If the shoe fits?

[Edwina's Secretary]

If one calls a person an idiot, one is simply calling that person an idiot.

If one calls an elected official an idiot, you are by extension calling those who voted for the individual in question idiots at best.

I fail to see why you are so huffy about a simple request to keep political discourse above the schoolyard level. Is it because you are in fact incapable of doing so yourself?

What I am "huffy about" is your inability to admit your bias. Just tell me why it doesn't bother you when RICHARD calls Nancy Pelosi a moron but it bothers you that Donna calls Bush an idiot.

Gosh...when you look at it like that it becomes rather obvious, doesn't it?

But to take your logic (or illogic) to the next step...if I call Blagojevich a crook, am I calling everyone who voted for him a crook?

If I call Randy Cunningham a theft, am I calling the people who voted for him thieves?

If I call Larry Craig a lying closet homosexual, am I calling the people who voted for him that?

Of course not. That would be silly.

Getting elected does not protect people from the same label you feel comfortable putting on fellow posters.

Does the schoolyard equal the barnyard? And does calling fellow poster count as schoolyard behavior -- or just barnyard?

[Lady's Human]

<sigh>

If someone is a crook, it can be hidden fairly readily. Happens all teh time. What % of crimes go forever without being solved?

There have been plenty of crooks in government, and will be as long as government is human.

Idiocy, however, should be fairly apparent. Regardless of how I feel about their policies, they managed to run an election campaign and get to where they are. If someone is truly an idiot and still gets elected, you're calling into question the intelligence of millions of people in the case of a national election.

[RICHARD]

I get away with stuff becuase I am a hypocrite.

Hypocrites are usually idiots, so our opinions don't count.

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I get away with stuff becuase I am a hypocrite.

Hypocrites are usually idiots, so our opinions don't count.

Im dyslexic, thats gotta give me some leeway too.

[Edwina's Secretary]

<sigh>

If someone is a crook, it can be hidden fairly readily. Happens all teh time. What % of crimes go forever without being solved?

There have been plenty of crooks in government, and will be as long as government is human.

Idiocy, however, should be fairly apparent. Regardless of how I feel about their policies, they managed to run an election campaign and get to where they are. If someone is truly an idiot and still gets elected, you're calling into question the intelligence of millions of people in the case of a national election.

<sigh> You usually do better than this LH. Idiocy is just as easily hidden as dishonesty. Take Warren Harding for example. A point for trying to say..."national vs. local makes it different." But millions of people vote in Illinois -- or New York -- Florida -- California.

I do notice you continue to avoid the question of why you find "moron" acceptable but not "idiot"?

Nor why it is not "schoolyard" behavior to call a fellow poster an "idiot" as you admit to doing but it is "schoolyard" behavior to call a politician an idiot.

But then...some questions are unanswerable, aren't they?

<sigh>

[lizbud]

<sigh> You usually do better than this LH. Idiocy is just as easily hidden as dishonesty. Take Warren Harding for example. A point for trying to say..."national vs. local makes it different." But millions of people vote in Illinois -- or New York -- Florida -- California.

I do notice you continue to avoid the question of why you find "moron" acceptable but not "idiot"?

Nor why it is not "schoolyard" behavior to call a fellow poster an "idiot" as you admit to doing but it is "schoolyard" behavior to call a politician an idiot.

But then...some questions are unanswerable, aren't they?

<sigh>

Two words. Situational Ethics.

[RICHARD]

Two words. Situational Ethics.

Two more?

Warren Harding, Other than the golf course in Griffith Park in Lost Angeles, why does he make the thread??


I have to laugh because this thread wasn't started as a political/world affairs comment. It was meant as a dig at the stupidity of people on the planet and how they react to other people, Of course it's not as bad as assasination of a world leader-World War anyone?- I thought it was stupid and a childish 'show of protest'.

BTW, The Secret Service is asking women to check their underwear at the door of any press 'briefing' now- The story of the woman who injured her eye with the thong underwear has lead them to believe that a terrorist could make a sling out of a pair and hurt any politician.

Yes it is 'schoolyard' because I post things and take an oblique look at things.

If I have any conversations/post that really bug you, fine.

To toss my name into a conversation and then say "When Richard does it" reminds me of my idiot brothers and sisters and how they would run to my mom everytime they had a prob with something I did.

Yeppers, I am not the most astute person when it comes to expressing myself-but I try to leave some latitude when it comes to serious/facetious.

So, I hope people really take my posts with a grain of salt and try to read between the lines......there is nothing there.

[shepgirl]

My sister spent many years in a wheelchair, and died of MS at the age of 48, in 2006.

You already told me this Catty and you also thanked me for the work I did at our m.s. centre. As I said, I am very sorry about your sister but I go to bed every night hoping my brother will not wake up next morning so I don't have to watch him suffer from this anymore.

It's Christmas, please put me back on ignore for the season, we seem to be at crossroads.

[Catty1]

shepgirl you are on ignore, have been for a while. I can however look at individual posts of yours if I wish, or that of anyone else on Ignore.

Yes, I remember telling you that now. The point is...that I would not make fun of a person's handicap because of that background. Putting someone into the "ugly" category that the Stones were put into? Yes. The "h" word doesn't come into this context.

[Cinder & Smoke]

So, I hope people really take my posts with a grain of salt and
try to read between the lines ... there is nothing there.

Nothing there?

But it's so Phunn to look!

[RICHARD]

Nothing there?

But it's so Phunn to look!

I'm a liar too?

As far as the 'ugly comment' goes.

I didn't have any idea that the gentlemen mentioned had any kind of medical impairment.


I apologize for the comments I made and to Mick, Ron and the rest of the boys.

[RICHARD]

Just heard a blurb about some AMERICAN CITIZENS who did something with shoes at a Bush appearance.

I really hope that this is a trend that the public at large honor ALL our politicians in this way.

Please feel free to try STEEL TOES, a good heavy duty hiking boot or the steel plate that flat tracking motorcycylists use over their shoes.

I love this country!

[ramanth]

http://www.sockandawe.com/

[Cinder & Smoke]

http://www.sockandawe.com/

Darn shoe has a terribul Left Hook!

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