So the Bronze Age Huckabee is offended at the term "act of God". What should offend him...and anyone else who has actually read the Old Testament...is a psychopathic diety who would drown the entire world...save Noah and his family...in an all too common fit of anger, or who would command his "chosen people" to murder entire communities of men, women, and children (except the young virgins, of course), in order to steal their land and possessions. The last thing we need is another President who commits atrocities against civilian populations of the non-chosen on direct orders from an admitedly jealous, angry, and genocidal diety.

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What a maroon, what an ignoramous!

Just imagine what he could do with the expanded powers of the presidency...

{{{{{{{shudders}}}}}}}

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I was actually going to school in Arkadelphia when that happened. A day or two later people left my design class to help shore up our professor's garage/studio to keep it from collapsing, destroying much of his artwork and his presses, etc...

I am utterly sickened that Huckaby would hold up aid to the victims for ANY reason.

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When you wake up and all your stuff is gone, what's the difference what name you give it or who you blame? Huckabee should look at a map of the Middle East so he can learn a about things that really matter. He's a disgrace. Thanks, ANNA

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We already know Huckabee is an ignorant redneck. The problem is, that's exactly what the Republicans' base wants. They found it in George W. Bush, and they're delighted with his legacy of illegal wars, a million dead Muslims (even though most were civilians), massive deficit spending, $100 a barrel oil, a staggering national debt whose interest will cripple future governments indefinitely, torture, repeal of nearly all constitutional rights other than the mythical Second Amendment right to own assault rifles and automatic handguns, enrichment of the rich at the peril of everyone else, continued inaction on global warming, maintenance of our position as the world's leading arms manufacturer, re-ignition of the Cold War, refutation of modern science, and the rest of the neocon agenda. They're hoping to continue this triumph of Christian values for at least another four years.

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isn't your god omniscient, omnipresent, etc.? Therefore, any natural disaster IS AN ACT OF GOD YOU JACKASS.

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"Thank God he has no chance of winning". Don't thank God just yet. This venal, vicious moron will probably finish first in Iowa, and after that, who knows?

Also, don't assume that the eventual GOP nominee is , shall we say, predestined to be defeated in November. You give the American people far too much credit.

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"Act of god" is a phrase left over from a time long ago when people actually
believed in such nonsense. Huckabee is obsolete, as well as crazy.
As a sophomore undergraduate student in Physics, your homework may include
figuring out when the second coming would be required, assuming that the bible
was 100% true in the year zero. That is, when would the bible be down to 50%
true? The popular and professors' answer in 1965 was the year 500. The true
answer: A friend of mine was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary. As an adult,
he came here and stayed. After 25 years, he visited his home town of Budapest.
He was unable to communicate with his high school classmates because the
Hungarian language had changed so much. The correct answer is less than 25
years. The first gospel was not written down until 50 years after the alleged
events and then in a different language. The people who told the story were at
about the same level of civilization as "wild Indians", I mean Native Americans
before Columbus got here. We have all played or seen played the game called
"Telephone" in which a story is passed down a line of re-tellers. By the Sixth re-
telling, the story has no resemblance to the original. The gospel story had to have
been re-told at least 6 times before it was mis-translated the first time. [Note that
whoever wrote it down the first time was free to write whatever he wanted to.
The storytellers were illiterate and unable to check his written text by reading it.
Besides that, he wrote in Greek rather than Aramaic.] Conclusion: There is no
truth anywhere in the bible, and there never was. There is no way to know what
"jesus" or "mohammed" or any other such character actually said or did.

ALL of the jurisdictions that were formerly in the jurisdiction of religion have
been taken over by Science. There is no longer a need to debate the issue.
Religion is an unfortunate side effect of a major and ongoing step in evolution.
[Not that evolution has a predetermined direction. We could devolve, but we have
to get over religion or go extinct. "God" will not save us from the consequences
of global warming or an asteroid impact or a tornado because there is no such
critter as "god.".] Notice that if Huckabee tried to pray the damage undone in
Arkadelphia, it didn't work. Did Huckabee conclude that Arkadelphians had
sinned?
Ethics and morality are instinctive, not derived from religion. Female instinct has
greater force in morality than male instinct because the female is in command of
the sexual encounter. Look up "Sociobiology". The origin of the Universe is the
subject of Cosmology which is part of astronomy which is part of the science of
physics.
Religion is a SCAM. ANY religion, there are 10,000 to choose from at any one
time. People keep inventing new religions [for the benefit of the "prophet," of
course] and forgetting other religions. ALL preachers, priests, imams, rabbis,
iatolas, etc. belong in jail for "grand theft, bunko type". Huckabee belongs in jail,
not the Whitehouse. Huckabee is a pure charlatan.

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In "Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed," Jared
Diamond discusses how religion has played a role in the collapse
of many civilizations. Christianity contributed to the collapse of
the Greenland Viking civilization. If the Greenland Vikings had
spent their money on iron to make weapons and tools, they would
have had a better chance of survival. Instead they bought stained
glass windows and religious goods at a time when their sickles
were worn down to the point of looking like box cutters. The
Greenland Vikings stuck to their "Christian" and European values
when the Inuits [Eskimos] could have taught them how to hunt
whales and some kinds of seals. The Greenland Vikings stuck to
their dislike of fish while starving to death. The climate got
colder as well, but the Greenland Vikings could have survived if
they had been willing to give up their old time religion and values.
The Greenland Vikings killed the Inuits [Eskimos] they met when
they should have married into Inuit [Eskimo] society to get the
benefit of the successful Arctic lifestyle and culture of the Inuits
[Eskimos].
The inhabitants of Easter Island destroyed their environment and
caused their civilization to collapse to make more of their statue
gods.
If the Americans continue to choose religion and coal burning
over science and nuclear power, the civilization you are now part
of will collapse when global warming causes the drought in
Atlanta, Georgia, California, Australia, Greece, Turkey, the Sahel,
China and other places to grow to the point that agriculture
collapses.
Religionists will, of course, resist any change in values
regardless of the fact that a change in values is necessary for
survival. This is an issue of the preachers' income. In the end,
the preachers may be eaten, but it is too late by that time.
[Cannibalism has been proven in the case of the fall of Anasazi
civilization in Chaco Canyon. The Anasazi hunted their
neighbors at the end.]

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"Petty" is the wrong word. "Moron" is the wrong word. Try
"psychopath" or "schizophrenic" or "temporal lobe patient" or
every word you can think of as a synonym for crazy.

If GWB can hallucinate foreign policy, so can Huckabee.
If you like pointless wars like Viet Nam and Iraq, you love
G.W. Bush and you will really love Huckabee. The
religious extremists, and maybe Huckabee, want to cause
Armageddon so that "rapture" will happen soon.
Armageddon = NUCLEAR World War 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Russians still have 10,000 nukes left!

Remember: "GWB claims personal divine council" found
on page 409 of the book: "Dominance by Design" by
Michael Adas 2006 who references: Tariq Ali "The Clash
of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads, and Modernity"
London: Verso, 2002
Reference: "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins,
2006: "George Walker Bush says "God" told him to invade
Iraq."
Reference: "The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice"
Roger A. MacKinnon, M.D., Robert Michels, M.D.
W. B. Saunders Co. 1971
Reference: "The Origin of Consciousness in the
Breakdown of the Bi-Cameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes
Professor, Harvard University 1976
George Walker Bush says "God" told him to be president.
Translation: George Walker Bush had an hallucination of a
god telling him to be president. Having an hallucination
qualifies George Walker Bush for a clinical diagnosis of
Schizophrenia. George Walker Bush says "God" told him
to invade Iraq. Translation: George Walker Bush had an
hallucination of a god telling him to invade Iraq. George
Walker Bush is a chronic schizophrenic. We are at war in
Iraq because the president is mentally ill.

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