Reboot
Every now and then it’s good to rest and refresh yourself. It gives you an opportunity to step back and observe things as they happen. You’d be surprised how much you miss when you’re mixed up in the fray. So for the time being I’m going to stay away from politics a bit (except I might finish up one blog/random pondering that I started weeks ago) and go on with regular blogging. Unless something big happens, I’ll be content with focusing my attention elsewhere.
I do this once in awhile. After a certain point, I eventually catch myself sounding like the belligerently closed-minded hacks I complain about. When that happens, it’s time for a break on the topic. That, and since the primaries are basically over, the subjects of Hillary Clinton and Operation Scumbag are more like irrelevant nuisances than wellsprings of ire. When she is finally out of the picture and Obama/McCain starts getting more attention, we’ll see what happens.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Operation Scumbag?????
Like Democrats haven’t done similar crap. As least this one was in the open.
BTW: This picture, evidently with no sarcasm intended, accompanied an endorsement of B.O. by the Oregon newspaper Willamette Week:
http://www.moonbattery.com/obamamania.jpg
No messianic fervor here, uh uh.
May 14th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
What gets me about it is that after all the amazingly bad decisions and policies of Bush, Republicans still haven’t had enough. I mean, it’s pretty hard to blame it on the Democrats when they haven’t been able to push through a single decent bill on account of the president.
As for that picture: bwaaaaaaaahahahaha! That’s just funny. To assuage your doubts: no, nobody is worshiping Barack Obama. Some seem to be infatuated, however. the whole celebrity bullshit surrounding him is pissing me off. Most of it is created by these kinds of supporters, not his campaign (even so, they haven’t exactly shied away from it).
America: “…with Liberty and Media for All.”
May 15th, 2008 at 3:53 am
Good luck avoiding the media frenzy pushing Hillarity on! I would dearly love to find a national news outlet that would report what is going on around the world … such as the earthquake in China, the typhoon victims, etc. It’s all Hillarity all the time! I keep surfing, hitting the button whenever I see her face or hear her voice and mostly see only commercials.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:39 am
BLAME BUSH!!!!
LOL
May 15th, 2008 at 7:42 am
http://e-biscuit.com/images/uploads/obamafaith1sm.jpg
Where’s the outrage - bringing faith into the race. Shame on him.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Pot, meet Kettle…
May 15th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Exactly.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:43 am
It’s one thing to say “I get more done out there than I do sitting in here.”
It’s quite another to say “Institute school prayer, ban gays, put the ten commandments on courthouse grounds, teach creationism in public schools and give tax dollars to religious institutions and private religious schools” while saying we’re a Christian nation and calling our “war on terror” a crusade.
Guess you forgot about that, huh?
May 15th, 2008 at 9:58 am
I don’t agree with your shading but nope.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:03 am
No shading. That’s what they want. It’s on the record…. court record, media record, written record, public record…
May 15th, 2008 at 11:54 am
“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.”
Absolute true.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
“…to go to a foreign country, … and make this kind of ridiculous statement.”
Gee, Joe, what about all those Demos going overseas and dissing Bush during a time of war, huh???????
Pot, meet kettle…
May 15th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
I guess their “chickens are coming home to roost”…….
May 15th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Yet another reason why conservatives piss me off. They don’t have any legitimate grounds to stand on so they just lie, lie, lie. Everybody is dissing Bush. This is nothing new. But it’s over factual things concerning what he’s said or done.
Bush, on the other hand, is pulling shit out of thin air AND YOU’RE BELIEVING IT. Show me where any Democrat has said “we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals.”
Diplomacy with Iran? Last I checked it was a sovereign state, not a group of terrorists and radicals. Nothing we’ve done so far has worked, so if you’ve got the idea that’ll solve all problems, let’s hear it. Diplomacy with groups like Hamas? We’ve been doing that for years and years, since the PLO days to affect a Middle East peace agreement. And since they were elected as a majority, they have legitimacy among Palestinians. Diplomacy 101: that means they’re the go-to guys.
Un-fucking-real, Von.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Factual things? Let’s all debate the semantics and parse the crap out of what “is” is.
LOL
May 15th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
This is one of those Harry Truman situations i.e. he don’t give ‘em hell - he just tells truth on ‘em and they THINK it’s hell.
He didn’t name names but you can see who’s taking it personally… LOL
May 15th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
What semantics? I’m talking straight, Von, and you’re dancing around it.
And the target of Bush’s statements is painfully obvious. But what do he and his staff do? Lie about it.
What gives, Von? You MUST have realized you’ve been taken for a sucker. Is that okay with you? Being a sucker?
Still waiting for you to show me where any Democrat has said we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
You’re a mind reader now??
May 15th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Still no answer?
May 15th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Didn’t Obama say he’d meet with these guys. Dinnerjacket, Chavez etc
I’m sure I heard him say it. They’re sure radicals.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
He did. But Cuba, Venezuela and Iran are sovereign nations. Meeting with leaders of foreign nations is called diplomacy. Bush might have saved the country a few trillion by trying it. But no, he considers that the equivalent of appeasement. Like he has any room to talk about needing to be appeased!
So would your definition of “Radicals” be “Democratically elected officials” or “Rogue elements of society”?
May 15th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Hugo isn’t a radical? These aren’t rogue states?
May 15th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Chamblerlain, baby.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
I fail to see what the Harlem Globetrotters have to do with this. ¬_¬
Anyway, Hugo is a loudmouth asshole, but that doesn’t make Venezuela a rogue state. If they’re so evil, then why are they the fifth largest exporter of oil to the United States? Hell, your saintly oil companies are making big bucks off of them, which, in turn, helps the “rogue state” of Venezuela.
Guess you should pick your battles more wisely next time, eh Von?
Now Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Well, I guess you’d be bitter too after you’ve had your elected prime minister overthrown only to have your democracy replaced with a dictatorship, then have it attempted again.
Apparently the U.S. is a state sponsor of terrorism. Ironic.
His views on Israel are extreme, true, and if it comes to blows, so be it. Until then, we must use diplomacy to avert it rather than taunting them into action. Makes sense, doesn’t it?
Or, we could use the Right Wingers method: FUCK YOU WE’LL KILL YOU UNLESS YOU DO WHAT WE SAY. Which one of us is the “rogue nation,” again?
You lose.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Von, let me ask you something: what would your reaction be if some country came to us and demanded we complied with their requests, a la “if you don’t comply, you’re our enemy?”
Would you call that radical or extremist?
May 16th, 2008 at 7:59 am
A loudmouth asshole that’s supporting FARC? He nationalized their oil industry, yaknow?
no, blow em up.
no, you’re wrong.
You’ll be happier once you stop your moral equivocating.
May 16th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Way to fail, dude.
BTW, Conservatives are among the last groups in the country to have any authority on the topic of moral equivocation.
May 16th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Right. [sigh]
May 16th, 2008 at 8:47 am
So, would you call it “radical extremism?” I’m interested in hearing your response.
May 17th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
You ARE a belligerent closed minded hack. It’s no surprise you sound like one.
May 17th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
…says the person who votes for the party which is hostile to women’s interests, minority interests, homosexual interests, science, the working class, intellectuals, religions other than Christianity, et cetera, ad infinitum.
How amazingly intelligent of you!
It’s worth repeating: intolerance of intolerance is not intolerant.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:28 am
What an amazing circular argument. Congrats.
May 19th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Point out where it’s wrong.
May 19th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
I’m laughing too hard.
May 19th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Hm, I might consider what you had to say every once in awhile, but first you’d need to have something to say. Maybe it’s time to replace the gerbil, Von, because the one on the wheel isn’t moving…
May 19th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
shakes head…..
May 21st, 2008 at 12:23 pm
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May 24th, 2008 at 11:11 am
What have you got here, like three people who post here all the time. What a shitbag site. I bet the other poster is your wife.
May 24th, 2008 at 11:33 am
pfffff, haha. Silly AOL users.