Comments by Caudimordax

151. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277256 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 9:33 am

When I got home today, there was a flyer from the jehovah's witnesses stuck in the door - for the first time in my life I was sorry I'd missed them.

152. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277255 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 9:31 am

Maybe we should all sail to a new world where we can practice out lack of faith without persecution...

Mars, here we come!

153. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277247 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 9:24 am

First thing you need to do is get an extra large darwinfish welded to the back of your car. Make sure it's welded and not glued otherwise it will come off when the 4x4 pickup with the stars and bars plate up front rams you.

Isn't that the sad truth? Even here in the blue, blue northeast, I have atheist friends who are terrified to put anything atheist on their cars lest they be vandalized. Paranoid? I'm not sure.

Edit: And yet I never ram cars with "Human life - more important than human choice" (there goes fighting for freedom) - I want to, but I don't.

154. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277244 by Caudimordax on November 3, 2008 at 9:19 am

"We've been correcting DarwinsPitbull's grammar..."

"Must make DP proud even..."

Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!

155. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #276929 by Caudimordax on November 2, 2008 at 7:28 pm

What we need is a solution to the problem of how such recalcitrant minds can be changed.

*long heartfelt sigh*

Short of some sort of equipment that looks like a colander with a lot of wires going into it ... it doesn't seem likely.

(Unless it's something like the namshub of Enki)

156. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #276923 by Caudimordax on November 2, 2008 at 7:17 pm

My lesbian housemate told me that lesbians must be God's favourite people because they don't do sodomy and wouldn't practise birth control or have abortion.

Yeah, but what about the requirement that the "saved" may not have "defiled themselves" with women?

157. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #276922 by Caudimordax on November 2, 2008 at 7:14 pm

ideological commitments can override direct factual contradictions

Don't want to sound like a republican, but somebody's spending money on this? And if they are, shouldn't some of that money be coming here to posters on RD.net who are proving it every day?

158. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #276915 by Caudimordax on November 2, 2008 at 7:07 pm

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

The more it changes, the samer it gets. (translation courtesy of S.J. Gould)

Edit: Okay maybe it's Douglas Hofstadter - now I have to go look it up.

159. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #276914 by Caudimordax on November 2, 2008 at 7:04 pm

18. Comment #276835 by theseanze on November 2, 2008 at 3:47 pm

Then when he's in office and promoting peace, responsibility, and rationality, at least some will feel the bite of another nail in the coffin of Christianity.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh, oh, phew, sorry. You were serious?

These people are soooo whacked, having made up their minds already, Obama could do everything Mother Theresa did and STILL be the anti-christ. The actual Jesus could appear and tell them he's in favor of gay marriage and they would dismiss it as a liberal hoax. In other words, sorry, nothing will change their minds.

Nice thought though.

160. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #276796 by Caudimordax on November 2, 2008 at 3:20 pm

"Roll on Tuesday! And let's hope they don't have to update www,sorryeverybody.com... "

Turn out the lights on http://www.palinaspresident.us/

Edit: Laurie - suicide is a sin.

161. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #276754 by Caudimordax on November 2, 2008 at 2:46 pm

I guess none of these people will, if Obama wins by a landslide, say "Well, I reckon it was the lord's will, so I'm going to accept it and support it." Will god have made a mistake? Or, as is more likely, will they interpret it a a victory for satan (who would then be more powerful than god, who is, of course, all powerful)?

Edit: Except James Krause, if I read it correctly?

162. Surprise: Scientists for Obama

Comment #276133 by Caudimordax on November 1, 2008 at 11:33 am

Seems like nothing sways the majority of American voters. Least of all reason or rationality. Four years ago, every American I knew, had met or even briefly talked to was against George W. Bush. And yet, there he still is ruining the planet for all of us.

Actually, fear sways them. I have neighbors who were going to vote for Obama before Russia invaded Georgia, and then decided it would be too "risky." But that was before Sarah Palin and she's scarier than anything, so who knows?

163. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275921 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 8:05 pm

Talking to a friend today - it's all visceral. People vote based on their most visceral classist, racist feelings. They just "pretty" up those feelings with whatever verbiage they can glean from pundits, trying to put some veneer of rationality on their "gut" reactions to the candidates.

Edit: Okay maybe a LITTLE cynical.

164. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275914 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 7:39 pm

Titania

Perfectly executed.

*bows*

Praise from the queen is praise indeed.

165. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275909 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 7:30 pm

Gotta go so I dont want anyone to think I am dodging questions or anything. I will answer anything you post later with sophisticated and intellectual answers that your minds can not handle.

Sure - whatever you say.

166. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275897 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 7:20 pm

Caudimordax
So now DP is over on the other Palin thread trying to get a rise out of Christoper Davis - DP really is a black hole trying to suck away the life force of other people.

You seem to have the personality of stepped on dog feces.

Ooooooohh! I guess I really pissed you off! That was fun! But you should thank me because "pissed off" is your favorite state of being.

(How was that for a DP impersonation?)

167. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275675 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 11:04 am

So now DP is over on the other Palin thread trying to get a rise out of Christoper Davis - DP really is a black hole trying to suck away the life force of other people.

168. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275666 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 10:55 am

SSO - don't you want to edit that?

"As rational human beings... "

Edit: I mean to say, most of here are rational.

169. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275620 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 10:31 am

20,000!! C'mon folks!

I'm going to go get a life.

170. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275613 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 10:30 am

Anyone taking care of the fireworks?

171. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275603 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 10:28 am

Will it reset to 0000?

172. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275599 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 10:28 am

Sorry Titania - I thought you were writing like DP.

173. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275590 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 10:25 am

"Frankus, more liek teh energizer bunny, he just keeps going and going and going."

But given his last few posts, I think he's becoming unhinged and will end up muttering, "Nomad - sterilize," until his head explodes.

174. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275564 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 10:16 am

"Skylark commands that this pursuit to 10,000 stop immediately..."

Why?

Edit: Surely not because it's silly?

175. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275558 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 10:14 am

I wonder what it says in the Secret Service rule book about burning effigies?

176. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275555 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 10:12 am

LAST PAGE!!!

Flaming Palin.

177. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275541 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 9:52 am

"We're talking about republicans. Surely, they aren't big enough."

Ziiiinngg!! Nice one.;-)

178. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275526 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 9:21 am

"Have you seen the Youtube series God, Inc. by Francis Stokes?"

YES!

On this long a thread, it's probably inevitable that we end up quoting each other quoting each other. ;-)

179. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275522 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 9:13 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRQiF0N0Tas

No mention of tea drinkers except chai tea, but as a tea drinker myself I'm accustomed to being treated as a second-class citizen.

180. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275509 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 9:03 am

Somebody here at RD.net said a while ago that he or she was telling religious friends (?) that if Obama is the anti-christ they should vote for him to "get this thing moving along." LOL

181. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275506 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 9:00 am

outside the expressed Word of God

That was you, right Tez? ;-)

182. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275500 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 8:56 am

Steve - Wow! That Michael Golfarb is even slimier that the UK islamic school woman! "I think we all know who number two is." Say what??

183. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275481 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 8:34 am

DP - are these the rednecks you're going to join?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEKU-HGZvo4

184. Barack Obama Exposes The Bible

Comment #275448 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 7:40 am

The comments on the YouTube page are interesting - I looked at them again, and it seems that when the video was first posted 2 months ago, the commenters were all religious nut jobs arguing with each other. Recently, it seems a bunch of atheists (like us) have got wind of it (hmm, was that a pun?) and are posting much more entertaining comments!

185. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275442 by Caudimordax on October 31, 2008 at 7:35 am

...more broke people with guns and the government telling them they have to share whatever little wealth they have. Things might get ugly.

Wall Street hedge fund managers are buying guns?

Now I AM worried!

186. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275092 by Caudimordax on October 30, 2008 at 7:01 pm

Psst, Bonzai, they've always been underaged girls. But they're just graphics.

187. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275089 by Caudimordax on October 30, 2008 at 6:57 pm

and Frank-ly I think it's about time.

You should have said, "Frank-ly (Scarlett) I don't give a damn."

188. Barack Obama Exposes The Bible

Comment #275084 by Caudimordax on October 30, 2008 at 6:44 pm

As for the redistribution of wealth, I would like to see the Wall Street types, who receive bonuses of several millions of dollars, be the prime target of this.

Oh, Rod you are so uninformed! What is all this blathering about Wall Street types having received "millions" of dollars?

It's billions, with a "B."

189. Barack Obama Exposes The Bible

Comment #274898 by Caudimordax on October 30, 2008 at 1:53 pm

Comment #274884 by 4horsefins

When you decide not to, you should be punished with starvation. This is Human Darwinian Evolution in my opinion.

As Richard Dawkins has explained many times, evolution DEscribes how things came about, it does not PREscribe how things SHOULD be.

Edit: I see we're off to the races - again.

190. Barack Obama Exposes The Bible

Comment #274741 by Caudimordax on October 30, 2008 at 10:57 am

Looking at the comments on YouTube, quite a few people were impressed by the video - but definitely not in the way the poster intended!

191. Richard Dawkins embarrassed after death and subsequent resurrection

Comment #274250 by Caudimordax on October 29, 2008 at 7:47 pm

Comment #274246 by Goldy

purrrrrr

Nicely done, Goldy - amazing how these people just blather on without taking any actual interest in the universe they inhabit?

(I've got a question mark and you don't! ;P)

192. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #274245 by Caudimordax on October 29, 2008 at 7:37 pm

Comment #274243 by Sarmatae1

Hmmm - I think I liked that. But I'm still trying to work it out, sort of like "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

But I'm tired and slow right now.

Edit: Wait, wait, it's A, right? (or left)

193. Somalia: Rape Victim Executed

Comment #274240 by Caudimordax on October 29, 2008 at 7:24 pm

DP, if you ever get to read these threads, this is what a lack of government does to a country. This is what one is reduced to without taxes being paid.

Not likely - DP is a monomaniac (or, as widely suspected, a computer program)

But I completely agree with you.

194. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #274233 by Caudimordax on October 29, 2008 at 7:16 pm

And just to add to the thread, I went to a local sushi place last week where the chef's choice (omakase) came arranged on a pile of pelletized ice covering a blue LED ice cube with a little bowl of dry ice and water lending a misty aura to the whole eerily glowing presentation. It was a little over the top. But the fish was good.

195. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #274231 by Caudimordax on October 29, 2008 at 7:12 pm

Comment #274228 by Goldy

Well I'm - uh - a bit older, and I still always do the dry-ice-in-the-sink thing. Hadn't thought about the soap though! Can't wait for the next shipment containing dry ice!

196. Somalia: Rape Victim Executed

Comment #274229 by Caudimordax on October 29, 2008 at 7:08 pm

To think that the "people" who carried out the stoning went home thinking they had done god's will ... really makes my blood boil.

197. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #274224 by Caudimordax on October 29, 2008 at 6:57 pm

And here's a cocktail for the techno-geeks (and I use that term in the most worshipping way ;-))

Purple Haze Cocktail
Adapted from “The Hungry Scientist Handbook” by Patrick Buckley and Lily Binns (Collins Living, 2008)

Time: 2 minutes

About 2 cups food-grade dry ice chips

4 ounces gin

1 ounce crème de violette (violet liqueur) or crème de cassis

1 ounce lemon juice.

1. Place 8 to 10 chips dry ice in large martini shaker or other container. Add remaining ingredients. As soon as you do so, the mixture will start bubbling and spewing out gas. Cover loosely, and stir or swirl to chill through, at least 30 seconds. (Do not make container airtight.)

2. Strain into martini glass, add one small chip dry ice, and let bubble until completely dissolved. Serve.

Yield: 2 cocktails.

Note: Do not handle dry ice with bare hands; use spoon or tongs. Do not mix dry ice with regular ice. Do not put dry ice in mouth or touch with lips. Dry ice is available via distributors on dryiceinfo.com or at Chinatown Ice Cream Factory.

Edit: Is this helping the 10K drive? I could go on.

198. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #274220 by Caudimordax on October 29, 2008 at 6:52 pm

Comment #274211 by Titania

Oh, well, it's CBS for Pete's sake;-)

Here's a recipe using Hendrick's from the (LIBERAL!!) NY Times, under the heading

A Deep Sip for Deep Thinkers

so just right for you

Punt-e-groni Adapted from I Sodi

1 3/4 ounces Hendrick’s gin

1 1/4 ounces Carpano Punt e Mes vermouth

1 ounce Campari

1 orange slice, for garnish

Combine the ingredients with ice in a rocks glass and stir. Garnish with the orange slice and serve.

Yield: 1 serving