jps wrote:
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:24:23 -0700, Jim wrote:

jps wrote:
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:09:36 -0700, Jim wrote:

jps wrote:
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:20:43 -0700, Jim wrote:

Jim wrote:
nom=de=plume wrote:
I certainly understand. It's not too important to speak up in a forum
like this, but in other situations, I believe it is.

Get theee into another situation pronto, puleeeeze.
Getting into a discussion with the intentionally ignorant is a loosing
battle.
Intent falls short in this situation, otherwise I agree.

Dogged pursuit of ignorance seems more fitting.
Frank Schaeffer, who wrote books the Christian right have on their book
shelves, and videos they use as the basis of their beliefs, refers to
them as "Permanently scared and intentionally ignorant."

I love it that someone responsible for the Christian right refers to
them as intentionally ignorant.
Do you suppose a lot of Frank Schaeffer books have been burned since
he announced this little tidbit? Would that qualify as irony?
The true believers probably don't realize he thinks they are fools.
I'll bet his books and tapes still sell well in Christian book stores.

What a strange place to live. Selling drivel to people you consider
fools. That's some seriously cynical business.

Did you see Bush Sr.'s quote:

Bush senior, to President Mikhail Gorbachev:

"Reagan is a conservative. An extreme conservative. All the blockheads
and dummies are for him, and when he says that something is necessary,
they trust him. But if some Democrat had proposed what Reagan did, with
you, they might not have trusted him."

So it's not unknown for the powers at the top to speak of the people
their tactics bring to them as "blockheads and dummies," which is how
the people on the opposite side refer to them.

Nice to see there is agreement. The ones who use them should be
ashamed. Those who allow themselves to be used deserve it, I guess.

Kind of like taking advantage of the mentally challenged.