trade” many years ago, got changed to “senior sale” and this year got changed to (for some reason) “green elephant sale.” Most kids at the school still refer to it as the senior slave trade though and noone really sees anything wrong with it.
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Couldn’t edit due to lag, not Juniors, anyone in the school can buy.
Gomi, you’re a ways away, so it can slide a little. John Ashcroft, among his other characteristics, writhes on the floor of his church, gibbering, and yes, foaming at the mouth. It’s called “speaking in tongues.” He finally disgusted the voters of MISSOURI, that hotbed of liberals and environmental wackos, so much that he lost his bid for the US Senate to a dead man. He has publicly proclaimed his belief in, and hope for, The Rapture and Apocalypse.
Never has he made it a secret that he HATES the poor, public spending at all, and city dwellers in general.
Yes, John Ashcroft was and is bad news, batshit, sadistic insane.
[QUOTE=The Them] Gomi, you’re a ways away, so it can slide a little. John Ashcroft, among his other characteristics, writhes on the floor of his church, gibbering, and yes, foaming at the mouth. It’s called “speaking in tongues.” He finally disgusted the voters of MISSOURI, that hotbed of liberals and environmental wackos, so much that he lost his bid for the US Senate to a dead man. He has publicly proclaimed his belief in, and hope for, The Rapture and Apocalypse.
Never has he made it a secret that he HATES the poor, public spending at all, and city dwellers in general.
Yes, John Ashcroft was and is bad news, batshit, sadistic insane.
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Well thanks very much for your unbiased, thoughtful opinion and educating me. I know who he is; although I live in England, I am in fact an American and keep a fairly close eye on American politics.
And what you’ve described can be any number of a stripe of religiously-
focused people. his tastes aren’t my tastes, his religion not mine. But none of those behaviors make him, in my view, a raving loony.
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Well thanks very much for your unbiased, thoughtful opinion and educating me. I know who he is; although I live in England, I am in fact an American and keep a fairly close eye on American politics.
And what you’ve described can be any number of a stripe of religiously-
focused people. his tastes aren’t my tastes, his religion not mine. But none of those behaviors make him, in my view, a raving loony.
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Well, if literally writhing on the floor and foaming at the mouth isn’t loony enough for you, you can also throw in the fact that Ashcroft had himself “anointed” Old Testament style with vegetable oil when he became Attorney Genreal and that he had the breasts of the Statue of Justsice covered with drapes.
I mean Jeez, dude, how crazy is crazy enough for you?
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Well, if literally writhing on the floor and foaming at the mouth isn’t loony enough for you, you can also throw in the fact that Ashcroft had himself “anointed” Old Testament style with vegetable oil when he became Attorney Genreal and that he had the breasts of the Statue of Justsice covered with drapes.
I mean Jeez, dude, how crazy is crazy enough for you?
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As soon as he bites the head off a chicken, he’s there.
But seriously, this guy passed approval by the Senate to occupy his post. You think 51 Senators would let someone who was foam-at-the-mouth crazy get in? All of your objections are religious in nature, based on Ashcroft being a Baptist. Whist I think anyone who won’t ever drink a beer (except for alcoholics who can’t have just one) is a little bit crazy, I don’t consider everyone who follows a strict religion to be nutso-whacko by default.
People who invent their own religions, on the other hand… I’m an ordained minister by the Church of Rolling Stone or something like that. If I started issuing edicts that clearly showed a dispatch from reality (pi = 3! Cats and dogs will live together in peace and harmony! Dogs and cats are actually vegetarians and should be only fed vegetables! I like French food! Jerry Lewis is a comedy god!) then you can call me crazy. But merely making my followers grow beards (even the women) to be in my church would not mean I am nuts, just different from you.
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What is one persons main stream view is another persons fringe. It’s amusing to me to see so many of you beat your breasts about raving right wingers while hand waving the loons on the left wing as pretty much main stream. HIGHLY amusing…
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What “loons on the left wing” are you talking about ? What “loons” do the Democrats suck up to on the left that are half as crazed as the guy mentioned in the OP ?
And “main stream view is another persons fringe” is WRONG. There is such a thing as objective reality, and people who spout garbage like “All Muslims are programmed to kill and we can thus never negotiate with any of them” are objectively wrong. It’s not a matter of opinion.
And this “you left wingers/atheists/evolutionists/whatever are sooooo funny” rhetoric from the right is old and tired. And I doubt that anyone really believes that you find it funny. And if you do, finding this sort of thing funny is sick.