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The Senate filibuster has completely perverted the legislative process of the US Congress. It allows a minority to effectively control what if anything gets passed.

Especially now they've gone batshit crazy. Like I said. :)

No, I came to that conclusion before this thread was started, based on the actions of other Republicans. It's a theory; if you have a better one, present it.

Except he didn't switch parties. He just didn't want to be a Republican anymore. Given all the craziness (teabaggers, birthers, deathers, etc.) it's understandable that the few remaining sane members of the GOP are getting fed up with the raving nutjobs.

The ratings have been bogus for some time now. ET righties routinely rate threads depending on whether they are "liberal" or "conservative". Naturally your thread about somebody quitting the corrupt GOP would get a bad rating.

You are correct, there are Roman records. Just none contemporaneous with Jesus. The difference between your examples and Jesus is that Jesus wrote nothing himself. Maybe the oldest surviving copies of Plato's writings are much after Plato's time, but the fact that nothing at all was written...

Of course Christians were real. Without Christians there would be no Christianity. The question is about Jesus. Tacitus did not live during the time of Jesus; he was born over two decades after Jesus' alleged crucifixion (and resurrection). Why was no historical record made during the...

I don't think the excited utterance exception applies to Jesus saying "If you have seen me, you have seen the Father." Doesn't sound excited to me. More to the point, recently some Biblical scholars doubt even the existence of Jesus of Nazareth, much less his alleged divinity. There's no...

No, they found a mutant deer in Italy. They did not find a unicorn. :p And if the word "unicorn" still bothers you, just substitute "centaur" or some other unquestionably mythological being.

Based on his posting history, you can count on him doing exactly that.

Projection :D

So was Zeus. Too bad nobody took photographs or videotapes of either. :D Do I even have to go over how unreliable eyewitness testimony can be? (Bigfoot, alien spaceships, werewolves, ghosts, gremlins, etc.)

There is just as little evidence for God as there is for Santa, so how can you be both convinced of the existence of one and convinced of the nonexistence of the other?

So much for the oft quoted TV lie about it being less than 0.5%. I always thought that number was suspiciously low. The main cause of Catholic priests quitting the job is wanting to get married and lead a normal life. Is it any surprise that a celibate priesthood would attract gay males and...

You're right, wallet, it isn't just Repugs, it's conservaDems as well. Dick-sucking corporate tools. Even without the problem of conservaDems, the Dems don't have 60 votes they can count on to bust a filibuster. There are two Independent Senators and one of them -- LIEberman -- may as well be...

It's the fucking Senate and that filibuster bullshit that's causing all the problems. If not for that we'd have Medicare For All and the Repugs would be pissing themselves the way they were when the original Medicare passed.

The bogus assumption is cloud formation. More evaporation just means more humidity, not necessarily clouds. And I defy anybody to claim that a warm, humid day doesn't feel hotter than a dry day of the same temperature. Greenhouses have water vapor as humidity, not as clouds.

I am not the least bit surprised that you would leave off the most relevant parts: In fact, the earliest known usage is a 1948 New York Times [article] on Italian politics. In the spring of 1987, Grant Harris, senior reference librarian at the Library of Congress, said "We have not been...

Wrong again. The term first showed up in an NYT article. Don't YOU hate the NYT? Guess who looks incredibly ignorant now? :D :D Maybe if you reichtard bitches stopped copying us and tricking your nitwitted selves into thinking it was YOUR ideas, you wouldn't look like total tools. :p

Too bad that didn't happen back during the Christian invasion of Europe. Things might have turned out much better.