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Posted on October 1 at 8:46 a.m.
Paul Newman was not turned down for military service in World War II!
Paul Newman was a US Navy veteran of World War II.
Paul Newman entered the US Navy aviator program but was disqualified to be a pilot due to his color blindness.
Paul Newman then trained as a US Navy aircraft radio operator and served in the South Pacific.
This information was mentioned in the New York Times obituary, as well as many other sources.
Bonnie Williams, head of the editorial staff of the AIM was informed of the error by email yesterday morning.
A correction could, and should, have appeared in Wednesday's paper.
To knowingly let stand an egregious error as this leads me to believe that the AIM, and its editorial staff, is lazy, arrogant, intellectually dishonest and disrespectful of veterans.
On The eyes have it: Newman never just ‘another pretty face’
Posted on September 22 at 9:04 a.m.
Oh my, another letter exposing the god delusion. Why does the AIM give space to these people? Oh my, martyred again for my faith.
Boo hoo hoo.
I've never seen a newspaper bend over backwards as far as the AIM does in promoting a particular delusion. Every week there's letters telling us about the good news of the gospel, the truth of the christian religion, how god/jesus/holy spirit are gonna make things alright, and see to it that infidels burn in hell forever.
You get a section every week devoted to your insanity!
And then you whine when an occasional letter to the editor pokes thru your thin skin.
Bashing people? You "religious" folk are the supreme bashers of all time.
You just don't like it when someone pushes back.
Posted on September 3 at 5:56 p.m.
No, cwilson4, in Anderson County someone with your first initial and last name is "leading our nation (or at least your small corner of it) down the final path of destruction." Well probably not final, but destructive, none the less.
Notice, readers, how scgirl, cwilson4 and clemson-girl are unwilling or unable to answer the questions posed.
They conveniently skip over them.
What good is prayer? If god controls all things, then the outcome of an event is already decided.
When granny gets sick, and you all pray, and she gets well, you say that 'god answered your prayers.'
If she dies, it was 'god's will'
You give god an excuse for everything.
Can you bargain with god by prayer? Can you change god's mind? Can your prayers alter the outcome of an event?
If so, then that either makes you more powerful than god, or makes god out to be just a huckster, a dealer, a supernatural being who haggles with people for their lives.
Do the prayers of those who tithe get answered before the prayers of those who can't or won't tithe?
Do you tithe out of fear of losing your home, job, car, boat and/or other toys?
That fear is making your mega-church pastor a wealthy man, laughing at you all the way to the bank.
A tornado roars through a town, kills 5 or 10 or 20 people. Nobody can interview them, cuz their dead.
Ah but it's too easy to find some 'believer' who'll stand there with a straight face and say, 'I sure am blessed that god watched over me tonight.'
What about the other folks out there - the 5 or 10 or 20 who died? Why wasn't god watching over them?
Faith is believing what you know ain't so. Mark Twain-www.ffrf.org
If prayer worked, there wouldn't be blind people, deaf people, crippled people. There'd be no need for hospitals.
Nothing fails like prayer.
And my heart, well, it's normal, and my mind belongs to me, not some Invisible Cloud Being called god, satan, or the boogie man. I don't talk to any supernatural being, and I don't hear voices from any, either.
Posted on September 3 at 8:11 a.m.
Wouldn't it have more effect if he did it every time? Why does he have most people die when they fall great distances, and only spare a very few? Wouldn't the point be better made if he defied the laws of physics and physiology and spared everyone who crashed in airplanes and balloons?
Wouldn't that really show the non-believers?
And when the eyes of the world were on Florida, and Terry Schiavo, why didn't god heal her? That would have really been something, wouldn't it. I mean, all those people praying for her and saying god was going to help her, and, well, it sure looked like god got too busy doing something else, since Terry never had a return to normal brain function.
Maybe god's attention was diverted by a baseball player coming to bat, and asking god for a hit, and god payed more attention to that ball player than to Terry Schiavo.
Why won't god give amputees new limbs? He can do that, can't he? Why does he chose not to?
But vanhoose, yours is a different point than what scgirl0410 was making.
She's pretty sure god dropped the balloon because the pilot had done something to make god mad, and god needed to give him a little slap up side the head for correction. Looks like god got a little carried away, what with Mr. Walz suffering a broken leg and broken pelvis.
God the leg breaker. Sounds like god would make a good enforcer for the Mob.
So when god drops an airliner out of the sky, or wrecks a train, and spares a few from death, we're to believe that he's teaching someone a lesson?
Like when he flooded the earth, sparing only Noah and his relatives, and some animals. Except, according to your holy book, god killed everyone else on earth - men, women and innocent children - it didn't matter to god. If they weren't kin to Noah, god drowned them. He indiscriminately killed the good and the bad.
This is a loving god?
Posted on September 2 at 2:43 p.m.
Why don't you answer my questions, scgirl0410, instead of quoting from a collection of stories and mythology so thoroughly distorted and discredited over a couple of thousand years that today it has little to do with reality.
Your next to the last sentence shows the shallowness of your faith.
You're just being safe, following the supernatural mythology passed on to you by your ancestors. You might as well believe in the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, too.
They're all as real and effective as your god.
Posted on September 1 at 9:12 p.m.
So, scgirl0410, what terrible thing do you think Chuck Walz did to deserve being dropped a couple of thousand feet.
Do you think he is a thief? A liar? An adulterer, perhaps? Maybe he missed church last Sunday.
So personal misfortune is god's way of saying that someone has pissed them off?
Do you know who Caylee Anthony is, or was? She was a 2 year old girl who, it appears, has been murdered by her mother.
Now scgirl0410, tell me. What can a 2 year old girl do that would upset god so much that he would let her mother murder her?
Can you imagine anything that a child that age could do that would deserve that sort of wrath from god?
This god of yours isn't anything I'd want any part of. Sounds like a mean bastard to me.
Posted on September 1 at 5:07 p.m.
If god is so great and everything, why did god cause the balloon to go down?
Does god get a laugh scaring the s--t out of people?
Posted on August 2 at 12:48 p.m.
I think this demonstrates how to make a killing in real estate during these tough times.
Start a business that distresses the locals, then offer to sell it to the guvmint for twice what's its worth, and laugh all the way to the bank.
The jokes on the taxpayers of Lavonia. Your city leaders will be lucky to get half your money back on the property. They'll cover the rest with your tax dollars.
Someday, somewhere, government leaders will start to act like they're spending their own money, instead of freely throwing your money around like there was plenty where that came from.
Posted on July 27 at 9:57 a.m.
Will the AIM now identify all persons arrested as "suspected illegal immigrant", "suspected citizen","reputed naturalized citizen" or other qualifiers?
Show me your papers, please!
On Suspected illegal immigrant charged with murder after Walhalla death
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Posted on November 10 at 11:55 a.m.
Let's see. The most Republican area in the United States is experiencing the worst drought in the United States.
Maybe God's had enough of Republicans.
Be sure to pray harder, and increase that tithe. Wouldn't want the old pastor to suffer a financial drought in these hard times.
On Some say water woes now in God’s hands; 300 days of water use left in Hartwell Lake