smittyoneeach's Journal: More Like: "Collateral Damage in the Commie War on Sanity"

Emphasis mine in this little gem:

I do not see the conservatives as having an ambition to destroy me, personally; rather I am a victim of the Conservative War on Science. I have been training my entire life for a position in scientific research, and they are proudly do everything they can to bring science to a screeching halt in this country. That results in my permanent unemployment.

First of all, damn_registrars, if you are experiencing an extreme mix of narcissism, antisocial personality disorder, aggression, and sadism, please seek help. While /. is something of a free-fire zone for trash talking, with occasional outbursts of information exchange, nothing occurring here should be seen as inducement to violence.
Second, what the actual focaccia are you even talking about, "Conservative War on Science"? I don't want to hear another godforsaken word about anybody else's "conspiracy theories" if you're going to leave that kind of upper decker. Science breeds innovation (when not drenched with Frankfurtism), which leads to capitalism.
Third, as far as "bring science to a screeching halt" goes, one way in which your demented notion could nearly begin to try making sense is if you swallow the idiocy that #OccupyResoluteDesk is conservative, and trying to use the non-argument of anthropogenic global warming (or whatever the current focus group term is) as a denial of service attack on research.

Should sobriety ever strike, a look at the economics of higher education might bring some badly needed enlightenment. Advice: cloud computing. It's all going cloud, man. Feel the vapor trail.

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[bagofbeans]

Shirley it's "Connie War" not "Commie War"?

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[smittyoneeach]

Conservatives are not waging war on sanity. It's the Left, as seen in the media and college campuses.

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[fustakrakich]

No no, it's the Commie War on Smitty, so it's borderline...

I'm not entirely sure what YOU are talking about..

[damn_registrars]

First of all, damn_registrars, if you are experiencing an extreme mix of narcissism, antisocial personality disorder, aggression, and sadism, please seek help. While /. is something of a free-fire zone for trash talking, with occasional outbursts of information exchange, nothing occurring here should be seen as inducement to violence.

I did not say anything about violence in my comment. I would love to know where you got that idea from.

Second, what the actual focaccia are you even talking about, "Conservative War on Science"? I don't want to hear another godforsaken word about anybody else's "conspiracy theories" if you're going to leave that kind of upper decker.

There are several important components to the Conservative War on Science:

• The constant slashing of federal scientific research funding
• The way that conservatives keep trying to get textbooks - particularly science textbooks - rewritten to ignore factual research results when they disagree with their own belief system
• They way that conservatives are so quick to denigrate scientists (one of your favorite j

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[smittyoneeach]

if you are. . .

I did not say anything about violence in my comment. I would love to know where you got that idea from.

Literacy counts.

The constant slashing of federal scientific research funding
The way that conservatives keep trying to get textbooks - particularly science textbooks - rewritten to ignore factual research results when they disagree with their own belief system
They way that conservatives are so quick to denigrate scientists (one of your favorite jabs seems to be "pencil-neck")
The way that conservatives do what they can to make higher education less accessible to people of modest income

We haven't had a manned mission go past low earth orbit since the 1970s has EVERYTHING to do with the fact that Socialist vote-buying schemes cost money, too. We're treated to endless lectures by the Bernie Sanders Club about how we've failed him because we don't want to be like Europe, but it's darn hard to have a National Health Service and fund research at the same time.
Textbooks? I can't believe you don't care to launch an assault on home schooling. The fact that conservatives don't wa

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[damn_registrars]

if you are. . .

I did not say anything about violence in my comment. I would love to know where you got that idea from.

Literacy counts.

I highly suggest you try applying it some time. It doesn't really help your attempt to make up new statements for me out of thin air .

We haven't had a manned mission go past low earth orbit since the 1970s has EVERYTHING to do with the fact that Socialist vote-buying schemes cost money, too.

Well, certainly the Socialists ran out of money a very, very, long time ago (if they ever had any at all). Frankly I think it's too bad that they never managed to get a candidate elected on the federal level. How exactly you think they would have managed to pull off a "vote-buying scheme" is a mystery, and it certainly was not a successful one.

In reality, even if the D

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[smittyoneeach]

I like cupcakes.

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[damn_registrars]

Wow, only your second comment in the thread, and you have completely abandoned the discussion - in your own JE no less. Would you like a special reward for this prompt abandonment?

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[smittyoneeach]

a special reward

A second cupcake?

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[damn_registrars]

I'll let you buy a second cupcake yourself with all the money you save from the Reagan/Bush/Bush/Obama tax cuts.

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[smittyoneeach]

Would that we could trim the federal over-reach, too.

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[damn_registrars]

Wow, offtopic and incoherent! What drugs are you on, and can I have some?

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[fustakrakich]

Me too! Especially Entenmanns, nice thick frosting. But besides that, I truly admire the effort you two put into whatever it is you are talking about. The formatting was pretty impressive.

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[smittyoneeach]

It is our task to keep you entertained, is it not?

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[fustakrakich]

Apparently you seem to think so. Have you tried the Entenmanns? They are very good.

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[smittyoneeach]

I've had them. No' so bad.

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[damn_registrars]

Indeed, smitty and I almost had a discussion. I'm sure he will tell us later how in his world I was the one who was not making a real effort.

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[smittyoneeach]

There was one point in your effluent to which I got about halfway to responding.

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[fustakrakich]

You know, he uses that *kill off the scientists* (or whatever it is) schtick with me every time he has to justify his vote for democrats [wikipedia.org]... It's very stale...

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[smittyoneeach]

It looks like 2016 is going to be a very, very hard year in politics, as the Left gets ground down between the Scylla and Charybdis of its psychoses and reality.

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[fustakrakich]

:-) Sure... the left... what? Scalia and... who?

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[damn_registrars]

There was one point in your effluent to which I got about halfway to responding.

And thinking about considering replying is exactly the same thing as providing a coherent reply, right? I'm starting to get used to your new rules of discussion (beyond the rule that, of course, smitty is always right regardless of whether or not any facts support anything he says).