I See Statist People
By Mitch Berg
Some leftybloggers famously dubbed themselves the “reality-based community” – a clumsy, junior-high shot at neo-conservative “faith based” ideal.
Apparently the lefties got the idea at a seance from Egyptian political philosopher and lobbyist Ram-Gar:
“Conservatives and Republicans report fewer experiences than liberals or Democrats communicating with the dead, seeing ghosts and consulting fortunetellers or psychics,” the Pew study says. For example, 21 percent of Republicans report that they have been in touch with someone who is dead, while 36 percent of Democrats say they have done so. Eleven percent of Republicans say they have seen a ghost, while 21 percent of Democrats say so.
And remembering how the nation’s lesser party roasted Nancy Reagan, I thought this next bit was a hoot:
And nine percent of Republicans say they have consulted a fortuneteller, while 22 percent of Democrats have.
It’s explain a lot about Represenative McCollum.
But I think there’s some omission bias at play here:
Fifteen percent of Republicans say they view yoga as a spiritual practice, while 31 percent of Democrats do.
No question about whether a day at the range is a spiritual experience?
December 15th, 2009 at 9:09 am
How about handling snakes and running up and down the aisles in church? Believing that God controls the outcome of college football games? Thinking Jesus H. Christ personally talks to legislators and tells them how to vote on legislation?
You wInGnUtZ have a monopoly on all that.
December 15th, 2009 at 9:23 am
How about handling snakes
Maybe 200 people nationwide,
Vs thirty percent of Democrats.
and running up and down the aisles in church?
You never went to any Obama rallies, did you?
It’s just linemen.
Thinking Jesus H. Christ personally talks to legislators and tells them how to vote on legislation?
He does.
December 15th, 2009 at 9:26 am
“21 percent of Republicans report that they have been in touch with someone who is dead”
I wouldn’t put too much stock in this report. If you include Jesus, this number skyrockets.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Has died, but is not dead, Apathy Boy. Get your theology straight or I will shun you.
I am big into shunning these days.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:22 am
Of course 36% of Democrats have been in touch with the dead, and they got them registered to vote, too.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:26 am
I think the number of snake-handlers goes up greatly if you include all the Congressional pages and interns in Washington, D.C. who should all be issued long, hooked sticks and gunny sacks when they start their jobs.
December 15th, 2009 at 11:05 am
“I am big into shunning these days.”
ROTFLMAO
😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
December 15th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Of course 36% of Democrats have been in touch with the dead, and they got them registered to vote, too.
Thats voter discrimination NW. You know as well as I do anyone who is dead would vote democrat, I mean how much more can they possibly be screwed anymore?
December 15th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Of course 36% of Democrats have been in touch with the dead, and they got them registered to vote, too.
Room-temperature Americans deserve representation, too.
December 15th, 2009 at 11:52 am
“Has died, but is not dead, Apathy Boy.”
I say otherwise, but please feel free to believe whatever you like.
“I am big into shunning these days.”
Don’t get my hopes up.
December 15th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
I wonder what percentage of crystal worshipers, are Democrats…what percentage of Democrats believe that there are more than two genders of human beings….how many Democrats believe the combination of human genome and egg does not result in the creation of another human being…ever run into a lefty that believes trees feel pain?
If you’ve spoken to a lefty, you’ve communicated with the brain dead.
December 15th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Don’t get my hopes up.
Ha! You just wish that I would let you get your hopes up!
Dante put blasphemers in the seventh circle, flat on their backs on a plain of burning sand, enduring a rain of fire.
I think you could simulate this, Apathy Boy, with an electric blanket and a heat lamp. Might as well see if you want to risk it.
It would help if you got a tom to pee on the electric blanket first. Dante doesn’t mention it specifically, but I am almost certain the seventh circle smells like cat piss.
For extra realism, when you are laying on an electric blanket on the floor under the heat lamp and it is starting to get pretty uncomfortable, you should gnash your teeth and cry out in anguish “Geryon, Geryon, winged demon, I beseech thee, pluck me from this burning field!”
Just see if Geryon shows up. ‘Cuz that is what Hell is like, brother.
December 15th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
If you include Jesus
Which we don’t. He rose.
December 15th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
“Don’t get my hopes up.”
Are you rejecting HOPE? CHANGE?
…. …. ….
“He rose.”
And that was all made possible due to the death penalty. I mean, “he committed suicide for our sins” just ain’t right. 😉
December 15th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
was all made possible due to the death penalty.
Right. Mission accomplished. Christ died so that so many of the sins that came before him could be redeemed. Retire it.
December 15th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
He rose.
And there were moree eywitnesses than Obama has for his birth certificate.
December 15th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
“Right.”
Thanks, I know.
….
“…birth certificate.”
DogGone to hyperventilate about the Anti-Strib “Birthers” in five…. four…. three…
December 15th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Kermit…heh, heh, heh.
December 15th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
“Mission accomplished.”
Wow, I just had a vision of Christ standing on a battleship (or its liturgical equal) in Heaven with a banner behind him circa year 35 AD giving a speech… along with the complaining and grumbling up there 2000ish years later, with Him saying “perhaps the banner was a mistake…”
December 15th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Christ’s victory was over Satan.
The Democrats? They’re our job.
December 15th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
feel free to believe whatever you like
By your leave.
December 15th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
yeah, as stated above…how you going to get the dead to vote for you if you don’t talk to them?
I doubt there are many snake handlers out there, and those that exist probably vote 3rd party as I expect they think both (r) and (d) are going to hell. As far as running up and down the isle, I suggest you attend a black baptist church sometime. Very energetic, and very devout and very democratic.
December 15th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Christ’s victory was over Satan.
And certain interests have been condemning the unilateral action ever since, and looking for reparations.
December 15th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
“…and very democratic.”
They should know better than that though.
December 15th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Mitch wrote: “No question about whether a day at the range is a spiritual experience?”
If yoga is spiritual certainly a day at the range is, especially if you are action or IDPA shooting.
Many Dems believe in a “living-breathing” Constitution; and many would deny an unborn child that opportunity.
Dennis Kucinich has seen extraterrestrials; likey Acorn will want them counted as voters in the next election.
December 15th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
“Mission accomplished.”
No, mission in progress. There’s still time, AB.
December 15th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Apathy Wrote:
Doubling down, Apathy Boy? Two can play at that game. Perhaps bad lyrical drama is your cup of tea
Scene: The Seventh Circle of Hell. Apathy Boy lies on his back in the field of fire, immovable under a rain of flaming pitch.
Apathy Boy: Woe! My flesh is burned, remade, and burned again. My ashes gag me. How can flame so dark burn so hot? I am heartwood in an unbanked fire! Geryon, Geryon, winged demon, I beseech thee, pluck me from this burning field! (Sound of teeth gnashing) Geryon, Geryon, winged demon, I beseech thee, pluck me from this burning field!
(repeat for ten thousand years).
Geryon: Anon
Apathy Boy: Saviour!
Geryon: Deliverer, rather. I do as I am bid.
Apathy Boy: I am aloft! Together we ride the choking wind above my long home, the heat lessened somewhat by my absence. Brute angel, thy talons pierce me! Place me instead upon your back, that I may suffer the less!
Geryon: Your suffering is your own.
Apathy Boy: Now the smoke parts, and I see, not too distant, the mountains of purgatory, where I would dwell awhile. I see the souls of the saved, toiling at their purgation, crying tears of joy at the certainty of salvation! The golden mountains, rank on rank, like the winged back of angels praying, as their Psalms they are a-saying!
Geryon: They pray, we bray.
Apathy Boy: Why so close, gargoyle? Is their an assault in the making? I would be on the side of the stronger.
Geryon: No assault, the nearness is His doing, that the souls of the saved may see the smoke of Hell and rejoice.
Apathy Boy: The smoke-curtain closes and we fall! Demon! Glide less, buffet more!
Geryon: No. Thy soul is too heavy with sin to bear the hence. Our path is downward, below the seventh circle, to meet my master, for I am the deliverer, and you are Damned.
Apathy Boy: Aieeeeeee!
December 15th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Fifteen percent of Republicans say they view yoga as a spiritual practice, while 31 percent of Democrats do.
If I had to guess at the disparity in numbers, I’d say it’s probably because there are more Democrats than Republicans who practice yoga. Before I started my practice, I thought of it as a way of building strength and flexibility but since I’ve been practicing about twice a week now, I have to agree that there is also definitely a spiritual component to my practice.
December 16th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Quote: “Scene: The Seventh Circle of Hell. Apathy Boy lies on his back in the field of fire, immovable under a rain of flaming pitch.”
WOW Terry, that was one HELL of a read!!!!
December 16th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Hahaha! Thorley does yoga, Mitch bicycles. Next we’ll find out Swiftea speed-walks around the track at the University holding those 2-pound weights in each hand.
December 17th, 2009 at 12:57 am
Terry, while you may believe the Bible is fact, we can all agree that “La Divina Commedia” is fiction, right?
December 17th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Best way to understand wingnuts, Stooj, is to understand they believe all the books in the fiction section and disbelieve all the books in the non-fiction section.
December 17th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
DiscordianStooj-
La Divina Commedia is a narrative. So is the scientific story of the formation (and eventual end) of our solar system. Narratives are judged on whether they are good or bad, useful or not useful, not whether they are capital-T “True” or “un-True”.
Angry Clown- The library is divided into “fiction” and “non-fiction”, not “True” and “False”.
Is this poem fiction or non-fiction? True or false?
http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/wallace-stevens/sunday-morning/
December 17th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Terry, I hope you die in battle. I’d hate to see you miss out on the glory of Valhalla.
December 17th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Odin, spare me the cruelty and indignity of a bed-death!