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- inactive, on 12/27/2008, -20/+63Who financially backs Weekly World News of Neoconservatism and the Far Right? A frippin' colossal tax evader.
Oh, and NEENER NEENER NEENER. - inactive, on 12/27/2008, -22/+58Wnd- nuts, and trolls will be crawling out from under their rocks. Scary, nasty group with lots of secrets, God must be so proud!
- kismetropolis, on 12/27/2008, -15/+46Only way to banish the darkness and reveal the vermin is to shine the light.
Good. - Alheithinn, on 12/27/2008, -20/+51Hehe, yes, especially since as you can see, a Christian reconstructionist is one of the backers. I'm not surprised now by some of the extreme points of view they express there. By all means, let's line up to join a biblical society! Who's got some stones we can throw?
- SheilaNoya, on 12/27/2008, -18/+47But, but, but... the people who push the daily lies on WND all claim they are good Christians, so everything they say MUST be true, right?
It's amazing how many gullible idiots will believe whatever you say if you just wave an American flag at them and "claim" you're a Christian. Throw in a few carefully selected words like "Democracy, Liberty, Freedom, Constitution" and the mezmerized fools will actually drool while listening to your lies. Tell them that anyone who disagrees with them is somehow "attacking their faith" and they'll explode into a fit of manufactured rage.
It's easy to control idiots. WND has learned that it's also very profitable to keep fueling the fear and ignorance to keep them coming back for more. - lostlyrics, on 12/27/2008, -20/+44oh well first it was kkk when hundreds of
white men were chasing one black man
- then it was pga, and now we got wnd.
seems just uhm ambivalent a progress. - novenator, on 12/27/2008, -13/+37FTA - about Robert Beale, "Minnesota officials seized his $3 million, 30-room house for back taxes."
Surprise surprise, one of the central financial backers of the WND doesn't like to pay his fair share of taxes. I wonder what the other WND backers (cockroaches and cowards who hide in the darkness) owe. It comes as no surprise that their corporate HQ is located in Deleware also, a well known tax hideout. - USArugula, on 12/27/2008, -2/+26One again, Nannybell, you mistake being against a mindset attached to some Christians as being against all Christians.
I'm curious, do you condone the actions of Fred Phelps' church? - USArugula, on 12/27/2008, -10/+32No more sugar for you.
- JenniferInMO, on 12/27/2008, -2/+21I think this is directed at the hypocrisy many Christians, especially WND followers practice. I don't have any problems with Christianity or its tenets. I just don't ascribe to all of them. I have big problems with self-righteous individuals who use Christianity to hate and to manipulate and to try to control others.
- ironhide, on 12/27/2008, -13/+31To be fair, most of the WND readership wouldn't pay taxes either if they thought they could get away with it. Use the police/fire protection? Use the infrastructure? Sure. Pay for it? Never! Also many of them back building our military, where would that money come from?
- charm803, on 12/27/2008, -9/+27I don't hate you, Nannybell.
On the contrary:
Digg would be so boring without your hypocritical and bigoted views.
I mean, who would I bury? - lostlyrics, on 12/27/2008, -8/+25The sermon this morning:
"Jesus Walks on the Water."
The sermon tonight:
"Searching for Jesus." - JenniferInMO, on 12/27/2008, -9/+26@Nannybell: You mistake mocking certain individuals with hate. I don't hate you and I don't hate Christianity. What I find disgusting and offensive is the use of your faith by certain individuals and often by you as cover for hate, bigotry, and the self-righteous judgment and persecution of others.
- eliot2000, on 12/27/2008, -5/+20This frightens me:
ConWebWatch has previously noted that Farah holds reconstructionist views, such as opposition to public education in favor of homeschooling and approval of the death penalty for moral crimes such as adultery.
Also: finding out that Vox Day fellow's father is bankrolling the operation explains a lot. Have you read anything by him? - eir574, on 12/27/2008, -1/+16"You liberals equate disagreement with hate."
It's odd, then, that you equated the parent comment with bigotry. Sheila was describing *some* people who call themselves Christians, not all of them. Are you saying that no self proclaimed Christian fits her description? Hence, the Fred Phelps example. - Alheithinn, on 12/27/2008, -4/+19Bigots? How are we bigots? It's the WND that is bigoted. We're simply intolerant of intolerance. You just like to be the ones throwing stones. And you know what they say about people who live in glass houses...
- USArugula, on 12/27/2008, -1/+15"No, I do not condone Fred Phelphs...Who is using Christianity to hate?"
Nannybell, my original point was to show how one can condemn a specific type of Christian (Phelps) without condemning Christians or Christianity as a whole.
What truly amazes me though is your ability to write those two above-quoted sentences in one post and not connect them. - lostlyrics, on 12/27/2008, -9/+22A missionary will be speaking tonight at Calvary Methodist.
Come hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa. 0:) - woodsjransom, on 12/27/2008, -23/+36Nothing like being able to connect the dots. Makes it easier to understand where WND is coming from, who they are trying to appeal to and why. They will be real busy for the next 8 years. Everyone has been so reactive to the BARACKO win so we know who everyone is. The tone has been set and everyone is posturing. Yep in 24 days it will be the official rallying call to everyone LETS GET READY TO RUMBLE. The infiltrators are here in Digg, we know who they are and its on. Excuse me while I check my ammo and other weapons of war. I have all the background information I need on WND
- jericho4119, on 12/27/2008, -9/+22Put down the ripple and back away - slowly - from the computer keyboard.
What are you saying? Are you saying that to call oneself a follower of Christ is to be elevated from criticism? Quote one sentence of Christ from the Gospels that makes that claim.
More than that, what evidence do you have that the posters you quote are not themselves Christians? Last time I looked, there were several competing forms of Christian faith; indeed wars have been fought between the faithful, so perhaps you should tell us which faith you are upholding. Depending upon your answer, you yourself will be putting down other believers of Christ; wouldn't that make you a bigot - according to your own definition? - USArugula, on 12/27/2008, -4/+17Hell, they were shouting that Obama was a tax evader yesterday until the general public pointed out that having his lawyer's name on his property's paperwork is a common, power-of-attorney practice.
- Verchiel77, on 12/27/2008, -8/+21You'd like to just sort of exterminate us, right? We are nothing but vermin, much less than human, right? You'd kind of like to just annihilate the lot of us, wouldn't you? Kind of like Hitler stuck the Jews in those gas showers -- that would be a good thing for us, right? -- Nannybell
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Zero to obscenely invoking the memory of Holocaust in .4 seconds, just to try and reinforce your pathetic persecution complex, Nanny?
You seem to, once again, be missing the point, so let me clear this up for you real quick, 'kay?
It isn't your faith that disgusts us, it's *you* personally, based on the fact that you think that comparisons like that are remotely acceptable. As I just pointed out to one of your victim-in-his-own-mind WorldNutter brethren:
"you're mistaking a hatred of bigoted ignorance for a hatred of the faith those slack-jawed bobble heads profess to have." - Anomaly100, on 12/27/2008, -11/+23If any of these guys from WND heard that The New York Times,for example or one of their journalists owed money for tax evasion, how much you wanna bet, they'd be screeching at the tops of their voices about how unAmerican the right is, and how it's our duty as Americans to pay our taxes.. It would never end as usual. Then they'd crawl back under their rock.
- SheilaNoya, on 12/28/2008, -1/+13Nannybell -
I know you have extremely poor reading comprehension. Now read what I wrote AGAIN and try to stay focused this time. There is no "anti-Christian bigotry" in anything that I wrote.
My statement was "anti false prophet" and a big slap in the face to anyone gullible enough to believe everything someone says just because they "claim" they are a Christian. The idiots who believe the lies from WND are being suckered by con-artists. If you happen to fall into that category, then that's YOUR problem.
True Christians don't go around bearing false witness against their neighbors and sowing the seeds of hatred. If you haven't figured that out yet, then perhaps you should actually READ the bible, instead of sucking up the daily lies of WND using their propaganda to justify your hatred of others.
I'm convinced that you're either a very lame troll, or a really ignorant person who doesn't even understand what being a Christian really means. - Alheithinn, on 12/28/2008, -4/+16They're a VERY scary bunch, eliot2000. VERY. Personally, I have no wish to live in a biblical society. Honestly, neither do most Christians. Very harsh place. A return to the Middle Ages is not what I want for my children. If you want to be frightened some more, check out theocracywatch.org. We dodged a bullet the last couple of years but it was a close call.
- eir574, on 12/27/2008, -2/+14Were shouting? I'm sure some of them still are. There were definitely people on that thread who would not even consider the possibility that they're not experts in Illinois law.
- Alheithinn, on 12/28/2008, -3/+14Malinse:
1. We have been questioning our government since its institution. Only the Far Right opposes questioning our government. This is not a problem Liberals (including our Founding Fathers) have ever had.
2. Your claim that attacking outlets of different opinions shows ignorance. This is simply an assertion by you. That does not make it true. In fact, exposing propaganda, questioning, examining, reasoning - these are all traits any adult human should possess and embrace.
3. The Bush administration and the Far Right have spent eight years censuring the people. To date, Obama has censured no one.
4. Your attack on Obama does not logically follow from your appeal to Madison.
a. You imply that Obama is to be equated with the government. Since he has not yet taken office, this displays a deplorable lack of awareness and/or ignorance on your part.
b. You offer no evidence and no reason to doubt Obama other than your assurance that we should not. I think we have a right to
expect a little more out of you than that. I'm sure you understand.
5. All in all, your paragraph forms an unconnected series of assertions, all of them pro-Right and anti-Left. You say attacking different opinions "shows ignorance and a lack of love for a free press" even while you attack our opinions.
6. If you really meant what you are saying, your paragraph would contain an attack on those who attack Media Matters for America, Huffington Press, the New York Times, etc. But oddly enough, these statements are missing from your paragraph. I'm sure it was an accidental omission given the extent to which you embrace a free press. I'm sure you'll make a correction as soon as possible. - 16x9, on 12/27/2008, -3/+14I read WorldNetDaily from time-to-time and I pay my taxes. I even think of the paying of my fair-share of taxes as my duty as a U.S. citizen.
Then again, when I read WorldNetDaily it is because I like to keep tabs on what the wacko extreme of the republican party is up to and not because I'm a "true believer" in their nonsense. So I guess I'm not really a part of their target audience. ;) - nihilville, on 12/27/2008, -6/+17It is bigotry to deny one group of people the rights others have. It is bigotry to remove basic human rights from one group but not others.
It is not bigotry to make fun of another individual's hypocrisy, or to take an organization to task for not acting in an honest or transparent manner.
Do you understand the difference? - Alheithinn, on 12/27/2008, -8/+18Nannybell, Nannybell...it doesn't feel good does it? You're probably first in line when it comes to attacking the Huffington Post or the reputable news media but when the light is shined on the WND you don't like it so much. But again, people who live in glass houses...
- novenator, on 12/28/2008, -1/+10I am actually very tolerant of people who have different beliefs, opinions, and lifestyles than mine. However, one thing I cannot stand is the intolerance that the readers and supporters of "publications" like the World Net Daily, Drudge Report, Fox News, and Stormfront commonly display, usually in inflammatory, derogatory, and false terms.
- Alheithinn, on 12/27/2008, -7/+16You're wrong, Nannybell, you ARE mistaken. You just insist on looking at it one way and not another because it suits your narrow worldview.
As nihilville says, the bigotry is refusing to grant a group its individual human rights. Being intolerant of intolerance is not evil, immoral, or even wrong. In fact, it's necessary and right. You won't like this much but really, we have a moral obligation. - novenator, on 12/28/2008, -2/+10death penalty for adultery? sounds like the Taliban! of course, there are so many similarities between the ultra-conservatives in central Asia and ultra-conservatives here at home. If they only knew how much alike they really are
- ironhide, on 12/28/2008, -2/+10The Boston Tea Party was about taxation without representation. You can argue until you're blue in the face about our politicians but we do have representation and if enough of their constituents had a problem with our tax structure, they would have to change it. Of course, that would require effort beyond sitting at a keyboard and griping about it.
- Batfishy, on 12/27/2008, -2/+10KCL - If WND's mission statement was to oversee the liberal media, and point out its misinformation, you would have an argument.
They aren't the same thing at all. Not even close.
Pot calling the kettle pink. - Alheithinn, on 12/27/2008, -8/+16If somebody would have looked into the Nazi Party's finances and inner workings history would have been much different. One of the few men who did received no support and ended up in a concentration camp. Hitler imposed a ruthless dictatorship that permitted only one narrow, intolerant worldview.
There are some very extreme Christians behind the WND, reconstructionists and dominionists who want to establish a theocracy where Biblical law rules. Concentration camps aside, I don't see a lot of difference between the two. You both want the majority to live according to an intolerant set of rules determined by the minority. You both want to exclude certain segments of society from consideration, refusing to grant them basic civil rights and treating them like second class citizens. Even the language the far right uses with regards to gays and lesbians reminds me of Nazi hate speech. Just compare the two someday - listen to yourselves. - Alheithinn, on 12/28/2008, -5/+12Bury away, Lorelei, it will avail you not. Media Matters for American has exposed once and for all the lie of a "liberal media elite." Really, don't you think it's rather silly for you conservatives to be playing "calling the kettle black" routine? It sounds extremely silly when you do it.
- Batfishy, on 12/28/2008, -1/+8Well, I can tell you the difference. Media Matters is what you say it is. WND claims to be news, not a watchdog outfit.
Therefore, they are 2 different things entirely. You see? - booksnmore4you, on 12/28/2008, -3/+10I have it on the expert testimony of no less than seven expert eyewitnesses that Alfred E. Newman and Sarah Palin are behind WND.
- booksnmore4you, on 12/28/2008, -2/+9Gotta love how people try to change the subject.
- novenator, on 12/28/2008, -3/+8yeah, in one of hjis 10 mansions like mcduck? nice personal insults wingnuts
- inactive, on 12/28/2008, -2/+7"one factual news site (which doesn't even post opinion pieces)"
What site are you talking about? WND isn't a factual news site and they do post extreme far right opinion pieces. - Anomaly100, on 12/28/2008, -1/+5Perfect example. What's okay for them, is unpatriotic with us....even when it's false, and is completely fabricated out of thin air. Do you suppose there's something in the water, theirs or ours? I certainly wouldn't like it if everyone thought in the exact same way with no differences in sight...but this!
You'd think anyone could see that paper is pure garbage. It's not even worthy of becoming cat litter. - Alheithinn, on 12/28/2008, -0/+4What is not to get? You're saying we shouldn't wonder who is behind the WND? If you want to "expose" the Huffington Post, be my guest. I don't agree with everything they write, but the far right certainly seem to buy everything WND puts out, hook, line, and sinker.
- woodsjransom, on 12/28/2008, -1/+5Satirical, Taroguy come on lighten up. Turn off the negative vibe, I am sure we will be disagreeing soon enough. SHEESH!!!
- heystoopid, on 12/28/2008, -1/+4Nice line up of lively tax avoiders and evaders , if there ever was one , all deliberately using the smokescreen pushing extreme far right views to hide their hidden agenda of deliberately milking the existing tax system for their personal self enrichment at the exclusion of all else and some silly tools have fallen for their line of BS hook line and sinker .
Choices are so evil for those who blindly follow without looking behind the surface deception . - lostlyrics, on 12/28/2008, -1/+4yup - one small step ahead amidst giant leapbacks :)
as bush said, it's time for the human race to enter the solar system - woodsjransom, on 12/28/2008, -1/+3Malinse you almost had it then you dropped the ball. I am glad that you stumbled in here too. The more the merrier. We just need to agree on what the definition of what certain words mean. But I can work with you.
- Alheithinn, on 12/28/2008, -2/+4Given the lack of factual data employed by WND, the entire thing IS opinion pieces.
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