re: #33 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

In my mind, the big change in LGF started in 2006, with a spat over creation/evolution. It showed a lot of us that many of our then-fellow lizards were batshit crazy. On top of that, I was in Iraq at the time getting a first hand look at how the Bush policies we supported were working, and not working, and what the cost of right wing government really was. I especially learned to hate the senile tyrant Donald Rumsfeld, who had delayed MRAP deployment because it just didn’t fit with his corporation-dictated procurement strategy. You don’t have to see many blown-up Humvees to really hate the bastard and every corrupt, stupid plot that he and his cronies were part of. Of course, corporations also made the MRAPs but they were part of an out-group in the military-industrial complex while Rummy was an insider’s insider.

My loathing of creationists is one of the main things that stopped me from being a ‘good Republican’ back in my lean-R years.

If we define creationism as the belief that empirical evidence supports a single creation of all life on earth (and especially if that extends to a young earth itself), then it is intrinsically dishonest, since the evidence simply does not do that, and no amount of lying about it will change that conclusion.