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| Sep 7th, 2004 12:30 AM | ||||
| davinxtk |
Not-Vinth, you really need to think before you put that much effort into a post Quote:
Did your brain leak out of your ear or something? Do dunk your cookies in lead paint? Your argument seems to be that my brain is an accurate cross-section of the left wing. If I'm your average liberal, Kerry's on the right wing. Quote:
Also, at this point, the government needs to take just a bit out of our pockets to finance things. Bush, in true Republican form, is not an excellent accountant. We need a slightly higher tax for the time being, especially on the superfluously wealthy. I think J-Lo can wear the same shirt twice next year if she has to. And what's this bit about France and Germany? Are you seriously saying that just because this guy opposes the war that he's going to bow to the whim of other countries? Just because someone doesn't agree with the current administration makes them a turncoat? Whose America did you grow up in? Quote:
The only thing the candidate I'm voting for has going for him is that he's not the other guy. And I wish I lived in a country where I didn't have to make that decision. |
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| Sep 6th, 2004 07:42 PM | ||||
| EvilConserative#1 |
I'm not going to change your mind . You will not change my mind , however I do enjoy discussing politics (until it turns in to conspirasy theorys or open flamewars ) . I prefer my opponents not use "click and paste" articles or lame party talking points . Issues and facts , anything else is "opinion" to which we are both afforded the right to have and expess . kevin the omnivore wrote: What up, Evil Conservative#1!!?? How's the weather in Austin?!? WOOP WOOP! The weather on Riverside was excellent only a short rain but great temps to be outside playing with the kids and dog in. |
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| Sep 6th, 2004 06:31 PM | ||||
| EvilConserative#1 |
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| Sep 6th, 2004 01:40 PM | ||||
| KevinTheOmnivore | What up, Evil Conservative#1!!?? How's the weather in Austin?!? WOOP WOOP! | |||
| Sep 6th, 2004 12:40 PM | ||||
| ziggytrix | The conclusion I draw from this thead is that BOTH American political parties are corrupt, self-serving versions of their former selves. And that Davin is a poo. :P | |||
| Sep 6th, 2004 12:30 PM | ||||
| AChimp |
Any by your arse, he means your bellybutton. 
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| Sep 6th, 2004 12:26 PM | ||||
| Zhukov |
Click and paste it UP YOUR ARSE, Davin.
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| Sep 6th, 2004 12:10 PM | ||||
| davinxtk |
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| Sep 6th, 2004 12:09 PM | ||||
| davinxtk |
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If you've got so many "true facts" why don't you cite them, instead of simply telling me to look at them? I've already "clicked and pasted" to support my argument, why don't you come up with something, anything to support yours? I wish we could get a real lefty liberal into the whitehouse. I want to elect a goddamn socialist president, thank you very much. Don't tell the leftest of the left that our candidate is too liberal when he can't even get his spine behind any of the issues that matter to us radicals. Vinth. |
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| Sep 6th, 2004 12:02 PM | ||||
| AChimp | Typing bad makes you look like a bigger retard. | |||
| Sep 6th, 2004 11:46 AM | ||||
| EvilConserative#1 |
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Oh and by the way i'm going to use your tag on me in my sig-line "Your average conservative, Ladies and Gentlemen". I like that . It sounds very scary .Thank you . |
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| Sep 6th, 2004 10:26 AM | ||||
| Dole |
It probably is Vince. Quote:
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| Sep 6th, 2004 10:13 AM | ||||
| Zhukov |
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| Sep 6th, 2004 09:48 AM | ||||
| EvilConserative#1 |
Re: HISTORY LESSON (or ATTN: EvilConservative#1) Quote:
I this ,Kerry is washington rated the #1 liberal by votes , W let Ted Kennedy write the "no child left behind "education bill . W is not the most conserative in washington by votes.Who is out of touch ? I'm sorry the liberal left is really going wacko . I think the flowery speech has muddled your brain . Please stop and think , LOOk at true facts not polls , focus groups. I can accept the fact that not everyone will think or feel as i do on such issues as immagration ,abortion ,god in school or the Iraq and Afgan wars .I Vote for a leader who i believe will do more good for me . You vote(hopefully) for who you believe in . Just don't be a sore loser on Nov 3. Instead try to improve your world locally . |
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| Sep 6th, 2004 03:46 AM | ||||
| davinxtk |
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| Sep 6th, 2004 02:58 AM | ||||
| Anonymous | WIN-STON | |||
| Sep 6th, 2004 02:52 AM | ||||
| MLE | CHILL | |||
| Sep 6th, 2004 02:29 AM | ||||
| davinxtk |
I was going to add this to the bottom of the last post, but the edit function seems to be misbehaving. Since you're too busy trying to get a rise out of me to have caught it the first time, I'll spell it out for you: Not only do I take zero offense to what you were saying to begin with, but I've also never stooped to straight mudslinging when actually arguing. Also, don't act like your misinterpretation of my response to you follows some pattern of my behavior or you're going to disappoint yourself and your audience. Additionally, my racial slur was to be taken in kind with yours (ItalianStereotype, StupadDago) and I'm almost 100% sure that in the few and long since passed AIM conversations we had I mentioned my own Italian blood. So chill. |
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| Sep 6th, 2004 02:18 AM | ||||
| davinxtk | You destroy humor. | |||
| Sep 6th, 2004 02:08 AM | ||||
| ItalianStereotype | I like how you want everyone to think you're some calm and collected academic, but whenever someone makes fun of you, you're reduced to insults equivalent to "poo-poo face." | |||
| Sep 6th, 2004 01:45 AM | ||||
| davinxtk |
Thanks, douchebag, I really needed some help there. Why don't you try actually making a point? Or is that too much for a wop to handle? |
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| Sep 6th, 2004 01:18 AM | ||||
| ItalianStereotype | seeing as you can't seem to understand a simple insult, I'll clarify that for you, davin. the implication here is that you're so full of shit that you need two assholes. | |||
| Sep 6th, 2004 12:59 AM | ||||
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| Sep 6th, 2004 12:51 AM | ||||
| davinxtk |
HISTORY LESSON (or ATTN: EvilConservative#1) Quote:
Normally I would have kept this in its original topic, but there's an important issue here, and it's not that JFK was a hack. It's that the Republican party is so fucking far away from their glory days that for anyone (especially a Democrat) to try and turn the statement around is sheer lunacy. But what more would you expect out of Zellig? EvilConservative#1, exercise your brain: http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/083004F.shtml We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore By Garrison Keillor In These Times Thursday 26 August 2004 How did the Party of Lincoln and Liberty transmogrify into the party of Newt Gingrich's evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk? Something has gone seriously haywire with the Republican Party. Once, it was the party of pragmatic Main Street businessmen in steel-rimmed spectacles who decried profligacy and waste, were devoted to their communities and supported the sort of prosperity that raises all ships. They were good-hearted people who vanquished the gnarlier elements of their party, the paranoid Roosevelt-haters, the flat Earthers and Prohibitionists, the antipapist antiforeigner element. The genial Eisenhower was their man, a genuine American hero of D-Day, who made it OK for reasonable people to vote Republican. He brought the Korean War to a stalemate, produced the Interstate Highway System, declined to rescue the French colonial army in Vietnam, and gave us a period of peace and prosperity, in which (oddly) American arts and letters flourished and higher education burgeoned - and there was a degree of plain decency in the country. Fifties Republicans were giants compared to today's. Richard Nixon was the last Republican leader to feel a Christian obligation toward the poor. In the years between Nixon and Newt Gingrich, the party migrated southward down the Twisting Trail of Rhetoric and sneered at the idea of public service and became the Scourge of Liberalism, the Great Crusade Against the Sixties, the Death Star of Government, a gang of pirates that diverted and fascinated the media by their sheer chutzpah, such as the misty-eyed flag-waving of Ronald Reagan who, while George McGovern flew bombers in World War II, took a pass and made training films in Long Beach. The Nixon moderate vanished like the passenger pigeon, purged by a legion of angry white men who rose to power on pure punk politics. 'Bipartisanship is another term of date rape,' says Grover Norquist, the Sid Vicious of the GOP. 'I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.' The boy has Oedipal problems and government is his daddy. The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong's moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt's evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk. Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb and dangerous. Rich ironies abound! Lies pop up like toadstools in the forest! Wild swine crowd round the public trough! Outrageous gerrymandering! Pocket lining on a massive scale! Paid lobbyists sit in committee rooms and write legislation to alleviate the suffering of billionaires! Hypocrisies shine like cat turds in the moonlight! O Mark Twain, where art thou at this hour? Arise and behold the Gilded Age reincarnated gaudier than ever, upholding great wealth as the sure sign of Divine Grace. Here in 2004, George W. Bush is running for reelection on a platform of tragedy - the single greatest failure of national defense in our history, the attacks of 9/11 in which 19 men with box cutters put this nation into a tailspin, a failure the details of which the White House fought to keep secret even as it ran the country into hock up to the hubcaps, thanks to generous tax cuts for the well-fixed, hoping to lead us into a box canyon of debt that will render government impotent, even as we engage in a war against a small country that was undertaken for the president's personal satisfaction but sold to the American public on the basis of brazen misinformation, a war whose purpose is to distract us from an enormous transfer of wealth taking place in this country, flowing upward, and the deception is working beautifully. The concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the few is the death knell of democracy. No republic in the history of humanity has survived this. The election of 2004 will say something about what happens to ours. The omens are not good. Our beloved land has been fogged with fear - fear, the greatest political strategy ever. An ominous silence, distant sirens, a drumbeat of whispered warnings and alarms to keep the public uneasy and silence the opposition. And in a time of vague fear, you can appoint bullet-brained judges, strip the bark off the Constitution, eviscerate federal regulatory agencies, bring public education to a standstill, stupefy the press, lavish gorgeous tax breaks on the rich. There is a stink drifting through this election year. It isn't the Florida recount or the Supreme Court decision. No, it's 9/11 that we keep coming back to. It wasn't the 'end of innocence,' or a turning point in our history, or a cosmic occurrence, it was an event, a lapse of security. And patriotism shouldn't prevent people from asking hard questions of the man who was purportedly in charge of national security at the time. Whenever I think of those New Yorkers hurrying along Park Place or getting off the No.1 Broadway local, hustling toward their office on the 90th floor, the morning paper under their arms, I think of that non-reader George W. Bush and how he hopes to exploit those people with a little economic uptick, maybe the capture of Osama, cruise to victory in November and proceed to get some serious nation-changing done in his second term. This year, as in the past, Republicans will portray us Democrats as embittered academics, desiccated Unitarians, whacked-out hippies and communards, people who talk to telephone poles, the party of the Deadheads. They will wave enormous flags and wow over and over the footage of firemen in the wreckage of the World Trade Center and bodies being carried out and they will lie about their economic policies with astonishing enthusiasm. The Union is what needs defending this year. Government of Enron and by Halliburton and for the Southern Baptists is not the same as what Lincoln spoke of. This gang of Pithecanthropus Republicanii has humbugged us to death on terrorism and tax cuts for the comfy and school prayer and flag burning and claimed the right to know what books we read and to dump their sewage upstream from the town and clear-cut the forests and gut the IRS and mark up the constitution on behalf of intolerance and promote the corporate takeover of the public airwaves and to hell with anybody who opposes them. This is a great country, and it wasn't made so by angry people. We have a sacred duty to bequeath it to our grandchildren in better shape than however we found it. We have a long way to go and we're not getting any younger. Dante said that the hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who in time of crisis remain neutral, so I have spoken my piece, and thank you, dear reader. It's a beautiful world, rain or shine, and there is more to life than winning. ------- Garrison Keillor is the host and writer of A Prairie Home Companion, now in its 25th year on the air. This adapted excerpted from Keillor's new book, Homegrown Democrat (© 2004) is reprinted by arrangement with Viking, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. |
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