(August 21, 2009 at 12:43 pm)binny Wrote: I agree. Do those fucks ever give us consideration? Hell no. All they want to do is spout their shit and yell over the top of us so we're not heard. I applaud Barney Frank for having a big set of balls and telling that stupid bitch off. Maybe this will start a trend in Washington. No more PC in politics.

I agree with you.

I think when someone is being ignorant or stupid they should shut up.

Amp

(August 22, 2009 at 12:47 am)Minimalist Wrote: DLF,

Edmund Burke said: all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

One cannot cede the floor to morons. Ignorance of that magnitude needs to be opposed.

He could have done it in a more elegant manner. He is a man who represents the people. You don't show your ass on TV and be rude to the public regardless of how stupid they are acting if you are in his position.

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(August 25, 2009 at 7:54 pm)Amphora Wrote: I agree with you.

I think when someone is being ignorant or stupid they should shut up.

Amp

I politician never tells anyone to "shut up". It's unprofessional.

(August 26, 2009 at 3:34 pm)dry land fish Wrote:

(August 22, 2009 at 12:47 am)Minimalist Wrote: DLF,

Edmund Burke said: all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

One cannot cede the floor to morons. Ignorance of that magnitude needs to be opposed.

He could have done it in a more elegant manner. He is a man who represents the people. You don't show your ass on TV and be rude to the public regardless of how stupid they are acting if you are in his position.

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(August 25, 2009 at 7:54 pm)Amphora Wrote: I agree with you.

I think when someone is being ignorant or stupid they should shut up.

Amp

I politician never tells anyone to "shut up". It's unprofessional.

Indeed it is unprofessiuonal, when a politician tells someone to shut up.

But say for instance it is not on TV. Whatif it was at a regular setting, would it annoy you that someone was being ignorant or stupid?

Amp

Quote:He could have done it in a more elegant manner. He is a man who represents the people.

He "could" have but he chose not to. Good. She deserved to be told off.

Now as far as that "voter" is concerned let me ask you a question. Barney Frank is a gay, Jewish, democrat. What do you suppose are the odds that an obvious member of the Know-Nothing Party would ever vote for him?

Politics is theater. He was playing to his supporters....not to the right-wing nut jobs who probably regard him as the fucking devil anyway.

(August 26, 2009 at 4:46 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Now as far as that "voter" is concerned let me ask you a question. Barney Frank is a gay, Jewish, democrat. What do you suppose are the odds that an obvious member of the Know-Nothing Party would ever vote for him?

If he's not an atheist he might still become the next president.

I'm not a right wing nut job. I'm not even a Republican and I'd never vote for Barney Frank. Especially after seeing how he conducted himself that day.

Of course someone like that should be told to shut up. I am just saying you don't say that on national TV if you are a politician.

Then, you do not understand politics.

(August 26, 2009 at 4:57 pm)dry land fish Wrote: I'm not a right wing nut job.

No, you're a Libertarian nut job.

I wish people would stick to Libertarian principles rather than go with what the "Libertarian Party" says; they've gone far too right wing. What happened to the ideals of "Life, Liberty, & Prosperity"?

Quote: What happened to the ideals of "Life, Liberty, & Prosperity"?

The Industrial Revolution.

Libertarians always remind me of this joke.


Mrs. Schwartz goes into Katz' butcher shop and asks: "How much are your kosher chickens?"

Mr. Katz replies: "They are $1.59 per pound."

"Thief," says Mrs. Schwartz. " Goldberg's butcher sells them for $.99 per pound."

Mr. Katz replies amicably, "So....go buy them from Goldberg."

"He doesn't have any more," she replies.

"Ah," says Katz. "If I didn't have any I could sell them for .99 per pound too."


Libertarianism sounds great until you have to try to govern on such a platform. In much the same way as "heaven" sounds great until you think of doing it for fucking eternity.