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Re: Where's Larry and Hoppy when you need 'em???
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Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:09:42 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Allister McLaren wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Timothy Gould wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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I completely disagree with this...
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Not necessarily. Sure, anyone who is a member is free to read and respond
to any given post, but unless there is a “comments welcome”or “LMKYT”, for
example, responses aren’t solicited. When I post a MOC, I do not do so
in order to receive feedback. Simply sharing and participating in the
community is reward in and of itself.
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Is this the five minute argument, or the full half hour?
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I was going to quote ‘a few good men’ for a cheap quotation thing, but
instead, in order to score some political karma, I have this quote--
“The GOP has mastered an error condition in the political process, an
infinite loop of abstraction that drains all meaning from political speech.
They don’t have to focus on meaning, really, at all, they just turn up the
burbling nonsense until we all descend past the noise machine event horizon
into infinitely unproductive debate, never to re-emerge. This is how we
progressives (rationalists?) keep ending up on the sucker side of the media
war with the right: we’re still using the old paradigm of meaning and they’re
busily deploying the equivalent of malware and DOS attacks.--The Poor Man
Institute ”
I’d even say that, at times, I’ve contributed to the ‘burbling nonsense’...
What were we talking about again? Oh right--Hoppy and Larry contributing to
the conversation about how enormously idiotic and wasteful GWB and the entire
administration of the United States is, and has been, and continues to be.
RIght now I bet many Americans, and, for that matter, the rest of us around
the world--dream about a president whose worse crime was getting some lip
service from an intern.
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Sometimes the only way to get perspective is through the passage of time. You
remind me of my utter comtempt with Ronald Reagan when I was in Kollege.
History already is showing that Reagan was brilliant. Given the events that
have transpired during George W. Bush’s tenure, I’d bet that history will be
kind to him as well.
Clinton will be remembered as the president between the Bushes.
But time will tell. Hopefully, LUGNET will still be around in 20 years, we all
will still be around in 20 years, and we can all look back and add to this
thread:-)
JOHN
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote: <snip> (...) What saved Reagan was the division of powers in the senate and congress. As well, the 'rise' of mediocrity of the Rush's and the Hannity's that push this completely misnamed 'compassionate (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Reagan? Ronald Reagan? Surely you can't be talking about The Great Communicator, from whose myriad disastrous policies we had only begun to recover when 2001 occurred (with all the implications thereof). The only thing keeping Reagan from (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) I was going to quote 'a few good men' for a cheap quotation thing, but instead, in order to score some political karma, I have this quote-- "The GOP has mastered an error condition in the political process, an infinite loop of abstraction that (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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