Comments on: Do They Listen To Themselves

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:15:38 +0000

Actually, this is covered by that quote in Cyrillic on the sidebar. It is the final sentence from Gogol’s story, The Nose, an absurd piece of fantasy that he used to highlight the gullibility of Russians, especially the upper classes. Rasputin wasn’t an exceptional case, the aristocracy believed the most off-the-wall theories and people in existence, and they ran the Empire. Their faith in the most ludicrous fabrications imaginable was unshakable.

This is why the Soviets studied UFOs and parapsychology – they believed in it.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:19:07 +0000

Ahhh, yes! But some of them are too stupid to understand or remember the codes, and even the masters get annoyed with them! Like McCain, Palin, Bushmoron… to name but a few! 😈

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:42:19 +0000

They speak in coded phrases and you have to be a member of their “cult” to understand what is going on and what they mean. It isn’t all gibberish; there is content hidden behind the use of certain words.

The fundies use loaded words and phrases from the Bible, and the sovereignty movement has their code words. It’s another form of jargon that makes little sense if you don’t take the time to decode it.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:23:39 +0000

You are *right*, there Badtux! 😈

Sadly, yes. Bryan.

BTW, I meant to comment on the title of this thread…

Yes, yes they DO indeed listen to themselves! They looooove the sound of their own voices! The love to speak what the tiny voices in their tiny brains whisper to them. It’s why they want to degrade education as far as possible. Education stops people from understanding their glorious wisdom, doncha know? 😈

So yes, they listen to themselves… but you have to be *one of them* to understand them! A sane brain simply recoils in horror and then starts running around gibbering things like “but that’s insane!” or “Gahhhhh… the pain, the pain!” etc. 😉 😆

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:10:22 +0000

The media keep skipping over the point that a Federal District court judge, the chief judge for the state of Arizona was killed. I wouldn’t have been surprised to see the Chief Justice attend, although he may attend Judge Roll’s funeral. It really was an obligation to attend, even if Republican office holders ignore these niceties.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:49:09 +0000

Kryten, I think the right wing believes the appropriate response to disaster is to fly Air Force One over it at 20,000 feet, have the President look out the window, and say “yup, that’s a disaster!” At least, that was the Chimperor’s approach :twisted:.

– Badtux the Snarky Penguin

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:42:38 +0000

Hey! I posted that quote from Mill a couple months ago! Hmmph! ;) :lol: But it is definitely worth repeating at this time! Now we have Palin blaming the (liberal) media for the shooting. What she should have said is that the (neo-con) media are at fault for reporting the insane garbage she spouts (and I am with you on this Bryan). Palin Borrows ‘Blood Libel’ from Israeli Far Right What a moron. And now I see these neo-con pundits are outraged at Obama and others for scoring *Political points* for attending, and even holding, a service for those slain! Seriously... words do fail. And then, there are these as further proof that the right are at best amoral, and more than likely immoral! Tucson Tea Party Founder Blames Giffords For Getting Shot: ‘The Real Case Is That She Had No Security’ Joe Wilson’s ‘You Lie’ Slogan Offered On Commemorative Assault Rifles

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 04:16:51 +0000

Tonight, according to my Mother, who watches television, Ed Schultz and Chris Matthews addressed over-heated rhetoric and said they, personally, needed to back off from it. Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone ran a piece, Is the Media Partly at Fault?, in which he decided they were and said he needed to back off. That is how the "liberal media" reacted, but that is most definitely not the way the wingers reacted. You need a moral code and conscience to be introspective. and those are not features of the Right.

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.

- John Stuart Mill in a letter to the Conservative MP, John Pakington

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:30:03 +0000

Duffy, dear duffer, learn how to read. Neither of your so-called “examples” advocate exterminating conservatives. They do advocate SELF DEFENSE, which I understand confuses you conservatives — how DARE your victims attempt to defend themselves! — but the fact that you cannot tell the difference between that and “KILL THE LIBERALS! WATER THE TREE OF LIBERTY!” is telling of just how wide your ideological blind spots are — as in, about as wide as a 700 pound lady at an all-you-can-eat buffet table, yo.

– Badtux the “Are all conservatives morons?” Penguin

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:45:37 +0000

Duffy, Joe Manchin repeatedly appears on right-wing web sites because he's about the only Democrat who poses with a gun; is that why you ignored the dozen or so Republicans who repeatedly use violent rhetoric to rouse their rabble? Thank you for making my point for me: in America, to view the Left as engaging in violent rhetoric, you have to cherry-pick people and incidents (as you did here); to view the Right as purveyors of crazed lunatic violence, all you have to do is turn on your TV. Good job, Duffy.