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Fountain of Truth
(24.193.220.39) on 3/30/2004 - 2:34 a.m. says: ( 5 views
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You’d know that my response was in jest. Hell, take half a second, scroll down and look at my signature! Mutt mentioned that I've seen the elephant. Yes I have. I've led men into combat and watched some of them die. That experience alone doesn't qualify me as an expert on global affairs. I've been to ground zero as well, but that experience doesn't make you or me any more knowledgeable on the WMD issue. I live in Alabama, you live in NYC to a European we are both Americans, but that alone doesn't make us experts on Utah.
I do give a #badword# about the lies that were pushed out there to start this war; I criticized this war from day one. What I don't give a #badword# about is you! Then again, I've been around posting stories about the first war, my dog, a car accident, I've had an "affair" with one of the board goddesses I've threatened physical harm to another regular who called me a dumb jarhead, I've openly attacked the religious right and their hypocrisy, I've openly mocked the "religious" left and THEIR hypocrisy, I've been called a liar because no one has ever heard of such an animal as a liberal Marine, I've told jokes that would make a sailor blush (pussies) and posted links to news stories so stupid that I deleted them before the admins had a chance to. In the limited time I've made all of these posts on so many subjects, I've also spent a LOT, and I mean a LOT of time discussing my beloved Auburn University and our football program - not to mention our troubles inside the athletic department and out.
I think what I'm getting at is that people here know me and I know them. I know where someone stands on politics, football, sweet tea and mama by looking at their icons. I've spent time here in this "community" getting to know everyone. Perhaps your posts would be better received if you had A. made more than just 40 of them, and b. not used such strong-arm tactics in them. No one likes to admit that they may be wrong, and for you to not only tell them that they're wrong, but to beat them over the head with their own crumpled beliefs is insulting.
I think that is a great deal of the problem with you. I've defended you many times in email and on the board to regular posters but I'm done now.
Go away, but post a recipe first.
Dear Semper Fi,
I'm glad that you're upset about the lies that have dragged us into this war and that you've scored with the board goddesses and that you're a renaisance man who's posted on all manner of subjects here. You obviously post here and read the board far more than I do. Then again, I've probably been here longer than you think -- or at least my friends, superbalckie, Major Ogilvie, sandykelman and many others have. It's not that I like changing names, it's just that those crazy characters have been banned at one time or another because I've offended people who pretend that they absolutely loathe political correctness until somebody writes something that they really disagree with but can't explain why. What an irony that this is board is far more poltically correct than any college campus that I've seen here in the Northeast.
Don't do me any favors by defending me if you're not up to it. There are times when a few Latin quoting, faux libertarians on this board pretend to be interested in the marketplace of ideas and I've taken the bait. But that dissolves fairly quickly when even the putatively open-minded people on the board like yourself subscribe to the following hypocricy: It's okay for the conservatives to be arrogant -- even when they're only parroting Sean Hannity. But when I do it, everyone's offended, mostly because I've used facts in my posts against which responses like "You sir, have never been to war. Belive me, bombing always works" or "You Sir, are just a Hillary-licking liberal" just don't hold up very long. (BTW, I love the over use of "sir" on this board). I don't think I'd really seen a reference to Richard Clarke in many posts here before three weeks ago. But I probably mentioned him here 20 times in the past six months, detailing that Concoleeza Rice had hired Clarke and warned the Bush administration about Al Quaeda and that they failed to act on it -- all of which was reported in major newspapers beginning in late 2001. The response was predictable.
Strong arm tactics? What do you mean by strong arm tactics -- please give me an example. Every single post that I've ever written has been responeded to with strong arm tactics, including banning my posts and looking up my employer and having my IPS address banned so that I never post from work. Those are strong arm tactics. If you mean by strong arm tactics, my writing, if you mean "beating people over the heads with their own crumpled beliefs" then yes -- I'm guilty and I refuse to apologize for being better at it than anyone else -- but people like Mutt the Loophole and Calvinist Dawg make it all too easy -- and when I see a batting pratice fast ball in my wheelhouse, it usually ends up on Waveland Avenue.
One reason I post here is that the attitudes I see here are ruining the country -- it's the lazy thinking that I see here that has allowed the lies of the administration to take shape. I'm astonished at the anger and fear that I see here when I post a political opinion that is backed up with facts. There's still people on this board repeating phrases they hear on AM radio like "fiscally irresponsible Democrats" when they cannot even begin to defend that phrase in the conext of the last 20 years.
Do you think I'm arrogant for posting these things? What should I do -- coddle them, patronize them? Isn't that what conservatives accuse Democrats of doing to disadvantaged children when they fail to enforce uniform standards. When they fail to hold minorities up to the same standards as anyone else with affirmative action. Are you asking me, Semper Fi to take a "liberal, bleeding heart" attitude to people who still belive in supply side economics, and judge them by a different standard since they get all of their newsd from FOX? No, there are a lot of so-called conservative, well, let's call them libertarian principles that I believe in like uniformly applying stadards (in this case of logic and sense) and what better place to apply them than on an internet board where people purport to belive in such things.
But as bad as this board is, it's better than some of the other boards which are infested with people who even liberals would write off.
Anyway: take a scoop of vanilla ice cream and grate whole nutmeg over it to taste. Believe me, that's good.
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