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		<title>By: doktorgizemli</title>
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		<dc:creator>doktorgizemli</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Kevin. I just saw the YouTube video about web 3.0 and I have had this idea about our future economy. 
It’s a bit in tune with the Zeitgeist film. See, if all of our knowledge was shared, we couldn’t make money of it. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guzelsikis.com&quot; title=&quot;Siki?, siki? videolar?&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Siki?&lt;/a&gt;
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I’m a musician and I kinda have the feeling that in the future people will pay for live performances, because we have computer software that is very close to sounding like a musical instrument, with a modelled human touch. So, if a person that has never played the guitar, can click a button and sound like Jimi Hendrix, than what is the coolness about all this digital music really? Infact, I think that the more advanced this gets, the less interesting it becomes. We are still in awe over a youngster that can make the violin cry and we will definately be in even more awe when a person can actually do with their fingers that what we can do in an iPhone application.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Kevin. I just saw the YouTube video about web 3.0 and I have had this idea about our future economy.<br />
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I’m a musician and I kinda have the feeling that in the future people will pay for live performances, because we have computer software that is very close to sounding like a musical instrument, with a modelled human touch. So, if a person that has never played the guitar, can click a button and sound like Jimi Hendrix, than what is the coolness about all this digital music really? Infact, I think that the more advanced this gets, the less interesting it becomes. We are still in awe over a youngster that can make the violin cry and we will definately be in even more awe when a person can actually do with their fingers that what we can do in an iPhone application.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5674468', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: GRiLL</title>
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		<dc:creator>GRiLL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: sesli</title>
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		<dc:creator>sesli</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: FunMe</title>
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		<dc:creator>FunMe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Of course he has better things to do!

Like staying in the closet and giving his beard some hush money so she can go shop.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52295

Is he still seeing &quot;jeff gannon&quot;?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Of course he has better things to do!</p>
<p>Like staying in the closet and giving his beard some hush money so she can go shop.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52295" rel="nofollow">http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52295</a></p>
<p>Is he still seeing &#8220;jeff gannon&#8221;?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5666059', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: WAYNEBRO</title>
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		<dc:creator>WAYNEBRO</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>But feel free to spend another 500 comments saying &quot;nuh uh&quot; with your lowbrow friends. 

Your revisionist history, fabricated statistics, ignorance as to the role of atheism in the atrocities committed throughout the world, all put your arguments in defense of bigotry and intolerance in a much clearer light. 

We see now how much history you actually know, which is pretty much none at all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But feel free to spend another 500 comments saying &#8220;nuh uh&#8221; with your lowbrow friends. </p>
<p>Your revisionist history, fabricated statistics, ignorance as to the role of atheism in the atrocities committed throughout the world, all put your arguments in defense of bigotry and intolerance in a much clearer light. </p>
<p>We see now how much history you actually know, which is pretty much none at all.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5665581', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: WAYNEBRO</title>
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		<dc:creator>WAYNEBRO</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Clearly your facts on Atheism are as poorly based as are you facts on WWII.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Clearly your facts on Atheism are as poorly based as are you facts on WWII.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5665558', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: WAYNEBRO</title>
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		<dc:creator>WAYNEBRO</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;wiley Says:


But Jews can trust that atheists and agnostics probably won&#039;t send them to death camps for their religious culture&lt;/blockquote&gt;


Once more we see that the bigot is so blinded by his own bigotry and his desperation at making excuses for it, that he knows nothing about history except his own revisionist history, similar to the White Supremacist revisions of history.

Pol Pot wasn&#039;t an Atheist?

What about &quot;State Atheism&quot; in the former Soviet Union?  

Marx wasn&#039;t an Atheist? 

China didn&#039;t impost state Atheism and persecute religions? 

North Korea didn&#039;t impose state Atheism and persecute the religious? 

Communist Albania didn&#039;t impose state Atheism, and persecute the religious? Enver Hoxha didn&#039;t ban all religion? 

You&#039;ve never heard of the Agrarian Reform Law? 

You&#039;ve never heard of the Jesuit Order, or Decree 743? 

You&#039;ve never heard of the   

Stalin wasn&#039;t an Atheist, and didn&#039;t compel the people to embrace Atheism and condemn religion? He didn&#039;t persecute the religious?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>wiley Says:</p>
<p>But Jews can trust that atheists and agnostics probably won&#8217;t send them to death camps for their religious culture</p></blockquote>
<p>Once more we see that the bigot is so blinded by his own bigotry and his desperation at making excuses for it, that he knows nothing about history except his own revisionist history, similar to the White Supremacist revisions of history.</p>
<p>Pol Pot wasn&#8217;t an Atheist?</p>
<p>What about &#8220;State Atheism&#8221; in the former Soviet Union?  </p>
<p>Marx wasn&#8217;t an Atheist? </p>
<p>China didn&#8217;t impost state Atheism and persecute religions? </p>
<p>North Korea didn&#8217;t impose state Atheism and persecute the religious? </p>
<p>Communist Albania didn&#8217;t impose state Atheism, and persecute the religious? Enver Hoxha didn&#8217;t ban all religion? </p>
<p>You&#8217;ve never heard of the Agrarian Reform Law? </p>
<p>You&#8217;ve never heard of the Jesuit Order, or Decree 743? </p>
<p>You&#8217;ve never heard of the   </p>
<p>Stalin wasn&#8217;t an Atheist, and didn&#8217;t compel the people to embrace Atheism and condemn religion? He didn&#8217;t persecute the religious?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5665540', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: WAYNEBRO</title>
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		<dc:creator>WAYNEBRO</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;wiley Says:

Yes, the Holocaust has a special meaning for Jews, but it doesn&#039;t give them the right to define World War II entirely in their terms or to define Germans, for that matter. 27 million Russians died at the hands of the Third Reich, too. 200 million total---all over the world. War is insane. The Germans had a lot more going on than the persecution of Jews, had they not, it&#039;s doubtful that they could have carried out the Holocaust,&lt;/blockquote&gt;

First of all lets clear up your historically challenged figures. As usual, your facts are as incoherent as is your argument.

In WWII, around 70 million people died. Not 200 Million. 

&lt;blockquote&gt;World War II casualty statistics vary greatly. Estimates of total dead range from 50 million to over 70 million.[36] The sources cited on this page document an estimated death toll in World War II of roughly&lt;strong&gt; 73 million&lt;/strong&gt;, making it the deadliest war ever. 

- Wikipedia&lt;/blockquote&gt;

So once more we see why I, who have family who survived the war, and who has studied WWII for over 40 years, don&#039;t need any information from a twit on the web who clearly doesn&#039;t have a clue what he&#039;s talking about.

As for what the Germans had going on, it almost sounds if you&#039;re making excuses for their murder of the Jews. Who cares what they had &quot;going on&quot;. The Holocaust of the Jews was the single largest effort of the Nazi&#039;s to exterminate a race of people. Everyone who knows anything about WWII is fully aware of the fact that others died in the camps too, including gypsies, homosexuals, Roman Catholics, atheists, and others, but the overwhelming majority that were persecuted and slaughtered in the camps, were Jews. Disrespecting that fact makes one wonder your allegiances, not mine. The world is full of low brows who deny the Holocaust, or try to downplay the events, as you appear to be doing, but the rest of the world knows better. 

And the Holocaust of the Jews began not in the Reichstag, not on the battlefields (in fact it had nothing to do with the battlefields as you seem to want to imply) and everything to do with BIGOTRY and INTOLERANCE. 

In fact, if you are so dense that you wish to continue to argue that point as does your lowbrow twin Pete, I suggest the two of you take a trip to DC and visit the Holocaust museum, where you will learn that the Holocaust took place because of BIGOTRY and INTOLERANCE. 

The two key defining catalysts that led to the extermination of 6 million Jews. 

Your &quot;revisionist&quot; history doesn&#039;t change that fact, as any Jew anywhere, will tell you. As will the history books. As well the holocaust museum in Washington DC. 

BIGOTRY, INTOLERANCE, these were the seeds of the &quot;final solution&quot;. And it didn&#039;t start in the Reichstag. 

It started in the Beer Halls and streets of Berlin. It started in a prison cell in Landsberg, and it started with the intolerance and bigotry of those who thought themselves superior to the lowly Juden. 

Try learning something about history, instead of attempting to rewrite it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>wiley Says:</p>
<p>Yes, the Holocaust has a special meaning for Jews, but it doesn&#8217;t give them the right to define World War II entirely in their terms or to define Germans, for that matter. 27 million Russians died at the hands of the Third Reich, too. 200 million total&#8212;all over the world. War is insane. The Germans had a lot more going on than the persecution of Jews, had they not, it&#8217;s doubtful that they could have carried out the Holocaust,</p></blockquote>
<p>First of all lets clear up your historically challenged figures. As usual, your facts are as incoherent as is your argument.</p>
<p>In WWII, around 70 million people died. Not 200 Million. </p>
<blockquote><p>World War II casualty statistics vary greatly. Estimates of total dead range from 50 million to over 70 million.[36] The sources cited on this page document an estimated death toll in World War II of roughly<strong> 73 million</strong>, making it the deadliest war ever. </p>
<p>- Wikipedia</p></blockquote>
<p>So once more we see why I, who have family who survived the war, and who has studied WWII for over 40 years, don&#8217;t need any information from a twit on the web who clearly doesn&#8217;t have a clue what he&#8217;s talking about.</p>
<p>As for what the Germans had going on, it almost sounds if you&#8217;re making excuses for their murder of the Jews. Who cares what they had &#8220;going on&#8221;. The Holocaust of the Jews was the single largest effort of the Nazi&#8217;s to exterminate a race of people. Everyone who knows anything about WWII is fully aware of the fact that others died in the camps too, including gypsies, homosexuals, Roman Catholics, atheists, and others, but the overwhelming majority that were persecuted and slaughtered in the camps, were Jews. Disrespecting that fact makes one wonder your allegiances, not mine. The world is full of low brows who deny the Holocaust, or try to downplay the events, as you appear to be doing, but the rest of the world knows better. </p>
<p>And the Holocaust of the Jews began not in the Reichstag, not on the battlefields (in fact it had nothing to do with the battlefields as you seem to want to imply) and everything to do with BIGOTRY and INTOLERANCE. </p>
<p>In fact, if you are so dense that you wish to continue to argue that point as does your lowbrow twin Pete, I suggest the two of you take a trip to DC and visit the Holocaust museum, where you will learn that the Holocaust took place because of BIGOTRY and INTOLERANCE. </p>
<p>The two key defining catalysts that led to the extermination of 6 million Jews. </p>
<p>Your &#8220;revisionist&#8221; history doesn&#8217;t change that fact, as any Jew anywhere, will tell you. As will the history books. As well the holocaust museum in Washington DC. </p>
<p>BIGOTRY, INTOLERANCE, these were the seeds of the &#8220;final solution&#8221;. And it didn&#8217;t start in the Reichstag. </p>
<p>It started in the Beer Halls and streets of Berlin. It started in a prison cell in Landsberg, and it started with the intolerance and bigotry of those who thought themselves superior to the lowly Juden. </p>
<p>Try learning something about history, instead of attempting to rewrite it.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5665357', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: WAYNEBRO</title>
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		<dc:creator>WAYNEBRO</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;MCMetal Says:


Believing in a non-existent , mythical being , along with all the fabricated stories told about it and others , is what to you ? How should it be addressed ?

&quot;Normal&quot; behavior ?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Once again apparently literacy appears to be as much your enemy as is bigotry.

&lt;blockquote&gt;The Oxford English Dictionary defines &quot;normal&quot; as &#039;&lt;strong&gt;conforming to a standard&lt;/strong&gt;&#039;. 

Another possible definition is that &quot;a normal&quot; is someone who &lt;strong&gt;conforms to the predominant behavior in a society&lt;/strong&gt; - WIKI


Normal: a form or state &lt;strong&gt;regarded as the norm&lt;/strong&gt;

- Merriam-Webster Dictionary&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Normal means typical, regular, usual, etc. 

And since the majority of humans on this planet do believe in some sort of being, deity or afterlife, by the very definition it would constitute &quot;normal behavior&quot;.

Once more I must direct you to the Speak-n-Spell.

I hear it works wonders.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>MCMetal Says:</p>
<p>Believing in a non-existent , mythical being , along with all the fabricated stories told about it and others , is what to you ? How should it be addressed ?</p>
<p>&#8220;Normal&#8221; behavior ?</p></blockquote>
<p>Once again apparently literacy appears to be as much your enemy as is bigotry.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Oxford English Dictionary defines &#8220;normal&#8221; as &#8216;<strong>conforming to a standard</strong>&#8216;. </p>
<p>Another possible definition is that &#8220;a normal&#8221; is someone who <strong>conforms to the predominant behavior in a society</strong> &#8211; WIKI</p>
<p>Normal: a form or state <strong>regarded as the norm</strong></p>
<p>- Merriam-Webster Dictionary</p></blockquote>
<p>Normal means typical, regular, usual, etc. </p>
<p>And since the majority of humans on this planet do believe in some sort of being, deity or afterlife, by the very definition it would constitute &#8220;normal behavior&#8221;.</p>
<p>Once more I must direct you to the Speak-n-Spell.</p>
<p>I hear it works wonders.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5665321', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: TeleMan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>At the risk of reopening this can of worms, I think someone doesn&#039;t quite get that a slippery slope

&lt;blockquote&gt;is a classical informal &lt;strong&gt;fallacy&lt;/strong&gt;. A slippery slope argument states that a relatively small first step inevitably leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant impact, much like an object given a small push over the edge of a slope sliding all the way to the bottom.[1] The fallacious sense of &quot;slippery slope&quot; is often used synonymously with continuum fallacy, in that it &lt;strong&gt;ignores the possibility of middle ground and assumes a discrete transition from category A to category B.&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

- Wiki (empasis mine)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At the risk of reopening this can of worms, I think someone doesn&#8217;t quite get that a slippery slope</p>
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<p>- Wiki (empasis mine)<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5665309', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: kevsters</title>
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		<dc:creator>kevsters</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All of this racism and affirmative action talk, yet no one is talking about how white people are constantly benefiting from affirmative through the legacy policy that allows people like George W. Bush into Yale.

http://progressnotcongress.org/blog/?p=1493</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All of this racism and affirmative action talk, yet no one is talking about how white people are constantly benefiting from affirmative through the legacy policy that allows people like George W. Bush into Yale.</p>
<p><a href="http://progressnotcongress.org/blog/?p=1493" rel="nofollow">http://progressnotcongress.org/blog/?p=1493</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5665188', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ctcadguy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/31/mcconnell-sotomayor-racist/comment-page-13/#comment-5664638</link>
		<dc:creator>ctcadguy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Doesn&#039;t any Media Host have Balls to call these Political Hacks out anymore.

When Russert died so did Journalism.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Doesn&#8217;t any Media Host have Balls to call these Political Hacks out anymore.</p>
<p>When Russert died so did Journalism.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5664638', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: liberalinaredstate</title>
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		<dc:creator>liberalinaredstate</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>McConnell is the “highest elected Republican in the United State of America”         REALLY!?  He&#039;s the highest?  Enough said!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>McConnell is the “highest elected Republican in the United State of America”         REALLY!?  He&#8217;s the highest?  Enough said!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5664632', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: jurassicpork</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/31/mcconnell-sotomayor-racist/comment-page-13/#comment-5664628</link>
		<dc:creator>jurassicpork</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Expect to hear this from the GOP (Got Our Pimpsticks) during the Sotomayor confirmation hearings and &lt;a href=&quot;http://welcomebacktopottersville.blogspot.com/2009/05/adventures-of-big-daddy-pimpstick-and.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;for the Democrats to not say this&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Expect to hear this from the GOP (Got Our Pimpsticks) during the Sotomayor confirmation hearings and <a href="http://welcomebacktopottersville.blogspot.com/2009/05/adventures-of-big-daddy-pimpstick-and.html" rel="nofollow">for the Democrats to not say this</a>.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5664628', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: orospuporno</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/31/mcconnell-sotomayor-racist/comment-page-13/#comment-5664620</link>
		<dc:creator>orospuporno</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.orospuporno.com&quot; title=&quot;orospu porno izle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;orospu porno&lt;/a&gt;

thanks</description>
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<p>thanks<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5664620', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Razor_Boy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/31/mcconnell-sotomayor-racist/comment-page-13/#comment-5664581</link>
		<dc:creator>Razor_Boy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can&#039;t believe I read the whole thread.(plop plop, fizz fizz}</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t believe I read the whole thread.(plop plop, fizz fizz}<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5664581', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: wiley</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, the Holocaust has a special meaning for Jews, but it doesn&#039;t give them the right to define World War II entirely in their terms or to define Germans, for that matter. 27 million Russians died at the hands of the Third Reich, too. 200 million total---all over the world. War is insane. The Germans had a lot more going on than the persecution of Jews, had they not, it&#039;s doubtful that they could have carried out the Holocaust, which is one of countless atrocities in the human project---most of them carried out in a time of war when otherwise non-violent people commit unconscionable acts that they had previously thought they were not capable.

But Jews can trust that atheists and agnostics probably won&#039;t send them to death camps for their religious culture. Actually, Waynebro, you have qualities that make me wonder if you might not be one of the first to commit atrocious acts in a time of war. You obviously don&#039;t examine yourself too carefully, if you actually believe that you are not a bigot and everyone else who has argued with you here is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, the Holocaust has a special meaning for Jews, but it doesn&#8217;t give them the right to define World War II entirely in their terms or to define Germans, for that matter. 27 million Russians died at the hands of the Third Reich, too. 200 million total&#8212;all over the world. War is insane. The Germans had a lot more going on than the persecution of Jews, had they not, it&#8217;s doubtful that they could have carried out the Holocaust, which is one of countless atrocities in the human project&#8212;most of them carried out in a time of war when otherwise non-violent people commit unconscionable acts that they had previously thought they were not capable.</p>
<p>But Jews can trust that atheists and agnostics probably won&#8217;t send them to death camps for their religious culture. Actually, Waynebro, you have qualities that make me wonder if you might not be one of the first to commit atrocious acts in a time of war. You obviously don&#8217;t examine yourself too carefully, if you actually believe that you are not a bigot and everyone else who has argued with you here is.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5664574', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: MCMetal</title>
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		<dc:creator>MCMetal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;WAYNEBRO Says: 
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wiley Says:

It was much, much bigger than bigotry. 

Nope. That was the seed, as any Jew will tell you.

Or anyone for example, who like me, had family involved during that time period. 

It was BIGOTRY. INTOLERANCE. Self Serving Superiority. 

The mocking and ridicule of a people, that led ultimately to their systematic slaughter. 

As every book on the subject out there, will tell you.

June 1st, 2009 at 5:03 am   &lt;/i&gt;


Then again, claiming to be &quot;God&#039;s chosen people&quot; , sure isn&#039;t going to win over a lot of other people ; that&#039;s bigotry , too.</description>
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<p>wiley Says:</p>
<p>It was much, much bigger than bigotry. </p>
<p>Nope. That was the seed, as any Jew will tell you.</p>
<p>Or anyone for example, who like me, had family involved during that time period. </p>
<p>It was BIGOTRY. INTOLERANCE. Self Serving Superiority. </p>
<p>The mocking and ridicule of a people, that led ultimately to their systematic slaughter. </p>
<p>As every book on the subject out there, will tell you.</p>
<p>June 1st, 2009 at 5:03 am   </i></p>
<p>Then again, claiming to be &#8220;God&#8217;s chosen people&#8221; , sure isn&#8217;t going to win over a lot of other people ; that&#8217;s bigotry , too.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5664573', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: MCMetal</title>
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		<dc:creator>MCMetal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;WAYNEBRO Says: 
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MCMetal Says:

Pointing out the inaccuracies and phoniness of and in religion , is not religious intolerance.

Nope. And as I&#039;ve pointed out 1000 times this evening, I never suggested it was.

But foul mouthed juvenile insults of it, like calling it &quot;DELUSIONS&quot; and &quot;FAIRY TALES&quot; and mocking their deities as &quot;JEBUS&quot; , etc, IS.

June 1st, 2009 at 5:01 am   &lt;/i&gt;


Believing in a non-existent , mythical being , along with all the fabricated stories told about it and others , is what to you ? How should it be addressed ?

&quot;Normal&quot; behavior ?

People believed the Earth was the center of the galaxy and the universe , too , at one time , along with the planet being flat.They were dead wrong ; would anyone who insisted on retaining those beliefs be viewed as anything other than mentally ill and/or willingly ignorant ?

BTW

I don&#039;t know why in the hell you posted &quot;JEBUS&quot; ; I heve NEVER used that term.

I guess it&#039;s just more of your typically dishonest behavior</description>
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<p>MCMetal Says:</p>
<p>Pointing out the inaccuracies and phoniness of and in religion , is not religious intolerance.</p>
<p>Nope. And as I&#8217;ve pointed out 1000 times this evening, I never suggested it was.</p>
<p>But foul mouthed juvenile insults of it, like calling it &#8220;DELUSIONS&#8221; and &#8220;FAIRY TALES&#8221; and mocking their deities as &#8220;JEBUS&#8221; , etc, IS.</p>
<p>June 1st, 2009 at 5:01 am   </i></p>
<p>Believing in a non-existent , mythical being , along with all the fabricated stories told about it and others , is what to you ? How should it be addressed ?</p>
<p>&#8220;Normal&#8221; behavior ?</p>
<p>People believed the Earth was the center of the galaxy and the universe , too , at one time , along with the planet being flat.They were dead wrong ; would anyone who insisted on retaining those beliefs be viewed as anything other than mentally ill and/or willingly ignorant ?</p>
<p>BTW</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know why in the hell you posted &#8220;JEBUS&#8221; ; I heve NEVER used that term.</p>
<p>I guess it&#8217;s just more of your typically dishonest behavior<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5664572', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: WAYNEBRO</title>
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		<dc:creator>WAYNEBRO</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;wiley Says:

It was much, much bigger than bigotry. &lt;/blockquote&gt;

Nope. That was the seed, as any Jew will tell you.

Or anyone for example, who like me, had family involved during that time period. 

It was BIGOTRY. INTOLERANCE. Self Serving Superiority. 

The mocking and ridicule of a people, that led ultimately to their systematic slaughter. 

As every book on the subject out there, will tell you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>wiley Says:</p>
<p>It was much, much bigger than bigotry. </p></blockquote>
<p>Nope. That was the seed, as any Jew will tell you.</p>
<p>Or anyone for example, who like me, had family involved during that time period. </p>
<p>It was BIGOTRY. INTOLERANCE. Self Serving Superiority. </p>
<p>The mocking and ridicule of a people, that led ultimately to their systematic slaughter. </p>
<p>As every book on the subject out there, will tell you.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5664571', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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