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by Goldy — Thursday, 9/30/10, 9:50 am

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  1. 1

    SJ spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 10:07 am

    A Plea

    Appropriate to Colbert’s satire, at this week’s DL, one of the participants utterly lost his cool .. becoming vituperative and obscene. His anger was utterly inappropriate and if the target of this behavior had not acted like an adult (by moving away), we might well have had a bar scene involving police.

    This fellow was not one of our rare wingnut visitors but a card carrying progressive. Politics and even personalities aside, may I suggest that we all leave that sort of schoolyard behavior in the threads here?

    ****

    I am planning, BTW, to attend the 10-30-10 rally as a friend of mine is having a movie premier at the Smithsonian a few days later. Anyone else who is planning to go might contact me as we may be able to save some dollars on housing.

  2. 2

    Steve spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 11:15 am

    I see that a second site has O’Donnell’s academic record posted – since 2008 and user verified. Also, that she claims that God is guiding her campaign. God does have some sense, so I can see how she might guiding O’Donnell to a humiliating defeat.

  3. 3

    Mr. Manners spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 11:16 am

    @1 This fellow was not one of our rare wingnut visitors but a card carrying progressive.

    That shouldn’t surprise anyone who spends any amount of time on HA . .

  4. 4

    manoftruth spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 11:37 am

    just wanted to give you fellows a caution. if you travel to trinidad there is a serious health violation. i was watching andrew zimern on travel channel, he was eating at a tented eatery where you could put your own toppings on fish sandwiches. the trays that held the toppings DID NOT HAVE GLASS HOODS…WHAT THE FUCK!!!
    my god, if that happened here, the board of health would shut them down. anyone know if we can pressure them to conform to our way of eating?

  5. 5

    YellowPup spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 11:56 am

    @2: Huffpost has the Oxford story:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....45231.html

    Delaware Republican Senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell has responded to accusations that she overstated her education in her resume by insisting that a LinkedIn profile erroneously stating she went to Oxford University wasn’t authored with her knowledge.

    But now a new website has surfaced listing the same erroneous biographical information. And a website spokesman claims that O’Donnell entered the data herself.

  6. 6

    masaba spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 11:56 am

    @4

    You need to find some of the old neocons in the Bush Administration (Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, etc). They were the ones constantly trying to get other countries to do what we told them to, or else.

  7. 7

    Deathfrogg spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 12:06 pm

    @ 4

    anyone know if we can pressure them to conform to our way of eating?

    I don’t know of that would be wise. There isn’t enough agricultural capacity in the world for that many morbidly obese people.

  8. 8

    manoftruth spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 12:20 pm

    @6
    You need to find some of the old neocons in the Bush Administration (Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, etc). They were the ones constantly trying to get other countries to do what we told them to, or else.

    well, i remember clinton bombing the crapola outta bosnia, obama seems content to occupy afghanastan. so i’m guessing the peeps that bankroll the politicians pretty much call the shots. but, no suprise there. using obama as an example, it always seemed odd to me that billionares like george soros would be content with letting someone like obama, who made maybe a 100k a year as a prof, and just a little more than that as senator, have any real say in world politics. cynical? yes. reality?. probably.

  9. 9

    Ruedolph spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 12:32 pm

    @3 Manners

    Yeh .. but folks typing across the innertubes are a lot different than that sort of shit in public.

  10. 10

    headless lucy spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 12:52 pm

    I’ve been yelled at and threatened by wingnuts and one guy tried to provoke me to anger so that he could run and tell the police that I was ‘threatening’ him.

    Sometimes people lose their tempers and shit happens. If you are too much of a pussy to deal with it, be you of the left or right, (by calmly standing up for yourself and trying to defuse the situation) — you don’t deserve to call yourself a man.

    At times, you have to take your lumps — or deliver them in self defense.

  11. 11

    Mr. Cynical spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 1:26 pm

    Goldy–
    You seemed to have gotten so much pleasure, along with Darryl, about the last Rasmussen Poll on the Senate Race that I thought I would be the first to allow you to pleasure yourself with this new Poll today! Have a Progressive, anything goes pleasure party with your mate Darryl. Enjoy!

    Thursday, September 30, 2010

    Incumbent Democratic Senator Patty Murray and Republican challenger Dino Rossi are back to a virtual tie in Washington’s race for U.S. Senate.

    The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Rossi picking up 48% support, while Murray earns 47% of the vote when leaners are included. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, and three percent (3%) are undecided.

  12. 12

    manoftruth spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 1:28 pm

    @10
    you don’t deserve to call yourself a man.

    you meant to say, man or woman, cause we all be equal.

  13. 13

    Mr. Cynical spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 1:28 pm

    I would never lose my temper with you KLOWNS.
    Why would I?? You are the folks who’s heads are about to explode. On Nov. 2nd, your denial will become reality. But like I said before, ImamObaMao cares much more about his legacy than your assholic agenda. He WANTS R’s to control the House/Senate or both.
    You are just too stupid to see it.

  14. 14

    Mr. Cynical spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 1:30 pm

    Here is another “Progressive” about to get his ass kicked!!

    Thursday, September 30, 2010

    Republican Ron Johnson now leads incumbent Democrat Russ Feingold by 12 points in Wisconsin’s race for the U.S. Senate.

    The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Johnson picking up 54% support, while Feingold, who is running for his fourth term in the Senate, gets 42% of the vote with leaners included. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, and two percent (2%) more are undecided.

  15. 15

    Mr. Cynical spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 1:31 pm

    And in response to your shrieking that the Tea Party is nothing…enjoy this one-
    Thursday, September 30, 2010

    Republican Rand Paul continues to hold a double-digit lead over Democrat Jack Conway in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race.

    The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Kentucky shows Paul earning 49% support, while Conway picks up 38% of the vote.

  16. 16

    Mr. Cynical spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 1:33 pm

    33 more days until your illusional hubris becomes your ugly reality.
    You blew it KLOWNS.
    With your anger & crazy ideas.
    Rather than be leaders, you proved incapable.
    You kept shrieking when you had total control!

    HA regulars are an example to America of how loony the left has become.

  17. 17

    Blue John spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 2:15 pm

    Hum, an unintended consequence of the warning, we have cyn constrained and concentrated to frantically raving in the free speech zone of an Open Thread.
    When you put his rants back to back to back, he does come across like that unshaven guy at the bus stop that smells odd, belligerently muttering at anyone who will make eye contact as they walk by.

  18. 18

    manoftruth spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 2:17 pm

    @16
    HA regulars are an example to America of how loony the left has become.

    do not lose sight of the following. they are not loons. they have an agenda, and they will say or do anything to attain it. by calling them crazy, you possibly disarm conservatives who figure they probably have nothing to fear from lunatics. they are smart, dangerous and committed. it’s a war, and since the 60’s they’ve been winning.

  19. 19

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 2:27 pm

    Fish Poachers Use Slaves To Deplete Fisheries

    I saw a news item today that said African fishermen labor in slavery-like conditions on boats that illegally overharvest Atlantic fish. But then, they don’t have effective governments in Africa. If you want to see the sort of government-less paradise that conservatives love you should visit Somalia.

  20. 20

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 2:30 pm

    Thank You, Democrats! No More Loud Commercials!

    The Democratic-controlled Congress is on the verge of passing a law to require broadcasters to broadcast commercials at the same volume as the rest of the programming.

    Another example of why we need government regulation. We would have waited until Kingdom Come for the free market to get this done.

  21. 21

    Steve spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 2:33 pm

    “he does come across like that unshaven guy at the bus stop that smells odd, belligerently muttering at anyone who will make eye contact as they walk by”

    Yeah, I kind of reacted to the KLOWN’s comments as I would to the guy at the bus stop. It’s better not to try conversing with the guy as it would only unleash a higher level of the krazy.

  22. 22

    Mr. Cynical spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 3:06 pm

    MOT–
    I appreciate your warning…but here at HA, the leftist are loons.

  23. 23

    Mr. Cynical spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 3:09 pm

    Dumbest Senator Murray has no control over her unethical aides!
    This won’t help.
    It is what really pisses Real Americans off!

    http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....ts30m.html

    Nice to see the Times busting her cellulite-ridden derriere.

  24. 24

    Mr. Cynical spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 3:11 pm

    Just a reminder–

    Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on all 10 of the important issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports.

    OUCH!
    And now taxes are rising rapidly in importance.
    And the Dems run out of town before addressing it. Dumber & dumber & dumber & dumber you get.

  25. 25

    headless lucy spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 3:29 pm

    re 12: You are so right — heh

  26. 26

    headless lucy spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 3:32 pm

    If Americans vote in a bunch of Republican wingnuts, they will get the asswhipping from multi-national corporations that they deserve.

    I’m sitting pretty. Let the chips fall where they may.

  27. 27

    headless lucy spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 3:40 pm

    re 18:

    it’s a war, and since the 60’s they’ve been winning.

    I was thinking of photoshopping a dual image of a young hippie from the sixties (replete with headband and beads) and then on the ‘right’ side of the picture, have the same face (aged) wearing a styrofoam boter with teabags stapled to it.

    The more things change, the more they remain the same.

  28. 28

    lostinaseaofaynrandfantasies spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 3:57 pm

    Tax cuts create jobs. That those jobs are created elsewhere is a bonus, as it means I can eat my unemployed neighbors. Who totally deserve it, ’cause they’re unemployed. If they didn’t want me to eat them, they would get a job. Elsewhere.
    Then I could steal their land.
    A win win for me and America.

  29. 29

    czechsaaz spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 3:58 pm

    We interrupt your regularly scheduled inaninity to bring you this update:

    One win and the Giant’s win the West.

    100 losses for the Ms is still attainable. C’mon boys, you can do it. 100 is a huge number. Stay focused.

  30. 30

    czechsaaz spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 4:01 pm

    @28

    Mmmmmm….The Eastmans. The other white meat. Well once I’ve devoured my pets I’ll head next door for dinner.

  31. 31

    manoftruth spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 4:25 pm

    @22
    I appreciate your warning…but here at HA, the leftist are loons.

    maybe so, but the liberal activists at large know what they’re doing. for example, one way to control a modern country is to control the money supply. the fed controls our money supply. they are an autonomous, non audited (to date) orginization that has successfully propagandized that to question their existance equals conspiratorial lunacy. a very neat trick not easy to pull off. so you see, they are not dumb.

  32. 32

    Michael spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 4:26 pm

    Yay, I’m finally overloaded with tomatoes from the garden. Took long enough. A couple of our plants died from some sort of weird disease.

  33. 33

    Lucius spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 4:53 pm

    @23

    Funny Goldy missed that Times piece on Murray’s earmark spending – especially given how much time Goldy spends posting on it here – when just the other day he was falling all over himself praising Delbene’s ad that criticizes Reichert for his MUCH SMALLER earmark spending.

    Maybe Goldy has a blood clot or two himself . . .

  34. 34

    tienle spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 5:10 pm

    Best sign idea ever: “Thank you President Obama! Palin would have quit by now.”

  35. 35

    Michael spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 5:24 pm

    @23

    Ah yes, the Real Americans. Nice use of eliminationist speech.

    You could have written that article about any long term member of congress. But, what you and The Times are forgetting is that Murray and the Democrats have tightened up ethics rules on this sort of thing since coming to power.

  36. 36

    Puddybud sez, Ask ylb, TEH HA DATABAZE KEEPA at home spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 5:41 pm

    Puddy was busy but now here it is!

    Bill O’Reilly was rated as having, by far, the greatest positive impact, with 49 percent of respondents rating him positively, and 32 percent negatively.

    Glenn Beck was the second most-positively rated personality, with 38 percent of respondents saying he had a positive impact, and 32 percent saying he had a negative impact.

    Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was the third-most-positively ranked, with 36 percent saying he has a positive impact on the discourse, but his negatives far outweighed his positives, with 52 percent saying he has a negative impact.

    Then on the whacked out other side of the spectrum…

    MSNBC’s personalities were largely ranked as unknown by respondents: 70 percent said they had never heard of Ed Schultz, 55 percent said they had never heard of Rachel Maddow and 42 percent said they had never heard of Keith Olbermann.

    Yet, who does the professor and mary anne (gilligan humor) place on HA? The unknowns on PMSNBC.

    “Among cable news channels, Fox was the clear winner, with 42 percent of respondents saying it is their main source, compared with 30 percent who cited CNN and 12 percent who rely on MSNBC.”

    HA leftists – the 12%ers!

  37. 37

    manoftruth spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 5:43 pm

    @35
    You could have written that article about any long term member of congress. But, what you and The Times are forgetting is that Murray and the Democrats have tightened up ethics rules on this sort of thing since coming to power.

    michelle, you cannot possibly write the words democrat and ethics in the same sentence with a straight face, can you?

  38. 38

    proud leftist spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 6:04 pm

    Puddy @ 36
    Progressives and leftists get our information from real sources of news (not that MSNBC isn’t a reliable source). You folks on the wingnut right turn to blowhards for your “news” because you seek verification of your views, rather than facts. So, your little popularity contest proves nothing but that wingnuts like to listen to wingnuts.

  39. 39

    lostinaseaofblue spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 6:10 pm

    Re 28

    Can’t speak for you, but my unemployed neighbors eat at McDonalds a lot. That probably would ruin the taste of the meat.

    And the only two unemployed folks on my street have houses I dislike. (No connection to their employment status, more a comment on general taste) so I’m uninterested in stealing their land.

    Anyway, stealing stuff that belongs to your neighbor on invented moral grounds is more a liberal thing to do.

  40. 40

    lostinaseaofblue spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 6:50 pm

    RE 38

    The popularity of the right in radio and TV news and talk proves something else.

    It proves that what Americans want to listen to is news and talk from the right. Not the left, as evidenced by the demise of Air America. This country is and will likely remain a center right country.

  41. 41

    Lucius spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 6:53 pm

    @38 Progressives and leftists get our information from real sources of news

    Ha, ha. Right, sure, like from HA, which will praise Delbene for her ads that skewer Reichert for taking earmarks, then TOTALLY ignore the earmark queen, Patty Murray re:@23.

    And you’re sure not going to learn much about the war in Afghanistan on these pages. In fact, one could easily conclude that Goldy is in complete agreement with Reichert on the war since he NEVER has an ill word to say about it.

    But, different president in office.

    What a bunch of chumps.

  42. 42

    Steve spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 7:18 pm

    “It proves that what Americans want to listen to is news and talk from the right.”

    Bulllshit. It could also be said that it proves that wingnuts have to receive their daily marching orders from Beck and the other right-wing haters on a daily basis while progressives have far better things to do than listen to the radio or TV’s talking heads. It most definity does not prove anything about “Americans”, left, right or indifferent, other than that very fucking few of them listen or watch any of that shit.

  43. 43

    Puddybud sez, Ask ylb, TEH HA DATABAZE KEEPA at home spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 7:19 pm

    What are those real sources of news Proud Leftist? 5 million less people watch the evening news in 2010 because of their leftist leanings. Regarding PMSNBC, they’re right?

    OMG, you crack Puddy up Proud Leftist. Enjoy the truth, it’ll set you free.

  44. 44

    Puddybud sez, Ask ylb, TEH HA DATABAZE KEEPA at home spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 7:20 pm

    Oh my Steve Stupid Sulution, lay off the sauce and get some Prozac or something stronger. Puddy was gonna say ask rujax what meds he takes but then again he’s whack-job CWAZY so forget that.

  45. 45

    Steve spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 7:29 pm

    There goes Puddy, projecting all his worst attributes on others again. Haven’t you heard? It’s a Psych 101 thing. You might want to check into it.

  46. 46

    Puddybud sez, Ask ylb, TEH HA DATABAZE KEEPA at home spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 8:22 pm

    Steve Stupid Solution,

    That’s all you got psychotic projection fantasies.

    Bada bing bada ba!

  47. 47

    lostinaseaofblue spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 8:27 pm

    re 42

    Umm hmm. And the hate speech from Maddow, Schultz and their ilk about conservatives? I mean, according to them Republicans aren’t making principled stands in Congress. They are destroying the economy just to make Obama look bad. They aren’t fighting stupid bills that don’t fix anything in health care except the profit margins of insurance companies. They’re killing 45,000 peop Or is it only hateful if you disagree with it? If it comes from left wing lunatics like Hartmann or Schultz it’;s rational hatred?

  48. 48

    lostinaseaofblue spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 8:27 pm

    re 42

    Umm hmm. And the hate speech from Maddow, Schultz and their ilk about conservatives? I mean, according to them Republicans aren’t making principled stands in Congress. They are destroying the economy just to make Obama look bad. They aren’t fighting stupid bills that don’t fix anything in health care except the profit margins of insurance companies. They’re killing 45,000 peop Or is it only hateful if you disagree with it? If it comes from left wing lunatics like Hartmann or Schultz it’;s rational hatred?

  49. 49

    sj spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 8:55 pm

    LSIB

    boring.

  50. 50

    manoftruth spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 9:02 pm

    @48
    If it comes from left wing lunatics like Hartmann or Schultz it’;s rational hatred?

    of course, don’t you get it?
    in 1994 we were angry white men. in 2010 we’re racist teabaggers. they just want to run the country their way. and thats why they don’t want to stop illegal immigration. the more non whites they import, the less political clout you have. you ever see 40 year old white, suburban accountants march on the state house on a tuesday afternoon? on top of that, its the white liberal who try to foster racism with identity politics. they try to scare minorities into thinking republicans want to bring back slavery. i’ll tell you what, if there is a god, those bastards are toast.

  51. 51

    lostinaseaofaynrandfantasies spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 9:27 pm

    Free markets are always rational blah, blah, blah. Fox has better ratings, therefore they speak truth, blah, blah, blah. Adam Smith blah, blah, blah. Don’t make me go Galt on your asses.
    Blah, blah, blah.
    Camus.

  52. 52

    proud leftist spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 9:28 pm

    lost
    “Hate speech” from Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz? Have you listened to them? Their shows are nothing like the crap and pap that flow from your people. They simply disagree with you. Disagreement does not equate to “hate speech.” You are really off your game again, lost. Your default position seems to be that of an unthinking asshole. Others tried to convince me of that, but I thought you could think. Puddy and you, though, seem to be birds of a feather. Go ahead and believe this is a center-right nation. It’s your party’s fear and lies that rouse the dumbshits, and there are far too many of them in this nation. People who don’t pay any attention at all. I think I’ve given up on you, lost.

  53. 53

    lostinaseaofaynrandfantasies spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 9:31 pm

    Your puerile and shrill left wing mockery proves the essential truths that I speak. Kierkegaard. Sweet baby Jesus. Blah, blah, blah.
    Without me, society collapses.

  54. 54

    Steve spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 9:38 pm

    It’s amazing how short Lost’s posts become when stripped of his preening and the sanctimonious bullshit.

  55. 55

    proud leftist spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 9:51 pm

    53
    lost would never understand Kierkegaard. As an existentialist, Kierkegaard grasped the value of doubt. lost only knows certainty. Curiously, all the things lost is certain about are wrong. We really should feel sorry for the pitiful dude.

  56. 56

    lostinaseaofaynrandfantasies spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 9:51 pm

    Maddow and Schultz have a deep seated hatred of white people. I feel the sting of discrimination everyday. I am like Jesus at Calvary. Only more vital.
    Kittens are just unemployed cats, so I throw them in the river.

  57. 57

    lostinaseaofaynrandfantasies spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 9:59 pm

    Socialism is the death of liberty, freedom and the pursuit of happiness.
    Mark my words.

  58. 58

    Steve spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 10:09 pm

    @57 Bubbly water – the end of civilization as we know it.

  59. 59

    Puddybud sez, Ask ylb, TEH HA DATABAZE KEEPA at home spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 10:19 pm

    Have you listened to them?

    Proud Leftist, part of the 12%ers.

  60. 60

    Puddybud sez, Ask ylb, TEH HA DATABAZE KEEPA at home spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 10:21 pm

    Just watched on Q13 Fox News how Seattle is #1 in the child sex trade. Republican Linda Smith is trying to stop it.

    Progressive DUMMOCRAPTS… doing what they do best!

  61. 61

    manoftruth spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 10:40 pm

    @52

    “Hate speech” from Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz? Have you listened to them? Their shows are nothing like the crap and pap that flow from your people.

    yeah, right. for example, nobody on msnbc would be so racist as to look at a group of white tea partiers and say hey, they’re all white. what a sad sack you are proudlefty.

  62. 62

    Steve spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 10:42 pm

    I always thought Lost could use some “sniffs” in his posts.

    “Sniff, Rousseau wrote that… Maddow and Schultz have a deep seated hatred of white people. Sniff, Keirkgaard wrote that…, sniff. Sniff, I feel the sting of discrimination everyday. I am like Jesus at Calvary, sniff, only more vital.
    Kittens are just unemployed cats, sniff, so I throw them in the river. Sniff, Camus wrote of kittens, sniff, that they…”

  63. 63

    lostinaseaofblue spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 10:46 pm

    Re 52

    I’ve listened to both Maddow and Schultz. I like to know what and how the other side thinks. I may never agree with them, but then, they won’t with me either.

    Most of the pundits on the far left repeat the same tired lines. Republicans are sociopaths. Republicans are intentionally destroying the country for a)personal gain or b) to destroy Obama. Or both. There is of course no possibility that they block the initiatives of Obama because, just maybe, they don’t believe them to be good ideas.

    I’ve read Kierkegaard extensively. I’m not, apparently, the erudite philospher you are. But I do enjoy his writings. Just so you know, you are as certain as I am about the things you believe. You just try to cover them in a veneer of false humility.

  64. 64

    lostinaseaofblue spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 10:53 pm

    Inexplicably Proud Leftist,

    Who do you think are ‘my people?’ Beck? Don’t listen to him, and think he’s off his meds. Fox News? Don’t own a TV. Limbaugh? 15 years ago he was a right wing commentator with an open and curious mind. Now he’s a blowhard who’s bought his own propaganda.

    You know nothing about who influences my thinking, who I read, what I enjoy in art or recreation. So spare me the sanctimonious conclusions about any of these.

  65. 65

    lostinaseaofblue spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 11:01 pm

    Re 62

    That’s odd. I always thought you could use some basic English in your posts. Or at least you should pay for the Scotch that makes them bearable. One or the other.

    Oh well, we all like different things.

  66. 66

    lostinaseaofblue spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 11:02 pm

    Steve,

    By the way, how’s the psychiatric practice going.

    Sorry, keep forgetting. You’re an engineer.

  67. 67

    headless lucy spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 11:09 pm

    According to Rossi, Patty Murray doubled the national debt over the past 18 years.

    That couldn’t have happened in the Clinton years, because the national debt was lowered the. So, it must have been in the Bush years??!! that she doubled the national debt.

    Someone that powerful should win.

  68. 68

    headless lucy spews:

    Thursday, 9/30/10 at 11:11 pm

    If the American people had a choice, they wouldn’t vote for either party.

  69. 69

    kaela spews:

    Friday, 10/1/10 at 3:15 am

    @38, @55

    Proud Leftist sez:

    Progressives and leftists get our information from real sources of news

    As an existentialist, Kierkegaard grasped the value of doubt

    Yea, well, I can see those readings didn’t sink in much.

    Keep just quoting Kierkegaard, Proud, as “The One” – whose hope and change message you bought
    hook, line and sinker 20 months ago, speaking of doubt – continues to crumble in the polls.

    What a balloon of hot air!

  70. 70

    Puddybud sez, Ask ylb, TEH HA DATABAZE KEEPA at home spews:

    Friday, 10/1/10 at 4:57 am

    Mediaite headline:

    Rachel Maddow Is Not Happy Joe Biden Was Nice To George Bush On The Colbert Report

    What a buffoon Maddow is.

    “Wednesday night, during The Colbert Report’s salute to our troops returning from Iraq, Stephen Colbert asked his guest, Vice President Joe Biden, to comment on the previous administration. Biden looked into the camera and gave a sincere thanks to George W. Bush for consistently honoring our armed forces. Last night on her show, Rachel Maddow called the moment “inexplicable,” “whitewash,” and “weird.”” No Rachel you are weird and your audience is NUTZ!

  71. 71

    Don Joe spews:

    Friday, 10/1/10 at 7:18 am

    Lost @ 63

    There is of course no possibility that [Republicans] block the initiatives of Obama because, just maybe, they don’t believe them to be good ideas.

    That would be plausible if Republicans hadn’t already argued that most of those ideas were good ideas before Obama became President.

    How else does one explain, for example, the Republican opposition to the public option in health care reform? If the private sector can do insurance better than the government can, then surely the public option represents no threat to private insurance.

    The real problem is that Republicans want to press policy ideas that the American public won’t buy: privatizing Social Security; severely cutting back, if not totally eliminating, Medicare; the elimination of all forms of welfare; and tax cuts for the wealthy over and above the same tax cuts that the rest of us get.

    Republicans can’t even conjure up a cogent economic argument in support of their policies. They’re reduced to some moral argument about people having some right to their hard-earned money–a moral argument that falls flat on its face when we consider the fact that, without government, there would be no such thing as hard-earned money in the first place.

    As you yourself have demonstrated time and again in this forum, the conservative rhetorical guns are loaded with nothing but blanks. Unable to win the actual policy debates, they resort to cynical political tactics like the filibuster in the Senate.

    So, once again, you’re totally wrong. Liberals have, indeed, considered the notion that Republicans simply don’t agree with Democrats on major policy issues. The problem is, that conclusion isn’t supported by the facts.

  72. 72

    Don Joe spews:

    Friday, 10/1/10 at 7:20 am

    By the way, wingnuts, Colbert makes a rather good point. If we are to follow the dictates of Constitutional Originalism, then the word “arms” in the Second Amendment should be restricted to what it meant in the 1790’s, and, therefore, the Second Amendment really only protects the citizens’ right to keep and bear muskets and flint-lock pistols.

    So much for Constitutional Originalism.

  73. 73

    Steve spews:

    Friday, 10/1/10 at 8:13 am

    Lost sez, “That’s odd. I always thought you could use some basic English in your posts. Or at least you should pay for the Scotch that makes them bearable. One or the other.”

    You can pay for your own scotch as you likely need it for a lot more than just reading my comments.

    “By the way, how’s the psychiatric practice going.”

    I’ve never claimed to be a psychiatrist. I have never claimed to have obtained a degree in psychiatry. I have never claimed to have co-founded a psychiatric clinic. In case you don’t know, there’s a difference between psychology and psychiatry, Lost. Try Google. Better yet, ask your psychiatrist.

    “Sorry, keep forgetting”

    Um, speaking of basic English.

    “You’re an engineer.”

    Sniff, yes, I am. heh-

  74. 74

    Blue John spews:

    Friday, 10/1/10 at 8:20 am

    Umm hmm. And the hate speech from Maddow, Schultz and their ilk about conservatives?
    What you think of hate speech is them simply point out the facts and the hypocrisy of the right. Seems your definition of hate speech is anyone who challenges what you think. Give me a some examples of what Rachael said that you define as hate speech? Other wise you don’t have any facts to back up your claims.

    What does Rachael talk about?

    Fox News’ parent company gave $1 million to the pro-GOP U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
    Carl Paladino admits he has no proof to back up his smear on his opponent.
    Sen. Saxby Chambliss apologizes for an anti-gay threat posted from an office computer, and says a staffer has been fired
    New ‘Super Pacs’ bringing millions into campaigns
    Arianna Huffington to the middle class: Obama’s not your guy
    GOP for big government in a small uterus
    Sharron Angle tries to deny she ever said she wants to privatize the VA hospital system. I wonder what Fox News contributor Dennis Miller will say about that when he campaigns for her?
    Jim DeMint vows roadblock

    I don’t see the hate speech in what Rachael is saying. I’ve watched her show. It’s calm and reasoned. She doesn’t advocate violence.
    Ed gets passionate. I’ll give you that.

    By contrast

    Beck: The next two years are “most dangerous time in our country’s history” and “the Republic may not survive”
    Beck calls NCLR a “nasty, take America and give it to the Mexicans” group (National Council of La Raza (NCLR) – the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States )
    Beck: “This is where the Republic ends or it begins again; we are at the end”
    Beck: Obama was “sent away” from Indonesia because his mom didn’t want him influenced by “someone who’s not a Marxist”
    Beck: After election, “our streets will not be peaceful” due to progressives “agitating”

    —————

    Republicans are sociopaths.
    Sociopaths = Unconcerned about the adverse consequences for others of one’s actions. Sounds about right.

    Republicans are intentionally destroying the country for a)personal gain or b) to destroy Obama. Or both.

    “If we’re able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him,” Senator Jim DeMint said.
    Won’t try to keep jobs in America. Won’t try to stop Outsourcing. Republicans support off-shoring jobs. Republicans block ending offshore jobs US tax breaks
    Net neutrality bill blocked by Republicans
    Obama Blasts GOP for Stalling Judicial Nominations, GOP now blocking picks for lower courts
    Republicans Block Repeal Of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
    Republicans block campaign finance bill again
    Sen. Coburn blocks wildlife protection bills
    GOP Still Thwarting Spill Panel

  75. 75

    lostinaseaofaynrandfantasies spews:

    Friday, 10/1/10 at 10:02 am

    I owe everyone an apology. I’ve just realized that in my frustration with basically intelligent folks who believe palpably wrong things blah, blah, blah.
    So long as it is my sincere belief that America was formed on sound principles blah, blah, blah.
    The Constitutions, state and federal, specify directly, blah, blah, blah. Leviticus. Samuel.

    I simply don’t have the data to say one way or the other.

  76. 76

    Gman spews:

    Friday, 10/1/10 at 10:08 am

    Heterosexual Values

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....46858.html

  77. 77

    Steve spews:

    Friday, 10/1/10 at 10:25 am

    “I’ve just realized that in my, sniff, frustration with basically intelligent folks”

    For some reason that I can’t quite put my finger on, I felt that that line could use just a wee bit of editing.

  78. 78

    YLB spews:

    Friday, 10/1/10 at 12:10 pm

    Wow tax cuts for the rich by Bush worked so well to keep the economy humming.

  79. 79

    Politically Incorrect spews:

    Friday, 10/1/10 at 2:48 pm

    Some good news, for a change:

    http://stopthedrugwar.org/chro.....gns_mariju

  80. 80

    manoftruth spews:

    Friday, 10/1/10 at 2:49 pm

    @72
    By the way, wingnuts, Colbert makes a rather good point. If we are to follow the dictates of Constitutional Originalism, then the word “arms” in the Second Amendment should be restricted to what it meant in the 1790’s, and, therefore, the Second Amendment really only protects the citizens’ right to keep and bear muskets and flint-lock pistols.

    and slavery would still be legal, and the first amendmant would apply to the internet. and women couldnt vote. yeah lets go back.

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