Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:11:00
Dear Voters,
I know that you are already worn out from this never-ending political season. I feel your pain, I truly do. I was worn out twelve months ago. That having been said, please allow me to remind you of something that many of you seem to have forgotten.
Change simply for the sake of changing isn’t progress. It’s madness for a nation and in an individual, it can be a sign of a serious mental instability.
Do not believe anyone that promises change without detail. Do not accept that someone who has been a lifelong politician and lives solely for the trappings of power is truly trying to “create change.” In fact, don’t let anyone get away with using the word unless they define what it is they want to change, why it needs to be changed, and precisely how they want to change it.
Change for it’s own sake is useless, dangerous and stupid. Try to remember that.
Yours,
Sick of Change Without Meaning
Posted by JimK at 03:11 PM on January 08, 2008
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#3 Posted by Drumwaster
on 01/10 at 04:01 AM -
Q: How many psychotherapists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Only one, but the light bulb has to want to change.
Q: How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: That’s not funny!
#4 Posted by davidst
on 01/10 at 03:59 PM -
That’s why ron paul is the only candidate I give a shit about, even if I disagree with his religion (his a libertarian after all and is the least likely to let his religion interfere with is policy decisions).
#5 Posted by JimK
on 01/10 at 04:21 PM -
But Ron Paul is a lifelong politician, for at least the last 20-odd years he’s been trying to, actually getting or talking about getting elected to various offices.
He’s not the right person to bear the libertarian (or conservative) standard. He’s not even close.
I wish someone would light a fire under Fred Thompson’s ass already. He’s as close to the right guy as we can get in this go-round, IMHO.
#6 Posted by Drumwaster
on 01/10 at 04:58 PM -
That’s why ron paul is the only candidate I give a shit about
Because he’s promising changes, or because he isn’t? And are the changes he is theoretically proposing even possible? Or (assuming that they could even be remotely possible under existing circumstances) beneficial?
What about his racist policies that aren’t affected by his religion? Do you agree with them or feel that they are also “not relevant” to his standing as a potential candidate?
As Ace says to all of you Ron Paul apologists: You stupid twats. You’re all so taken with yourselves with being so clever and contrarian and free-thinking you just can’t admit you were punked by a half-crazy old bigot of a crank, forever nattering on about Trilateral Commissions and international bankers and Bildersbergers and the CFR and AIPAC and other front-groups for the International Zionist Conspiracy.
And as for that reversed “3V0_|” in his bumper stickers/posters, I would only remind you what the reverse of LOVE is…
#7 Posted by spaceworlder
on 01/10 at 10:19 PM -
Blowing off steam over Fred’s crushing defeat in New Hampshire, Drumwaster?
#8 Posted by Drumwaster
on 01/11 at 01:49 AM -
No, just laughing my ass off at all you Paulbots still marching in goose steps and not even being smart enough to know it.
He’s a racist troofer with delusions of paranoia and neither understands the Constitution he allegedly reveres so highly, nor the world situation in which he is living, and yet you seem to think that endorsing him as a candidate for anything higher than Janitor Of The Month is something to be proud of.
And “crushing defeat”? How many delegates did Paul managed to win from his oh-so-lofty 4th place finish? Let me guess - a nice round number that rhymes with “Nero”. Keep bragging, and maybe he’ll make it all the way up to winning as many as John Hospers did. (Probably do it the same way Hospers did, too - faithless Elector.)
#9 Posted by jo-jo
on 01/11 at 12:51 PM -
HI, THIS COMMENT IS COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO POLITICS AND I DO NOT CARE (should i label it [bst]? ;)
anyway…
john gave donna both our cell numbers yesterday. the one i have for you ends in an 09. i think you confirmed that over thanksgiving
while i adore my husband, the brother of your wife, i’d suggest my cell phone as the better and first option ;) txt msg also works, as my phone is a SMRTphone and fun to type with ;) i don’t think i had it last time i saw you. you WILL drool, i assure you.
where are your seats?
#10 Posted by spaceworlder
on 01/11 at 03:30 PM -
Three paragraphs only, Drumwaster?
#11 Posted by Drumwaster
on 01/11 at 04:11 PM -
Interesting how you aren’t bothering to deny any of the statements, innit?
I wonder why that is?
#12 Posted by Rann Aridorn
on 01/11 at 04:59 PM -
#13 Posted by spaceworlder
on 01/12 at 12:57 AM -
I’m perfectly happy with my candidate, Drumwaster.
#14 Posted by Buzzion
on 01/12 at 02:59 AM -
Well who can’t be happy supporting a racist bigoted elf?
#15 Posted by Drumwaster
on 01/12 at 03:21 AM -
*raises hand*
I have more intellectual honesty than that. But as I said before, he is welcome to support whichever whackadoodle he wishes and we are just as welcome to laugh at him openly for doing so…
Which I am, I assure you.
By the way, spacecase, you aren’t even bothering to deny that he is a racist paranoid Troofer with delusions of hauteur. C’mon, you can do it. Make me prove those comments…
Once I do, of course, you get to explain why you keep supporting him, since your native ignorance can no longer be used as an excuse....
#16 Posted by artmonkey
on 01/12 at 04:11 AM -
Drum, I think the biggest mistake we, as thinking people, can make, is even giving attention to
their beloved Dr. TinHat, or his disciples.
In NJ, last gubernatorial election, there was a guy on the ballot who was simply called “the Weed Man”.
His entire platform was based on legalization of marijuana. (A burnt-out toastie himself, not even realizing that he actually wanted decriminalization, not legalization.)
Every election cycle, there’s a douchenozzle joke of a cantidate like Weed Man or Ron Paul. It’s inevitable in our free, open system.
But unfortunately, Weed Man enjoyed a little press due to his nuttiness, just as Paul is.
And the result was the same; he had no real chance of winning, but he garnered enough notoriety that I had to have my time wasted on more than one occasion hearing about him… even in jest.
So maybe if we stop wasting our energy opposing zipperheads like this who really have about as much of a shot at winning an office as Brett Michaels has of marrying a Nobel-Prize winning nuclear physicist, they’ll just quietly fade into that ether of obscurity that they so richly deserve, huh?
Speaking of Brett “Optimus Douche” Michaels…
we gonna start seeing some new reviews soon, or what, Jim?
#17 Posted by Drumwaster
on 01/12 at 04:42 AM -
I think a lot of it also explains why the media seems to be so supportive of Huckabee, too. The more destructive they would be to both the United States generally and the GOP specifically is someone they can truly get behind.
Much like they try so hard to claim that Fred “God Hates Fags” Phelps is a conservative “because conservatives are just so anti-gay marriage, therefore, they are anti-gay, therefore he has to be a Republican”.
This mindset allows people to ignore any counter-evidence, and thanks to that mental Maxwell’s demon, they are never even confronted with contrary evidence.
If Paul were to openly admit that he is closer to Dennis Kucinich than Ronald Reagan, the media would drop him like reports of good news from Iraq. But he denies it, and his goose-stepping SturmTruppen roving the landscape putting up their signs and being interviewed for “local color” are only too eager to proclaim him the only “True Conservative” and gulp the Koolaid in truckload lots.
I live to throw cold water on damfoolishness like that, because shit evaporates in the presence of sunlight and fresh air. Ignoring the Paulbots just lets them get up to more trouble.
#18 Posted by spaceworlder
on 01/12 at 05:25 PM -
Ron Paul is the only true conservative running for president right now. Sorry Drumwaster et al, but it’s true. :-)
#19 Posted by Buzzion
on 01/12 at 05:56 PM -
So to be a conservative you need to be a hypocritical earmarking racist bigoted antisemitic coward who believes the jews are in control of the money.
Sorry dipshit, but its true that ron paul is exactly that.
#20 Posted by Drumwaster
on 01/12 at 05:59 PM -
Ron Paul is the only true conservative running for president right now
See what I mean? No amount of counter evidence will make the slightest iota of difference in that level of certainty whatsoever…
#21 Posted by Rann Aridorn
on 01/12 at 09:00 PM -
You know, it’s exactly this sort of in-fighting and divisiveness that could theoretically hand the Democrats a win, but damn if it isn’t still kind of funny to sit here and watch it anyway.
#22 Posted by Buzzion
on 01/12 at 09:42 PM -
You know, it’s exactly this sort of in-fighting and divisiveness that could theoretically hand the Democrats a win, but damn if it isn’t still kind of funny to sit here and watch it anyway.
I’d agree with you more, were it with a different candidate. And probably some criticisms towards huckabee are that way, but there do just really seem to be people supporting him for the sole reason of him being a baptist minister and that’s just retarded.
But with the ron paul fans who suffer from this mob mentality, I will attack them and not see it as in-fighting or detrimental to the republican party. Honestly most of the nutjobs who are supporting ron paul probably go and vote libertarian. Its just that finally the press is covering a candidate for them. A conspiracy theorizing racist hypocrite.
#23 Posted by Drumwaster
on 01/13 at 11:46 AM -
You know, it’s exactly this sort of in-fighting and divisiveness that could theoretically hand the Democrats a win
You might have missed the infighting among the Dems - where (by their own standards) if they send Hillary back home in defeat, they are sexist, but if they vote against Obama, they are racist.
Identity politics at its finest…
#24 Posted by artmonkey
on 01/13 at 12:26 PM -
You might have missed the infighting among the Dems - where (by their own standards) if they send Hillary back home in defeat, they are sexist, but if they vote against Obama, they are racist.
I’ve been watching that with a special kind of glee, actually.
Oddly, it’s the same sort of satisfaction I get when I see a story about an imprisoned child molester being held down by drug-dealers and thieves while having his forehead branded.
It’s a warped, kind of sick sense of justice.
But then, I’ve always admitted to having something of a sadistic streak.
#25 Posted by Buzzion
on 01/13 at 01:20 PM -
You might have missed the infighting among the Dems - where (by their own standards) if they send Hillary back home in defeat, they are sexist, but if they vote against Obama, they are racist.
Problem there is just as everyone else is pointing out. The Dems and the media are playing it a bit subdued at the moment. Its there but not that pronounced. When it comes time for general election, they won’t be holding back in calling the republicans either racist or sexist for any leveled criticisms against the dem candidate.
#26 Posted by Drumwaster
on 01/13 at 01:30 PM -
when I see a story about an imprisoned child molester being held down by drug-dealers and thieves while having his forehead branded.
Just out of curiosity, how many of these kinds of stories have you seen?
When it comes time for general election, they won’t be holding back in calling the republicans either racist or sexist for any leveled criticisms against the dem candidate.
The main problem the Dems and the media will have is that the “attack” will be either 1) “Just The Facts, Ma’am”; or, 2) using precisely the same words that the opposing Dems were using. (That is, if the Republican party has any intelligence whatsoever.)
This combination worked well when pointing out that Bush was “lying” about WMD in Iraq, by simply quoting all of the high-level advisors for Clinton, and high-placed Democrats in Congress who were saying the same thing for years.

#1 Posted by Flounder
on 01/10 at 12:13 AM -
Amen!