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Toon: Brownback is the Personal Shopping Assistant for the Poor (Original Post) n2doc Apr 2015 OP
The last sane/intelligent person to leave Kansas hifiguy Apr 2015 #1
+1 Enthusiast Apr 2015 #2
Ah! The Christopher Hitchens quote strikes again. longship Apr 2015 #3
I miss Hitchens awoke_in_2003 Apr 2015 #6
Here is a resource for Hitchens (and others) debating. longship Apr 2015 #7
Thanks. nt awoke_in_2003 Apr 2015 #8
K&R!!!!!!!!!!! burrowowl Apr 2015 #4
Known quantity and known policies: reelected, and rather easily alcibiades_mystery Apr 2015 #5
All they care about are fetuses, until they're born of course. MoonRiver Apr 2015 #9
 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
1. The last sane/intelligent person to leave Kansas
Sat Apr 18, 2015, 05:40 PM
Apr 2015

can turn out the lights. If you gave Browneye an enema he would disappear. Nothing left but an empty suit.

longship

(40,416 posts)
3. Ah! The Christopher Hitchens quote strikes again.
Sat Apr 18, 2015, 06:32 PM
Apr 2015

Said during a news interview upon the death of Jerry Falwell, "If they had given him an enema, he could have been buried in a matchbox."

A great one, in many contexts.

Nicely played.

longship

(40,416 posts)
7. Here is a resource for Hitchens (and others) debating.
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 03:04 AM
Apr 2015

There are apparently over 600 debates on this site.
Atheist debates

Many from Hitchens and others. I love the ones where William Lane Craig gets taken down. He is such a douche. His sole argument (the Kalam cosmological argument) is an exemplar of begging the question. God exists, therefore God exists. And by the way, Jesus, because the Bible.



And I do miss Hitchens.

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
5. Known quantity and known policies: reelected, and rather easily
Sat Apr 18, 2015, 07:23 PM
Apr 2015

This is the government favored by the majority in Kansas. It is, of course, a horror for the poor, but the majority of voters in Kansas don't give a good goddamn about the poor. They knew what Brownback would do, and they voted in the affirmative.

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