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Radmacher lays out ‘the real world’ in the Post of the Day

Note from Dan: My ex-colleague Dan Radmacher, former editorial page editor of The Roanoke Times, weighs in here on occasion, and Thursday was one of those days, on this thread. He responded to “Paddy O’Ryan” who wrote this comment. Good stuff!

“Paddy – All you proved is that you live in an entirely different universe than the real world.

In the real world, the global economy is in far better shape than when Obama took office, leading to an increase in gas prices from the depths of the near-recession when demand for oil was at its nadir.

In the real world, there were more attacks on consulates and embassies under Bush than their have been under Obama, in the Middle East and elsewhere.

In the real world, most of that $16 trillion debt is the result of Republican policies – two wars put on the national credit card, an expensive prescription drug benefit that no one even pretended was paid for, tax cuts for the wealthy that failed to bring the promised economic expansion.

In the real world, health care costs have risen at the lowest rates in decades for the last two years. In the real world, Obama has put crippling sanctions in place against Iran that are decimating its economy – far tougher action than any Republican president took against the regime.

In the real world, housing prices are beginning to rebound after the collapse caused by deregulation of banks favored by Republicans.

Oh, yes, I’m sure you could go on and on and on. It’s easy when all you do is make stuff up.”

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98 COMMENTS

  1. Kristen | October 12, 2012 at 11:03 am

    “I reject your reality and substitute my own alternative reality.” – American RW

  2. pistol pete | October 12, 2012 at 11:09 am

    I can’t believe a Liberal actually left the Roanoke Times and doesnt work there anymore

  3. Uptheriver | October 12, 2012 at 11:12 am

    Is Dan a lobbyist now?

  4. Walker | October 12, 2012 at 11:23 am

    In the real world, Radmacher’s messiah will be out come Nov. 6.

  5. Suzie | October 12, 2012 at 11:28 am

    In the real world, most of that $16 trillion debt is the result of Republican policies – two wars put on the national credit card, an expensive prescription drug benefit that no one even pretended was paid for

    Sure. 0bama’s $5 trillion addition to the deficit in four years is nothing compared to Bush’s $4.7 trillion in eight years.

    Why is it all leftwingers are dumb as hell regarding simple math?

  6. Dan Radmacher | October 12, 2012 at 11:42 am

    Thanks, Dan.

    Suzie – not that facts matter to you, but the fact is that Obama’s policies added precious little to the deficit. As you’ll see if you click that link, most of today’s current deficit is a result of wars that weren’t paid for and Bush’s tax cuts, along with the ongoing plunge in revenue due to the economic downturn and near financial collapse that happened under Bush’s watch.

  7. June M. Hazelton | October 12, 2012 at 12:00 pm

    Dan, I am a recent, constant reader of your columns and really appreciate your research into “truth-finding.” Keep us reading for the ‘real truths.’ Keep us thinking.’June M. Hazelton,
    Radford, VA.

  8. Sandi Saunders | October 12, 2012 at 12:13 pm

    It just really frosts you right wingers when people won’t buy your constant lies. Right on Dan R. Only the delusional right clings to their version of reality in spite of evidence and their own hand in creating the mess we are in.

  9. dave | October 12, 2012 at 12:24 pm

    The ionterest on the Bush debt is what is crippling the budget. Actual spending under Obama hasn’t even kept up with inflation. Add to that the fact that Obama has had to deal with the expense of winding down Bush’s
    two wars (which were finally puit on the nbooks and in the budget) and you can easily see where the deficit comes from.

  10. terps | October 12, 2012 at 12:28 pm

    And the RT wonders why no one read the editorial page when Radmacher was there….
    I still haven’t gotten over Mark the American hater and now I am treated to Radmacher the socialist. This is getting tough. Does Dan realize that these guys appeal to about 10% of Americans and the rest just laugh at them?

  11. Dan Radmacher | October 12, 2012 at 12:43 pm

    Hey, Dan – I put a comment here that seems to have disappeared. Can you see if ended up in spam?

    Let’s get together for a beer sometime.

  12. Dan Radmacher | October 12, 2012 at 12:44 pm

    My comments keep disappearing, Dan. Could you check the spam folder? Thanks! (and switch my website to bloggingdan.com from appalmad.org.)

  13. Blue John | October 12, 2012 at 1:57 pm

    Good post!

    Too bad the wingers refuse to recognize the truth. All of Dan’s information is readily available for those that take the time to study it. Facts and reality are the bane (no pun intended) of FOX News junkies.

  14. John Wilburn | October 12, 2012 at 2:44 pm

    Suzie:

    “0bama’s $5 trillion addition to the deficit in four years…”

    This, by itself, is reason enough to elect a new president.

  15. James Swingle | October 12, 2012 at 2:58 pm

    It is so much better. Ask any of the 46,000,000 who are on food stamps, ask the people raising a family putting gas in their vehicles or shopping for food, ask the people who are unemployed or have to take positions not in line with their previous pay scale, ask the 15% who are living in poverty. Foreign policy you ask? Soooo much better, ask Dimitre Medvidev who is probably salivating what he will get once our Prez has more flexibility. Sorry for the run on sentences. But WHO better to ask about reality than a hack newspaper editor who carries the water, the table, the whole kitchen for the pinko left. Hilarious. Here is some kool-aid to drink for those who believe in this reality.

  16. James Swingle | October 12, 2012 at 3:00 pm

    Radmacher’s comments keep disappearing? My mind is so powerful.

  17. Dan Casey | October 12, 2012 at 3:04 pm

    Dan R,

    Two of your comments did end up in the spam folder. Found’em and approved them.

    The blog post originally linked to bloggingdan.com

    Do you want me to change that to the other?

  18. pammala | October 12, 2012 at 3:08 pm

    that all the rt can hire these days, libbie coms,,lol, no one even reads that trash rag anymore

  19. Dan Radmacher | October 12, 2012 at 4:39 pm

    Terps – you know you’ve lost the argument when instead of responding to facts and positions presented, you resort to name-calling.

    From what I’ve seen of your posts here, you lose the argument a lot.

    By the way, I am not now, nor have I ever been, a socialist.

  20. Mattyr | October 12, 2012 at 5:44 pm

    Isn’t it ironic? Don’t ya think? It’s like radmacher’s comments ending up in a spam folder.

  21. terps | October 12, 2012 at 5:55 pm

    Dan Radmacher
    We had to put up with all of your liberal drivel every day in the op-ed page for…how many years? Can you give us a little break so we can recover. Raise taxes where ever you are living now and leave us alone. Putting up with Dan C is hard enough.
    GOOD RADMITTANCE.

  22. Frank | October 12, 2012 at 6:01 pm

    hey ol’ dano, if is walsk like a duck, talks like a duck…well, you know the drill. let’s just say, you come across as a highly partisan charged supporter of just about everything which is obama, and the lib cause.

    I think you should write a 30-inch columner ‘splainin’ why people should not think you are a socialist.

    also, vp joe….lied!! why did ol’ chucklin’ joe lie last night about his votes regarding the 2 wars that Ryan voted for? According to the Washington Post, ol’ chucklin’ joe voted on 9/14/01 for a resolution authorizing the use of U.S. forces against Afghaniztan…and on 10/11/02, chuckles/liar joe voted for the resolution authorizing military action in Iraq.

    what say you?

  23. Frank | October 12, 2012 at 6:05 pm

    oh man, i got dan and mark confused, and in effect requested that ol’ dano ‘splain why he shouldn’t be thought of as a socialist.

    Well, let’s transfer that suggestion to Mark. Mark?

  24. Frank | October 12, 2012 at 6:21 pm

    i hear 3rd times a charm. who’s mark? where’d he come from? They’re BOTH named dam. I smell a conspiracy! both dans…, why are neither of you socialists? Heck, my question still holds for mark also, whoever he is.

  25. Chuck | October 12, 2012 at 7:19 pm

    Hey Dan, if things are so great and Obama is doing such wonders as the prez, why is he losing Ohio?

    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/poll-romney-leads-obama-florida-7-points-222913313–election.html

    That’s gotta sting after last night’s big “win.” And by the way, I’m not even sure Dan R. visits the real world. He lives somewhere just a bit left of it.

  26. Chuck | October 12, 2012 at 7:20 pm

    Oops. Meant to say Forida there and point out how the Ohio race has tightened up. I must have been caught off guard by the magnitude of the liberal lies and distortions floated here.

  27. Dan Casey | October 12, 2012 at 7:50 pm

    Terps,

    I don’t want you to leave town or anything but (hold your breath here, wait for it … wait for it) Radmacher is still living here in Roanoke.

    Shall we all get a beer?

  28. Dan Casey | October 12, 2012 at 7:51 pm

    Frank,

    Sorry, but Sunday’s column is about a Romney supporter.

  29. Dan Casey | October 12, 2012 at 7:53 pm

    Frank,

    Mark who? Mark Jurkevich? He’s no socialist. I’ve known him for more than 30 years. He’s more of a capitalist than you are.

  30. Dan Radmacher | October 12, 2012 at 8:24 pm

    @Frank #22: “I think you should write a 30-inch columner ‘splainin’ why people should not think you are a socialist.”

    It won’t take 30 inches: I don’t believe in the nationalization of private business; therefore, I am not a socialist.

    Uh, you do know what a socialist is, don’t you?

  31. Dan Casey | October 12, 2012 at 8:38 pm

    Dan R,

    You have to forgive Frank. He has a strange fixation with 30-inchers, whatever those are. I would rather not even try to imagine.

    I just treat him with kid globes, kind of like a crazy uncle, or my Fox News-addicted mother-in-law.

  32. dave | October 12, 2012 at 8:52 pm

    Frank,

    Sorry, but Sunday’s column is about a Romney supporter.

    Comment by Dan Casey — October 12, 2012 @ 7:51 pm

    Another low effort voter huh?

  33. Frank | October 12, 2012 at 9:17 pm

    well, danr, i guess that makes you not a socialist that doesn’t want to nationalize private industry.

  34. Ron May | October 12, 2012 at 9:52 pm

    An informed look at the Bush Deficit. Read & be informed SuziQ, et.al.

    http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/92569/bush-obama-deficit-tax-cut-stimulus-health

  35. Richard J Beason, CPA | October 12, 2012 at 9:55 pm

    Dan, great post. Accurate and to the point.

  36. Frank | October 12, 2012 at 10:39 pm

    hey ol’ dano, why doncha ‘splain to the other dan, danr, about the origin of this “30-inch” thingy” going on here? I’m sure you remember…

    Ok…back in July of this year, sometime between obama’s 07/14/12 waterloo remarks he made downtown in our fair city…and your “obama really meant to say” column appearing near the end of July 2012…you posted something along the lines of “wait until my Sunday 30 inch column”…and you went on to advertize your up-coming column in which you would kinda set the record straight on what obama MEANT to say, in rebuttal to what lots of folks HEARD him say…

    Ever since then, whenever you have appeared to put yourself in position of feeling like you should explain sumpthin to those of us with whom you don’t agree, I often suggest that it might be time for another 30 incher column, eh?

    Isn’t that how it happened, dano?

  37. Suzie | October 12, 2012 at 10:57 pm

    Suzie – not that facts matter to you, but the fact is that Obama’s policies added precious little to the deficit.

    It’s hilarious, these clowns go on about Bush, but Idiot Boy has increased the deficit more in four years than Bush did in eight. And Rad has not refuted that fact.
    .

  38. Suzie | October 12, 2012 at 10:58 pm

    Rad claims he’s not a socialist, and he claims his pro-choice mother is a devout Catholic. Go figure.

  39. Frank | October 12, 2012 at 11:02 pm

    hey dano,

    i really should be more efficient with my responses (although…maybe you get remunerated by the # of hits?)…I did not mean MarkJ, and thus far would not even consider referring to him as a socialist. he also seems like a straight-shooter, and fully tries to explore all sides of an issue. and, when you don’t agree with him, he doesn’t call you a liar, stupid, challenge you to a sucker’s bet, etc., like others do. I think he’s a good addition to your blog.

    I can only imagine the sum and substance of your Sunday piece…

    hey dano, why has vpjoe and his boss thrown hillary under the bus? is it really true what ol’ joe said last night, that “he and his boss knew nothing” about the multiple requests for more security for important U.S. staffers stationed in war-torn and un-safe Libya?

    So, let me get this straight… we’ve got “see no evil obuma”, “hear no evil vpjoe”, and, I guess next up is “speak no evil billary…” the reason I put those extra dots out there dano, is that we just don’t really know whether or not billary will speak no evil, do we?

    Do ya think we’re ready for a 30 incher column on who knew what, when, and where?

  40. Dan Casey | October 12, 2012 at 11:35 pm

    Frank, I don’t recall.

    I write a lot of columns, you know. Somewhere around 140 a year.

    The one for this upcoming Sunday came in at about 28 inches, fyi.

  41. Frank | October 13, 2012 at 12:38 am

    is hokay, dano. the post I refer to, which led me to challenge you for more 30-inch columns, was on July 20, 2012, the “Ann Romney: the little people thread…” @10:37 p.m.

    That’s where you issued that 30-inch brag…, the Genesis, if you will.

    A 28 inch column is a good effort, no doubt…something to be proud of. And, you are a prolific writer, no debate from here. The only thing lacking, that I can think of, is, well, your lemming-like liberal thinking and resulting prose. If you could work on that a bit, just think how more well-rounded and grounded you’d be.

  42. Dan Casey | October 13, 2012 at 1:13 am

    Frank, I write a lot of columns. The lengths vary. I know how long the last one I filed was. But I can’t remember all the others. Sorry.

  43. pammala | October 13, 2012 at 7:38 am

    Frank people at the The Rag cannot think for themselves, haven’t you noticed? Just look at the intolerant garbage in most of the columns..thats why they stalk you at kroger and try to stuff one in your bag…well you can always line the birdcage with it or wrap fish.

  44. Kristen | October 13, 2012 at 8:16 am

    OCD boy again with the 30 inches.

  45. John Wilburn | October 13, 2012 at 9:03 am

    Frank:

    “That’s where you issued that 30-inch brag…, the Genesis, if you will.”

    I bet Sharon N’s ears are burning somewhere.

  46. pammala | October 13, 2012 at 9:13 am

    another dumbass radmacher column just proves more and more how ignorant he is about economy and business

  47. Dan Radmacher | October 13, 2012 at 9:38 am

    @Suzie – I don’t know if you’re Catholic or not, but I do know that my mother is a better Catholic than you ever thought about being.

  48. Suzie | October 13, 2012 at 10:04 am

    @Suzie – I don’t know if you’re Catholic or not, but I do know that my mother is a better Catholic than you ever thought about being.

    She’s not, Rad. Sorry. If she believes abortion is acceptable, that position is 100% at odds with Catholic teaching. She may do some things that are good, but she’s not a practicing Catholic.

  49. Dan Casey | October 13, 2012 at 10:12 am

    “She’s not, Rad. Sorry. If she believes abortion is acceptable, that position is 100% at odds with Catholic teaching. She may do some things that are good, but she’s not a practicing Catholic.”

    Translation: Mitt Romney’s mother was not a Mormon.

  50. Debbie | October 13, 2012 at 10:17 am

    Suzie seems to believe that being pro-life is the only thing that being a good Christian entails. As long as you are against abortion, you can call people bastards and SOB’s day in and day out, lash out against the poor for not being poor enough and on and on the list goes.

  51. Debbie | October 13, 2012 at 10:26 am

    Gosh Dan R, didn’t you know that to be a good Catholic, you have to refer to people as bastards and SOB’s? You also have to ridicule the poor for not being poor enough.

  52. Shrillary | October 13, 2012 at 10:46 am

    And from the sooo liberal media outlet Drudge Report [snark off] comes how the Romney family deals with the issue of abortion:

    Romney’s Son Signed Abortion Contract

    “When Mitt Romney’s son Tagg and his wife had twins through a surrogate this year, the contract had a clause giving them the right to tell the woman to have an abortion. “In the event the child is determined to be physiologically, genetically or chromosomally abnormal, the decision to abort or not to abort is to be made by the intended parents,” the contract states. “In such a case the surrogate agrees to abort, or not to abort, in accordance with the intended parents’ decision.” Mitt Romney paid some of the expenses connected with the agreement, the gossip site TMZ claims. Attorney Bill Handel claimed the clause was included in the contract by mistake.”
    http://www.drudge.com/news/161224/romneys-son-signed-abortion-contract

    This family makes so many “mistakes” – in tax preparation [Willard admitted to Fox News host Chris Wallace that he had made a "mistake" by not releasing his tax information earlier], in speaking on the stump [Willard admitted his 47% comment was a mistake], and the mother of all mistakes, in contributing to the drawing up of a contract allowing the abortion of an “imperfect” Mormon-to-be …if they had no intention of aborting any “life” why include such a clause? Any guesses besides it was a “mistake”? This Romney son is a founding partner in an equity firm which writes lots of contracts which must be finely read….but he overlooked an abortion clause…and dear old dad help fund this little contract, guess he doesn’t read the full contract either.

    [mike o please cover your eyes]… Romney hypocrisy, no?

  53. Debbie | October 13, 2012 at 11:35 am

    Gosh Dan R, doesn’t your mom know that in order to be a good Catholic, you have to call people bastards and SOB’s every chance you get and you must ridicule the poor in America because they simply aren’t poor enough.

  54. Dan Radmacher | October 13, 2012 at 12:35 pm

    As I said, Suzie, I’m confident that she’s a better Catholic than you’ve ever dreamed of being. Heck, so am I, and I no longer even attend the Catholic church.

    When bishops start giving Catholic politicians a hard time for supporting unjust wars and policies that hurt the poor (and quit covering up sexual abuse cases), they’ll have a little more credibility when it comes to other areas of moral authority.

  55. Debbie | October 13, 2012 at 3:25 pm

    Sorry for the double posts, my comments from my home computer haven’t been showing up, now suddenly they are.

  56. Frank | October 13, 2012 at 3:51 pm

    hey dans,

    When are we gonna get some feedback from you guys about obuma’s lie that the “un-stable American filmmaker” is the cause of the atacks in Benghazi? If obuma DIDN’T lie, where is the evidence which led him to that incredibly incredulous false conclusion….which he ignorantly and stubbornly parroted for days and weeks beyond the time when his own administration began saying otherwise?

    C’mon you guys, where is your collective, or even separate, outrage? EH?

    Maybe even just a little? eh?

  57. Suzie | October 13, 2012 at 5:20 pm

    Gosh, Debbie. That’s three stupid posts on the same topic.

  58. Sandi Saunders | October 13, 2012 at 6:00 pm

    The irony of pammala calling anyone or anything “intolerant” is worth the price of admission. Right wingers don’t even care if their screen names have any credibility apparently. You all do for conservatism what Tiny Tim did for music.

  59. gdad | October 13, 2012 at 7:20 pm

    Look, pammala was on the blog all night. Pity you don’t have anything better to do, pammala.

  60. Suzie | October 13, 2012 at 11:01 pm

    As I said, Suzie, I’m confident that she’s a better Catholic than you’ve ever dreamed of being. Heck, so am I, and I no longer even attend the Catholic church.

    When bishops start giving Catholic politicians a hard time for supporting unjust wars and policies that hurt the poor (and quit covering up sexual abuse cases), they’ll have a little more credibility when it comes to other areas of moral authority.

    Sorry, Dan. People who don’t believe in the major tenets of the Church–the sanctity of human life– can in no way be called devout or even practicing Catholics no matter what you say. Someone who is pro-abortion technically isn’t allowed to receive Holy Communion.

  61. Dan Casey | October 13, 2012 at 11:06 pm

    “Sorry, Dan. People who don’t believe in the major tenets of the Church–the sanctity of human life– can in no way be called devout or even practicing Catholics, IN MY OPINION, WHICH MEANS JACK.”

    There, fixed it for you, Suze. Now, who gives a you-know-what?

  62. John Wilburn | October 13, 2012 at 11:12 pm

    Suzie:

    “Someone who is pro-abortion technically isn’t allowed to receive Holy Communion.”

    Let’s cut to the chase. It’s all about going to heaven, right? Can you go to heaven without “receiving Holy Communion”?

    You are the worst ambassador of your own religion I have ever seen.

  63. John Wilburn | October 13, 2012 at 11:13 pm

    Dan:

    “…can in no way be called devout or even practicing Catholics, IN MY OPINION, WHICH MEANS JACK.””

    ROGER THAT!

  64. Suzie | October 13, 2012 at 11:40 pm

    You are the worst ambassador of your own religion I have ever seen.

    Yah, liberals think conservatives and Catholics should be meek and mild and not fight back. We should just sit there when the president pisses on our religious freedoms and the liberal MSM cheers him on. We should quietly go away when the very liberals who champion gay lifestyles condemn our church for the actions a few gay men did to children. We should go back to the 60s when conservatives were the minority and just happy to get a seat at the table.

    Sorry, John Wilburn. Girl isn’t playing your game.

  65. John Wilburn | October 14, 2012 at 12:06 am

    Suzie:

    “We should go back to the 60s when conservatives were the minority and just happy to get a seat at the table.”

    What?

  66. John Wilburn | October 14, 2012 at 12:18 am

    Suzie (a.k.a. “Girl” OMG), all of the value you claim to put into your religion/heaven insurance DOESN’T MEAN A FLYING CRAP to anyone with half a mind that can see your utter hypocrisy. Everybody is rightfully laughing at you. You are an entertainment value here, but please don’t believe that you are leading by example to promote conservative values. Right or wrong, NO ONE would want what you are selling.

  67. Frank | October 14, 2012 at 12:25 am

    Hey Suzie,

    I applaud you. Keep up the good work!

  68. Contrasuzie | October 14, 2012 at 1:11 am

    Dan, I gotta know, man. Do you measure those columns from the top or the bottom? :-D

  69. dave | October 14, 2012 at 4:42 am

    That gomer would “applaud”suzie pretty well sums up the value of anything he posts.

  70. Suzie | October 14, 2012 at 6:14 am

    67 I applaud you. Keep up the good work!

    I appreciate it, Frank. Only in kooky leftwing pockets like this blog are Christian conservatives a minority, though they try to make you think it’s the opposite.

  71. Debbie | October 14, 2012 at 6:37 am

    You are the worst ambassador of your own religion I have ever seen.

    Comment by John Wilburn — October 13, 2012 @ 11:12 pm

    You’ve got that right. When I think of Suzie and religion the only bible verse that comes to mind is, Jesus wept.

  72. Dan Radmacher | October 14, 2012 at 7:48 am

    My mother believes in the sanctity of life – before and after birth, unlike the pro-life extremists now in charge of the church who don’t seem to think that sanctity matters once a baby leaves the womb. My mother is not pro-abortion, she’s pro-choice. She doesn’t believe her religious beliefs should limit the options of other women to control their own reproduction.

  73. Suzie | October 14, 2012 at 9:48 am

    My mother is not pro-abortion, she’s pro-choice. She doesn’t believe her religious beliefs should limit the options of other women to control their own reproduction.

    Hey, Rad. Does your mother believe her religious beliefs should also not limit the option of other people to, say, commit rape or molest children? Or is it just for killing children inside the womb? Just wondering how consistent she is.

    Dan R has all the George Carlin talking points. He’s got the canard about conservatives not caring about kids after they’re born (Yes we do; that’s why we want to enable private sector jobs for their parents and get them off government assistance. It’s also why we give more per capita to charity than liberals). He’s also got the hypocrital canard: “It’s wrong for me, but who am I to speak for others?”.

  74. Suzie | October 14, 2012 at 10:28 am

    It bears repeating; this 1996 George Carlin monologue is THE source for the whole litany of leftwing pro-abortion talking points. They spout them verbatim just as Rad did, except these people are so dim, they don’t realize they’re channeling this drunk cokehead who had to go to rehab at age 67. What a hell of a role model.

    Pro-abortion talking points from Carlin’s “Back In Town”

    1. Pro-lifers only care about kids before they’re born, not after
    2. Pro-lifers won’t adopt black crack babies.
    3. Pro-life really means anti-woman
    4. When bishops can have babies, then they can decide on abortion.
    5. Caring for children must involve welfare, foodstamps, free government natal care, and free school lunch.
    6. Conservatives only like children so they can send them to fight their wars.
    7. Pro-lifers believe in killing abortion doctors.
    8. Pro-lifers only want women to be brood mares.
    9. Miscarriages mean God causes abortions.
    10. Religion is the cause of most of the killings in history.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCWC4sHbIV0&feature=related

    There they are, folks. You never heard most of them before 1996. You think you invented them, but they all came from the same booze-addled drughead.

  75. John Wilburn | October 14, 2012 at 10:58 am

    Suzie quoting George Carlin:

    “Religion is the cause of most of the killings in history.”

    Do you agree with this one, Suzie?

  76. Suzie | October 14, 2012 at 12:14 pm

    Suzie quoting George Carlin:

    “Religion is the cause of most of the killings in history.”

    Do you agree with this one, Suzie?

    Nope. Godless atheist Communist regimes killed 100 million last century. Religion can’t touch that figure.

  77. Frank | October 14, 2012 at 12:29 pm

    hey Contra, Good Question!

    I had always thought that the “column” is of a certain width (whatever the width of a newspaper column is, I’d guess), and the length is calculted by measuring the number of inches (i guess top to bottom would work?) in the actual piece itself. I’m sure ol’ dano will clear this up.

    Based on ol’ dano’s bragging about writing “30 inch columns”, and “28 inch columns”, I’d say that some opinion journalists use such measurements to show how they might stack up against other opinion journalists, perhaps.

    It baffle’s me why ol’ dano brought it up in the first place, and then again just the other day.

  78. Dan Casey | October 14, 2012 at 12:41 pm

    Hee, hee. Frank gets SO irritated if and when I bring up the length of a column. It gets his motor running so much that he dwells on it for months, right here on this blog. It’s like he’s my play toy or something.

    Hey Frank, the column I’m gonna write for Tuesday will be 22 inches. Hope that doesn’t ruin your day – it’s a nice one.

    Hee, hee!

  79. Debbie | October 14, 2012 at 12:46 pm

    Well Dan, you know size does matter.

  80. joe | October 14, 2012 at 12:55 pm

    Sometimes we suppose size matters..
    Sometimes too many nouns and verbs
    can leave an ego in tatters.
    Sometimes that ego is happy to just inflame
    the out to pasture, borderline
    insane.

  81. matt | October 14, 2012 at 1:06 pm

    “…the column I’m gonna write for Tuesday will be 22 inches.”

    “-it’s a nice one.” –Dano

    “Well Dan, you know size does matter.”–Debbie

    “Sometimes we suppose size matters… –Joe

    (Sigh) You libs are friggin’ weird.

  82. John Wilburn | October 14, 2012 at 1:11 pm

    Suzie:

    “Nope. Godless atheist Communist regimes killed 100 million last century. Religion can’t touch that figure.”

    Do you count 6 million from the Holocaust in that? That was religion-motivated. What about the religion driven terrorist attacks? Religion motivates people to kill like nothing else. Don’t you believe in the Biblical account of God killing whole cities, or is this somethign you don’t cherry-pick?

  83. Suzie | October 14, 2012 at 1:27 pm

    Sometimes we suppose size matters..
    Sometimes too many nouns and verbs
    can leave an ego in tatters.
    Sometimes that ego is happy to just inflame
    the out to pasture, borderline
    insane.

    I understand the reason for Joe’s incoherent claptrap now. He’s Joe…….Biden.

  84. Frank | October 14, 2012 at 1:34 pm

    Hey dano, when you gonna pop up the next big column on sayin’ what vpjoe’s plagiarism means to you, and should mean to the rest of the country. In your opinion, of course. a 28 incher’ll do.

    hey dano, please tell us in a column what your best guess is of the reasons why obuma is doing what he’s doing with the deadly Libya terrorist attack explanation…thingy. I think that might take you a full 30 incher…which is what you said it took for you to ‘splain what obuma REALLY meant to say when he said, “you didn’t build that”.

  85. Frank | October 14, 2012 at 1:36 pm

    Hey Contra, looks like ol’ dano is ignoring your question.

  86. Dan Radmacher | October 14, 2012 at 1:37 pm

    Suzie,

    There is no doubt that rape or child molestation are wrong, and crimes. But the debate over when life begins has been going on for a long time without being settled. Is it conception – even though there is no brain, no heartbeat, just a couple of multiplying cells? Is it birth? The Bible actually supports that, placing the beginning of life with the first breath.

    I don’t know. And, despite what she’ll say, neither does Suzie. My mother respects that other people will come to different conclusions than she has. And the conclusion of the woman whose body is in question is really the only one that should matter.

  87. Contrasuzie | October 14, 2012 at 1:47 pm

    Re: Frank @ 77

    Subtle humor is just lost on some people.

  88. Contrasuzie | October 14, 2012 at 1:48 pm

    Screwzie agrees with Carlin’s take on the environment.

  89. Dan Casey | October 14, 2012 at 3:24 pm

    “Hey dano, when you gonna pop up the next big column on sayin’ what vpjoe’s plagiarism means to you, and should mean to the rest of the country. In your opinion, of course. a 28 incher’ll do.

    hey dano, please tell us in a column what your best guess is of the reasons why obuma is doing what he’s doing with the deadly Libya terrorist attack explanation…thingy. I think that might take you a full 30 incher…which is what you said it took for you to ‘splain what obuma REALLY meant to say when he said, “you didn’t build that”.

    Just fyi, folks: This comment above from Frank is 3.3 inches.

  90. Debbie | October 14, 2012 at 3:41 pm

    Frank @ 1:34 pm, if he does that, then Bob H will attack him for writing columns that aren’t metro.

  91. Debbie | October 14, 2012 at 3:52 pm

    (Sigh) You libs are friggin’ weird.

    Comment by matt — October 14, 2012 @ 1:06 pm

    People with no sense of humor are so friggin’ sad.

  92. Frank | October 14, 2012 at 5:31 pm

    hey dano, soo, please give us some of your bigger is better columns on any or all of the following topics:

    1. Please dispute that what obuma is doing regarding the Libya filmmake-terrorist tragedy appears to be bizarre….and is entirely the right thing for him to do as commander in chief, and boss of all of his secretariates and departments, including the state department and cia.

    2. Please explain if you think it was a good thingy for obama to have attended almost only 60% of his security briefings…as commander-in-chief. I mean, do ya think that if he’d attended more such briefings, maybe….since he’s the smartest person in any room full of people he happens to be in at any given time…he could have made a suggestion or 2 which might have enabled the U.S. to have avoided that tragedy in the first place?

    3. Please explain what message obuma was sending to the world when he went campaigning to Nevada the day after the Libyan tragedy occured, instead of dealing with it personally.

    4. Please describe, or dispute, why some people appear to be so enamored with their high-level, socially bizarre, plagiarizing, lying blow-hard like vpjoe?

    5. Please feel free to dispute any allegation I just made about vpjoe.

  93. Suzie | October 14, 2012 at 6:35 pm

    But the debate over when life begins has been going on for a long time without being settled. Is it conception – even though there is no brain, no heartbeat, just a couple of multiplying cells? Is it birth? The Bible actually supports that, placing the beginning of life with the first breath. I don’t know. And, despite what she’ll say, neither does Suzie.

    Of course it’s settled. There is no scientific or logical doubt life begins at conception. Think of it this way. When an egg is fertilized, it begins growing which means it has to be living. And a zygote made by two human beings is obviously human. So therefore a zygote is a living human being.

    The ONLY difference between a newly formed zygote and an adult human being is stage of development. That’s II!
    The only ones hemming and hawing about these basic facts are selfish people who are trying to justify killing their offspring and those who want to enable them to do so for either money (PP) or political power (leftwing politicians).

  94. Dan Radmacher | October 14, 2012 at 8:28 pm

    I called that one: And, despite what she’ll say, neither does Suzie.

  95. Suzie | October 14, 2012 at 10:46 pm

    I called that one: And, despite what she’ll say, neither does Suzie.

    See? You take the time, explain it in great detail, and it falls on deaf ears.

    “None are so blind as those who won’t see”.

  96. John Wilburn | October 15, 2012 at 12:34 am

    Dan Radmacher, didn’t you stop by VCDL’s protest at Radford University in December? I believe we met.

  97. Dan Radmacher | October 15, 2012 at 12:24 pm

    I think we did meet once, John, but not there.

  98. Frank | October 15, 2012 at 5:35 pm

    …and, the plot thinkens. hey you Bobsey Twins, can you two solve the evolving mystery of just where it was that John W. and Danr met, once?

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