tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post804651056541313515..comments2024-03-17T12:51:46.412-07:00Comments on Cutting Through The Crap: Answers and QuestionsSid Schwabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-12438277168406131352009-06-08T12:31:57.037-07:002009-06-08T12:31:57.037-07:00I am a 42-year-old cyclothymic female primate who ...I am a 42-year-old cyclothymic female primate who also used to get worked into a froth over the BS that is like a layer of buttercream frosting on this planet earth cake, but then I really got interested in political history and started reading a lot about the political lives of many of the American presidents. Things never change. People got so angry over Jefferson and his frenchy ways that they threatened to kill him, ship him off to Paris, etc. James Madison experienced humiliation and vitriol from citizens who loathed him and his politics. McKinley, Roosevelt, Wilson... But be at peace, people, because no matter how bad it gets, we all die in the end. <br /><br />JenniferAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-67821621939151731812009-06-05T16:40:36.280-07:002009-06-05T16:40:36.280-07:00Watch out Frank...
I…I think it's finally ove...Watch out Frank...<br /><br />I…I think it's finally over. Our reactionary emotional response seems to have stopped it dead in its tracks. If I'm right, all we have to do now is smugly reiterate our half-formed thesis and—oh, no! For the love of God, no! It's thoughtfully mulling things over!<br /><br />Run! Run! It's making reasonable, fact-based arguments!<br /><br />Quickly! Hide behind self-righteousness! The ad hominem rejoinders—ready the ad hominem rejoinders! Watch out! Dodge the issue at hand! Question its character and keep moving haphazardly from one flawed point to the next!<br /><br />All together now! Put every bit of secondhand conjecture into it you've got!<br /><br />Goddamn it, nothing's working! It's trapped us in our own unsubstantiated claims! We need to switch fundamentally unsound tactics. Hurry, throw up the straw man! Look, I think it's going for it. C'mon…c'mon…yes, it's going for it! Now hit it with the thing that one guy told us once while it's distracted by our ludicrous rationalizations!<br /><br />Gah! It's calmly and evenhandedly deflecting everything we're throwing at it. Our deductive fallacies are only making it stronger! Wait…what on earth is it doing now? Oh, no, it has sources! My God, it's defending itself with ironclad sources! Someone stop the citing! Please, please stop the citing!...<br /><br />From: http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/oh_no_its_making_well_reasoned<br /><br />EugeneInSanDiegoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-43387256645719157672009-06-05T09:50:47.425-07:002009-06-05T09:50:47.425-07:00E a F: well, I noted that I left out many examples...E a F: well, I noted that I left out many examples because they'd be too easy. And I'm sorry if I didn't check to see if you knew who I was talking about before I posted. My point stands: most of the RWS™ lie unabashedly; and I wonder why. It's truly puzzling. I did NOT say "every single conservative is wrong," but the fact that that's what you conclude is sort of confirmatory of one of the issues at hand: people hear what they want to hear, regardless of what was said. Thanks for that.<br /><br />And, of course, you prove the rest by saying Hannity is correct, either missing, willfully ignoring, or failing to comprehend the point. Thanks for that, too.<br /><br />As to three lies Obama has told, please feel free. To save me the effort, please also provide facts that disprove what he said, as I did. And you might, if you care to, so I don't have to (although, admittedly, it'd be playing your game), compare the lies up with which you come, to "we don't torture," "we know there are WMD in Iraq," "there was a connection between Saddam and 9/11," "Iraq sought yellowcake uranium," and "I did my duty in the national guard."Sid Schwabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-40630627687367968052009-06-05T08:54:47.442-07:002009-06-05T08:54:47.442-07:00Oops, sorry Sid. But what is your point? You pic...Oops, sorry Sid. But what is your point? You pick two guys I don't know and write at length that they are wrong, [maybe purposely wrong) about something. <br /><br />Hannity is better known. But his criticism seems correct. BO bends over backwards to say we're not a Christian nation, with some 150,000,000 Christians. But points to our 2,000,000 Muslims to point out their status? We have more Jews than Muslims--in fact, we're probably the largest Jewish nation. I get it--BO is trying to relate to his audience, but really--he's pandering. And, as you pointed out, a quick glance at Wikipedia on his famous Blackberry would have set him straight. Maybe he could do just a little research before he speaks?<br /><br />So is the point of your lengthy point that because you think these two guys are wrong then every single conservative is wrong. That's kind of like BOs well-used straw man approach, isn't it? <br /><br />Here's your thesis: "Right wing talkers and writers simply lie to their audiences."<br /><br />And you give three examples? Nice. <br /><br />How about this thesis" "Barack Obama lies to the country." I can give three examples, too.<br /><br />--Easy as FissionEasy as Fissionnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-36543142799894984432009-06-05T08:54:40.333-07:002009-06-05T08:54:40.333-07:00From my post, not about abortion, but about the in...From my post, not about abortion, but about the intellectual capabilities of the RWS™ and their supporters: <br /><br /><i><b>"...it's hard to deny many [commenters on my blog] seem unable to follow a thought..."</b></i><br /><br />From Frank and E a F: abortion, abortion, abortion.Sid Schwabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-87520353122362143342009-06-05T08:15:25.777-07:002009-06-05T08:15:25.777-07:00"Still its surprising that the only people bo..."Still its surprising that the only people bothered by the fact that close to 50% of abortions are done on minorities"<br /><br />Well, yeah. The founder of Planned Parenthood was a eugenicist. One of her goals was the elimination of "lesser" minorities. That's why all the PPs start out in ethnic communities. Nice job.<br /><br />--Easy as FissionEasy as Fissionnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-51481771535542304562009-06-05T00:54:08.968-07:002009-06-05T00:54:08.968-07:00That "One of the largest Muslim countries&quo...That "One of the largest Muslim countries" is understandable giving that Baraks lived in DC the last 4yrs... Ever caught a cab at Reagan National??? Last one I rode in sounded like friggin Mecca during the Hadj...If Bin Ladens hidin there they'll never find him... Still its surprising that the only people bothered by the fact that close to 50% of abortions are done on minorities of various types are conservatives... Josef Mengele himself couldn't have come up with a more effective brake on population growth...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com