sublime1983 Wrote:Yes, you are right. Again, I am not an english major and I make those simple mistakes. But doesn't everyone? Why do we need to start these grammar wars?We start wars because we can; its the American way. :p
Marc B. Wrote:You have to admit that of all our President's Bush is not the brightest one.
sublime1983 Wrote:Yes, you are right. Again, I am not an english major and I make those simple mistakes. But doesn't everyone? Why do we need to start these grammar wars?
Ken Valentine Wrote:"Conservatives" are always attacking others. And as far as Reagan is concerned, he was at best a mediocre president. He talked good libertarian talk, but like all republican presidents in the last half century, he still governed like a democrat.
Ken Valentine Wrote:This makes absolutely no sense at all. What are you talking about?
Ken Valentine Wrote:David Duke is a republican. Traditionally, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the status quo. Perhaps you have a different definition.
Ken Valentine Wrote:You gave no definition.
Ken Valentine Wrote:Who is they?
Considering I can't go back and see my original quote, I think the "they" was Conservatives. But you didn't give me anymore to tell you right now. I will go back and correct if I'm wrong.
[QUOTE=Ken Valentine]How can you be positive about anything if you consider checking for facts a waste of time?
Ken V.
jimbow8 Wrote:I'll try to find it
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some time be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- Humanitarian Theory of Punishment - C.S. Lewis
All democracies turn into dictatorships-but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea...What kinds of things push people and institutions into this direction? -- Interview, Time, April 21, 2002, about Attack of the Clones - George Lucas
jimbow8 Wrote:We start wars because we can; its the American way. :p
Seriously, what better way to learn than to be constantly corrected.
sublime1983 Wrote:Yes, you are right. Again, I am not an english major and I make those simple mistakes. But doesn't everyone? Why do we need to start these grammar wars?
sublime1983 Wrote:Your wrong. It's Conservative nature to do things the ole' fashion way. We don't go on the Daily Show and start bashing others. We aren't on MTv talking about how the other party is stupid. I never understood why I was always on the defensive until a friend of mine that is a firsty and the USNA explained to me that it is just our nature. Makes a lot of sense.I listen to Limbaugh nearly every day and usually have to turn it off because he is constantly making personal attacks against Liberals. My favorite was when he got violently angry against commentators who "attacked" Bush for stammering through answers at a press conference (I think it was the latest one - months ago) and then immediately turned around and attacked another reporter who stammered and stuttered through a question. He constantly spews on about how stupid liberal are. So PLEASE don't say that Conservatives don't do it. Your Flagbearer, Rush, does it every day.
sublime1983 Wrote:The green party is very radical. Extremely far left. They don't agree with anything that a Republican has to say. You don't get the same thing from a Republican. Why? Because when it makes sense to us, we don't let our ego's get in the way. And thats a fact. We don't have radical Right Winged parties like the Green Party.The Christian Coalition, the Moral Majority, there are a plethora of radical right wing groups.
sublime1983 Wrote:"Belief in the value of free markets, limited government, and individual self-reliance in economic affairs, combined with a belief in the value of tradition, law and morality in social affairs." -Dr. Thomas DyeIf conservatives are all about these things, why are there new trade restrictions, a new DEPARTMENT of the government, increased spending. Even your hero, Reagan, promised to abolish two federal departments and then instead created an extra one. They talk the talk, but they don't walk the walk.
sublime1983 Wrote:A saying that has become pretty popular at the academy is "Life, liberty and the pursuit of those who threaten it."Do a quick Google or Yahoo! search.
I'm sorry, I don't know who David Duke is, so you lost me on that one.
sublime1983 Wrote:Wow, what happend with you? You were fine and now you seem to have jumped all over me. Seems that I spoke too soon about the treatment. My definition had something to do with us being the attacked. We are not the political aggressors. We may want to attack other countries that want to destroy us, but we don't go around pointing fingers at the Ds. I didn't go into too much because I don't feel like writing a book with every post but it seems that I need to in order to please you.
sublime1983 Wrote:Wow, you really like to put words in people's mouth. Ok, so you are a Nazi. You are a Hitler supporter. Why do I say that? Because you said that he wasn't evil and that we should have let him go into war. You said that we should have never gotten involved. You said that England should have let Hitler do what he wanted because he wasn't bad. Now, I may have put a couple words in your mouth. Go back and read what I said. I said that Hitler was evil. If you wanted to give him more time to prove it, think of how many others would have died. But to prove your point, you used a Moore technique. You chopped up the meaing of my quote to your benefit. Very sad.I think you may have opened a floodgate here by calling Ken a Nazi! Be Warned.
sublime1983 Wrote:Reagan was a great president...I had a bunch of other stuff on here to tell you why he was a great President, but I deleted it. I did so because I got emotional and got close to calling you names. It disturbs me that someone could call the best president of all time "at best, mediocre." What that means is that you will refuse to believe that Reagan was a great president. You ignore everything he had done, or never learned it, so that you can call him this. I beg that you read up on him a little. Both sides. I recommend starting with Hannity's new book, Deliver us from Evil. He had a section talking about Reagan that, if you actually read it, you would feel very different about him. You will see what he was up against. Plus, there is a fact checker in the book if you think that he is just lying his way through it."Reagan was a great President." That is your opinion and you are entitled to it. It DOES NOT in any way shape or form make it fact. (You need to stop using the word "fact" so much.) Did he do some great thing? I'm sure he did. Did he do some terrible things? Yes, he did that also. How about sending weapons to Iran and Iraq which helped cause this whole mess we're in in the first place? How about supporting the creation of what would become the Taliban in Afghanistan in order to help fight the Soviets? The support of the "freedom fighters" of Central America? Need I go on?
jimbow8 Wrote:I listen to Limbaugh nearly every day and usually have to turn it off because he is constantly making personal attacks against Liberals. My favorite was when he got violently angry against commentators who "attacked" Bush for stammering through answers at a press conference (I think it was the latest one - months ago) and then immediately turned around and attacked another reporter who stammered and stuttered through a question. He constantly spews on about how stupid liberal are. So PLEASE don't say that Conservatives don't do it. Your Flagbearer, Rush, does it every day.
jimbow8 Wrote:The Christian Coalition, the Moral Majority, there are a plethora of radical right wing groups.
jimbow8 Wrote:If conservatives are all about these things, why are there new trade restrictions, a new DEPARTMENT of the government, increased spending. Even your hero, Reagan, promised to abolish two federal departments and then instead created an extra one. They talk the talk, but they don't walk the walk.
jimbow8 Wrote:News Flash! We were the attackers not the attacked. Forced Democratization does not work. One gains freedom and Democracy by fighting for it not by getting it handed to you or forced upon you.
jimbow8 Wrote:I think you may have opened a floodgate here by calling Ken a Nazi! Be Warned.
jimbow8 Wrote:"Reagan was a great President." That is your opinion and you are entitled to it. It DOES NOT in any way shape or form make it fact. (You need to stop using the word "fact" so much.) Did he do some great thing? I'm sure he did. Did he do some terrible things? Yes, he did that also. How about sending weapons to Iran and Iraq which helped cause this whole mess we're in in the first place? How about supporting the creation of what would become the Taliban in Afghanistan in order to help fight the Soviets? The support of the "freedom fighters" of Central America? Need I go on?