Friends and Acquaintences
November 3rd 2007 02:39
As I've told you before, I have lots of friends. Most of them of the male persuasion and younger than my own kids. At 4:15 this morning, one of them called me and needed a place to stay. He arrived 15 minutes later and spent the day talking out his problems. He's a really good kid and I like having him around. He's gone home now and hopefully will be able to sleep tonight.
I spoke later with another friend of mine who is a determined Democrat. She doesn't know why she votes that way, she just does. She wanted to talk politics and learn what was really happening in the country and the world. After some serious efforts on my part, she's finally watching Fox News Channel and actually learning things. We talked for more than an hour as she asked and I answered.
I wasted the time to reply to an acquaintence who has been bugging me to say something on his blog. He felt a need to bash Ann Coulter and make an issue of something she said. So he expected me to comment. I did. His Muslim crony and his village idiot also commented. For being Jewish, this guy really surprises me at his contempt for Israel. His cronies don't surprise me at all, they're well known as anti-Israel and anti-democracy. But for someone to pretend to be a Jew and permit their sort of trash is amazing. I won't be returning to that dismal mess any time soon, trust me....
As I was dealing with the other blogger, however, I realized what a wonderful opportunity was being placed right in front of me! The new book I'm writing is based on my blog. My comments and those of many others will be featured to create what I hope is a fairly difinitive collection of opinions. I'm going to use the lib/dem rhetoric in their own words to display their ignorance and inability to frame a cohesive argument. So maybe my time wasn't entirely wasted on my efforts to educate the lib/dem and his little friends. When it goes into the book, everyone will be able to see just how assinine their "beliefs" are. They keep saying we should just "agree to disagree." Know what that means, folks? Thats the last ditch effort of someone with no values or morals or beliefs to sound like they have something between their ears. Besides open air, that is... This new book is getting to be more fun all the time! Especially when the commentors are so cowardly they can't use their own names. I can't wait to get it published!
I spoke later with another friend of mine who is a determined Democrat. She doesn't know why she votes that way, she just does. She wanted to talk politics and learn what was really happening in the country and the world. After some serious efforts on my part, she's finally watching Fox News Channel and actually learning things. We talked for more than an hour as she asked and I answered.
I wasted the time to reply to an acquaintence who has been bugging me to say something on his blog. He felt a need to bash Ann Coulter and make an issue of something she said. So he expected me to comment. I did. His Muslim crony and his village idiot also commented. For being Jewish, this guy really surprises me at his contempt for Israel. His cronies don't surprise me at all, they're well known as anti-Israel and anti-democracy. But for someone to pretend to be a Jew and permit their sort of trash is amazing. I won't be returning to that dismal mess any time soon, trust me....
As I was dealing with the other blogger, however, I realized what a wonderful opportunity was being placed right in front of me! The new book I'm writing is based on my blog. My comments and those of many others will be featured to create what I hope is a fairly difinitive collection of opinions. I'm going to use the lib/dem rhetoric in their own words to display their ignorance and inability to frame a cohesive argument. So maybe my time wasn't entirely wasted on my efforts to educate the lib/dem and his little friends. When it goes into the book, everyone will be able to see just how assinine their "beliefs" are. They keep saying we should just "agree to disagree." Know what that means, folks? Thats the last ditch effort of someone with no values or morals or beliefs to sound like they have something between their ears. Besides open air, that is... This new book is getting to be more fun all the time! Especially when the commentors are so cowardly they can't use their own names. I can't wait to get it published!
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I have read a lot of the comments they have made about you, and I think you get under their skin also, keep up the good work.
Your book sounds like it's going to very good. Wish you the best with it, and keep educating those young folks, we need to save as many as we can from the Liberal mind set.
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I look foward on ndiscovering why i am wrong about everythnig.
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You do realize when we agree to disagree we concede not our ideas (or ideals) but rather that we simply cannot agree here so we agree on that simple fact. If we were politicians we would let the votes decide. There have only ever been a very few times in history when voters have been equally divided on an issue which has been understandbly the cause of bitter arguments yet since the vietnam war it seems like we have to bitterly argue about everything even when voters have openly made up their collective minds.
The problem with your line of thinking is you cannot accept that the majority of americans may vote for democrats though unfortunately for you it is very likely that they will simply because George Bush has left a bad taste in their mouths. You might try and refute this point yet ultimately it will be in vein, you have to agree that the collective minds of the voters disagree with your opinions ergo you have to agree to disagree. You could always start your own country or go to a dictatorship like Iran or the Soviet Union if you don't like it.
I'm happy to be wrong about stuff, you know if I am wrong about something I get corrected on it and learn something. On the other hand if I'm right all the time then I'm just an arrogant jerk who thinks he (or she as the case may be
As far as not standing up to anything, I stand up to a lot of things, you won't ever catch me backing down on what I believe is the very fabric that makes up our societies and I vote accordingly to those beliefs. For instance I'm not backing down on the issue of gay-rights so much so that I'm not willing to vote for a politician who does not support it. I don't care if he supports everything else I agree with because he disagrees with one of the fundamental aspects of our society.
Now tell me, if you so believe that America is a country of freedom why you would be so hostile against someone who supports gay rights? Who is compromising on their beliefs? To really be free you have to think big, you have to see every claim you make to the end. It's easy to claim you love freedom but it certainly isn't easy to show it. You fail at the first step towards proving you truly love the freedom America is built upon simply because you criticize candidates based on the fact they support something like gay marriage which ultimately means you do not support someonen who advocates human rights.
oh and I appreciate being a 'muslim crony', kind of strange that Islam had nothing to do with the post yet you bring it up. I guess I am part of the worldwide conspiracy to convert all Christians to Islam
From what i can see it looks like you're just indulging in your own views and are afraid to go out into the big bad world and see just how many people have opinions that should be taken into consideration.
It's a sad state of affairs that you continuously retreat to Adhominem attacks, there is literally no substance in what you say. I'm convinced that you now are resorting to outright lying, it shows often times when you say something that even you are struggling to make yourself believe.
If you are creating fairy tales where you are right then all you're doing is delibrately fooling yourself. I understand your mindset very well, that Christianity has to rule supreme irrespective of what, and you're prepared to lie, decieve and cheat to get what you want because you ultimately think it's for the greater good.
So just remember, the end never justifies the means.
Comment by S.L. Bradish
If "most people vote for democrats" it's mostly because the voters in question are illegals that the libs/dems allow to vote or those who want all the goodies the libs/dems promise (at the expense of others.)
I get to hear lots of opinions, Ahmed, even silly ones like yours. Just because I have to hear them doesn't mean they're going to change my mind and turn me into a lib/dem. I also know very well what the "other side" of the arguments are. Sort of hard to miss, the way you libs keep hammering away and riding a stump! lol You seem to believe that repeating a lie often enough will make it true (and then accuse others of doing the same thing).
As for the ends not justifying the means, did you figure that one out all by yourself? The usual lib/dem policy wants the "ends" to be "free everything for everyone" and people think that sounds great. The "means" of course are higher taxes and the removal of rights for a large section of the population. John Edwards would love to be able to create the "two Americas" he keeps talking about. In his world, one of the two Americas would be the working class who struggle for every cent and the other would be the dependent class (entirely supported by the working class) who enjoy free medical, free food, free housing, free education, free everything. It wouldn't take long for his "two Americas" to become just one. When too many of the dependent class aren't getting their "needs" met, the working class would either revolt or quit working and let the "government" support them. One great big dependent class might sound good on the surface, Ahmed. But it would be disastrous. Who would pay for all the "freebies" they expect? The one class would have to change it's name from the "dependent class" to STARVING.
Your charge that Christians will lie, cheat, steal, etc. is so assinine it doesn't deserve a reply.
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Don't hold your breath, I'm just waiting for you to start throwing around the insults
Considering how small the number of illegals are it's pretty evident that they wouldn't get any democrat into congress. People do vote for democrats because they agree with their policies over conservatives.
Who would you vote for? Like, just for a laugh, Hllary Clinton if she promises to stay in Iraq 'until the job is done' but has more liberal policies otherwise, or Ron Paul who plans on immediate withdrawal but is otherwise conservative?
What 'goodies' do democrats promise that goes at the expense of others? I mean, compare it to Republicans who are all happy to go to war at the expense of peoples lives. At least the democrats spend money on things people need like healthcare.
Don't start the 'democrats raise taxes', at least they're honest about spending money, unlike Republicans who promote war and lower taxes yet war costs exponentially more than healthcare.
Who said anything about changing minds? You're afraid of seeing opinions because it forces you to think and come up with ever increasingly creative ways to deny. Thats why you avoid going to other blogs and trying to engage with people, instead you throw around adhominem attacks in your own blog and try to wish away anyone who disagrees with you.
I don't consider myself a liberal/democrat or whatever else, I've supported a war in Iraq from before you even knew where Iraq was on the map! From when you thought saddam was a hero because Donald Rumsfeld shook hands with him. I wanted Saddam out, I don't like the idea of a total withdrawal now either. I find it hypocritical of the democrats to pretend they are so anti-war when only a minority of them actually are. Hillary Clinton is as pro-war as George Bush. But hey, I make up my own damn mind, political allegances? Perish the thought, we all have our own unique set of opinions that won't fall in one way or the other unless we lie to ourselves about what we truly believe.
Did you read above? All the trillions of dollars spent on war thusfar wasn't exactly 'free', just because republicans don't increase taxes doesn't mean they don't spend as much as democrats would without war. Put things into perspective and you'll see that the money spent on the war could have bought a lot of things for AMericans by now, including schools, healthcare, churches, stadiums, the list goes on and on.
Let me just put things into perspective for you,
The US is ranked somewhere in the 30s in terms of healthcare, spending $6000 per person on average, the war in Iraq has cost over 400 billion dollars. Do the maths now,
400,000,000,000 divided by 6000 = 66666666. Thats a lot of people who could benefit from it, now if the US could spend money more effectively on healthcare you could triple that number (pretty much the top 10 healtchare providers in the world spend around $2000 per person).
So you see, war isn't free, it's expensive, certainly more expensive than providing healthcare to people who need it. It sure would save a lot of lives too.
I don't really know who you're talking about, trying to make 'two americas' doesn't sound like the righ tway to describe services the government can provide its people. So I'm not really endorsing his views whatever it may be.
Your theory however is badly flawed here, there are case studies all around you (see the rest of the world) that show what you list (free medical, free food, free housing, free education, free everything which arent ever really free
I mean by your logic I could kick back and not do anything and still have a roof over my head and food. But at what cost? Well I wouldn't have anything to do but eat and sleep, I'd be constantly nagged by the government to get off my ass and my living conditions would be just over the poverty line (that is to say, not very high at all). I have hopes and ambitions, I have dreams I want to fulfil, and I sure can't do that living on welfare. I hav ea purpouse in life that extends before eating and sleeping which is essentially all 'free' healthcare and housing can provide. Living on welfarie however would come in handy should I end up out of house and home for whatever reason, like if I severely injure myself and my private insurer (if I had one
You're going to have to try pretty hard to fib your way out of this one
Comment by S.L. Bradish
You sound like some of the "Code Pink" idiots who don't understand that our military is ALL VOLUNTEER. No one has been drafted and forced to go to war. Every single one of them joined the service, knowing that they could and probably would be fighting.
To assume that if we brought all the troops home tomorrow would make us safer is ridiculous. To further assume that the money spent on the war would have been put toward the "environment" or "education" or "healthcare" is just plain crazy. By the time the war has wound down and the troops are either home or stationed elsewhere in the world, some genius in the government will decide that the funds they're "saving" by not being at war should go to something different. It won't be returned to the taxpayers, it won't go for "the greater good" (at least not in reality, maybe in a lib/dem fantasy). There will be something new that the money can go for. Like supporting more illegals. Like "donating" it to the political coffers so dems can try to buy elections.
I'm getting a little tired of hearing how Donald Rumsfeld "shook hands with Saddam." That was a long time ago and enemies become allies over time as well as the other way around. Until another country does something egregious, you may consider them a friend. When they do something like invade their neighbors, they're no longer allies. When they harbor terrorists they become enemies.
And just FYI, Ahmed, I knew where Iraq was before you were born. There was a time (before the libs/dems took it over) that we actually had a pretty good system of education in this country. Our schools from kindergarten on through college have ceased to be places of higher education and have become liberal indoctrination centers.
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But as I explained in today's post, I quit. You win. Now do you feel better?
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SL, I assume you are referring to Ahmed as Jim's Muslim crony, so I must be the village idiot. It's funny, you try to act so high-minded, yet you are the one to always throw the personal stuff, right down to questioning Jim's heritage.
I have news for you, it takes more intellect to actually debate and use real information and facts. That said, no one is above it once in awhile. So I have a question for you, SL...did your late night male visitor leave a 20 dollar bill on the nightstand like the others?
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As for you Jeff, if Jim isn't "comfortable swilling with pigs" what's he doing with you? And I'm sure you know more about leaving money on a night stand than I do. Take your childish actics and entertain Jim with them, please. You're really boring, ya know? Perhaps the two of you can come up with some new "facts" to support your "positions."
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Explain to me, in your infinite wisdom, why that when Jim points out that saying something like 'jews need perfecting' is offensive by its very nature implies he is anti-semetic and hates Israel?
The only anti-semetic words spoken are that of Ann coulter and her big mouth, not from Jim or Jeff or me. I haven't said anything, nor implied anything against Jews as a people or a religion.
the only person who has is Ann Coulter, the person you defend for speaking her mind which you agree is also your own line of thinking. To that end you're going to have to weasel your way out of this one, how can you NOT be an anti-semetic when jews themselves take offense at such remarks? Worse yet, how can you claim we are being anti-semetic for saying the stinking obvious, that Ann Coulters words were offensive to say the least.
Am I anti-Semetic for thinking that Ann Coulte should apoligise for what she said? I don't like hearing such things as 'Jews need perfecting'.
Your logic is so twisted that we can only conclude that you're hiding your real views under a blanket hoping you can fool us all into believe hollowed out opinions as fact while you quickly try to paint a picture of a perfect christian world or something like that (we can only take second guesses until you come clean).
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After helpfully suggesting it is better that my parents are dead, you explained, " If they're dead, it's probably a good thing they didn't have to see what an anti-Semitic jerk you have become."
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Your charge that Christians will lie, cheat, steal, etc. is so assinine it doesn't deserve a reply.
LOL.
Ahmed.
Don't feed the trolls.
Jim.
It's a releif to know you're the villiage idiot, I thought I was
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As for feeding the trolls, aren't you full yet?
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I try not to troll btw.
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It's cute how you still don't understand the phrase...
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If you don't know what feeding the troll is you're going to hvae to first learn that, then you'll have a better shot at figuring out what I'm saying
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An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who intentionally posts controversial or contrary messages in an on-line community such as an on-line discussion forum with the intention of baiting users into an argumentative response.
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