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Comment Re:That's it (Score 1) 8

How is it that you feel this a non-sequitur?

Because Dianne Feinstein has nothing to do with an unhinged idiot in MN threatening his own family with an AK47, that's why.

In case my "good guy or bad guy" question was not glaringly obvious I was referring to what the head of the NRA said when he claimed

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun

But here we have a guy who was legally able to own an AK47 and he pulled it on his family in an act that very clearly was not self-defense. Fortunately he didn't pull the trigger, but since he wasn't previously a criminal does that mean he was a "good guy" or a "bad guy" prior to doing this? If he became a "bad guy" the moment he pointed his AK47 at his family, then how could we have possibly placed a "good guy" with a gun in the scene in time being as his daughter isn't old enough to own a gun? If his wife had been armed would that really have prevented him from doing this?

Comment Re:Yeah, well (Score 1) 28

I have given you chances to prove me wrong but you have never so much as made an attempt to do so, which only supports my argument.

And I have offered plenty of GOP criticism

But you have not criticized a sitting GOP president, which is my point. You are far too partisan to be willing to criticize a president of your own party while he is in power. You are attacking Obama not because he is politically distant from you - as he obviously is not - but rather because he has a different letter after his name.

in any of your attempts to impeach President Obama

How in the world could I possibly have attempted to impeach BHO? I'm not in Congress

That is a ridiculous argument and you know that. Obviously you cannot impeach him yourself but every week you are calling for congress to do so.

So you are now so irritated to be demonstrated to be a partisan hack that you are bringing abortion into this discussion?

You still haven't shown anything partisan except your capacity to re-use the word 'partisan'.

You have shown yourself to be disgustingly partisan.

Do you really think life is a partisan issue?

The way you discuss it, it is.

the general taste for death on the Left

... and then you prove my point. Thank you.

but

Abortion does not belong in this discussion. You injected it because you are ashamed to have your deep partisan root exposed yet again for all to see. You somehow see yourself as having a moral upper hand on an issue that you have disgustingly oversimplified. I fully expect that like so many others if we were to actually discuss abortion you would again represent your side with no actual data whatsoever and a hail of links to your own blog or other conservative blogs.

In other words, you are just trying to distract.

Comment Re:That's it (Score 1) 8

Is that really the best non-sequitur you can come up with for this? Come on, you could have opted to talk about cars being deadly, or gone off on how Bloomberg banned the super-sized soda from NYC, or talked about how much Obama's last trip to Hawaii cost (to set up a few easy ones for you). Hell you could have even talked about Hillary Clinton's hair. What you brought up doesn't follow in any meaningful way, but it isn't far enough away to be adequately nutty either.

You can do better!

Also, congrats on the very quick post. This JE was barely 5 minutes old when you posted your first comment - I think that might be a new personal record for quickest-time-to-a-comment.

Comment Re:Yeah, well (Score 1) 28

You don't demonstrate much beyond a willingness to pile accusation upon accusation, Torquemada.

No, I demonstrate repeatedly one thing - that you are a deeply rooted partisan hack. I have given you chances to prove me wrong but you have never so much as made an attempt to do so, which only supports my argument.

I don't need to pile on accusations, when I have proof to support my statement.

You might want to consider trying it something - facts can be your friend, too!

Of course, if preventing work from being done in Washington is your goal

Indeed, you have mastered the art of turning a reasonable, Constitutional desire for a limited government, in proper arrangement with the people, as the cart with the horse, into it's inverse.

I have not seen you present that argument in any of your attempts to impeach President Obama. If you want to reduce government, that is your prerogative. Impeaching the POTUS won't help you in that aim, though.

Your falsehoods mirror the pattern of the despicable liars who would attempt to frame murder as 'reproductive' rights.

So you are now so irritated to be demonstrated to be a partisan hack that you are bringing abortion into this discussion? That doesn't help your cause in any way, shape, or form.

Comment Re:Yeah, well (Score 1) 28

Go ahead and accuse me of everything under the sun

Accuse? No, I demonstrate that you are a hard core partisan. You deeply hate the president because he is not from your party. You have proposed a variety of flimsy reasons for impeachment, which you seem to be for some reason surprised to find that actual thinking men do not agree with. In another month or so Benghazi will be forgotten and you will have picked up some other reason for trying to impeach him that is even less meaningful than this one. I'm guessing you'll soon say that he illegally fast-tracked the immigration papers for his Portuguese water dog and that he should be marched straight to the chair for it.

I like how you earlier claimed that your unending partisan witch hunt is somehow in the interest of bringing "seriousness" to the federal government; do you not realize how costly it is in terms of getting work done for congress to begin impeachment? You want a budget, but you want congress to start a new impeachment proceeding every other week as you keep dreaming up new reasons to have the president thrown out. Those goals are 100% mutually exclusive. Being as your calls for impeachment are not even remotely close to valid (at least based on what you have presented as evidence for crimes) such actions would be atrocious wastes of time and energy.

Of course, if preventing work from being done in Washington is your goal, then you are on the right path. But don't bitch about a budget not passing if you have congress tied up in a constant cycle of trying to impeach someone for having a (D) after their name.

Comment If you have a BA, go for a master's (Score 1) 182

You shouldn't have much trouble passing the GRE; see if you can find a graduate program where you can get a master's degree. That should only take ~2 years and then you have something to show for your efforts. The CompTIA certs are a joke, the MS certs change all the time, and the rest are too poorly defined to be worth the testing fees.

Comment Re:Yeah, well (Score 1) 28

But let's not kid ourselves here: our government is not serious, and I do not devote all my time to figuring up ways to make our government behave seriously.

Well sure, you need to eat and defecate at some point of the day, and you occasionally write Burma Shave lines as well. However I very highly doubt there has been a single week since January 2009 where you were not trying to push an impeachment effort somewhere (even if not here). I will also state that there was likely not a single time between January 2001 and December 2008 where you were attempting that.

I think the more challenging question really might be how many weeks since January 2009 have you not been calling for impeachment?

All of them. I've never spent an entire week advocating impeachment of the President.

That depends on how you define "an entire week". The definition of an entire week is not relevant, though, as I said how many weeks have you not been calling for impeachment, which would require a full 24x7 where you called for it not once. I very highly doubt any such week has existed since the inauguration of Obama in 2009.

Can you show an example where you were critical of a sitting POTUS with an (R) after his name?

One laughs at the hint of a non-falsifiable "you were insufficiently critical of POTUS with (R)" proposition

I ask you just to show me one time where you were critical of a sitting president who had an (R) after his name. This appears to be your admission that indeed, you cannot meet that challenge. This is not a moving target here (and you should be good at identifying moving targets).

Can you show me a rule that says: "Because you were ignorant of WrongX, you have to swallow WrongY"? Imma owe you about as much penance as the Pope.

You are trying to claim that this latest impeachment dream of yours is somehow not just another partisan act on your behalf. I ask you to show that you are not partisan by showing us an example of a time where you were critical of a sitting president from your own party; it appears you cannot meet that challenge because you have never done any such thing. This only further supports what we already know - that you are on a partisan attack to remove the guy whose party you don't like.

Comment Re:Yeah, well (Score 1) 28

The right sees it as an opportunity to make another attempt to impeach the president

Oh, come on. You know quite well that there is nothing conceivable that #OccupyResoluteDesk could do that would trigger Senator Harry Reid to do his Constitutional duty and conduct an impeachment trial.

Impeachment is supposed to be a serious process. When you devote all your free time to trying to find any justification you can dream up to invoke impeachment - even in the complete absence of factual information - you are stomping all over the seriousness of the measure for nothing beyond personal gain.

Look at it this way - how many times have right-wingers tried to drum up a call to impeach Obama? This is at least the third event I have seen you try to call up impeachment, and there were plenty of others from other people of mindsets similar to your own. I think the more challenging question really might be how many weeks since January 2009 have you not been calling for impeachment?

By comparison, how many times did people try to get impeachment going against his predecessor? How much time from January 2001 to December 2008 was dedicated to such efforts?

You only want accountability when your guy isn't on Pennsylvania Ave.

You assert this in error. We truly have a problem with executives run amok in this country, and your Left/Right diversions are unhelpful in getting toward the needed reform.

Can you show an example where you were critical of a sitting POTUS with an (R) after his name?

Comment Re:Nah (Score 1) 28

Not even remotely. First and foremost, you have to be honest, and you're not being honest at all.

That's because you have a peculiar sense of "honest" that not only is clearly distinct from the part of this country that uses a dictionary, and you refuse to share what that may be. We might as well substitute the word "dingleberry" for any derivation of "honest" in your comments, as those words have just as much in common as your definition of honest and that used by anyone who agrees that dictionaries are meaningful in facilitating conversation.

Comment Re:Nah (Score 1) 28

I don't like that cartoon

Wrong.

How they lied about and covered up what happened does not make a difference in whether those people died.

Wrong.

The lies came after.

No.

The difference is not in that they are dead.

Stop lying, or I won't read your messages any more.

...

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Hey, this is a pretty fun game after all! I hope I got the rules right!

Comment Re:Yeah, well (Score 1) 28

Because this really isn't a Left/Right issue.

No, it is a left/right issue. The right sees it as an opportunity to make another attempt to impeach the president and the left sees it as an unfortunate accident that cost the lives of several Americans who were overseas at a vulnerable time.

It's a question of whether our RCOs retain any accountability whatsoever

Why are these 4 people more important than the thousands of soldiers who have died in Iraq & Afghanistan? Nobody holds anyone accountable for them.

And the answer seems pretty much: "No". But it's worth making explicit.

You only want accountability when your guy isn't on Pennsylvania Ave. If you pursued accountability evenly you would have an argument but your comment history shows otherwise and supports fully the notion that this is indeed just another attempt at a partisan lynching for the sake of partisanship.

Comment I have a lenovo thinkpad... (Score 3, Informative) 114

I don't feel that Lenovo really changed anything too badly with the thinkpad line. Granted, I wouldn't buy a thinkpad edge, but the T series that I purchased works great. I've had it for over 2 years and the only problem I had was with a faulty shift key on my keyboard, which they resolved by sending out a new one for me to replace myself (much better IMHO than certain other vendors who would have asked me to send it to them).

I don't really see the difference between IBM thinkpad and Lenovo thinkpad as being significant.

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