Comments on: Patriots II: The Quickening http://thepoorman.net/2008/07/30/patriots-ii-the-quickening/ leading the Democratic Lynch Mob since 2010 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:05:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: We All Wank On « The Poor Man Institute http://thepoorman.net/2008/07/30/patriots-ii-the-quickening/#comment-17504 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:06:48 +0000 http://thepmi.wordpress.com/?p=471#comment-17504 [...] I will “bring on” the winner of Chickenhawk of the Year.  Heh heh heh.  It’s Orson Scott Card: How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one [...]

]]> By: Will http://thepoorman.net/2008/07/30/patriots-ii-the-quickening/#comment-16726 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:12:47 +0000 http://thepmi.wordpress.com/?p=471#comment-16726 His books are shit too. Ender’s Game was the most overrated sci-fi book I’ve read in at least a decade. First forty pages were interesting, the rest were garbage.

]]> By: Chickenhawk of the Year, 2008 « The Poor Man Institute http://thepoorman.net/2008/07/30/patriots-ii-the-quickening/#comment-16105 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:19:57 +0000 http://thepmi.wordpress.com/?p=471#comment-16105 [...] Orsen Scott Card, “If gays get married, I’m resuming the Civil War“ [...]

]]> By: VC-Day: Victory over Christmas « THE TOOT http://thepoorman.net/2008/07/30/patriots-ii-the-quickening/#comment-15987 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:31:45 +0000 http://thepmi.wordpress.com/?p=471#comment-15987 [...] Orsen Scott Card, “Time for a new Civil War!“ [...]

]]> By: atheist http://thepoorman.net/2008/07/30/patriots-ii-the-quickening/#comment-9517 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:39:43 +0000 http://thepmi.wordpress.com/?p=471#comment-9517 sorry, s/b “you start with gay marriage”

]]> By: atheist http://thepoorman.net/2008/07/30/patriots-ii-the-quickening/#comment-9516 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:39:12 +0000 http://thepmi.wordpress.com/?p=471#comment-9516 How the heck does he get from gays getting married, to:

If America becomes a place where our children are taken from us by law and forced to attend schools where they are taught that cohabitation is as good as marriage, that motherhood doesn’t require a husband or father,

You start with gay married, and end up with a fricking Maoist cultural revolution. Is that just amazingly paranoid, or is it really a dishonest line of argumentation? Or what?

]]> By: GeoX http://thepoorman.net/2008/07/30/patriots-ii-the-quickening/#comment-9503 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:38:08 +0000 http://thepmi.wordpress.com/?p=471#comment-9503 Please give him credit for “how appropriate. You fight like a cow,” if nothing else.

]]> By: Dayv http://thepoorman.net/2008/07/30/patriots-ii-the-quickening/#comment-9474 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:48:01 +0000 http://thepmi.wordpress.com/?p=471#comment-9474 Orson Scott Card Has Always Been an Asshat

]]> By: GeoX http://thepoorman.net/2008/07/30/patriots-ii-the-quickening/#comment-9471 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:46:43 +0000 http://thepmi.wordpress.com/?p=471#comment-9471 …also, I would note that in the Memory of Earth series, there’s a pretty unambiguous condemnation of the kind of homophobic violence of which Card seems so enamored these days. Go figure.

]]> By: GeoX http://thepoorman.net/2008/07/30/patriots-ii-the-quickening/#comment-9470 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:45:38 +0000 http://thepmi.wordpress.com/?p=471#comment-9470 Not ashamed to admit it: I read the Memory of Earth book in high school–having no idea they were supposed to be some sort of crazy Mormon allegory–and loved the shit out of them. They were epic. Certainly better than the actual Book of Mormon, even if that IS the definition of damning with faint praise. And the first few Alvin Maker books were pretty boss. What can I say? But I think–and I’m not being facetious here–that at some point he suffered some sort of debilitating brain aneurysm, leading him to write stuff like this, and that Turner-Diaries-as-written-by-a-hypercaffeinated-twelve-year-old Empire book that we were all mocking when it came out.

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