Comments on: Bob Barr wins Libertarian Party nomination.

By: kathy

kathy — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:40:15 +0000

Clinton has taken Kentucky and Obama is right there in Oregon.
The Democratic race for nomination is still very much alive – and most likely to be decided by superdelegates – as CNN points out clearly

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/20/primary.wrap/index.html

If you’re tired of waiting around for those super delegates to make a decision already, go to LobbyDelegates.com and push them to support Clinton or Obama

If you haven’t done so yet, please write a message to each of your state’s superdelegates at http://www.lobbydelegates.com

Obama Supporters:

Sending a note to current Obama supporters lets them know it’s appreciated, sending a note to current Clinton supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Obama, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Obama. It’s that easy…

Clinton Supporters too …. !

It takes a moment, but what’s a few minutes now worth to get Clinton in office?! Those are really worth !

Sending a note to current Clinton supporters lets them know it’s appreciated, sending a note to current Obama supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Clinton, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Clinton. It’s that easy…

By: Musk

Musk — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:00:54 +0000

If I remember correctly, Barr was one of the first Republicans to get in line to hump Bill Clinton’s leg during Monica-gate. Them Republicans is classy people.

By: dbadass

dbadass — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:50:46 +0000

Me, I just like Captains Couragous.

By: DallasNE

DallasNE — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:47:53 +0000

Pardon me while I yawn.

By: BlackbirdHighway

BlackbirdHighway — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:38:10 +0000

Libertarians sure have changed. Now they have a guy who believes that the government should meddle in peoples private sex lives, and who not only thinks marijuana should be illegal, but that people shouldn’t even be allowed to vote on the question!

Or maybe they just like a guy who changes his positions whenever he thinks he can get some political advantage. Ideological convictions are SOOO last century!

By: Rowan Berkeley

Rowan Berkeley — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:24:04 +0000

nutty whore, you may read as follows at wikipedia:

Kipling was now a famous man, and in the previous two or three years, had increasingly been making political pronouncements in his writings. He had also begun work on two poems, Recessional (1897) and The White Man’s Burden (1899) which were to create controversy when published. Regarded by some as anthems for enlightened and duty-bound empire-building (that captured the mood of the Victorian age), the poems equally were regarded by others as propaganda for brazenfaced imperialism and its attendant racial attitudes; still others saw irony in the poems and warnings of the perils of empire.

see Gilmour, David. 2002. The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York.

By: Rowan Berkeley

Rowan Berkeley — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:18:45 +0000

That wasn’t written as satire, nebbish war. It was written seriously.

By: Nevar

Nevar — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:24:44 +0000

Now that what’s his name mentioned it, look at the picture of Bob Barr at the top of the post and tell me he doesn’t have that “Labrador” look about him…..

By: Nevar

Nevar — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:22:18 +0000

Keep the blade.
Labradors quickly become confused with actual family members.

By: dbadass

dbadass — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:19:07 +0000

you’ll toss my switchblade from my cold dead hands. Unless of course I have already swapped it for a Labrador

By: Nevar

Nevar — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:15:51 +0000

friends for life…

By: Nevar

Nevar — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:15:09 +0000

Labradors are easy, just bring a squeaky toy duck, toss, and say “Fetch”…

By: dbadass

dbadass — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:59:15 +0000

where’s my switchblade?

By: Nevar

Nevar — Tue, 27 May 2008 01:41:48 +0000

“…(just a Labrador) and doesn’t accidentally kill anyone EVER.”

How close does it come?

By: DieNowForPeace

DieNowForPeace — Tue, 27 May 2008 01:29:14 +0000

one could have weapons in their house to protect family,

My dog does a much better job of protecting my family (just a Labrador) and doesn’t accidentally kill anyone EVER.

By: Brain From Planet Arous

Brain From Planet Arous — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:14:26 +0000

MCMetal Says:

And that little ‘ditty’ reveals the hypocritcial nature of these “Libertarians” , who , like you state later in your post , are nothing but Repubs in a different lining.

Is the tag “Libertarian” indicative of those all about/for individual liberties for all Americans ?

And what ? Gays and lesbians aren’t Americans ?

What a crock of shit ………….

On top of that, they are isolationists. many of them hate Al Gore’s guts, and say he is worse than George Bush. I think Libertarians in general are insane, and this “arm everyone” is drastic to say the least. Mike Malloy is a flaming liberal/Progressive, yet he owns guns. In fact, one could have weapons in their house to protect family, and still be a Progressive, even though that is indicative of the paranoid society we live in now.

The best one yet is “Environmentalists are causing high oil prices because of punishing oil companies to adhere to non-pollution rules”.

By: Nevar

Nevar — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:07:54 +0000

For Row on Beserkedly:

The White Man’s Burden

Take up the White Man’s burden–
Send forth the best ye breed–
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives’ need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild–
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.

Take up the White Man’s burden–
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another’s profit,
And work another’s gain.

Take up the White Man’s burden–
The savage wars of peace–
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to naught.

Take up the White Man’s burden–
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper–
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go make them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.

Take up the White Man’s burden–
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard–
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light
“Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?”

Take up the White Man’s burden–
Ye dare not stoop to less–
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloak your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.

Take up the White Man’s burden–
Have done with childish days–
The lightly proferred laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers.

Rudyard Kipling

This writing has considerable relevance to Memorial Day, I should say.

By: Rowan Berkeley

Rowan Berkeley — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:51:46 +0000

I did notice someone using that redundant term “liberal” earlier in the thread. It seems to continue to serve as an insult, because the people on the receiving end haven’t yet figured out that there is nothing in classical liberalism that they need to hang onto, and if there was, it wouldn’t be the job of progressives to hang onto it, anyway. What in its day was liberalism is now better described, in my opinion, as Lockean conservatism. That’s my own phrase for it, and it seems to fit better than “libertarian.”

By: tarazan

tarazan — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:42:22 +0000

Bob: I’m on a mission is to Barr-Beque GOP party.

By: Rowan Berkeley

Rowan Berkeley — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:23:13 +0000

Rowing Jerkily

It’s doubtful you would appreciate Kipling’s satire of the colonialists disdain for differences either.

– if you’re too busy making infantile puns on my name to actually cite anything, then I probably won’t.