Comments on: “Pro-life” Arkansas Congress candidate thinks death penalty for “rebellious” children is appropriate

By: jim

jim — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:14:45 +0000

To paraphrase Steven Weinberg: With or without religion, good people will do good things and bad people will do bad things, but to get good people to do bad things takes religion.

By: kemibe

kemibe — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:23:09 +0000

Rachel, I am a huge Carlin fan (hate it when people like he and Hitchens die) and recall all those same monologues.

It does seem self-parodic, but these idiots mean business.

By: Rachel Howells (@rachel_howells)

Rachel Howells (@rachel_howells) — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:17:43 +0000

This kind of mentality is just so absurd you have to wonder if it is an elaborate joke. It isn’t, but it gives some of our brilliant comedians great raw material to work with. George Carlin has (or had) a pretty funny bit that this relates to what you’re talking about on the irony of pro-life conservatives who are all for the rights of the unborn, but as soon as you’re born “they don’t want to you hear from you – no neonatal care, no daycare, no Head Start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re pre-born you’re fine, if you’re pre-school you’re…(well it’s easy enough to find on You Tube). Anyway, always enjoy your posts!