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Chutzpah Personified
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 (May 12, 2015 at 4:31 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Good point. OK to make it twice, and the christer/consevatwerps still ain't gonna catch on. Indeed. The idiot in the article is living it and he still doesn't get the point. I don't think there is any cure for stupid. "A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
 RE: Chutzpah Personified
May 13, 2015 at 12:23 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2015 at 12:24 pm by Minimalist.)
(May 12, 2015 at 1:04 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Can't his pastor mix some spittle with some dirt and fix his eyes ?? Worked for Emperor Vespasian. Quote:Life of Vespasian 7.2.3A certain commoner, who was deprived of his sight, and another who was lame,together approached him while he was sitting at the tribunal, imploring him for the cure for their illness that had been shown them by Serapis as they slept, saying that if Vespasian should spit upon the one, his sight would be restored, and if he should deignto touch the other with his heel, his leg would regain strength. Although Vespasiancould scarcely believe that it would succeed by any means, to the point that he dare not even try, at last, with his friends urging him on, he made the attempt publicly before the assembled crowd and he was not unsuccessful. 
People think that the world for them will always be as it is NOW and are selfish.
I'm healthy why should I pay health insurance? I'm in work why give money to social security? I have never been robbed why pay have police? You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid. Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
This asshole seems to have had his eyes opened....now that he can't see out of them anymore!
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/anti-oba...-know-why/ Quote:Anti-Obamacare Republican renounces ‘pigheaded’ GOP — and he wants you to know why Quote:The 49-year-old South Carolina man who garnered attention — and thousands of dollars in donations — after revealing his medical issues online is now supporting the Affordable Care Act and turning away from the GOP, reported. Sorry, pal. You're still a moron. RE: Chutzpah Personified
May 19, 2015 at 9:57 pm
(This post was last modified: May 19, 2015 at 9:58 pm by Pyrrho.)
Wow, he actually learned a little bit from his experience. If only every idiot Republican could have the same experience of going broke and going blind (heading in that direction), we might make some progress in this country.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
It's ironic that it took a detached retina to make him see the light.
(Couldn't help myself.)
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
 (May 12, 2015 at 12:28 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: It is kind of reassuring when bad things happen to bad people. It is a bit of poetic justice. Now, if only that were always the case, along with good things happening to good people...In his case it's more like the obvious consequences of bad planning. Or perhaps an example of when bad things happen to people who insist on being unprepared. Would any other insurer have taken him on under his particular circumstances?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould 
Kool Aid with a crow chaser. . . that can't taste good. At least he now realizes he's been had. One down, millions of working class dupes to go.
This reminds me of a line from Star Trek: Insurrection: It's easy to turn a blind eye to the sufferings of people you don't know. This guy could probably make the money he needs for his medical problems by speaking at liberal venues. He could put a face on the issue. That would resonate with potential Republican converts more than hypotheticals ever would.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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