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Stinger
May 1st, 2009
12:48 pm
I am gay and all GT fans love tickle piles.
Tide4u2c
May 1st, 2009
12:51 pm
Really? Let’s see Bama and Florida both were in the SEC champ game before the season was over.This means both Bama and Florida could’ve pulled out the sarters and played back-ups, in Bama’s case in the Iron bowl against Auburn meanwhile Florida could’ve slacked too. Even if Auburn won Bama would still be in the playoffs and had Bama lost a few more during the regular season they could’ve been out which means every game counts during the season.Playoffs are about giving 2nd chances and in some cases teams a chance that don’t have much of a chance in the playoffs like in college basketball.
Bama fans everywhere
May 1st, 2009
12:53 pm
We do not claim Nachos thank you. This is just a disclaimer.
George G. ,
Not sure what you mean by Saban’s payroll. Its well known that the man is known for his work ethic. He’s a good but not great coach but he is an incredibly hard worker and relentless recruiter. If you are insinuating he is somehow cheating by paying players, etc. then that’s fine. Just prove it with a single shred of tangible evidence please.
ADL
May 1st, 2009
12:57 pm
SimpleDawg….no shame in losing to Jacksonville State in baseball. JSU has had a great program for years.
There is shame in electing Gino Torretta to ANY Hall of Fame except as a team player.
Neutral observor
May 1st, 2009
1:01 pm
Objective commentator,
Oh, and while it’s important for a woman (and her physician) to decide what, if anything happens to her body, it is just as important that the government have NO place in that discussion.
If it is just as important that the government have “NO place in that discussion” is it then okay to have an abortion 8 or 9 months into a pregnancy. Apparently the government does have a say in “that discussion”. But it is after all still her body and this should still be a discussion between her and her doctor right? So forget about the fact that the fetus is 8 months old for a minute. The difference between 1 month pregnancy and 8 months? What’s the difference? Its just a timeline by your objective assessment and not a human baby. Right?
BravesFan79
May 1st, 2009
1:01 pm
Anyone else tired of all these overhyped teenagers that dont have the brains to get into Technical school, much less a REAL college??
And the BCS IS equal to communism! Whats fair is whats fair, and college football is just not fair! How does a team like Hawaii or Utah, or even any ACC school get hyped for the football season when we all know there 0% chance of any of them playing for the title??
What do the kids say before the season? “wow i cant wait to compete for that chic fillet tshirt!” LAME
Falcons and Braves = REAL sports!!
ADL
May 1st, 2009
1:03 pm
Awesome comment Tide Rising.
Munson
May 1st, 2009
1:06 pm
No attacks from Saint Nick today, he must have the swine flu or something.
Tide4u2c
May 1st, 2009
1:11 pm
Who would want to see Utah vs Boise St for the NC when Florida,Oklahoma,USC,etc were so much better teams?Some of you seem to think that schedules don’t matter and if a team like Florida dominates teams in the SEC by multiple TD’s it means nothing.There are differences in the conferences some are just better and stronger.This issue is about money and has very little to do with crowning a true champion in college football IMO.It might be different if we did’nt have something to look and see what happens in playoffs but we have college basketball to go by and the little named teams do not win even if they get to try.
Objective commenter
May 1st, 2009
1:13 pm
Neutral observer:
My comment was never intended to be without the holdings of Roe v. Wade.
ie., the government’s constitutional police power enabling its protection of the unborn fetus arises at the end of the first trimester.
But there are those posting here that would have the procedure outlawed altogether, irrespective of timing.
reservoirDAWG
May 1st, 2009
1:13 pm
While I don’t like the BCS either, these clowns in congress need to be putting their energy elsewhere.
JB
May 1st, 2009
1:14 pm
It’s Friday, St. Nick at bank cashing his check………
COXYLADY
May 1st, 2009
1:16 pm
oh, tide rising… I stand corrected. according to you George W. was the best president ever! Yes, keep believing that.
JB
May 1st, 2009
1:20 pm
God made man in his own image and life begins at conception. Brother, it ain’t me you gotta convince it ain’t murder.
oldmac
May 1st, 2009
1:22 pm
The Limo is a great idea. Maybe Bammer and UGAnda should get their own squad car or prison van, would get plenty of use at either school.
NB
Neutral observor
May 1st, 2009
1:22 pm
Objective commenter,
I understand your position quite clearly now. You are quoting the Supreme Court’s roe v wade decision and its man made idea that the constitution will protect the fetus “after the first trimester” and not before. We just differ in that you are going by man made law and legal opinion that draws a distinction at some arbitrary point in time. I simply choose to go with the idea that life is life is life no matter what the point in time. I just don’t understand why life is not life at some point up to 3 months but then poof! A day later it is life and is worthy of constitutional protection. Why? Because a group of 9 men decided to make it so. I subscribe to a higher law.
GoBucks!
May 1st, 2009
1:23 pm
Ohio State had 97,000 fans at their Spring game
Objective commentator
May 1st, 2009
1:23 pm
JB:
I am contentedly agnostic.
Tide4u2c
May 1st, 2009
1:25 pm
Morals don’t matter anymore unless you are perfect like Jesus you cannot speak out about morality and stand up for what’s right because you are a hypocrite in todays America. Just be quite and let immorality take over, nobody can tell you how to live your life, if it feels good do it.- sarcasm
Objective commentator
May 1st, 2009
1:26 pm
Neutral observer:
It is not arbitrary – it is a matter of fetal viability.
JB
May 1st, 2009
1:28 pm
Mr. Objective….that is your right….. And if you are right, we’re even….if i am, well, God help you.
Tide4u2c
May 1st, 2009
1:30 pm
Thomas Jefferson “You cannot have national morality apart fom religious principles”
Neutral observor
May 1st, 2009
1:33 pm
Its a matter of “fetal viability”. How sadly trite that sounds when we’re talking about a human life. It sounds like some legalese nonsense that only a lawyer could come up with.
Objective commentator
May 1st, 2009
1:35 pm
JB:
If ther is a God and he/she is omniscient and forgiving, then why would he/she punish me for not domatically believing in organized religion’s concept of him/her?
UGALAW
May 1st, 2009
1:36 pm
The limo thing is a gimmick, but who cares. It will likely work to some extent. The idea that Auburn’s recruiting “can’t do any worse,” is hysterical, as last time I checked the two best RB’s in the country were openly talking about going there TOGETHER. Cheesy and successful are not mutually exclusive. Granted, riding in a Hummer likely won’t be as successful as a school (I think we all know who) giving away Hummers, but programs not willing to flagrantly break rules have to go in another direction. Plus, the heat seems to be starting to arrive for the particular school that does do this.
The Richt rule is stupid, but not surprising. I look for UGA to be successful but not truly in contention. Probably 9-3. Bama will be similar, and anyone who thinks they’re gonna run at the title this year (with or without the looming and likely inevitable off the field distractions) is delusional.
Objective commentator
May 1st, 2009
1:43 pm
Neutral observer:
Unwanted pregnancies were around long before Roe v. Wade. The procedure to terminate was illegal and often one which left a woman scarred and damaged, or worse. The law that served as the backdrop for the case was one intended to save lives and bring the procedure out of its dangerous, back-room shadows.
JB
May 1st, 2009
1:43 pm
The judgment will not be here. The lord is giving you every chance to read john 3:1 and accept.
In the trenches
May 1st, 2009
1:43 pm
High School spring practice starts next week for most. Can we get some coverage?
JB
May 1st, 2009
1:47 pm
sorry, read John 3:1 thru 3:5…… I know you won’t read it, and you don’t believe, but i’m taught not to give up on you. It says that unless you are born again, you can never enter the kingdom of God.
JBlowme
May 1st, 2009
1:58 pm
Neutral Observer, I have an idea that will satisfy both sides. Instead of having abortions we can have “early deliveries”. If “God” wants the fetus to survive he will find a way.
Jody A Greene
May 1st, 2009
2:02 pm
Maybe Georgia and Auburn should send representatives also…just kidding. As a dawg fan, I still feel for teams that “just didnt quite have enough” to get to that #2 or #1 ranking to have a chance at the BCS title. I also am in favor of a playoff system. But where do we draw the line. If we say the top 4 get in, then #5 with the same record as the #4 team will be sending representatives to congress also…and the beat goes on and on. Also, if we have a playoff system, teams are going to schedule easy teams each year, and we will have a log jam at the top of the rankings withy one loss or undefeated teams. Also, we will loose the number of “big games” during the regular season becasue no one will want to play another big time school in fear of having a loss. SAD!! BOTTOM LINE: If your favorite program stays the course and is consistantly good, they will get their chance. Control what you can…win your conference, and the rest will take care of itself.
BTW—- I love that CMR is not afraid to play bit time schools on a national level. Go DAWGS!
Objective commentator
May 1st, 2009
2:03 pm
JB:
Judging from yuor reading list you are a Christian. Then am I to infer that if I do not accept Jesus as my Lord and savior, then I am going to be denied an afterlife?
Just out of curiosity, what makes a carpenter’s son from Nazereth any more the son of God than, say, Bhudda, or Lao Tzu, or Confucious, or Mohammed (or me or you, for that matter?)?
Your Bible?Your Bible was written by men only (even though there were those who submitted writings – including women – who were excluded) and was heavily edited by other men.
If reading it brings you comfort in a time of need, then that is its highest and best use.
It is not, in my view, any more the word of God than the Tao, the Koran or any other religius writing.
Neutral observor
May 1st, 2009
2:06 pm
Objective commentator,
I understand your logic and the supposed logic for abortion was to as you say take abortion out of the shadows and save the few young women with a wire clotheshanger from damaging their bodies and possibly killing themselves. It does in fact provoke a gruesome mental picture does it not?
In this argument I saw a stat from none other I believe then planned parenthood stating that previous to roe v wade 9 women had died the previous year while trying to self induce abortions and who knows how many others damaged and injured themselves in the process. If there are something like a million abortions per year(I’m guessing, not really sure although that seems to be a number I’ve read) then in hard, cold, stark numbers alone it seems the loss of 9 women compared to the loss of a million babies is a good tradeoff. But of course that would us pro-lifers barbarians that we would accept that 9 women would die as opposed to letting a million babies die from abortions.
But this is what I hate about pro choice people in this debate. Its their blatant dishonesty. You know darn well that the whole reason for legalizing abortion is because the feminist movement was in full swing, society has liberalized and morals have slipped dramatically, and the whole fact of the matter is that abortion is an easy way out. Its far easier to just have a 10 minute abortion than to accept the major inconvenience financial and otherwise of having a baby and all that myriad responsilities that come with raising a child to adulthood. When you get right down to it this is all about convenience and avoiding the weighty consequences and responsibilities that come with raising a baby, especially for a single mother. That’s what this is really all about and to hide behind some nonsense like “we just want to bring it out of the shadows” is a bunch of phooey. Plain and simple.
Jesus Christ
May 1st, 2009
2:07 pm
To JB and all the other blasphemers on this blog post, I command thee to immediately desist from using my name as if we have ever met. For Christ’s sake, or, er, for my sake, I lived 2000 years ago! Thou art making thy Lord look like a douchebag, and I declare that if thou dost not stop taking the Lord thy God for granted, by arbitrarily declaring that you alone know what I am thinking, I shall cast thee into a pit of sodomites where thou shall remain for a thousand years until thou hast seen the error of thy ways.
I also command that the Florida Gators shall win the next two BCS national championships, and when the day comes I will have Saint Urban ascend to his position as Head Coach of the Heavenly Angels, where he shall lead our team to 1000 consecutive Galactic Championships over our rivals, the Demonic Blasphemers.
Nachos
May 1st, 2009
2:08 pm
Gene Chizik + limousine = Fear in all ‘Bama fans !!
hahahaahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahhahahaha
Jesus Christ
May 1st, 2009
2:13 pm
The Lord thy God apologizes to anyone who may have construed my last post to mean that sodomites are not my children, who I love equally as I do everyone else. I made all my children in the image of God, gay or straight, and I love them equally.
Objective commentator
May 1st, 2009
2:18 pm
Neutral observer:
Doesn’t your rationalizing nine deaths (your number) trivialize life as dramatically as you accused pro-choicers of?
And isn’t it numerically incongruous to compare the nine (again, your number) deaths prior to Roe v. Wade to today’s numbers of procedures?
JB
May 1st, 2009
2:19 pm
Mr. Objective….I wish you the best…….I’m am saved by faith and it’s a personal relationship. Give ole Budda a try……..
Otto
May 1st, 2009
2:19 pm
Nachos when you bet back to work I’ll take mine with beef and jalapenos. Yes I’ll take the supersize Coke too. Thanks.
Pitbull
May 1st, 2009
2:21 pm
I am so old I remember the “Auburn Handshake.” Ask an Auburn player about it sometimes. They will smile and probably not say anything but it is a tradition. An Auburn Handshake is a handshake between an Auburn football player and an Auburn alumni. The money in the alum’s hand is transferred to the player. Bet they are still doing that.
As for George W Bush and his VP, they were bigger crooks than the AIG execs. There should be a Congressional investigation. They were heavy into Haliburton stock, got us into an 8 year war so far, and guess which company has contracted with the USA the most for services in Iraq. They have made a mint. Wish they had spent some of the money on Veterans Hospitals.
I never quite understood why the terrorists that pulled off 911 were in Afghanstan but we invaded Iraq. Can someone please explain that? The only thing I heard out of GWB was that Saddam wanted to kill GWB’s daddy. But that is not a good reason for all of the American lives lost there. Wish GWB hadn’t been so obsessed throughout his life trying to win his daddy’s approval.
Regarding the Socialist stuff. Go Google “American Child Labor” and you will see what the late 1800’s and early 1900’s Robber Barons (who were pure Capitalists) were doing to the American public. They are the reason for child labor laws, social security, medicare, and equal opportunity for women. If Socialist laws had not been passed and things had kept going the way they were then, there would have been a second American Revolution like the one in Russia that gave birth to the USSR. We might have become a totally Socialist state by now.
Many of today’s Republicans and other Conservatives must have never studied American History. They also have similar arguments and perspectives as the Robber Baron’s from 100 years ago. I hope we do not let history repeat itself. America is a great place. I think a healthy mix of Capitalsim and Socialism are a good thing.
I also think there needs to be at least 3 other major parties in America forcing coalitions and compromise for controlling parties. Look at the junk that has been elected since 1964. Only Ford (who did no harm), Regan (who brought us out of Stagflation) and Bush Sr. (who drove Saddam out of Kuwait) were any good.
The rest remind me of the old quote “I was raised to believe anyone could grow up to be President and now I believe it.”
Neutral observor
May 1st, 2009
2:22 pm
Jblowme,
“God” does not save all these babies because he gave us something called “free will”. He will judge us later based upon what we did with this free will.
Objective commentator,
You’re obviously an educated professional. I know lots of highly educated individuals who have presented the same argument as you regarding why should we believe Jesus is the messiah over say Confucious, or Buddha, or Mohammed? There are differences and explanations and valid reasons for believing the bible such as prophecies that have come true. You just have to actually seek out the knowledge.
I don’t want to be overly critical but it seems like every time I see this argument the person stating this seems to be overeducated to the point of intellectual arrogance. In other words, I’m too smart for this fairly tale book called the bible. I don’t mean to be harsh, its just the vibe I get and I’ve seen this time and again.
For the record I’m certainly no fan of organized religion either and I frankly think a lot of churches go to the extreme of preaching about an eternal hell for nonbelievers all for the sins of one meager lifetime which is not biblically based. Others ignore the word of God and adopt morals based upon the social morays of our particular day and allow homosexuals as pastors despite the Bible’s admonition against doing so. The truth is somewhere in between.
The truth is that you haven’t seeked out the truth for yourself. You’re probably comfortable, have no need for religion, you don’t need the opiate of the masses so to speak. Life is good. Why bother? You can intellectually justify not being a Christian as you just did and go about living your comfortable existence. Such is your choice.
Stinger
May 1st, 2009
2:24 pm
Tickle piles make me happy.
TC
May 1st, 2009
2:25 pm
I’m a Dawg fan living in Alabama, but I think the Auburn limo thing was brilliant. Not the limo itself really, but the fact that 7 assitant coaches dedicated the time to visit key in-state schools. The ride was nice, but the attention given to each school had to have an impact on the students, administrators, and coaches. There is no question that eyes were taken off of ‘Bama and Saban, and the Tide fans can’t stand it. There is no question that this type of connection between the AU staff and the schools will benefit Auburn.
Brilliant.
Objective commentator
May 1st, 2009
2:27 pm
Neutral observer:
Additionally, yes, it is a momentous responsibility to bring a child into this world. And if the mother is ill equipped, or worse uninterested, in fulfilling those responsibilities, then who, pray tell, should raise and care for that child. The state?
There are facilities full of unwanted children we are ALL supporting with public dollars. And what about the obvious lack of a quality of life for those children?
As you are no doubt a conservative, how can you reconcile this sort of public/governmental spending for the irresponsible acts of these mothers with your political position?
Isn’t that tantamount to hipocrasy?
Otto
May 1st, 2009
2:27 pm
Pitbull the only way to promote 2 or 3 more parties is a constitutional change to Proportional Representation which is not going to happen. The corporations and special interests group are happpy pumping money into the two disfunctional parties we have and no elected official is giving up the benefits of the job.
Jesus Christ
May 1st, 2009
2:31 pm
Neutral Observer. I hereby rescind my offer to have you join me in the kingdom of heaven. You have obviously been led astray as to what the word of God means. And by word of God I mean a collection of essays pieced together by individuals who, if alive today, would be either committed for claiming to have “heard” the word of God, or would be denounced as heretics for claiming to know my thoughts.
The truth is, the Bible never was an accurate representation of what I tried to preach about when I was alive. Hell, some of the books in the Bible weren’t written until hundreds of years after my death. Religion is meant to be a purely personal experience, so stop being self-righteous and realize that what works for you might not work for everyone else.
reservoirDAWG
May 1st, 2009
2:31 pm
If you guys want to talk politics then get on Wootens blog.
Otto
May 1st, 2009
2:33 pm
reservoir Tony said this is “Fearless Friday” and it is Tony’s blog to decide.
Neutral observor
May 1st, 2009
2:35 pm
Objective commentator,
Yes. I am absolutely rationalizing those 9 deaths as opposed to a million deaths. Life and death choices are made and rationalized every day about the most mundane and not so mundane. Automobiles kill 50,000 people a year. Why have automobiles? Because its convenient and apparently the sacrifice of 50,000 people is worth it. Same with bikes, swimming pools, alcohol, tobacco, even vending machines will kill several people a year because idiots topple them over onto themselves and get killed. Should we just ban all of these items and a myriad number of other items including foods like oysters, chicken, etc? We could go down a road of absurdity from your point of why would we rationalize deaths? We can rationalize the use of all these things even though people die from them.
Personally I don’t like the logic but life is a whole series of tradeoffs. And I don’t trivialize the death of anyone. I’m simply asking from a utilitarian standpoint and not a biblical standpoint. Is it better than 9 die or that 1 million die? You tell me. And while we can argue the numbers the fact of the matter is that the sheer number of babies that die from abortion will exponentially outnumber the women that die from botched abortions which happen today anyway when abortion is legal. Certainly you would agree that this still happens and certainly you would agree that whether the practice is legal or illegal there will always be exponentially more babies dying then women dying from botched abortions?
Objective commentator
May 1st, 2009
2:38 pm
Neutral observer:
“There are differences and explanations and valid reasons for believing the bible such as prophecies that have come true. You just have to actually seek out the knowledge.”
Have YOU ever read/studied the teachings of Confucious, the Lotus Sutra, the Koran or the Tao te Ching?
Otto
May 1st, 2009
2:44 pm
The US has more pressing issues before abortion. I am not in favor of women choosing it but I am not in favor of the government having any more say over what I can or can not do in anyway. The supreme court is not going to change its ruling anytime some. Immigration, health care, and the economy will have far greater impacts on the quality of line in the US.
Otto
May 1st, 2009
2:45 pm
The US has more pressing issues before abortion. I am not in favor of women choosing it but I am not in favor of the government having any more say over what I can or can not do in anyway. The supreme court is not going to change its ruling anytime soon. Immigration, health care, and the economy will have far greater impacts on the quality of line in the US.
Tide4u2c
May 1st, 2009
2:47 pm
The problem with confucious,the lotus sutra,koran or the tao te ching is that those god’s are dead. Jesus is the only God that people serve who rose from the dead and Matthew,Mark,Luke and John were eye-witneses and wrote about what they seen from different perspectives.
Dawgdom
May 1st, 2009
2:51 pm
Who has the right to tell anyone what they can and cannot put in their own body?
Objective commentator
May 1st, 2009
2:53 pm
Tide4u2c:
Wow. There are millions of Bhuddists, Taoists, Muslims and Confucionists out there that are going to be very surprised to hear that!
And the last time I checked, Jesus is not a God.
Pago Flyer
May 1st, 2009
2:56 pm
Yes, Ohio State had 97,000 and at $5.00 each. Now that’s Big Time Football, and the DAGWS had how many!
Neutral observor
May 1st, 2009
2:57 pm
Objective commentator,
I think we are living on 2 different planets. Facilites full of unwanted children. Don’t know about you but I have 2 married female friends trying to adopt. The waiting list a at least a few years long. Hence, all the American couples who go to Romania, Russia, China, etc. to adopt. You sound like you’re referring to Charles Dicken’s world of orphaneges. Where do you get all these facilities of unwanted babies if the waiting list to adopt is years long?
Jesus Christ
May 1st, 2009
3:00 pm
Neutral Observer. Tell your female friends to stop wishing for a newborn and adopt one of my older children who unfortunatly have lost their parents.
Objective commentator
May 1st, 2009
3:01 pm
Has anyone ever heard of a religion called the Baha’i Faith and its inspiration, Baha’u'llah?
It is, oddly enough, based in one of the most religiously intolerant areas of the world, the Middle East.
They believe, in a nutshell, that there are many different and equally legitimate pathways to the same God.
Now there’s an earth-shatteringly, understanding and humble postion!
An ideal that ALL religions should aspire to.
Jesus Christ
May 1st, 2009
3:01 pm
Tide4u2c. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were all on peyote when they “saw” me rise from the dead. That sh*t is crazy!
Tide4u2c
May 1st, 2009
3:03 pm
Jesus was God in human flesh John 1:1-7 Personally I don’t like certian newer translations that weaken the true meaning. For example the NIV version sais “was as God” while the KJV sais “was God”. “The word became flesh and dwelt among us”.I know qouting scripure will not change your mind but I have studied he bible as well as most other religions and I discovered 1. Jesus is the only God that ose from the dead. 2. There is more evidence to prove the bible to be true than what other religions have to offer. 3. All religions except christianity teach works for salvation,better karma,heaven,etc while christianity makes it clear you cannot save yourself at all.
RedEyedDawg
May 1st, 2009
3:03 pm
LEGALLLLLIIIIZZZZE IT!
Neutral observor
May 1st, 2009
3:04 pm
I’ve read Confucious. To me its more of a philosophy than a religion but that’s just me. Taoism, see Confucious. Islam I’ve read enough about to see contradictions and inconsistencies and more than a few passages of which I just can’t agree. Bhuddism I’ve read about also, good philosophy and meaning in life but the problem with the eastern religions to me is that they are great philosophies but not a real explanation as to why we are here, what is our purpose, is there a supreme force in the universe, etc.
Objective commentator
May 1st, 2009
3:05 pm
Neutral observer:
“You sound like you’re referring to Charles Dicken’s world of orphaneges.”
Precisely my point.
Prior to Roe v. Wade, there were many more unwanted, parentless humans sharing this world with us because their parents either couldn’t or wouldn’t take care of them.
Jesus Christ
May 1st, 2009
3:08 pm
RedEyedDawg. Thou art wise beyond thy years. I placed marijuana on this earth for humans to enjoy. The prohibition of marijuana is like slapping God in the face! I command all my followers to immediately contact your elected officials to demand that we end this silly war on drugs.
Neutral observor
May 1st, 2009
3:09 pm
Now it sound like you are rationalizing the practice of abortion. Better to have abortion than to have all these unwanted children. Is that your point?
Objective commentator
May 1st, 2009
3:12 pm
Neutral observer:
What is any religion but a philosophy for living this life honestly, respectfully, peacefully, humbly and kindly?
One that teaches us to leave this world a little better place than in which we found it.
name: don't remember
May 1st, 2009
3:14 pm
I’m a bama fan and i like the limo idea. i just think it would look better in crimson with 2 white racing stripes down the middle.
I am disturbed about the whole legalizing marijuana comments. That would be lots of revenue but consider the end result: putting the future of our country and world in the hands of wasted brains. Meth would also contribute much revenue. I’ve done both and fortunately quit once I woke up and realized how NOT-harmless it is. Not just Meth, mj is harmful too. Once you get out of the cloud, you’ll realize how bad it really is. Legalize mj – no thanks. Imagine would that would do to healthcare.
Speaking of God and the man J.C., they’re how I was able to quit all that stuff cold turkey. They are both real and their power is unimaginable – don’t second guess it. I’m not totally for or against organized religion. Some churches are bad about going to the extreme and living too much by old testament law. What’s most important is your personal relationship with Jesus Christ (real one, not the poster above).
Remember: just be cause he put it here doesn’t make it ok. He put the fruit tree in the garden and said don’t eat it.
Peace to all and Roll Tide!!
Objective commentator
May 1st, 2009
3:17 pm
Neutral observer:
“Now it sound like you are rationalizing the practice of abortion. Better to have abortion than to have all these unwanted children. Is that your point?”
And if it also saves women’s lives, then, yes, emphatically.
Tide4u2c
May 1st, 2009
3:20 pm
Here is just a little taste of some of the evidence that helps prove the bible to be true. Let me say though you cannot 100% prove God exists because of faith. But the bible sais “Faith is the “substance” of things hoped for, the “evidence” of things not seen – Hebrews 11:1
http://www.apologiaonline.com/conf/source.pdf
Breamking
May 1st, 2009
3:22 pm
Auburn limo is not what is impressing recruits. It is having all the coaches at one time at a school. Great idea if you ask me. I do not think many schools have sent all coaches to so many different schools.
Jesus Christ
May 1st, 2009
3:23 pm
Tide4u2c…you cannot 0% prove God exists because of faith.
Neutral observor
May 1st, 2009
3:27 pm
Okay. I was just curious as to upon what basis you support abortion. If your idea is that its better to just terminate their lives without giving them a chance because we’re afraid they may end up unwanted then I see your point. I just wanted to see firmly where and why you believe in abortion. That’s all.
I think its wrong to terminate lives just because in our judgement we think we might bring unwanted children into the world. I wholeheartedly disagree with that notion. But that’s okay. Its nothing personal and we will just respectfully agree to disagree. Been good exchanging opinions with you and some of the others on here who have serious opinions, not just insults or lame comments.
The truth of the matter though is that OTTO above is right. Roe v Wade is pretty much probably here to stay, at least for the very foreseeable future anyway so we all could have just been engaging in a fruitless endeavor in debating this point. Anyway, gonna head out. Good conversing with you guys, especially objective commentator even if we disagree.
Don’t remember who said it I think it was Thomas Paine who said something like this and of course I paraphrase “I disagree vehemently with your speech. But I will defend to the death your right to say it”
Jesus Christ
May 1st, 2009
3:31 pm
Name: don’t remember…unfortunately you lost all credibility when you equated marijuana with meth. One is a naturally-occurrring substance, the other is a chemically manufactured substance that has all kinds of PROVEN harmful effects. If you do not want to legalize marijuana because you think everyone will be “wasted”, does that mean that you are currently advocating for the prohibition of alcohol? Are you “wasted” on alcohol right now? As for your healthcare argument, it could actually be used to subsidize Medicare and Medicaid, and there are currently NO studies (ZERO) in which there has every been a PROVEN link between marijuana and cancer or any other disease.
And how dare you question my existence. You will burn in hell forever.
Neutral observor
May 1st, 2009
3:34 pm
Jesus Christ,
You have some good, valid points. But why mock the name Jesus Christ?
Monticello Dawg
May 1st, 2009
3:35 pm
To those who want to blame this economic mess on the free market, we have not had one in quite awhile. In a true free market, there is not a Federal Reserve artifically setting interest rates, or creating fiat money. A free market does not have 73,000 pages of detailed government regulations. A free market allows poorly run and mis-invested institutions to fail. Greenspan and successors have refused to let certain businesses fail, so we have spent trillions bailing out Wall Street for their mistakes. The way the system is supposed to work- businesses fail, then competent people take over from the failed people and you start again from a new,stronger base. What we are doing now is the opposite- taking assets from the competent and giving them to the incompetent.
When there was a strong semblance of a free market during much of the 19th century, the dollar actually gained in value, while the real GDP went up twice as fast as during the 20th century. Since the Federal Reserve was created, the dollar has lost 95% of its value.
RedEyedDawg
May 1st, 2009
3:37 pm
anyone have any fruity pebbles?? ben and jerrys half baked ice cream?? mmm or some funonions?? wait… what was i asking??
Tide4u2c
May 1st, 2009
3:47 pm
Jesus Christ, All I was doing is backing myself up with examples of what I’m talking about.Anybody can say something or believe something but can they back it up?Alot of people look at the bible like its a book full of fairy tells,fables,etc but there are things in there that the men who wrote the bible could not have known in there time and yet science is just one example of discovering what these men wrote was true. Example there was no concept of germs in biblical times but if you follow the bibles sanitation laws and laws of cleanliness it will help prevent the spread of germs and you will be a healthier person even if germs(it even tells you how to make soap) were not even known about then which I doubt were.
Objective commentator
May 1st, 2009
3:48 pm
Monticello Dawg:
Just as a dam governs the flood and drought of a river and a governor keeps an engine from over-revving itself into the junkyard, regulation allows controlled and sustainable growth.
Objective commentator
May 1st, 2009
3:52 pm
Tide4u2c:
That the bible is also code of healthiness and civility does not legitimize it as the sole word of God.
Cheech & Chong
May 1st, 2009
3:53 pm
“Dave’s not HERE, man!”
JB
May 1st, 2009
3:53 pm
Good day all …..and may God bless……….
Objective commentator
May 1st, 2009
3:55 pm
You too, JB.
Jesus Christ
May 1st, 2009
4:05 pm
Dave is with me Cheech. And we’re having a blast!
WTF???
May 1st, 2009
4:07 pm
Objective Commentator – You are going to hell because Jesus said so. And the homos & Tech fans (also homos) are going with you.
Bulldawg fans will be there, because God loves the Georgia Bulldawgs. I think he may let the Barners in too, but I’m not sure. I think most of them go to church with the rest of us southern, God fearing folks. Hippies, Queers & Techies will not be there. At least not in my heaven. Well, I’m getting a tad bit too judgemental so I’ll check out.
WTF???
May 1st, 2009
4:09 pm
Tide, your post at 3:47 gave me a headache dude!!! Hooked on phonics worked for me brother…
Objective commentator
May 1st, 2009
4:16 pm
I wish all a safe and peaceful evening.
You, too, WTF???
WTF???
May 1st, 2009
4:16 pm
Oh yeah, my dream in life is to play a round of golf with Natalie Glubis’s legs wrapped around my head. I’m open to courses, not really that important….
WTF???
May 1st, 2009
4:18 pm
Agreed, I just like to rock the boat.
Jake
May 1st, 2009
4:32 pm
so the bcs has the law on it’s side? how did you determine that on your own tony? isn’t that what is going on in congress today, trying to determine if it is legal or not? maybe they didn’t need the hearings since you already know.
Gen Neyland
May 1st, 2009
4:38 pm
COXYLADY : The following is an excerpt from today’s Charlie Daniels Soapbox…
“In his first 100 days in office, he bows to the Saudi King, berates America in the presence of the Arab world, sits quietly in the same room with Latin American dictators while they lash out at the U.S., publishes our interrogation techniques, gives the war a kinder gentler name and dismantles the domestic anti-terror infrastructure.
Mr. President, you are walking among grizzly bears and I don’t think you even know it. You are kowtowing to people who kill their own children for breaking the rules, who treat women like cattle and cut the heads off their captives. They only understand power, and you’re only showing them meekness.”
COXY, it’s easy to come off the koolaid…You just gotta want it…
Shonuff
May 1st, 2009
4:45 pm
Neyland
From the other view, the same could be said for you re: coming “off the koolaid.” Absolutism in any form, be it a political party or a religion, is at best narrow-minded and at worst dangerous. It’s absolutists who “kowtow.”
A few good rational posts, but by and large, the dim view here is unsettling, no matter the belief system represented.
$aban Gives Recruit Hummer
May 1st, 2009
4:53 pm
I’m sure $aban can one up AU again. He and the boosters will start buying recruits limos w/ personal drivers instead of the loser “normal” rides like Escalades, Lexus and “regular” Hummers they currently provide. Little down and the payments are even less. I guess Julio and Dre missed the boat on that one. When the on-campus recruiting picks up, the Hummer limos need to be picking up recruits and their families at the hotel. Tony is right. (your team’s name here) will be riding around in limos by the fall.
AU managed to frequently beat $aban’s top recruiting classes with “lesser” talent when he was at LSU and will do the same while he is at UAT. UF is 0-2 against AU in the Tebow era. Can anyone else in the league say that? Yeah, they would have beat us by 50 last year, but not having any offensive minded coaches will get you into that kind of trouble. That has changed 200% since the Iron Bowl. These new guys know what they are doing and how to coach. This will not necessarily translate into more wins in 2009, but the big results are likely 2-3 years away. The new staff pulled in a few good ones late in the recruiting period last year that any SEC team would love to have. I expect 8-11 2009 signees to have an immediate impact if AU is to do well in 2009. Any OL or QB injuries and AU may as well shut it down because it will get ugly in a hurry. If AU gets any kind of effective QB play without major injuries, add two games to my prediction of (6/6 or 7/5).
As for the Utah thing, please… I loved nothing more than watching bammer vacations to New Orleans go up in smoke, but I’m realistic. UAT fell into the same trap that AU fell into after the 2005 season. AU was playing as well as anyone at the end of the season and had just stabbed UGA in the heart and destroyed Brodie. AU wanted to be in the Captial One Bowl about as much as UAT wanted to be in the Sugar Bowl. AU got cleaned out by Wisconsin and Utah schooled an Andre Smithless UAT because neither of those teams wanted to be where they were and the games actually meant something to Wisconsin and Utah. BTW, Utah provided everyone with the blueprint of how to beat $aban’s D full of slow 250 lb linebackers.
Charlotte Dawg
May 1st, 2009
4:57 pm
COXYLADY is a typical GT fan that has nothing in common with proud Georgians and other people from the deep south. I’ve said time and time again that you could take that hell hole of a campus and stick it in Manhattan and you wouldn’t know the difference. They are either Yankee carpet baggers, turn coat sell out nerds that we used to make fun of in high school, or foreigners from India or the far east. A poor pathetic excuse for a university nestled in the deep south. She and most Tech fans and alumni are an embarrassment to the great state of Georgia. Please leave and never come back if you hate it so much!
It is not at all surprising that she is a democrap donkey. Most weak minded people are. So keep posting darling. I hope you make out with a pig at one of your fat soriety parties and come down with the swine flu. I will always hate your “breed”.
$aban Gives Recruit Hummer
May 1st, 2009
4:57 pm
And don’t forget about smokeless ways to enjoy the herb. Bake some brownies or use a smokeless vaporizer (like Bill Mahr). Joints and bongs ARE bad for you just like smoking cigarettes. If you are gonna get stoned, don’t add to the nations healthcare costs.
Shonuff
May 1st, 2009
5:02 pm
Holy wow! Charlotte Dawg’s a bigot! What an embarrassing creature.
Charlotte Dawg
May 1st, 2009
5:07 pm
Glad you enjoyed it.
Mikey
May 1st, 2009
5:09 pm
WTF?- I agree about the “round of golf” with Natalie.
Mikey
May 1st, 2009
5:11 pm
Tony, bad idea on the free for all.
Need to throw in a qualifier- it must pertain to sports.
My eyes hurt from reading the bible…err… these posts.
good night now.
bama12titles
May 1st, 2009
5:14 pm
$aban Gives Recruit Hummer,
I got $1,000 to give you if you can prove that Saban gave a recruiter a hummer. All ya got to do is prove it. Othewise shut the hell up if you’re gonna talk crap that ya just made up and can’t prove.
General Neyland,
Great post.
WTF???
Are you gonna let Bama fans into heaven? We’re southern folks who generally go to church too ya know.