Joe the Plumber for Congress? Yes, it is true! Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher has filed his statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission to run for the 9th Congressional seat in Ohio as a Republican, currently held by Democrat Marcy Kaptur. She will face Dennis Kucinich in a primary fight, as his 10th District is being melded into the 9th since Ohio has lost 2 seats. So can Joe the Plumber, the man who got Barack Obama to admit he was a Socialist during the 2008 campaign against John McCain, win and serve in Congress?
You betcha! Anything is possible in the Age of the Tea Party. Especially with half-wit Democrats ruining the nation with their failed economic policies. Not content to just pass ridiculous laws and regulations, now the Democrats, including Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, are encouraging civil unrest with the Occupy Wall Street kooks committing acts of violence and vandalism.
The 2012 election will be a pivotal one. We saw in 2010 how the Tea Party booted spend-crazy Democrats out of office and gave the Republicans control of the House of Representatives. With the White House and 23 Democrat US Senate seats up for grabs in 2012, the Tea Party could tilt the scales of American politics back to the Conservative Right. But the GOP will have to make good on shrinking the size and power of the federal government, and getting the nation′s fiscal house in order. Otherwise, we may see a new, viable third party arise in the future, displacing both the GOP and Democrats.
But for now, let us celebrate the announcement of Joe the Plumber for Congress. Samuel Joseph Wurzalbacher, the man who got Barack Obama to admit to his Socialism, has filed his statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission. He will be running for Ohio′s 9th District seat, currently held by Marcy Kaptur, the longest sitting Democrat woman in Congress. She will have to face Dennis Kucinich in a primary, as his 10th District seat is being melded due to population loss. I′m sure Sarah Palin will help Joe in his campaign, but will John McCain lend a hand?
October 11th, 2011 at 5:32 am
The right truly is retarded.
October 11th, 2011 at 6:29 am
You’re being politically incorrect, Snow, using the ‘R-word’.
You should have said:
“The right is truly mentally handicapped.”
Time for you to have another session at the Far Left Re-Education Center.
October 11th, 2011 at 7:34 am
I’m not far left. I do think that many of the modern Republicans are completely retarded though… same with many modern Democrats, just Republicans more-so. Actually most religious folks (both D and R, it’s just that more Rs are religious than Ds) have a least a little something wrong, it’s like believing in the tooth fairy after becoming an adult.
If Reagan were running for President now, he would be a Communist according to the modern right’s standards.
October 11th, 2011 at 8:22 am
” it’s like believing in the tooth fairy after becoming an adult.”
No, its about having the balls and the humility to imagine or have faith in something far greater than yours/our little minds can conceive.
I consider myself modern con but see nothing communist about Reagans basic principles of conservatism.
You wanna see retarded ?
Cruise on down to Wall st.
Better yet, the oval office
October 11th, 2011 at 8:52 am
The tooth fairy is actually a meth dealer
October 11th, 2011 at 8:53 am
No, its about having the balls and the humility to imagine or have faith in something far greater than yours/our little minds can conceive.
I disagree. It takes more balls to not have faith. Many people fear Hell so much that they are ‘just in case’ Christians. They believe that it’s possible a ‘just’ God would condemn them to Hell for eternity because they didn’t spend their brief 80+ (if you’re lucky) years on Earth worshiping the man in the cloud.
Believe what you want, of course. I just choose to believe that a hyper-superstitious group of desert nomads probably had it wrong.
October 11th, 2011 at 11:37 am
“I disagree. It takes more balls to not have faith. ”
Aww bullsht !
Any fcking limp cranium can have no faith and go thru life a cynic.
The Atheist these days doesnt go thru half the ridicule and discrimination morons like you put Christians thru.
Its easy to just say, “this is it”.
How comfy, how convenient.
Oh, and please dont confuse me with your garden variety generic hell hath no fury fire n brimstone Christian.
You know I hate organized religion.
But it takes way more balls to search for purpose that extends past just being some fcking mistake in a huge petri dish.
If thats all you think you’re here for, then you truly are worthless
October 11th, 2011 at 11:44 am
Put it this way
We do not have one millionth the mental architecture to even begin imagining what the origins of our creation were and what purpose that entity had in mind for us.
But to just kick back and be flesh with no moral refereee but yourself is the easy lazy gutless no balls mans way out.
For all we know we could all get our own solar systems when we die for us to create and build upon as Jesus and his father did, we just dont know.
But I will be a man about and say I just dont know the answer and will not project fake machismo as if my superior intellect knows for sure why I’m here
that takes balls to hold yourself to a standard not set by you whether or not in the end you had someone to answer to.
If you think that in the infinite stretches of the universe we are the only ones who come as close as possible to those answers and theres no other life or intelligence then you’re a child of special need
October 11th, 2011 at 12:12 pm
But to just kick back and be flesh with no moral refereee but yourself is the easy lazy gutless no balls mans way out.
I think using God as the explanation for all things unknown is the lazy way out.
Why is trusting in my own moral compass lazy compared to trusting in God’s? I know that I need to be a good person, I don’t need a book to tell me that. This has nothing to do with laziness.
If you don’t believe in something, you can’t force yourself to believe it, especially when there is no real tangible proof. You either believe it or you don’t. Could you force yourself to believe in the tooth fairy?
We really are just animals, we are just self-aware and we have great imaginations. These imaginations give us the power to create our own realities, and to allow us to chalk off everything unknown to us as “the works of something greater.”, like God.
October 11th, 2011 at 1:41 pm
Snow, it is said that there are no atheists in a foxhole. There aren’t many, either, in nursing homes or hospices. We’ll see how you feel when your turn to stand at Death’s door comes. I’m willing to bet that you will get mighty religious after you get diagnosed with a chronic or terminal disease.
October 11th, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Andy, even if you are right — when I pass, all that will happen is I’ll turn into dirt, eventually.
If God wants to cast me into eternal Hellfire because he created me to worship him, and I didn’t do such, well – then I don’t want to hang around him anyways.
October 11th, 2011 at 2:43 pm
Also,
How many people in foxholes have prayed desperately to God for their life to be saved, only to be completely obliterated? Probably millions over the course of our history. Perhaps the saying should be “There are no Gods in foxholes.”
October 11th, 2011 at 2:51 pm
One of my fav movies is “The Attack on Firebase Gloria” where R. Lee Remy plays a gunny sergeant who tells the troops that he prays to God, Jesus, Allah, Buddah and anybody else he can think of.
October 11th, 2011 at 4:07 pm
“Could you force yourself to believe in the tooth fairy?”
Thats just stupid.
I have no need for a fairy.
I do have a need for purpose.
And stop confusing me with generic spirituality.
I simply choose to believe we are not alone and there is a greater mind/existence than what we see in this speck of dust on infinity.
I’ve been dead, faced death more times than the average man and firmly believe I’m of purpose in propelling man generation by generation handing down knowledge til were as perfect and complete as can be.
You have to give yourself reason or else everything is just eating shtting and fcking.
If you’re happy with that then all I can say is that you’re a man of low expectations putting no goal ahead of himself and just taking the easy way out of not being responsible to any one or thing but yourself.
I will take a good conscience to my death bed with me, that itself is just the beginning of heaven TO DIE FEELING GUILTY IS HELL and I fear that guilt may stick with me for an eterinity.
I simply dont know and never will pretend to know but I do know that the more considerate and loving I can be the better the odds are thats whatever in store for me will be more pleasant than living an afterlife oozing with guilt and pain because I thought there was nothing or one to answer to.
The Bible is a beautiful book that eludes to much of what mans fears and desires are but it was written by humans with flaws to the point we have so many denominations is freaking disgusting.
Whatever the fck happened happened only one way and I’ll God Damned (pun intended) if I’m gonna have some elitist theological nut tell me what my odds are.
Fck, for all we know what energy is within us may be absorbed by the closest thing to us when we die.
If were ass holes we could end up being the mop in a porno lounge, so make something of yourself.
I hope to die next to a camera in a porno lounge, or a booth at The Whisky A Go go
October 11th, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Where are you, Micky? We have a room full of Paulites at the live blog!
October 11th, 2011 at 4:22 pm
“I’m willing to bet that you will get mighty religious after you get diagnosed with a chronic or terminal disease.”
Heh, every con upon entering jail finds God.
As soon as hes discharged…
…the Rosario and Bible get shtcanned.
Edith from “all in the Family” said it best when Meathead asked her “If theres a God why did he make everything so miserable on Earth with disease and wars and pain ?
Edith replied;
“So you’d appreciate everything once you get Heaven”
October 11th, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Micky,
My point about the tooth fairy was that I just can’t believe something that I don’t feel in my heart. I grew up in a very Christian household (as you probably know) and I never felt it. Even as a kid I never felt it, but I would pretend to, just to appease my parents. In the end, if you don’t believe then you just don’t believe. You can’t force yourself to believe something, otherwise it’s just faux-belief.
I simply don’t fear Hell. At all. There have been two occasions where I truly feared for my life. Once I was helping install insulation in a ski resort, huge forklift boomed a skid of insulation up to a 10th floor patio, which didn’t have a railing yet, forklift driver made a mistake and kocked me off the edge, by sheer luck I grabbed a support pole as I was falling over the edge, I saw my life flash before my eyes. Another time I had a gun pulled on me when my cousin and I were rollerblading at a school at night and we ran into some gang members, I feared for my life – but in both cases I didn’t pray, or suddenly have a moment where I felt like I needed God. Scared sh*tless, sure, but that’s about all.
October 11th, 2011 at 8:28 pm
Dude, my best thinking got me where I was too many times.
Time to turn it over to a power greater than muyself. Dont know where or what it is but accepting the fact that theres very little I control has saved my life,
I’ve been dead, I dont remember a thing, I was also at the peak of abusing mine and everyones life.
Scary, I want more after this, its worth the faith
October 11th, 2011 at 8:30 pm
everything fits together too damn well, all I see just makes too much sense for it to all be a fluke of existence,
Somethings going on and its not just historys greatest clusterfck
October 11th, 2011 at 10:05 pm
There is an old saying to those who have faith, there is no reason to explain it. To those that do not, there is no way. I will not argue which takes more machismo – believing or not – I know that the argument about the foxhole bears no merit. Just because they got blown to smithereens as you put it, depending on there believe, they went to a better place. I always find it funny when people say ” I prayed but God did not answer” He answered, but sometimes the answer is no.
October 12th, 2011 at 5:23 am
Mick,
People have been using God to explain unknowns since we’ve been able to create a God.
Volcanos, the Sun, earthquakes, etc – all of those were ‘God’ at some point. It seems like everything that is too complex to fully grasp is ‘God’.
I don’t really subscribe to the belief that the universe is just one big clusterf*ck, but I do believe in evolution by natural selection, which doesn’t say that everything is a series of accidents.
I am open-minded enough to accept the possibility that there is something greater than us, but in my mind it’s nothing like what the Christians, or Muslims, or really any theistic religion subscribes to.
I just can’t believe that there is some God out there who was bored one day and decided to create man in his image. Especially an all-knowing God that already knows I’m going to Hell but allows me to be created anyways. That’s just f*cking wrong. Especially a God who calls himself a ‘just’ God, yet condemns his own creation to an eternity in hellfire for not worshiping him. What a narcissist!
God was created by man to explain the unknown, and to use fear to control people. I believe life is a truly precious thing that people take for granted right until the very end. Even an eternity in Heaven would suck – think about an eternity – a googol is 1 followed by 100 zeros. A googolplex is 1 followed by a googol zeros, yet a googolplex is just as close to infinity as the number 1. I don’t want an infinite existence, even in paradise. That whole idea gives human life virtually zero value. I want to spend my life enjoying myself and truly living, not worshiping an imaginary creature created by a bunch of superstitious bronze age desert nomads.
October 12th, 2011 at 5:39 am
Christians often-times just can’t fathom that I have no fear of Hell or God. But I’ll put it like this -
Do you fear Muhammad even a little bit? Probably not. And that’s how I feel about your God. There is no way I could convince you to fear Muhammad, just like there is no way you can convince me to fear your God. I simply just don’t believe in it, at all. Not even a little bit.
October 12th, 2011 at 8:17 am
“God was created by man to explain the unknown, and to use fear to control people. ”
Wrong.
“Religion” is the method of control, the collective indoctrination.
Logic demands that before man there was some intelligent intent.
One look around at everything we see should make that abundantly clear.
And I do believe that man is held to a moral ethical standard not of his making by whatever deity existed before man.
We have and experience emotions of guilt and joy and the nagging question of why we are here.
When you look at the progression of humanity over the centuries its plain to see that we hand down accumilated lessons of past gernerations stacking themselves as an upside down pyramid until weve reached our fullest potential which would be to have the unwavering crystal clear understanding for the purpose of our existence which as I mentioned at this stage is of a mental architecture we cant begin to perceive.
So the best thing to do not as a precaution but as a faithful will that is to treat people as our emotions dictate we’d like to be treated.
Many religions draw on this concept but over the decades have packaged and sold it on a collective group basis of one supposed higher moral judge, priest, whatever, to do the monitoring and judging.
Yes, something/one is watching and can determine you after life be it a simple awareness with no physical form or reincarnation with no memory of a previous life.
Remember, energy can not be created by man.
Only moved around.
I know something is watching and judging me so I’m by no means being disengenuous in my actions.
They are not a “just in case” precaution because that mindset dictates nothing but lack of faith. I firmly believe I will be treated wherever I go next determined by my actions here.
To die with a guilty conscience is hell enough, it has to be. I remember clearly after waking from flat-lining and being dead for half a minute “not now ! I’ve got too much sht to fix”.
To die happy with a clear conscience is heaven enough for me right now.
It would of really sucked for the last thought to go thru my mind was “you were a fcking selfish creep micky”.
I dont want to go thru that again.
And then theres all the unexplained reasons why I never died when just about anyone else would of.
I’ve overdosed, bled to death,suffered alcohol poisoning, fell off 3rd story balconies flat on my face, been shot at, stabbed 8 inches deep and hsd more people die crying in my arms than I care to mention.
Theres something big, and its bigger than anything our miniscule specks in the cosmos will ever be able to figure out.
Many men felt this way centuries ago and began creating a doctrine humans could follow. Too bad it got used for so many nasty ulterior motives.
But the ten commandments will work just fine for me right now and I dont give a sht if Moses drew it up himself or the hand of God ascribed it with lightening…
it works for me the best I can work it.
And since then I’ve sobered up, stayed that way for 15 years, got married, had kids, own a house and a business and to top it off survived cancer so I could keep enjoying it all.
I dont need labels, idols, trinquets or pageantry, or the organized collective congregation.
I know something far greater than you and I is at work with conscious reason.
I’ve also saved many a life giving this personal rendition to junkies and alkies on subconscious suicide missions.
Believe in anything, just stop believing that all that is goes on in your own mind.
Once you stop trying to control and produce itinerary for every aspect of life will you be happy and attain the self esteem need to carry on productively .
October 12th, 2011 at 9:23 am
Right, many men centuries ago also thought volcanoes and earthquakes were God, too. In fact, some Christians still think they are ‘acts from God to send a message’ – these people are batsh*t crazy in my book (ala Bachmann). Some Christians believe that you can simply pray and God will answer you (ala Perry). A single hand with a shovel is more productive than 10,000 hands in prayer.
I’m a moral person, and I don’t need to believe in God to be a moral person. I just simply don’t believe, I can’t help that. Like I said, I can’t force myself to believe in something, because even by forcing that I still don’t truly believe.
Humans are unique because we can contemplate death. Death is a scary thing, nobody knows with absolute certainty what happens when you die. Because of this, people need to feel warm and fuzzy about death, so they turn to their imagination for comfort.
If God is all-knowing then I have already been judged before I was even born. He knows my outcome already, he knows if I’m going to Hell.
What purpose does we serve for God? Are we just toys he created because he was bored one day? Why the hell would he need us? I can’t imagine being responsible for creating life, such as humans, and damning them to Hell for eternity for not worshiping me. If God is all-knowing then he would of known that his creation is a colossal fu*kup, he would have known that one human would screw the rest of humanity by committing a sin, and that humans would be far from perfect. This makes God imperfect.
October 12th, 2011 at 12:04 pm
You’re still lesser than whatever created you.
I believe in higher power not because I need to.
I believe in it because it only makes sense for there to be.
I wasnt put here just to eat, sht, fck, and make more people.
Too bad you feel your existence lacks so much meaning.
You raise a lot of questions in your post that can obly be answered by faith.
And please, stop returning to the bible or todays Christians as an example. Think big, so big you just know you’d never get it.
We werent just given the ability to contemplate death.
Thats small change compared to the vast array of things we contemplate from love to hate to why we were given emotions tied to guilt or euphoria.
purpose man, think more of reason for you besides just another propelling of man.
I believe theres wonderful things waiting that we cant even concieve in the 10% of our brain that we use.
Even if we were able to utilize the whole 100% I doubt we’d still understand it.
Because, if something can put all the saht together were looking at I have absolutely no doubt much greater things await us. And the better the conscience you take with you, the lesser the guilt, the better it will be.
any idiot can figure out morals because a kick to the balls hurts enough where I know someone else with balls wouldnt like the same.
Dont need a bible for that.
Besides, you can moralize anything as good in your mind if need be to escape guilt.
Dont take a genius to figure out you’re hurting someone, morals are easy.
Its what you’ve done to make life better for those not here yet that matters.
Stop simplifying life as if were all pavlovs dogs controlling urges