Comments on: House GOP is now getting it right

By: Algonquin J. Calhoun

Algonquin J. Calhoun — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:44:09 +0000

Sonny Perdon’t was elected by the Republinazi crowd to bring back the confederate battle flag as the official flag of Georgia. By a thousand little steps he set it up so the people could vote on the flag but the cornfederate rag wasn’t one of the ones put up for selecting. typical lying Republinazi behavior, only this time he fooled his fellow nazis.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:28:30 +0000

Dusty that’s quite lovely. You sure as hell are Lutheran. Fierce. Brave. Rational. Ever faithful.

For what it’s worth, and since I did the intellectual striptease (!) at your behest yesterday and don’t even have the folded Jackson in the G-String to show for it, I’ve wanted to tell you — just because you would appreciate it — that for decades I’ve thanked God that I had the privilege of studying Luther solo with the late Lewis Spitz,.

By: Ragnar Danneskjöld

Ragnar Danneskjöld — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:07:35 +0000

Good morning, interested @ 8:01. The breakeven on the tax is $28,600 or so. I think you buy into the virtues of tax too easily. Suggest you embrace a conservative perspective, rejecting both the tax and the prospective spending.

By: interested observer

interested observer — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:01:04 +0000

It’s interesting that the seven-percent “title fee” caps at $2,000. That means that the rich who can afford $40,000 super SUVs and more expensive vehicles will pay less, percentagewise, than the working class people who can’t afford those cars. Why should someone who can afford a $100,000 vehicle pay a two-percent fee while those who can only afford to pay $8,000 pay seven percent? Because the GOP always takes care of its own.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:12:17 +0000

Dear Glenn,

Yes, you are correct. Our Lord never specified the proportions. But he did give us an inner spirit which can calm us or correct us. That, for me, is the sure measure of satisfaction, positive or negative.

Some churches want a tithe. If you like that, fine. I prefer giving, not just at church, but to organizations that offer specific help in certain areas. There are plenty of good ones around and they are hard hit these days. Lutheran World Relief and Docs without Borders are my favorites for international help. Salvation Army and many other locals do good work. But, as I said, give what seems best to you.

Don’t get me wrong, Glenn. I am saying what suits me, not that you need any “instruction”. Now that would be something. YOU are the good teacher here.

Good night..

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:41:28 +0000

I’m a very poor student of Koine Greek, frankly (in part because my newlywed teacher was approximately the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen), but I think you nailed it, Dusty. That is the question. But aside from the question, there’s the problem. The question is, as Karl Marx basically put it, “Who Whom?” But for Christians the problem beyond the question is, “How much, to whom?”

Our Lord never really specified the proportions of the recipe, so it’s left up to us, ever after. Ain’t that a bitch?

By: Dusty

Dusty — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:34:13 +0000

Dear Glenn,

I guess I will go with the scriptures on that question. Right now I am not a revolutionary so I say “Give unto Caesar that which is his and unto God, that which is his”. I don’t think my wording is quite correct but you know it anyway. If taxes go up and up I may change my mind about Caesar. The poor lady who gave her last penny to God was a fine example but I would hope to do better than that moneywise. With Obama, I am afraid we might have only pennies and service left for our Maker.

By: Just Nasty & Mean

Just Nasty & Mean — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:14:48 +0000

Dear Jim Wooten: Ragnar is right. The consensus is the tax is a scam, not beneficial to small car dealers, not beneficial to personal sales of autos, not beneficial if you keep your car less than 5-6 years, not beneficial to zoning–as governments will want to zone for cash-cow auto dealerships, and it raises more taxes for government consumption.

This thing is a PIG.

Sent the message back to your good buddy scam artist under the dome.

And, stay away from the green beer today. I think you’re running low on brain cells today.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:04:20 +0000

Well Dusty, I realize that it all sounds very fancy and deep, but actually it’s just a spin on the greatest, most fun study of all, American Cultural Studies.

Augie, by the way, is pretty salient. Whenever one plumbs the meaning of “civil religion” (essentially, secularized wine in old wineskins), Augustine tends to breathe down one’s neck for his crucial distinction between the two Cities — his take on the debts to Caesar and to God, respectively. So it’s not all that ancient.

Barak Obama says he wants more of our children, more of the time, and that he wants to pluck them at a younger age. That way, the government can spend more time and money continuing to fail.

Now, you’re a mother; I ask you: what exactly do we owe to Caesar?

By: Chris Broe

Chris Broe — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:02:58 +0000

and look at his shirt!