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Fox News anchor rips into Meryl Streep
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Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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"[Donald Trump was accused in November 2015 of mocking a disabled NYT reporter - but videos of his other speeches suggest that he performs the same impression for whoever he mocks.
Trump mocked New York Times journalist Serge F Kovaleskiat at a South Carolina rally by making twitching arm and face movements - which the disabled reporter took as a personal slight.
But pro-Trump website Catholics 4 Trump says that the Republican candidate has a long history of making similar gestures while mocking other people. ]"“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” ― Oscar Wilde
“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence” ― Bertrand Russell
“not all there” - you know who you are
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Originally posted by firstfloor View Post"[Donald Trump was accused in November 2015 of mocking a disabled NYT reporter - but videos of his other speeches suggest that he performs the same impression for whoever he mocks.
Trump mocked New York Times journalist Serge F Kovaleskiat at a South Carolina rally by making twitching arm and face movements - which the disabled reporter took as a personal slight.
But pro-Trump website Catholics 4 Trump says that the Republican candidate has a long history of making similar gestures while mocking other people. ]"
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostThis is very old news and was debunked months ago. Liberal spin.“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” ― Oscar Wilde
“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence” ― Bertrand Russell
“not all there” - you know who you are
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But...but Princess Leia isn't real! How could she even have anything to say?Watch your links! http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/fa...corumetiquette
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Originally posted by Zymologist View PostJust so I understand: Trump gave an opinion on an actress being overrated, and somebody fact-checked this?
Huh. I'd say that I can't take fact-checking seriously anymore, but I'm not sure I was taking it all that seriously before anyway.
Originally posted by rogue06 View PostNot to mention that this is yet another example of why news organization "fact checkers" are essentially a joke.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostI looked it up for you. According to the reliable, Starlight approved, Wikipedia*:
Alice Cooper: "I call it treason against rock 'n' roll because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics. ... When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick. .... If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal."
-- On Rock n Roll and political campaigns, in a statement to the Canadian Press (26 August 2005), as quoted in "Rock is on a roll with politics" by Warren Kinsella in the Globe and Mail (12 September 2004).
Now I am wondering how they could quote something from August 2005 in September of 2004? Yep. Wiki is so reliable.
*correction: from Wikiquote, but run by the same corporation and same "rules"
link: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper
In an interview for Harper's Bazaar Madonna declared "nobody in the entertainment business except for maybe a handful of people ever speak out about what's going on. Nobody takes a political stance or expresses an opinion.”
Of course, if Hollywood didn't blacklist performers who don't tow the liberal line then maybe more would voice their opinion.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by firstfloor View Post"[Donald Trump was accused in November 2015 of mocking a disabled NYT reporter - but videos of his other speeches suggest that he performs the same impression for whoever he mocks.
Trump mocked New York Times journalist Serge F Kovaleskiat at a South Carolina rally by making twitching arm and face movements - which the disabled reporter took as a personal slight.
But pro-Trump website Catholics 4 Trump says that the Republican candidate has a long history of making similar gestures while mocking other people. ]"
Maybe he can be accused of mocking Oscar Pistoris by wiggling his toes...That's what
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Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
- Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)
I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
- Stephen R. Donaldson
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostThis is very old news and was debunked months ago. Liberal spin.Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:
go with the flow the river knows . . .
Frank
I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.
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Originally posted by elam View PostThe Express (UK) - Jan 9, 2017
A NEWS anchor has torn into Meryl Streep over her “liberal” Golden Globes speech which verbally attacked President-elect Donald Trump...
The Fox News host labelled the American actress and singer as “rich and entitled” in an angry bash over her comments which attacked Donald Trump....
He said: “Look, she doesn’t like Trump, that’s totally fine, lots of people don’t.
“You’re allowed to feel that way, but what I was so struck by is she was telling a crowd exactly what they wanted to hear.
“She was saying things that are totally uncontroversial within the context she was speaking. That’s the least courageous thing you can do...
Imo, movie stars are full of their own self importance and should stick their heads in. Especially at award presentation...Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:
go with the flow the river knows . . .
Frank
I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.
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Originally posted by shunyadragon View PostHer criticism of Trump is justified by the facts.
I'm not American, I don't live in America, I am just an independent observer with nothing to gain or lose, except for a sense of security and an indirect economic gain. People like me can see, what those trapped in the headlights are blind to...
Many famous and highly paid actors are activists, but they don't go out of their way to upstage their fellow actors via self satisfying rhetoric which is meant to aggrandize themselves. Instead, they humble themselves and invest their personal energies and time for communal benefit, and their activities aren't always public knowledge...
Consider...:
"Sometimes it’s pretty tough to get the attention of lawmakers on Capitol Hill. But politicians, fortunately, are as starstruck as the rest of us. That’s why celebrities ranging from Angelina Jolie and Bono to George Clooney, who testified to Congress a year ago about the dire situation in war-torn Sudan, regularly descend on Washington to raise awareness for their pet causes. (Check out this AARP slideshow of the top 20 celebrity activists of all time.)"
http://blog.aarp.org/2013/03/22/harr...ical-activist/Last edited by elam; 01-12-2017, 12:39 AM.
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Originally posted by Sparko View Postsources!Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:
go with the flow the river knows . . .
Frank
I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.
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