Comments on: Four More Years!

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:19:52 +0000

Hi Lucy! Photo I received! Thanks!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 08:32:14 +0000

Oh…, and (yes I'm Anonymous #902349851 from the previous message):
Chris, if you think that the government lies to us, why then do you attach yourself to a political philosophy that seeks nothing less than government takeover of the more important facets of our lives?
Since government lies to us, wouldn't all those wonderful new bureacrats in the Departments of “Health Care”, “Peace”, “Eracism” and “Sticking-it-to-the-Rich” (actually I kind of like the last one…), just to name a few, be just a likely to lie to us as those dastardly Pentagon war-mongers and all the other current departments do?
I know…, it's only the mean and nasty (not to mention irretrievably stupid) Republican administrations that lie to us, right? Yes, the saintly Democrats are “for the people” so they'd never do such a thing. So as long as we restrict the White House to proper, Liberal-thinking people we can have all the new government programs that we can ever concoct without a worry in the world. Right?
Huhmmmm…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 08:13:54 +0000

Sigh… Can't we all just get along?
Look, we don't have hurl the insults back and forth while replying to Chris' cheap little cry for attention, do we? Isn't it enough to leave it at his being foolish for having added this video link on his blog 2 YEARS after the silliness over the Pentagon crash was debunked?
If he wants to base his thinking on crackpot Frenchie ideas that even most of the French thought were loonie toons (see the Snopes.com link for the provenance of the story), well…, let him. If he really believes this nonsense, does that truly make him “gullible”, “ignorant”, “an idiot” or a purveyor of “paranoid, simple-minded, masturbatory nonsense?” Well, ok…, yes it does. {grin} But that's his gol' durn right as a Honda Prius-huggin', San Fran area livin' (I'm assuming from…, well, I don't know from what), tofu-eatin', Birkenstock-wearin', twice-yearly bathin' American! Actually, that last one was rather unfair — he looks remarkably well-groomed for a liberal-type. Rather thin, neat and single, you might say…
Look, if Chris wants to be a junior Dan Rather and blog before he's checked his facts, let him! We don't have to go calling him names, do we? {grin}
As to the “Anonymous” who quoted George Washington to butress his love of modern liberalism (and who might have been reading Tom Hartmann's fallacious treatise on gay “marriage” — or is coming from Al Franken or Jenaene Garofalo?), you are falling prey to a common fallacy — that of failing to account for the changing definition of terms over time. Washington wasn't referring to Liberalism with a capital “L” (as my bomb-throwing conservative fellow-posters {word to your mothers…} certainly were), rather he was speaking to more of a dictionary meaning of liberal — as in being liberal with one's time or money.
Greater freedom, openness, brotherhood, harmony and magnamity towards one's fellow-man were what he was expressing the hope of. All things that I would hope underpin those of all current political stripes. Note that he referred to “those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community” as a brake on how far equality of protection would be applied.
He wouldn't have been a fan of unrestrained hedonism (nor would have most of the other founders, well…, maybe Franklin {grin}) — which is one of the hallmarks of capitalized “L”iberalism. Or of never-ending demands for government largess (the dole). Or of abrogating our duty to defend the nation. Or of failing to extend the gifts of liberal (small-case) society to areas of the world that suffer from the lack. Or of the killing of the unborn for personal convenience. Or of attempts to remove all religion from the public square. Or of handing our soverienty over to international debating and thievery societies. Or of…, I could go on forever.
Washington was a deeply flawed man — he was a slave owner. But he was a man of his times, and as such wouldn't have recognized his ideas of liberality in what the Democrats, Greenies, Socialists, Communists and all the other hangers-on have twisted the age-old and venerable concepts of liberalism into.
So, Anonymous, please don't be so silly as to ever again attempt to buttress your stream-of-consciousness jumble of nonsense — that is modern Liberalism — with the words of someone who would despise and condemn so much of it.
But then again, it's probably your right as a liberal-pantywaist, commie-pinko American to do so. {grin}

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:11:25 +0000

you guys that say Pirillo is anti-american cause he questions the government are idiots. It is our duty as americans to question the way the country is run. If we are to never question the leaders of this country, then we'd be a dictatorship….not a democracy. We have freedom of speech for a reason!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:01:39 +0000

That would be more likely to increase his so-called “anti-Americanism”, not decrease it. Being “anti-war” doesn't necessarily mean “anti-America”.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:45:55 +0000

let's send pirillo to iraq then we'll see if he continues his anti-americanism

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:03:58 +0000

“If your workplace is safe, if your children go to school rather than being forced into labor, if you are paid a living wage, including overtime…if your food is not poisoned and your water drinkable…if our rivers are getting cleaner and our air isnÂ’t black with pollution…if people of all races can share the same public facilities, if couples fall in love and marry regardless of race, you can thank liberals. What defined conservatism, and conservatives, was their opposition to every one of these advances.”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:02:47 +0000

“Can we get off the politics?? If you want that talk, go to Fox, CNN or start your own blog.”
HEY, THIS BLOG SUBJECT (FOUR MORE YEARS!) IS POLITICAL, ISN'T IT?
FOUR MORE WARS!!!
BUSHCO INTO OBLIVION!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 20:58:54 +0000

“As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.”
– George Washington

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:14:07 +0000

Like I said before, this has nothing at all to do with liberalism. Conspiracy theories are not limited to liberals… how many right-wing conspiracy theories are there surrounding the Clinton administration, for example?
There is nothing wrong with questioning your leaders. It's much better than blindly following them.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 05:08:50 +0000

Yet another example of Pirillo anti-Americanism… I'm constantly amazed at how low liberals will go… conspiracy theories, forging of military documents, etc. Get a clue people, we are at war. Wake up and show a little faith in your country for a change.
No wonder Bush will win big this year… wacko left wingers totally ruin any credibility your party attempts to achieve.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 06:28:36 +0000

yea, grand old party, i got your grand old party right here.

By: Hank

Hank — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:19:21 +0000

Can we get off the politics?? If you want that talk, go to Fox, CNN or start your own blog. Obviously tech and politics are like fire and oxygen. One thing that seems true. Every four years the left, right and in between come out beating their chest as who is better. Then after the election, we go back into hiding with our lives. No matter who wins, it is up to you what you make of life. Bush, Kerry, Clinton, Williams, Smith or Jackson… it's all a figure head.
If your a republican and Kerry wins, sure your pissed, but come November 3rd, the alarm goes off and you go back to work. You may moan for a little but soon it's back to punchin the clock, mowing the lawn, going on vacation, paying taxes, etc. Then in four years you get out the rally caps. Same thing if your democrat. As long as we have this two party system, it will be business as usual.
It is cheap however to come in here posting anonymously.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 19:42:02 +0000

WHAT LIBERALS WHAT
Liberals want a government that does not use it's servicemen and women as though they were disposable items in support of one man's political future.
Liberals want a government that does not spend more than it takes in.
Liberals want a foreign policy that does not advocate pre-emptive strikes.
Liberals want health care for American children.
Liberals want polluters to comply with the clean air act.
Liberals want K-12 education to be a high priority, and well funded.
Liberals want our national parks protected.
Liberals want church and state to be separated. Always.
Liberals want citizens to make their own choices, not have the government make choices for them.
Liberals insist on a nation where the Constitution and Bill of Rights are respected and not subverted for any reason at all.
In short, Liberals want America back. And come November, we are taking it back. Count on it!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Sep 2004 19:41:31 +0000

25 RULES FOR BEING A GOOD REPUBLICAN
1) You believe that drug addiction is a moral failing and a crime, unless the addict is a millionaire conservative radio jock which then makes it an “illness” and he needs our prayers for his “recovery”.
2) You believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own.
3) You believe that the US should get out of the UN, and that our highest national priority is to enforce the UN's resolutions against Iraq.
4) You believe that government should stay out of people's lives but it needs to punish anyone caught having private sex with the “wrong” gender.
5) You believe that pollution is okay, so long as it makes a profit.
6) You believe in prayer in schools, as long as they don't pray to Allah or Buddha.
7) “Standing Tall for America” means firing your workers and moving their jobs to India.
8) You believe that a woman cannot be trusted with decisions about her own body, but that large multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind with no regulation whatsoever.
9) You believe that you love Jesus and Jesus loves you, and that Jesus shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary.
10) You hate the ALCU for representing convicted felons, but they owed it to the country to bail out Oliver North.
11) You believe that the best way to encourage military morale is to praise the troops overseas while cutting their VA benefits.
12) You believe that group sex and drug use are degenerate sins that can only be purged by running for governor of California as a Republican.
13) You believe it is wise to keep condoms out of schools, because we all know if teenagers don't have condoms they won't have sex.
14) You believe that the best way to fight terrorism is to alienate our allies and then demand their cooperation and money.
15) You believe that government medicine is wrong and that HMOs and insurance companies have your best interests at heart.
16) You believe that giving free health care to all Iraqis is sound government policy but giving free health care to Americans is socialism.
17) You believe that tobacco's link to cancer and global warming are “junk science”, but Creationism should be taught in schools.
18) You believe that waging war with no exit strategy was wrong in Vietnam but right in Iraq.
19) You believe that Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney was doing business with him, and a bad guy when Bush needed a “we can't find Bin Laden” diversion.
20) You believe that government should restrict itself to just the powers named in the Constitution, which includes banning gay marriages and censoring the internet.
21) You believe that the public has a right to know about the adulterous affairs of Democrats, while those of Republicans are a “private matter”.
22) You believe that the public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades but that Bush was right to censor 28 pages from the Congressional 9.11 report because you just can't handle the truth.
23) You support state rights, which means Ashcroft telling states what locally passed voter initiatives he will allow them to have.
24) You believe that what Clinton did in the 1960's is of vital national interest but what Bush did in the 80s is “stale news” and “irrelevant”.
25) You believe that trade with Cuba is wrong because it is communist, but trading with China and Vietnam is good for business.