tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post4676322475670267500..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-57586825100676673192014-08-02T18:16:30.779-04:002014-08-02T18:16:30.779-04:0000Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-84522413418148042062014-07-26T19:57:53.723-04:002014-07-26T19:57:53.723-04:00Who might be drinking and what might they be drink...Who might be drinking and what might they be drinking Katherine Heartburn?<br /><br />Inquiring minds and the National Enquirer want to know.<br /><br />Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-39959777373726844732014-07-26T19:37:48.532-04:002014-07-26T19:37:48.532-04:00The poor fellow must be drinking again, FT. The an...The poor fellow must be drinking again, FT. The anger is so palpable, you could cut it with a knife in midair. Sad really.<br /><br />––––––––––––> Katharne HeartburnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-52059415497677639732014-07-26T18:44:43.712-04:002014-07-26T18:44:43.712-04:00I am not the accomplised scholar or wordsmith that...I am not the accomplised scholar or wordsmith that you are FreeThinke and therefore shall not attempt to compete with you.<br /><br />I do know this, as long as intelligent people are so stuck in their rigid ideologies and pride they refuse to consider compromise our nation is doomed to failure. When this happens, as it most assuredly will, both liberals AND conservatives will share the blame EQUALLY.<br /><br />Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-42121058658553824562014-07-26T18:27:26.560-04:002014-07-26T18:27:26.560-04:00Or the plucked chickens being turned out by the bi...Or the plucked chickens being turned out by the billions on the conservative roasters. :-)Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-46001862474684985042014-07-26T18:21:19.395-04:002014-07-26T18:21:19.395-04:00I might say the same about thosr who congregate on...I might say the same about thosr who congregate on conservative blogs and spin, twist, and then regurgitate BS. All the while trashing intelligent individuals for GASP, daring to have a different view, or worse yet Don't follow the party line. To which I say, BULLSHIT and SHOVE IT.<br /><br />I am a FISCAL conservative and libertarian socially. Thought you knew that.<br /><br />Because I speak my mind on SOME issues I agree with liberals on makes in posession of a mind that thinks beyond the spoon fed hoperbolic BS all parties and ideologies seem to thrive on.<br /><br />As to Rand, she's dead, but it is all in her many non fictional writings as well as her hallmark novels. They"re still being published.<br /><br />Pots shouldn't call kettles black.Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-15694829145745095522014-07-26T10:13:31.056-04:002014-07-26T10:13:31.056-04:00Ducky,
You haven' called me a nasty name in ...Ducky, <br /><br />You haven' called me a nasty name in quite a long time. I'm glad to see our relationshit has returned to normal. I was beginning ro worry that you might be mellowing in your old age. ;-)<br /><br />Keep in playing your character part. You do it very well, and it serves the cause of conservatism admirably.<br /><br />Les, I believe you honestly believe you are making eery effort to be fair and reasonable. I too see the foolishness in the deadlock, logjam, stalemate, Mexocan Standoff -- whatever you want to call it -- we find ourselves crippled by today. However, it seems to me that you have come to believe that it's possible -- maybe even right and good -- to "Compromise with the Devil.<br /><br />I use that term advisedly knowing that you, as an avowed atheist, reject the very notion that Satan aka "The Devil" could exist. I continue to use the term because it -- like so much received ancient wisdom -- is a convenient symbol or metaphor for all that is wrong, untrue, harmful and in every way undesirable. <br /><br />I do not believe that MFSPLDSAS's are necessarily evil people, but I am as certain as any mortal could hope to be that the BELIEFS they espouse are in fact nothing less than SATANIC.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-11634623758075554222014-07-26T09:42:28.696-04:002014-07-26T09:42:28.696-04:00THERSITES said
"I see that cowardly shit, FT...THERSITES said<br /><br /><i>"I see that cowardly shit, FT, is censoring gain."</i> [a direct quote from Ducky Dearest]<br /><br /><b>... and when pShaw censors me, it's all just fine, eh, Ducky? It's one thing to censor in the attempt to maintain decorum, and quite another to do so to "win" your argument. One of those two isn't "cowardice".</b><br /><br />Thank you, Thersites, once again for your understanding, and for bothering to explicate it not -so-much-on-my-behalf as that of Truth, Justice and the American Way. ;-)FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-12754944228185873652014-07-26T09:34:13.760-04:002014-07-26T09:34:13.760-04:00... we can play this game (juggling and tossing ag...<i> ... we can play this game (juggling and tossing agenda-driven statistics) all day long."</i><br /><br />Yes, and it exceedingly tiresome, because it never gets us anywhere. We just keep going around in the same old circles. Eventually, like the tigers in the beloved old story of Little Black Sambo, we may wind up turning ourselves into a big puddle of syrup and melted butter, and thus end up being slathered all over the pancakes turned out by the billions on the Liberal Griddle.<br />FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-60577435164252235582014-07-26T09:31:26.376-04:002014-07-26T09:31:26.376-04:00@ Les:
This appears to be a broad-brush, multi-s...@ Les: <br />This appears to be a broad-brush, multi-state attack on people exercising a fundamental right:<br /><br /><i>MA may have it's problems but by comparison to say Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, West Virginia, Oklahoma, hell, the majority of the red states it ain't fairing all that poorly.<br /><br />But hey Silver, they got their firearms, the 2'nd amendment, and no doubt are working on why and how the 2'nd justifies individual ownership of shoulder fired rockets and howitzers Silver. :-)</i><br /><br />A few of those states have a murder rate and/or gun violence rate lower than Mass, and I doubt every gun owner in those states is hankerin' for a howitzer, unless you've got data to show otherwise.<br /><br />You claim to be a libertarian-conservative, but you reflexively and repeatedly lapse into leftwing tropes, liberal shibboleths and snooty big city condescension.<br /><br /><br /><br />What Would Ayn Rand Do? Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-30212714680375288512014-07-25T18:55:38.997-04:002014-07-25T18:55:38.997-04:00I disagree I denigrated anyone's fundamental r...I disagree I denigrated anyone's fundamental rights. There is, and always will be differences of opinion. I do not abide extremism thus my admittedly somewhat off topic pot shot at what I consider "rightwing looney" gun nuts like the Nuge.<br /><br />I'll say no more on extremism and save it for another more appropriate time.Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-87757961203755984732014-07-25T11:34:49.373-04:002014-07-25T11:34:49.373-04:00Les,
As you may have noticed, I don't play tho...Les,<br />As you may have noticed, I don't play those balancing games unless it is germane to the subject.<br /><br />We can compare metrics all day long, but your state's population growth is below the national medium. If it were all that and a bag of chips, people should be flocking there.<br /><br />On the other hand, you have a pretty stable population, which demographers tell us means people born there like it there and choose to stay.<br /><br />We have freedom of movement here, and diverse people have diverse criteria, so despite all the chest thumping about who is better than who, we really are in the realm of subjectivity where people can, thankfully, vote with their feet.<br /><br />You didn't strike a nerve, but when I hear you denigrate people's fundamental rights, it causes me to question your libertarianism.Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-11019615252873185812014-07-25T10:08:56.405-04:002014-07-25T10:08:56.405-04:00Wow, I must have hit a nerve, or two.
Facts are a...Wow, I must have hit a nerve, or two.<br /><br />Facts are as they say stubborn things, as liberal as MA is (<i>much too liberal in many ways for me</i>), on balance it is one of the better states in the USA in which to live and raise a family.<br /><br />When you talk about "leftwing looney" in reference to a successful liberal state it helps to acknowledge the existence of "rightwing looney" as well. it creates balance. And... it is a <b><i>fact</i></b> many of the "rightwing looney" states fare for worse than MA on many levels.<br /><br />Just sayin... ;-)Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-27369336393834601482014-07-25T09:17:46.987-04:002014-07-25T09:17:46.987-04:00RN:
You need to read more carefully. I did not la...RN:<br />You need to read more carefully. I did not launch a "my state is better than your state" attack. <br /><br />Indeed, because of my love of the truth and facts, I do not deny the good things about your state. I don't even begrudge you your extreme liberalism. It's working for you and people keep voting for it, so what right do I have to attack it? I don't live there.<br /><br />It's useful to note that Colorado spills over with guns, yet your chances of being murdered in Boston are greater than in Denver or Aurora (our two most violent cities), and the overall state murder rates are about the same, depending on how you analyze it. <br /><br />You may want to go here and compare data before making very un-libertarian snipes about gun rights:<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States_by_state<br /><br />Compare gun-crazy cowboy Colorado to Urbane, metrosexual Mass.<br /><br />So, we can play this game all day long.<br /><br />The Casey Foundation is a leftwing organization, and they specialize in finding what's wrong with red states and spotlighting it while and doing the same with good things in blue states. It's a free country; good for them, but reality is a much richer patchwork mosaic of pastel colors.<br /><br />Mass demographics are more stable than the US median. You have less people going in and out (actually a net out-migration).<br /><br />You have half the minorities of the national mean, and demographically, minorities face more unemployment, more crime and poorer academic performance.<br /><br />So, while I cannot argue with Mass's success--it is real and I congratulate you for it--we must put it all in context.<br /><br />If those mean, nasty rightwingchristianKKKGunClingerBibleThumper states were really such shitholes, don't you think people would be fleeing them for socialist paradises like Mass?<br /><br />People are fleeing the liberal citadels of the upper midwest, but they ain't heading for the east coast. They are heading south.<br /><br />In conclusion, my leftwing loony comment was in the context of how the people of your state vote, nothing more.Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-33803522289872311932014-07-25T08:20:23.809-04:002014-07-25T08:20:23.809-04:00Silver, did you see THISSilver, did you see <a href="http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/2014/07/massachusetts-tops-us-in-study-of.html" rel="nofollow">THIS</a>Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-26907879458861441752014-07-24T18:35:21.558-04:002014-07-24T18:35:21.558-04:00Bush did screw it up, and Obama has quadrupled dow...<i>Bush did screw it up, and Obama has quadrupled down on it.</i><br /><br />And Warren, with Obama's backing, would attempt to push it to the edge of total insanity if she should ever be elected. She is I hear Obama's choice to replace him.<br /><br /><i>... ensconced in far left loon states like Ducky's Massachusetts.</i><br /><br />MA may have it's problems but by comparison to say Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, West Virginia, Oklahoma, hell, the majority of the red states it ain't fairing all that poorly.<br /><br />But hey Silver, they got their firearms, the 2'nd amendment, and no doubt are working on why and how the 2'nd justifies individual ownership of shoulder fired rockets and howitzers Silver. :-)Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-38359066240453347632014-07-24T14:10:45.379-04:002014-07-24T14:10:45.379-04:00Jersey: The Pro-Obama insanity is making a laughi...Jersey: The Pro-Obama insanity is making a laughing stock of people like you, defending the indefensible.<br /><br />Why are all the congressional candidates running from him like scalded dogs, unless of course, they are comfortably ensconced in far left loon states like Ducky's Massachusetts.<br /><br />Bush did screw it up, and Obama has quadrupled down on it.<br /><br />His clown car administration has wrecked everything it touched.Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-40337245049714532022014-07-24T12:24:30.406-04:002014-07-24T12:24:30.406-04:00I see that cowardly shit, FT, is censoring gain.
...<i>I see that cowardly shit, FT, is censoring gain.</i><br /><br />...and when pShaw censor's me, it's all just fine, eh, ducky? It's one thing to ce3nsor in the attempt to maintain decorum, and quite another to do so to "win" your argument. One of those two isn't "cowardice".Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-47862053633188135172014-07-24T11:21:31.612-04:002014-07-24T11:21:31.612-04:00If it's you or that other Jackass jersey Jones...If it's you or that other Jackass jersey Jones he is censoring then I agree with him..<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />----------------->Sarah BernhardtSarah Bernhardtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-64732574380054516382014-07-24T10:25:33.903-04:002014-07-24T10:25:33.903-04:00I see that cowardly shit, FT, is censoring gain.
...I see that cowardly shit, FT, is censoring gain.<br /><br />Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-51157899704277087872014-07-24T08:20:55.773-04:002014-07-24T08:20:55.773-04:00FT,
Hehehe.FT,<br />Hehehe.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-71428552994335688082014-07-24T07:54:06.407-04:002014-07-24T07:54:06.407-04:00After the Axis Powers were defeated Tokyo Rpse sla...After the Axis Powers were defeated Tokyo Rpse slank away and hid in the shadows to avoid being hanged or shot dead by a firing squad. Skulking in the underbrish somewhere in the wilds of South America for decades, then went in fpr transformational surgery in Buenos Aires. <br /><br />She later emerged as a beefy, blue-jawed, barroom brawling transexual. <br /><br />With this new image (s)he surfaced in the southeastern past of the United States and appears before us today as: <br /><br /><b>ta ta ta TA ta TAH!<br /><br />JERSEY McJONES!</b>FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-23561681417253423882014-07-24T05:34:20.158-04:002014-07-24T05:34:20.158-04:00The state of American politics today: Darth Vader ...The state of American politics today: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/07/23/darth-vader-is-polling-higher-than-all-potential-2016-presidential-candidates/" rel="nofollow">Darth Vader is polling higher than all potential 2016 presidential candidates</a>.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-13623433435889676502014-07-23T22:34:36.826-04:002014-07-23T22:34:36.826-04:00Ducky, that is.Ducky, that is.Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-39386480195996676262014-07-23T22:00:24.510-04:002014-07-23T22:00:24.510-04:00Obama... OFFICIALLY on record as the worst world l...Obama... OFFICIALLY on record as the worst world leader since Louis XIV, even <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2014/07/02/obama-george-w-bush-quinnipiac-poll-reagan-clinton/11985837/" rel="nofollow">WORSE than GWB</a>.<br /><br />If Bush REALLY f'd it up so badly, the polls showing Obama as performing even WORSE should clue you in to the man's "actual" abilities.<br /><br />So get out of De Nile, Guernsey. Obama... worst president EVER!Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.com