- De Nomolos
- Jan 17, 2007
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I already know that when I look at my hometown newspaper, I will likely find at least 2 letters in the current edition to post here...let me go check...
http://www.theherald-nc.com/2011/05/01/18394/your-letters-america-in-decline.html
quote:Unlike in the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan's common-sense leadership was enough to revive our fortunes, America is now beset by policies instigated by an effete elite. Globalization, the nanny state, open immigration and the diminishing of American exceptionalism have all come together to put off, at best temporarily, the American Dream for an entire generation of Americans. These are no abstract theories, just cold hard reality for North Carolinians. In the east, the former tobacco baronies see people simply hoping for a job at Walmart. In the west, we see the bastions of textiles and furniture hollowed out. Why did we allow this to happen?
Simply put, we turned a blind eye as the political leadership of both national parties fell under the same spell with the same agenda. The same Obama who promised to renegotiate NAFTA is now poised to promote new free-trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Columbia, with John Boehner and most of the Republicans on Capitol Hill screaming "Amen."
Ok, no more.
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- De Nomolos
- Jan 17, 2007
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Well, since I live in the DC Metro area, I get one of the worst papers in the country shoved towards me at the subway station every day. These are both from yesterday's paper alone, but it's a year's worth of stupid. One isn't a bad column so much as a cringe worthy conclusion, and the other one is just 
First, a man who no one cares about yet he still has his face on newspaper boxes citywide, Michael Barone:
"Under Obama, Millennials move into the GOP column"
http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/07/under-obama-millennials-move-gop-column
Ok, well, first off, it's exclusively among white people according to the actual polls, and still the most movement is towards being an Independent, but otherwise it's just a "meh" column. However, lines like this used by anyone make me cringe:
quote:In the wake of the 2008 election, I argued that there was a tension between the way Millennials lived their lives -- creating their own iPod playlists, designing their own Facebook pages -- and the one-size-fits-all, industrial-era welfare-state policies of the Obama Democrats.
Instead of allowing Millennials space in which they can choose their own futures, the Obama Democrats' policies have produced a low-growth economy in which their alternatives are limited and they are forced to make do with what they can scrounge.
What kids really want is no funding for education and tax cuts which OBVIOUSLY create like 10000000 jobs. This can clearly be seen in the way they use Facebook.
Seriously, I'm just sick of these stupid arguments that Facebook is some great sign of generational originality and philosophy and not a time wasting communication tool.
And now, the main even:
"An officer and a gentleman"
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/07/officer-and-gentleman
quote:Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., is an officer and a gentleman, a career soldier elected to Congress in the 2010 midterms.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., is a shrew and a feminist (perhaps we repeat ourselves), and also a demagogue, fond of blaming her foes for wanting to starve little children.
When she attacked West last week when he was not in the chamber, it set off a clash of two worlds. Wasserman Schultz belongs to (and is stuck in) the mid-1970s, steeped in the brews of groupthink and victimhood, believing pro-lifers wage wars against women and that pro-life women aren't "women" at all.
West hails from any time between the Crusades and the late 19th century, and is the kind of officer played in films by Sean Connery, rash now and then, and quick on the trigger, but respected and loved by his men.
He descends from the honor code of the warrior, in which personal honor is everything; she from the dishonor code of identity politics, in which an attack on one person becomes a de facto attack on any sex, creed or color the person belongs to, unless the person doesn't believe in identity politics, in which case all bets must be off.
It is sexist to criticize Wasserman Schultz, but not Sarah Palin; anti-Semitic to criticize Wasserman Schultz, but not Eric Cantor; racist to criticize Barack Obama, but not Allen West.
And indeed, the attacks upon West by Wasserman Schultz's defenders seem out of the source book for race-baiting slanders decried by the left in times past.
Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., said West's remarks reeked of "harassment," raising images of Emmett Till, murdered for whistling at a white woman, and Clarence Thomas, whose presence on the Supreme Court after the sisterhood failed to lynch him in spirit rankles the left to this day.
"They ought to take him to the woodshed," said Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., suggesting she thinks him an uppity n-word. "Let's remember all the discussion about how Barack Obama had to fend off the 'angry black man' stereotype," commented Ann Althouse.
"Racists: Democrats Demand Allen West Apologize for Criticizing White Woman," posted Glenn Reynolds, wickedly adding, "I guess they figure he doesn't know his place."
His place, it would seem, is among the titans of literature, at least, to the Washington Post. The Reliable Source put West's picture between those of Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte, daring the readers to tell them apart:
"Nasty, yes -- but what gorgeous 19th century prose!" the paper exulted. "Can you tell which rich disses were penned by the tea party freshman, and which by the great ladies of Bonnet Fiction? Answers below."
And indeed the West email: "From this time forward, understand that I shall defend myself against your heinous, characterless behavior .You are [a] vile, unprofessional, and despicable member ... You have proven ... repeatedly that you are not a Lady, therefore shall not be rewarded due respect from me!"
That is indistinguishable in tone from the writings of Bronte and Austen, as in: "Your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike."
The world would be a better place (and much, much more literate) if there were more people like Allen West and Charlotte Bronte. It would be a better place, too, if every department of race/gender studies were shut down immediately, and every "professor" therein put to work cleaning toilets.
Transgender toilets, of course.
First off, I love when "feminist" is still used as a bad word.
Secondly, that man was in movies. Great generals were also drunks, homosexuals, and violent sociopaths in some cases. Maybe you should consider that all that stuff was, you know, fiction?
And speaking the way Bronte wrote is akin to sticking feathers in your butt to be a chicken.
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Jul 28, 2011 23:09
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- De Nomolos
- Jan 17, 2007
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TV rots your brain like it's crack cocaine
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Mo Tzu posted:
There are in fact people who think that Planned Parenthood is somehow pushing women to have abortions in order to make a profit. These are people who have been lied to, but who want to believe the lie anyway. It's pretty awful and part of why the "pro-life" movement is hosed up.
Let's not get into the exaggerations and lies that the pro-life movement tells on purpose to stop abortions daily:
- fetal pain
- abortions cause breast cancer
- the pill causes birth defects and abnormalities in women
- Planned Parenthood wants to abort black babies (this is especially crazy)
- since Margaret Sanger believed in Eugenics, abortion providers are Eugenicists by default
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