DigitalShadow

My point was that there are no unbiased views. Think for yourself rather than looking for some source of information to take as Gospel so to speak.

I never said that Fox organized or ran the Tea Party movement, only that their influence took over a small movement and that most of the people around me who talk about the tea party movement now are conservatives who don't even like Ron Paul.

It's the same with the internet crowd. They go to sites that support their world view and ignore anything that would go against it.

PC and John Doe just responded to some of my posts in current events a few minutes ago, not sure if they're still on though.

I'm not working late right now, just can't sleep. I can definitely relate about working late though. Sometimes I have to stay all night until something gets fixed at work and its been 20 hours since I got to work.

Actually I think the public in general pays too much attention to their particular news brand of choice while plugging their ears and saying "lalalalalala" when anyone with an opposing view is speaking.

And you still seem to have completely missed what I was saying. The original Tea Party concept started with Ron Paul and his followers, the concept of the Tea Party is what is being hijacked by Fox News, not the people who are now participating. What I'm talking about when I say "hijacked" is a small movement that has been completely hyped and taken over by Fox over the last few weeks, much to the dismay of many people originally in the movement. I am not claiming that these people now participating the tea party are being duped in any way, just that Fox has transformed the movement to suit its own needs and now conservatives are flocking to it not because of the original movement but because of the Fox influence on it.

I often wonder what the religious take on this is. Personally I believe that 'who we are' is the unique pattern of neural connections in our brain that was influenced by genetics and environment, so it never really bothered me too much. I've also seen first hand just how different person's personality can be after a stroke or some other kind of brain damage.

What is with your obsession with kool-aid

Try really reading what I post rather than trying to instantly dismiss it all as "liberal talking points." I was not stating it should be dismissed because Fox News orchestrated it, I'm saying that Fox News hijacked the movement for their own purposes and most people who now support the movement don't have the faintest clue of its origins.

That may be where the "Tea Party movement" started, but since it has been hijacked by fox news, I've seen many conservatives around me who barely know who Ron Paul is or what he stands for are ranting about Tea Parties and how we have to now oppose the fascist government.

What makes you think the country is "waking up" now any more than it was waking up when people were protesting Bush being elected? Liberals protested Bush and made a big fuss, now Conservatives are protesting Obama and making a big fuss, sounds like the exact same claims just from opposite sides. Do you really think anything has really changed?

And what is so much less constitutional about this administration than the last?

It may not be a "republican" movement, but it is most definitely a "conservative" movement.

Perhaps we should start a new thread about the irony here?

My neighbor's dogs either bark or yelp nearly all day and night long, I had no idea you could call the cops for something like that. Some people I wonder why they even have dogs, my neighbors just keep them in a cage outside all day and night.

I have no issue with dissent being expressed, I just find it funny that very few people seem to see the irony in the reversal here.

It is less a smut vocabulary word than it is a gamer vocabulary word, particularly first person shooters. I don't play many first person shooters, but I am somewhat in touch with the gamer subculture, and I had definitely heard of "tea bagging" before this fiasco. I've really only seen MSNBC and Comedy Central use the blatant innuendo which I think was in bad taste for MSNBC, but that is kind of what Comedy Central does so I don't blame them too much for it. I've seen clips of the CNN "coverage" of the tea parties and I was disappointed as well, I find it sad that they have sunk to the level of Fox News mocking protesters very similar to what happened after Bush was elected. I was never part of the liberal "protest Bush" crowd, but I find it extremely ironic that the very same people who were calling anyone who didn't agree with Bush treasonous, are now trying to incite a revolution against the current president.

From what I saw in other sites covering the news: IHS is the transliterated first three letters of Jesus' name — IHΣOYΣ.

When trying to bring people of diverse religious backgrounds together, speaking in front of strong religious symbolism is not a good idea and this was probably the best move for him. Anyone offended by this more than likely already has a strong dislike for Obama and is just looking for things to point and gasp in shock at anyway.

In questions of ethics and morality, of course someone who shares your religious beliefs will make more "correct" decisions in your opinion. That only demonstrates that you both take your morality from the same source. In order to live peacefully with people of other religions though, you also have to take in to account critical thinking skills to determine what is best for humanity and your fellow man rather than just blindly follow the morals imprinted upon you by your religion.

I was wondering how many posts it would take before seeing the first global warming crack.

I figure that given the nature of the forum, enough people are in the geographical region to know what I'm talking about.

Public schools only seem to teach wrote memorization with almost no emphasis on how to use that information (at least they did when I went to school), but beyond that though I really don't think most parents raise their kids to think for themselves. I grew up in a small town in central Illinois and my mom once told me she was giving a speech to the PTA and mentioned how "we all wanted our kids to be good little critical thinkers" and the other parents were bewildered and one of them responded "No we don't, I just want my kid to do what I tell them."

Does anyone seem to have it?