“Unrepentant: Rick Santorum on the Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal.”

Well, here’s the tasty irony to that: Santorum is trying to portray “individualism” as “radical” when I’d argue, and I’ll bet most of you would agree, that individualism — otherwise known as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness — is the core of Americanism.

In a way, he’s right. The first meaning of “radical” is “Arising from or going to a root or source.” In that way, it means something similar to “fundamental.”

Both meanings suggest that you’re doing something to the core of the matter. It’s just a matter of “returning to the original core” vs “altering the original core.”

I would like to personally apoligize as a resident of Pennsylania for Santorum. Unlike most of the people in this state, I only have one vote, as does my dog, named Mr. Charles Kassell, and we have both consistently voted against Santorum. Yet he still comes back, like toe fungus, to convince the thinking public that there is a secret lobotomy clinic at the State Capital.

Jarvis, you should know better than to refer to me as a troll. When I used to come here, when I was under the impression you were a person who could be reasoned with, I made substantive arguments. Anyway, someone whose main talents seem to be self-promotion and coining alliterative phrases should not be calling others trolls.

Instead of getting the American people to understand the virtue of family and freedom, people such as Senator Santorum would serve better by getting the people of Iraq to find common understanding and develop a free society based on democratic process. We already have this and it is well established and understood by a majority of Americans. The senator is preaching to the choir. Securing peace is difficult work, much more difficult than writing a book because you are concerned with the threat of radical individualism. This is almost funny, the radical part that is. I guess it’s a book for rascals, Washington insiders and power players. Many people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions.

He’s not a socialist by any means and he certainly has no real affinity for much of anything the left wants to do. Where they do agree, though, is that they both believe that government has a (prominent) role to play in shaping the character of its citizens. I don’t often agree with what he wants, but I can respect him because I understand where he’s coming from.

The problem with some people of faith is that they are always trying to reach out and save the scum from themselves. I worked with these kind scum at an airport. The industry killed itself trying to keep them employed while they robbed the place blind.

You realize you’re in a cult right? You’re no different from Scientology, Mr Kool-aid, Heaven’s Gate, Charlie Mansion, and on and on.

Code words and phrases (And also with you, good news, etc.). Silly rituals (wine and crackers). Accepting the impossible on “faith.”

Thank you for demonstrating my point better than I ever could have.

Chancy (Lights another candle)

(Please don’t bring up that old Testament stuff. All that was totally replaced by Christ’s life – as in Christian and the New Testament)

It’s like that joke e-mail letter to President Numbskull, asking for clarification of various biblical points:

2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?

4. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord – Lev.1:9. The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?

7. Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle-room here?

9. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?

10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev. 19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? – Lev. 24:10-16. Couldn’t we just burn them to death at a private family affair, as we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)

So Penny, so we believe in fairy tales, or not?

The Senators are promoted as better than the newspaper reporters or regular old writers. VNR has a point. These guys are giants in the emerging Senate Media & Book Club. Sen. Santorum could be moving on and starting a new life as an author. Sen. Talent could take Judith Millers position at the New York Times, being able to bring the big picture into vision and all. Deliver us from evil.

AS IS: I haven’t verified this, but it is sort of funny.

Masters of Deceit: The Story of Communism in America and How to Fight It, by J. Edgar Hoover, 1958

“EVERY CITIZEN has a duty to learn more about the menace that threatens his future, his home, his children, the peace of the world — and that is why I have written this book.”

Well, Hoover didn’t actually write the book itself. It was written by Agent Fern Stukenbroeker, a Bureau researcher on subversive groups who was employed in the Crime Records Division. As researcher Frank M. Sorrentino explains, it appeared under Hoover’s name as part of a public relations effort to portray the director as “an expert, a sage, almost a saint, ready to deliver the nation from the forces of evil.”

If so, why, and if not, why not?

Just curious, like I said.

And just because your a Christian doesn’t mean you believe in Christianity? What does that even mean? While some things are symbolic in the bible, the virgin birth is not one of them. And if God can make the world I’m pretty sure he can make a woman pregnant.