[b]Brad Thor
… have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them.[/b]
You know, if you’re a pragmatist.
You know when I told you the joke about how a friend will help you move, but a real friend will help you move a body? I was only kidding.
In other words, now that the body has been found.
…all members of Congress should be required wear NASCAR uniforms. You know, the kind with the patches? That way we’d know who is sponsoring each of them.
In the interim, you can go here: opensecrets.org/influence/
[b]There are many lay people and scholars alike, both with and without the Muslim community, who feel that the pure orthodox Islam of the fundamentalists could never survive outside the context of its seventh-century Arabian origins. Apply twenty-first-century science, logic, or humanistic reasoning to it and it falls apart.
They believe this is why Islam has always relied so heavily on the threat of death. Question Islam, malign Islam, or leave Islam and you will be killed. It is a totalitarian modus operandi that silences all dissent and examination, thereby protecting the faith from ever having to defend itself.[/b]
Next up: fundamentalist Christians.
There aren’t many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos, not their convictions. And you know what? It’s our fault as voters. We don’t demand better candidates, so we end up getting what we deserve—on both sides of the aisle.
No, really, on both sides.
Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor’s edge of madness…
I know that mine once did.