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by **patches70** on Wed Feb 06, 2013 11:02 am

spurgistan wrote:In a related story, Essie Washington-Williams, who we might know as Strom Thurmond's half-black daughter, died this week. She deserved a better father.

Hmmm, Essie Washington-Williams would disagree with you there. Maybe you should read the transcript of her interview on 60 minutes.....

Excerpt-
Essie Mae Williams:
Oh, yes. He was wonderful.

Dan Rather:
He was wonderful.

Essie Mae Williams:
Yes.

Just sayin', you've got your opinion (judgment) that is based on ignorance, which is fine I suppose, but the person who you seem to be sympathetic toward had no such judgment and thought quite the opposite of what you appear to think of him as a father.
Anyway, here is the link to the transcript if you want to have, you know, an actual informed opinion.
I think it's his politics you are against, which is fine, but your statement has to do with him as a father and the interview doesn't support your view at all.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/ ... 9107.shtml

by **spurgistan** on Wed Feb 06, 2013 4:09 pm

My "ignorance" is mostly based on the fact that, despite having a child with a black woman, he was resoundingly in favor of segregation. I'm not saying she didn't love her father, or that he didn't give her money (less than a bare minimum of what a father should do, particularly for one as wealthy as Thurmond it could have easily been an afterthought) I'm saying she deserved better.

by **Woodruff** on Sat May 04, 2013 7:39 pm

I have just found out that Lamar Smith, head of the House Science Committee, is a Christian Scientist. Which means that he believes a reliance on conventional medicine should be discouraged and that physician methods should be seen as ineffective because they treat disease as originating in the body rather than the mind.

And this is who the House selected to head the HOUSE SCIENCE COMMITTEE?

Good Lord.

by **Phatscotty** on Sat May 04, 2013 7:41 pm

Why should House Science Committee discriminate against religion? Why the hell would you necrobump this thread?

by **Woodruff** on Sat May 04, 2013 7:42 pm

Phatscotty wrote:Why should House Science Committee discriminate against religion?

They shouldn't, they should discriminate against someone WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE IN SCIENCE.

Why do you support having someone who doesn't believe in science to be the head of the House Science Committee, Phatscotty?

by **Phatscotty** on Sat May 04, 2013 7:42 pm

You said yourself, that he is a scientist.

:-s

by **Woodruff** on Sat May 04, 2013 7:44 pm

Phatscotty wrote:You said yourself, that he is a scientist.

I said no such thing. I'm sorry you're unable to understand that the term "Christian Scientist" does not refer to a Scientist who is a Christian, but it does not. At all, in fact.

Why do you support having someone who doesn't believe in science to be the head of the House Science Committee, Phatscotty?

by **Phatscotty** on Sat May 04, 2013 7:45 pm

Woodruff wrote:
Phatscotty wrote:You said yourself, that he is a scientist.

I said no such thing. I'm sorry you're unable to understand that the term "Christian Scientist" does not refer to a Scientist who is a Christian, but it does not. At all, in fact.

Woodruff wrote:I have just found out that Lamar Smith, head of the House Science Committee, is a Christian Scientist

I think you just trolled yourself

by **Woodruff** on Sat May 04, 2013 7:47 pm

Phatscotty wrote:
Woodruff wrote:
Phatscotty wrote:You said yourself, that he is a scientist.

I said no such thing. I'm sorry you're unable to understand that the term "Christian Scientist" does not refer to a Scientist who is a Christian, but it does not. At all, in fact.

Woodruff wrote:I have just found out that Lamar Smith, head of the House Science Committee, is a Christian Scientist

I think you just trolled yourself

Did you even read what you're replying to?

I think you're trying as hard as you can to look like you have some basic point, but in reality you're simply looking like a fool.

Would you like to try to stop looking like a fool, or are you having fun still?

Let me know when you are ready to stop sucking up to the Republican Party long enough to stop wearing your ass for a hat.

by **Phatscotty** on Sat May 04, 2013 7:50 pm

Woodruff wrote:
Phatscotty wrote:You said yourself, that he is a scientist.

I said no such thing. I'm sorry you're unable to understand that the term "Christian Scientist" does not refer to a Scientist who is a Christian, but it does not. At all, in fact.

Why do you support having someone who doesn't believe in science to be the head of the House Science Committee, Phatscotty?

Then what is the correct term for a scientist who is a Christian?

by **Symmetry** on Sat May 04, 2013 7:50 pm

Woodruff wrote:I have just found out that Lamar Smith, head of the House Science Committee, is a Christian Scientist. Which means that he believes a reliance on conventional medicine should be discouraged and that physician methods should be seen as ineffective because they treat disease as originating in the body rather than the mind.

And this is who the House selected to head the HOUSE SCIENCE COMMITTEE?

Good Lord.

Aye an Peter King was Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, despite a history of supporting the IRA, even when it killed US citizens. You'd think supporting terrorist attacks and fundraising for them would rule you out.

by **Woodruff** on Sat May 04, 2013 7:53 pm

Phatscotty wrote:
Woodruff wrote:
Phatscotty wrote:You said yourself, that he is a scientist.

I said no such thing. I'm sorry you're unable to understand that the term "Christian Scientist" does not refer to a Scientist who is a Christian, but it does not. At all, in fact.

Why do you support having someone who doesn't believe in science to be the head of the House Science Committee, Phatscotty?

Then what is the correct term for a scientist who is a Christian?

If one wants to be clear, they would call them "a scientist who is a Christian". Or even "a Christian who is a scientist". Both would work. It seems fairly obvious.

"Christian Scientist" is pretty specific, IN PARTICULAR in the way I used it.

Are you going to answer my questions, Phatscotty, or are you still afraid of it?

by **tzor** on Sun May 05, 2013 5:34 pm

Phatscotty wrote:Then what is the correct term for a scientist who is a Christian?

A really smart person.

by **Woodruff** on Sun May 05, 2013 6:57 pm

So the conservatives here are supportive of the head of the House Science Committee being a "Christian Scientist"?

(Quotes added so dipshits don't misunderstand any more than they do naturally.)

by **patrickaa317** on Sun May 05, 2013 8:10 pm

Woodruff wrote:So the conservatives here are supportive of the head of the House Science Committee being a "Christian Scientist"?

(Quotes added so dipshits don't misunderstand any more than they do naturally.)

Just as a a note, some self pro-claimed conservatives don't speak for all conservatives.

With your point of the above, you'd think at this point that someone might even end up appointing someone who evaded taxes to treasury secretary. 8-[