Erwin Chemerinsky explains why it is not unconstitutional to require citizens to purchase health insurance.
Michelle Cottle explains that Betsy McCaughey is an unscrupulous bomb-throwing charlatan.
Cappy McGarr explains how earlier trials at health insurance exchanges failed, and why they will continue to fail unless the private health insurance industry is regulated up the wazoo.
Bonus Read — Fundamentalism Eats Itself. Some fundies plan to edit the Bible to make it more conservative.
Edit the bible reminds me of years ago listening to a radio talk jockey, professed non-religious, interviewing a professed christian whose war-mongering, judgemental, non-forgiving spiel prompted the talk jockey to ask the question ‘but didn’t jesus advocate turning-the-other-cheek, don’t-judge-lest-you-be-judged, love-your-enemy…?’ To which the professed christian replied, “But, he didn’t really mean it.”
(By the way, there is no English word for the Hebrew phrase ‘to fall short.’ We know it as ‘to sin’ which has absolutely no relationship to the original Hebrew. I suspect that by the time the bible thumpers get through with their version of the bible it will have absolutely no relationship to much of anything in the original Hebrew or Aramaic or Greek.)
As far as the professor’s argument that requiring health insurance, or a tax, for all Americans is not unconstitutional because the Supremes would not declare it so? That supposedly august body ruled marijuana an interstate commerce issue because it is bought and sold across state lines while later on that same august body ruled the right to possess certain kinds of guns an issue it couldn’t touch because guns were not bought and sold across state lines.
Obviously, the Supreme Court is not and has never been (remember their money is free speech ruling) a body which should be deciding the constitutionality or uncostitutionality, let alone the wrong or right, of anything having to do with anything affecting our lives.
I really wonder who is behind this conserva-bible. The fundies I knew were very big on trying to find and adhere to the original meanings of words, phrases – basically don’t mess with scripture, cuz It’s God’s Word. These conserva-twit revisionists believe in the religion of conservativism, not Christianity, and desperately need something to prop it up.
Moonbat – it’s apparently a Conservapaedia production, as part of their ongoing campaign to correct reality’s liberal bias.
There was some thought that the project was a hoax, but the talk page and edits have ‘Aschlafly’ all over them – Andrew Schlafly, begat by Phyllis and ignorance.
You can go straight to the horse’s… orifice and check out the motivation and approach (other translations are dominated by academics!) or go straight to the work in progress.
From the comments on Pharyngula, it appears that the project is discarding or alerting text they find objectionable, while keeping language that is known to have been inserted in later versions such as the Marcan Appendix.
Is Conservapedia really for real? Its so hard to tell…
“Conservative Bible Project Cuts Out Liberal Passages”
Well I’m impressed that they would try to fix it to their liking. Usually the dimwitted teabaggers just burn books they don’t like!
Chemerinsky’s argument really falls flat for me when he hauls out the Supreme Court ruling prohibiting medical marijuana as a basis for asserting the constitutionality of a health care tax.
So when Jesus asks Peter, “Do you love Me”, and Peter says,”Yes”, then Jesus says, “Feed my sheep”. He really meant, “Obey me and tell these lazy assholes to get off their ass and get a job.” Hard to believe the Christians are losing market share to the non-theist crowd.
I think there should be some updating and clarification in the Bible. After all, when you read that Mary rode Joesph’s ass all the way to Bethlehem one might get the impression that Mary was just being a bitch.
It’s good that the conservatives want to create their own version of the Bible. The more versions and interpretations.. the more it becomes diluted of it’s perceived authority. The parable of the free market?…I don’t think Christendom at large is going to embrace the conservatives efforts and will classify it in the same category as the New World Translation.
Between Betsy and the Bible, it is quite clear that neither fact nor faith need be considered on the way to Neo-con Nirvana. Felicity and buckyblue should submit their interpretive work above to Conservapedia so that the work can proceed apace and inform the masses even sooner!
Many people wonder if Conservapedia is real. Yes, it’s the brainchild, or subsitute your body part of choice, of Andrew Schlafly, and he is really real and sincer as hell. And more of an ass than you could guess from just this stuff.
Sure, it’s funny to see bible-thumpers revising a bible to their liking, but we’re overlooking one point here. Not to get all sectarian or anything, but Schlafly’s fanaticism is not Fundamentalist in its roots, but Catholic. They’ve always believed that the Bible is too complicated for the common people; and, really now, isn’t there some merit in that?