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Posted on July 8 at 1:55 p.m.
Yep, I notice now that the cat is out of the bag, they are suddenly silent. They (or he/she) did pretty good at playing dumb, also. I mean, a pol sci major, and doesn't even know what month the new president actually takes office? - LOL.
Well, satire is usually presented as such beforehand, and even though in my first post, I stated I wasn't sure which was which, I decided to go along with it for a bit. I will admit it was pretty clever.
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Posted on July 7 at 10:02 p.m.
I look at what Ted Kennedy has accomplished in his career and absolutely shudder. I wonder what kind of a "he was an absolute saint" eulogy the Gazette will give him after he passes......
I think as time passes, as it always does, and as has always happened in the past, alot of reporters will be remembered after the fact for their bias and one-sided views. I fondly remember all the reporters that absolutely shredded Reagan for getting us into WW3. At least that was their prediction. Funny how the Iron Curtain came down without a shot..... but its up to those of us with sense to remember and teach the next generation, because I'm sure most of that will be expunged from textbooks in the future....
Posted on July 7 at 7:15 p.m.
I agree, me thinks there is some playing going on here - except, I truly have heard some people that are just about that googly-eyed over Obama. They may not say things quite as stupid as our 2 resident 3-year old posters, but pretty close. Ya gotta admit, there ARE alot of people in this country who just want life to be a free handout, and will vote for whoever promises that. So who knows..... as I said, personally, even if this poster or posters IS a "genius" (I would not use that term, myself - just based on their scruples, or lack of) - either way - if this kind of behavior is what they resort to to "stir things up", then they still have my pity. I kindof view the extreme left as having no scruples whatsoever, (whatever means gets you to your goal is justified), so to me, personally, a conservative resorting to this kind of stuff I pretty much place in the same bucket.... just my view.....
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Posted on July 7 at 9:35 a.m.
Socialism has never been "treed" in this country. Well, I don't know exactly what putting socialism up a tree with a bunch of dogs at the base barking at it will do, but I wouldn't know, since I'm just a plain country folk that knows how to spell. I've met alot of "city folk" in my life who weren't very bright. Sarah, your ignorance just absolutely astounds me. As does your stereotyping. Hey, I've met some black and Mexican people who weren't very bright. So I guess I can say that blacks and Mexicans aren't very bright. (Of course, I've met some that were absolutely brilliant, and alot of dumb white people, but I'm trying to take Sarah's attitude and stereotype). Socialism HAS been "treed" in other countries, and none of those countries are as prosperous as the US, and have plenty of problems of their own. Do some research and find out, instead of just swallowing whatever your ultra-liberal professor feeds you. I've never "treed" swallowing a bunch of poison, either, but I've seen that those that do seem to be worse off than me, so I've learned from looking at the history of those people to be smart enough to not repeat it. Even though some of them did it, like, way back, like even before 9/11, like, so long ago, like, so yesterday.
Geesh. How hilarious has this thread gotten, people?
Saray, Merky - please print out all your predictions - if Obama is elected, please report back to us in a year or 2 from now on how many of them actually come true. And, if most do, please report on the state of the economy and the world. Please don't just go silent. Whoever is elected in November faces a country and a world with alot of problems. Some created by the current administration, some created by the prior administration, some created by the 20 administrations and policies before that, some that would have happened and are happening regardless of what anyone in the past would have done, some not nearly as big a problem as they would have been due to the actions of the current administration, the prior administration, and the actions/policies of the 20 previous administrations.
By the way - I've stated on other threads how we have such a big segment of people in this country who worship Obama as the Messiah - I was somewhat ridiculed for that view. Anyone still think I'm making it up?
BTW - I did not bother to spell-check any of this, so if I misspell some words, or chase anything up a tree with my dogs, please just chalk it up to my country folk upbringing, and contrast it with Sarahs, slick, sophisticated, witty, informed, city-slicker prose - ROFLMAO......
Sarah, Merky - if you truly believe in yourselves, it's been fun, and you've helped to educate alot of people (although I suspect not quite in the way you intended - intelligent readers here will understand what I mean) - and if you're all doing this for kicks, hey, it's still been fun, but either way, you truly have my deepest sympathies.....
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Posted on July 7 at 9:26 a.m.
There is either 1 of 2 things happening here: Either we have a couple of posters here who are quite honestly the most uninformed, uneducated, blind Kookaide-drinking people I have ever in my life heard from, or we have a couple (or maybe the same) poster(s) who are just posting idiocracy for their own, sick, perverted humor. Well, going with the first premise for now, I have some questions:
Something like "Things will change so we won't have to work.... if we choose not to work, those that choose to work can support us (or something like that, I'm laughing too hard to bother to page back to look up the exact quote)....
Oh good grief. That pretty much says it all. We've got some people here who are lazy, lazy, lazy, and want you and I to work hard to support them. Why don't we all quit our jobs - I'm sure we can get Merky and Sarah to work hard enough to support us. I have no problem whatsoever with helping to support people who CANNOT work, or are truly unable to find work, but I don't feel like supporting the lazy. I certainly would prefer to "choose not to work". Maybe we could take turns. This is my decade to not work. Sarah, Murky, get off your butts. I'm hungry.
Sarah - ever hear the old saying "Those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it"??? As you get older, and (hopefully) mature, you will find the truth in that. 9/11 is so like history........ well, the Trade Centers were bombed in '93, Bin Laden declared war on the US in '94, (Clinton was president then, since you don't study history I doubt you knew that) - good thing under his administration we had the attitude that that was so like, yesterday, and could ignore it - so that 3,000 people could lose their lives in 9/11. I honestly don't know, Sarah, if you've ever taken a history class in your life, and seen what ignoring things has done to the world (study pre-WWII actions by many politicians).
"There will be no rich, no poor" - on this, you may be right. Acting like 9/11 never happened, it will only be a matter of time before a nuke gets smuggled into the country, or widespread poison in our food/water system(s), so..... there will be no people. Period. Rich OR poor. Or anything in the middle.
Bush made sure his rich friends don't have to pay taxes.
Back it up. Show us proof. Last I checked, like has been said earlier, the richest few percent pay over 1/2 the taxes in this country, including Bush and his "friends", as you put it.
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Posted on July 3 at 5:42 p.m.
Adline - welcome to America, and I for one am proud to call you a fellow American.
Remember the prison inmate that won his case that his practice of atheism constituted a religion? That makes things pretty hairy - shall we limit an atheists right to practice his religion as well?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/articl...
So,
Another interesting case - the Muslim call to prayers in Michigan, which has caused a stir at times. Some people liken it to church bells ringing, but most do not - a more apt comparison would be to have the church bells replaced by an amplified loudspeaker blaring out the Lord's Prayer 5 times a day. Church bells ring for weddings, funerals, etc..... Anyway, the ACLU has largely stayed out of this one. (Imagine that). So, remember the thread about the Christmas Program/Displays last winter? The law stipulating how, even on schools, it must be viewed? I'm willing to bet there are plenty of government buildings withing hearing distance of the call to prayers..... I wouldn't have a problem if they clanged a bell or something similar 5 times a day to mark it - just like church bells - but I'll bet anyone here if churches started blasting out scripture over amplified loudspeakers, over wide areas, 5 times a day, the ACLU would be all over it in an instant.........
I'm not trying to sling mud or be a Jerry Springer type, I'm just pointing out what I see as some inconsistency in how different religions are handled in this country, and including by the ACLU.....
Posted on July 2 at 10:53 a.m.
I must admit that at times I'm somewhat grudgingly in the middle on this issue. It seems that as long as oil/gas prices are low, there doesn't seem to be the impetus to research and find alternative sources. Now that prices are high, everyone is pushing for alternatives. Unfortunately, in our society, everything is always market driven, not necessarily by what is best or the right thing to do. In my wishful thinking view, we would drill now, get prices down, but also push HARD to develop/discover new alternative sources. Not saying we don't do that somewhat now, it just seems we don't look as hard as long as oil is cheap. But even IF oil is cheap, we need to do everything we can to wean ourselves off the Middle East psychos OPEC (Oil Psychos Extra Crazy).
MerkyWater, apparently you've missed Obama's speech where he said that Americans need to get used to higher oil prices, he just thinks it should have been a more gradual climb so that Americans would have more time to adjust to it. That doesn't sound to me like he's on fire to get prices down. He has said repeatedly he is against more drilling. His approach is to invest massive funds in finding alternative sources. I'm ok with that, but I think we also need some shorter-term relief. Since, to my understanding, alot of the current oil price has to do with speculators, I wouldn't be surprised if simply announcing the opening up of drilling wouldn't have an immediate effect on speculation on prices.
But remember, short term or long term, things are only going to get worse. India and China are going to VASTLY increase their oil consumption in the next 20 years. I say drill our own and let them be OPEC's pawns, while we develop some alternatives....... well, that's my wishful thinking, anyway....
See what I meant in my posts on the other thread about how people think he's the Messiah? Although I don't drink the Kookade, I can certainly hope that IF elected, he DOES turn out to be...... .fingers crossed..... LOL
Posted on July 1 at 12:52 p.m.
Ya know, I'll be honest - I grew up with some of the same stereotypes that I see on these forums at time. Sure, I knew lots of extremely smart and educated "country folk", but I figured, on the average, once I went to the big city I was going to be somehow disadvantaged, and surrounded by people in lots or most ways, superior to me. I found out "it ain't so". The more varied people I meet, the more I find out that overall, people are pretty much all the same no matter where they're from or what background they have. Sure, there's lots of variations to the pattern, but not as much as many people would believe. Peace to all.
Posted on July 1 at 12:40 p.m.
I was in 5 different countries in western Europe that summer, and have been in more since. You're right, it does vary from country to country. Funny how it works though - one of the rudest countries WAS France - and we saved their butts in the World Wars. They must be peeved about all the prime real estate that thousands of American soldier graves are occupying. And one of the friendliest was Germany, who's butt we kicked in the wars. Go figure.
I never said you were stereotyping people in this area. You merely made a local observation. I said you were stereotyping Kansans in general. Your statement that "Kansans are, on the average, clueless about politics", is a stereotype everyway you look at it, and pretty much fits exactly your definition from Websters. As is Fixed_News derogatory comment about "country folk". I understand and applaud your pride to be a part of "country folk" (as I will always consider myself to be at heart, no matter where I end up living) - but Fixed's statement was pretty blatantly straightforward - if I had made a statement that "all these city folk think that King Bill Clinton can do no wrong", would that not be a stereotype????? Then Fixed needs a better choice of words. When you say the sky is blue, I assume you mean the sky is blue, and when you say water is wet, I assume you mean water is wet, so when make a derogatory statement about "country folk", then you should be prepared to explain it.
Oh well, enough about that. The sentiments came thru loud and clear. Sometimes the first thing out of your mouth reveals the most about your true inner feelings.
This is an old link from 1999, but Kansas 4th-8th graders scored near the top in national tests. So maybe there IS something to the book "What's the matter with Kansas?". The question is, "how did Kansas kids get to be so much smarter than the rest of the country? Must be something in our water....
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn...
Hey, here's a funny I ran across - at least Kansans are the BEST drivers in the US!!! - Kansans must all have "smarter" cars than other Americans - cause we all learned to drive from watching Fox News!!!! - LOL
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Posted on July 8 at 5:23 p.m.
To the writer of this article (Julius): You mentioned the Republican's "unrelenting quest for power". And exactly what do you think is the goal of the Democratic party? You really believe that all Democrats, and only Democrats, have a pure and nobler purpose? Or 98% of all politicians, regardless of party affiliation, for that matter? C'mon, pull your head out of the sand......
I've read many an Obama-adoring column stating things like (one example here) "Obama refused to resort to many traditional tactics in his contest with Hillary Clinton, never attacking her personally. In this way, he appeared to rise above the "petty politics" of the past and embody a newer, ennobled mode of political action...."
Have you done a little research into how Obama first got elected to his first political position in Chicago? He got everyone else on the ballot eliminated (including the sitting incumbant, who won the previous election with 83% of the vote) - by cherry-picking over the petitions and getting enough names eliminated so that he could run unopposed. Many of the names were eliminated purely because they were printed, instead of written in cursive. So basically, after working to increase voter registration, he gets those against him thrown out. Hows that for a "hanging chad" technicality? What is that slogan I heard alot in the last couple of elections....something like "Every Vote Counts"????? Guess they should change it to "Every Vote For ME Counts, And Nobody Else's Matters".... Yes, it was all perfectly legal - but don't pull stunts like that and then complain to me about "Hanging Chads".....Sounds like "tactics" to me - and not very "ennobled" ones, at that. And what was his ultimate goal? My guess is that it had something to do with an "unrelenting quest for power"........... LOL
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