Ethics Committee Chairman Corrects Himself After Declaring Hastert Has Done An ‘Excellent Job’
By on Oct 5th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
Ethics Committee Chairman Corrects Himself After Declaring Hastert Has Done An ‘Excellent Job’
Moments ago during a press conference, a reporter asked House ethics committee chairman Doc Hastings (R-WA) if he supports Speaker Hastert. “I think the Speaker has done an excellent job,” Hastings replied.
But moments later, sensing his previous comments might lead some to question his impartiality, Hastings added that his praise for Hastert was “not related to the matter at hand here.” Watch it:
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Transcript:
REPORTER: Mr. Hastings, do you still personally support the speaker?
HASTINGS: I think the speaker has done an excellent job.
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HASTINGS: I want to thank you all for coming. Before I, before we quit here, I just simply want to say the remarks that I made regarding Speaker Hastert is not related to the matter at hand here.
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…the remarks that I made regarding Speaker Hastert is not related to the matter at hand here. – - **rimshot**
October 5th, 2006 at 3:33 pmRepublicans are falling all over themselves stabbing each other in the back > let it continue untill they are all slain > lol.
October 5th, 2006 at 3:33 pmSomewhat on topic…these guys crack me up.
Don’t Take a Page from Foley’s Book!!!
Sheeeeeeeeeeesh.
October 5th, 2006 at 3:34 pmWhat planet is Doc Hastings residing on????
October 5th, 2006 at 3:34 pmGOP’s eating it’s own now. Let the games begin!
October 5th, 2006 at 3:35 pmDoc Hastings was for Dennis Hastert before he was against Dennis Hastert.
October 5th, 2006 at 3:38 pmDenny, you’re dowing a Heckava job
October 5th, 2006 at 3:38 pmShorter Hastings: He’s done an excellent job – except for this moral cesspit that’s opened up on the House floor, truly excellent.
October 5th, 2006 at 3:38 pmHastings did use the past tense in describing how Bassturd performed his job…….
October 5th, 2006 at 3:38 pmBeware of Boehner…….. he is far slippery-er and evil than the mishap DeLay whose job he took over…. if he has designs on the Speakers chair (and remember he was implicated in the attempted overthrow of Newt Gingerich way back then)…..
Gird thyselves well for interesting times, folks….
Well Doc, That means that he hasn’t done an excellent job, doesn’t it? Damn, republicans just suck. All-time newly attained levels of hypocracy.
October 5th, 2006 at 3:40 pmA Libby Pardon for Christmas?
October 5th, 2006 at 3:42 pmHe meant “Uh… I forgot the new talking point. I should have said that I don’t approve of the people in my party who will harm my chances of being re-election next month.”
October 5th, 2006 at 3:42 pmPresident Bush and his functionaries indeed have lost enormous credibility for the perception of our country internationally. Perhaps more damaging than that, they have created the greatest cultural, religious, and political divide domestically since our own Civil War.
October 5th, 2006 at 3:44 pmSomeone here said (I think last weekend) Hasturd would resign on Friday, looks like tomorrow is gonna be a funnnnnnnnnnnn day!
October 5th, 2006 at 3:44 pmDrudge is saying that the IMs were pranks….of course they were Mr. Rove err, I mean Drudge.
http://www.drudgereport.com/
October 5th, 2006 at 3:44 pmDoc – what a joke – check out Jesus’ General’s letter to ol’ Doc on the General’s blog today(blogspot.patriotboy.com) – wonderful stuff – like the Gen., I’m from WA state too, so I share a special kind of embarrassment in knowing my home state has sent this old dullard to DC for so long. Which way did they go, Doc, which way did they go?
October 5th, 2006 at 3:47 pmDrudge is saying that the IMs were pranks….
Comment by cagefighter — October 5, 2006 @ 3:44 pm
Wow, Drudge must be exceptionally stupid to think we’d fall for that nonsense. No one would resign his job over a prank… He’s be furiously hiring attorneys to sue someone for setting him up.
October 5th, 2006 at 3:49 pmREPORTER: Mr. Hastings, do you still personally support the speaker?
HASTINGS: I think the speaker has done an excellent job.
……….Reality creeps into Hastings head and he realizes that he just supported a man who covered for a pedophile……
HASTINGS: I want to thank you all for coming. Before I, before we quit here, I just simply want to say the remarks that I made regarding Speaker Hastert is not related to the matter at hand here.
October 5th, 2006 at 3:51 pm#15 – “Drudge is saying that the IMs were pranks….”
Drudge, I guess that’s why Rep. Foley resigned. It was all a prank.
October 5th, 2006 at 3:59 pmwhat a flip-flopper
October 5th, 2006 at 4:04 pmWhat does druge say about the testimony given last night by the former page who was referred to in the older IM’s?? Pranks, huh? Criminal activities is more like it.
October 5th, 2006 at 4:04 pmHastings lost it – that’s apparent. I can well imagine being a Repug these days and not knowing how “to spin spin” any more. By the end, you’re a raving hypocrite speaking out of both gruesome sides of your mouth. I guess Hastings’ credibility is toast. Either that or he needs some meds for senility??
October 5th, 2006 at 4:06 pmI can see it all now….The Republicans come back and convince the media that “who knew what and when†and try to refocus on who leaked the emails and IM’s. They pull it off and the media picks up the trail and start going on the trail of who leaked and it will somehow turn out to be Dems…. The story will get all cloudy and the Democrats will screw it up again and not be able stay on point. And finally we lose the election yay, Nice job! You laugh? Watch
October 5th, 2006 at 4:06 pmLet’s all send Hastings a pair of flip flops for christmas!
October 5th, 2006 at 4:07 pmI can see it all now….The Republicans come back and convince the media that “who knew what and when†and try to refocus on who leaked the emails and IM’s. They pull it off and the media picks up the trail and start going on the trail of who leaked and it will somehow turn out to be Dems…. The story will get all cloudy and the Democrats will screw it up again and not be able stay on point. And finally we lose the election yay, Nice job! You laugh? Watch..you’ll see
October 5th, 2006 at 4:07 pmHASTINGS: I think the speaker has done an excellent job shirking responsibility, passing the buck, starting a witch-hunt, playing deflection games. Yes, they don’t come any better than Dennis Hastert.
October 5th, 2006 at 4:10 pmBye bye Thinkprogress, I’m done here. All Foley all the time and you brook no discussion of anything else.
October 5th, 2006 at 4:13 pmSuppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
October 5th, 2006 at 4:19 pm- Mark Twain
The contact info for the lead investigator:
October 5th, 2006 at 4:28 pmChief of Staff and Chief Counsel: William O’Reilly – (202) 225-7103
You go girlfriend!
October 5th, 2006 at 4:29 pmI love how bush isn’t running for another term, yet he defends Hastert and says nothing because he is too ill-eloquent. What a scumbag! Hey bush, you don’t have a comment on young boys being stalked by REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN? Uh, no…..DA… ]
October 5th, 2006 at 4:44 pmBy the way, why did they allow him to be the chairman of the’ Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus’ after knowing of his ‘issues’?
Doc is a Washington state hillbilly, who isn’t capable of remembering what he had for breakfast, let alone what he thinks about the performance of the Speaker.
October 5th, 2006 at 4:48 pmWhaazzat>? Speaker? Tris Speaker was quite a baseball guy, uh yuk!
Hastings had a “matter” at hand? Well, obviously Doc is too old for the likes of Foley… but Hastert?… Hmmm… now there’s something I don’t want to think about.
GOP == Greedy ‘Ol Pedophiles
October 5th, 2006 at 4:53 pm“The Lies Start Hereâ€â€¦â€The Buck Stop’s Over Thereâ€â€¦
October 5th, 2006 at 4:54 pmWhat was Hasert’s supposed to do?
These IM’s from Foley were sent to an 18 year old. Aren’t you guys the party that is against people putting out private info from 2 consenting adults? Was Hasert supposed to “out” someone for being gay with another adult?
October 5th, 2006 at 4:55 pmFOLEY IM’s WERE PRANK
According to two people close to former congressional page Jordan Edmund, the now famous lurid AOL IM exchanges that led to the resignation of Mark Foley were part of an online prank that by mistake got into the hands of enemy political operatives, it was revealed today.
According to one Oklahoma source who knows the former page very well, Edmund, goaded an unwitting Foley to type embarrassing comments that were then shared with a small group of young Hill politicos. The prank went awry when the saved IM sessions got into the hands of Dem political operatives.
The primary source, an ally of Edmund, adamantly proclaims that the former page is not a homosexual. The prank scenario was confirmed by a second associate of Edmund. Both are fearful that their political careers will be affected if they are publicly brought into the matter.
The news come on the heels that Edmund has hired former Timothy McVeigh attorney, Stephen Jones.
October 5th, 2006 at 4:56 pmWhat a dope!….a VERBAL signing statement….lololol…cover your ass slimeball…..
October 5th, 2006 at 4:57 pmRoger –
October 5th, 2006 at 4:58 pmHastert was supposed to call all his male adult friends who have sons between 16 and 21 and offer them up to Foley. That’s what the $100, 000 donation was for.
HASTINGS: I think the speaker has done an excellent job….except when he’s done a sucky job….like right now…..
October 5th, 2006 at 4:58 pmRoger, Roger, Roger…please try and get your names right, your grammar correct and your facts straight.
October 5th, 2006 at 4:59 pmIt’s funny how we were talking about the ridiculous neocon talking points and then, along come the trolls spouting the nonsense we were just laughing at.
There is more than one BOY, and they ranged from 13 to 17. He’s guilty. Get over it.
October 5th, 2006 at 5:03 pmWhere is Joe Lieberman?
October 5th, 2006 at 5:03 pmRoger….have a nice SIX YEAR NAP?????……DUH…
October 5th, 2006 at 5:05 pmIf memory serves, Hastings was the reason there was virtually no Ethics Committee these past couple of years. Didn’t he insist on using his own staff people on the committee, in violation of House rules, thus bringing all work to a halt? Why would what he says matter?
#27 faston, That’s one of my favorite Mark Twain lines.
#34 Roger_Roger, You should update your facts. Some of the IM recipients were under 18.
October 5th, 2006 at 5:05 pmFaith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
–Dan Barker, “Losing Faith in Faith”
October 5th, 2006 at 5:06 pmFaith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
– Richard Dawkins
October 5th, 2006 at 5:09 pmhttp://www.drudgereport.com/flashmfa.htm
October 5th, 2006 at 5:18 pmLooking at the ThinkProgress page, it looks like 13 of 14 stories are about the Foley scandal. Progs have officially taken there eye off the ball.
October 5th, 2006 at 5:22 pmChin
There was more then one page getting IM’ed and Emailed. Sorry the prank excuse does not wash.
Unbelievable:
“Have faith” is just a nice way of saying “Be gullible.”
Me.
October 5th, 2006 at 5:23 pmHASTINGS: I think the speaker has done an excellent job.
I think he ment to say “handjob.”
October 5th, 2006 at 5:24 pmProgs have officially taken there eye off the ball.
Comment by paul — October 5, 2006 @ 5:22 pm
Oh, pray tell what would the appropriate balls be? Clearly not the ones Foley was eyeing…
October 5th, 2006 at 5:25 pmAHAHAHA,
So the nasty IM’s were truly between to consenting adults. The other emails weren’t even deemed illegal by the FBI. So basically, this is just an over blown story that the Dems are using to prop themselves up for the elections. Pretty sad when you need to post personal IM’s between to consenting adults, wrecking their lives, simply for a few votes. I thought you guys were the party against this type of stuff. I though you were to party that was for gay rights. Only if they are Dems I guess.
October 5th, 2006 at 5:28 pm“Have faith†is just a nice way of saying “Be gullible.â€
Comment by Bruce+Gorton — October 5, 2006 @ 5:23 pm
I never cease to be amazed by how many people simply do. And, even more so by those who get angry at those of us who refuse to comply with their absurd demand of obedience without question.
I’ve been an atheist now for about 3 – 4 years. The longer I live as one, the less and less I understand how anyone could ever fall for the great lies of religion considering their extreme inconsistency with the universe in which we live.
October 5th, 2006 at 5:29 pmOh, pray tell what would the appropriate balls be? Clearly not the ones Foley was eyeing…
Comment by unbelievable
*snort* Oh god…
October 5th, 2006 at 5:29 pm#55…It’s pretty sad that you defend an elected official using his office of power to seduce teenagers. Is this the kind of behavior we should just expect and accept from Republicans??
October 5th, 2006 at 5:30 pmI’m sorry, but that’s hilarious. O wait, that’s sad.
October 5th, 2006 at 5:31 pm“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
—Isaac Asimov
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.â€
—Richard Dawkins
“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”
—George Bernard Shaw
October 5th, 2006 at 5:32 pmLets see so far the Republican government is…
Wussies: Patriot act.
Negligent: Katrina
Crooked: K Street.
Sadistic: McCain bill authorising torture.
Stoopid/racist/both: Macaca anyone?
And last of all; a bunch of perverts: Foley.
Is there anything these guys have going for them? I mean I haven’t even touched on Iraq here.
October 5th, 2006 at 5:33 pm*snort* Oh god…
Comment by Zooey — October 5, 2006 @ 5:29 pm
I hang around 16-18 year old boys all day… It seemed obvious : )
October 5th, 2006 at 5:36 pm#54. unbelievable. nice. I also appreciate #60. I’m agnostic.
October 5th, 2006 at 5:38 pmIs there anything these guys have going for them? I mean I haven’t even touched on Iraq here.
Comment by Bruce+Gorton — October 5, 2006 @ 5:33 pm
Nope. It’s why they have to lie and steal elections.
Today I told my classes how much the Iraq War had cost the United States. I first let them take some guesses. They thought 2 billion was an outrageously high guess. You can imagine what they thought about 800 billion.
Good thing many of them are planning to vote next month.
October 5th, 2006 at 5:40 pm“Help preserve your child’s belief in Santa Claus. Tell him or her that Santa will send them to hell if they don’t believe in him.”
—unknown
October 5th, 2006 at 5:43 pmOne more test….
October 5th, 2006 at 5:47 pmunbelievable
I think it is ultimately a deep inborn need to return to their childhoods, when they were safe and their parents looked after them. That and their parents taught it to them, it was what society expected of them, and there is a definite social aspect to religion which atheism in some ways lacks.
It is a crutch which is very difficult to let go of, but most people that let go, or never really had it in the first place, find that we can stand on our own fine. Those who don’t, maybe can’t.
October 5th, 2006 at 5:47 pmPaul,
I’m finding that more and more people are starting to admit that they have problems with organized religion. You should hear my students get into a conversation about it. The believers are a shrinking minority.
(Note to Jesus-freaks: They do not know my non-belief, as I do not discuss it with them. I live in the deep South after-all. I merely give them the latittude to speak their minds, as it’s their constitutional right to do so, and make sure they do not insult one another’s views.)
“I am treated as evil by those who feel persecuted because they are not allowed to force me to believe as they do.”
October 5th, 2006 at 5:49 pm—unknown
Bruce,
Sure, there is a social aspect to religion. But from the perspective on knowledge, it’s a pretty unintelligent one. I’d rather talk to the wall than most anyone religious about religion. In fact, there were a group of teachers having a discussion about religion the other day and it was terribly ill-informed and ignorant. I kept disagreeing with people because they were so delusional about history and the very faith they claim to follow. Beating my head against the wall would have been more fun than listening to these people as they claimed the demise in our country came when we pulled religion out of the public school system, ignoring teh fact that a Christian man had just gone into a Christian school this week and killed Christians….
I find that life became so much more fulfilling when I realized that I was my own god, so to speak, than a mere puppet to an indifferent master.
October 5th, 2006 at 5:56 pm“It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.”
– George W. Foote
October 5th, 2006 at 5:57 pmBesides,
We are the big tent party and most of America is still Christian. It is 100% ok not to be christian, but do you think it is a great idea to simply rip on someone for their faith? Not a very american thing to do if you ask me. It is also not a very smart political move. Then again, our leaders in the Dem party would never talk like that anyways as they know it is politcal suicide.
October 5th, 2006 at 5:59 pmHmm, now it turns out that the emails and IMs in question were between consenting adults. So let me hear from all you “progressives” out there – are you in favor of the government conducting surveillance of the emails and IMs of suspected homosexuals?
The Dems are in danger of making electronic fantasies about gay sex worse than a terrorist plot. Of course, that would be in keeping with their lack of seriousness about protecting the country from attack. What a bunch of losers!
October 5th, 2006 at 6:00 pmHmm, now it turns out that the emails and IMs in question were between consenting adults.
Comment by Citizen+Dad — October 5, 2006 @ 6:00 pm
Prove it. (Hint: You can’t because it’s just a neocon wish, and not reality).
Sick that anyone’s Dad would defend a pedophile.
October 5th, 2006 at 6:04 pmOh he doesn’t need to go,
I was simply asking him if he could write something that sounded a bit more like an adult. His posts lately are just random attacks on posters. Most are attacks on there religon even though they never even talked about religon. It seems that he guess’ that anyone who writes anything different then his view is christian. It also seems like he and yourself are assuming “many” dems are not christian. That is not the case at all. Statistically, most Dems are christian. Either way, I guess if you all think it is fine for someone to write like a 2 year old and attack people’s religon for no reason, more power to you.
Just doesn’t seem very proper to me.
October 5th, 2006 at 6:07 pmStatistically, most Dems are christian.
Comment by Mary Darther — October 5, 2006 @ 6:07 pm
Got a link?
October 5th, 2006 at 6:13 pmOh he doesn’t need to go,
Comment by Mary Darther — October 5, 2006 @ 6:07 pm
But, you wrote: Honestly, it is time that think progess tells this guy to hit the road or at least ask him to type his responses like an adult.
Comment by Mary Darther — October 5, 2006 @ 5:56 pm
All freedom of speech is proper. What’s not proper is the negative ramifications of believing the voices in your head are a god telling you to kill other people in other countries because they are an axis of evil. That’s the real impropiety… Not espousing a view of religion as dangerous and ignorant.
October 5th, 2006 at 6:17 pmUnbelievable good point!
Why is it trolls always keep telling us atheists to leave religion alone. I ask you Mary. Why don’t you tell your radical religious nutbags to leave homosexuals, women who had abortions, stem sell research, and evolution alone? You won’t answer me cuz you cant. Go back to freerepublic.com where you belong…
October 5th, 2006 at 6:23 pm#72….It’s pretty sad that an elected official would use his office of power to seduce teenagers. Is this the kind of behavior we should just expect and accept from Republicans??
I don’t get the connection between expecting professional conduct from our elected officials and being weak on defense.
October 5th, 2006 at 6:23 pmWhy is it trolls always keep telling us atheists to leave religion alone.
Comment by NewProg — October 5, 2006 @ 6:23 pm
Just a guess… because their faith has no evidence to use to defend itself against our assertions? And if you can’t defend your beliefs, you just play the victim and appeal to some authoritarian saviour to defend you from the truth? : )
We non-believers have just as much of a constitutional right to be anti-ignorance as they have to be pro-ignorance. They just can’t handle the fact that we keep winning the arguments without resorting to whining, bullying or victimization.
October 5th, 2006 at 6:33 pm“It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.”
– Michael Shermer
October 5th, 2006 at 6:34 pm“Jesus’ last words on the cross, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” hardly seem like the words of a man who planned it that way. It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to figure there is something wrong here.”
– “Rev.” Donald Morgan
October 5th, 2006 at 6:36 pmUnbelievable
How long will it be before people realize religion is not actually real?
I doubt it will be soon so I guess we got to suck it up :)
And these CRAZY CHRISTIANS have the gaul to call Scientology stupid!
October 5th, 2006 at 6:39 pmGive me a break.
My personal estimate is that only about 5% of the self-labeled Christians I know are actually knowledgable of Jesus’s teachings and follow them (the being nice and acting humanely stuff). The other 95% are hypocrites and deeply immoral people.
“If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little Electric Chairs around their necks instead of crosses”
October 5th, 2006 at 6:42 pm-Lenny Bruce
How long will it be before people realize religion is not actually real?
When we evolve again and lose the ability? : )
I doubt it will be soon so I guess we got to suck it up :)
Not me. Sucking it seems to be getting us non-believers in trouble because we get drug down eith them.
And these CRAZY CHRISTIANS have the gaul to call Scientology stupid!
Give me a break.
Comment by NewProg — October 5, 2006 @ 6:39 pm
Oh my god (I only spell it with a lowercase ‘g’ now)… I worked with a Jesus Freak who routinely called every other religion (mostly versions of Christianity) ‘crazy’, ’stupid’, and the sort. It was really juvenile.
October 5th, 2006 at 6:46 pmUnbelievable nice post.
Their are devout christians that are out in the world doing good (see Al Sharpton, Clergy for Fairness, and others). They understand that Christianity is an idea of compassion and respect(ten commandmants) and not about controlling ther people’s beliefs. For those are the TRUE christians who are making a positive difference in the world. However you can be a moral person without being religious. You need to believe what you want to believe to truly be free!
October 5th, 2006 at 6:49 pmUnbelievable
lol. You are funny.
Yer a teacher right? I wish you taught at my school :)
October 5th, 2006 at 6:51 pmYou need to believe what you want to believe to truly be free!
Comment by NewProg — October 5, 2006 @ 6:49 pm
Well said!
I have friends who are “real Christians” that don’t judge others and try to be nice, moral people. I still don’t like talking with them about religion. It requires me to suspend reality, and that’s just so difficult to do. Takes a lot of effort not to roll my eyes at them sometimes because the stuff they believe is really unreal. We just don’t talk about it. :)
October 5th, 2006 at 6:57 pmYer a teacher right? I wish you taught at my school :)
Comment by NewProg — October 5, 2006 @ 6:51 pm
If you live in a blue state, so do I :). Where do you live?
My students seem to like that they can have these discussions without consequences. One teacher apparently sent a student to the office when he told her that he didn’t believe in god (makes me wonder what she said to provoke him to say that in teh first place). And she thought that was an appropriate thing to do!
October 5th, 2006 at 7:00 pmlol unbelievable
Yeah I know what you mean…
My mom is a big jesus freak (in her defence she is really liberal) but sometimes I don’t understand why she hates evolution so much. She actually believes the Earth is 10k years old even when carbon dating has proven it to be 4.6 billion years old. I guess it is hard for a science freak like me to understand religion…
October 5th, 2006 at 7:00 pmI live in Wisconsin, a blue state like you unbelievable. I am proud to be in the same state as my favorite politician (RUSS FEINGOLD!). I was however born in my favorite state NEW YORK. What state do you come from?
October 5th, 2006 at 7:02 pmTime for dinner, Jack Cafferty and The Daily Show….
Later!
October 5th, 2006 at 7:02 pmdid he say a heck of a gob, or a nellectant job?
October 5th, 2006 at 7:04 pmThe Ethics Committee Chairman couldn’t find his ass with a 16 year old boys finger…
October 5th, 2006 at 7:04 pm“excellent job”?
October 5th, 2006 at 7:05 pmsee ya unbelievable
Had an excellant chat
I think I am goin to watch Daily Show too…
JON STEWART ROCKS!
October 5th, 2006 at 7:07 pmHastings spoke his truth and he does support Hastert’s acts on covering up the actions of a pervert. Yes as children were attacked by perverts in office our leaders watched and did nothing because it was more important that the Bush corruption bills get passed. The GOP is more interested in pushing illegal torture bills then protecting our children. The GOP doesn’t represent Christian values or morals Karl Rove used that to steal the election. God does protect the faithful as you’ve seen Foley was outed in time for honest Christians to know they were tricked before. Yes Bush used the born again christian to commit crimes and lies. The mask is off for all to see the real faces of Satan in the White House and Branches of government.
October 5th, 2006 at 7:08 pmI guess it is hard for a science freak like me to understand religion…
Comment by NewProg — October 5, 2006 @ 7:00 pm
Same here. Fortunately, one of my brothers is an Atheist, the other is moderately religious and my mom believes in the Christian god, but can’t stand the Jesus Freak Hypocrites. She’s now old and gray enough to be able to say anything to them and get away with it. I so look forward to that freedom of crazy old lady syndrome some day :).
You know, if you do the math, there is no possible way that 3 couples (one of them post-menopausal) could have populated the Earth from when Noah’s Flood supposedly cleaned the slate 4002 years ago tp 6.4 billion people today. Not only does the science disagree, but so does the math.
If you want a good laugh, check out this (it’s a debate between an ‘Intelligent Design” “scientist” and a real scientist about Noah’s Flood. It’s hysterical)
Okay I’m really off now…
October 5th, 2006 at 7:09 pmOops… here’s the link:
http://www.atheists.org/evolution/morrisdebate.html
October 5th, 2006 at 7:10 pmthx unbelievable for the link
it is hilarious!!!!!!!!!
October 5th, 2006 at 7:25 pmHe HAD to say that because of his position as chairman, he isn’t supposed to be openly biased. (We all know how this investigation will end; like everything else = a waste of time with a final statement of exoneration for all involved.
October 5th, 2006 at 7:28 pmthx unbelievable for the link
it is hilarious!!!!!!!!!
Comment by NewProg — October 5, 2006 @ 7:25 pm
Any time… I don’t think anyone could make up stuff that absurd or laughable…
October 5th, 2006 at 9:05 pmUnbelievable, you are an old soul.
October 5th, 2006 at 10:53 pmand THIS is the committee to investigate this crap. Another 911 WHITEWASH commission.
You can’t have an impartial investigation when it’s PARTISAN by it’s nature.
October 6th, 2006 at 9:09 amOk, that’s enough talk about religion.The thread is about other things.
I have spoken.
.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:47 amactually jesus’ last words were, ‘father, into your hands i commend my spirit’.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:54 pmEthics Committee Chairman Corrects Himself After Declaring Hastert Has Done An ‘Excellent Job’…
Talk about a sham "investigation." Just call it a diversionary whitewash….
October 7th, 2006 at 6:17 pm