October 8 at 3:51AM
The Colbert Report: Nate Silver Predicts Barack Obama to Win the Election
Nate Silver makes his living analyzing baseball, and he's put those prediction techniques to work for the presidential campaign.
Do his predictions hold any weight?
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Pres. Ahmadinejad, how does it feel to look like the stunt double for the least popular president in U.S. history?
And if not the least popular in the U.S., then in the history of the world.
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OOoo. Arrest me for palling around with terrorists.
Did we ever have a president who looked him?
I watched the Larry King interview with the translator whose voice was as grating as nails on a chalkboard, btw, but I think I would interrupt his lecture on the "materialistic nature of Zionism" by quoting Albert Einstein for starters:
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
I would point out to him that according to anthropology, spirituality is defined by connectedness to both community and to nature, moreover, according to Murray Bookchin, in that order. Uncle Murray says that if we care for each other then that will naturally extend to the environment. That is the true essence of spirituality in my book, whether one has embraced a personal belief in God or not. It's about concern for others, being brother's keeper, and human dignity. Lessons of the Holocaust- all but forgotten I suppose.
What that means to me on an expediently personal level is that I better keep my dumb ass out of jail. Because people like Bill Bennett have made it permissable to treat me sadistically if I land there on even the most minor of offenses.
So what's your question.
@mary-m
There is no such thing as a good war, as opposed to a "bad" one. So-called "just war" theory is indefensible in our time, since there is always "collateral damage." (One of the conditions a "just war" must meet is that it be waged without civilian damage.) War may be necessary — and my father fought in the only one in history I consider to have been necessary, viz., WWII — but I would hardly call it good.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. (Matt. 6:28-29)
My beloved is mine and I am his; he feedeth among the lillies. (Song of Songs 2:16)
I prefer New Testament, but that's just me.