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Don?t give up,

Wattree — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 05:30:39 +0000

In reply to You are so much fun! You and

Don’t give up, Richard.

People like yourself is this country’s most valuable asset. Time and again you’ve stepped up at the last minute to drag this nation back from the brink.

This is the time to swing into action. I wrote Obama and suggested that he put together a staff dedicated to nothing but rebutting the lies spewed by Republicans and provide the team a space right next door to the Oval Office.

What the president has to realize is that the GOP is not merely engaged in routine political advocacy anymore. They’ve become the domestic enemy of the United States, and he needs to engage them as such. So he needs to setup the ABT (Anti-Bullshit Team) and have them do absolutely nothing else but research and debunk Republican bullshit on a daily basis.

They should establish a practice where every time a Republican politician tells a lie on the administration, the entire next day’s news cycle is flooded with facts debunking the lie, and also, previous instances where that particular politician lied or demonstrated hypocrisy - on any issue. If they took that approach a politician would think long and hard before he or she allowed themselves to become the front person for Republican disinformation.

I just got done digging

trkingmomoe — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 09:41:15 +0000

In reply to I have not read of this

I just got done digging through pages and pages of comments on Friday's shootings. The west coast is really rattled and upset. McTurtle is becoming one of the most hated persons in the Senate. He gets the blame for no gun regulation. I think Kentucky Senate race is going to be a nationalized race. Lots of small donations going to the Democrat that runs against him from all over the country. 2014 election is a ways off but as this kind of bad news stays in the national lime light, it could add up to big losses for the GOP. This is an issue crosses party lines with the depression going on and the war on women. GOP is in self destruct mode.

You are so much fun! You and

Richard Day — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 05:46:34 +0000

In reply to A Message to a Conservative

You are so much fun!

You and Artappraiser and Smith and others besides the crew named at the top keep this frickin blog goin!

hahaahah

I get stuck with Aquinas and Augustine and a hundred philosophers and that all gets me stuck with the problem of 'truth'.

Bachmann and Palin just get to say whatever comes into their psychotic heads and regardless of their retorts; it is difficult to find much information of value in their messages.

And yet, and yet B&P have followings just like beckerhead and rusho and O'Reilly and the rest.

The interesting perspective from you, that eludes some of your detractors (who really help publish your thoughts) is that members from the 'left' have a lot of fun making money in similar fashion.

That 'darker skinned' prick running for Lt Gov in Virginia is something else for instance.

I watch Steele attempting to save face on MSNBC from time to time.

One might say:

This is what Lincoln said.

And then a 'cite' is given. A letter with a date is available for purview or a paragraph from the NYT or...

I grew up with these requirements having twenty years of schooling and all.

Senator Sessions just took to the floor of the Senate today spewing out bullshite with no documentation whatsoever. God I hate that guy.

I don't care if we are speaking of FOX news or MSNBC or whatever, I get few cites.

If good research were available to news organizations; we would get citations.

Yes, Senator Sessions lied today. And a lie is an untruth uttered by the utterer or a statement made knowingly by a fellow who should have known better. (There are more certain pronouncements of this theme recorded in the criminal codes, but who cares anymore?)

Again, I get stuck in the mire of determining what is 'truth', constantly.

Frank said this.

Okay, where is the recording or where is the video or who were the witnesses, although we discount the testimony of witnesses these days.

Who shot whom? And here is the famous video of the idiot who shot the idiot who killed JFK!

My computer tells me when the sun will rise tomorrow; and yet if one finds himself in the middle of a time zone, that time as listed might be more truer to the point than if the fellow lived on the peripheries of that time zone.

See

I get stuck in a validation process.

And then I read something coming out of the mouths of morons like O'Reilly or semi-conscious politicians and I have no way of evaluating their assertions.

I am sorry that I must rant on and on. I get lost.

I love this letter you wrote.

I really do.

You keep on keepin on.

Sometimes, I feel like just giving up.

I have not read of this

Richard Day — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 05:15:20 +0000

In reply to They live in their own little

I have not read of this phenomenon before. People stopped reading the news?

Of course we both know that nowadays folks just stop reading 'news' they do not like. hahahahahah

I will tell you this.

Your reports from Florida floor me all the time. ha!

Like your personal dealings with West.

I am glad that you have faith in the youngins' ha.

Every time you write 'skeletor' I laugh.

There must be huge numbers of good people in Florida. I mean, Obama won Florida; although it took awhile to get the 'figures' as they say.

I know I am always doing well when I get a comment from Momoe!

A Message to a Conservative

Wattree — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 23:58:19 +0000

In reply to I WISH I KNEW WHAT I KNOW NOW, WHEN I WAS YOUNGER!

A Message to a Conservative Friend

Tom,

Whenever I send out information it's factual, fully documented, and substantiated. There’s a big difference between throwing spitballs and disseminating facts. So if the facts that I send out reflect negatively on the GOP, it's only because conservatives are engaged in negative activities. What am I suppose to do, ignore the fact that they’re leaving no stone unturned to obstruct voter rights because it casts conservatives in a bad light? I don't think so. The Germans made that mistake with the Nazis.

On the other hand, the stuff you send me is nothing more than speculation, half-truths, unsubstantiated allegations, and thoroughly debunked theories. They're things that a pouting kid would send out, not something you would expect from an educated adult - and a scientist, no less! You're supposed to be a disciplined thinker.

Let me give you an example of what I'm talking about. You just sent me a quote and said, "Be prepared, because it's from one of the 85% of Americans with darker skin, who also happens to lean in a conservative manner."

Now, if 85% of Americans "with darker skin" leaned conservative, where were they during the election? I mean, how could you make a statement like that to me without stopping to ask yourself that question!!?

So it seems that you, like many other conservatives, just say ANYTHING just because you like the way it sounds coming out of your mouth. You seem to be completely oblivious to the fact that it can be proven untrue with less than two minutes research. It's like all you want to do is luxuriate in the fantasy of what it would feel like if your statements were true, even if it's only for a few seconds.

But in spite of that, ordinarily I would just say fine, whatever makes Tom feel good is fine with me. But when you try to pull me into your ridiculous fantasy world, I feel like I'm being molested, because you're involving me in a form of intellectual masturbation, and I don't like that. It makes me feel unclean.

So what I'm saying is, you're free to indulge in all of the conservative fantasies that you like, but don't try to get me to join in, because to me that's the intellectual equivalent of asking me to come over and watch you play with yourself.

Eric

They live in their own little

trkingmomoe — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 08:23:42 +0000

In reply to I WISH I KNEW WHAT I KNOW NOW, WHEN I WAS YOUNGER!

They live in their own little bubble. They were so sure of themselves that they raided Ann Romney's recipe box and put together a cookbook to be published after she became first lady. I am not bashing the cookbook. There is tons of work that goes into one and it requires cooks, editors and photographer to make it happen. I am sure that she had some really interesting recipes because of her exposure to caterers, chefs and professional help that a wealthy housewife comes in contact with. She also likes cooking. My point is they think the country wants their brand of politics or they are over confident that they can pull it off. They should have come down to Florida and spent some time with us 47% and found out how much determination we had to prove them wrong. They are still being stupid. Any govenor that forced people to stand in line to vote for hours last year is going down in flames the next election. Just for spite people will return to vote against them. The news has been so bad this winter and spring that people are starting to show signs of fatigue. I am calling it GOP fatigue. This happened in the early 1930's, people stopped buying newspapers because the news got so bad. The papers had to run serial quilt and craft patterns to get ladies to buy the papers. The viewers numbers have dropped off of political cable channels. People are tired of the nasty GOP and don't want to hear about them. If all they talk about in the next budget crises that they are going to kill the hostages this time, Rachel may have to take up quilting to get the ratings up.