tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post8555114649499309675..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: Walter Brueggemann - The Bible Makes Sense - The Transcendentalist ModelUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-6576525715410082112016-11-23T13:39:18.350-05:002016-11-23T13:39:18.350-05:00i should add that Sparky's piece of shit blog ...i should add that Sparky's piece of shit blog -- which is read only by him, you and me -- is hardly the definition of public.steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-43538321430620250862016-11-23T13:38:53.782-05:002016-11-23T13:38:53.782-05:00He and his fan base think he has a pretty wit.He and his fan base think he has a pretty wit.The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-27634776303790079792016-11-23T13:30:04.982-05:002016-11-23T13:30:04.982-05:00Some people, like Sparky and you, invite abuse. It...Some people, like Sparky and you, invite abuse. It's profoundly ungracious not to accept it.steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-14996434741673849112016-11-23T13:02:02.075-05:002016-11-23T13:02:02.075-05:00Is it a compulsion with you, or do enjoy being an ...Is it a compulsion with you, or do enjoy being an asshole in public?Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-83971438458979508672016-11-23T12:57:04.758-05:002016-11-23T12:57:04.758-05:00It's not just in the Southern states. I remem...It's not just in the Southern states. I remember in the 1960s there being a scandal of a poor woman starving to death in a small New Hampshire town because the government wouldn't give her an kind of assistance. There were probably others who didn't get reported. And I'll bet it wasn't church goers. Look at Maine's incumbant governor who is supposed to have grown up in privation. I don't think there is anyone who more obviously hates poor people than Paul LePage Though, these days, there's lots of that everywhere. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-37703175138543489692016-11-23T12:47:22.988-05:002016-11-23T12:47:22.988-05:00So now you're blaming Ralph Waldo Emerson for ...So now you're blaming Ralph Waldo Emerson for the election of Donald Trump?<br /><br />Seriously Sparky -- seek help. steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-14259498664990530532016-11-23T12:30:04.026-05:002016-11-23T12:30:04.026-05:00"Even after the infamous poor laws allegedly ..."Even after the infamous poor laws allegedly ended, a woman I knew who was based in Southern England told me that though she traveled to lots of places in Europe over a number of years, she never saw more abject and cruel poverty than what she saw in Britain. "<br /><br />This doesn't surprise me one jot. Nor that the southern U.S., the most "English" of the states, has such high rates of poverty, and such a cruel attitude toward the poor. Baptists and others may care for the poor through their churches, but they despise the idea being done through government at any level. Noblesse oblige, after all, should be a personal decision.<br /><br />Like religion, actually.....Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com