Sentences with phrase «lame attempt of»

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Read up on basic evolutionary theory to understand your «blob» questions (though you did a straw man perversion of the concept in a lame attempt to discredit it without actually getting an answer).

This type of questioning is nothing more than a lame attempt at diversion.

After a pretty lame attempt to explain to him how doubt has actually enriched my faith over the years, how walking with a limp has made me more dependent on the steady shoulder of my heavenly Father, and how I don't really want to be fixed if being fixed means accepting without question or concern the notion that God creates the majority of the human population for hell with no hope for salvation, I decided just to turn the response over to you guys instead.

The free will argument is a lame tactic used by apologists in an attempt to address the problem of evil.

Your lame attempts to make it work, simply show you have no idea of how logic works... It is not a two way street.

I am an atheist... If this is the worst, I'll take it... What I will not take is the rest, the constant interference of religion in everyday lives, the less and less clear separation between Church and State, the bigoted right - wingers who look down on us (us who think that we have escaped the greatest delusion of all, us who believe that religion is a way to escape individual neurosis by adhering to a social neurosis...), the attempts at proselytism, the anti-Darwinian «oh - so - lame» criticism..

Glenn Beck, you are really whacked and your attempt to drag a huge swath of lame brains into oblivion with you shall prove fatal!

The analogy I used when I was startled by a similarly lame attempt at proof by an otherwise intelligent fellow grad student is that using the bible to prove the resurrection is like using the Old Irish tales I had been studying then to prove the superhuman powers of Irish folk hero Cu Chulainn.

Theist evolution and intelligent design are pretty lame attempts to keep our man made gods in the equation, long past time to be rid of all of them.

Well, since you're too stupid to figure out that I was originally referring to Laughing's inexplicable meltdown, I'll just ignore your latest lame attempts at barbed wit as I do most of your posts.

For a believer to try and say that their deity exists outside of spacetime as a lame attempt to deny it had to have a beginning is stupid, if you want say that matter had to have a maker then the maker had to have a maker and so on.

And, unlike the lame Legends of the Hidden Temple TV movie, the network seems like it is attempting to capture the original creative spirit of the series: They're bringing back show creator Jay Murray to executive produce and direct the one - hour movie which will «bring back all of the beloved characters in Rocko's fictional city of O - Town,» according to Entertainment Weekly.

So sick & tired of these lame attempts by cnn to render islam as relevant.

The Stoke goal started with a lame attempt at intervention by Xhaka which totally failed, then Ozil trotted half - heartedly after the Stoke player only to give up without even so much as an attempt at a tackle, then Mustafi gave the Stoke player the inside of the box whilst he should have forced him outside only then did Monreal fail as last stop.

Jokes aside, and the above was one of our lame attempts at comedy — I guess I should leave that to Mick himself.

Even when Paul does gets air time, most of the questions are biased attempts to smear his positions or lame repeats of already debunked assertions.

Assuming the likely, that Helsmoortel will win another, and final, two - year term next month, will Helsmoortel attempt any grand initiatives, especially on the economic front, to cement his legacy, or will he essentially act the role of a lame - duck?

His goal is to denigrate everything that happens in NYS in a lame attempt to have us allow our «captains of industry» to do whatever they want to whomever they want — economically, environmentally and socially.

Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's State of the State address this week is being seen by Republicans as an attempt by the lame duck governor to ensure his party retains control of Connecticut this November.

Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions urged his Senate colleagues Thursday to block a lame - duck attempt to pass the DREAM Act, warning that new versions of the immigration bill haven't received proper scrutiny.

Some of you may think that it's lame attempt to make being called a «BITCH» cool but I think it's pretty creative and motivating.

Despite lame attempts at entertainment, the game feels more like work than anything else... If you want topless women and extreme sports together, you'd be better off buying a copy of Playboy and alternating reading it with runs of «Tony Hawk.»

However, since an ill - fated attempt to borrow from their betters — that lame remake of Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid — they lapsed into a nearly five - year silence.

Endless fast cuts complete with whooshy sound effects, thumping techno bass lines, ugly on - screen graphics, garish colour filters, and * cringe * a hero who talks directly to camera (Michael Caine is STILL the only actor to EVER get away with that...) Every tacky, irritating and superficial MTV affectation is on display here, in an unbelievably lame attempt to make an american rip - off of a Guy Ritchie heist movie.

They build it up with all kinds of things and then... the only thing that crashes is the lame attempt to make the show entertaining.

It's unfortunate, however, that some pacing problems, lame attempts at humor and tech - speak dialogue bog down the flow of this otherwise - engaging release.

This movie is an obvious lame attempt to make FIFA look presentable in the eyes of many and the bad quality of the movie shows.

Burgundy survives that lame suicide attempt, of course, prompted by his depression at having lost his big New York job, even as his co-anchor wife, Christina Applegate's delectably named Veronica Corningstone, becomes a raging success.

In a rather lame attempt to inject some variety into the game, you can replay some of the levels with different additional restrictions such as requiring that you scare all of the bears into killing themselves instead of killing them yourself, or that you must make it through a level without being seen by the other bears.

The film's attempt to be gritty, «street» and the like are lame, I never bought any of this for a minute and that fact that Gerard Butler got dragged into this is just sad.

Regardless of lame attempts to cover their social awkwardness with various colorful appearances, these dragons are a major detriment to their society.

No doubt in another lame attempt at shock, The Cottage is also needlessly misogynistic, as the women in it have no function beyond the role of one - dimensional ball - breaking shrew: endless references to pussified Peter's nagging «fat pig» of a wife are bandied about while Tracey screams obscenities at the top of her lungs and emasculates our hapless anti-heroes at every turn.

While he does have some acquaintances and a predictably boring job at an insurance company, Dodge shows no inclination to join in the festivities of excess (drugs, sex, religion, riots) enjoyed by others, and instead offers up a lame, sure - to - fail suicide attempt to go with his droopy demeanor and overall lethargy.

Completing the picture of screenwriting obnoxiousness, The Rookie obnoxiously rhymes earlier scenes to later ones for lame attempts at «callback» humor or — what's that called?

Then, after all of the completely lame attempts to squeeze any kind of laugh from this effort, we're supposed to care when the movie decides — at the last minute — to send us some kind of message.

Upon hearing about the new coalition, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew responded with a lame attempt at class warfare, «If these 1 - percenters want to mount an AstroTurf campaign with their deep pockets, they've done this before.»

If you never get tired of the basic ideas at the core of every resource - based strategy game, don't mind unnecessarily cute (and occasionally lame) attempts at humor, and can get past some minor targeting issues then World could work to fulfill that tiny niche of XBLA resource management games.

Just like oh so many lame reboots and revivals that turned classic games in Call of Duty / Gears of War clones in desperate attempts to sell to the young adult / teen market.

Speaking of polar temperature changes (this is my lame attempt at looking like I'm staying on thread), does anyone here have some expertise they can share regarding the potential (or lack thereof) for tropospheric impact resulting from the ongoing sudden stratospheric warming event in the Arctic?

Neither do rather lame attempts to link these results with the evils of «computer modelling».

In his (lame) attempt to redefine the term «inconvenient truth» and dispossess Al Gore of it, he endorses the Gore stance that the issue is not partisan, but moral.

That is a magnificently lame attempt to dig yourself out of a hole.

Heh — I hope you communicated your disppointment with IPCC standards to the IPCC itself, and are not using some rhetorical tricks in a lame attempt to pillory our host... although hstory might tend to indicate the opposite, I wil give you the benfit of the doubt in this case.

Fearing such an onslaught of April foolish news, some legal bloggers opted to take the high ground, such as David Giacalone, avoiding «lame attempts at humor.»

Most of your friends are well into their workday, slugging down their fourth «get - me - through - another - meeting» coffee, laughing at the boss» latest lame attempt at a joke.

Likewise the newspaper media, do we consider a particular effort or article in the Globe and Mail (the pillar of journalistic predictability) to be authoritative in terms of what this industry represents, or are most such articles just another lame attempt at selling more newspapers — I believe the catchword is: sensationalism.

If you look close at the above before photo of our driveway, you'll see our lame attempt under the garage door to keep the rodent out... clearly bubble wrap isn't a deterrent.

I have told her she is in danger of being taken off my blog roll in a lame attempt to get her to start writing again because I love the way she articulates the... Continue Reading →