Schieffer destroys Cotton

[hue]

“Are you planning to contact any other of our adversaries?” Schieffer asked. “Do you plan to check with the North Koreans to make sure they know any deal has to be approved by the Congress?”

Cotton smiled nervously and changed the subject in desperation: “Right now I and most every other senator is focused on stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.”

Nice try, Cotton.

http://www.occupydemocrats.com/watch-bob-schieffer-destroys-tom-cotton-with-one-question/

[A Simple Game]

1. Unbelievable.

“Right now I and most every other senator is focused on stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.”

So Senator, what do you think the negotiations are all about? A new set of Scrabble rules?

[sarge43]

2. A tap dance worthy of Gene Kelly n/t

[Plucketeer]

3. ALL THIS....

in the interest of protecting our coal mine canary, Israel. I so loathe religions!

[Moostache]

4. I loathe the fundamentalist adherents of ALL religions.

X-tian
Jew
Moselm

They are all equally worthless.

The obsession with being "special" and having the deity the species invented to make us feel less alone in the universe as sentient beings is pathetic.

To paraphrase George Carlin: "there are no gods, not many, not one....Zero". The idea that so many people are so willing to look around the world and see that people of other regions worshiping different flavors of the same idea, yet every single one is convinced that THEIR flavor is the one true flavor?

Look into the night sky. THERE is your creator and mine...the stars and galaxies that formed from Hydrogen and Helium, and the chemical reactions that led to heavier elements and the forces of gravity, strong and weak and electromagnetism. There is no need for a benevolent creator and far, far less need for the wars and fighting and killing in the name of one's personal conception of anthropomorphic characterizations of these forces...

I have to tell you though, IF Christianity had 4 'gods' instead of the 3 it does, the correlation to the REAL forces that make up "god" would have been something wouldn't it? Sadly though, the goat herders who made it up had no knowledge of the actual fundamentals of physics and chemistry and so their 'god' doesn't either.

The sooner humanity grows up and leaves the infantile behind, the better off our collective chances at survival will be.

[Plucketeer]

5. Humans crave tradition. They crave simplicity. They crave the security of ignorance too!

I'm sad to surmise that these factors will likely prevent us from ever really escaping the plague of religion(s). Unwilling to bear responsibility for the woes they bring upon themselves - unwilling to accept that nature is going to throw things at them that they can't overcome - they have to have that "place" they can shove all the unmanageables - like a virtual waste basket - and let their god(s) sort it out.
I don't think we could ever really say what this world would be like (today) without all of our phony deities to answer to! Just IMAGINE how far science would've come thru the ages (even today!) if it weren't for the anchor of religion slowing down logic and objective assessment!

One thing for sure..... those of us who see past the ridiculousness of it all, suffer the consequences whether we like it or not!