Sunday, December 14, 2008
Drugs Mass Appeal
Posted by Dan Savage on Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:39 PM
People also turn to drugs during bad times. Just sayin'.
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During bad times I have an outlet: I blame Black Homophobia for all my problems. It's a simple conclusion, and it's easy to start a bandwagon, specially here in rich liberal white Seattle....
Who wants to join me?
Who wants to join me?
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This week the Senate Armed Services Committee issued a powerful report, released jointly by chair Carl Levin and ranking member John McCain, that received the unanimous support of its Democratic and Republican members. The report concluded that Donald Rumsfeld and other high-level officials of the administration consciously adopted a policy for the torture and abuse of prisoners held in the war on terror. It also found that they attempted to cover up their conduct by waging a P.R. campaign to put the blame on a group of young soldiers they called “rotten apples.” Lawyers figure prominently among the miscreants identified. Evidently the torture policy’s authors then enlisted ethics-challenged lawyers to craft memoranda designed to give torture “the appearance of legality” as part of a scheme to create the torture program despite internal opposition
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@ 1. I agree, I love the gays and I love the blacks, which in my opinion there are not enough of either here in Seattle. It just bums me out that I actually get excited when I see an actual black person here. Sometimes leading to some uncomfortable glances from the afformentioned.
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When I start feeling low or anxious about the economy, I just add a little more whiskey to my coffee. Works just as well, and I don't have to hold hands with anybody or sing.
Well, sometimes I sing.
Well, sometimes I sing.
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"Like the people who want to build more prisons, the church depends on repeat offenders."-Mr Obvious.
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You could be like that "Bong hits for Jesus" kid & combine drugs & religion for the ultimate high:
http://ablogination.tn420.org/blog/media…
Denial is denial, no matter what the flavor.
http://ablogination.tn420.org/blog/media…
Denial is denial, no matter what the flavor.
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Yeah, when nothing else works and everything is going to hell in a handbasket, I always feel better convincing myself that some guy in the sky (God? Santa? Orville Wright?) is gonna make things hunky-dory because believing just Makes It So. Plus those ministerial charlatans and their wives need nice new appliances and designer shoes too. Throw another hand into the bucket of amputations and praise the Lord.
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Wow. I lost any last shred of respect for Savage today. The readers of this rag deserve so much better than this cynical, arrogant bullshit. Your hearts are black. If there is a hell you are already there.
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hey now, drugs and religion are HARDLY mutually exclusive:
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_rel…
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_rel…
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Big jumps in membership for the crazy churches, continued deflation of the not-so-crazy ones. Sigh.
In “Praying for Recession: The Business Cycle and Protestant Religiosity in the United States,” David Beckworth, an assistant professor of economics at Texas State University, looked at long-established trend lines showing the growth of evangelical congregations and the decline of mainline churches and found a more telling detail: During each recession cycle between 1968 and 2004, the rate of growth in evangelical churches jumped by 50 percent. By comparison, mainline Protestant churches continued their decline during recessions, though a bit more slowly.
Big jumps in membership for the crazy churches, continued deflation of the not-so-crazy ones. Sigh.
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