People that point out the obvious are never very popular.

Unfortunately they are also necessary when a large chunk of the population refuses to recognize the obvious



Go davis, go!
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Crazed and glazed can sometimes be mistake for passionate.
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ya gotta admit that's funny, davey-do.
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aw Barto, you missed my funny. It was right clever, it was. Should I have used the choice application of italics? Dammit, I knew I should have used the choice application of italics!
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I think not.
Hey barto, shove it.

If you're a genuine, honest to god Christian, I'm a George Bush lover.

You guys are twisted beyond belief.
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I think not.
Hey barto, shove it.

If you're a genuine, honest to god Christian, I'm a George Bush lover.

You guys are twisted beyond belief.
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I caught hell for using the word jerk in combination with the word circle, just the other day.
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I think not.
Hey barto, shove it.

If you're a genuine, honest to god Christian, I'm a George Bush lover.

You guys are twisted beyond belief.
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Oh never! He's awful persuasive. Why, when I started here I thought he was passionate, but he's convinced me he's just a jerk.
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Put a sock in it, Jack.
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shove it in your ass hypocrite. How about some more of that special old time southern redneck compassion?
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Oh boy.

This grade school taunting thang suuure put davis in his place.
Not.

It's Sunday, kindergarten isn't until tomorrow. This school-age crap is lame to the point of idiocy.

Instead of always getting personal, try addressing his arguments. If you can, or are personal insults all you have?
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Don't count on it. They learned from Rush.
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You have a lot of room to talk. Phony self righteousness is ugly and you have way more than your share.
Abortion!!! WAAAAAA!!!! WAAAAAA!!!!! (but we'll readily kill men women and children in the name of freedom, imperial democracy and of all things JESUS!!!)

Hey bud, how about a minimum of consistency from you hypocrites?

As you said, yesterday was it?, they are no longer collateral damage, they are sympathisers, THEY AREN'T WORTH IT.

ps, go fuck yourself
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I see you got your application in to the Bee fan club.  When's the intiation?
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Typical.

Have fun in Kindergarten class.

I'll come back when the adults show up

toodles.
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Typical.

Have fun in Kindergarten class.

I'll come back when the adults show up

toodles.
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She was all over the C-Span boards telling under what a hot fuc she is, maybe that's the initiation.
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Davis is just another Godless bastard that tries to tell us Christians how to practice our relgion.  These people can be found under rocks, and in stagnant water, most anywhere.  I just say fuckem and move on.
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Yeah? Say it to my face you lil piss-ant bitch. You wouldn't even make a decent snack.

I'm skeert.

About right. Tell me more about Republican "values", bee-atch.
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Delete this, Millness, please. It does NOT need to be drug up. 

Thank you.
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Of course.  There aren't very many left on our side but as we all leave, so goes the natural evolution of this board.  It's getting less active here but I don't think it is because of the opposing povs rather the lack of humor and fun.

Once we get so personal and nasty, it is hard to get back to being civil.
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I apologize as well.  I guess that is directed to Artie. 

The nature of this beast is debate and opposition, disagreement but yelling at each other consistantly, the name calling and disrespect takes this to another level.


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"Of course. There aren't very many left on our side but as we all leave, so goes the natural evolution of this board."
People come and go as they will. I keep pretty close track of the number of posts and it's fairly  steady. What is nasty is in the eye of the beholder.  Someone will rant and scream and when someone on the other "side" retaliates allies will come along and blame it on the retaliator, not the initiator. It works both ways.

I think the "sides" are pretty even, but certainly not what the Dems are used to from C-Span. I try not to take anything too personal, and compartmentalize between boards. If Nomarchy tells me to FOAD on Iraq, I try not to take the running battle to a board that doesn't directly relate. It isn't prefect, but it's better than having a constant  running personal battle across the site.

Everyone has their own personal styles and we do have our battles, but I've seen plenty worse across the net. Especially on boards discussing things like politics, abortion and religion. My original hope was to discuss things BESIDES political differences, but those topics seem to die from lack of interest. The GAPS has almost a hundred members and barely gets 50 posts a day across a LOT more topics.
This board is hardly dying out. But it belongs to US, and if WE want to improve things it requires some effort and concensus.
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The sides are not even and although you continue to discuss how people are always picking on you, I don't see it.
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So, how many of these people are Democrats?  Most of them often complain if you even remotely refer to them as such.
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Yes, despite her efforts to save you embarrassment, you have shown yourself to be an utterly humorless prude.

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So, how many of these people are Democrats?  Most of them often complain if you even remotely refer to them as such.
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That was me HI and all.

I'll put HI and Bart on ignore all, so that I don't have to react to 2 year old lies, and spare the board any more unpleasantness and inanity. I apologize for my part in responding to it.



I would think that Bart and his sycophants history of scaring off posters and closing down boards would give us all pause. The ignore feature might save this one. I'm sure they'll pick on the next female moderate or liberal when they are done with their 'fun' with me.



Someone else can deal with it.
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That's a good idea, since your reactions suck  anyway.
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Is it just me, or is the animosity level particularly high today, or the last couple? 

Cya'll tomorrow, when we're all playin' nice.
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Is it just me, or is the animosity level particularly high today, or the last couple? 

Cya'll tomorrow, when we're all playin' nice.
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I must be missing something....what was so especially bad about today, as compared to any other day?
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TV Host Says U.S. Paid Him to Back Policy
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

Published: January 8, 2005

Armstrong Williams, a prominent conservative commentator who was a protégé of Senator Strom Thurmond and Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court, acknowledged yesterday that he was paid $240,000 by the Department of Education to promote its initiatives on his syndicated television program and to other African-Americans in the news media.

The disclosure of the payment set off a storm of criticism from Democrats over the Bush administration's spending to promote its policies to the public. According to a copy of the contract provided by the department yesterday, Mr. Williams, who also runs a small public relations firm and until yesterday wrote a syndicated newspaper column, was required to broadcast two one-minute advertisements in which Education Secretary Rod Paige extolled the merits of its national standards program, No Child Left Behind.

But the arrangement, which started in late 2003 and was first reported yesterday by USA Today, also stipulated that a public relations firm hired by the department would "arrange for Mr. Williams to regularly comment on N.C.L.B. during the course of his broadcasts," that "Secretary Paige and other department officials shall have the option of appearing from time to time as studio guests," and that "Mr. Williams shall utilize his long-term working relationships with 'America's Black Forum' " - an African-American news program - "to encourage the producers to periodically address the No Child Left Behind Act."

Mr. Williams, 45, apologized yesterday for blurring his roles as an independent commentator and a paid promoter. "This is a great lesson to me," he told Paul Begala of CNN, who himself has an off-air job as a paid Democratic political consultant but discloses both roles.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/08/national/08education.html

"Mr. Williams, 45, apologized yesterday for blurring his roles as an independent commentator and a paid promoter. "This is a great lesson to me," he told Paul Begala of CNN, who himself has an off-air job as a paid Democratic political consultant but discloses both roles."