I head the same thing, Lurker!

And I'm ecstatic!!! I heard Craig Crawford say that Bush isn't the radical evangelical that some of his more rabid followers think he is. Maybe Bush isn't as bad as I thought he was. Maybe he IS choosing a woman who is *reasonable.* Maybe he's finally waking up and realizing his numbers are going down because he's ignored the majority of the people in this country while trying to cater to the whacky radical minority who want use the GOVERNMENT to force their religious views and imagined moral superiority down everyone's throats.

I didn't even start out being this left-sided. It seemed the more right-sided he leaned, the more left-sided I became, almost an involuntary reflex type reaction in rebellion. With the nomination of Miers and the subsequent disapproval by Krystal, Buchanan, etc., I feel as if I can relax a little bit and finally feel there might actually be HOPE for America. This is indeed a happy day!

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I can't stop laughing and emailed this to everyone I know, as well as added it to my favorites.

Now THERE'S a post full of kindness, understanding, tolerance, and love. I wish there were more people like you in this country right now. I was starting to feel very angry and in the midst of letting them drag me down to their level, but your post just lifted me up from all that (even sans the beads). You must be very proud of your heritage. I would love to learn more about it.

This was a great read and sums up very well the impression Ann Coulter has given me of herself and her so-called values.

Yes, I've posted on the conservative board a couple times recently. Didn't take me long to realize it wasn't the place for me, and I don't plan on posting there any more.

However, I continue to read the posts there, note your ongoing confusion and truly hope you get back to school soon so they can teach you that the 9 in 9/11 indicates the month of September, not August. I do applaud you for getting the 11 in 9/11 correct, though.

Unacceptable answer for word verbiage. Do people actually let you get away with that?

Posted By: ? on 2006-03-03,
In Reply to: Find it yourself... - Lurker

You must run in really tolerant debate circles. Best stay in them. This kind of behavior is not tolerated in most political circles I know of. But it is a good example of how far we have slipped into the he said/she said atmosphere of debate in this country. Just say anything and never have to prove it. It works well for the MSM, of which you seem so fond. Well, should have known better. I am off for greener pastures and debate fields where people actually have to prove what they say. Imagine that!

It's about MJF being used as a pawn to relay false information about stem cell research, 99% of which is false and unfounded. It's about misrepresenting what embryonic stem cell research really is and what it will be. So you are right, it's about a whole lot more than MJF. It's dirty politics and the Democrats used MJF's affliction for their gains. Shame on them.

Thanks for your reply to my question about your leaving Florida. It sounds like a big transition in many ways, both geographically and emotionally. I had inquired because I have similar thoughts myself and so far I keep moving farther and farther north and away from civilization. Anyway, good luck and it would be good to hear when you're settled in.

Well, yeah, it's kind of crazy here, too, sometimes. But less toxic, much more sane and more welcoming. I kind of like it overall.

**And for those who don't know already, Ann Coulter is a Conservative apologist who has just released a new book, and while promoting her future Best Seller, she made some off-the-wall comments just so she could get some publicity for said book. She claimed that the windows of 9/11 are milking their husbands deaths, and called them broads who are enjoying their million dollar status. To me, she isn't an alien, just another person trying to XXXX somebody else over in order to make some chump change. I don't believe for a second she means a word of what she came out with, but is just trying to drum up interest in her new product, which is for sale. And according to Amazon.com's book rankings, she's accomplishing her goal. Shrewd businesswomen? Yes indeed. On her way to becoming Satan, halfway there!**

Something wicked this way comes, and we are in the middle of it. Oh yeah, I have been likened to Chicken Little, the sky is falling, blah, blah, blah, but I am cognizant of the falsities this administration would like us to believe, and although I am of average intelligence, not presidential material, am educated enough to know that they, WHOMEVER THEY ARE, were going into a HORNET's NEST in IRAQ, also going to make more TERRORISTS. Also, with my average intelligence, I knew enough to know that Hussain was keeping his people under control, and that NO terrorists would be stupid enough to make trouble or reside in Iraq. He was master. So he killed 30,000 people, maybe a little more. How many have the BUSHWACKERS KILLED!? Yes, of course, I'm upset with him and his cronies. He has made AMERICANS LOOK STUPID, DISHONEST and MURDEROUS and no more humanitarian, maybe even less so, than Saddam. At least Saddam had his reasons to kill his people. What are HIS reasons for the killing? Have not heard any that make any sense! That is my take on the whole thing. Plus the useless FEMA of the Katrina disaster, and on and on and on. No time to spell it all out.

Did you think that those folks would behave as adults? They are bullying children, after all. You were set up to be mocked and chastised.

I do have to say, though, that your posts for the most part have been an eloquent and ethical plea for a more humane world. I would think that anyone, no matter their personal ideology, would have been moved, even inspired, to ponder a different manner of viewing our world and our role in it.

This all reminds me of trying to argue/debate with my mother who was a borderline personality (a mental disorder). It's hopeless. You cannot have a straightforward discussion/debate/argument with someone for whom the bounds of reality are constantly shifting as their logic will never be grounded in sane reasoning.

And regarding looking in my own back yard, with all due respect to you and the board and your rules, I thought this WAS my back yard. Out of respect for you and your rules, I have not posted on the Conservative Board.

The following is Lurker's post from the conservative board in response to a comment about a extremist liberal blogger. Funny how the writer of the article on Maryscott O'Connor say she's angry, but I'm sure he thinks Ann Coulter is just spitting the truth.

But I agree with you Lurker. Much better things to expend energy on than extremist on either side.

Great post! I thought the people who just frequent the liberal board would like this.

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LURKER: In this time of real crises, many many many real crises, why would some woman's blog be of importance to anyone other than those who frequent it? This type of venting and ranting has been going on for quite some time on talk radio and now in blogs, on both sides. I just don't listen to any of it, right or left. One of my biggest pet peeves is screaming and degrading rhetoric, from anyone, about anything. Who cares what this woman does, or Cindy Sheehan or the ever popular #1 offender Michael Moore. These are individuals expressing their freedom of speech just as Rush, Grover and Coulter do. Just turn it off.

Of concern to me is outsourcing, the bond we are building with China (how can our administration tout Christianity and do business with those who murder their own people over religion, who force abortions, who plan parenthood better than anyone I have ever heard of, limiting births to 1 child, promoting abortion if that 1 child is a girl and on and on.

Of concern to me is Wal-Mart for many reasons, but on the China note, Wal-Mart gets 70% of its products from China. The other 30% come from 70 different countries, some of whom have oppressive dictatorships and harbor terrorists like the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia. Wal-Mart lobbied to NOT have goods go through additional safety measures at ports of entry because it would cut into their profit margin.

I am concerned that fewer and fewer people have health insurance or jobs or homes and will never have a home or afford insurance even if they manage to find a job.

I am concerned that this administration touts its Christianity while treating the least of its people so shabbily.

I am concerned that generals are speaking out about the inefficacy of this war and the stubborn refusal of Bush or Rumsfeld to do anything about it.

I am concerned that so many of our elected officials are involved in lies, coverups and that CEOs of corporations can steal the pensions of hundreds of people and don't have to pay it back...5 or 6 people go to country club prison for a couple of years, brush up on their tennis game and 100s of 50+ people have lost everything and they don't have time to make it up, (nor should they have to).

I am concerned that people all over our planet are dying from starvation and dehydration and disease.

I am concerned about what we have done to our own planet over the last 150 years in terms of depleting our resources.

I am concerned about this administration using Christianity as a reason to behave so un-Christianly. I believe that were Christ to sit in on a couple of cabinet meetings He would be appalled. There is the Bible cherry-picking...they can quote whatever serves them but dismiss what does not. What happened to every 50 years the wealth is redistributed amongst the people, every 7 years debts are forgiven. Who deleted or amended the 10 commandments. Thou shalt not kill...except when blah blah blah. Though shalt not steal....except blah, blah blah. If there was any thread continuing throughout the gospel of Christ it is the treatment of the poor. In the end we will be judged not on our military brilliance, our power or money but on how we, as a nation, treated the least among us.

There is much to worry about and pray about and much still that can be done. I just do not see blogs as up there in the top 2,000.

This is from Dean's World, which is a liberal website, by the way. Even this liberal doesn't agree with you. Your Bush Derangement Syndrome has taken an even darker and deeper turn. You might want to spend more time watching the animals and contemplating where all this hatred comes from.

Obnoxious

One of the more shallow memes of the current war goes like this:

Isn't it shameful that President Bush hasn't attended the funerals of very many of the service men who have fallen in this war?

Anyone who thinks very hard about this knows this is an incredibly shallow criticism. Otherwise, the great Generals and Presidents of history, such as Roosevelt, Eisenhower, MacAurther, Patton, Lincoln, and Grant would have never done anything with their time except attend funerals.

Still, if you need to know what history shows, then ask a veteran. As Gulf War veteran John Cole notes, no President has ever regularly attended military funerals.

That's right. Franklin Roosevelt didn't. Harry Truman didn't. Dwight Eisenhower didn't. John F. Kennedy didn't. Lyndon Johnson didn't. Richard Nixon didn't. Ford and Carter didn't. Reagan attended more than most Presidents ever did, but still usually didn't. Bush the Elder usually didn't. Clinton did a couple of times, but mostly didn't.

What if we go all the way back to Presidents like Abraham Lincoln, or George Washington? Turns out that they didn't either.

Why? Because if they did, they would do almost nothing else.

The President of the United States is the leader of hundreds of millions of people. Part of his job is to command hundreds of thousands of people in the military. The next time you vote for a President, I hope you think very hard about that, because that's one of the most important things any President ever does.

But one thing he generally doesn't do is attend the funeral of every fallen service man. Mind you, a good one wishes he could attend every such funeral. A good one feels it like a knife in his gut every time a soldier falls. But he can't be there every time a soldier falls. He just can't.

If you don't understand that, then, to be blunt, you lack maturity