The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

Well, you guys shore scrabbled at the ol’ leather to git that there I-ron outta the holster on this one, didntcha?

Just a lot of centrist pablum none of which address the serious issues facing the nation. People used to think Johny Carson was smart too but he wasn’t. He was just an entertainer.

It’s funny, political bloggers and journalists of “real” newspapers alike seem disappointed the rally was, as billed, the million MODERATE march. They also are pretty ticked about the main message that 24 hour news media hype everything so badly that they turn half or more of the country off of even listening. I guess Keith Olbermann’s stinging tweetfest against Jon (“It wasn’t a big shark but Jon Stewart jumped one just now with the “everybody on Thr cable is the same” naiveté” which he has now moderated to “he did not hurt my feelings. I thought his message, on the eve of an election full of Tea Psychos, was terribly timed” – what the? it’s terribly timed to say the media is screaming so loud we can’t have real illumination of what is out there?) just show that the message will fall on deaf ears.

However, I’m glad it got out there. I think his final remarks were phenomenal and moving. More so because of what preceded them. I keep seeing a vast array of comments deriding that this was no watershed moment. Apparently, somewhere along the line pundits, commentators and bloggers got the idea this would be a new ‘call to action’ when the whole point was a ‘call to moderation’.

I had a little buzz on until I heard Gloria Borger, last night on CNN, say with complete derision in her tone, “WHat I want to know is did anyone ask these people if they were going to VOTE?” complete with sneer. If that is what pundits think of anyone who watches Stewart and is a fan of his, they really can’t be expected to care about their audience and can’t be expected to understand that what we want is NEWS, INFORMED NEWS. Sneer away Gloria, but, yeah, Stewart fans DO vote, believe it or not. We also can change the channel.

Time Inc. felt it was necessary to throw us a bone.
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Did you see the flaming journalistic effort? Less than 100 words, simply packed with JNS-sourced wisdom.
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How about the originality of JNS’s approach?
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Oh, nevermind.
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Time uses FOX math to determine the significance of, uh, well…
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…things.
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Sort of.

It’s official: 215,000 +-10%
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20021284-503544.html
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My audiences is WAY bigger than rusty’s. Let’s not even talk about freeinpa’s…

He’s way funnier than Rush Limbaugh, that is for sure…

Is it that we are messing up the media industry built around confrontation and hatred?
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Scholarly finger up nose
Hmmm….

Watching a snail paint a house is funnier than Rush Limbaugh. However, I don’t watch either one of them so I wouldn’t know.

By the way I don’t understand why Stewart is criticizing the MSM and pretending he is outside of it. If there is one thing that characterizes the MSM it is their reliance on false equivalences. Stewart practices the same thing.

So we can honestly tell the Tea Baggers “Mine is twice as big as yours”?
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Rally envy.

“My audiences is WAY bigger than rusty’”
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And that is counting just the voices in your head!

I didn’t like his ‘heckuva job’ comment to Obama, either.
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He does like to move in the same direction the wind is blowing.
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Taking a time-lapse photo of slugs painting a house would be interesting, though…

That’s where I was going with this. I’m just taking it to the new and improved Coburn/Stewart level.
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btw, freeinpa, suck my audience…

The useful idiots at the Dallas Morning News actually claimed this morning that the fools celebrating “Stewart” and Colburt were “moderates”! “Moderate” what? Pagans? Atheists? Marxists? Socialists? Tree huggers? Earth worshippers? Flag burners? Draft dodgers? Race baiters? Race hustlers? Feminists? 9/11 Truthers? Al Qaeda lovers? America haters? Fundamentalist homosexualists?

Nice list, textee, but my audience is still twice as big as yours!
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Spoiled grapes?!?!?

… Football players? Soccer players? Basketball players? Baseball players? Gardeners? Botanists? Home decorators?

53_3, my son and a bunch of his friends went to a Halloween party last night. We asked them to stop at our house before they left so that we could take pictures. They had some great costumes (they all made them themselves). There was a terrorist with explosives and a ticking clock strapped on, a yuppie, a werewolf, a Christine O’Donnel witch, a droog from A Clockwork Orange, a giant Tea Bag, a Charlie Rangel with handcuffs and leg irons, a transvestite soldier, a nun with Madonna tit cones, an Obama/Bush (masks on the front and back. Two-faced) and a Cat in the Hat.

Is it true that the Tea Bagger rally had the largest gathering of Nazis outside of WWII Germany? As long as we’re being over the top.

I saw a bunch of trees in the aerial photo. There must have been a half of a million people huddled there. COUNT THEM TOO!

“btw, freeinpa, suck my audience..”
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IQ5 is again showing classic manic/depressive behavior. There is nothing for days adn weeks form him (Mom locks him away) then he comes out with the hyper, idiotic quote (Like above) making sense to him and the voices he carries in his head.
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No wonder he is cheering for HC. The cost of storage (in-patient) and meds must be staggering for him

A diverse lot, sacred. How is it you guys have celebrated Halloween already?
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We aren’t celebrating till tonight. At least it is clear, 55F and fairly nice.
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I’m getting plenty of candy and stuff for the kids, hopefully we’ll have a good time.

For every one, there were five in the branches. Let’s make it an even 3,000,000!

As a zoosocialogist, I was hoping to see the extremely rare and elusive draft hugging flag loving Al-GOP structuralist black gay Marxist 9/11 worshipper…

Of course, if you see one, take a picture. Beware, though:
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If it comes into contact with a bleeding heart neoliberal progressive sun woshipping needle sucking activist, it’s all over.
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Anyone within 60 miles of ground zero will see a second sun, 2400 times as bright as the one we’re used to on the horizon.

They had Trick or Treat last night here. The people that had the party did it last night because they had a kegger. They thought hangovers and a day off went together better rather than having to go work/classes feeling sick. I had a glass of apple cider last night. Gotta run. We’re having a minister over for lunch (not the crazy MFer from the MIL’s church). I actually like this guy. He’s got a strange sense of humor.

Nah, it’s actually really simple. The whole audience/viewers/attendance comparison thing isn’t much more than a d!ck-waving contest. And he’s suggesting that you… Well.
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If you’d understood and just found it to be crude, I would agree with you. There are much better quality exchanges to have than base stuff like that.

My comment to some anonymous Capitol Hill staffer on the sidelines who wanted to know why the citizens who, on their own time, were attending a rally in support of moderation, were not “knocking on doors” to get out the vote: Why weren’t you, in your paid position over the past two years, proud enough of your accomplishments so that we would have been motivated to get out and knock on doors? Why are you laying it all back on us? You are supposedly the “leaders” and you try to make us–we whose state, local, and our children’s educational services have been cut back, who have lost our jobs and benefits, who supported you through the health care debate and who cannot even defend it–you think that it’s OUR obligation on the weekend before election to knock on doors while you have been cowering behind polls? PFFFFT. If you lose your jobs, look in the mirror.

Ahh, “Stewart” in quotes….textee has to remind us that Jon Stewart – AKA, Jon Stuart Leibowitz – really is a dirty, liberal, Northeast elitist commie Jew who is too afraid to use his real name and admit that he is a dirty, liberal, Northeast elitist commie Jew. Race bait much, pal?

…the Dallas Morning News actually claimed this morning that the fools celebrating “Stewart” and Colburt were “moderates”!

Let’s not confuse someone who believes in moderation as being the same as a ‘moderate’, shall we?

Stewart practices the same thing.
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The difference, as Colbert once pointed out, is that he is a comedian. Not part of the press. Slightly different circumstances there. Plus, how much of Stewart’s false equivalence is actual, and how much is a mocking imitation of the media?

I talked to a cop at 7th/Pennsylvania. He said their internal numbers were 300k. Doesn’t matter. It was intended to demonstrate that folks are tired of the discourse.
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Of course, I could be wrong.

“Plus, how much of Stewart’s false equivalence is actual, and how much is a mocking imitation of the media?”
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I saw him on something lately and he seemed to be spouting the same centrist BS as Broder, who I understand is now advocating war with Iran.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/10/david-broder-dumber-and-nuttier-than-any-crazy-ass-dude-in-pajamas.html
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Derek, link to great article on Broder stupidity and his advice to Obama about how to further politicize Iran.
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Also, Derek. I do think Jon Stewart uses false equivalencies too often and I reserve the right to be angry. But, I think his chief target is the end timers like Beck.

Textee is here to remind us what Stewart wishes to restore us from.

“There is nothing for days adn weeks form him…”
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Freakinpa,
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As he told us, 53_3 is self employed like I am.
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We, along with others who are self employed are the life and breath of actual capitalism while you sit there in your Ivory Tower (or porcelain palace judging from the quality of your remarks) 24/7/365 doing nothing but being snarky and claiming to know more about small business than subcontractors and small business owners.
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You sound so disappointed that 53, like me, had a bout of work to get done and couldn’t spend our time verbally spanking you. Do you really miss us that much when we are gone?
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If so, I think it’s time you got a pet dog. I’ve always liked Labradors myself. But, if you want a good fight, maybe you could get a Pit Bull trained for attack and have it attack you all day when we are gone. There are many Pit Bulls captured from illegal dog fighting rings who would love to crap on your floor and bite your limbs off when people like 53 are not there to do so instead.

Just dropping the link is perfect, 53. It actually emphasizes the point that I made in my comment over there. In fact, the first Swamplander I think of when I think of Cocktail Weenie hangovers is JNS.

“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”

- James Baldwin

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/trick-or-truth/

Broder is one of those geniuses who argue “it wasn’t government spending that ended the great depression, it was the war.”

Thanks Patrick, for pointing out that there might just be a larger than imagined market for incorrigible pit bulls.
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Actually, me and my wife are simultooneously undergoing a months’ worth of intense medical training. We have to do it to be able to do in-home dialysis.
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School started last week. I had to clear one and one half months of work away in order to do it.
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As I recall, while I was doing all that (and more!), freeinpa, was waving his audience sensu stricto Asharaxx @ 5.8, engaging in egregious buttsniffing with fellow crackheads, and biting the ankles fellow posters in desperate bids for spankings from others.

I’m an avowed vertabrate. I am not a moderate. Whatever that is…

Sorry Asharaxx!
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I’ve been on these blogs for about three years, and, if you’ll peruse the archives, or, even the recent past, you will find that almost exclusively those two (and others) have been conducting themselves as per your comment at 5.8.
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My intent was to present a facetiously “the worm turns” disgusting parody of their conduct…

“Keep Big Government out of my war!”?

Derek: Years ago I met David Broder. I worked for a third party administrator of a health plan for California’s small businesses (HIPC). It was a new venture initiated by the state. When we opened our doors the national press swarmed to cover this new insurance model. We had every major network, CNN, and national print press. Broder arrived representing the WaPo.
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I recognized him and asked to be introduced. At that time he was a regular tv pundit. First, he is tiny. I am 5’7″ and felt like I towered over him. He was not very communicative so I moved on.
Second, he stayed and interviewed management for about 10 minutes. Hardly time to understand a very complex plan.
He did write a complimentary article on the plan but wrote more about the politics rather than the purpose of the HIPC and what it meant to small businesses.
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The unfortunate outcome of all this attention was what happened after the initial success of HIPC and how it eventually was politicized and destroyed by the health insurance industry. No national press was there to report that news.

Politico has already decided what dems can and cant do !!
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/44432.html
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But Stewart’s decision to avoid explicit partisan politicking denied the left a kind of galvanizing moment that might have driven to the polls his Democratic fans who weren’t already planning to vote or motivated previously apathetic liberals to grass-roots activities.
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LOL..These pundits never fail to amaze me with their arrogance.

They are just upset they couldn’t say “See! See! He is TOO partisan! See! He’s “politcial”! See?”

For those of you who have missed me, my wife and I have been on a very nice vacation for the last two weeks. We took a bus tour along old Route 66 which starts in Chicago and ends at the Pacific Ocean in L.A.
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We traveled on the old two lane highway most of the way. There are some areas where the two lane road doesn’t exist anymore.
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My bet with Patrick is about a 100% a sure thing.
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My bet with Sacredh is about 50% odds for me to win. The House is a sure thing for me. The Senate is about a 50/50 possibility.
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Sounds like most of you Liberals are in a real bad mood. It must be a bummer to find out that a large majority of Americans think your political views are nuts.
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I would like to thank you for waking up the silent majority of our citizens. I don’t think they will ever fall asleep again now that they have seen how foreign Liberal/Progressivism is to our American way of life.
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You have helped Americans to get involved in the political process and they are now taking control of their great country.

LOL..These pundits never fail to amaze me with their arrogance.
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I especially love it when the ones making seven or eight figure salaries like to lecture the rest of us on who’s a real “elitist” and who’s out of touch with regular Americans.
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Like when David Brooks told us all about what really goes down at the salad bars at Applebee’s. Which, as anyone who’d ever eaten at an Applebee’s would know, don’t have salad bars.
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Or when the media got all over Obama for ordering orange juice at a diner. “Regular people don’t drink that!” Right, that’s why it’s on the f*cking menu.
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Or when they got on him for talking about arugula to a bunch of arugula farmers. “That’s a fancy green! He should’ve said iceberg lettuce!” Yes, so fancy you can only find it in salads at elitist restaurants like McDonald’s.

It must be a bummer to find out that a large majority of Americans think your political views are nuts.
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No, it’s a bummer to see the drunk guy take the car keys back.
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We’re not bummed because our team isn’t going to win the big game. We’re bummed because the Republicans badly f*cked up this country we love and because Obama hasn’t solved every problem in two years, the voters are willing to give the Republicans another chance.
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And sadly, they will f*ck this country up even more — more regulatory policies that reward giant corporations who outsource American jobs and undercut American workers, more economic policies that redistribute wealth upward to the very very rich, more national security policies that weaken us as a nation and put our troops on multiple, extended tours of duty only to be rewarded by Republican Congresses once again slashing their VA benefits, more and more of the same old sh!t that does nothing but hurt the country.
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Oh, sorry, it also makes right-wing nuts like you feel good because their team won. That might as well be the GOP’s motto: “F*ck you, America, we got ours.”

“You sound so disappointed that 53, like me, had a bout of work to get done and couldn’t spend our time verbally spanking you. Do you really miss us that much when we are gone?
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Problem is you and IQ5 spend too much time spanking it.

You like him talk nonsense. provide facts found only in your heads, declare yourself victorious then gpo back to spanking it.

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“As I recall, while I was doing all that (and more!), freeinpa, was waving his audience sensu stricto Asharaxx @ 5.8, engaging in egregious buttsniffing with fellow crackheads, and biting the ankles fellow posters in desperate bids for spankings from others”
And his incoherent pyschotic ramblings are hard to differentiate from yours. I guess we have the Rev Jim and Louie DePalma now.

2 burdens to society.

PS. Self employed? Real Estate licenses are knopwn as divorcee diplomas. Hey you finally passed soemthing.

“:Textee is here to remind us what Stewart wishes to restore us from”

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And you are here to remind us what a mental disorder is!

“Real Estate licenses are knopwn as divorcee diplomas.”
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I never heard that one before.
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Residential Realtors are nearly all female, but commercial real estate is nearly all male 30 to 70 years old, mostly married, often former accountants and, in NYC, often Jewish.
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We have exactly the opposite hours, busy season and demographic as residential. At 6:00 the last of the last commercial Realtors are home and nobody works at all weekends, holidays or, in NYC, Jewish holidays. It’s ideal for married men – we’ll always be home for dinner, always be able to go away for the weekend, always able to take the kids to little league on the weekends and, often, have enough flexibility to be the ones to take the day off when the kids are sick. Hell, summer is our deadest season, so, even three or four weeks off in the Summertime is possible.
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You might be thinking of residential real estate. Residential real estate is about finding a home. Commercial Real Estate is about conquering land. It’s a man’s game and very often a married man’s game.

A recorded video of Freakinpa arguing:
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Nice bow tie.

“For those of you who have missed me…”
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Don’t worry. You were not missed by many of us at all except for your brother wingnuts.
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No, we aren’t angry people who wish you harm. We wish you many years of prosperity, like the Clinton years extended; to go through a booming recovery in your golden years like the Truman years when you were a little boy and, of course, we wish you social security as you have earned it; and of course, we wish you a European/Canadian style improved health care to make sure you live long. I just prefer that you get treatment for Alzheimer’s or at least not post during your more “senior moments”.
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(You started posting in April, right after I started. Is seven months a “moment” or are you just demented?)

It’s ok Patrick.
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In freeinpa’s world, we have to be languishing on the dole.
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Otherwise, his world would fall apart.
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freeinpa:
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Thanks for the -48 bump in the IQ. Math definitely is not your strong point. It’s just too bad you can’t be original and break the symmetry of positive real numbers.
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I mean, look, you’re trying to insult me right?
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Then why are you standing there in abject fear of that zero tick, otherwise known as the origin? How come? The Cheshire cat got yer tongue? Never learned to borrow when doing subtraction?
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Cracking that symmetry would introduce you to a whole world of negative real numbers!
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C’mon, let’s see you get inventive with this. ‘IQ5′ is weak, weak, I tell you! There’s ‘IQ -5′ and ‘IQ -1000′ if you want to portray you feelings toward me more accurately.
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Hell, crack the symmetry of -1 and you open up another dimension. Hells bells, freeinpa, if you cracked the symmetry of those bipolar non-real numbers, we might have our first observationally based metric.
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Think about it…

“(You started posting in April, right after I started. Is seven months a “moment” or are you just demented?)”
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It is when one is headed at 91% of the speed of light right toward that WALL!!!!!

Isn’t. according to Einstein’s theory, when you approach the speed of light when light itself bends into a tunnel-like distorted view?
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If so, saying that 3X was on a bus which was going 91% of the speed of light would explain his distorted perception.
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Then, again, so would dementia and a bad reaction to a large variety of medications.
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Warning: stop using ______ if you suddenly feel the compelling need to defend the Tea Party, rally around the idea of getting rid of social security, feel shortness of breath when somebody says Obama or have frequent diarrhea online.

3x, why dont you go on another 2 weeks vacation.
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I promise to pay the bus fare for each of the multiple personalities that reside inside your head.

I see not much has changed in the last two weeks. The Losers of the Left are still Losers.
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What part about being rejected by the American public is it that you don’t understand? The Liberal/Progressive wing of the Democratic Party is going down to defeat.
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Hopefully the Moderate Democratic Party of my parents and grandparent will re-emerge and we will have two parties willing to work together for the good of our country.

“Hopefully the Moderate Democratic Party of my parents and grandparent will re-emerge and we will have two parties willing to work together for the good of our country.”
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Like Truman seeking single payer health care?
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Like FDR’s first stimulus package in history called The New Deal?
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Like Kennedy promising single payer health care?
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Like Johnson’s War on Poverty?
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Like FDR’s administration creating the Glass Stegal Act, the FDIC and the SEC?
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Like FDR creating the FDA?
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Like how FDR had created the laws of collective bargaining?
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How the top tax rate was 90% for the extremely well paid?
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I believe you meant to say “At least the very liberal Democratic Party of my parents and grandparent will has been replaced by wishy washy centrists and, despite that, we don’t have two parties willing to work together for the good of our country.”
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By almost any measurement, the Democratic Party from 1932 until 1992 was far to the left of the Democratic Party we have today.
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I wish we had your parents and grandparents Republican Party who, at most would tweak Democratic ideas or, as was the case with Nixon for OSHA and the EPA, create their own versions of these entities rather than try and push us backwards into the depth of the Great Depression where we last saw such right wingers.

Hold on to your horses, old man 3x.
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No need to post links to any more opinion polls. The real poll is due in just 2 more days, though I know that sounds like eternity to a slow thinking creature(s) like your self/selves.
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PS: Emperical evidence now indicate that “Rally to restore sanity” has no effect on reversing dementia.

apr2563 the media probably wasn’t interested in your plan because it was not centrist enough, especially for shorty. Now non-stop war, that is something centrists can get behind.

I think 3xfire3′s head might explode regardless of who wins and who loses.
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The cephalic pressures induced by ecstasy if the GOP comes in with their projected win.
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Or!
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The cephalic pressure induced by hate and fury if the GOP is blunted in it’s efforts.

Spending money when in debt: he is young and being interviewed by exactly what someone pointed out, a smug reporter. We’re in debt. Let’s buy a new suit, clean the place up, and get to work on fixing things. You DO have to spend to get out of debt. You cannot make drastic changes. Be realistic, conservatives. Embarrassed about the guys not being able to think of reasonable conservative ideals, but other things they said were dead on. ACTUALLY LISTEN PEOPLE.

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Derek says, “I saw him on something lately and he seemed to be spouting the same centrist BS as Broder, who I understand is now advocating war with Iran.”
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Speaking of trafficking in false equivalencies…
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Derek, why don’t you have your own rally and make plenty of Ralph Nader signs?

As I said the Loony Left has not changed. Still Crazy as usual.
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Americans do not want what you are selling. Back to the desert for another 40 years,
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Bye Bye

People, I did not cover this rally. I am not writing about this rally. I wasn’t even in DC this weekend. I was asked to link to Jim’s excellent take on the rally, since he was covering. So, mocking my journalistic endeavors for a post I was ASKED to do as a place holder until Alex could get his take up is kind of ridiculous. If you’d prefer I not point out when others in the TIME world write about political-related events, I won’t. But this pile on is a little ludicrous.
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JNS, thank you for the report. You’re doing a good job. Please don’t feel obligated to post a “1000 Words” with a picture of the rally. You can if you want to (please) because my ass might be out of here for an extended period starting tomorrow night. Your friend in the truth, sacredh.

i will apologize. I had no idea.
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Had I known this was true, I would not have chastised you!
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Paralell post going up on another of your posts.