Conservative Thread: We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once

[Humphrey Bear]

 

[Michelle67]

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=28943408&posted=1#post28943408

Post #6

Do you ever find yourself wondering it a particular poster (any particular poster on any given day) is just going thread to thread looking for any "in" to say something nasty? It's sad. Always makes me wonder who peed in their Wheaties that morning. Now I am speaking in general...but in particular that poster does seem to be really spoiling for a fight this week. Bad Wheaties.

As for me, I agree with you Charade. It is a well done, very moving film. Also, being that I am a Scot on my father's side, it encouraged me to go and learn and little more about my own ethnic heritage. So did reading "Finn Mac Cool" several years back. These are works of historical fiction. They are meant for entertainment, but if they engage us then they might also encourage us to learn more about the real history (as much as is possible, when dealing with people who lived hundreds of years ago in a culture whose historical tradition was almost entirely oral).

 

[TLSnell1981]

Was it aimed at me? The exceptionally nasty ones are often aimed at me.

That must mean you are doing something right!

 

[Soarin08]

Was it aimed at me? The exceptionally nasty ones are often aimed at me.

No, I don't think so (for once, thankfully).

Humphrey Bear- that comic strip says it all!!

Well.... work at 7am tomorrow so g'night! Till tomorrow....

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

Whew! We took a notion to enter the afternoon Black Friday crowds today at Concord Mills (humongous nearby mall). DW and I left the kids with family and got lots of shopping done for them.

Also took in a movie -"Role Models". Mini-review: Full of bad language, but all in all a ribald adult comedy with a good heart.

 

[VonBaroketch]

I must say, it was a wonderful Black Friday. My brother and I got up at 4am to go to the local department store. Nothing crazy going on there, but I suggested we run from the car to the front door for tradition's sake. He refused, so we did not. Anyway, I found a great deal on an overcoat for D.C., then decided to go home and go to bed. I spent the evening with my cousin at Epcot. We wanted to attend the opening night of Candlelight and hear Mr. Peterman read the Gospel. It was a delightful evening that I capped off with an Opus X and a Guinness in the France Pavillion after Holiday Illuminations.

One funny story: While waiting in line to purchase a beer in America, I heard a guest ahead of me ask if the seasonal beer was by Sam Adams. The castmember said no, it was Anheuser-Busch. The guest went with a regular Sam Adams. The beer snob in me completely agreed with the guest, but for kicks I thought I would go through the same procedure of asking if the seasonal was Sam Adams, and then rejecting it for the real Sam Adams!

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

I must say, it was a wonderful Black Friday. My brother and I got up at 4am to go to the local department store. Nothing crazy going on there, but I suggested we run from the car to the front door for tradition's sake. He refused, so we did not. Anyway, I found a great deal on an overcoat for D.C., then decided to go home and go to bed. I spent the evening with my cousin at Epcot. We wanted to attend the opening night of Candlelight and hear Mr. Peterman read the Gospel. It was a delightful evening that I capped off with an Opus X and a Guinness in the France Pavillion after Holiday Illuminations.

That sounds positively sublime.

 

[wonderlanne]

I must say, it was a wonderful Black Friday. My brother and I got up at 4am to go to the local department store. Nothing crazy going on there, but I suggested we run from the car to the front door for tradition's sake. He refused, so we did not. Anyway, I found a great deal on an overcoat for D.C., then decided to go home and go to bed. I spent the evening with my cousin at Epcot. We wanted to attend the opening night of Candlelight and hear Mr. Peterman read the Gospel. It was a delightful evening that I capped off with an Opus X and a Guinness in the France Pavillion after Holiday Illuminations.

One funny story: While waiting in line to purchase a beer in America, I heard a guest ahead of me ask if the seasonal beer was by Sam Adams. The castmember said no, it was Anheuser-Busch. The guest went with a regular Sam Adams. The beer snob in me completely agreed with the guest, but for kicks I thought I would go through the same procedure of asking if the seasonal was Sam Adams, and then rejecting it for the real Sam Adams!

you're funny!

 

[debbieandroo]

 

[Michelle67]

Okay that took me a minute because I was distracted reading the names, but that's funny!

 

[debbieandroo]

Do you ever find yourself wondering it a particular poster (any particular poster on any given day) is just going thread to thread looking for any "in" to say something nasty? It's sad. Always makes me wonder who peed in their Wheaties that morning. Now I am speaking in general...but in particular that poster does seem to be really spoiling for a fight this week. Bad Wheaties.

As for me, I agree with you Charade. It is a well done, very moving film. Also, being that I am a Scot on my father's side, it encouraged me to go and learn and little more about my own ethnic heritage. So did reading "Finn Mac Cool" several years back. These are works of historical fiction. They are meant for entertainment, but if they engage us then they might also encourage us to learn more about the real history (as much as is possible, when dealing with people who lived hundreds of years ago in a culture whose historical tradition was almost entirely oral).

I would suspect them of tracking certain posters that start innocuous threads then try to bait the poster into saying something point-worthy or at least kill their thread. Charade, you're well-known for your debate prowess....I'm sure some of your debatees would love to rain on any parade you're marching in.

And you were right, Charade - is this necessary?!??!?

 

[debbieandroo]

Back to a comment by loco, who mentioned that, in any debate with a lib, they will always mention the evil of Karl Rove.....

interesting that Mr Rove has been quite complimentary of H's new appointees...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122783239069463007.html

Will they still think Rove is evil? Or that he has seen the light?

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

I would suspect them of tracking certain posters that start innocuous threads then try to bait the poster into saying something point-worthy or at least kill their thread. Charade, you're well-known for your debate prowess....I'm sure some of your debatees would love to rain on any parade you're marching in.

And you were right, Charade - is this necessary?!??!?

Here lately I am convinced that at least some leftists are targeting conservative posters. They are trying to bait. I don't know how organized this is, nor exactly how many are doing it. But I'm sure it's part of their goal of silencing differing points of view. Luckily it fairly transparent. It doesn't require a ton of rhetorical skill to navigate those waters.

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

Back to a comment by loco, who mentioned that, in any debate with a lib, they will always mention the evil of Karl Rove.....

interesting that Mr Rove has been quite complimentary of H's new appointees...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122783239069463007.html

Will they still think Rove is evil? Or that he has seen the light?

Interesting thought, but H's minions will always hate Rove.

 

[debbieandroo]

And, to those OS who purport that Reagan was the WORST PRESIDENT EVAH, what would their comment be to this premature [at best!] article?

Enough with the Lincoln analogies; Reagan is the president that Barack Obama is most closely modeling himself after. Ronald Reagan inherited stagflation, a defeat abroad and a nation at its nadir in morale. Through the sheer force of his personality as much as his policies, four years later, it was "Morning in America," the theme of his 1984 re-election campaign when he won 49 states. Obama isn't president yet, but his determined calm and orderly transition pace appear to be soothing the financial markets, producing the first sustained gain in stocks since the mid-September meltdown.

On Jan. 20, Obama will take the oath of office, join a private luncheon in Statuary Hall, then meet with congressional leaders and, if all goes according to plan, sign into law a massive stimulus plan before he proceeds up Pennsylvania Avenue to the viewing stand outside the White House for the Inaugural Parade. Reagan initiated the tradition of the Inaugural Day meeting with the legislative barons, a gesture that signals respect and sets a tone for the 100-day dash when a president can be most productive.

This will be the first time since 1960 that two senators have gone directly from Capitol Hill to the White House. The people they're bringing with them, together with the relationships they have, constitute an unparalleled early warning system. Unlike Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, who quickly ran afoul of their Democratic majorities, Obama will be better wired on Capitol Hill than anybody in either party since Lyndon Johnson. Rahm Emanuel has a boatload of IOUs he can call in as chief of staff along with a high sensitivity to what it takes to preserve and build an enduring majority. Phil Schilero, tapped as Obama's liaison to Capitol Hill, has deep roots in Congress both as a top aide to former Senate leader Tom Daschle and as ace House investigator Henry Waxman's longtime sidekick. With Waxman displacing old bull John Dingell as chairman of the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee, the prospects for meaningful action on a host of legislation, notably climate change, improve dramatically. Dingell is known as "Tailpipe John" for his fierce defense of Michigan's auto industry against government regulation.

After Clinton won in 1992, congressional leaders took a highly publicized trek to Little Rock to take their measure of the man, and when they returned, they set the agenda. Clinton was the first Democrat to win in 16 years but he wasn't in a strong position. With third-party candidate Ross Perot in the race, Clinton had failed to achieve 50 percent of the popular vote, meaning that Democrats elected to Congress performed better than he did, so why should they kowtow to him? In raw numbers, Obama is in a much stronger position, plus he has extra political capital because of his charisma and communication skills. "It's unlikely he's going to be led about by congressional leaders, it'll be the other way around," says a top Senate Democratic aide, who doesn't want to be quoted by name seeming to disparage his end of Pennsylvania Avenue. Carter's first 100 days turned contentious when key committee chairmen rebelled at his proposal to cancel several water projects he regarded as wasteful. The hometown loyalists Carter surrounded himself with had no idea of what a sacred cow they had taken on, and Carter was forced to back down.

Obama has large majorities in the Senate and House, and he won't be able to use Congress as an excuse for not getting things done. He has something else too, and that is an enormous wellspring of good will. It's not happenstance that Obama won, says Vernon Jordan, managing director of Lazard Freres and a senior counsel at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld, one of the premiere law firms based in Washington. Jordan is better known today as Bill Clinton's friend and golfing partner but he has a long and proud history as a civil-rights leader and activist. He recounted in a recent talk to promote his new book, "Make It Plain," the legal battles fought in the 1940s to outlaw Georgia's whites-only primary, one of the many steps along the way to elect a black president. Watching the returns on election night, alone in his New York apartment, Jordan said his eyes flooded with tears just as they did when Nelson Mandela walked out of jail and Tiger Woods went from the 18th tee to the 19th green at Augusta. Jordan recalls how he counseled Obama in November '06 that this wasn't his time, and how wrong he was.

His book, a collection of his speeches, includes a blockbuster he delivered as president of the National Urban League in July 1977, six months into Carter's presidency, in which he rebukes the new president, a friend from Georgia he had helped elect, for disappointing the large black majorities who voted for him by failing to introduce an urban revitalization policy and to address the grinding problems of poverty and discrimination. This is another era, ushered in by decades of disappointment. It will take more than six months for Obama to deliver on the hope and change he promised. But by 2012, if we can say it's morning in America again, Obama will have succeeded. He might even win 49 states.

© 2008

In a word, BARF....

 

[debbieandroo]

Hey, and another video from our favorite conservative, Zo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0q5xbjy_Do

and here's his website --

www.machosauceproductions.com

 

[What the Heck]

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=28943408&posted=1#post28943408

Post #6

But they were so wide open for a comeback!

 

[Family Fun Mom]

No name calling? On the dis? That is possible? Does this mean I won't be called a racist because I am concerned about someone's friend's beliefs? I don't know what to say to that. Except maybe, "wowwwww!"

Yeah, for intolerant neo-cons, we're pretty cool.

Welcome! I think you are going to fit in here perfectly

 

[#1hockeymom]

Okay that took me a minute because I was distracted reading the names, but that's funny!

Same here! Must be a Con thing.. we actually read for content, first! Those pretty speechesImeanpictures don't iimpress us!

I had to read it again, and it wasn't until I sat back and pondered that it jumped out at me!

 

[TLSnell1981]

Here lately I am convinced that at least some leftists are targeting conservative posters. They are trying to bait. I don't know how organized this is, nor exactly how many are doing it. But I'm sure it's part of their goal of silencing differing points of view. Luckily it fairly transparent. It doesn't require a ton of rhetorical skill to navigate those waters.

That's the problem for those targeting conservatives. They think, they are cunning and cute but, they are not. As you said, it's easy to spot their game. It's not even entertaining...quite boring actually. **yawn** I agree with the motive. They can't abide anyone not in lockstep with the obama.