Thank you, Barney Frank!
POSTED BY: Kwicko
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 22:08
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Mike - threads like this are the reason I can never stop lurking here. I'd have missed this little gem otherwise.
Lord bless Barney Frank! (Not something I ever expected to say...) This is how the Dems should have been responding to this nonsense all along.
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"just dumb/ignorant Repubs who are incapable of thinking for themselves"
Just so you know. The woman Frank was chastising is a dumb/ignorant lib not a conservative. You already knew that and intentionally left that out, or you are just ignorant. I'll go with the latter as my guess.
As to RIPWASH's comment to you.
"You know . . . the only people I hear making a big stink about a black man being in the White House"
Spot on. Nicky, Why do you have a problem with the color of his skin? YOU are the one bringing it up. YOU are the one projecting your issues on others. If you really think that is why people are protesting Obama then.... Well, I guess I'll chalk it up to ignorance again.
Get a clue please. Life will be so much better if you do.
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And I'll bet you money that Frem has already done just that. If he ever pops up with a "real" e-mail address or contact info, I guarantee it will lead nowhere but to a box full of kittens, digitally speaking.
*laughing so hard he can barely breathe*
Mikey, you asshole!
Outing my honey-box like that!
*giggle*
I'm quite cruel about it too, it's a Compaq ProSignia 486DX50 with a mere 32MB of RAM - running WIN98 unpatched with all the bells and whistles, plus the security, and a bad network card with deliberate protocol errors and a long, LONG timeout, bwahahahahaha
And yes, it's mostly pictures of cats, bulked out with one of my ex's faerie pictures collection as well, and a bunch of the lamest fanfics ever with suspicious lookin filenames.
If trying to hack the box doesn't drive you to suicide, succeeding WILL!
*laughing soooo hard*
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And as Frem says, I say that in the full hope that they'll see it and read it, because even me being so brazen about it, they won't believe me.
Oh yes, there's some low-tech tricks you can use to detect monitoring without folk even realizing it, like leaving your cellphone next to your PC speakers - if you start getting blip-blip-blip interference other than incoming call and the occasional tower ping, someones riding your line, see ?
And I am merciless cause one of my conversational "weapons" when I want someone to go the hell AWAY is to either start discussing two stroke engines, or rambling on about the behavior of my ex's cats - which for anyone forced to listen to, it just downright cruel, innit ?
(Hondas, Mikey, yesss ?)
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Listen - you can almost hear the gears grinding as the machine chokes on its innards and gasps to a crawl...
Ah the glorious sound of monkeywrenching, grind, grind, CRUNCH.
Dream: Not at all, thing is you misunderstood where I was going with that.
There ISN'T some great grand conspiracy, any more than a bunch of crabs walking in lockstep is a hivemind.
But because they respond identically to the same stimulus, it can look that way - yet in truth it's not one big plot but a whole bunch of smaller ones all run by people who think much the same compounded by petty turf issues, office politics, ass covering and general human jackassery, which is why it is both so exploitable and so terribly inefficient.
I was just simplifying the viewpoint for the sake of making the explaination concise and comprehendable, you can only layer so much meaning into the same phrases before folk start lookin at you like you've grown an extra head - which I think is a major contributor to your own communication problems.
There's also my disinclination to really discuss something so far out of my knowledge bases that I cannot even usefully comment without sounding like a moron.
-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it
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Originally posted by Bytemite:
So, if I've got this straight, Hitler had some regiments of Nazi soldiers who were, in fact, Jewish, and this means that not only were all Nazi's pro-Jewish, but that the Nazis ARE Jewish.
And that anyone who is a Jew is therefore a Nazi.
Is this what you're trying to say?
I just read what the jews say. Jewish historians on History Channel say all the top Nazis were jewish, and Hitler Shicklegruber was a Rothschild, heir to half the world's bankster wealth That's why Adolf turned his home village in Austraia into an artillery practice range to destroy his birth records and cemetary. Only the Separdic Semitic jews were terminated. Hitler and the 150,000 Nazis were non-Semitic Khazar AshkeNazi white European jews.
By jewish Dr Rigg winner of CIA's Colby Award
www.jewishbookmall.com/shop/asinsearch_B000V6LSQI/Hitler+s+Jewish+Sold
iers.html
Somebody outa ask Barney about his Franklin Coverup and dead pimp roommate.
"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
-Old Dead Guy
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Kwicko: The "war on terror" thing is actually why I had issues when we went into Afghanistan. Though I don't often say that, because people tend to get REALLY REALLY MAD when you say going into Afghanistan wasn't necessary. >_>
I knew something was up when we did declared war on terror, not the Taliban, and turns out we never really had an exit plan. Plus, sneaking suspicion that Osama bin Laden is dead.
I painted a picture when I was in high school, a faded Osama bin Laden in front of the word "Terrorism" in big bold red letters, and called it "Endless War on a Faceless Ideal."
I'm pretty sure no one in my class got it. :/
Once again, 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451. Really, really should be required reading for any high school student, because they plainly show how war can be used to both distract and motivate the public, as well as economic stimulus. But then, we're not interested in making smart high school students with the ability to think critically.
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Posted by RIPWash:
Much like if someone like me were to say that a lot of liberals are brain-dead, pot-smoking hippie socialists. Obviously, that is not the case and I don't advocate that myself.
So what I'm saying is please don't make such broad generalizations.
Ripper, I love you, man. But I can assure you I'm not brain-dead.
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Or at least admit that there are also dumb, ignorant Dems who can't think for themselves either.
Ummmm... I take it you HAVE heard of Nancy Pelosi, yes? Harry Reid? Name ring a bell?
Niki, since you're newish 'round these parts, you should probably know that I pretty much despise Nancy and Harry, and consider them the root of what's WRONG with the Democratic party as a whole. That said, I *am* a pretty dyed-in-the-wool Democrat.
And while RIPWash and I are about 180º apart politically, we generally get along quite well in spite of our differences. Watch him, because he's disarming as hell, and quite respectful 99% of the time.
Mike
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I would throw Homage to Catalonia on that pile of recommended reading as well, cause not only were those events within the very crucible of thought which lead to the later books - it's also a rare first person account of what happened in Catalonia, as even the bitterest of enemies, Communists and Fascists, saw the seed of a greater threat and allied in crushing it.
Unless we change how people think and feel, any real Anarchist movement in the near future will need an extreme amount of both devotion and firepower, cause every Government on the planet will see them as a threat and act accordingly.
-F
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Originally posted by mal4prez:
Mike - threads like this are the reason I can never stop lurking here. I'd have missed this little gem otherwise.
Lord bless Barney Frank! (Not something I ever expected to say...) This is how the Dems should have been responding to this nonsense all along.
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I appreciate that a lot coming from you, Mal. And yeah, Barney just kills me. Another of my favorite lines of his was when he remarked of Bush's last-minute Wall Street bailout, "It's the biggest hail-mary in the history of hails OR Marys."
Ya gotta love him.
Mike
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Posted by Fremdfirma:
And I am merciless cause one of my conversational "weapons" when I want someone to go the hell AWAY is to either start discussing two stroke engines, or rambling on about the behavior of my ex's cats - which for anyone forced to listen to, it just downright cruel, innit ?
(Hondas, Mikey, yesss ?)
Hondas indeed. I can, with a little prodding, talk for hours about gear ratios, which final-drive ratios came in which cars in which markets, which ones were available with limited-slip differentials, etc.
And that's without even touching on camshafts, indexing, overlap, or VTEC. A few minutes in, and even car guys' eyes begin to glaze over!
And the funniest part is, if I *was* passing along anything in the way of plans or real information that pertained to anything imminent, it would be so buried in REAL, VERIFIABLE Honda specifications that no one would even be able to ferret it out.
Who needs codes when you've got the factory manuals to a major auto company?
Mike
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I thought there would be more threads about Robert Novak. I read a number of posts elsewhere that said - good riddance to bad rubbish. And a few that said - why would you be happy someone is dead ?
There is a point to this: sometimes it's good to speak the plain truth - no matter how uncomfortable of unfriendly it may seem.
Why SHOULDN'T Barney Frank call out the liars ?
I say HELL YES ! Go for it, man !
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