Man, your mind fascinates me. Thanks again for sharing.

Truer word have never been uttered, indeed. Your point is sound and excellent. Thanks for sharing.

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

hmm.. interesting.. thanks

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

I found your post comments while searching Google. Very relevant especially as this is not an issue which a lot of peaople are conversant with.

But i have a question.
How would you feel if; You died for a cause you felt strongly enough about to sign up twice for, Like abortion rights(im guessing).
Then your mother goes out and fights like a maniac to end a womens right to choose in your name.
the fact that cindy doesnt agree with the war is irrelavent when it comes to casey. HE felt the war was worth his life. Twice.
If she wants to fight the war thats fine. But fighting it in her son’s name is wrong.

Comment by mighty aphrodite #110

Puny Hermaphrodite,

Go “copulate” yourself, and take your fake sympathy with you!

Comment by mighty aphrodite

You forgot the ones that have figured out they don’t have to work because they know we’ll sacrafice and feed our kids oatmeal twice a week so they can hang.

There are two types of Progs – wealthy, trust fund babies and a few indutrious agnostic entrepenuers
and folks who are the last ones to show up for work and the first to leave.

Please don’t bother to respond – I don’t think I could suffer through another frustrating exercise like this.

It’s not quite so frustrating if you call them a few names. I’ve got a bunch I’m not using right now. Let me know if you’d like to borrow some.

Please don’t bother to respond – I don’t think I could suffer through another frustrating exercise like this.

I’m sure you couldn’t. Having your ridiculous statements and ideas so thoroughly debunked must be embarassing. You are an empty vessel and a credit to the conservative movement.

George and the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy has saved our collective asses and put us in a position to win the next big war….or stop it from happening in the first place. George will go down in history as our nation’s greatest president since Lincoln.

Comment by I-RIGHT-I #107

Yo I’diotic-Rodent-I’nfestation,

Read today’s NYT story about these thieves from Bremer’s CPA entitled “Guilty Plea and Wider Scheme are Seen In Rebuilding of Iraq”

Excerpt:

“Although S&K’s contract called for Pentagon background checks, some of which were actually carried out, according to former S&K employees, Mr. Stein was given extraordinary authority in Iraq to authorize and spend money, in spite of his fraud conviction in the mid-1990’s.

Mr. Stein’s control over astonishing sums of cash became so great, interviews with former officials in Hilla indicate, that at one point he and others picked up $58.8 million in shrink-wrapped $100 bills from provisional authority headquarters and drove back with it to Hilla. There Mr. Stein controlled access to the vault where the cash was put — though not before local employees posed for pictures in front of the money.”

Hey sweetie, maybe they used George’s machines for the Palestinian elections. It’s known worldwide how partisan republicans steal elections – so why shouldn’t the palestinians get in on the action.

Frankly I wouldn’t be surprised if Hamas stole the election, any more than I’d be surprised if partisan republicans would steal it. Partisan and zealous behaviors are common in all groups – as you clearly show us daily oh goddess.

But actually mighty aphrodite, this is simpler to answer, but it requires actual knowledge of palestinian elections – something that republican partisans never seem to arm themselves with – why is that?

And ironically you say you’re in San Diego, and here’s a comment from one of your fellow Sooo Cal folks on the matter. See unlike the US, the palestinian elections are much harder to exit poll on.

Franklin, in turn, links to the cautions issued by UCSD Political Science Professor Matthew Shugart about the perils of Palestinian exit polling before the announcement of the contrary election results:

I would be really cautious with exit polls in an electoral system like this-even if it were a ‘normal’ environment in which people felt free to talk to people on the street asking them how they just voted. By that I mean that this electoral system-multi-seat plurality, plus list PR in parallel-means the pollster needs to know:

(1) whether the voter used all his/her votes in the nominal tier (the local multi-seat district);

(2) the identities of all the candidates he or she voted for;

(3) and the party list the voter checked.

That’s a lot of moving parts for each interviewee. And then the exit-polling company has to extrapolate from a sample and somehow generate a national allocation. That involves lots of assumptions about how completely other similar voters filled out their slate of candidates in the nominal tier. In general, multi-seat plurality races are very hard to predict because small vote shifts for individual candidates can make substantial differences in the outcome of the election in a district. It is not as though the outcome can be extrapolated just from knowing the party a voter preferred when the voter has more than one vote and can use all or none of them and spread them out on candidates of multiple parties or concentrate them all on one party.

Those who are MUCH smarter, wiser and better educated than yourself on the topic – oh non-omnipotent goddess – say the following.

It is a near “impossible task” to use an exit poll to pick winners inthe many multi-member voting districts in the Palestinian elections.

Doesn’t it just make you beg for the american system where we KNOW that the republicans stole the election? I certainly prefer the american version ;)

How would you know sweetie?

The investigators hypothesize that emotionally biased reasoning leads to the “stamping in” or reinforcement of a defensive belief, associating the participant’s “revisionist” account of the data with positive emotion or relief and elimination of distress. “The result is that partisan beliefs are calcified, and the person can learn very little from new data,” Westen says.

“*****Jay, you have failed to demonstrate your ability to decipher a “valid point”. Your opinion about “my point” means little or nothing. mighty aphrodite”

Pumpkin, facts don’t need to be deciphered, but partisan rhetoric posted by hysterical and emotional partisans who can’t stay on topic do. Poor pumpkin, you try so hard, but say so little.

“******I have always had a peculiar sympathy for people who are not nuanced readers. mighty aphrodite”

Don’t you mean you can’t understand why others can’t jump to the same wild hysterical and partisan conclusions you can on flimsy and typically contradictory evidence? It’s your partisan brain honey. And are you sure it’s sympathy? The way you attack it seems more like hatred and revulsion. See I’m not revolted by the partisan attacks you make, because I understand that you’re well intentioned but mentally disabled by your partisan brain. It doesn’t make you evil, or horrible, just disabled.

“Stay with me here – Had the US chosen to occupy the defeated Italy,Germany and the territories of any German collaborator country (**HINT**think Austria) and/or if we decided that an American Empire was preferable to a Soviet satellite system, American territory would have been world-wide. Thus, portions of Eastern Europe would have been AMERICAN outposts on the way to or from Japan. mighty aphrodite”

Actually Russia had to kill lots of eastern europeans to accomplish this goal and impose an entirely authoritarian system that eventually brought down their own country. So your belief that we should emulate the soviets is just so partisan, so silly, and so transparently unfounded that it kinda makes me laugh. When people grow up believing in talking donkeys, naiviety and gullibility seems to be a natural component to the personality.

“Just a small aside – are you a public high school graduate?? mighty aphrodite”

I personally would prefer a high school graduate in full command of their reasoning centers, than a supposedly smart partisan who can’t form a rational argument about the simplest topic. The really sad part is that most high school graduates know their limitations – the same is never true of the partisan. Poor things.

“What a tedious and mundane exercise…..Zzzzzzz….. mighty aphrodite”

Do you have sleep apnia? You always make the sleepy sign that I suspect you have concentration problems. I mean after all, the repetitive and boring nature of republican partisan postings could cause people to go into a coma, but I don’t Zzzzz the same old anti-commie comments, or anti-security comments, or any number of other hateful, slanderous and BORING comments that you make. How sad that this is the most creative effort a partisan brain can make ‘Zzzzz…. I’ve heard that sleep apnia can affect the cognitive and reasining abilities of people. It would explain a lot about you goddess ;)

It’s OK pumpkin. I know you’re trying hard to hurt, slap, mame and otherwise injure those YOU think are undermining your sense of security. But see, that sense of insecurity is all in your brain – and not brought about by liberals. Poor pumpkin, you’ve never been taught how to tell allegory from life, so your hysteria now is totally out of sync with the world you live in. But you should know that we love this country as much or most certainly more than you do – because we actually know what it means to be an american. And I hope, wish and desire that someday you can understand that meaning as well. I wish you well goddess, and I wish you find your way out of this madness you now live with.

“What does our current President and the horrible foreign policy direction he’s taken us in…” – Jay, again
******Jay, I hate to contradict the obviously high self-esteem transmitted in your posts, BUT your OPINIONS are not facts. (i.e.”…the horrible foreign policy…”) They are just that – your opinions…

“… with decisions that U.S. leadership made post WWII?” – simply, Jay
***** It might be argued that the US has engaged in a continuum foreign policy since WWI – as you undoubtedly know, or have an unsupported opinion about.

“I’m perfectly willing to debate and if you make a valid point I’ll say so….but that was pure nonsense.” – Jay
*****Jay, you have failed to demonstrate your ability to decipher a “valid point”. Your opinion about “my point” means little or nothing.

“Also, you failed to respond to the rebuttal to your misinformed remark regarding Eastern Europe as an outpost. If you’re going to debate, you need to have your fatcs straight or expect your claims to be debunked.” – Jay, again
******I have always had a peculiar sympathy for people who are not nuanced readers. You need to have such explicit information that a picture book might help you connect the dots – I’ll do my best. (Don’t be so offended – it would be the same if a PhD were to try to have a discussion with me about molecular biology – I’d be in deep $h*t.)
My discussion was about the US NOT (!!!!) acquiring the territoreies of defeated Germany, Italy and Japan (use of a multi-colour map might assist you here). HAD the US expanded it’s territory to include the vanquished enemy, Japan, (often referred to as the FAR EAST) would have comprised the US’ most eastern territory. Stay with me here – Had the US chosen to occupy the defeated Italy,Germany and the territories of any German collaborator country (**HINT**think Austria) and/or if we decided that an American Empire was preferable to a Soviet satellite system, American territory would have been world-wide. Thus, portions of Eastern Europe would have been AMERICAN outposts on the way to or from Japan.

Please don’t bother to respond – I don’t think I could suffer through another frustrating exercise like this. Just a small aside – are you a public high school graduate??

What a tedious and mundane exercise…..Zzzzzzz…..

Terry – you are toooooooo clever!!! My mother, bless her soul, said “never kiss a snake”. You appear to eager to engage in an honest debate but….HA! I’ll just get back to my quips and snide remarks about progs – with the exception of one or two donks, debate often proves to be a remedial exercise. Once again, Terry, well done….but as the old Who song says “won’t get fooled again”……