Proselytizing in Paris beats hell out of killing those Vietnamese. That’s best left to the little people who couldn’t duck the draft.

Le Meet est un grand garçon maintenant et il sait maintenant ce qui arrive aux bons gars. Vis qui.

Oh please, his “mission” was in the Aquitaine and Provence. What fucking sacrifice is that? I’m sure it was wasted on his non-smoking, non-drinking god-bothering ass but, c’mon, it’s not like it was tough duty.

Missionary Man. Excellent call. Great tune.
May I recommend the E. C. Scott version.

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Now, I don’t think I am against the illegal brown people, because I have several in my employ.

mormonmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/delbert_stapley.pdf

Proselytizing is not serving. That’s what the Peace Corps does.

Shit. For Clinton it was “dodged the draft”. For Kerry it was “speaks French”. For Obama it was “went to a scary church”. The GOP has gone and combined all three of those in one candidate.

Walter Frederick Morrison was significantly more revered, by many more people, than Jos. Smith. Let’s don’t be h8′en on Frisbeeology!

Here’s what I’d like to see happen to Mitt Romney. His dog straps him to the roof of an SUV for a cross country road trip.

Dogs hate Romney.

So do real human beings.

Oh, pardonnez-moi! How did the inferior backwater of Paris, France ever survive without Mitt Romney’s benevolent guidance?

Ah yes, missionaries in Paris, coming to save and enlighten the savages who previously had only local witch doctors with names like “Pascal” or “Augustine” rather than the more sophisticated varieties of American religious thought:

Chirac recounts that the American leader …told him: “Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East … The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled … Chirac says he was boggled by Bush’s call and “wondered how someone could be so superficial and fanatical in their beliefs.”… his staff asked Thomas Romer, a theologian at the University of Lausanne… Dr. Romer explained that the Old Testament book of Ezekiel contains two chapters … in which God rages against Gog and Magog, sinister and mysterious forces menacing Israel.

Ooh, wait, I have to do me some research. I am personally acquainted with a young Mormon science nerd (yes, she is navigating the contradictions) and she informed me some months ago, in a non-Romney context, that the LDS presence is limited in France because French law asserts that any and all places – as in physical addresses, plants, offices, or temples – must be accessible to French authorities at any time, and that because LDS tenets demand that the most sacred of places (LDS temples) be free of even the possibility of government interference, France is not a super-spectacular jewel in the LDS international crown. So assuming my young friend is correct, Mitt mattered not over there. Possibly a mission in Vietnam would have been more blessed.

France doesn’t believe in the “quiet rooms” doctrine, clearly, or la doctrine de la cornet du silence.

So, when I see pairs of young males in white shirts & ties with crewcuts I’m supposed to think they are serving my neighborhood rather than annoying the hell out of me and my neighbors?

It’s “Frisbeetarianism”, Heretic.

The LDS have had their schisms too… splitter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE

I FOLLOW THE ONE AND TRUE DOG, YOU APOSTATE!

I wish I could sign but I have a postal code not a zip code. :(

Best of luck, America, and I hope you defeat this crap.

I suppose the liberty loving republiteabags totally support the censorship though, right?

A couple of eighteen-year-olds want to enlighten me about the workings of the universe. I’m afraid I haven’t always reacted well to their offer.

Great War Primary Documents Archive is blacked out now. http://www.gwpda.org

To be fair, it may have been a special hell for a Mormon in France. Wine, Wine, everywhere, but none to drink.

Then again, I’m sure the king of the flip-flop rationlized washing down his brie with a bottle or two of Chateau Mouton-Rothschild ’45. You know, to understand the common people and all.

Being assigned to France is rough going, especially during “crush” season…what with the short-sleeved white shirt and tie, and all…

I was already in a foul mood about something-or-other the last time two of them showed up at my door, I suspect they’re still in therapy…

Mittens “claims” that his tax rate is “somewhere around 15%.” Does anyone want to bet that – like all the other giant corporate “persons” out there – Willard’s tax rate is more likely 0%??? And/or perhaps Willard, as a .0001%er, somehow manages to obtain “tax incentives” from us slovenly serf 99%ers just so that we can have the “pleasure” of having Mitt be in our faces all of the time?

Hard out here for an LDS pimp(le)…

Thanks for the censorship example & link. SOPA is one that needs not just to be avoided (which is looking fairly good) but slammed down way deep into the ground. Garlic necklaces, silver bullets, wooden stakes, what ever it takes.

Bummer.No zip code = no can read Romney.The commentariat,however, gave me the gist. France “service” again, huh? Didn’t Mormons get out of the draft as religious Conscientious Objectors, anyway? Look, I don’t like this Romneybot one iota but it was a lousy war and, if we can applaud Bill Clinton for getting out of it, why can’t we just shrug and say Meh about Mitt’s non-service? I mean, surely only fellow weasels/wingnuts (but I am otiose here)should attack him on those specific grounds.Or am I, a mere furriner, missing something?

The problem is not using whatever means necessary to avoid service in the Vietnam War. As you note, there were many who did this (self included).

The problem is folks who used any means necessary to avoid service in Vietnam (and subsequent) War(s) but are all gung-ho to send anyone and everyone else off to ‘adventures’ in foreign lands.

And Mitt, just like Newt, and Dick Cheney and many of the other Rs, are all sorts of chicken hawk where war is great as long as they don’t have to fight.

Better he should e dragged through the waste from several dog shelters for twelve hours. He might enjoy the wind in his face or something.

Yes, you are missing something. Namely, that the GOP has been tarring every Democrat who got out of the Vietnam meatgrinder as a “draft-dodger” for the past 20 years…even to the extent that they attacked the service of a Democrat who was decorated for his service in Vietnam as being a “phony” while building up a wastrel who avoided service by drinking and coke-snorting his way through the National Guard…and who even then, failed to fulfill his duties. They compared a Democrat who lost an arm and both legs in Vietnam to Osama bin Laden to win office for another guy who never served. And so on and so forth. Fuck these hypocrites – if they didn’t want to answer for having sat out their “obligation” to country, they should have never attacked anyone else for doing the same and they sure as hell should have paid for attacking those who, unlike them, actually showed up when called for duty.

Nothing personal against you, understand…someone who isn’t living here and hasn’t witnessed these shit-weasels firsthand can’t be expected to know all this.

When the mezzuzah on the door jamb didn’t stop them, answering the door with a red-leg tarantula sitting on top of my head did. Baddest ass yarmulke evar!!!
Works for JWs, too.

Let’s not forget how they treated George McGovern …. Which, if Wiki weren’t blacked out righteously, I’d detail his various WWII battlefield commendations, awards and service.

I signed Google’s petition, and wrote individually to my senator and my rep. That shit needs to stop.

Maybe it’s just me, but I miss JonJon Romney… where’d he go?

Ah,the Romneys. From noblesse oblige to droit du seigneur in one generation. Can primae noctis be far behind?

Most memorable incident with LDS missionaries occurred when I was at UNC. I heard the knock on the door, looked out and saw the young men wearing telltale ties in 90 degree heat in September. Since I had an organic chem exam the next day, I asked my roommate to get it. I didn’t realize at the time that she and her BF were otherwise occupied.

A few minutes later, I heard the two of them in hysterics. They had both answered the door. She was wearing a leopard print bustier, and a black garter belt with fishnets, thigh-high 4″ heeled boots and a black leather dog collar with silver studs. He was wearing a pair of leather chaps, and a Greek fisherman’s cap, and holding onto a leash that was attached to her dog collar.

The LDS missionaries never knocked on our door again, but they always parked their bikes on our porch when they made their rounds….

Physical or Mental? Therapy, that is.
Mental lasts longer and is much harder to deal with.
Besides, the marks are not as obvious.

TBogg:

Slightly OT: Heard this morning on MSM that “Mittens” may not have won IA; that Santorum won by 34 votes–although they’ll never be sure b/c some of the precincts’ records have been destroyed already. Officially they are calling it a tie between Santorum and Romney.

Any news as to whether this means the Rethug Puppetmasters are unofficially distancing themselves from Romney–regardless of how much money he throws at this election?

But they’re refusing to give lil Ricky the win! Sounds like Mittrification to me.

“Santorum Edges Ahead of Romney in Iowa”

In addition to edging ahead in a race that was finished practically last year, Rick Santorum claimed that he was now close to reversing The Enlightenment, which he called “a newfangled idea that good God-fearing people will never accept”.

Apparently Rick is angry that Mittens won’t call him to congratulate him, but somehow the weighty import of a phone call saying “Hi, I just wanted to commend you on their having found a couple dozen votes which reverses my “win” by eight votes, so congratulations!” seems less than obvious.

Not that Mitt didn’t act like it was a real win of course when it was the other way, but overall, meh.

I totally agree, I was just reacting to the idea that the “Rethug Puppetmasters” are backing away from Mitt — if anything, this makes it seem they’re doubling down on support for Willard.

I think you’re probably right.

Personally, I just can’t see the kingmakers like Koch et al. doubling down on Romney. Romney may be a lot like them, but that’s also part of the problem: While Mittens loves money as much as the rest, unlike Santorum, Gingrich, and Paul, Romney isn’t one campaign loss, one bad investment, one shopping spree at Tiffany’s, or one federal indictment–with full compliment of lawyers–away from the edge of bankruptcy. He’s not as easily influenced as the other three.

I take your point … but they read polls, and none of the others has a hope, and the longer they drag this thing out the more of Romney’s bluish blood will be shed. Pretty please let Newt win SC!

Thank you, Jenn et al. Yes, I have been stupid in overlooking all that backstory. I do remember the purple heart band-aids.And chickenhawks are a despicable bunch of people.Snark away.

Many Southerners don’t trust Carpetbagging Yankees like Santorum, so Newt could win SC. But I’m sorta looking forward to the battle between the “Two Infidels” for the hearts and minds of the god-fearing X-ian American people, this fall.