A tantalizing gaze on the Tuesday OPEN thread
Shot by Dan Sunday at Tanglewood Mall
“Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom of the day, folks!
April 24, 2012 - 10:00 AM
Way to go Hokies! Idiots.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/virginia-tech-very-enthusiastic-firing-seth-greenberg-211606480.html
Wall Street Journal analysis says higher growth rates coincide with higher tax rates on the rich
Just what I needed to inspire my day..a quote from a guy who denied God, despised Christianity, and had a complete mental breakdown at the end of his life.
Someone all liberals can look up to.
Yee-gads! Those elitist educated persons [Mr. Diamond is professor emeritus at MIT and a Nobel laureate in economics. Mr. Saez is a professor of economics at UC Berkeley and a John Bates Clark medalist] are out to debunk the sacred, “trickle-down” theory or the “rich-people-are-job-creators” so leaaaaave them alooooone meme.
Wow – Dan you must be a socialist-communist-nazi… to bring that to the attention of the duped masses…
Anyone with as little as a minor in marketing will see the flaw in the Wall St Journal article.
“growth averaged 2.23% between 1950 and 1980 when top tax rates were at or above 70%.”
That was also the period when the poor paid the federal income tax. If he thinks we should return to the days when everyone paid the income tax instead of letting 50% of taxpayers avoid the income tax, I’ll entertain that idea. Imagine the growth if we allowed the poor to invest in America and quit paying people to be poor.
“Turning into monsters”. Sounds like the U.S. We are currently the most aggressive, war-like nation on the planet. And yet we call it the Defense Department.
It’s not me that’s the socialist-communist-nazi, Hillary. It’s the WALL STREET JOURNAL
Doesn’t anyone else remember that George H. W. Bush himself once called “supply side economics” (a.k.a. trickle down) Voodoo Economics?
Good point Pistol, maybe he will hit on a pearl of “brilliance” from the “hyper-egotism, power-worship and anarcho-capitalism” mantra of Ayn Rand so you will feel more at home, next time.
Pistol Pete, Are you saying that all liberals deny God and despise Christianity?
So was anyone surprised the RT endorsed Mark Lucas? I expected terps to be on here lauding their position.
PP, smart educated people take in information from sources they agree with and sources they don’t.
Pistol… One’s political or religious leanings hardly supersede every other intelligent thought in their brains. Would you like it if folks considered you a closed minded, religious lunatic, based solely on those characteristics?
Yes Dan, but, but, but…you posted the link on the blog! Are you trying to re-”educate” the masses. You know that the WSJ is the democratic propaganda arm of the liberal media machine…
Many on here wonder why Dan puts up a variety of threads on a whole host of issues about guns. The two most recent gun posts have so far generated 96 comments. The six non-gun threads surrounding the gun threads have a total of 92 comments so far. Sort of outlines where our priorities are, I guess.
Pistol Pete,
One lesson that I’ve tried to learn is not to judge others harshly (you will be judged according to how harshly you judge others).
BIZARRE HEADLINE OF THE DAY
Bill Perdue, every time I read a post from you, I am reminded what a stand up guy you must be. If we ever meet, I owe you a beverage of your choice and an in person ‘thank you’!
The phrase/Name “Crystal Ball” is forever changed in my minds eye…
Speaking of bizarre…Ann Romney puts her foot in her mouth again while speaking to a roomful of Republicans today…
““I love the fact that there are women out there who don’t have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too. And sometimes life isn’t easy for any of us.”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/ann-romney-seeks-for-sympathy-in-stamford-and-get
Yes and I bet those women who “don’t have a choice” just love it too…
If I could play the banjo, fiddle or guitar as well as any one of these young men I would quit my day job.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LTIoje5Oa8
Bill Perdue is indeed a good guy. Same goes for Steve C, Richard J. Beason, Kristen, Lynda K, Cold n P, Michael Howdyshell, and any others I neglected to mention who I’ve personally met through this humble blog. (I would have met Tom, aka bug, but he moved to Florida before we could make that happen).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/24/rush-limbaugh-sandra-fluke-again_n_1449935.html
Yawn. Looks like someone needs attention.
They are a talented bunch of boys Ron!
Sandi (and Dan too), I appreciate that very much. We need to have a Gonzo get together soon!
I have learned a lot on this blog. Sometimes it’s hard to get past the trolls’ (plural) attacks but the interaction on this blog has caused me to consider other points of view and actually, I’ve changed my mind on several issues.
Looks like the nuns are telling the pope to go to you know where…
“American Nuns Reject Vatican’s Orders – Say They Are Not Going To Stop ‘Caring For The Least Among Us’
“After the report was published, Campbell said it was “painfully obvious” the Vatican leadership was “not used to having educated women form thoughtful opinions and engage in dialogue.”
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/04/22/american-nuns-reject-vaticans-orders-say-they-are-not-going-to-stop-caring-for-the-least-among-us/
I know it is hard Bill, that is what makes you so special. I would seriously consider any challenge to my POV or question you had for my position on any issue because you have earned the respect I feel for you. I think you know I do not say that lightly.
I agree, we need to meet and put faces and people to the names.
13.”Pistol… One’s political or religious leanings hardly supersede every other intelligent thought in their brains. Would you like it if folks considered you a closed minded, religious lunatic, based solely on those characteristics?”
Lynda,
By the same token, you did just judge all gun owners based on the classroom incident article. You have reconsidered that, right?
I have learned a lot on this blog. Sometimes it’s hard to get past the trolls’ (plural) attacks but the interaction on this blog has caused me to consider other points of view and actually, I’ve changed my mind on several issues.
Which issues have you changed your mind on, Bill?
Gotta go, kids. Got intervals early tomorrow.
If you want to sear your lungs and get a hell of a fat-burning workout, do intervals with whatever you do; run, bike, row. Don’t forget the red and blue berries to help you repair the free radical damage afterward.
Oh wait. I’ve forgotten my audience. Lefties in here aren’t really into fitness. For me, hard exercise is one of the greatest joys of retirement.
“Oh wait. I’ve forgotten my audience.”
Shame they can’t forget you. Break a leg!
#30 Look whose up at “loser” time (as declared by the troll itself). Past midnight.
Hard to believe Peter Via, a die-hard Repub, is giving that much money to Bowers. BTW, Via is (or at least was years ago) a hard-core comic book collector. Cool.
Shame they can’t forget you. Break a leg!
Let me make the wild prediction that Poodle here isn’t big on exercise.
#30 BTW, troll suzie, good job looking up information about how to exercise. You’re really learning to use them Internets.
#30 BTW, troll suzie, good job looking up information about how to exercise. You’re really learning to use them Internets.
I suspect I could run you and your pasty-faced kid into the ground.
Someone just sent me the video of Suzie Q’s exercise session this morning. It’s really intense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUxCXB5JMJE
Funny Ron…looked more like Lamaze breathing!
I would seriously consider any challenge to my POV
Horsesh*t. No amount of evidence will ever change the mind of a rabid blind partisan like yourself. Here this country is being torn apart at its foundations by the anti-American Marxists in charge, yet you think Monkey Boy is doing a hell of a job.
Hurry please with that voter IQ test! If you DON’T pass, you DON’T freaking vote.
#36 Let’s put it this way, troll suzie, if you can beat my son in a 5K, that means you’re just about the fastest female of any age in the Roanoke Valley.
So much for that BS.
I suspect we will never live to see you prove even one boast you have ever made Suzie, so why bother? I bet you “can leap tall buildings in a single bound” too, but ask us if we care?
You are like a rabid dog complaining about someone else slobbering, Suzie. Get over yourself and go away. You will not be missed or mourned. You create such an awful climate here that no one can be totally honest, vulnerable or even reasonable without receiving just that sort of sucker punch. You have ruined any chance this place ever had for real, honest or productive dialog and the minions who follow your lead with their pale but just as dishonest imitations see to it no real conversations are ever had here. You should be proud and Dan should be ashamed.
#36 Let’s put it this way, troll suzie, if you can beat my son in a 5K, that means you’re just about the fastest female of any age in the Roanoke Valley
A 5K what? Power walk?
I saw this video and couldn’t help think how well it would fit in with the liberals’ kids “athletics” program at PH:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbB9v8ooQno
LMAO.
#43 Note that suzie doesn’t offer her 5K time for public consumption, yet alleges she can beat a kid who ran on his high school’s cross country and indoor track teams and played soccer on a team where you’re required to break 12:00 for the 2-mile (not that that’s a great time; he did that without breathing very hard).
What a joker.
@43 – now that is some hilarious commentary in that video.
You create such an awful climate here that no one can be totally honest, vulnerable or even reasonable without receiving just that sort of sucker punch.
Spare us the pity party, Sandi. Your smarmy tribute to Bill Perdue was made because he took a shot at a conservative. That’s they way all you’re ‘compliments’ are.
#43 BTW, it WOULD be just like suzie to post video where the commentary calls people “gay” and “homo” because they race walk, and it would be like UTR to think that’s funny.
As for race walking, the women’s world record for a 20k (about 12.5 miles) is under 1 hour, 25 minutes. I GUARANTEE that’s faster than suzie could run it.
Bill Perdue has admitted to being much more conservative than I am on several occasions. For him to be honest about what the blind partisan attack dogs like you will not, is refreshing and I do appreciate it. He has said honest things about Dems and Libs that I have agreed with also. Which you might know if your purpose here was anything other than hate and insults. Like I said, you ruin every conversation you enter. I pity the people who have to contend with you in person.
For a childless person living in the county, SuzieQ, you sure spend a lot of time worrying about what goes on in City school. Too bad no one gives a rat’s ass. Non-parents can keep their opinions to themselves..non-tax payers too.
gdad, they tend to find bigotted blatherings “hilarious”. Then they snivel when being accused of being bigots. Slow learners, them.
non-tax payers too.
The problem sweetcakes is we pay many times more in city RE taxes than the landlord of your SE fourplex. So since I am basically raising your kids seven hours a day, you’re damn right I have an opinion about your incompetent school system.
As for race walking, the women’s world record for a 20k (about 12.5 miles) is under 1 hour, 25 minutes. I GUARANTEE that’s faster than suzie could run it.
They don’t even walk; they run. What kind of idiotic sport disqualifies 10% of the field every meet, including the Olympics?
SuzieQ I doubt you could successfully parent a chia pet. L
I doubt you could successfully parent a chia pet.
Chia pets and RCPS students probably have about the same graduation rate.
Don’t knock Roanoke County Public Schools. They’re not as bad as they’re cracked up to be. P
#50 Backpedal, backpedal
I don’t know about you guys, but the thought of Screwzie in a sweat from exercising makes me want to poke my brain-eyes out.
Anyway, I could beat her on a bike or a foot race. Easily.
Anyway, I could beat her on a bike or a foot race. Easily.
I find that after I beat up Gdad on a topic, “Contra” magically appears. I am so surprised.
“Suzie says:
I find that after I beat up Gdad on a topic, “Contra” magically appears. I am so surprised.
Posted on April 26th, 2012″
If I buy you a dead horse to keep in your backyard, will you just beat it instead of wasting blog space with this boring ASSumption?
#57 Well, seeing as suzie NEVER beats me up on any topic…
I see I intimidated “Contra” into changing its avatar. A very wise move. People generally see the wisdom of doing what I want done.
I see I intimidated suzie into changing the subject.
Actually, I was hoping she would post some more videos of people calling others “homos” and “gay.” It’s always good to see her show her true colors.
Contrasuzie@11:03
Just send her a truckload of horse manure. That will be much more in keeping with the quality and truthfulness of her posts.Then she could fertilize her yard at the trailer park and have some left over for her perfume collection.
Suzie, the only time you and wisdom are even in the same room is when you force her against her will, you’re a bully. She runs from you like people do a skunk.
Suzie, the only time you and wisdom are even in the same room is when you force her against her will, you’re a bully. She runs from you like people do a skunk.
What in the hell?
“I see I intimidated “Contra” into changing its avatar. A very wise move. People generally see the wisdom of doing what I want done.
Comment by Suzie — April 26, 2012 @ 12:06 pm”
Precisely how does one anonymous poster on a blog ‘intimidate’ another anonymous poster on a blog?