#2 2008-01-03 13:46:20

Holy fuck.  I can have Jesus ridin' a bull for only thirty bucks?!  Where's my wallet?

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#3 2008-01-03 15:05:28

Given the tackiness factor, the Muslim proscription against images makes even more sense.

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#4 2008-01-03 15:12:54

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/4736/jesuselvispy4.jpg

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#5 2008-01-03 15:14:48

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/8060/jesusnancylidoq3.jpg

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#6 2008-01-03 15:16:17

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/6236/jesussavesbankrf8.jpg

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#7 2008-01-03 15:18:19

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/944/jesusmontagepostersgy5.jpg

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#8 2008-01-03 15:59:41

http://i5.tinypic.com/72hrmmv.png

This one was modeled after me.  That's not a rappelling harness...

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#9 2008-01-03 17:52:32

Of course Jesus can go free-climbing. Fall down, get resurrected, etc. This is the one that requires a bit of explanation for me:

http://www.xmere.com/forums/uploads/highstreet/extreme_beggar.jpg



I suppose we've given up on the whole 'teaching a man to fish' thing, eh? What's the point if there's an All-He-Can-Eat buffet place down the road? Besides, I thought Mr. Christ already had a trade.

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#10 2008-01-03 20:30:58

http://www.edkrebs.com/herb/petoons11/cck3.jpg

I think I'm getting a reserrection!

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#11 2008-01-03 20:34:11

Taint wrote:

Given the tackiness factor, the Muslim proscription against images makes even more sense.

Actually, if I remember the Ten Commandments correctly, there's a Christian proscription against graven images as well.  Not that any of the retarded assholes who go for this shit give a fuck.

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#12 2008-01-03 20:34:18

pALEPHx wrote:

Of course Jesus can go free-climbing. Fall down, get resurrected, etc. This is the one that requires a bit of explanation for me:

http://www.xmere.com/forums/uploads/hig … beggar.jpg



I suppose we've given up on the whole 'teaching a man to fish' thing, eh? What's the point if there's an All-He-Can-Eat buffet place down the road? Besides, I thought Mr. Christ already had a trade.

Well after kicking ass fighting in wars, Jesus is now just another out-of-work veteran panhandling on the streets.

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#13 2008-01-03 20:50:24

Baywolfe wrote:

Taint wrote:

Given the tackiness factor, the Muslim proscription against images makes even more sense.

Actually, if I remember the Ten Commandments correctly, there's a Christian proscription against graven images as well.  Not that any of the retarded assholes who go for this shit give a fuck.

I think that proscription was against fashioning idols, not any graven image whatsoever.

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#14 2008-01-03 22:50:17

It is good we are boning up on our Jesus because the Republicans just nominated our first Pastor in Chief to head up the coming theocratic administration. If you thought you had Jesus's number all figured out you ain't seen nothing yet.

I guess he really did take the call.

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#15 2008-01-04 00:39:48

Johnny Rotten wrote:

Republicans just nominated our first Pastor in Chief to head up the coming theocratic administration.

While I wouldn't go so far as to say he won't even survive past NH, I fully expect him to plug along even after others in the party tell him to fuck off. Huckles can't beat Obama (or Dodd, for that matter), so it really isn't important that he considers himself "God's personal choice" for President.

Mike Huckabee, seeking to channel Kang’s seminal policy position from the 1996 debates of “Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others,” ran circles around the abortion question on Meet the Press this weekend. He believes that the scientific evidence shows that life begins at conception, women are victims of abortionists and doctors who accept money for abortions should be punished. From this, we now assume that Huckabee’s position on Roe vs Wade is that abortions should only be legal when they’re free and that “we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.” All that twirling, though, can really make you dizzy, so be careful. (Wonkette)

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Huckabee Signed USA Today Ad Backing Idea of Wife as 'Servant'

Mike Huckabee and his wife, Janet, in 1988 signed a full-page ad in USA Today backing the idea of the wife in any marriage serving as a "servant" in relation to her husband.

Then-Gov. Huckabee was one of 131 signatories on the full-page USA Today ad backing a controversial position on the role of women in marriage that had been adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention: “A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ...” (read more)

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#16 2008-01-04 02:01:19

pALEPHx wrote:

While I wouldn't go so far as to say he won't even survive past NH, I fully expect him to plug along even after others in the party tell him to fuck off. Huckles can't beat Obama (or Dodd, for that matter), so it really isn't important that he considers himself "God's personal choice" for President.

It bears pointing out that nobody ever got rich by over-estimating the intelligence and rationality of the American populace.

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#17 2008-01-04 02:12:58

I believe the American people will make an intelligent, well thought out choice when it comes to making such an important and critiicll-- sorry. I couldn't keep typing without laughing.

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#18 2008-01-04 02:31:54

jesusluvspegging wrote:

It bears pointing out that nobody ever got rich by over-estimating the intelligence and rationality of the American populace.

Ah, but they can be elected president for counting on the exact opposite, and that's clearly the way to become rich these days. After you leave office, and if you can avoid impeachment, that is. How often have you heard the excuse, "The American public doesn't want to get caught up with a lengthy trial, especially during an election year"? Yes, it's always best to avoid prosecution when it could be inconvenient. Or you already own many of the federal judges in the country. They may twirl, but we just keep sittin' an' spinnin'.

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#19 2008-01-04 20:39:30

tojo2000 wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

Taint wrote:

Given the tackiness factor, the Muslim proscription against images makes even more sense.

Actually, if I remember the Ten Commandments correctly, there's a Christian proscription against graven images as well.  Not that any of the retarded assholes who go for this shit give a fuck.

I think that proscription was against fashioning idols, not any graven image whatsoever.

Agreed, but what about any of this stuff does not scream idolitry to you?

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#20 2008-01-04 21:06:49

I need one of these just to answer the age old question:  WWJD?

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#21 2008-01-04 21:27:34

I need one of these just to answer the age old question:  WWJD?

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#22 2008-01-04 21:37:31

pALEPHx wrote:

jesusluvspegging wrote:

It bears pointing out that nobody ever got rich by over-estimating the intelligence and rationality of the American populace.

Some good ideas paid off. Whosasailorthen's personal computer project comes to mind.

The quote eluding you here is HL Mencken's regular refrain, no one ever LOST money underestimating the taste and sophistication of the American public, the great unwashed, the booboisie as he called us.

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#23 2008-01-04 23:34:20

choad wrote:

The quote eluding you here is HL Mencken's regular refrain, no one ever LOST money underestimating the taste and sophistication of the American public, the great unwashed, the booboisie as he called us.

That is, in fact, the exact quote I was looking for.  Thank you.

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#24 2008-01-11 02:53:23

"No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

(H.L. Mencken. Notes on Journalism. The Chicago Sunday Tribune, September 19, 1926)

    Familiar enough, until you examine its context. Appearing in the last paragraph at the end of a reflective Sunday column, the quote concludes...

"The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is folly. They dislike ideas, for ideas make them uncomfortable. The tabloids, seeking to force such things upon them, will inevitably alarm them and lose their trade. The journalism of the future--that is, the mob journalism--will move in the direction that I have indicated."

    Mencken was right, of course. It did. The tabloid press was still in its infancy, but he recognized its innovations -- a format that was easier to print, easier to distribute, easier to carry, easier to read in crowds and easier to digest -- were uniquely suited to a profitable mass market of the lowest order.

    Mencken might just as well have inserted Television for Tabloids, as he did later in other ways for radio and movies. If he were still alive, would he see the same dismal potential in computer networks?

    "What [plain people] are interested in is drama," Mencken counselled tabloid magnates. "The thing presented to them must take the form of combat, and it must be very simple combat, with one side clearly right and the other clearly wrong. They can no more imagine neutrality than they can imagine the fourth dimension. And when they see drama they want to see it moving."

    Or do you prefer your nilhist tonic Teutonic? Mencken was, after all, just first generation German-American. Shiller was the genuine article.

Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.

Against fools, even the gods fight in vain.

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#25 2008-01-11 11:03:47

Thanks for that Choad. I will make use of that tidbit. I have been trying to illustrate the nature of the media in this political season to the teenagers. As they have never known anything else they lack points of reference to evaluate it.

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