Thursday, April 02, 2009
Who's your favorite liberal?
Mr. Idaho of course but it's always been Mark Shields of The Newshour for me, at least until lately when he felt Obama did no wrong with Porkulus. Used to like Michael Kinsley until he started coming across as a snarky nerd so that's it for me, it's a count 'em on one hand kind of deal.
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Worked in a library once practically crawling with 'em, mostly women. Say you just made a mildly conservative point the looks going around the room like a tiny hand just grew out of your forehead. Like a bad wake you wanna go out on the porch for a smoke.
ReplyDeleteI admire this lady
ReplyDeleteI never understood why we need assault weapons either. I think gun control is being idealistic though. I actually HATE guns but pass all the laws you want and criminals will still get 'em, criminals by definition break the LAW, that's why they're known as criminals. It's not an easy issue, I'm not an NRA member but I don't think the issue really has a solution (sadly).
ReplyDeletePerhaps my e-mail to you today answered this question for you that I don't like any liberals. I'm tired of playing nice with them, they are wrong and playing nice doesn't help them see that.
ReplyDeleteFor me there are two types of Liberals:
ReplyDelete1. the type that are just too damn stupid and too damn young for their own good. They subscribe to it soley by default mechanisms.
2. the type that are old beyond their years and should have "gotten it" by now. These sorts think that their morality and their compassion for those they deem worthy is justified despite that in so pursuing this endeavor they trample upon each and every individual in the process.
With respect to the latter, I can only hope that they wither on the vine and die; that their tactics of thievery become some so agregious that those whom they take from abscond with their wealth and their productive means so that the immorals are left with nothing (save the existence of their own reality wich for far too long they sought to ignore).
Randian???...quite possibly. I think it nothing more than free market forces.
Example: "Okay you minority group of non-smokers...you think you shall dictate what sort of operation MY bar/restaurant will become???!!!"
"I say the hell with you! I'm closing this establishment all together!! Find your own place to hang out and socialize. I will not sanction your behavior by catering to it!"
You know not that long ago I was thinking of doing a blog "Are liberals evil?" but I shelved it, civility concerns but let me put it this way. IF as a liberal you don't at least see the need to reduce the abortion rate let's say, if you don't feel the need to at least come up with some creative solutions within the parameters of your own pro-choiceness, if you don't want to freshen up your own side of the debate in this matter then I don't have words for you. I've said a few times civility is overrated, I recognize it as a virtue and try to be civil myself but just making nice with them doesn't mean you'll get your informed-consent laws, your parental notification.
ReplyDeleteYou bring up the smoking thing soapie, in New York State you can't even smoke in strip joints. The girl's taking off her clothes, it ain't a convent. I was in the Palisades Mall yesterday and they have these anti-smoking placemats in the Food Court, what's with all the lecturing? they don't have tablecloths with fetal development pictures on them do they?
ReplyDeleteNow the no smoking in strip joints may not be so bad, a clearer look at the dancers intead of looking at them through all the smoke, no?
ReplyDeleteThat's why I picked Tammy Duckworth. She can be criticized for being liberal, but not for not loving her country. Z, the 2nd Amendment pretty well sums up an indiviual's right to arm themselves. The arguments are
ReplyDeleteabout waiting time, registration,
firepower (who wouldn't want a
GAU-8) etc...and seem legitimate.
I fired everything the Army had and about everything else during a career in small arms ammo. So, while I don't really need or want one, I understand the hunter, CC,
hobbiest, collector and their concerns. BTW, I guess I would fall in the Soapbox category of between 1 & 2: "too damn stupid,
and "old beyond my years" heh
You seem like a truly nice guy BB, but I can no longer act like people who think the liberal way is the way to go. It is stupid.
ReplyDeleteRereading what I wrote I realized I missed a phrase, it should read "I can no longer act like people who think the liberal way is the way to go are rational. It (meaning liberalism) is stupid.
ReplyDeleteI'm a classic liberal myself; from the "old school" if you will.
ReplyDeleteYou know...that era when liberalism was defined as one who was a defender of liberty and the indvidual's inalienable right to it.
BB when push comes to shove if I were a legislator I'd probably vote for most gun control legislation but I'd also tell people it probably won't put that much of a dent in gun violence so I can vote rationally but be realistic too.
ReplyDeleteRe the strip joints Beth we should have what I call "the place is not a convent" exceptions. Sure no smoking in restaurants and I agree with soapie here but the laws are here to stay but STRIP JOINTS?!? There's the faint whiff of SIN in these places, a den of naughtiness and you can't WHAT again?
ReplyDeleteThe laws are here to stay?? Hogwash, we just need some political leadership that has the seeds to repeal much of this crap.
ReplyDeleteI think there actually are (or at least were) some ridiculous laws on the books in some towns. Laws such as that you couldn't hang both men's and women's underpants together on the same damn clothesline.
Seriously?....someone should be shot for proposing such nonsense.
And when I say shot, I'm not talking with a little .22 popper either.
Bring out the big guns and let em' rip.
Am I having a Howard Beale moment? Sure sounds like it doesn't it.
"I'm MAD as Hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
I had a Howard Beale moment while driving today, I am not sure if people could hear me swearing at the top of my lungs. I guess I am officially fed up.
ReplyDeleteSince you brought up guns Z-man, I think that gunman in NY who shot up the immigration office is a perfect example of why we need more guns, not less. People will say if that man didn't have a gun, the massacre wouldn't have occurred, right? But his dead body had on it a hunting knife, so if he didn't have a gun he would have just used the knife to go around killing people.
ReplyDeleteSo then some would argue that he wouldn't have been able to kill and injure as many people with a knife, and this could be true, but since it is obvious that nobody else there had a gun or knife to try to stop him, who would have been able to wrestle a knife from the crazy man's hand before he killed people?
If you think about it, if some other law abiding person in that office had had a gun, they probably would have taken out the crazy guy sooner. It really is people who kill and not the guns.
Oh, and I don't own a gun, but I want to have the right should I decide I'd like to.
Soap is correct: we have some pretty silly laws..not that we ought to shoot the old goats that passed the 'mixed gender underwear' legislation back at the turn of the century..just take it off the books (and likely it isn't enforced these days, anyhoo). Every time there is talk, and there is a lot, of smoking and cigarettes, I think of the old B/W
ReplyDeletenews clip from WWII, the one where the padre on the deck of the carrier lights one up and sticks it in the dying sailor's lips...and makes the sign of the cross and shares last rights. We've come a long way, baby!
Oops! spelling..make that last 'rites'...I was thinking of rights. So, in 2009 the sailer with 90% burns would be told that
ReplyDelete'cigarettes are bad for you, son'.
Kafka was on to something....
Beth, you said everything I was going to say about that massacre, all I can add is ditto.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Soapie meant literally shoot people who make stupid laws, but we do need to crack down on over legislating everything.
ReplyDeleteThe whole sexual arena seems to have been fertile grounds in the past for passing laws dealing with, well everything. So how do you enforce sodomy laws exactly if people aren't buggering each other in the park? I said to you on the phone last night that I just read on the WorldNetDaily that the Congress plans on banning the use of incandescent light bulbs by 2012 (hey guys how about that dammed fluorescent lighting? far worse imo) and you said to me it's about control. That's the way I feel about this grand transition to digital TV come June, it's not that DTV is a bad thing but why force it on us is the issue for me? I kinda resent the government doing this to be honest with you, why was this such a pressing matter in the Age of Terror (the conspiratorialist would say I just answered my own question).
ReplyDeleteI should clarify that I dislike liberalism, not liberals. There was just one liberal the other day who I let get under my skin.
ReplyDeletePeople are people and I think we all want the same basic things, have good intentions, we just have very different ways of getting there. It seems we need to learn the hard way that liberalism ain't the way to go.
Exactly what Beth said, only in reverse. :)
ReplyDeleteBB seems to validate the theory that liberals and conservatives are just wired differently.
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