113 Replies to “But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One”

  1. Martin Luther King jr wasn’t about politics.
    That’s why so few people seem to know that he was a registered Republican.
    MLK appealed to values.
    He derived his values from his place in American society and expressed them so eloquently through the prism of his Baptist faith and experience as a Baptist minister.
    MLK’s speeches were “preaches”.
    The rally was about values, American values, the values that made America great, not politics.
    Christians, like MLK, derive their values the same way MLK did and express them the same way as MLK did.
    MLK wore his faith proudly and publically just as he wore his skin.
    This wasn’t a political rally.
    It was a rally about losing those values, American values, MLK’s values.
    The political slant should ask a question: “Do the Democrats and their agenda embody MLK’s values best or does some other political group?
    Was Obama’s fitness to be POTUS judged on the “content of his character or the color of his skin”?
    Who do you think MLK would have voted for and why?

  2. “The practice of Islam should be every bit as chastised and outlawed in the west as Nazi ideology is.”
    Errr, not to nitpick or anything, but Nazi ideology isn’t exactly outlawed in the US.
    “I have a number of Muslim friends & acquaintances, all of whom are good hearted, hard working, Westernized citizens of Canada and the U.S.”
    Oh shush. Haven’t you heard? They aren’t ‘true’ muslims. Only SDA and Beck and the chap in the video get to decide who is a true muslim and who isn’t. The muslims themselves don’t get to decide. Get with the program.
    “As a true Muslim they are forbidden to stray from their Islamic values. That makes them incorrigible.”
    See. Apparently you can’t be a true muslim if you stray from Islamic values. I guess I can only pray that they remove true Christians from the medical sciences. After all, I would be very worried about religious doctors (who don’t believe in evolution) dealing with drug resistant bacteria. After all, they would never be able to understand how those tiny bacteria cells could evolve to resist drugs. Besides, I would love to see how many Christians in the US qualify as ‘true’ Christians – you know, what with all the restrictions on, amongst other things, amorous activities out of wedlock.
    “But grouping all Muslims under one banner is neither true nor helpful.”
    Things that are true are not always helpful, just as things that are false are not always unhelpful.
    What you are seeing is the first stage in dehumanization. We say they want us dead. By this logic, we should be pre-emptive and move to remove the threat. This makes it easier to justify stereotyping, prejudice, suspicion and all the things that are, ironically enough, staples of terrorist movements and extreme ideologies. In other words, we can now take actions that morally contradict our value set and justify them on the basis that they need to be done to protect us. The tactic is pretty straightforward. Repeat something till it becomes the truth. Numb the people – convince them that action has to be taken. That way, when it is taken, nobody bats an eyelid. After all, we may be throwing them out of the country in a manner incompatible with our ideals and beliefs, but hey, it has to be done because they want “kill Christians”.
    And no, its not the first time. Dehumanization campaigns are very much a part of the human experience. Every practitioner of every religion and ideology has used it at some point or the other.

  3. Judge not a man by the colour of his skin; judge him by the depth of his character.
    – Baptist minister Martin Luther King
    Which rally represents King’s sentiments best?
    I’d say the more inclusive one.

  4. “Religious beliefs should remain a private thing, and at church, temple or whatever, but not in the street nor in politics. Clear now?”
    Says you Alan; I’m Agnostic and I couldn’t disagree with you more! (and I’m interested in the rally, thanks Kate for the venue)
    Religion, regardless of which(I disagree with Knight99) is part of our history (as Canadians) and our future. Your blatant disregard for this obvious truth speaks to your very limited understanding of what you speak about. You understand only what you believe, which is the root of your intolerance. Personally, I implore all of my elected officials to wear their beliefs (religious or not) on their sleeves. I don’t want two-faced politicians!
    WE are embarrassed of YOU Alan! You should get off your high-horse, and consider what YOU can do so as not to embarrass US. Of course, I doubt you have the humility to see the error in your words; else you couldn’t come to such a pompous opinion in the first place. Nope, I suspect you’ve already composed a haughty response in you head before you’ve done reading this sentence. I doubt introspective is your strong suit.
    As far as politicians quoting holy books; have at it! I take no insult from kind, inspiring, wise and especially heart-felt words; regardless their origin.

  5. I am not usually a defender of Christianity, DA, but you have got to be kidding. The paths of Christianity and Islam parted long ago. Christianity went through Reformation and Enlightenment – they evolved. Islam (as a religion) remains barbaric and stuck in the Dark Ages. Their Imams recommend adult breastfeeding to instill kinship to unrelated men, genital mutilation, gender inequality, stoning. Individual Muslims may modernize but their religion is unable to accommodate change.
    After all the Muslim violence towards non-Muslim, there is surprisingly little dehumanization and backlash. In fact, every incidence of Muslim violence is minimized, blame-shifted and explained away.

  6. Bravo Glenn Beck!! Thank-you for posting this Kate. I never ever miss a Glenn Beck program because his program is interesting and informative. I have found some fabulous books to read and I have been informed about many nasty fanatical left wing nut elitists who are in the government at this time. It is a huge tribute to the American people that this administration has, so far, not become the blood bath murder/rape/torture/pillage arena that Russia evolved into after the Bolshevik catechism of hate and murder in 1918 and thereafter. ‘An ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure’ – sometimes things go so far that a cure is impossible. Glenn Beck is that ounce of prevention and the American people are wise enough to listen to him. Canadians like many of us here, are listening too.

  7. Anyone else as a secular conservative feel a little uncomfortable by this? Also his speech was pretty cheesy what with the orchestra church choir. Can’t wait to see Jon Stewart make fun of this tonight.
    There were some token blacks among the crowd but, it was a predominantly white crowd, not that race should have any part in this discussion, one man one vote. but come on there were a TON of obvious moonbats in the crowd, your group is represented by it’s worst members.
    Would have liked to hear more from the reenactor that wouldn’t break character, “why do you wear Black sir?” hilarious.

  8. Alan said: “Religious beliefs should remain a private thing, and at church, temple or whatever, but not in the street nor in politics. Clear now?”
    Yeah, I got that. I just don’t really feel like cooperating. Whatcha gonna do about it?
    See that’s the thing you’re not getting Alan. It is not your place to be telling me how to behave in public. Nor is it my place to be telling you. Freedom means I get to drive my truck and go shooting, and the snotty Granite Club Liberal lady next to me at the stoplight is free to deplore both the shooting and the truck. And the woman wearing the tent at the bus stop is perfectly free to think we are all infidels and should be killed. So long as everybody respects the other guy’s right to not cooperate, its all good.
    Freedom is free, Alan. If -you- want to be free then you better be willing to tolerate the Jesus shouters and tent wearers equally.
    If what you really want is for all the damn religious freaks to be forcibly shut up and made to behave themselves in public, then freedom is not what you’re after. Making you neither a conservative nor a Conservative.
    The people at the Beck rally are reacting strongly against being told to sit down, shut up and pay the taxes. Maybe you just don’t belong in that tent.
    Maybe you should think about that a little bit, eh?

  9. “The paths of Christianity and Islam parted long ago.”
    Where did I suggest otherwise? I was merely questioning the notion of ‘true’ and (presumably) ‘false’ practitioners of (any) religion. To say that a ‘true’ muslim must kill muslims is kind of like saying that religious people cannot become doctors because of their rejection of evolution.
    I’m really not sure where you saw me comparing Christianity with Islam. I was just questioning the notion of true and false believers. If I had a strong knowledge of any religion other than Christianity, I would have happily used it as an example in place of Christianity.

  10. Religious beliefs should remain a private thing, and at church, temple or whatever, but not in the street nor in politics. Clear now?
    End quote:———
    As mud, when the marxists leftwing twits leave the public square I’ll rethink shoving Christians and people of faith out of the public square but you go first Red Tory you go firts because you will never be allowed to force us into seclusion because you don’t like people of the faiths.

  11. devil’s advocate said: “Dehumanization campaigns are very much a part of the human experience. Every practitioner of every religion and ideology has used it at some point or the other.”
    Yas, and those campaigns in certain Arab countries are quite advanced.
    When Christian suicide bombers and warrior monks start exploding and massacring civilians weekly in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Gaza, Pakistan and other such places then I’ll give your point some credence. Until then, not so much.
    Do you even think before you write this crap or is it all spinal reflex?

  12. Indiana Homez: re-read your own comment. How darn distorted your comprehension of my position is… Not even worth arguing; would be too long. And, funny enough, speaking of “high horses”, “ignorance”, and, funniest of all, “pompous”. Pompous you’re not yourself, for sure. Snort, snort, cough, cough. Oh. My. Goodness. Thanks for the good laugh.

  13. Anyone else as a secular conservative feel a little uncomfortable by this? Also his speech was pretty cheesy what with the orchestra church choir…but come on there were a TON of obvious moonbats in the crowd, your group is represented by it’s worst members.
    Errr…anyone remember cheesy Greek columns and speeches about healing the Earth and lowering the seas. How about “moonbats” at Gay Pride parades? As a libertarian I don’t feel uncomfortable with Pride Parades or Christian Revivals. Tolerance is not a one-way street, Shawn.

  14. Rose: “Red tory”? Really? I don’t vote CPC because they’re NOT conservative enough! I think you’re just too mad with the religious thing and it makes you lose your good judgement. See what religion does to people.

  16. I guess I can only pray that they remove true Christians from the medical sciences. After all, I would be very worried about religious doctors (who don’t believe in evolution) dealing with drug resistant bacteria. After all, they would never be able to understand how those tiny bacteria cells could evolve to resist drugs. Besides, I would love to see how many Christians in the US qualify as ‘true’ Christians – you know, what with all the restrictions on, amongst other things, amorous activities out of wedlock.
    Yep, I have absolutely no idea how I could have gotten the impression that you were directly comparing Islam and Christianity without taking into account their divergent histories.

  17. devil’s advocate @2:48 – you do realize that the Catholic Church has no problem with the theory of Evolution, and that only some Protestant Churches do, right?
    Alan – you seem to regard religion as a private vice to be practiced, if at all, guiltily, behind closed doors. I don’t see any sense to that. Mandatory disclaimer: I’m agnostic.

  18. DA>
    Err yes you are nitpicking if you say Nazism is not outlawed in the west. Maybe not in the judicial system, but certainly in the courts of public opinion.
    There is no way in hell Nazi’s could get away with a portion of the nesting on Canadian lands without public, government and police condemnation and harassment. Yet Islam creates violence every day in western countries and around the world. It is responsible for most ongoing wars on every continent with any culture including it’s own.
    Yet people are defending it, even as it encroaches on them “because they know a Muslim”. Woopee, you probably know some Nazis as well, and they may even be nice people. But 1.6 billion of them are not on your doorstep, nor have you been at war with them for the last 700 years.

  19. “How darn distorted your comprehension of my position is.”
    Yeah, I’m the only one./sarc
    Perhaps it’s you that should re-read what you’ve written, or is everyone else who quoted the same line as dense as I am?

  20. Black Mamba: Wrong. No guilt, not behind closed doors. I insist ONLY on over-the-top religious public demonstrations to the effect of what we see a lot in the U.S. (not here in Canada, thank goodness). But then the very religious people take offence at this (why?), they jump on their keyboad and call me a “bigot”, an “anti-Christian”, a “lefty”, and so on. Again, what’s wrong with calling for more discretion with your beliefs? The demonstrations of religious fundamentalism we see regularly in media coverage embarrass me as a conservative and they DO GIVE the conservatives a bad name, like it or not. Get real.

  21. DA>
    “After all, I would be very worried about religious doctors (who don’t believe in evolution)”
    Again you can’t seem to make the leap in understanding that Islam is an ideological belief system and not a true religion as claimed. Western politicians accept it as such out of fear. To be a public figure speaking out against Islam in a European country today for example, invites death.
    When the numbers of Muslims grow in North America closer to our European counterparts, due to apathetic people such as yourself, we can expect the same fear driven groveling from our own politicians. Won’t that be wonderful?
    Of course it’s unfortunate that we now live in a soft apathetic propagandized multicultural world where real foresight has gone the way of the Dodo.

  22. Posted by: Indiana Homez >
    “Religion, regardless of which(I disagree with Knight99) is part of our history”
    Please clarify Indiana. I don’t recall making any kind of stand on religion.
    If you are referring to my comments on Islam, it’s clear by my above posts that I don’t consider Islam a true religion and liken it to the Nazi movement. Violent and totalitarian.
    (For the record I am agnostic, and don’t have a religious preference, nor do I condemn religions. I also do respect the Christian heritage that was a key element of western civilization; I am simply not a practitioner and view all the “true” peaceable religions equally – like Jesus would have :D).

  23. The Phantom
    // Yeah, a clown shall lead them to not beat the hell out of offensive people who disagree with them at their rally. //
    Well, they were praying, weren’t they?
    It’s when they get up from their knees to do the will of God that the problems start.

  24. dizzy:
    I’m sure you could provide us with some examples of the harm by Christians doing the will of God.
    Please provide, first, the will of God, then the harm.

  25. Shawn, not only am I a secular conservative, I am an atheist and a conservative.
    I watched the entire rally live on facebook. I have watched it again since.
    The fact that it made you uncomfortable and that you found it cheesy says a lot more about you than it does about Beck.

  26. set you free
    // Please provide, first, the will of God //
    Aye, that’s the rub.
    I believe a recent war was characterized as a battle over who had the best imaginary friend.

  27. re: “After all, I would be very worried about religious doctors (who don’t believe in evolution)”
    DA, I doubt there are many irreligious doctors who believe speciation arose from evolution, because the argument is not plausible if heredity is carried on RNA or DNA.
    There is no way to explain evolution through random mutations in genomes, because some organs ( such as eyes ) would require dozens of simultaneous advantageous mutations in the appropriate spots in the genomes. If the genome of the species in question had a rate of mutation sufficient to produce dozens of advantageous mutations, what would prevent the creature from multiple, disadvantageous mutations in its genome, as well. A rate of mutation violent enough to produce a complete functional eye would also likely lead to mutations such as single-chambered hearts, or other lethal organ abnormalities. Why would only favorable mutation occur?
    The other possibility, that the genes to produce an eye somehow accumulated in an organism over millions of years until, the final piece necessary to make a functional eye fell in place also is not compelling. Why would those genes persist in the genome unless they made the creature more fit to survive in some way? For evolution of an organ like the eye to have occured through random mutation one must at some point move from cogent argumetn to a leap of faith. It is essentially impossible, and hence implausible that evolution occured by random mutation. An alternative explanation, that there existed a non-random bias in mutation towards higher development of the creature, is plausible, and consistent with DNA/RNA based heredity. An artist creating a painting from paint and canvas exerts non-random bias through the thoughtful application of paint. Likewise, a non-random bias exerted by a Creator on a living creature’s genome could explain the development of species, including man.
    No compelling argument explaining speciation through random mutation is available if RNA or DNA is the carrier of heredity.

  28. “Yas, and those campaigns in certain Arab countries are quite advanced.”
    Agree completely. Question is: should we mimic them? After all, western civilization places an emphasis on the equality and inalienable rights of all human beings, as well as the importance of each life.
    I never said only Christians dehumanize. I just said its a tactic that (as is evident in the quote you used” practitioners of every religion and ideology have used.
    “When Christian suicide bombers and warrior monks start exploding and massacring civilians weekly in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Gaza, Pakistan and other such places then I’ll give your point some credence. Until then, not so much.’
    Oh okay. We’ll ignore the Hindu fanatics who killed the Christian missionaries. And we’ll look the other way every time anyone ever mentions the hyper-religious (and very Christian) Lord’s Resistance Army. Remember them? They just killed hundreds of people in a rather bloody massacre in February this year. Dehumanization is an easy tactic. Everyone tries it when it suits them.
    “Do you even think before you write this crap or is it all spinal reflex?’
    It is very easy to drop down to the level of those who you oppose. I don’t like that route. I believe in the inherent strengths of western civilization and beliefs. I believe humans change through experience. Therefore, I will continue to have these spinal reflexes because all I am really doing is challenging you self-proclaimed “protectors of the west” every time you take stances that are not consistent with western ideals. If I call people out on stereotyping, it is because stereotyping is not consistent with western ideals. Some of us claim that we are protectors of the west. Some of us do it in practice, albeit at the risk of being accused of spinal reflex (I mean, really?). Principles. Its all about principles.
    “devil’s advocate @2:48 – you do realize that the Catholic Church has no problem with the theory of Evolution, and that only some Protestant Churches do, right?”
    ?!
    Where did I say anything about the Catholic Church’s stance on evolution? I just said ‘true’ Christians would theoretically be a misfit in the medical science. Your statement seems to suggest that only Catholics are ‘true’ christians; those protestant churches/christians presumably aren’t.
    “Err yes you are nitpicking if you say Nazism is not outlawed in the west.’
    I said the US. You are presumably referring to the nanny states of Europe. I prefer to think of the US as the leader of the west because of its emphasis on individuals, freedoms and rights. If you see the Scandinavian (or Canadian) model as the ideal, then thats up to you.
    “Yet people are defending it, even as it encroaches on them “because they know a Muslim”.”
    Right. Where did I defend it? I called a couple of people out for stereotyping and then pointed out the flaw in your logic. In doing so, I defended Islam? Am I wrong to ask the obvious questions – namely, who decides on who is a ‘true’ muslim, and is it fair to state that all ‘true’ muslism want to kill all Christians (as the guy in the video states).
    Its true I challenge the increasingly monotone view taken of Islam but that does not mean I am defending it. I am only challenging your views. If that unnerves you to the point where I become a de facto defender of Islam because of my persistent questioning of your claims, then, well, critical thought is an outdated virtue. I am not defending anything other than western ideals. And I will defend them regardless of your whipping boy for the day (commies, asians, muslims, mexicans etc).
    “When the numbers of Muslims grow in North America closer to our European counterparts”
    Well there you have it. You are essentially saying that muslims born in North America will be as crazy as the Saudi wahabbis. I disagree. Human beings change with experience (or else, we would have had to kill every Jap and German above a certain age at the end of WWII). And then theres post-Soviet Russia. Ideologies all, no?
    The only solution, then, is to remove them all from North America. Even that is only a temporary solution, since they re going to outpopulate us on the global scale sooner or later.
    I think that its better that we keep them here, immersed in ideas of freedoms and liberties that have survived the so-called dark ages. After all, the dark ages and enlightenment have shown us that human beings know how to choose the best ideas, even when they are surrounded by strong dogmatic institutions. We live by Roman and Greek ideals despite the fact that they disappeared long ago and were frequently opposed by the powers that be during the dark ages. What makes muslims so special that they won’t be able to come to the same realization? Do they have special brains?
    Your answer will, undoubtedly, be that when they accept these ideals, they will stop being true muslims. Isnt that what you want? What would be the better solution? To keep them right here, immersed in it all? Or to throw them into those extremist holes.

  29. “No compelling argument explaining speciation through random mutation is available if RNA or DNA is the carrier of heredity.”
    I’ve got my hands full without getting into an argument on evolution and intelligent design. Its an argument for another day. All the same, if you fell up to it, I wouldn’t mind hearing how you explain the development of drug resistant bacteria. Just don’t expect too much by way of substance from me.

  31. Knight99
    I respectfully disagree with your comments @ 1:11.
    I’m not certain, and I’m sure that many people would disagree that Islam is not a religion, but I digress. I believe that Robert W sums up my views about Canadian Muslims.

  32. As Geraldo said last night, the best way to estimate the crowd is to count the legs and divide by two.

  33. The problem is that western civilization is itself exhausted and has lost its confidence (at least at the educated class level). When our academic institutions and political class is leading the charge against its own culture, how can we expect Muslims to immerse themselves in western culture and respect our traditions? In fact, the Brits have found that their home-grown terrorists are of a middle class background, with moderate parents. The students were radicalized at UK universities. Their “experience” in the west consists of them agreeing with our academics and politicians about how awful our culture is. The radical imams then just have to pick out the young Muslims that are the easiest to manipulate. They should thank the progressives for doing half the work for them.

  34. Beck isn’t my cup of tea and all the Jesus references aren’t either but I saw nor heard anything hateful from the program.
    Compare what went on at the rally with the hatred coming from the official Left.
    What bothers me more than anything else is the MSM’s ongoing narrative that anything associated with the Tea Party (or a rally such as this) is racist because it’s “almost only white people there”. Really?! That makes it racist? The next time you attend a symphony or opera, look around and you’ll see “almost only white people there”. Is this a racist event too?!? Then go to a concert at the Apollo theater in NYC. Look around and you’ll see “almost only black people there”. Would you even dare to think that it was a racist event?!?

  35. Beck isn’t my cup of tea and all the Jesus references aren’t either but I saw nor heard anything hateful from the program.
    Compare what went on at the rally with the hatred coming from the official Left: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rCF5jpFnWc
    What bothers me more than anything else is the MSM’s ongoing narrative that anything associated with the Tea Party (or a rally such as this) is racist because it’s “almost only white people there”. Really?! That makes it racist? The next time you attend a symphony or opera, look around and you’ll see “almost only white people there”. Is this a racist event too?!? Then go to a concert at the Apollo theater in NYC. Look around and you’ll see “almost only black people there”. Would you even dare to think that it was a racist event?!?

  36. Indiana >
    Fair enough, I wasn’t sure what comment you disagreed with.
    Each to thier own, let’s hope I’m wrong. Unfortunately Europe the canary in the coal mine, is not exactly showing me up as of yet. But you never know.

  38. devil’s advocate – the Lord’s Resistance Army is not Christian; it has nothing in it of Christianity.
    It is tribal and animistic, filled with residue from the pre-colonial era, with Christian semantics used only as the ‘new names’ of these animistic and apocalyptic spirits.
    You say that you know nothing of other religions (and I wonder about your knowledge of Christianity if you could make such a claim as above). I suggest you read up on the Qur’an, and understand that its text is not viewed, as are the texts within the Judaic and Christian religions as ‘requiring interpretation’ – but as instead, the immutable word of god.
    Read the text; you might understand then that it has little to say about the metaphysical but a great deal to say about political and social organization and the rejection of other peoples. The violent rejection.
    Islam has to reform but it has made its ideology very difficult to reform by insisting that its axioms are not created by man but by god.

  40. Oh, but whatever it is these hicks are steamed about, it’s all actually Bush’s fault.
    “I do think that it’s important for us to recognize that right now the country’s going through a very difficult time as a consequence of years of neglect in a whole range of areas.”

  41. Whatever the numbers were, it was way less than Toronto’s Gay Pride parade, where there were people stacked 10 on top of each other all the way up to Alert, NWT

  42. @AtlanticJim
    “The fact that it made you uncomfortable and that you found it cheesy says a lot more about you than it does about Beck.”
    Yes unlike Beck I have taste. With that many people attending they could have spent more on production values.
    @ LC Bennett
    “Tolerance is not a one-way street”
    Of course not, I disagree with moonbats expressing their views at “Pride” as well, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid anyone?
    I call moonbats when I see them (left or right) and the fact remains that there were SEVERAL moonbats in that video who expressed some rather extreme and views on a range of topics.
    They have a right to say whatever they want at their own organized events just like I have a right to poke fun at the fringe elements within that group.

  44. Revnant Dream: You are the only person I have come accross that has read “Peace Child”. I read it some 10 – 15 yrs ago; it had a profound impact on me. I was astounded to read that this tribe, after being introduced to the scriptures (after the missionary painstakingly converting the test into their language) actually thought that Judas Iscariot was the hero of the Gospel of John because he betrayed Jesus and got away with it. They would have loved Bloomberg. I think that leftists share the same duplicity of heart and mind – any thing is ok – even hate – as long as it is directed at a conservative; despite the fact that the banner they march under is one of tolerance and freedom from hate.
    Excellent book by the way and I highly recommend reading “Peace Child” especially given the infililtration of Islam in our society – there belief system and thought process is identical to that of the tribe highlighted in “Peace Child.”

  45. DA @ 6:12
    The argument proposed regards the impossibility of evolution as an explanation of speciation if DNA or RNA is the carrier of heredity. With all due respect, I don’t think your post replied to that.
    The rise of drug-resistant traits may be easily explained if they are controlled by 1, 2; only a few genes.
    May I offer as a counter-example the HIV virus, which was uncontrollable by existing drugs until researchers tried a 3 drug mixture of the existing drugs. Suddenly, the HIV genome did not provide sufficient mutation to circumvent the pressure created by the 3 drugs, and become resistant to the combination, which each had a slightly different mechanism of action. Once the 3 drug cocktail was tried, AIDS became largely a manageable disease, like heart disease, rather than a near-certain death sentence for a large fraction of its sufferers.
    When you consider that the number of individual HIV viruses in a single untreated person is at least 20,000,000;( in a population of one million infected people, that amounts to 20 trillion individual unique HIV viruses). In this enormous population, resistance to multi-drug anti-retroviral therapy has not yet emerged.
    I don’t know how many individual gene mutations would confer multi-drug resistance, but it seems unlikely to be as many as the number necessary for eyesight in mammals.

  46. Glenn Beck is a lunatic!! You’ve got to be partially brain dead to take the guy seriously. He preaches about ‘not letting anybody, especially the government, tell you what you have to do’, and then says, ‘so here’s what you have to do’. Loony as batsh1t. He constantly contradicts himself, saying one thing one month, and the next month calling somebody on ‘the left’ out for the same thing he said a month earlier!

  47. One slightly OT link is about how advanced civilizations may be WIERD. Maybe we do think differently than others:
    “Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic — people who are WEIRD — see the world in ways that are alien from the rest of the human family…Others punish participants perceived as too altruistic in co-operation games, but very few in the English-speaking West would ever dream of penalizing the generous…If WEIRD people are indeed weird, it is the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution that have made them so.”
    Obviously, this difference is caused by overwhelming whiteness

  48. As I stated on an earlier thread, an excellent and thouraly turstworthy crowd estimater is contained below. The original “I have a Dream” speech recorded the historical crowd at 250,000. Becks speech included the full capicity of this speech plus an area that was not available during MLK’s speech. Below is the previous comment I posted.
    Been There Done That: 100, 000 is way to low. The link below shows pic’s of the crowd that attended MLK’s original speech 47 years ago – and Glenn Becks speech – Glenns Becks crowd was significantly larger. The left side of the photo posted on this site that was 3/4 full for Glenn’s speech was covered in trees and did not exist at the time of the MLK “I have a Dream” which history has recorded as a crowd attendance of 250,000. Glenn’s speech had the same areas filled as MLK’s plus the huge area to the left.
    http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/08/more-proof-by-half.html#comment-6a00d8341c60bf53ef0133f366de65970b
    Posted by: No-One at August 29, 2010 5:51 PM

  49. “As I stated on an earlier thread, an excellent and thouraly turstworthy crowd estimater is contained below”
    Who cares how many people were there? Unless of course you are concerned with the collective and collective thought…that is the only reason it would matter. Who cares if the media underestimates the numbers…it doesn’t make a difference to the content of the event or the issues at hand. I don’t care HOW many people take Glenn Beck seriously…it doesn’t make him any less crazy.
    http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/thu-august-26-2010-richard-engel

  50. “Who cares if the media underestimates the numbers…it doesn’t make a difference to the content of the event or the issues at hand”
    So well spoken BTJ. Who cares what the Truth is, all that matters is delusions.
    Amusing indeed. Thanks for the laugh. We all know that if it were a crowd that defended lack of faith, Charity, and hope you would have been right there defending such principles, but since the message was one of restoring honor; faith, hope and charity, being liberal; those character traits are utterly repulsive to you.
    So sad to be you. BTJ: just what is your value and belief system – not having one is indeed having one – no philosophy at all is a philosophy.
    From what I can discern – your beliefs are anything goes which includes sanctioning Islam Ideology: stone to death adulterers as what happened last week or kill missionaries from other religions (even though they were not engaged in evangelism)as actions that are sanctioned by the left. As long as it is Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Mormons, who gives a shit, just as long as it is not agnostics or atheists it is ok. You weak cowardly spineless name that I dare not type. I need to spit now.

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