Would MLK even been invited to the pastor beck event??? - Page 5

Bill · #41 (**permalink**) 09-05-2010, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Billo_Really

He found an audience that is more stupid than he is and it's gone to his head. He makes statements that are so obviously wrong, it scary his minions can't even pick up on it. Like his false explanation on why the Washington Monument brick changes colors.

Must make his job a lot easier, since they don't know, he is always correct...lol

& a guy needs an advantage like that, especially if he don't know what he's talkin about........

I don't know about those bricks changing colors but I assume it is divine providence...........

Billo_Really · #42 (**permalink**) 09-05-2010, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Bill

I don't know about those bricks changing colors but I assume it is divine providence...........

Not exactly.

Here's what Beck said:

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“Behind you, in front of me, the Washington—alone, tall, straight—if you look at the Washington Monument, you might notice its scars. But nobody talks about that...but a quarter of the way up it changes color. Did you know that it did? Look at it. Look at its scars.

“How did the scar get there? They stopped building it in the Civil War. And when the war was over, they began again. No one sees the scars of the Washington memorial, the Washington Monument. We see what it stands for. No one also talks about what's on top, facing east. Just two words, ‘Laus Deo,’ ‘Praise be to God.’"

And here's the truth...

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The construction didn't stop because of the Civil War, it had already stopped years earlier.

“When the monument was under construction in 1854, the Washington National Monument Society ran out of money and the project ground to a halt. Twenty-five years later, the U.S. Government took over and completed the upper two-thirds of the structure by 1884 using marble from a different quarry.”

One interesting part is that after the original, private organization running things ran out of money in 1854, it was taken over by the anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant Know Nothing Party. They were particularly outraged by the fact the Vatican, like many other organizations, had donated a stone. So they destroyed it.

Then they screwed around for two more years but finally gave up too.

So...I guess you could argue that Beck is within shouting distance of reality. I mean, it probably was harder to raise money as the war approached. And construction probably would have stopped during the Civil War...if it had been going on when the Civil War started. Which it, uh, wasn't.

Finally, the actual history is bad news for Beck's ideology: the private effort to build the monument puttered out, and then was derailed for a long time by cranks with a worldview strikingly similar to Beck & co.

It was only the government's money and organization that finally made it happen.

There's that god-damn socialism thing again!

Chloe · #43 (**permalink**) 09-05-2010, 10:24 PM

I don't like Glen Beck much, I guess it's just a preference issue.

Mikeyy · #44 (**permalink**) 09-05-2010, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by MintJulep

Keep telling yourself that. Whatever gets you to sleep at night.

I hate to see what kind of shape you're going to be in on the night of Nov. 2. I believe hate and rage will be an understatement.

You guys are funny,,Watch out, here comes Nov. 2nd. You seem to think the right will take over then as if it would make a nickles worth of difference.

Billo_Really · #45 (**permalink**) 09-05-2010, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Mikeyy

You guys are funny,,Watch out, here comes Nov. 2nd. You seem to think the right will take over then as if it would make a nickles worth of difference.

That is the elephant in the room. And it couldn't hit the nail on the head any more perfectly. Although I voted for Obama, I stated publically, before the election, it was okay to have hope that change would occur, but that in all likelyhood, the odds are, it will just be business as usual, in good ole DC.

And that's exactly what happened. Obama got elected, Bush policies continued and Obama showed that first and formost, he's a politician. No matter how much we like what he say's, we must never lose sight of the fact that he's a "politician". Just like Bush. Just like Clinton. Just like Bush. Just like...

No matter which party you vote for, it's business as usual. That should be a red flag to all of America that the root of the problem has nothing to do with left or right, lib or con, rep or dem; it's something much worse with 99% of the population on one side and 1% of the population on the other. And some of that 1% isn't even part of the American population.

Mikeyy, you made the understatement of the year.

sky dancer · #46 (**permalink**) 09-06-2010, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by MintJulep

Keep telling yourself that. Whatever gets you to sleep at night.

I hate to see what kind of shape you're going to be in on the night of Nov. 2. I believe hate and rage will be an understatement.

What makes you think
Billo won't be in his usual state of
merriment on Nov 2?

Billo_Really · #47 (**permalink**) 09-06-2010, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by sky dancer

What makes you think
Billo won't be in his usual state of
merriment on Nov 2?

The Lakers start playing October 27 and they got a better team than they had the last two years. Unless Kobe breaks his leg, I will be sky high Nov. 2. And if I'm not, it ain't nothin' a little juervo gold can't fix.

Bill · #48 (**permalink**) 09-06-2010, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Billo_Really

Not exactly.

Here's what Beck said:

And here's the truth...

There's that god-damn socialism thing again!

OK...................

Does he often talk about American symbols & does anyone really care??

Bill · #49 (**permalink**) 09-06-2010, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Mikeyy

You guys are funny,,Watch out, here comes Nov. 2nd. You seem to think the right will take over then as if it would make a nickles worth of difference.

Billo_Really · #50 (**permalink**) 09-06-2010, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Bill

OK...................

Does he often talk about American symbols & does anyone really care??

That sounds like a song off the Chicago Transit Authority album?

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