Yet another Congressman who doesn't accept the theory of evolution

Yes, that was good.When I hear, say on the news, "70% of people believe X", I sometime mumble to myself "they believe X when asked." There is an awful lot of social pressure, and a huge tendency for people to bow to that social pressure in what they say.

Do you even know what "socialist" means? You must be talking about the leadership of fundamentalist Christianity. Yes, that's definitely about fundamentalist Christianity. And this is well illustrated by the racist hatred of so many fundamentalist Christians, toward President Obama.

A small "correction" here. As I see it, foreveryoung did not actually make a personal attack in Message 55. His attack was against a group, rather than against persons. And the group was only vaguely specified with nobody explicitly listed as part of that group.We can all readily judge who foreveryoung thought to be in that group. But since he did not identify individual persons, I see "personal attacks" as not quite correct. Although I take myself is intended to be part of the attacked group, this was not the same as a personal attack on me.

Oh, I agree. It certainly makes foreveryoung look worse than if he had merely had a fit of anger against one person.I had thought about directly replying to foreveryoung in Message 55, but then I realized that I could not find anything more critical to say about him, than what he had just said about himself. So I am mostly just watching the entertainment.

No, not everywhere.I considered responding to your Message 89, so I looked up that saying ("googled it"). I was looking for the date when Murrow might have said it, but I came up empty on that. There seems to be some doubt as to its origin. One suggestion was that mentioned by Theodoric, that it was due to de Jouvenel.It does seem to be all over the tea party web sites, where it is apparently some kind of slogan.In any case, you are using a slogan whose meaning you probably don't understand. And you are using it to draw unwarranted conclusions.

• Probably for the same reason that so many quotes are misattributed to Mark Twain;
• probably for the same reason that so many people are going to vote for Mr Etch-a-Sketch, the Mormon chameleon;
• probably for the same reason that so many people follow obviously false religions;
• probably because many people are sheep who follow along and do what the wolves tell them to do.

There is nothing wrong with rich people keeping what they earn, after paying their fair share of the cost of services provided to them.There is a problem with people who have lots of money coming in that they did not earn, and then complaining about even paying what would be their fair share if they had earned it.

I don't know where you live.Here, in the Chicago suburbs, I was paying over $4.00 per gallon back in 2008 before Obama was ever elected.My guess is that if you search back through newspapers in 2008, you will find reports of that and of the auto-industry suffering because people stopped buying gas guzzlers due to the high prices. This is complete nonsense. You demonstrate that you are one of the sheep by believing this BS.Obamacare has not been put sufficiently into effect yet, to have had any impact on small business. The difficulty in getting a job is entirely due to the economic program of Bush that caused the economy to fail. And Mr Etch-a-Sketch, the amoral Mormon chameleon, wants to reinstitute that failed economic policy. More BS. Stop being one of the sheep, and start looking at the evidence yourself. Yes, that is more of a problem for me than are the gas prices. More BS.Most of the price rise in food started when Bush was still president. Prices then subsided a little, due to the recession. They have picked up again, now that the economy is picking up.Once again, I suggest you look for old newspapers to find when the price rise on food began.You again demonstrate quite clearly that you are one of those sheep. You are going along with all of the BS propaganda that is being fed to you, and you are failing to seek evidence or to think for yourself.

LOL.I paid those high gas bills in 2008. I saw food prices rise in 2008. Back then, I was paying $100 for my weekly food shopping almost every week. This year it has only rarely reached $100.The evidence is out there where you can find. But you won't, because are gullible and fall for whatever lies are told you. The "Etch-a-Sketch" reference comes from a spokesman for the Romney campaign. A google search should find that for you.Turn off Fox news. Turn off Limbaugh. Turn off all of the other right-wing propaganda outlets. Spend a little effort, and you too can find out what is happening in the world.

It is being repeated, because every speech that Romney makes contradicts the positions that he was favoring a few days earlier.Romney is by far, the most deceptive politician I have come across. By comparison, he makes Richard Nixon look like a paragon of virtue.

He is probably talking about the tax change that eliminated some of the deductions that we could previously make. For example, in Illinois we lost the ability to deduct state sales and local taxes. As I recall, after that change you could only deduct sales tax if you were in a state without a state income tax.There were other deductions that we could previously take - I think medical expenses was one - that now were limited. The expenses had to exceed some percent of your income before you could deduct them.I'm not sure of the date of those changes, but I think it was in Reagan's second term.

That was completely inappropriate.This was a time when you should have thanked Theodoric for the correction, and you should have apologized for your earlier incorrect statement. Instead, you called him a liar and a jerk.I am well aware that you do not like Theodoric, and that you may well think him a liar and a jerk. Nevertheless, there are times that we should apologize and times that we should thank even those whom we dislike. It is the Christian thing to do.

The accusatory tone of your Message 149 (to Coragyps) and of your Message 157 to anglagard and again inappropriately accusatory of Coragyps.

Thank you for making it completely clear that you are not a Christian.One learns new things every day.

I suggest that you take some time to read the teachings of Jesus. Read them for yourself. Don't go by what your pastor or other are telling you. Make sure that you really understand them.