tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494384.post114462694717278119..comments2024-03-04T04:09:01.839-06:00Comments on And Doctor Biobrain's Response Is...: Attack of the WhackjobsDoctor Biobrainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01641661532899934766noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494384.post-1144773919411567422006-04-11T11:45:00.000-05:002006-04-11T11:45:00.000-05:00Also the thing about the Christians is just a litt...<I>Also the thing about the Christians is just a little bit off, to my mind.</I><BR/><BR/>Hey now, I don't want to have to always issue a disclaimer every time I talk about this stuff. I was just referring to the ones I was referring to and wasn't trying to suggest that it applied to all or most Christians. And to be honest, I'm not even sure why I brought up the Catholic v. Protestant distinction; though partly it was just because I thought it was funny. But then again, it's quite possible that I'm right about why Catholics haven't gone Republican as quickly as the others have. And to be totally honest, I only included the religious stuff at all because I had intended to submit this to the Carnival of Liberals, which is being hosted by religious disliker PZMyers, and I was kind of sucking up to him. But don't tell him that I said that.<BR/><BR/>And for the record, I don't even think of the Republican Christians as being "slimes". I think they're just misguided. If anything, the "slimes" are the Republicans like Tom DeLay who abuse and misuse Christians.Doctor Biobrainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01641661532899934766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7494384.post-1144687768740222932006-04-10T11:49:00.000-05:002006-04-10T11:49:00.000-05:00Awesome synopsis of what it means to be a republic...Awesome synopsis of what it means to be a republican.<BR/><BR/>I would add, that at every actual statistical decile of income, a substantially larger group of people believe they are in that decile. Something like 10% of people think they're in the top 1% of earners and so forth.<BR/><BR/>Or to put it another way, the average person thinks they're not.<BR/><BR/>So any tax cut which democrats rightly declaim as only benefitting the top X% of earners, has X+10% of people <I>thinking</I> it will benefit them, and then another 20 or 30% who think or expect to be in that top X% someday too. The American Dream, used against them.<BR/><BR/>I do find it sad though, that so many have this attitude that if a policy benefits them, but screws the poor, and especially when it <I>disproportionately</I> screws the poor, they know that, understand it, but are still for it.<BR/><BR/>Take the whole Military Industrial complex thing. Sure the big shots in the industry benefit a hell of a lot in times of War, with the contracts, and the slush funds - but the cost to society and the soldiers is at least an order of magnitude greater than the benefit these scum see. For every billion they make, it costs all of us several billion and several lives lost or maimed.<BR/><BR/>I mean, at least when someone steals your stereo it's a zero-sum transaction, you're down a stereo (X$) they've gained a stereo (X$) - it's proportional (they might gain less than you lost because black market pricing is below retail, but at least it will be comparable).<BR/><BR/>Republican Business elites are raping your daughter, stomping on your flowers, insulting your mother and stealing your car to make $50.<BR/><BR/>In short, I'm not just offended that they're theives, but <B>that they are extrodinarily inefficient theives.</B> It's almost like society would be better off just buying out these people, pay them $1M a year each to stay out of politics and public life, and business. It would end up costing us less in the long run. Hell, even if we paid them $10M a year each, we'd be better off. Here's what we'll do, figure out the total cost for Iraq to date (all spending by anyone) and pay the republican party as a whole, 2/3 of that amount, to distribute as they see fit, but to get it all republicans must abdicate office for 10 years.<BR/><BR/>Deal?Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17355077650707854680noreply@blogger.com