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grantcart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 02:47 PM Original message |
Hitchens: Talk of a uniter is 'piffle' |
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geek tragedy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 02:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. "a crackpot church with a decidedly ethnic character. " OH NOES!!!!!! n/t |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 02:48 PM Response to Original message |
2. I believe that piffle can be cured with Beano or Gas-X. |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
3. evolution is a proven fact, not a theory |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 02:53 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Facts are evidence used to prove or disprove theories. |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 02:57 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. nope, sorry, but you're wrong. It's not the "theory of gravity" it is the "Law of Gravity" |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 03:03 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. No, it's called the theory of general relativity. |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 03:03 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. sigh. evolution and gravity are scientific theories. |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 03:05 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. This is what happens when even the most basic of principles in science... |
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Zodiak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 07:16 PM Response to Reply #16 |
37. It is a crazy world we live in |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 03:06 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. that's not what I was taught...thermodynamics is another one |
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Zodiak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 07:21 PM Response to Reply #18 |
41. You were taught incorrectly |
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lakercub (509 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 04:23 PM Response to Reply #11 |
27. No...I'm afraid you are wrong |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 05:10 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. please see the link I posted below that discusses my point |
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lakercub (509 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 05:50 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. interesting |
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Zodiak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 07:25 PM Response to Reply #30 |
42. Actually |
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papau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 07:57 PM Response to Reply #27 |
44. I agree evolution is well tested -any progress on explaining the cell membrane function - or |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 03:11 PM Response to Reply #6 |
21. You confuse the layman's definition of theory with the scientific definition of theory. |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 03:15 PM Response to Reply #6 |
23. here's a link that discusses what I'm talking about... it's not political |
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Zodiak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 07:06 PM Response to Reply #3 |
36. You are wrong |
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Fenris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
4. Every time he opens his mouth, I wish more and more that this country had stricter immigration laws. |
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TwilightZone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 02:54 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. ...masquerading as Democrats. |
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heliarc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 06:28 PM Response to Reply #4 |
31. He's hardly a pseudo-intellectual |
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Barrett808 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 11:48 PM Response to Reply #31 |
46. He still defends the invasion, correct? |
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heliarc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-08-08 07:14 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. To remove the taliban? |
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Barrett808 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 12:50 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. He was still defending the invasion of Iraq in March: |
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TwilightZone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
5. Well-written garbage is still garbage. |
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MadBadger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
7. Hitchen's isnt exactly the man I go to about religion. |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 02:54 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Yeah, I bet. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
10. Hitch is always a good read, right or wrong |
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heliarc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 06:30 PM Response to Reply #10 |
32. He's also right about Kissinger. nt |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
12. I can't agree wholly with what Hitchens says here. |
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no name no slogan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
13. WTF? Hitch things he's George F. Will now? |
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lakercub (509 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 04:37 PM Response to Reply #13 |
28. that's when I stopped paying any attention |
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heliarc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 06:34 PM Response to Reply #13 |
34. Please.... |
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no name no slogan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 07:20 PM Response to Reply #34 |
40. You can be a secularist, and a European, and not be a drunken asshole |
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killbotfactory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
17. Have another drink on me, Hitchens |
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BeyondGeography (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
19. Read it, and I'm still searching for his point |
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no name no slogan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 03:08 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Don't bother, it's Hitchens |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
22. "I recommend that you take a brisk tour of its Web site. " |
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indimuse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 07:31 PM Response to Reply #22 |
43. As do I... |
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Progressive Radical (184 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
24. Hitchens is a drunken opportunist. He's a polemicist and there's nothing reasonable about him. |
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Crunchy Frog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
25. Drink-sodden ex-Trotskyist popinjay. |
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mrreowwr_kittty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 07:19 PM Response to Reply #25 |
39. That's the quote! Love that George Galloway. nt |
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Sulawesi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 03:21 PM Response to Original message |
26. Hitchens Smugness Alert! |
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
33. Hitchens is "piddle". |
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Spiffarino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 06:39 PM Response to Original message |
35. "Piffle" is what runs down Chris' leg |
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mrreowwr_kittty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 07:18 PM Response to Original message |
38. Shut up Hitchens, you gin-soaked popinjay. nt |
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dave123williams (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-07-08 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
45. Oh, Typey McDrunkpants wrote something new? |
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