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Miranda Rights for Terrorists (Improved Intern'l Version)

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AbecedariusRex wrote:I get very tired of people telling me how great and intelligent they are; especially when they then screw up their grammar at the end of their self-congratulatory little frottage.
It just makes them look so smart, doesn't it. I suppose the majority of them are high-school drop outs, so their speling 'n gramr isn't not good.

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Pinkie wrote:Only I can't shake this weird feeling that the only people who use those kind of words to argue their case are--well . . . "fuckheads."

But would that make me one?
No, this is not a case of projection. They engage in blunderbuss accusations having no better ammunition. Wit is a stiletto; sarcasm a much weaker foil. Verbal abuse a surrender before the fact.

I joined, as I said, the site while trying to source some moonbat-bashing on https://www.jessicaswell.com. I followed the lead to dear Alva's site and had <i>such</i> a good time with dear Alva that I knew I'd found a new sport: liberal baiting. Such is their sanctimonious self regard that they really hand you all the weapons. It would be ungrateful for me not to use them.

My current object of affection is Mark Morford. Dear Mark. Let's see how many kisses I can heap on him. He's as rich a target as Mikael the Minnesota Moonbat Mime and Jodin Morey, who comes in peace, and throws down his cell phone and takes off his Gitmo gear, and whines, whines, whines...

God, I love liberals. Because of my fun with them there are realtors and mortgage bankers who are alive today.

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Realtors and mortgage brokers who live? Come now Theo, surely spikes are cheap enough you can spare some?

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I have many bad things to say about mortgage brokers--and will recant on none of them. But I have to confess. The realtors in this town are a good bit ahead of other towns' realtors, or most of them. Mostly they listen when I tell them there's a problem. This is not always the case with other realtors. And I make them get involved with fixing things too. It's a very small town and I'm lucky, or not, enough to be the (cough cough) competent title person in it.

I have a good friend whose daughter-in-law is a very decent Realtor in Midland. Too bad that so many of the crew would make a rattlesnake run screaming.

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Since when did "decent" and "Midland" go in the same sentence?

BTW, do you know if they have finished work on the old Settles Hotel in Big Spring? That old building always fascinated me. As did the ruins of an old brick building near the railroad tracks on First Ave there. Big Spring has some depressingly old and worn out parts of town, or at least did when I was there. I want to go back there for a visit sometime...

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Midland is a great town. It's full of rich conservatives. I got by with, and get by with, anything. These are people who can appreciate a good moonbat bashing. Once, 25 years ago, I was in Dallas in the middle of the night waiting for a computer to work and Dave, my boss, who hired me, was reading from <i>Fortune</i> to me and Craig, his employee, getting ready for a real-estate dog-and-pony show on the morrow. The program was acting up.

"What's the city with the most millionaires?" New York, of course. Second was of course LA. Then Chicago and Houston and then down the line according to population. He said on number eight or nine: "You'll never get this. What's next?"

"Midland," I said. Well, I'd done programming for some of the rich people and you can't hide that.

And I know I keep banging the drum but these awful Republican Nazis just don't care that I'm gay. Bear in mind that that was a really big thing not that long ago. So much with right-wing intolerance.

And Midland has a lot of Ivy League education--people came in after WWII to make money in the oil business. The arts are much bigger there than you would think for a city of its size. The shopping is better than you would think.

Haven't been through downtown Big Spring in a few years--I assume you mean the tall hotel downtown? Hope it goes through. Next the one in Mineral Wells.

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Laika the Space Dog wrote: He hasn't blogged since 6/2007 and returns for one stupid article.....and WHACK....clang.....thud.
Pinkie's Golden Shovel strikes again....c'mon Pinkie, cut poor Mulva some slack....not.

Now that you mention it, what's up with that? Here I am, a faithful follower of his blog, his most loyal fan if you will, and every time I try to do him a favor and draw some more traffic his way, not only does he refuse to accept comments, but he even takes down the posts I call attention to (21 things to do before you die, the phony joint story, grandpa's underwear) and then doesn't blog anything for almost two years. Yet his material is actually quite precious when it isn't Mimeswiped.

Considering the only visitors he gets would seem to come from the Cube, I wonder if, every time he receives comments for moderation, he gets suspicious and comes over here to see if we're talking about him and his latest posts, and once confirmed, he goes back and deletes them?

Makes me want to conduct a little experiment with his latest offering, though it might be better accomplished under a separate entry in The People's Blog.

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Yes, Pinkie you are his most faithful follower, but it was I that discovered the immortal Alva "Mulva" Goldbook", the proggiest of progs. Who else could quote Marx and The Bible together better than Mulva with the exception of Chairman Zero?

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Oh, I just love it when SecProgs find it convenient to go crying back to Jesus when they can't win an argument any other way. They're right down there with recent atheists in foxholes and storm cellars.

Mulva's frothings Mimeswiped from that thread:

Acts 2:41-2:47 states:

“Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand persons were added that day. They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the COMMUNAL life, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers. Awe came upon everyone, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. All who believed were together and had all things in COMMON; they would sell their property and possessions and divide them among all ACCORDING TO EACH ONE'S NEED. Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple area and to breaking bread in their homes. They ate their meals with exultation and sincerity of heart, praising God and enjoying favor with all the people. And every day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved.”
I'm no Bible scholar, but I have at hand both the NIV and KJV, and in both, where Mulva says COMMUNAL, they say "fellowship."

(If that movie were made today, they'd call it "The Community Organization of the Ring")

But more importantly than that, while they did sell off their property and possessions and divvy them up according to need, and one could argue that because so many of them were doing it, they were doing it as a collective, the fact remains they did it themselves as INDIVIDUALS and VOLUNTARILY out of the goodness of their hearts. That's called CHARITY, children.

Meaning no higher authority came along and said, "This is what we're going to do, and you're going to shut up while we do it," only to confiscate goods from one group and give them to another. That, children, is called COMMUNISM and no one has ever said it begins at home.

It begins at the government level.

BTW, I saw Robin Hood with Errol Flynn the other night on Turner Classics. What an eye-opener in this day and age. He never took from the rich and gave to the poor; how'd that B.S. ever get started and kept alive? He only took back what the GOVERNMENT had been STEALING and CONFISCATING and otherwise SHAKING DOWN from people who were most decidedly NOT RICH! I was almost shocked that an old prog like Ted would allow that movie to be shown on his network.

Thank you for letting me rant.

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Most brilliant, Pinkie! I especially liked one line that can be changed into a Cube headline speaking about one or another GovProg engaging in redistribution but cheating on his own taxes, let's say Geithner.

Geithner: no one has ever said communism begins at home

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Thanks, Pinkie. You've hit on the difference, of course, between Prog Life and real life. Prog Life is <i>coercive</i>. Behind every prog is the whiff of the concentration camp, whether it's a real one or "sensitivity training."

Do you think that Hollywood will make a movie about an overreaching government and show it to be a bad thing?

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Ah yesssss....The Tale of Brave Sir Robin of Loxley!
The Redistributor of the Redistributors!
That whole "illegal forced taxation" bit seems to get lost in the jargon.

....but if you take it to the logical proggie counter spin, you get

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I've been meaning to write an essay about the Robin Hood myth for a while, as part of the "Take the culture back" series.

My main point is that in the times of feudalism, which I see as early socialism, the wealth of the overlords (the looters) was largely unearned often obtained by coercion at the point of the sword. The people (the producers) were powerless and subject to merciless looting by the overlords who also personified the government. Under such conditions, taking back from the looters and giving back to the producers was absolutely just and moral.

The fallacy here is that the progs continue with this principle despite the fact that capitalism has cardinally changed the rules of the game. The producers are now free and well-paid, while most of the wealth has been earned with an honest effort. The ones who invoke the myth of Robin Hood today mean that the wealth must be taken away from the producers and given to the looters and the moochers. It's quite the opposite of the original principle.

In the best case, such progs are stuck in the distant past, like the anecdotal Japanese soldiers on a deserted island who still continue to sink US ships without any idea that the war has ended and Japan is now America's best ally. In the worst case, they are evil, deliberately misleading double-thinkers.

The same principle, by the way, applies to the ridiculous notion that "Jesus was the first communist," and it is something I was also planning to write if I find time. In the times of slavery, when wealth was mostly obtained by evil means, such wealth justly represented the power of evil. Hence, staying deliberately poor was the equivalent of honesty and high moral standard. The slaves who refused to cooperate with their masters and increase their evil power, were justified in doing so.

But in modern days when wealth is mostly obtained by honest and moral means through individual effort, it no longer symbolizes evil, but rather ingenuity and industriousness, which is a virtue. Hating wealth in a free society, therefore, means to hate virtue and support vice, such as, sloth and covetousness. Again, the progs have it all upside down.

What's the appropriate metaphor? I'm not sure that "stranded Japanese soldiers quoting from the Bible" works.

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Comrade Red Square,

I hold you and the other comrades in awe. I wish I had the time and bandwidth to be more useful to The Party.

I truly enjoyed your conversation with the sensitive prog. What a hoot! Progs never understand the consequences of their actions, never estimate the future, and never admit their mistakes when the consequences of their actions have the opposite effect of their intentions.

As an ex-soldier, if I were deployed, the only Miranda Rights the terrorists would receive from me would be from 300 meters in a language everyone understands. While I trust the integrity of our soldiers, I truly wonder how many terrorists will never see their day in an American court, with their ACLU attorney, as a result of The Great Leader's Wisdom.

ONCE AGAIN FOR THE PROGS:

The greatest guilt today is that of people who accept collectivism by moral default; the people who seek protection from the necessity of taking a stand, by refusing to admit to themselves the nature of that which they are accepting; the people who support plans specifically designed to achieve serfdom, but hide behind the empty assertion that they are lovers of freedom, with no concrete meaning attached to the word; the people who believe that the content of ideas need not be examined, that principles need not be defined, and that facts can be eliminated by keeping one's eyes shut. They expect, when they find themselves in a world of bloody ruins and concentration camps, to escape moral responsibility by wailing: "But I didn't mean this!"

-Ayn Rand

No way will letting these terrorists solve any problems in fact it will only give them another chance to finish what they were planning. More over it puts a front to the world that people who aren't even Americans get the same rights as citizens, they aren't even on American soil and are given more privileges than most actual citizens. Something needs to be done about "people" who don't deserve the rights they are given.

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Something will be done to people who don't deserve the rights they are given. Unfortunately worthy people suffer when it happens. I had an argument with my father on Sunday, when he was crabbing so much that I had to leave early. Not on bad terms, but just out of a feeling of being closed in. He's 83, sharp, sensible, but boy was he grumpy.

I said that I at times actually <i>welcomed</i> a sort of collapse to slap people in the face to get them to flush the Washington toilet at the polls. Sense isn't working.

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One does reach a point of satiation in this matter. I think mine was reached on election day back in November. But then again, it was nearly to that point when the RNC nominated and elected a man who refused to cut our taxes and then turned around and claimed he wouldn't raise taxes. Really, who could be trusted?

Bring on the deluge. We'll live through it. I can't wait for a younger neighbor (a smug Democrat), who once sold me cosmetics to come around one day, begging, and give me the chance to show her the utmost compassion, but tell her, "sorry dear, I really don't need anything today."

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Good. "Being a Democrat means never having to take responsibility." Pace Erich Segal.


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Brother Goody wrote:But are they white?

Is who white, mufka? They ain't no crackers here homey, so you best jus sit yo ass down, er how you wanna swing it?

Ya free to know, ya free to show, and ya free to go!


 
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