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Comment Posted By Shawn On 29.12.2006 @ 11:08
Andy,
It is often the case that whenever someone disagrees with some action it is called "illegal". For instance, Ted Rall has said that the Afghan War was just just as illegal as the Iraq War, yet gives no reasoning - as there is none. It's sort of a catch-all for anything with you don't like, as a lot of conservative bloggers (Rick is not among them) who call anyone against the war/the president a "traitor" or a lot of left bloggers who call anyone against their pet ideals a "fascist" or "warmonger".
Comment Posted By Shawn On 29.12.2006 @ 11:08
I sure do love the grasping of straws.
Comment Posted By Shawn On 29.12.2006 @ 18:14
"Please tell us all what the Republicans (Gregg, R-NH, Bennett, R-UT) are doing on this trip."
I love how after I point out the continual use of tu quoque some idiot comes along and uses the logical fallacy again. (Actaully, he's the third person since my comment to use it.)
There really should be a rule that you can't comment on politics until you've studied logic and familiarized yourself with fallacies. Then again, about 99.99 percent of political blogs would never have been made if that were the case.
Comment Posted By Shawn On 29.12.2006 @ 10:56
Ah, it seems most of our commenters are in love with the tu quoque logical fallacy.
By the way, sensei is practically the only sane voice out of 60+ comments.
These people attacking Rick for pointing out Reid's error are not liberals, nor are most of the visible group who want to call themselves "progressives". I wish I could call myself a liberal, but thanks to the ideals embodied in most of the people attacking this post I cannot, and have had to throw my hat in with the libertarians (though I'm not really one). Perhaps I could try "traditional liberal" or "classical liberal". The latter has a nice ring to it.
The irrational and illogical discourse spewed from both sides of the aisle is sickening, and I dream of the day where logic trumps rhetoric.
Comment Posted By Shawn On 29.12.2006 @ 00:29
"From our decisive victories in Iraq and Afghanistan."
What's funny about this is the victory in Afghanistan was decisive. Is Israel in anarchy because of the suicide bombers attacked it?
Comment Posted By Shawn On 20.12.2006 @ 18:46
ALL YOUR SMOKING ARE BELONG TO US
"I agree Rick, but I can’t remember seeing you use such histrionics to illustrate your point."
Hitler was anti-smoking. I doubt that was Rick's point, but it's spot-on.
Comment Posted By Shawn On 16.11.2006 @ 18:23
I've never understood this aversion to the pledge. It's not like the pledge to Hitler. You aren't pledging to the government, you aren't pledging to Bush. A nation is a people, not a state.
It's unnerving how idiotic either side is. The communists ("I am a socialist" is code for "I am a moron who doesn't understand how the real world works") for thinking the pledge offers loyalty to the state and God (I'm an atheist, still say this part, doesn't hurt me none); their opponents who think suppressing free expression would uphold American values (though it is tempting, seeing all the fools embrace an ideology which killed tens of millions).
Comment Posted By Shawn On 11.11.2006 @ 17:47
SURPRISING RESTRAINT FROM THE LEFT
"who live in some twilight of perpetual panic as though al Qaeda was going to unleash waves of exploding gay Mexicans over our borders to take away our guns and teach evolution to our embryos unless we scrap the Constitution in favor of old-fashioned, old-Testament values"
That group is just as numerous on the Right as terrorist sympathizers are on the Left (that is to say they are there, but a very miniscule minority).
Comment Posted By Shawn On 9.11.2006 @ 22:54
"Nothing is more irritating than a whiny crying holier than thou self righteous blogger."
He isn't being self-righteous, he's being a logical person. You don't attack someone for FICTION they wrote for crying out loud.
Comment Posted By Shawn On 27.10.2006 @ 18:29
