Obama--the grumblings

[DanaC]

Not the national psyche, Rich -- the leftist psyche, which frankly requires severe damaging if you want a Republican

I can't help but agree with that one.

I do not believe that a real human being could consistently self-parody the way UG has on a primary account, even anonymously.

There's a part of me will always be convinced he's a guy I knew on another forum who liked playing the right wing neocon to the max.

Huh?

I second that 'Huh'?

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Hee hee -- too bad for Shawnee's worldview that it founders on the fact that I'm realer even than Brianna; not all your piety or wit can efface a line or blot out a word of it, as Khalil Gibran said. As for the people who say "the man's doing a self-parody," they lack a certain breadth of imagination, and they are desperately kidding themselves in an attempt to remain wallowing in their savage and silly darkness of mind. Funny thing to pick over good and enlightened thinking. Doesn't engender a lot of respect for their intellectual powers, I must say. Does display an impressive degree of procrastination, if you're looking for impressive properties.

"And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!"

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Hee hee -- too bad for Shawnee's worldview that it founders on the fact that I'm realer even than Brianna; not all your piety or wit can efface a line or blot out a word of it, as Khalil Gibran said. As for the people who say "the man's doing a self-parody," they lack a certain breadth of imagination, and they are desperately kidding themselves in an attempt to remain wallowing in their savage and silly darkness of mind. Funny thing to pick over good and enlightened thinking. Doesn't engender a lot of respect for their intellectual powers, I must say. Does display an impressive degree of procrastination, if you're looking for impressive properties.

I know Kahlil Gibran. I've read Kahlil Gibran. You, sir, are no Kahlil Gibran.

[Pie]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

I know Kahlil Gibran. I've read Kahlil Gibran. You, sir, are no Kahlil Gibran.

[Shawnee123]

Yay...I made Pie roll!

[capnhowdy]

Now he (see thread title) is going to postpone the digital tv conversion..... Why he's already performing miracles at 1600. Do they start the annoying ass 'days till' countdowns on the local stations back to new deadline?
I think if you are not prepared by now, you're too lazy or stoopit to be ready on any date. Whatever happened to "special ed"? Cheese & Rice!

[Clodfobble]

It's not because people are too stupid to know what's going on, it's because there's a huge waiting list for the converter box coupons and the fund has run out of money. They weren't expecting so many people to consider $40 to be worth the nuisance value.

[Shawnee123]

I don't know. I got my converter box coupons after waiting until early December to do so. That was after about 10 months of constant commercials, infomercials, and little marquees running down the bottom of the screen explaining to people they might want to pay attention.

Now there are people on the news pissed off 'cause no one told them but especially if they're actually antenna viewers like I was you couldn't get away from the ads. Doesn't government housing include basic cable? Around here it sure does.

Lady on the news was bitching that they wouldn't just bring her converter boxes to her house, like they do the phone book.

Geez...maybe they don't need to watch spongebob that badly.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

That's because I think and I seek.

You think there must be some, so you seek nutters that agree with you.

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by richlevy

It would be interesting to see you define 'common run'. IMO, Slate, Salon and the New Republic match up well with National Review (I don't know Commentary) and I assume are 'responsible' examples under your definition. As for 'common run', the most watched/read conservatives of late are Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. I am having a hard time finding liberal examples who are both as popular and as damaging to the national psyche.

I find Christian Science Monitor to be an excellent source on politics. They were probably Bush's biggest critics on almost everything.

One of the biggest losers under the Bush Era were conservative intellectuals, who seem to have become disenfranchised under the Republican 'embrace stupidity' anti-'elitist' mantra. The only thing that Bush and Buckley had in common were the first two letters of their last names.

Nicely said.

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Since when do you have a real reason -- not the dubious stuff that has apparently satisfied you until now -- to respond so? Can any one person be that unenlightened? Quite beyond belief, chum. Leftists remain leftists only through stubbornly maintained ignorance, while the conservatives stride from enlightenment to enlightenment. No doubts from you or, say, Bruce can change this progress. You might start to wonder what you're missing.

bwahahahahahahahahaha

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

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.

[xoxoxoBruce]

That post was completely insulting.

As usual.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

As usual.

It is also insulting to conservatives who actually do seek knowlege and adjust accordingly.

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by capnhowdy

Now he (see thread title) is going to postpone the digital tv conversion..... Why he's already performing miracles at 1600. Do they start the annoying ass 'days till' countdowns on the local stations back to new deadline?
I think if you are not prepared by now, you're too lazy or stoopit to be ready on any date. Whatever happened to "special ed"? Cheese & Rice!

Frankly, I wish they wouldn't do it until they've perfected digital. We have cable, 3 TVs have cable from the wall, and one has a digital box. I can't tell you how often the damn box pixalates (sp?) and the picture gets all screwed up and the sound goes out when it happens. It's very annoying, especially since it costs more. You miss important things being said. I've already had the box replaced more than once. They all do it. Comcast SUCKS. Analog actually works better.

What I really wish they would do is make cable truly competetive. It isn't really now. there can be more than one cable company, but they each have their own territories, they don't directly compete with one another. If this was opened up, they way it should be, the way it was meant to be, I think service would go up and prices would go down.

I also wish you could just pick the channels you want and pay for them, instead of having to pay for 150 channels (or now, 900, with digital. who can watch 900 channels?), when you only watch 12 of them.

I'm thinking of just having high speed internet, and watching everything I want to see on TV over the internet, connected to the TV. Only problem with that is when people are watching different things in different rooms. *sigh*