Although I’m not religious about anything which, BTW,includes religion,I am becoming increasingly disgusted with the zealots around the world and here. FYI-Atheists do not care about whatever it is that religious idiots/fools believe.Get a grip on life people. When you’re in a bad situation, get out of it or succumb to it. Stop the “Please GOD help me” B.S. This “Pat Robertson Law School” crap is for me, and should be for ANY truly thoughtful person,seen for what it really is, the biggest problem our country faces.That is, Idiotic religious fanatics.
I used to believe, somewhat in jest, that if you wanted to “fix” the system, we need to do two things. First, KILL all of the lawyers.  And, second, remind the accountants of what happenned to the lawyers.
Then, as I matured, it became...give all of the southern states a “half” of a vote. When they “prove” their ability to “deserve"a full vote, then they deserve a “full” say in our country’s future.
But now, as I’ve gotten older(much), I think we need our military. I hear calls for impeachment. I know that it might cause damage to do so. I “lived” through Nixon/Vietnam/Watergate/"I’m not a crook”.If history has taught us anything it’s that, without the military behind it, all gov’t fail. They are the “stick/bat” that truly “controls” through it’s power. We don’t need to attempt the needed changes through the “process/system” that currently exists. The “Power Elite” literally “OWNS” the system. Our only hope is those patriots that are willing to use the “power” that they’ve been intrusted with to, truly, DEFEND our country. Not against the evils fabricated by the powers that exist but the “evils” that control our country. If we can’t make change occur through our electoral process (and I feel a kind of growing feeling of helplessness that leads to despair/apathy), we have NO future as a true “beacon of democracy” in our world’s history.
If OUR military who are, for the most part, our statement to true democratic gov’t and the ideals set forth to be that, gets involved.....Who knows? Perhaps the “rich” are not the “brave”. I betcha they don’t have the stomach for a “fair” fight. Money buys a lot, but does that include patriotism?  Nationalism? Love of country and everything a truly democratic system represents? I invite comments. But only from thinking people. And, any southerner/bible-toting idiot need not respond. What you need to do is to put your emphasis on “proper” education and GUN CONTROL.  YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS ASS...s! Just keep killing your own, you throwbacks !! Virginia Tech.??
Just keep shooting each other and, hopefully, now that tobacco has an end in sight, you can illegally immigrate to Mexico. Their “skills” are more attractive to this country than yours, and less destructive. They still can’t vote here.BTW, you southerners are a disgrace. You got your asses kicked in the slavery war and you still can’t accept you lost, BIG TIME!!

Bill,

You are right on once again!

Thanks for showing me that I too, am Swiss.

Richard

The top positions in some ancient Chinese dynasties were filled by those who scored highest on what amounted to competitive civil service exams.  Perhaps our future presidents could revive such a practice that puts the emphasis on competence rather than idealism or political connections.

president shit for brains, nice.  president shit for brains and psycho dick what a pair,& their friends.  and then there’s the rest of us.  just passing through no doubt.  i enjoyed this show.  it reassures me that there is freedom in a capitalist country.  i still want single payer medical dental mental insurance, medicare for all, and free education, preschool through graduate college. but quality education. skip the religion.

Unqualified folks in government?  I’m shocked I tell you!  This must have happened during GWB’s presidency.

Nope, what did Bill Clinton have for experiance to become president....a life time of government jobs?

What about John Kennedy?  one Senate term where he was absent almost half the time? How about Gerald Ford who sat in the house for almost 30 years without ever once introducing a bill? Or Jimmy Carter the cracker-barrel governor of Georgia,

Eisenhower, Johnson, Reagan and Bush sr had the experience although even here their presidencies were not always notable.

There’s a perfect word for these intellectually empty folks. It was the cross between “Bozo” and “Rube”, and H.L. Mencken wielded it like a Toledo steel sword:

The Boob.  Not a female breast, which mis-appropriated the term “boobs” in the ‘60’s, but The Boob. The dummies from whom Monica Goodling sprang, aka, The Boob-oisie.

The Rush Limbaugh Ditto-heads--Mencken’s Booboisie.  Imagine an audience for Rush made up of nothing but Elmer Fudds.

The boob who “would rather drink a beer with Dubya” than use his head for something other than a ball-cap hanger.

But, to further paraphrase Mencken: The Boob is being de-boobed.  But sooner or later even Elmer Fudd figgers out that he’s now in one hell of a fix.

Problems start because the universe has entropy and it takes more thought and energy to make things better than it takes to make them worse.

Problems get solved because people put in that thought and energy. When people fail to do so, the problems get worse.

To the extent that this president has consistently believed in easy solutions that involved sacrifice only by those he didn’t need to deal with, yes, he is responsible for things getting worse.

Jonnan

Maher got it right again.

Robertson’s law school is ‘higher’ education for the illiterate ‘graduates’ of Bush’s ‘No Child Left Behind’ program.

You are familiar with the ‘Left Behind’ series? Where the Good-God folks ascend to heaven by climbing the pyramid of corpses of the Satan-Heathens caused by the Christian-Crusaders who decimate the Christ-Killing occupiers of the Holy-Lands?

Well, Law-Giving Pat’s school is where the lawyers who will justify this slaughter get their training. We have obtained a copy of the Regent’s final exam, and preparation for the passing of the Bible-Bar exam. It’s in multiple-choice format, but in order to give the ‘graduate attorneys’ a fighting chance of passing, the ‘multiple’ choices are limited to two: ‘Yes’, and ‘No’.

Sample questions include: ‘When Moses passed down the tablets, were they the Word of God?’, ‘When you’re romping in a Garden with a naked member of the opposite sex, is that a good time to take an apple break?’.

‘Lawyer Goodling’, number three in command of the US DOJ at the tender age of thirty-three (she would have made it there younger, but she kept failing and retaking her final exam/bible bar test, and didn’t graduate until this past year) despite never having prosecuted a case, at least has a modicum of awareness unusual in a Robertson Law School ‘graduate’.

She can count beyond ‘two’, all the way to ‘five’, the number of the amendment she is hiding behind in order to avoid telling the truth.