Lessons Learned
The robot is not a universally appreciated dance…I suppose that’s unless you’re a robot. As a white man I have no natural rhythm, unless I’m holding an electric guitar…
I watched this clip on Hot Air, I wasn’t going to say anything really about it, but it did strike me. Bill O’Reilly (of which I flip flop Kerry style on whether or not I like him) had a good point about why the Left hates so much…it’s because they can’t stand on their own debate skills or intellectualism. This was of course in reference to the active shouting down of “The Minutemen” at Columbia University. You’d think for $35,000 a year they’d know free speech means people have the right to say things that you might not agree with, but I guess you can’t buy wisdom…just knowledge.
I read another article today called “How to Talk to a Republican (If You Absolutely Must)“, and it sounded about right. No actual substance, just senseless contradiction and personal attacks, such as:
Because when you are the party of the dumbest Secretary of State to ever hold that office, who got promoted after deciding missile defense was important but Al Qaida was something to ignore, then you’ll have nothing but talking points.
Now this is of course nothing new…but published on a day where the Democratic party is complaining about how the Bush Administration should have done more to protect us from North Korea and their possible nuclear missiles, it seems odd that Schecter chooses to attack promoting missile defense…however, I suppose that would require a grasp of history (which as I’ve said before, to get a Democrat to grasp something, just take a contradictory approach, you’ll be guaranteed they’ll take the opposite).
Example:
Me: I like pancakes.
Democrat: Pancakes were embraced by the Nazis you brown-shirt reflection of Orwellian fiction. You obviously have no education and your oral hygiene is laughable. If you didn’t spend so much time oppressing minorities and the poor, you might have time to brush your teeth. Next thing you’re probably going to say you like maple syrup, which we all know is the favorite treat of pedos and rapists. If there’s a hell (which there is not…only Texas), I know you will burn there.
The article then ends:
Just tell them what they are what their party has stood for. Everyone has the power to bring about the change of which we are in dire need.
Mr. Schecter…we know what we stand for, and you’re not actually daft enough to believe that anecdotal examples and stand alone “bad guys” represent the entire culture of the Republican party…but then, if you weren’t daft, then O’Reilly’s comment at the end of the Hot Air clip wouldn’t ring quite so true to me, but you know what does…the possible future speaker of the House, saying:
The United States does not need a multi-billion-dollar national missile defense against the possibility of a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile.
Oh Nancy, if only your speech was as smooth as the resulting brow from your quarterly Botox injection. (Rumor – I hear she had to have all running water removed from her office for fear of accidental exposure, and the unavoidable melting that would follow). This of course will be blotted out by the DU and KOS Men in Black flashpen, erasing all history of it in the record…where it will reside in the long lost book of Democratic non-statements (such as the mockery of Iraq, Iran, and North Korea being named as the “Axis of Evil” several years ago…that was just crazy), and will be promptly replaced by, “Why didn’t George Bush do more to promote missile defense when we all knew North Korea was a threat.” Counterpoint….but again, no point anywhere in sight.
And now…I shuffle off to practice my skills of “the worm” with my wife…(bwahaha)…a far less subtle dance.
Democrats, House, North Korea, Rant, msm
I couldn’t agree more. I have never seen the “straw man” argument used more in debate than when I have debated certain libs. Did you happen to catch the Angelides/Schwarzenegger debate over the weekend? Wow. Ridiculous. When personal attacks become necessary, you know the “little man complex” has completely taken over the debate. Oh, by the way, Happy Birthday Stout Republican! Cheers to you!
P.S. – I had also taken note of the Dems argument about the nucs in the hands of a certain crazy Korean. You just can’t win with the left: If we took preventative measures and perhaps “disabled” Il to get a nuc, in the Dems’ eyes we would be stepping on toes, going where we shouldn’t, and once again causing the international community to dislike us. (Aww…we don’t want to be disliked, that would just be awful!) On the other hand, if we did nothing, we would have not been doing enough to protect our country and therefore would deserve to be lined up and shot by the media. :Sigh:
NORTH KOREA — RUMSFELD SAT ON BOARD OF COMPANY THAT SOLD REACTORS TO NORTH KOREA: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was the only American to sit on the board of a company which six years ago sold two light water reactors to North Korea. “Rumsfeld was a non-executive director of ABB, a European engineering giant based in Zurich, when it won a $200m contract to provide the design and key components for the reactors. The current defense secretary sat on the board from 1990 to 2001, earning $190,000 a year.” While conservatives now fault President Clinton for selling the light water reactors to North Korea under the previous Agreed Framework, few cite Rumsfeld’s role in the deal. Rumsfeld has never acknowledged that he knew the company was competing for the nuclear contract. In response to questions about his role in the reactor deal, the Defense Secretary’s former spokeswoman Victoria Clarke told Newsweek in February 2003 that “there was no vote on this” and that her boss “does not recall it being brought before the board at any time.” ABB spokesman Bjoern Edlund told Fortune magazine at the time that “board members were informed about this project.” One former director who sat with Rumsfeld on the board said they were told about the contract. “This was a major thing for ABB,” the former director said, “and extensive political lobbying was done.” The director recalled being told that Rumsfeld was asked “to lobby in Washington” on ABB’s behalf. A few years after participating in the deal, Rumsfeld attacked the concept of selling reactors to North Korea. In a speech at the Heritage Foundation, Rusmfeld said, “Our present nuclear agreement with North Korea unfortunately does not end its nuclear menace. It merely postpones the reckoning, with no assurance that we will know how much bomb-capable material North Korea has.”
Ingredients
10″ Pie shells: 2
Mangoes – Peel and scoop out meat: 10
Egg yolks slightly beaten: 5
Sugar: 2 Cups
1 Box Mango Helper™
Margarine slightly melted: 1/2 Stick
All Purpose Flour: 3 Tablespoon
Nutmeg: Pinch
Mango helper????
“Remove Tin foil and place on head.”
I think I just burst something laughing so hard. Yup, Pete, AKA, Will, AKA, Matt and so many other names has blessed your little world.