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Old 01-24-2009, 10:48 PM   #1
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Common run: we could note Harper's and Z. Great founts of unwisdom. I suppose I could go through the labor of reading through them for sentence by sentence quotes -- do you think it would change my opinion?
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Old 01-25-2009, 01:25 AM   #2
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Hell no.
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Old 01-26-2009, 06:13 PM   #3
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Hell no.
That's because I think and I seek. What I find in the seeking tells me the Left ain't nowhere near to getting that quintessential "it" which makes a life worth the living. They don't have a lot in common with me. I have better ambitions than they, and it's not like there's only so much room over here by me: there's plenty left for you.

I know there's nothing so irritating as a good example, yet still a good example is the only one I can in conscience give, and the only one I'm going to.

Yeah, there's that Heinleinian remark, somewhere in Starship Troopers, about the guy who doesn't have social values worth having, doesn't want them, and will fight like hell to avoid them -- he thought such men really suck, and I agree.
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Old 01-28-2009, 01:06 AM   #4
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That's because I think and I seek.
You think there must be some, so you seek nutters that agree with you.
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Old 01-28-2009, 07:56 AM   #5
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That's because I think and I seek. What I find in the seeking tells me the Left ain't nowhere near to getting that quintessential "it" which makes a life worth the living. They don't have a lot in common with me. I have better ambitions than they, and it's not like there's only so much room over here by me: there's plenty left for you.

I know there's nothing so irritating as a good example, yet still a good example is the only one I can in conscience give, and the only one I'm going to.

Yeah, there's that Heinleinian remark, somewhere in Starship Troopers, about the guy who doesn't have social values worth having, doesn't want them, and will fight like hell to avoid them -- he thought such men really suck, and I agree.
My God. Could you be any more condescending? What makes you think YOU are the ultimate authority on "getting that quintessential "it" which makes a life worth the living," or that your personal seeking is better than anyone else's? Or that YOU have better ambitions than "they," whoever "they" are? (I assume you mean all people on the left.) What makes you think YOU have the only social or moral values worth having? Wow. Why don't you go create your own little kingdom for us all to worship and adore?

That post was completely insulting.
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Old 01-28-2009, 07:59 AM   #6
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That post was completely insulting.
As usual.
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Old 01-28-2009, 08:05 AM   #7
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As usual.
It is also insulting to conservatives who actually do seek knowlege and adjust accordingly.
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Old 01-28-2009, 08:13 AM   #8
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It is also insulting to conservatives who actually do seek knowlege and adjust accordingly.
yeparoo. it is.
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Old 01-28-2009, 08:20 AM   #9
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It is also insulting to conservatives who actually do seek knowledge and adjust accordingly.
Agreed.
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Old 01-29-2009, 12:44 PM   #10
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My God. Could you be any more condescending? What makes you think YOU are the ultimate authority on "getting that quintessential "it" which makes a life worth the living," or that your personal seeking is better than anyone else's? Or that YOU have better ambitions than "they," whoever "they" are? (I assume you mean all people on the left.) What makes you think YOU have the only social or moral values worth having? Wow. Why don't you go create your own little kingdom for us all to worship and adore?

That post was completely insulting.
Ask Radar about his Constitution.
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Old 01-25-2009, 08:10 AM   #11
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do you think it would change my opinion?
Not really. Frankly, if you had lived a few thousand years earlier, you would probably have said something like "Nice rocks Moses, but the golden calf is easier to polish and my neighbors wife is pretty damn hot.'
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