And Chomsky! flies his hypocritical colours at full mast in those comments. So the Spanish anti-fascists/anarchists (that he loves so dearly) were fighting the good fight but Antifa and Redneck Revolt are mere tools of the Neo-Nazis? The first time the US left has displayed some chutzpah in years and he's spouting slander!

Those comments are so woefully off that I wonder if he's just been massively taken out of context or something.

The simple point is that you are not superior. You have made a lifestyle choice because you wanted to. You have no solid scientific evidence that food animals are fully sentient. Both dogs and pigs routinely fail self-awareness tests, they may be intelligent and able to learn, but they ARE NOT PEOPLE. Vegans want us to believe that eating a pig is tantamount to eating a 3 year old baby, and simply isn't. You are certainly welcome to your opinion on the subject, but that is all.

Now to address your issue with how people treat vegans. I know that I have never went out of my way to lambaste a vegan for choosing to be vegan. I will, and have, severely castigate vegans who start telling me that they are superior to other people because they choose to not eat meat. How can you not see that having the attitude that you are better than someone else because of your choices is not the same manner of thinking that leads to church people condemning people for not following their ethos?

So, let me ask you, how many people have given you shit for being vegan out of the blue? For instance, you were minding your own business and eating a salad, then a person jumped in your face and said "How dare you eat that salad next to me?" I'm willing to bet you might have gotten some gentle ribbing if you went to a friend's barbecue and asked for a vegan option, but I doubt anyone got in your face about it. On the other hand, I have absolutely had more than one vegan get in my face and tell me that I am a murderer and a beast because I ate a hamburger at a desk across from them or sat down at a table with some brisket without making sure it wasn't a 'meat-free' zone.

The sheer chutzpah that most vegans have towards non-vegans is what makes them a target for ridicule. I get it, you think you are better than us, but we wouldn't care if you didn't feel the need to trot it out every five seconds.

It's not a rational discussion just because two people are putting words in order. Chopra is just babbling, and Dawkins is letting him because every badly used 'metaphor' is another inch of rope Chopra is hanging himself with.

Edit: IS HE FUCKING KIDDING US? The "Quantum physics aficionados" have "hijacked" his concept of quantum healing!? Deepak Chutzpah...

Misinformation

1. The numbers are accurate. You may not like them, but that doesn't change reality. Wiki for accuracy? Really? Regardless, I didn't say Bush didn't rack up a lot of debt. He did, and folks like me have always derided Bush as a wrong-headed spendthrift trying to buy votes.

2. We had a good deal. It was called Cut, Cap and Balance. Obama refused to even look at it - and then has the chutzpah to whine to the nation about compromise.

3. Social Security - like all Federal Programs - keeps growing and growing when it should be reduced. It was originally a simple program for a very limited number of persons who were in dire need but is now a sprawling monster. The demography is irrelevant. What is relevant is the fact that SS's projected budgets are unsustainable and must by necessity be decreased rather than grow over 8% YOY.

It great courage to admit socialism has failed. It takes humility to admit that socialism has gone beyond what is sane, rational, or even POSSIBLE. But Thatcher's "eventually you run out of other people's money" day or reckoning has arrived. First Russia failed and collapsed. Now its Britain, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal... The list of failed Euro socialist systems that have bled their capitalist engines dry with impossible promises does nothing but grow ever longer.

And sadly, the US is right there with them. Riots in Wisconsin over simple, commmon-sense limits to unions... Riots and violence in Pittsburg... Riots and violence in Detroit, Akron, and many other places... The US only has once choice if it wants to avoid becoming Britain. That choice is to make the hard, necessary cuts to our socialist programs right now before they expand even further and cause even greater damage to society.

A simple freeze now, a few common sense cuts, basic tax code reform, and a balanced budget ammendment that Congress cannot just end-run-around and America is back on track. If we follow Obama's (and yes - Bush's) plan of ignoring reality while increasing the socialist network on pure debt spending and tax increases then the country will collapse and balkanize. It would be inevitable. But who knows? Maybe that's what Obama and neolibs like him really want. They sure are going about it in earnest.

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I've never seen Chutzpah spelled out before. Why would someone spell this out for her and not explain how it's pronounced?

It's pronounced "hutz-pah"

>> ^robbersdog49:

This is obviously a word that gets a lot more use in the US than the UK. I would have pronounced it exactly as she did, I've never heard it only seen in written down. How should it be said?

On a semi-related ranting lunatic note, http://videosift.com/video/How-a-Christian-Wisconsian-pronounces-Chutzpah

>> ^EMPIRE:

And just when I thought Sarah Palin was as bad it gets, here comes this fine example of american politics.

Palin is dumb and crazy. This one is plain crazy.

In case I'm not the only one not fluent in borrowed Yiddish words: Chutzpah.

My favourite part:

"The cognate of chutzpah in Arabic, ḥaṣāfah (حصافة), does not mean "impudence" or "cheekiness" or anything similar, but rather "sound judgment."" (The idea of a fundie Christian teabag-candidate accusing socialist muslim califate Obama of "sound judgement" made me giggle)

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Wonkette is even funnier:

Michele Bachmann went on Fox News for the third time this week to “not talk about her gay husband” and instead give her predictably ludicrous viewpoint that nothing will happen to the U.S. credit rating in a default because “we have money to pay it” in whatever way she thinks one pays for good credit ratings without paying off debt. Then she lectures the president for having a lot of “choot-spa,” because Michele has only ever heard of Jews, she has never actually heard Jews. Oh wait, and did she get the meaning wrong, too?

“The president doesn’t want to have to be confronted with priorities in spending, because he has a lot of chutzpah.” We are not at all actual Yiddish experts, but Google search seems to suggest that “chutzpah” is not used to describe someone who has giant avoidance issues. Rather, it usually means the opposite in either its negative or positive connotations. Oh well, everything else about Michele and Marcus “tiny dancer” Bachmann live in Opposite Land too.

>> ^Samaelsmith:

My main point wasn't the territorial waters issue. That just makes what they did somewhat worse than if it was within their jurisdiction. What I think is ridiculous is that they were the aggressors, storming the boat with guns drawn, and then have the chutzpah to claim self defense.

Ok. After seein bleedmegood's video, I take back the phrase "guns drawn" but I still think they instigated it and could have handled it better. Both sides behaved badly.