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Comment Re:Don't over-credit King George III (Score 1) 20

I don't know if you are smitty, writing as an AC, or just some AC copying smitty (and his silly twitter tag that nobody else finds to be the least bit connected to reality).

That said:

I believe that what we are currently doing is not working and we need to try something else. I also believe that guns are a terrible choice for self-defense and we should do something about the mentality that tells so many people otherwise.

If there was any correlation between gun sales and gun violence, then the country should have already depopulated itself

There you go, making assumptions based on your own assumptions about me. Gun control means a lot of different things, and it does not mean they all have to happen simultaneously (or ever).

The fact of the matter is though, we have a lot of guns in this country. And they most certainly don't help to reduce our per capita crime rates.

When every mortal, perishable falsehood has failed, there is always the eternal truth of Christ.

Ahh, yes. WWJC - What Would Jesus Carry? I remember the New Testament book of Uzi where he mowed down those sinners, that was a personal favorite of mine. Let no righteous man go unarmed to the mall, and all that, right?

Comment Re:Don't over-credit King George III (Score 1) 20

I'll take your topical tap-dance as: "I got nothin'".

You made more sense when you went for the one-word replies. I just directly pointed out how desperately you perpetuate a long list of conspiracy theories without concern for the confines of the legal requirements for removal of the POTUS or even the calling of a grand jury. This has been the most glaring weakness of essentially all of your arguments for the past 6 years - it is utterly transparent that you will stop at nothing to throw out any politician whose name is followed by a (D), regardless of whether or not there is a moonshot chance at getting enough evidence for a grand jury hearing on such a matter. You also have shown that you don't see constitutional protections as being relevant to anyone with that cursed fourth letter, and are willing to keep calling new investigations and new trials until well past the end of time.

Your bit about tap dancing is a far better description of you avoiding the failures of your own arguments.

I'm just glad that the criminal justice system in this country doesn't work the way you want it to, or our government would have gone broke on corrections costs many decades ago.

Comment Re:Well (Score 1) 11

What the "balancing" boils down to is that you get fired if you are an apostate from the new progressive groupthink.

Isn't Eich in the same trajectory as Phil Robertson and Chick-Fil-A?

But again, why do you care about those issues when the person on the receiving end is a veteran of your conservative camp, and not at all when they are not? I'm willing to give you enough slack to say that maybe you weren't following the legions of other conservatives who were falsely blowing around bullshit about these being first amendment matters - although if that is the case then the question of why you are replying to this thread at all remains open.

I've no more argued that Eich is a First Amendment issue than I have the other two.

So then why are you replying to this thread? This thread is about freedom of speech as extended by the first amendment.

As usual, I wish you'd quit being an apologist for Conservatives, who are running around ranting about the Etruscan/Atlantean alliance, the planned over-running of the country with komodo dragons, and the threat of being enslaved by pygmies from Bulungi and forced to carve Easter Island heads from the Rockies, to be arrayed across the midwest so as to spell "Eat At Joes" when viewed from geosynchronous orbit.

If we replace "conservatives" with "progressives" that statement would read like a summary of the conspiracy theories that you have been advocating here.

Comment Re:Thank you for supporting my point (Score 1) 12

Well that was a textbook example of trolling, there, smitty. Maybe if you go back to school you could teach classes on how to troll people online.

You started by using an actual definition. Then you completely discarded it like yesterday's junk mail and inserted your own beliefs in its place. Pretending that using one fact at the start of a comment gives you carte blanche to make up facts for the rest of the comment - that's epic. I would give you one hand clapping but you would probably try to insinuate that the other was giving a very special salute to someone in DC.

Comment Re:Don't over-credit King George III (Score 1) 20

The two introductory clauses are interesting, but the ultimate 14 words form a perfect though, like a circle.

Do you mean a perfect thought? Regardless there is nothing perfect about the second amendment. Why did they mention the Militia if it was not important? That is the only amendment in the Bill of Rights that is only one sentence; why is that?

By the way, I don't actually own any firearms.

I believe you have said that before. You probably don't remember me saying this before - and likely won't believe it when I say it again - but I actually do own guns. I don't believe that gun regulations need to be an all-or-nothing deal. I do believe, however, that we can do a much better job than we currently are. Furthermore I believe that what we are currently doing is not working and we need to try something else. I also believe that guns are a terrible choice for self-defense and we should do something about the mentality that tells so many people otherwise.

Comment Re:Don't over-credit King George III (Score 1) 20

You've shown that you don't care about legal restrictions to your desire to throw out President Lawnchair.

I haven't done this. You know I haven't done this. I know you know I know I haven't done this

Sure, you haven't done that. Excepting the times when you very plainly have, of course.

For example, your top conspiracy theory Benghazi. The government has already ran an investigation into it, and you refuse to actually read the report from that investigation before demanding that another one be done. You demand more time and treasure go in to the investigation of something that has already been investigated, and your only justification for that is "because". You have no facts on it that were not investigated, you have only your feelings on it that you want to see fleshed out into an unending series of efforts to overthrow the POTUS. Being as you weren't willing to even read the results of the first investigation, you give no reason to believe that you would ever be happy with a second one unless it advocated for the immediate extralegal removal of Obama.

Then on to the IRS non-troversy. In case you forgot, they are tasked with the collection of taxes. They were investigating groups that were openly advocating cheating on - and straight out not paying - taxes.

And that doesn't even scratch the surface of your never ending collection of conspiracy theories, those are just the two that you yell the loudest about.

The key fact here though is that you have already shown an open acceptance of discarding legal procedures to further your goal of throwing Obama out at any cost.

Comment Re:Well (Score 1) 11

"when a conservative loses his job for being a loudmouthed idiot it is an infringement of his freedom of speech" is not something I've ever argued.

So then what was your point in your JE about the guy from Mozilla?. The quote you used even explicitly mentioned

I heard a lot of this stuff during my free-speech battles

But nonetheless, I will extend you the possibility that perhaps you did not feel that he, or duck man, or hobby lobby, had their freedom of speech impaired and you just were lazy with your quotes and sources.

However, if that is the case, then what is the argument you are trying to make here? The cartoon I linked to here is very plain in it's point, and is plainly showing the rank hypocrisy of the right . Earlier you pretty much showed that the right sees the constitution as no more than a mere inconvenience, what is your argument now?

Comment Re:Well (Score 1) 11

Go ahead. Make your argument for how any of those people had their freedom of speech impeded. You have plenty of conservative talking points to support you on it, go ahead and bring them.

Show us your superior understanding of all things constitutional. Tell us how when a conservative loses his job for being a loudmouthed idiot it is an infringement of his freedom of speech, but when it happens to a liberal it's just market forces at work.

Comment Re:Thank you for supporting my point (Score 1) 12

You are trying to assign power to someone who you are asserting to be powerless.

When did I say that the American people are powerless at election time, again?

I did not say you said that. Rather I said that you are again simultaneously claiming President Lawnchair to be powerless ("rodeo clown") and wielding power. Those are mutually exclusive traits.

far too cowardly to actually try to propose it as a solution to anything

As solutions go for our society, it would be final.

I was calling the politicians cowardly. I have no idea how your response is supposed to be a reply to that.

vastly greater probability of our country splitting into two (or more) separate independent nations instead

I'd place the probability of a split today as lower than the 19th century. Socialism is about imploding into a lump of fecklessness, not exploding.

You really should stick to terms that you are familiar with the meaning of. There is no socialism at play here.

Comment Re:McArdle is astute (Score 1) 29

How could you possibly support that notion when you haven't offered a single option yet?

I can because I have.

I do not recall you having done such a thing, ever. I know I have asked you more than once for your suggestion and every time I can recall, you have dodged the question.

You seem so certain in your belief that you know better than anyone else who everyone should vote for, yet you have never said who that is.

You dismissed it as nonsense and forgot about it.

There was nothing to dismiss, as you did not offer anything. I have asked you repeatedly and have never seen you to actually offer a candidate.

If you are half as smart as you portray yourself to believe yourself to be, it should be trivially easy for you to suggest who you believe would be a better choice for me.

So go on, do it. Tell me who you think I should be voting for.

I would only suggest that you not vote for somebody you complain about and then reelect anyway

Tell me then, who would have been a better choice? You believe yourself to be so highly knowledgeable; who would have better represented me?

Comment Re:Don't over-credit King George III (Score 1) 20

OK, you've taken your swipe at me. Do you feel better now?

You've also told us how you feel about other people's interpretation of the second amendment. I think it's time you tell us your interpretation. Here's the actual text:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed

How do you read it? What do you see as being the relation of the term "Militia" at the front of the sentence to the rest of the sentence? Who do you see them describing as "people", being as in the 18th century only white men counted as people?

Take a moment to read the text. Apply some punctuation or annotation to it, and show us how you read it.

Comment Re:Don't over-credit King George III (Score 1) 20

What. Mob.

You've shown that you don't care about legal restrictions to your desire to throw out President Lawnchair. Indeed you have shown utter disdain for the confines of the law and gone beyond fully embracing discarding it for your intents.

Now, how exactly will you overthrow the POTUS after you run out of legal options? After having thoroughly made a mockery of the law, you will have certainly stirred up enough fecal matter to have an angry mob of like-minded people similarly excited to see an end to the rest of the law in the interest of installing a "better" government.

That said in the end you wouldn't be any better than fustakrakich. You want the government out but you don't have a plan for how a new one would actually work. Once you discard the law and install a new government, why would the new one care about the laws that used to exist? It seems you are just holding on to the vaporous hopes that for some reason you will float to the top when that happens and you'll survive based on your wit and good looks.

Comment Re:Well (Score 1) 11

He's entitled to his opinion, even if it makes him sound a Constitutionalist or Libertarian.

So conservatives then don't like the constitution or liberties? Gotcha. I always suspected that, but it's nice to see one confirm it openly.

In case you can't tell what I'm referring to here, let me point out that every time a conservative is shown the door for saying something stupid, he cries for his "freedom of speech" - even though his freedom of speech is in no way being impeded on.

We can review, if you'd like:

  • Mozilla board director - freedom of speech not impeded
  • Duck man - freedom of speech not impeded
  • Hobby lobby - freedom of speech not impeded

As Randall mentions, your freedom of speech does not give you the right to force people to listen to you. It also does not mean that people cannot ask you to leave for voicing an opinion they disagree with. Losing your TV show, your board position, or your special tax benefit is not in any way comparable to being thrown in jail.

Comment Re:Thank you for supporting my point (Score 1) 12

that the U.S. would elect a no-talent rodeo clown in '08, and DOUBLE DOWN in '12, I should have thought you off your meds. The limitlessness of human idiocy cannot preclude an attempt at Single Prey-er.

There you go, contradicting yourself yet again. You are trying to assign power to someone who you are asserting to be powerless. Didn't you say that only conservatives are held responsible? If so then why are you trying to pin responsibility on someone whose role you keep asserting is to distract us from those who actually hold power? Your argument makes no sense.

'accidentally' give us Single Prey-er.

Your cute little punnery work is noted. That said, we've already seen that the only elected officials who would dare even mention single payer in any non-evil context are far too cowardly to actually try to propose it as a solution to anything. The only way it would happen in this country is if all of the elected officials were thrown out and replaced by vastly more liberal ones.

You should be thankful that we have a vastly greater probability of our country splitting into two (or more) separate independent nations instead.

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