Alias Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 Somewhere out there today, a writer isn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyFan42 Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 I've seen that before. It's an ironic piece, no? (Determining whether it's irony-ironic or Alanis-ironic is left as an exercise for the reader.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devils731 Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 (edited) Bleh, I wrote something else but people should pat themselves on the back for good things. Although, its not important what a label did in the past, its what they want to do for the future. -Scott Edited September 17, 2004 by Devils731 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
langsgirl Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 I've seen that before. It's an ironic piece, no?(Determining whether it's irony-ironic or Alanis-ironic is left as an exercise for the reader.) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Is it ironic that alanis-ironic isnt irony at all? Just bad luck?> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Leeds Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 Well the person wasn't an "African-American" because it sure wasn't the liberals who fought for their civil rights. Just to keep them down. Th rest is just garbage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 Funny, I thought Republicans wanted to poision his Bacon and Eggs... Stupid story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squishyx Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 sooo we should all be liberals because they have done good things about 50-100 years ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 Squishy: This is the stuff I work on on a daily basis. "Once he Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triumph Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 Where were African Americans mentioned in this story? Right, all the affirmative action and additional loans/aid for minorities is just meant to keep them down! That's exactly it! This piece is very good and demonstrates where the conservative movement has continually failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squishyx Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 Squishy:This is the stuff I work on on a daily basis. "Once he Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 i see what the author is saying, but it hasnt been just liberals who have passed important legislation in this country throughout the years. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's why this article is so dumb and the only reaction i gave to it was "Stupid Story"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Leeds Posted September 18, 2004 Share Posted September 18, 2004 Don, unlike you, I cannot afford during my workday to sit and type those inflated posts like you do. I'm also not on this site 24/7 like you. I have important things to take care of, which I'm sure you'd appreciate it knowing how much you like the police. My posts are in and out...........you don't like it, tough, you don't exactly impress me. And I call a spade a spade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted September 18, 2004 Share Posted September 18, 2004 That's quite an insinuation there Jimmy.... I'd show you my employee evaluations if I had any. The reason I don't have any? Because I'm considered a work-a-holic and have been promoted so often I'm never in one place long enough to get an evaluation. Not one boss has ever questioned me posting on njdevs during the day, and if one did I'd rip them a new one considering the time I've put in on weekends and evenings and not charged a dime of the overtime I coulda claimed. And my point was that if you come into a thread where people are debating a topic and you write "That's stupid" you're not really contributing anything. BTW - just so that you are aware - my goal in life is NOT to impress you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciyenne Posted September 18, 2004 Share Posted September 18, 2004 i see what the author is saying, but it hasnt been just liberals who have passed important legislation in this country throughout the years. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's why this article is so dumb and the only reaction i gave to it was "Stupid Story"... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, but the author wasn't passing it off as an unbiased and completely disinterested account of what the various political parties have done. As a piece of political propaganda I think it works very well- it's humorous, well written and pithy. As well as biased, which is a prerequisite for political writing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devils731 Posted September 18, 2004 Share Posted September 18, 2004 The fact it reveled in its biasness(probably not a real word) is the reason I decided not to rail against it. I mean really if something is so obviously written from one point of view and its not putting anyone down then what is the big deal? -Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciyenne Posted September 18, 2004 Share Posted September 18, 2004 The fact it reveled in its biasness(probably not a real word) is the reason I decided not to rail against it-Scott <{POST_SNAPBACK}> hm. I think it might just be 'revel in its bias'. To be biased, to hold bias...ah the English langauge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheeps Posted September 18, 2004 Share Posted September 18, 2004 It's interesting. I wonder how much of it has been because of Nader. Championed a ton of automotive safety issue and been a strong consumer advocate since the 1960's. May I mention he advised a locked door between the airplane cabin and cockpit before 9/11, or will it go ignored yet again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Devil Posted September 19, 2004 Share Posted September 19, 2004 Looks like it is getting ignored again, Sheepy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tretyak 20 Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 (edited) Joe gets up at 6 a.m. to fix coffee. He fills his pot with good, clean water because America has always had an abundance of clean water - due mainly to the fact that we're a young nation with a relatively low population density, but some liberal took the credit for it anyway. He takes his medication with his first swallow. The drugs are roughly 50% more expensive than anywhere else on the planet because some liberal forced government regulation down the throats of drug companies... and btw, the drugs work in less-regulated countries as well. All but $10 of their cost was paid by some other individual, because some liberal believed that stealing from one person to give to another was a good way to get some extra votes. Bacon and eggs today, he decides. The bacon is safe because consumers wouldn't buy unsanitary food once some bright entreprenuer offered them a better, safer and newer way to do things. Once he Edited September 21, 2004 by Tretyak 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devils731 Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 Very nice Tretyak. -Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 P.S. On the way home, Joe get's mugged and killed by some convict released from Death Row cause some liberal thought it was inhumane to execute convicted murders... Nice work Tretyak, write all that yourself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyFan42 Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 Nice try, Tretyak, but if you wanted to imitate the original piece, you should have rewritten it so that the accomplishments of conservatives were trumpeted. All you did was pen a liberal-bashing screed. Better luck next time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 Nice try, Tretyak, but if you wanted to imitate the original piece, <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Maybe he didn't want to imitate the original piece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyFan42 Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 Nice try, Tretyak, but if you wanted to imitate the original piece, Maybe he didn't want to imitate the original piece You're right. Why author a thoughtful, intelligent commentary when it's so much easier to bash the other side without adding any ideas of your own? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triumph Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 (edited) At 6 A.M., Tretyak awoke to fix coffee. He wished that instead of a machine, he had a servant like in the good old days, but a machine was more efficient anyway. As the machine whirred and buzzed, he began to feel a tingle at the back of his neck. Efficiency, he thought, hallowed be thy name. He always takes his medication with his first swallow; today it was a passage out of Atlas Shrugged that he'd have to choke down, reminding him that poor people are stupid and get what they deserve. He then wished the government would stop regulating corporations. If he had believed in God, he'd say a little prayer, hoping those poor conglomerates can go back to unreglulated mania. Bacon and eggs, he decides today. He's lucky he had an education and has a high-paying job, or else he wouldn't be able to pay for the bypass surgery that'll probably be required somewhere down the line with such breakfasts. But he reminds himself he deserved that education because he was a better person. Once he's outside, he inhales clean air, because he lives far away from anywhere where there would be dirty air. Then he chuckles about people who do have to live in polluted areas. Surely the corporations will begin to clean those areas up on their own initiative, because it's in their self-interest to do so, and self-interest rules all. Ah, self-interest. Tretyak begins asking what his self-interest is as though it were a mantra. He gets in his expensive SUV and reminds himself that global warming is a fraud. Not only that, but unsubstantiated human waste is the goal of humanity itself. How else can we let the glorious human spirit out! Okay, I can't go any further with this. Regardless, Tretyak's post reeks of the taxation-is-fraud, all-government-is-waste, Libertarianism that will become a legitimate movement in twenty years. The fallacies of this thinking are many, and the assumptions it rests on incredibly outmoded. Edited September 21, 2004 by Triumph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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