Obama--the grumblings - Page 2

TGRR · 02-06-2009, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

I think you're confusing "extremists" with "people rather to one side or the other of the middle of the road." For me, that's close enough to the "wings."

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TGRR,
Knows that extremism in defense of extremism is no vice.

Pie · 01-22-2009, 11:51 PM

I was grinning like a fookin' idiot all the way to work today. Listening to NPR.
I almost forgot I could be this proud.

tw · 01-23-2009, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Pie

I was grinning like a fookin' idiot all the way to work today. Listening to NPR.
I almost forgot I could be this proud.

I too heard today on NPR: today was National Pie Day. Congratulations.

wolf · 01-24-2009, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by tw

I too heard today on NPR: today was National Pie Day. Congratulations.

Don't forget, Pi day is March 14.

Urbane Guerrilla · 01-24-2009, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

Don't forget, Pi day is March 14.

At 16:00?

Shawnee123 · 01-24-2009, 09:42 AM

I cannot believe I missed National Pie Day.

I'm sorry Pie. Hope you had a great day!

Undertoad · 01-24-2009, 12:18 PM

Rich, what do you read on the right, for balance?

richlevy · 01-24-2009, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Rich, what do you read on the right, for balance?

Actually, I read mostly local papers. I get my national news from Google/Yahoo sources, which can be anything from the New York Times to the Los Angeles Times.

As I mentioned earlier, Christian Science Monitor did a lot of good foreign reporting.

Thanks to the Internet, I have read from almost all of the sources UG and I mentioned, except for Commentary. A long time ago, I subscribed to a magazine called Skeptic which presented two sides to every article.

As for broadcast, I tried listening to Air America, but couldn't get into it. I always see clips of Limbaugh and Coulter, but it's like watching a train wreck. I can stand Hannity in very short bursts. I take Maddow and Olbermann with a large grain of salt. They are both partisan, but generally do not have the pure vindictiveness of their conservative counterparts. To find the over-the-top liberals that match up with 'professionals' like Limbagh/Coulter, one would have to bring up amatuers like Garofalo. I will concede that Olbermann has added his 'structured rants', which begins to approach but does not match the level of vitriol of his conservative counterparts .

capnhowdy · 01-24-2009, 09:20 PM

Can we not talk about obama on March 14?

Urbane Guerrilla · 01-24-2009, 10:48 PM

Common run: we could note Harper's and Z. Great founts of unwisdom. I suppose I could go through the labor of reading through them for sentence by sentence quotes -- do you think it would change my opinion?

xoxoxoBruce · 01-25-2009, 01:25 AM

Hell no.

Urbane Guerrilla · 01-26-2009, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Hell no.

That's because I think and I seek. What I find in the seeking tells me the Left ain't nowhere near to getting that quintessential "it" which makes a life worth the living. They don't have a lot in common with me. I have better ambitions than they, and it's not like there's only so much room over here by me: there's plenty left for you.

I know there's nothing so irritating as a good example, yet still a good example is the only one I can in conscience give, and the only one I'm going to.

Yeah, there's that Heinleinian remark, somewhere in Starship Troopers, about the guy who doesn't have social values worth having, doesn't want them, and will fight like hell to avoid them -- he thought such men really suck, and I agree.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-28-2009, 01:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

That's because I think and I seek.

You think there must be some, so you seek nutters that agree with you.

sugarpop · 01-28-2009, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

That's because I think and I seek. What I find in the seeking tells me the Left ain't nowhere near to getting that quintessential "it" which makes a life worth the living. They don't have a lot in common with me. I have better ambitions than they, and it's not like there's only so much room over here by me: there's plenty left for you.

I know there's nothing so irritating as a good example, yet still a good example is the only one I can in conscience give, and the only one I'm going to.

Yeah, there's that Heinleinian remark, somewhere in Starship Troopers, about the guy who doesn't have social values worth having, doesn't want them, and will fight like hell to avoid them -- he thought such men really suck, and I agree.

My God. Could you be any more condescending? What makes you think YOU are the ultimate authority on "getting that quintessential "it" which makes a life worth the living," or that your personal seeking is better than anyone else's? Or that YOU have better ambitions than "they," whoever "they" are? (I assume you mean all people on the left.) What makes you think YOU have the only social or moral values worth having? Wow. Why don't you go create your own little kingdom for us all to worship and adore?

That post was completely insulting.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-28-2009, 07:59 AM

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That post was completely insulting.

As usual.

01-22-2009, 11:51 PM	#2
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	I was grinning like a fookin' idiot all the way to work today. Listening to NPR. I almost forgot I could be this proud. __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

01-24-2009, 09:42 AM	#6
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	I cannot believe I missed National Pie Day. I'm sorry Pie. Hope you had a great day! __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

01-24-2009, 09:20 PM	#9
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	Can we not talk about obama on March 14? __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

01-24-2009, 10:48 PM	#10
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Common run: we could note Harper's and Z. Great founts of unwisdom. I suppose I could go through the labor of reading through them for sentence by sentence quotes -- do you think it would change my opinion? __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

01-25-2009, 01:25 AM	#11
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Hell no. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-24-2009, 12:18 PM	#7
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Rich, what do you read on the right, for balance?

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