Signs of the apocalypse
Obama winning Montana
Signs of the apocalypse
1) Barack Obama is winning....in Montana:
Barack Obama is leading John McCain by five percentage points in Montana. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state shows Obama attracting 48% of the vote while McCain earns 43%.
As the story notes:
It would be truly stunning if Obama could turn Montana into a competitive state this November. George W. Bush won Montana’s 3 Electoral College Votes by twenty percentage points in 2004 and by twenty-five points four years earlier. Even Bob Dole managed to win Montana, albeit by a narrow 44% to 41% margin (Ross Perot picked up 14% of the vote).
2) Americans are praying...for more oil:
The Pray at the Pump Movement, founded by Rocky Twyman, has been holding prayer vigils at gas stations across the country. On Monday, Twyman decided to take his movement from Exxon and Shell stations straight to the steps of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, D.C., hoping to encourage the oil-rich country to raise the amount of barrels they release each day from 200,000 to 1.2 million.
If there was ever more proof that Americans are addicted to oil! We'll quit tomorrow, just one more drink!
It's the open thread -- have a great July 4, and celebrate what matters most, family and friends, but also all the great things America has to offer, including free speech even for cranks like Chris Satullo and, yes, freedom to pray at a gasoline pump.
Just don't drive anywhere.
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Speaking of cranks, did you see Santorum's hissy fit about the Boy Scouts? I'm telling you, villages everywhere are bidding on Ebay for the right to own that idiot.— anne johnson
God will "release" more oil, all right. He did it with the dinosaurs, He'll do it with our extinct race too.- Comment removed.
- 50 days. 50 states. 50 brown-nosing pieces for Obama. We now have a new expert on AllthingsMontanaObama. See ya at the local Lukoil gas pump— shoeshineboy
- Being Gay is not a "lifestyle" nor is it a "choice." You either are or aren't gay.
- Dear anne johnson: Posted like a true lefty, right down to the ad hominem insult. Can't you lefties ever make at least an attempt at a cogent argument? Ever? Know what I think? I think a certain poster's anti-Christian bigotry is showing!— George Tomezsko
- "I think a certain poster's anti-Christian bigotry is showing!" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . That's hilarious. Christ would advocate that we love homosexuals, as He commanded that we love one another regardless of our sins. So, who's the real anti-Christian bigot here?
- I just treated myself to the Santorum column on the Boy Scouts. It was, as I expected, cogent and to the point, and bursting with a commodity decidedly not found in leftist brains: common sense. No wonder that poor annie thinks the column is a "hissy fit" (whatever that is): it reduced her poorly thought out world-view to intellectual rubble.— George Tomezsko
- "Signs of the apocalypse." The only "sign" here is the perennial leftist penchant for wishful thinking.— George Tomezsko
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- Dear monty: A point about Christianity and Christian love. While it may be true that Christ "commanded that we love one another regardless of our sins" as you put it, the left seems to be implying whenever this argument is made that Christian love and permissive behavior are equivalent. Christ did NOT teach the notion that all is forgiven, everyone is free to do as they please. That is the credo of the libertine, not the Christian. You don't believe me? Check out the advice Christ gave to the adulterous woman He saved from stoning.— George Tomezsko
- George, is it really 'common sense' to fear that you might like being gay if you become exposed to the gay "lifestyle"?
- Praise the Lord and pass the petroleum! This is why I'm not religious. Don't do anything to help yourselves like buying a more fuel efficient car or driving less. JUst ask God to help you. I guess it's not worth mentioning that there is only one God and he is the deity of the Arabs as well. Meanwhile, those Arabs are praying to Allah or Mohammed and asking for Americans to continue to keep driving their gas guzzlers and continue to support candidates that are supported by Big Oil and their lobbyists. It would be worth laughing at if it wasn't so pathetic.— James TL
- Dear Gibba Mang: Some sage advice from a veteran poster (myself): please re-read my post on ad hominem arguments, above, and read my post to montani semper liberi. In the blog world, name calling just doesn't cut it. So, do you want to go on posting Gibba-rish or do you want to make your comments really shine?— George Tomezsko
- "Christ did NOT teach the notion that all is forgiven" . . . . . . . Nor did Christ appoint you, or any of His followers, as surrogates for God's judgment. You have only one soul to account for, my friend, your own. When God applies the test of Matthew 25 on your judgment day, will you pass?
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- "Hmmm, is it really common sense to fear you are having religion "forced upon you" if there are people of faith in your community?" . . . . . Batboy, you can do better than that.
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- "In the blog world, name calling just doesn't cut it....." Gotta say, this one's a classic, even for Georgie who, in the vast majority of his posts, refers to 1/2 the American voting public with a wide assortment of insults. Wow!— Talking point sleuth
- "If we all embraced the gay "lifestyle" there might not be any boy scouts TO mentor. ....---)) Another classic, in which ET reveals that he believes that the 9/10 of the human population that are heterosexual will suddenly become homosexual (and stop producing offspring) if they accept the fact that 1/10 of the human population is, always has been, and always will be gay. Gee, since that's what he believes, the obvious conclusion is that ET is very unsure of his own sexuality. Not as if that explains his homophobia, or anything.— Talking point sleuth
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- So tell me, ET, do you think that accepting the sexuality of homosexuals changes the sexuality of heteros? Is that why you're so hompophobic - because you're afraid that if you change your attitude you'll turn gay?— Talking point sleuth
- AS for your interest in knowing more about the sexuality of dogs, I don't know the "percent," but homosexual behavior is displayed by a fairly wide variety of species of animals. Do you think that it is a "lifestyle" choice in them as well?— Talking point sleuth
- "BTW TPS, since you know all about sexual preference ratios, what percent of dogs born actually hump legs?...")))--)) A classic follow up of a classic post. Leaving aside the question of WHY you have an interest in the sexuality of dogs, I will also point out that implicit in your statement, you also think that unborn dogs might also want to hump your legs. Man, if we didn't know better, we'd think that you're some kind of wacko.— Talking point sleuth
- It's funny how the right wing mantra of personal self-reliance goes out the window when you bring up homosexuality. All of a sudden, we need Big Brother to protect us because gay love is just so darn irresistible.
- But seriously, what does leg-humping have to do with the incidence of homosexuality in nature? Is ET suggesting that he is a male dog?
- "All of a sudden, we need Big Brother to protect us because gay love is just so darn irresistible...." Lol! Not only that, but apparently we need Big Brother to protect us because if gays marry each other, suddenly we won't respect the sanctity of the institution anymore, and we won't be able to teach our children about the value of remaining faithful to a spouse.— Talking point sleuth
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- DeAR b.atkinson re: "George, is it really 'common sense' to fear that you might like being gay if you become exposed to the gay "lifestyle"?" Hmmm, is it really common sense to fear you are having religion "forced upon you" if there are people of faith in your community?" Huh? Could you please elaborate? You just plain ain't a makin' any sense, good buddy!— George Tomezsko
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- B.at --- Those HOPE & CHANGE endings to most of your posts might have been somewhat humorous the first 50 times you did it. Then again, like the Bushies --- if something doesn't work, keep doing it!— yobill626
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- I can just picture a blog like this in 1776, and you guys griping about the left wing rebels when the king had a God given right to lock up rabble rousers without just cause and house redcoats in your houses, and what's this liberal nonsense about inalienable rights anyway?— SteveMG
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- "..So I wonder what Satullo and you other great liberal patriots in the Delaware Valley did yesterday to celebrate our nations birthday...."....--)) Well, gee, I can't speak for anyone else, but I incessantly called some 1/2 the American voting public traitors and terrorist sympathizers, called all residents of Philly ignorant because some of them voted for politicians I don't support, labeled some 72% of the American public too stupid to (like I do in my infinite wisdom, understanding of the common man, and anti-elitist humility) see through the vast left-wing media conspiracy, and blamed all the country's ills not on the folks running the country that I voted for, but pointed the finger elsewhere because I find accountability anathema. Oh yeah, and I also wore a flag pin so I could sanctimoniously call myself a "patriot" even though I've never been willing to sacrifice by willingly paying taxes for the sake of my Country. How about you, sloboat?— Talking point sleuth
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- No Posts since the 3rd.. Did Will lose his job?— Col. Nathan R. Jessep
- I'm writing a book, Colonel, about one of your favorite presidents -- just open thread posts between now and mid-August. Besides, you should know I don't post generally on weekends, which is what has been happening since July 3.— will
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- "So I wonder what Satullo and you other great liberal patriots in the Delaware Valley did yesterday to celebrate our nations birthday?"... Or write a book, to destroy the reputation of a dead man who is fondly remembered by a majority of Americans?— E Plebnista
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- "Boy how the idiots have taken control.....Praying at the pump for Jay-sus to come down in his Hummer and create more oil. What a bunch of maroons...." Of course, they aren't hurting anyone by praying at the pump. However, what would you say about a "maroon" who would attempt to purposefully denigrate the faith of another through the deliberate misspelling of the name of their God?— legatus
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