Friday evening ...

[1StrongBlackMan]

As I was driving home, I caught the beck show … He was on some jag about Progressive ideology. Then he said: “Can anyone show me, on paper, where their ideology comes from? I can show you where the conservative ideology comes from … it was written down by the Founders … It’s called the Constitution!”

I found myself yelling: “The Bible and every other “religious” tradition … you jack-ass.”

But I guess one would have to actually READ the document that you claim to base your religious beliefs on to know that.

[Enrique]

1. progressive ideology comes from the Enlightenment

which is a movement without which we would not have the United States of America.

[spanone]

2. listening to beck will make you stoooopid.

[1StrongBlackMan]

3. No ...

listening to, and believing anything that comes out of his mouth, will make you/is evidence of the stoooooopid.
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For me, listening is really, really entertaining .... kind of like watching a cartoon

[IrishAyes]

4. I'm glad you have the stomach for it, because I don't.

One time the nearest tv station 60 miles away started giving everyone with basic cable - which I had for about 6 months - all the available channels as bait. I started clicking through to see what was there and stumbled across a televangelist railing about President Obama being the anti-Christ because, and I quote, "He wages PEACE!" I wanted to throw a shoe at the tv.

Maybe your profession has honed the ability to control your temper, and I admire that regardless of the reason. But I seem to have majored in shoe throwing myself. Sometimes if I know a person directly and like them otherwise, I can gently deflect an occasional asinine TP comment, but that's rare indeed. I grew up around brothers and boy cousins, and that's who I like to blame for my temper. It really is all their fault, believe it or not. Trouble is, I pitched ball the way they taught me, overhand, and a shoe is just as good a missile as anything else.

No, I wouldn't have lasted very long as an attorney, would I?