Comments by textom

Comment #219161 by textom on July 26, 2008 at 11:49 am

Uh Oh, I posted but I don't see it in print. Was I too hard on Texas and America? I was a 30 year Texas biology and honor's bio teacher. I had to use every trick I could invent to get around the Texas evolutionary curricula (biased and broken) to ensure that my students, despite the fact that they were into their earnestly arriving sexuality and peer acceptance plus pimples, would at least get a solid foundation for evolutionary theory. For the most part, I was successful. But the truth be known, there is some kind of church on every corner in Texas and ranting, charlatan, circus barker types of irrational screaming, dancing, feverish pastors and their brothery ilk known as evangelicals, crush these emerging young minds with fear and the damnation of a Hell. What with most youngster's being baptized and given much more time with catechism than adequate science, it is difficult to override that programming later on. And if one is successful in doing same, life's needs later on call for them to get back into the flock so as to be an OKAY type for community,corporate, military, state or national jobs. In other words, "Don't Mess With Texas." Or considering the past few decades , "Don't Mess With Deist, Fascist America." Unbelievable until "Operation Paperclip" is revisited.

2. Obama Wants to Expand Role of Religious Groups

Comment #203164 by textom on July 2, 2008 at 12:33 pm

I am totally frustrated with Barrack Obama. When I hear that there isn't hardly a thread of differnce between the Neo-Con Republican Party and the Secular Champion Democratic Party, I try to differ by being inquisitive and investigative. No such luck. Obama has sold out to the Creationists, big oil, etc., and I am sure he is in alignment with his team's wishes. It is damned pitiful here in the United States; neither Jefferson nor Adams, Deists of their time, could get elected dog catcher today what with all the mythological religious cranks, nuts and bolts and wicked, arrogant billionaire's who have proven in the past and now, their love for power, greed, and even Nazism (Remember the Paperclip Disclosures), and all disguised under the cover of religion. Hey, even Tesla was guarded in the USA by Nazi's. Or worse.

What do I do now? I can't vote for McCain (Witness his deporable voting record...when he did vote...rarely) and Obama is showing religious feebleness. McCain is just a clone of Bush and that means we will continue to have a poor economy, corporate ripp-off , and WAR, WAR, WAR!!! In short, as a citizen of this country and for millions like me, we shoot nothing but blanks no matter what we do when we protest or make attempts for decent and necessary change. Two billion bucks a week for war and profit is ruining programs like Medicare and Medicaid. Just look at Social Security. That fund has been raided so much by I.O. U.'s that it will surely be defunct in a few decades; or sooner.

The 'Treaty of Tripoli' has been held meaningless by the administrations of this country for decades. But give me 'That Old time Religion' and all its dire consequences marches on. And so does human time. In that regard, America doesn't have much time or much hope left to stall the impending fall of what was once a Global power with great international influence. What a shame. All of these major problems would have been easily worked out if not for religion, corporate monstership, and war. I hardly believe that secular nations worldwide would be even close to the evil we witness on a daily basis now. Yikes!!!! The world is flat and is only a few thousand years old. So say the warmongering religious soothsayers of America. Please, Time Out.

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3. Award-winning comedian George Carlin dies

Comment #198307 by textom on June 23, 2008 at 2:32 pm

Another Big Loss for the world of reality humor. Damn, George was just here in El Paso, Texas and I missed him beause of my frickin' cancer treatments.
Was he ever hilarious and anti- religion to the hilt? I sure believe he was. Did he have a take on life through humor that enriched our own lives? Absolutely.
Could he handle a heckler? Oh my, could he ever; they were doomed to even try.

As a stand-up comedian in a world of uncertainty and even a world that in the past decade has slipped ever closer to the old Inquisitory days, was he ever an enlightenment? Indeed and I will miss him dearly but catch some of his material on dvd, etc., just as I have the Dean Martin Roasts.

Have heart but don't forget to laugh. Even in death, he will still instill his laughter in many hallways, latrines, barracks, poker games, bars, community events, the backside of churches, and in the Halls Of Congress. Those bastards may all be of the same rotten ilk but under their thick skin they still enjoy George's humor. King of Humor George Carlin, will be around for a long time...and remembered.

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