Comments Posted By Richard
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YOU WIN SOME, YOU LOSE SOME...YOU DIE SOME
I think we all know that if the government has reason to believe we're talking on the phone to terrorists, they can indeed listen in for a period of time whilst they get their warrant. No request for such a warrant has ever been turned down, to my knowledge. We all want the terrorists to be under surveillance (and to be apprehended and imprisoned). There was and is no need to break the law to listen in on such conversations. Bush broke the law in a manner that further cements the sweeping powers of the executive branch over which he and puppet master Cheney salivate. And you want to give him a free pass. Clinton "breaks the law" by lying about a blow job, an event in his personal life that harms no one and in no way threatens our Constitution, and the right insists on impeachment. Go figure.
Comment Posted By richard On 17.08.2006 @ 21:18
"OPERATION JUST REWARD" PENALIZING THE LEBANESE
Rick....
Comment Posted By richard On 15.07.2006 @ 02:31
You always nail it. Lebanon could be a great country if just given a chance. Extremists and bordering countries will not let the regular people make a go of it. And just when things were starting to look up.
LOUDER PLEASE...THE CRICKETS ARE CHIRPING
Yes, she was a bad girl. Yes, she is open to prosecution. Aside from that, where did you get the idea we have to "police" anybody or anything for you wingnut assholes? (1) You don't police your own Coulteresque dickwads, so (b) why should we give a flying f**k about the people who voted for Georgius Bush Maximus and helped him screw America?
Comment Posted By Richard On 9.07.2006 @ 04:47
Rick, why would I as a liberal blogger who has never heard of Deb Fritsch before post anything about this? She's plainly out of control and disgusting, but it's not like I or any other liberal blogger I know has ever paid her any mind or defended her or praised her. If she were on my blogroll I'd have lots to say (and she'd be gone in a flash). Crickets have always been chirping around Deb and should be - she's no one. To make it seem like it's a liberal omerta is absurd. I find her distasteful, but why on earth should I be expected to blog about her?
I like the way DeputyHeadmistress parsed its point here:
Joe, I have criticized Anne Coulter before, but I don’t recall her ever making death threats and sexually suggested remarks about a child as this Deborah person did. Do you? Where?
She has indeed made statements that are close enough to "death threats" to quality, and Deputy knows this (she wrote she'd like to see a plane fly into the NY Times buiilding, as we all know). But no, she never was quite depraved enough to include children in the threat. So Deputy is technically correct, thanks to an artful phrasing of her question.
Comment Posted By richard On 9.07.2006 @ 01:23
2nd paragraph - "In the fateful early of summer of 1963" should be "1863".
Comment Posted By Richard On 27.06.2006 @ 10:02
"TELL THOSE DIRTY FASCISTS TO STOP THE NAME CALLING!"
Okay, I'm a glutton for punishment, but here goes.
I agree with Will that had I worked for Mr. Clinton's campaign instead of the current Presidents, I would still have been on the receiving end of a lot of nastiness. There is not doubt that conservatives/republicans had no love for the former President, and to this day feel much the same way. I can only speak from personal experience though, and I still believe that the level of visceral hatred from the more extreme left today compares with nothing I have ever seen before.
It has been a great disappointment to go into political forums, armed with third party facts, and be assailed with every four letter word known to man. (and a few that were invented for the occasion).
I still refer to President Clinton as President Clinton. I hear too many people refer to our current President simply as "Bush" While that sounds like a meaningless observation, it still begs the question, "do you respect the office enough to put aside personal hatred for the individual?"
Where I live, it is not unusual to see people who have written hate messages about President Bush on the back windows of cars and SUV's. That's in addition to bumper stickers. During the nineties, I don't recall seeing the equivalent public display of loathing for President Clinton.
With only a few exceptions, my entire family are Democrats. My grandfather was a respected party leader in Denver, and I still have letters from Democratic Senators and Presidents that were once his. My friends are mostly Democrats, ranging from moderate to some on the extreme left. I can't even engage them in political discussion, because it results in name-calling and expletives.
I know I'm going to tick off a lot of folks reading this, who are of the more Democratic or liberal persuasion, but I can only relate experience.
Here's an example......recently, I wrote a piece on the awful depictions of Christ that were in the University of Oregon student newspaper. My point was that they were meant to be insulting to Christians, and quite frankly, they were painful to see. I realize that a lot of folks don't understand this perspective, but it seems like it is open season on Christians with judicial rulings, ACLU actions and the general disregard for how Christian people might be offended. The posting was commented on by a local newspaper in Oregon.
After the piece ran, my e-mail was full of messages of insult, hatred and the most vile put-downs. You would have thought that I had written a pro-Hitler piece or supported the 9/11 terrorists. All I said was that I thought the University's president, a former Republican politician, should have come out more strongly than he did against the newspaper. I did not call for his firing, as Bill O'Reilly did, but just suggested that the images in the paper were offensive and that the university's top administrator should have said so. Am I deserving of dozens of pieces of hate mail? Should I have been called every foul word in the book, should my intellect have been called into question? This is the point I am making.
On 9/12/2001, every American, regardless of party affiliation or ideology stood united. That may be the only day that that has happened in the past twenty years. It is unlikely to happen again, unless, God forbid, we are attacked again.
On my blog, I usually send a response e-mail to those who comment thanking them for taking the time to comment. I respect their opinions, even if I disagree with them. This type of civility, that should exist, is mostly gone.
We can zero in on people like Ann Coulter as the extreme example of verbose, condescending hate-speech, but I can only speak from experience, and what I have learned is that there are many on the far left who make her look like June Cleaver.
Comment Posted By richard On 23.06.2006 @ 00:32
Rick.......
Sometimes the hypocrisy in my left-minded opponents is to the point of being sickening. I wonder if 26 years in politics and supporting social causes is worth the aggravation.During the last two presidential campaigns, I worked hard, behind the scenes for the President. Through editorial writing and postings in political forums, I spent hours a day. The arguments and positions were all fact based and well thought out. The responses I invariably received were ugly at best. Most contained four letter words and personal attacks. Many were laden with the self-righteous, intellectual elite air that is the trademark of those who rely on urban myth more than historical, factual research.
I write a blog also, and have had dozens of e-mails filled with demeaning pronouncements of my lack of intellect and worse.
I am a Christian, and have had to endure the most vile remarks from those who have never stepped foot into a church, but glean a line or two from what they think the Bible says. They conclude that I must be a disappointment to Jesus.
My point, from too much experience, is that when it comes to taking the proverbial high road and low road, those who are more conservative or Christian or both tend to make arguments on principle, while making only joking reference to their ideological opponents.
On the other hand, those on the left, tend to approach these debates with a hateful, vengeful manner. I can count on one hand, the number of times that someone with a liberal viewpoint treated my opinion with any degree of respect.
Conservatives have always been too nice. Our opinion has been lost in the airwaves of a million news broadcasts, over decades, which told one side of the story. When our viewpoint finally emerged into a world that had been preprogrammed, it may have sounded crass.
Fox News and Ann Coulter are part of a new generation that speaks a language previously not heard. If Ann Coulter sounds vile to anyone, or comes across like a junk yard dog, lets not forget the thousands of Ann Coulters on the other side of the ideological divide. I have had to listen to them for many years.
Name calling and worse is the province of the left. Finding psychological malady in conservative bloggers is the province of the left. Factual argument won't work, so those who are not like-minded must resort to the lowest form of disagreement.
Sometimes I would like to shove my size 12EEEE foot down the throats of those who condemn my viewpoint as ill informed. They don't care about common ground........that might require being civil.
Comment Posted By richard On 22.06.2006 @ 03:48
THE MIND BLOGGLING CONSEQUENCES OF BUSH DERANGEMENT SYNDROME
Rick......
Comment Posted By richard On 24.05.2006 @ 01:08
The Presidents record low poll numbers, and the increasing discontent heard everywhere, is a result of the thousands of mainstream newspapers, local and national newscasts, liberal hollywood types and Sunday talk shows all building into an anti-Bush crescendo that is deafening. I work next to a customer service department, where the liberal employees make anti-Bush remarks to customers on every other phone call. I passed an employee yesterday who had an anti-Bush screen-saver that featured injury to the President. I was at a department of motor vehicle office two weeks ago that had three separate anti-Bush voter registration and petition people working the people waiting in line outside. The liberal machine is working in large numbers, using every means at their disposal, to build an enormous anti-Bush, anti-Republican wave going into fall of this year and '08. You will never see any of the good the President has done mentioned anywhere on TV or in your newspaper, despite taking poor people off the tax roll, reducing taxes on the middle-class and keeping most of the campaign promises he made. Of course, as they ratchet up the absurd and urban myth, that the President will now come under suspicion for 9/11 also. He is being blamed for everything else.
Again I am overwhelmed by the insight of so many people when the eyes and ears of NASA are closed. I was in Florida the day of Challenger's destruction, and every new lift-off I still think back to that fateful day.
Comment Posted By Richard On 28.01.2006 @ 20:37
A sad state of affairs, that. But one that the President has mostly himself to blame.
That is a foolish comment. It is up to every Republican in Congress to support the war and the President. They are not doing it.
Comment Posted By Richard On 1.12.2005 @ 18:49
