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the_ignored
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 Posted - 07/05/2010 : 02:03:01
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Hat tip to PZ Myers:
Myers links to here:
Yes, you read correctly: Glenn Beck is launching what he calls a "university," and only subscribers to Beck's "Insider Extreme" club (memberships start at $9.95 per month) are allowed access.
That last item, about the right-wing's ideal vision for America, is not pronounced by Beck in his, er, founding documents. However, the politically ambiguous television personality has hired Dr. James R. Stoner -- who believes that separation of church and state means not discriminating between Christian denominations -- and David Barton: a man better known as one of the most influential evangelical Christians in the country and "the right's favorite pseudo-historian," according to his critics at People for the American Way. |
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>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
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> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
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> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
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> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 07/05/2010 : 03:30:06 [Permalink]
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I've been reading about that. Amusing, isn't it; that Beck is offering pearls of wisdom from the theocratic version of the Three Stooges? I wonder when they'll start poking each other in the eye.
Twerp; n.
An ambulatory annoyance with the ability to snivel on cue.
I smell yet another scam aimed at ripping off ripping off devout Christians. What with Pat Robertson and the rest of the ilk, it's a wonderment that so many of those unfortunate folks sill have shirts.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 07/09/2010 : 06:37:30 [Permalink]
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Looks ike Beck's hallowed halls of intellectual necrosis has a student.
Pencil? Check. Horn-rimmed glasses? Check. History textbook generously amended to give due credit to religious figures in American history?
Knew we forgot something...
As we'd reported, Glenn Beck kicked off his "Beck University" online lecture series last night, and the first topic was "Faith 101." We signed up for the $9.95/month "university." Last night's class was subtitled "Black-Robed Regiment," and "Professor" and right-wing historian David Barton talked for half an hour about happier times in American history, when clergy were a welcome and influential part of American politics.
The lecture, which was followed by an interactive Q&A session, had only a short intermission -- cartoon Glenn Beck showed up to give viewers a pop quiz on Barton's class. But don't worry, cartoon Beck assured us. Pop quizzes were never his thing either.
So what did Barton talk about? As Beck said in his introduction, our nation's idea of the separation of church and state is "not what you've been sold."
Barton elaborated. He began by talking about Alexis de Tocqueville's concept of "American Exceptionalism," noting that "there's gotta be a reason we're different" from other democracies. That's where the "Black-Robed Regiment" comes in. These, according to Barton, were the preachers who influenced the bulk of the Declaration of Independence:
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That lecture must have been a real gem and worth almost none of the $9.95 it cost.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 07/09/2010 : 08:17:40 [Permalink]
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Oh, the revisionist history guy! He is a fucking riot, he has one where he tells you that the points in the declaration of independence are from church sermons! And he has one where he says that a bunch of the signers of that document were "ministers" because they went to "seminary".... He's just too stupid to know that in 1700's "seminary" meant "college".
He is seriously funny though.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 07/09/2010 : 11:18:35 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
Oh, the revisionist history guy! He is a fucking riot, he has one where he tells you that the points in the declaration of independence are from church sermons! And he has one where he says that a bunch of the signers of that document were "ministers" because they went to "seminary".... He's just too stupid to know that in 1700's "seminary" meant "college".
He is seriously funny though.
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Ain't he just?  But the thing that's really a hoot is that Beck, and whatever nitwits might be in it with him, seem to be serious about it. Thus, the opportunity for vicious comedy is huge.
I declare, if I had a sawbuck to spare and a little gas money, I'd get about 2/3 in the bag and attend one o' them "leckytoors."
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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the_ignored
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Posted - 08/13/2010 : 00:59:05 [Permalink]
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Well, it seems that there's at least a partial antidote to that stupdidity.
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>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
>
> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
>
> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
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Glenn Beck University?
