Oh, right-wing heads ‘sploding: “I’m enjoying this. What other arguments have you heard in opposition to the deal that I haven’t touched on yet?” Yeah, this is the guy conservatives think somehow got to law school on affirmative action….. he’s in his absolute element here.

They tried, but security noticed James O'Keefe's press credentials were written in crayon @KristinnFR

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 15, 2015

I can’t stand all these people who think we should just roll in to Iraq/Iran/Syria/Libya/Saudi Arabia/etc/etc and firebomb ISIS into the stone age. Like it would just be so fucking easy to go in and get rid of them. We couldn’t get it right when we tried with a single country, how disastrous would it be if we tried to do it with an entire REGION.

Also, simple numbers game shows that even if EVERY interested, healthy and able to serve citizen in America were conscripted into the military, in addition to those who already serving, the Islamists would still have at least a 4:1 (if not more) advantage against us.

We have to realize that not every Muslim is a bloodthirsty terrorist. But then we have right wing pundits alleging this daily, causing the Muslims to hate us more. Lather, rinse, repeat.

A large scale assault on the middle east to try and destroy ISIS would end in one of two ways, both horrible:

1) Mass American casualties with failure to achieve objective
2) Odds are at least one country involved would launch a nuke at some point

Not to mention that we have no way of paying for a war against ISIS anyway.

Mister president Obama why are you paying planned parenthood to sell baby abortion parts?

He's not done yet. He's got notes because the #WHPC is so bad at their jobs he's got to lead them into important points. #Obamapresser

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 15, 2015

Major Garrett insults the president and the president puts him in his place. “That’s nonsense.”

Then somebody asks about the Cosby situation. “That’s rape. Does anyone have a relevant question about Iran?”

Mister president did you watch the whole three hour abortion video from experts at Medical Progress and if not why not?

He still hasn’t addressed the Twitter banning of CCJ yet, either. #JeSuisChuck

re: #8 darthstar

He still hasn’t addressed the Twitter banning of CCJ yet, either. #JeSuisChuck

Mr. President isn’t shouldn’t Chuck c Johnson have free speech writes on Twitter?

re: #6 darthstar

Then somebody asks about the Cosby situation.

OFFS

Shorter Obama to the White House press corps:

@Lawrence - Someone needs to be embarrassed for the WHPC. Those questions were pathetic. “content?” Bill Cosby? #jesusfuckingchrist

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 15, 2015

re: #6 darthstar

Major Garrett insults the president and the president puts him in his place. “That’s nonsense.”

Then somebody asks about the Cosby situation. “That’s rape. Does anyone have a relevant question about Iran?”

He did that? I’m liking him more. A pity he can’t run a third time.

Obama answered every critique of the Iran deal, with knowledge, logic and offers for critics to come up with a better alternative.

If I was the GOP I’d drop this trafficking in baby parts bit right now. Dick Cheney has a lot to answer for in that regard.

Why didn’t he defend Caitlyn’s ESPY award?

re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg

Pretty much all of that. You’d have to cleanse the ME of people to really stop the fighting and….that’s not an acceptable solution.

Instead we should, y’know, work with local partners we can live with and generally do diplomacy.

Words were too big.

Jeb! will not approve.

re: #6 darthstar

Does anyone have a relevant question about Iran?”

[media]TL;dr but we knows its appeasement.[/media]

*SMFH*

BREAKING: Exclusive photo of the White House after Obama's press conference today pic.twitter.com/W7YGGeECXO

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) July 15, 2015

re: #20 The Vicious Babushka

*SMFH*

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No reply for that idiot. Not even fun.

Good grief. CNN cuts away from President Obama to get Mike Huckabee’s “thoughts.” Gee, what do you think he’ll say?

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2015

Note to self: always turn off CNN the instant an Obama press conference is finished.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2015

If stupidity had a flower, it would look like little green footballs. https://t.co/iaVFoP4efM

— Laura A Lorenzo (@laura_lrnzo) July 15, 2015

Her bio says: “Conservative, but not too much of a jerk about it.” Right.

re: #22 Charles Johnson

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@chucktodd He said drugging women and having sex with them was rape. Question was out of place in #IranDeal presser. You should work at KFC

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 15, 2015

Watched it on CNN. So who does Blitzer bring on immediately afterward for insightful analysis? Huckabee. Yep, Huckabee.

Edit: Sorry, Charles, didn’t mean to step on your toes, just fumbling with my IPhone.

Wingnuts now ranting at me that I “lied.” LOL.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2015

Wingnuts now ranting at me that I’m “un-American.” LOL.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2015

re: #26 whitebeach

Watched it on CNN. So who does Blitzer bring on immediately afterward for insightful analysis? Huckabee. Yep, Huckabee.

Was Tony Perkins unavailable?

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re: #25 darthstar

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And predictably, that’s what Chuck Todd came away with from the presser. Sigh.

Wingnuts now ranting at me that I’m “un-American.” LOL.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2015

I love that song!

Un-Ameri
Un-Ameri
He was an Un-American
Alllllright! He was an Un-Americaaaaan!

re: #30 darthstar

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I love that song!

Un-Ameri
Un-Ameri
He was an Un-American
Alllllright! He was an Un-Americaaaaan!

I would like that song a lot better if those were the real words.

@chucktodd <——— this guy calls himself a reporter. lol

— efuseakay (@efuseakay) July 15, 2015

re: #27 Charles Johnson

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re: #27 Charles Johnson

With all the wingnuts raving at you, it’s obvious that you do suck at something: being irrelevant.

SO PATHETIC==>

We The People Of America Demand Barack Hussein Obama Be Removed From Office Now! Please RT If U Agree! #tcot Agree! pic.twitter.com/vC5eHR7nD1

— DR. TWEET, Ph.D. (@Callisto1947) July 15, 2015

re: #35 The Vicious Babushka

SO PATHETIC==>

If enough twitbots retweet this tweet Obama will have to resign.

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I am loving second term Obama.

You can take Major Garrett out of Fox News, but you can’t take the Fox News out of Major Garrett.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2015

@JoyAnnReid @AprilDRyan Leave it to the WHPC to ask about a rapist during a presser on a nuclear arms deal. @POTUS had to refocus them after

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 15, 2015

@Green_Footballs those same wingnuts posting in their confederate flag skivvies from their basements.

— efuseakay (@efuseakay) July 15, 2015

re: #35 The Vicious Babushka

They can demand with one hand, shit in the other, then see which hand fills up first.

re: #35 The Vicious Babushka

SO PATHETIC==>

We The People Of America Demand Barack Hussein Obama Be Removed From Office Now! Please RT If U Agree!

tell us all about those High Crimes and Misdemeanors that are grave enough to warrant overturning the outcome of two free and fair elections…

re: #23 Charles Johnson

She apparently is an OathKeeper fan, at least by her article on Bundy on that website she links on her twitter page. A link, btw, that doesn’t work.

re: #42 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

tell us all about those High Crimes and Misdemeanors that are grave enough to warrant overturning the outcome of two free and fair elections…

Don’t have time for that. Elections fail, investigations fail. All else fails, just demand he resign or be replaced by military coup.

/

re: #35 The Vicious Babushka

SO PATHETIC==>

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There are some real pathetic people in this country, The GOP should be proud of the joke and trash they have turned their party into.

re: #25 darthstar

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I don’t want that nitwit messing up my chicken!

I need to write a browser extension that automatically blocks anyone whose profile looks like this. pic.twitter.com/OZCI9gnvvU

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2015

re: #42 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

tell us all about those High Crimes and Misdemeanors that are grave enough to warrant overturning the outcome of two free and fair elections…

Where there’s smoke there’s a black man setting a fire.

re: #42 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

tell us all about those High Crimes and Misdemeanors that are grave enough to warrant overturning the outcome of two free and fair elections…

The lack of such crimes is completely irrelevant. The only relevant fact regarding impeachment is the lack of a 2/3 majority in the Senate for a conviction.

If we ever get a Democratic president with a House GOP majority and 2/3 GOP in the Senate, impeachment proceedings will begin immediately and proceed down the line of succession along party-line votes until the Speaker of the House is reached and installed as POTUS.

re: #45 Tigger2

There are some real pathetic people in this country, The GOP should be proud of the joke and trash they have turned their party into.

They had a chance to distance themselves from people like this, but did not want to alienate their base. Now they have been dragged down to that level.

re: #47 Charles Johnson

NoSexMovement WTF??

re: #42 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

tell us all about those High Crimes and Misdemeanors that are grave enough to warrant overturning the outcome of two free and fair elections…

Coming from the same people who have no problem with Ronald Reagan committing actual treason.

re: #51 The Vicious Babushka

NoSexMovement WTF??

I don’t even want to know.

re: #20 The Vicious Babushka

*SMFH*

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Derpy little @benshapiro is extremely confused again. He seems to somehow support himself by making stupid assertions.

— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) July 15, 2015

re: #51 The Vicious Babushka

NoSexMovement WTF??

And vice-versa.

re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

They had a chance to distance themselves from people like this, but did not want to alienate their base. Now they have been dragged down to that level.

Didn’t have far to go. And I didn’t see any kicking or hear any screaming.

re: #35 The Vicious Babushka

SO PATHETIC==>

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We, MOST OF THE PEOPLE, want you assholes to shut up and sit down. The grownups are talking.

Given the military’s propensity for spending excessive amounts of money, I suggest Texas Jade Helm nutters spend less time worrying about Walmart and more time surveilling Neiman Marcus stores.

LIVE Now: @NASANewHorizons #PlutoFlyby briefing with new images! Watch: http://t.co/KX5g7yYnYG Question? Use #askNASA pic.twitter.com/PRk8IVmfut

— NASA (@NASA) July 15, 2015

Another entry in the GOPers acting like GOP douchebags file, part 1,000,001, subheading Mark Kirk: buzzfeed.com

“This is the greatest appeasement since Chamberlain gave Czechoslovakia to Hitler,” Kirk continued, saying he believed Obama only went through with the deal because he has a poor understanding of history and did not realize appeasement made war more likely. Kirk said he thought the deal meant that Israel would now have to take “military action against Iran.”

Kirk added that he believed the president would make this a “viciously partisan issue,” making it hard to get the votes to stop the deal from going forward.

For a GOPer to talk about vicious partisanship by Obama really takes hypocrisy to entirely new dimensions.

Diplomacy for Dummies: http://t.co/ctPV91PLvn pic.twitter.com/FxIKdO6wGb

— Matt! (@mattyglesias) July 15, 2015

re: #61 EPR-radar

Another entry in the GOPers acting like GOP douchebags file, part 1,000,001, subheading Mark Kirk: buzzfeed.com

For a GOPer to talk about vicious partisanship by Obama really takes hypocrisy to entirely new dimensions.

One of their talking points is that Obama is a dangerous partisan who somehow divided the nation via Conservative racism, which is just fine and not the problem at all.

Hey, what if the people who sent a machine 9 billion miles to fly by an icy rock are right about climate? http://t.co/ALKkp8yFwF

— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) July 15, 2015

All they have to do is produce a climate model that isn't always wrong. Shouldn't be that hard, right? https://t.co/dQa1i47qYM

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 15, 2015

re: #64 The Vicious Babushka

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re: #51 The Vicious Babushka

NoSexMovement WTF??

I think they’re the ones who paid Bristol Palin for her services as an expert on abstinence.

The president answers questions about nuclear policy for over an hour with clarity, logic, and mastery of the subject matter. Dude haz some mad TelePrompTer skilz.

re: #61 EPR-radar

Another entry in the GOPers acting like GOP douchebags file, part 1,000,001, subheading Mark Kirk: buzzfeed.com

For a GOPer to talk about vicious partisanship by Obama really takes hypocrisy to entirely new dimensions.

From Wikipedia: “In a speech on the floor of the House in 2003, Kirk stated: ‘The last time I was in Iraq I was in uniform, flying at 20,000 feet, and the Iraqi Air Defense network was shooting at us”. Kirk has since clarified his statement, indicating that there is no record of his aircraft being fired upon.[26] ‘I simply misremembered [sic] it wrong’, he told the Chicago Sun-Times, referring to his military record.[27]”

re: #61 EPR-radar

“This is the greatest appeasement since Chamberlain gave Czechoslovakia to Hitler,” …

I called this 2 days ago… which is why I have been playing music from 1939, in honor of the Chamberlainization of American policy.

God bless you, Major Garrett

— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) July 15, 2015

re: #53 Charles Johnson

I don’t even want to know.

I checked it out. It’s the typical wingnut purity garbage. Either that or it’s a really well done parody.

They have a lot of tweets and FB posts about avoiding sex and masturbation before marriage and that they’re distractions from loving God. Lots of talk about how you can serve God or serve your sex drive, but you can’t do both.

re: #70 Kragar

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Is @toddstarnes ever right about anything, or is he so blinded by his superstitions that he's totally lost at all times?

— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) July 15, 2015

Major Garrett's framing gets to the core of the media's attempt to otherize President Obama; Questioning his love of country. #ObamaPresser

— Keith White (@Keethers) July 15, 2015

.@Nemstar Stupid fantasy-prone #Wingnuts like @toddstarnes believe a lot of things that are not only not true, but are totally absurd.

— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) July 15, 2015

re: #70 Kragar

Todd Starnes is the kind of pinhead that would approve of any GOPer that would throw a bag of flaming dog crap at the White House front door.

That is pretty much what passes for public policy dispute among Republicans these days.

re: #75 EPR-radar

Todd Starnes is the kind of pinhead that would approve of any GOPer that would throw a bag of flaming dog crap at the White House front door.

That is pretty much what passes for public policy dispute among Republicans these days.

He’s just another fat, stupid Confederate, who would die of a heart attack if he ever had to back up his malicious words in a real fight.

re: #75 EPR-radar

Todd Starnes is the kind of pinhead that would approve of any GOPer that would throw a bag of flaming dog crap at the White House front door.

That is pretty much what passes for public policy dispute among Republicans these days.

Todd Starnes is the professional outrage-monger who makes up fake stories about HURR HURR CHRISTIANS IS BEIN PERSECUTED BY TEH GHEY!!!!!! which then get banged around Teh Twitters.

#NoSexMovement You can’t make me click that hashtag. @spencerwindes

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2015

.@NolteNC is a living example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. https://t.co/ExnAl8lnEK-Kruger_effect @FurlingtonJeff

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2015

re: #77 The Vicious Babushka

Really Todd is just made fun of for being both arrogant and stupid, which is a really bad combination and too common in his subculture. He’s not being persecuted due to being Christian, but for being an UpChuck kind of guy.

re: #78 Charles Johnson

Hush! Maybe some of them won’t reproduce.

Noted climate scientist Sean Davis weighs in. pic.twitter.com/97n63n6j4d

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2015

#NoSexMovement is people saving sex for marriage, or Christ, or whatever.

This is all I could think of:

Off topic..

The “It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad Max Fury Road” Mashup Trailer is Why the Internet Was Invented

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#nosexmovement?? I didn’t realize how prescient my high school social life was…

re: #39 darthstar

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No questions about ol’ Josh Dugger child bugger.

Note to Appeasement! screamers:

re: #87 De Kolta Chair

I forgot about that.

re: #49 EPR-radar

The lack of such crimes is completely irrelevant. The only relevant fact regarding impeachment is the lack of a 2/3 majority in the Senate for a conviction.

If we ever get a Democratic president with a House GOP majority and 2/3 GOP in the Senate, impeachment proceedings will begin immediately and proceed down the line of succession along party-line votes until the Speaker of the House is reached and installed as POTUS.

And if they blatantly did that, I would be the one taking up arms.

HOLY JUMPING GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD. One frame of Pluto mosaic, from the bottom left of the heart. Holy wow! pic.twitter.com/LFYB36MqJB

— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) July 15, 2015

HOLY JUMPING GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD. One frame of Pluto mosaic, from the bottom left of the heart. Holy wow! pic.twitter.com/LFYB36MqJB

— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) July 15, 2015

No impact craters at all in this image. That means it’s young, resurfaced. Maybe <100 million years old. VERY young.

— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) July 15, 2015

This is from 2012, but I just saw it last night so I’m going to assume many of you haven’t seen it either. It’s a perfect example of extreme homophobic delusional wingnuttery. Watch the expressions on the face of guy in the background to the left of the woman—they’re priceless:

Video

We take this break from GOP insanity, Major Garrett dumbassery, and anti-choice video hackery to give you….

Pluto:

HOLY JUMPING GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD. One frame of Pluto mosaic, from the bottom left of the heart. Holy wow! pic.twitter.com/LFYB36MqJB

— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) July 15, 2015

Breaking zoom reveal of Pluto terrain detail - not a single crater found. #NewHorizons #Pluto #plutofly pic.twitter.com/BIUatxCdVe

— Jason Drakeford (@jasondrakeford) July 15, 2015

re: #83 Franklin

#NoSexMovement is people saving sex for marriage, or Christ, or whatever.

This is all I could think of:

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I took a picture of the back of a bus in Manila once that had, “I THRUST IN JESUS” across the back in big letters…unfortunately, that was several email addresses ago and I have no copy anywhere online anymore.

Hey, Charles:

OT: How does that Amazon click thingy work for you? Do I just click on a Amazon ad on the page? I’ve already got some stuff in my basket.

re: #90 Charles Johnson

That 50 mile scale suggest that there are some serious fucking mountains on Pluto.

re: #88 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

I forgot about that.

I forgot how to spell his last name. ;-)

re: #70 Kragar

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God already did. Gave a simple mind to a simple fellow.

re: #95 darthstar

I took a picture of the back of a bus in Manila once that had, “I THRUST IN JESUS” across the back in big letters…unfortunately, that was several email addresses ago and I have no copy anywhere online anymore.

In Soviet Russia, Jesus Thrusts in You.

@Mediaite @MajorCBS “Provocative?” You were an asshole. He called you on it. #Suckit

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 15, 2015

My grandfather loved astronomy and passed that love on to me. I wish he were around to see this, he would have loved it. RIP Gramps. I miss you.

re: #57 BeachDem

Didn’t have far to go. And I didn’t see any kicking or hear any screaming.

There was a time when their politics consisted of more than knee-jerk opposition to anything a Democrat supports.

I like how excited LGF is about Pluto pictures.

It’s cheering me up after reading political derp in one of my cross stitch forums. I should know better.

@seanmdav “Chaotic, nonlinear dynamics” does have a lot of syllables, doesn't it?

— free token (@freetoken) July 15, 2015

What is going on around here?

I step away this morning to do some searching for work and I come back and I see a change in the comments section appearance in the thread I had open for lurking. Then I go to a new thread and it has changed to something closer to what it looked like previous.

Am I seeing things or is the mad coder Charles trying things out on the fly?

Now…back to try to catch up with the three threads that have popped up since…

re: #106 ObserverArt

I’ve seen it happen too - the colored backgrounds on the comment boxes go missing. It fixes if you reload the page.

Here’s what confuses me about purity movement. They agree on the following:

- God designed humans to be sexual beings and gave us sex drives
- As part of that, he also designed us to have a biological yearning for sex from adolescence on
- But He also forbids sex outside of marriage
- And He forbids masturbation*

* This last point is theologically debated. The Bible doesn’t say too much about masturbation and Jesus himself never addresses it. He does mention “sexual immorality” but there’s an ongoing and sure to be virtually endless debate about what that term actually means.

But I can’t for the life of me reconcile why God would design us as sexual beings but then apparently leave unmarried people with no avenue whatsoever for sexual release. My personal belief is that masturbation is NOT sexually amoral, provided it is NOT being used as a substitute for a normal sex like while married.

Also factor in that in Biblical times, people got married a lot younger. There is of course much less of an issue waiting until marriage for sex if you are getting married at 14/15/16.

Just a few quickies about appeasement. To give some context to the decisions of those days, remember that France and Great Britain suffered a combined total of 9+ million casualties in WW1. If you were going to ask the flower of European youth to go back to war with weapons even more advanced than those that they had just used a generation before, it had to be for something more important than the Sudetenland. French labor unions threatened strikes in case of war, and there was genuine fear that they could have held a war and nobody showed up.

re: #96 Mattand

Hey, Charles:

OT: How does that Amazon click thingy work for you? Do I just click on a Amazon ad on the page? I’ve already got some stuff in my basket.

Well, I think you need to click through from one of our links before adding things to your basket — there’s a button in the left column that says “Shop at Amazon as an LGF Associate”, that contains our code. It’s also on the front page in the right sidebar.

re: #104 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I like how excited LGF is about Pluto pictures.

It’s cheering me up after reading political derp in one of my cross stitch forums. I should know better.

Just don’t ask them if Pluto is a planet or a dwarf planet.

re: #110 Charles Johnson

Well, I think you need to click through from one of our links before adding things to your basket — there’s a button in the left column that says “Shop at Amazon as an LGF Associate”, that contains our code. It’s also on the front page in the right sidebar.

Okay. Found the upper left button after I posted. I can clear the basket and put the stuff in Save for Later.

re: #108 Eclectic Cyborg

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- And He forbids masturbation*

* This last point is theologically debated. The Bible doesn’t say too much about masturbation and Jesus himself never addresses it. He does mention “sexual immorality” but there’s an ongoing and sure to be virtually endless debate about what that term actually means.

Seed spilling is clearly forbidden. And as Christine O’Donnel pointed out, it is driven by lust, which is sinful.

Although in my case, it is not so much driven by lust as by force of habit…

re: #113 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Seed spilling is clearly forbidden. And as Christine O’Donnel pointed out, it is driven by lust, which is sinful.

Although in my cse, it is not so much driven by lust as by force of habit…

They often point to story of Onan for that, but Onan was punished because his seed spilling was in defiance of God, not because the act itself was sinful…or so goes the general logic.

re: #111 Mattand

Just don’t ask them if Pluto is a planet or a dwarf planet.

It’s a mutt.

Pluto's moon Charon “did not disappoint either” said Cathy Olkin, a New Horizons scientist http://t.co/x0UoTIOVej pic.twitter.com/nhantiygKA

— NYT Science (@NYTScience) July 15, 2015

Yeah, that’s Charon. And Mordor has been identified. Now where’s Isengard. I see a massive canyon though.

re: #111 Mattand

Just don’t ask them if Pluto is a planet or a dwarf planet.

Who, LGF or the cross stitch ladies?

I’m fairly certain some of these women wouldn’t know either term if it bit them on the ass.

re: #108 Eclectic Cyborg

Here’s what confuses me about purity movement. They agree on the following:

- God designed humans to be sexual beings and gave us sex drives
- As part of that, he also designed us to have a biological yearning for sex from adolescence on
- But He also forbids sex outside of marriage
- And He forbids masturbation*

* This last point is theologically debated. The Bible doesn’t say too much about masturbation and Jesus himself never addresses it. He does mention “sexual immorality” but there’s an ongoing and sure to be virtually endless debate about what that term actually means.

But I can’t for the life of me reconcile why God would design us as sexual beings but then apparently leave unmarried people with no avenue whatsoever for sexual release. My personal belief is that masturbation is NOT sexually amoral, provided it is NOT being used as a substitute for a normal sex like while married.

Also factor in that in Biblical times, people got married a lot younger. There is of course much less of an issue waiting until marriage for sex if you are getting married at 14/15/16.

You’re always gonna have a problem picking up a body in one piece asking for logical consistency out of a faith-based, puritanical movement.

re: #117 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Who, LGF or the cross stitch ladies?

I’m fairly certain some of these women wouldn’t know either term if it bit them on the ass.

I meant the cross-stitch ladies. I was surprised by the anger of people a few years ago when Pluto got demoted. Lots of “What do those trained astronomers know about planets anyway?” kind of stuff.

@tnr @Maggyw519 Well, @ScottWalker only likes straight dick.

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 15, 2015

re: #114 Eclectic Cyborg

They often point to story of Onan for that, but Onan was punished because his seed spilling was in defiance of God, not because the act itself was sinful…or so goes the general logic.

Wasn’t Onan’s sin that he pulled out rather than getting his sister-in-law pregnant after his brother had died? I seem to remember that.

re: #108 Eclectic Cyborg

Here’s what confuses me about purity movement. They agree on the following:

If I ever become a spiritually-minded person, I’m going to join a religion that worships a god who is married, or at least goes out on dates.

re: #122 De Kolta Chair

If I ever become a spiritually-minded person, I’m going to join a religion that worships a god who is married, or at least goes out on dates.

Just start worshipping the Greek pantheon. They had enough sex, dysfunction, gluttony, and drama for everyone.

re: #121 Lidane

Wasn’t Onan’s sin that he pulled out rather than getting his sister-in-law pregnant after his brother had died? I seem to remember that.

That was my understanding.

But in a larger sense, how can one believe in a God that created the hand, and the genitalia, put them within easy reach of each other, made the interaction of one with the other very pleasurable, and then made it grounds for damnation?

re: #124 Blind Frog Belly White

That was my understanding.

But in a larger sense, how can one believe in a God that created the hand, and the genitalia, put them within easy reach of each other, made the interaction of one with the other very pleasurable, and then made it grounds for damnation?

It’s a tarp obviously!

Jeb Bush donated more to his campaign from his own pocket ($389k)than he raised from small donors ($368) #peoplepower http://t.co/FH1XmOwlgr

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) July 15, 2015

re: #114 Eclectic Cyborg

They often point to story of Onan for that, but Onan was punished because his seed spilling was in defiance of God, not because the act itself was sinful…or so goes the general logic.

Oh, shit…seed spilling is illegal?

re: #90 Charles Johnson

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re: #27 Charles Johnson

Wingnuts now ranting at me that I “lied.” LOL.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2015

Wingnuts now ranting at me that I’m “un-American.” LOL.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 15, 2015

In which today’s RWNJs show themselves to be true heirs of “Tailgunner Joe” McCarthy.

Trump says he's filed w/ the FEX, says the report “was not designed for a man of Mr. Trump's massive wealth” pic.twitter.com/Tye10cH6pw

— Hunter Schwarz (@hunterschwarz) July 15, 2015

@SMArikat Look at the bright side, Bibi. In 8-10 years, you'll be able to buy arms from Iran and won't need US welfare. @MiddleEastEye

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 15, 2015

re: #108 Eclectic Cyborg

But I can’t for the life of me reconcile why God would design us as sexual beings but then apparently leave unmarried people with no avenue whatsoever for sexual release.

Omar Khayyam had a period where he wrestled with that conundrum (paradox?). He seemed to finally resolve it, but he never said how exactly.

When, bending low, God moulded me from clay,
Incontrovertibly my life was ordered:
Without His order I abstain from crime.
Why should I burn, then, on His Judgement Day?
—Rubaiyat, Quatrain LXXXII

That sin is irresistible, He knows;
Yet He commands us to abstain from sin.
Thus irresistibility confounds us
With prohibition:—‘Lean, but never fall!’
—Rubaiyat, Quatrain LXXXIII

Ordaining every cause for life or death,
Guarding this tattered robe we call the Sky,
Say, am I sinful? Are you not my Master?
Who sins when You alone created me?
—Rubaiyat, Quatrain LXXXVIII

re: #114 Eclectic Cyborg

They often point to story of Onan for that, but Onan was punished because his seed spilling was in defiance of God, not because the act itself was sinful…or so goes the general logic.

The point is that Christianity and early Christian doctrine was shaped by a bunch of people who were wracked by self-loathing and sexual insecurities. That tradition continues in Biblical exegesis to this day.

re: #130 Lidane

Trump says he’s filed w/ the FEX, says the report “was not designed for a man of Mr. Trump’s massive wealth”

He is too big for man’s law, only God’s Law can govern over him.

re: #87 De Kolta Chair

Note to Appeasement! screamers:

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“Chamberlain” is mispelled…

re: #127 darthstar

Oh, shit…seed spilling is illegal?

Only if done on main street downtown, at least that is what the judge told me.

re: #135 TedStriker

“Chamberlain” is mispelled…

In my defense, I was using Nostradamus’ spelling. ;-P

re: #130 Lidane

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re: #124 Blind Frog Belly White

That was my understanding.

But in a larger sense, how can one believe in a God that created the hand, and the genitalia, put them within easy reach of each other, made the interaction of one with the other very pleasurable, and then made it grounds for damnation?

Well, he did put a snake con artist in a tree and tempted Eve with an apple from that tree and we are all paying the price for that…so, he can be a tricky God!

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re: #124 Blind Frog Belly White

That was my understanding.

But in a larger sense, how can one believe in a God that created the hand, and the genitalia, put them within easy reach of each other, made the interaction of one with the other very pleasurable, and then made it grounds for damnation?

Sort of like a banana.

re: #121 Lidane

Wasn’t Onan’s sin that he pulled out rather than getting his sister-in-law pregnant after his brother had died? I seem to remember that.

Yeah—he didn’t stand up for biblical marriage.

re: #130 Lidane

Seen elsewhere on the internet:

The second sentence of the Trump financial disclosure press release “reads like a kid complaining that XXL condoms are too tight.”