Comments on: Obama, the Black Nazi guy, intends to exterminate your grandma.

By: Nemo

Nemo — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:40:37 +0000

To be fair, the “forced sex change” complaint is actually that they’ll be “forced” (in the form of paying taxes) to pay for someone else’s sex change, contrary to their supposed morality. Same with abortion.

I have no idea whether there are actually proposals to cover sex change procedures under the public option. But that’s the complaint.

By: Gwenny

Gwenny — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:39:54 +0000

It’s not just religious nuts. On Facebook I actually had to block a very old friend, an atheist who I have known from the FidoNet echo Holysmoke, in the early 90s, because he’s convinced this is true. So there are conservative freaks in every walk of life who will believe what they want to believe, f**k the evidence.

By: Mike Haubrich, FCD

Mike Haubrich, FCD — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:50:47 +0000

The bill discusses IQ, Alan?

By: Alan Kellogg

Alan Kellogg — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:10:52 +0000

You know this because you’ve read the bill.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:45:41 +0000

gruebait: ROFLMAO

By: gruebait

gruebait — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:31:24 +0000

You’d almost think these were embittered people clinging to their guns and religion.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:10:59 +0000

Bob: I agree. But they then need to pretend to not get the obious facts that are right in front of them…

By: NewEnglandBob

NewEnglandBob — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:34:25 +0000

This is not really a matter of IQ. It is more an issue of racism, hatred, fundamentalism and religious upbringing that causes these people to lie and attack.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:25:59 +0000

We are also a nation divided by what we think IQ is, how to measure it, what causes variation in it, and who has the higher vs. lower values! And then there’s the whole interaction between willful ignorance and being careful what one asks for, which apparently has not occurred to the tea-baggers yet.

By: Stephanie Z

Stephanie Z — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:19:34 +0000

Here I was going to tell Greg that he was oversimplifying, as IQ tests are an excellent way to measure test-taking skills and compliance and a problematic way to measure much of anything else. And compliance is not a virtue in a situation like this, where a bunch of people who claim (and are somehow granted by others) the title of “authority” are lying their asses off.