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Thursday, October 2, 2008 4:23 AM

WULFENSTAR

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He has a point...tossing out the "racist" or "anti-semetic" card is a last ditch effort when you can't win.




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Thursday, October 2, 2008 4:29 AM

CHRISISALL


Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
He has a point...tossing out the "racist" or "anti-semetic" card is a last ditch effort when you can't win.




But, you can't win against CRAppy- anything you say or cite is dismissable with his all-powerful "Try again", it is a God-like power, that.

Jealousisall

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 4:35 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:

Originally posted by chrisisall:
But, you can't win against Rappy- anything you say or cite is dismissable with his all-powerful "Try again", it is a God-like power, that.

Jealousisall



FINALLY you're beginning to see the light!

Sheesh, took ya long enough!

OmniRaptorisall



It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager


" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 4:48 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:

Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:


Here's a novel idea Chrissy..... why don't you support your claim by presenting some actual quotes by McCain. Speaking of having to take the learned opinions of someone..... .show me the quote!!!


Here's something else, CRAppy, Sarah Palin's favourite political magazine (she subscribes):
http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2008/10/palinreadingmaterial.jpeg

Biped moron.

isall



Chrissy, you BUN tyen-shung duh ee-DWAY-RO. . Stop changing the topic. You made a claim against McCain. If you can't back it up, just SAY SO. But don't go arbitrarily grabing the most inane , silly made up things about Palin now to cover your arse. Surely you're not that Suo-SHEEl, are you ?





It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager


" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 4:50 AM

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Wulf, if you think that Rapo engages in actual conversation then you haven't been paying attention. His tactic is to throw out right-wing talking points, disappear when he's been conclusively proven wrong, then re-appear with his same-old crap in another thread.

He claimed, for example, that the UN "authorized use of force" in Iraq. The LAST resolution dealing with Iraq, the one that set the UN response to Iraq's entire history and all previous UN resolutions, said NOTHING about "use of force". The resolution was quoted extensively and cited. And just for comparison, I posted other resolutions which DID authorize "Use of force", and their intent was very clear, so when the UN means to use force there is no misunderstanding!

Rapo's response? After calling us all liars he basically said "That's not what they meant."


Similarly, he's been saying for quite some time that the economy's "on fire", then quoting statistics not adjusted for inflation. When one indicator tanked he'd shift to another, and another, and another, then finally bailed out of the thread altogether. He has absolutely ZERO interest in understanding what's actually happening "out there". His sole interest is finding some way to twist facts around until they "fit" into his ideology.


My point is, facts don't work on Rapo. He's immune to basic, observable events. He lives in a right-wing fantasy-land, where Saddam posed an imminent threat, and the economy is doing great (and when it doesn't it's all the Democrat's fault!), and only Democrats lie, cheat, and steal. When someone is so wrapped up in a worldview that it blocks real-world events it's called a DELUSION. Rapo is deluded.

I agree it's not nice to point and laugh. I think we should just extend the same tolerance to Rapo that we do to PN, or to any other mentally/ emotionally-damaged person. But sometimes he's just too damn funnny...

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 5:19 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Wrong Sig, all you do is take a quote and then misapply it weeks , months, years later. That's the only way you can claim victory in anything. If I say it was sunny one Saturday 2 yrs ago, and then a hurricane hits on a Saturday this week, you take my dated remarks utterly out of context and claim I don't know what I'm talking about, or that I'm some how " lying ".

Sorry, you can't blame it on my politcal agenda, or my 'right wing fantasy-land' views. It's just plain facts.

FACT - The U.N. sanctioned the ' use of force by any member nation' should Iraq not live up to it's obligations relevant to the 17 U.N. Resolutins passed. The U.S.A, being a member nation, carried out its right to do so. As did dozens of other nations as well.

That you don't LIKE it or approve is of NOT CONSEQUENCE. YOU HAVE NO CASE.

Never did Bush say Saddam was an imminent threat, but you continue , as I notice, to promote that lie , even today. What was said was that we should act BEFORE Saddam's threat becomes imminent, and there's no time to act. Fucking amazing how you simply won't let go your delusions and lies.



It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager


" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 5:24 AM

RUE

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Rap

Ahem ...

I remember a VERY long discussion over several threads where you insisted the economy was on FIRE ! - but when pressed for facts you shifted between low interest rates, consumer confidence, the DOW and several other factors, depending whichever one was up (or down) at the time. Talk about cherry picking to support your delusions ...

I'm afraid your stuck with the 'on fire' economy just like you're stuck with 'massive stockpiles of WMDs' around Baghdad, and other completely deficient (and deluded) statements.


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Don't make me go and search the threads to link them and provide quotes. B/c I can, and I will, and it will make you look like a liar as well, but it's a lot of work just to make you look bad.

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 5:36 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Never said massive stockpiles of WMD. The comments of a strong economy, which it was at the time, was to contrast the dire lies which the Left were spreading, and has been since Bush was elected.

Ever as the unemployment was dropping after the last recession, big market indicators like factory orders and the like were going up and up, the Dems kept trying to talk the economy down. After 7 yrs and the mortgage crisis they bungled, it's finally taken its toll.

I stand by my original statements, when they were made, and won't be held accountable for your attempted smears and taking my remarks out of context. That's a strike against you, not me.


Threaten all you want, but I know you can't back up your claims that I some how 'lied'. Thats reserved for folks on the Left.



It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager


" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 5:45 AM

ANTHONYT

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"Never did Bush say Saddam was an imminent threat"

Hello,

I've done a bit of reading, and I have to say that I support this statement. I can't find where Bush said that Iraq was an imminent threat.

Quote:


"This man poses a much graver threat than anybody could have possibly imagined."
• President Bush, 9/26/02



September: Bush says Iraq is a "Much Graver Threat." He does not say imminent threat. It's important not to confuse the words Bush speaks with the words that the people around him speak. For instance, his people were talking about imminent threats in September, but he wasn't.

Here is an example:

Quote:


"No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq."
• Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 9/19/02

"Some have argued that the nuclear threat from Iraq is not imminent - that Saddam is at least 5-7 years away from having nuclear weapons. I would not be so certain. And we should be just as concerned about the immediate threat from biological weapons. Iraq has these weapons."
• Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 9/18/02



So we have the secretary of state talking about Iraq's Imminence, but not his boss. His boss is just saying 'Grave.'

Now, let's move on to October. Here is another series of quotes that might confuse you:

Quote:


"There are many dangers in the world, the threat from Iraq stands alone because it gathers the most serious dangers of our age in one place. Iraq could decide on any given day to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists."
• President Bush, 10/7/02

"The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency."
• President Bush, 10/2/02




Now, here Bush says Iraq is a threat of 'unique urgency.' He also says that Iraq could decide to arm our enemies 'on any given day.'

But look - he doesn't use the word 'imminent.' He says it's urgent and unique, but not imminent. The administration went through the trouble of buying a Thesaurus to make sure the president didn't use that word, and I think we need to give them credit for that.

I'm on your side for this one, Rap.

--Anthony



"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 5:46 AM

WULFENSTAR

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 5:51 AM

AURAPTOR

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Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Interesting article from CNN...


http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/01/beck.future/index.html



I'm ok w/ Glenn Beck. Not a huge fan, but he's ok. What I dislike about him is that he tends to be a bit of a sensationalist. He's quick w/ the superlatives, and often slips into Chicken Little mode....more often than not.

Not saying he's wrong on this, just not a fan of his style.



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Thursday, October 2, 2008 6:47 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
It was over with you tossing out the 'racist' card, marking that you had nothing left. I don't waste my time or witty retorts on those who are so intellectually bankrupt as to try to win debates / arguments/ discussions by falsely painting others as racist.

You do know the story of the boy who cried 'wolf!' too many times, right ?


It was over long before that, marking you had nothing to begin with. I don't waste my time trying to be polite to racists, who have proven themselves racist with their own comments regardless of what they later lie, nor do I waste my time discussing things with those so stupid, so closed minded and immoral as to try to win debates/arguments/discussions by lying, insulting and cry foul when they're treated the same way.

Yes I do know the story. It's about some dumbarse that kept lying and lying and lying until no one took anything he had to say seriously anymore. Basically its about you.

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 6:52 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
He has a point...tossing out the "racist" or "anti-semetic" card is a last ditch effort when you can't win.





Actually, AURaptor is a racist. It's documented through out these pages. Racism isn't something leveled solely at black people you know. Besides, its more said to laugh at him, considering he's lost already.



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Thursday, October 2, 2008 7:16 AM

WULFENSTAR

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3 years ago, if someone here (in America) were to say that Blacks have/contract a disproportionately high amount of HIV/AIDS, that person would have been labeled a "racist" by the socialist elite.

However, it has been proven that this is true.

Today, if someone were to say that black people, BY THEIR OWN ACTIONS, continue to spread and contract this disease in a disproportionately high way...well, that someone would also be called a racist.

However, truth is truth.

Denying truth because it makes you feel uncomfortable does not change inherant truthfullness of the thing.

Its only when you acknowledge the truth of things, that you can work to correct them.

Racism DOES exist, I know that. However, its not in when someone points out cultural flaws.

Its when a person no longer sees another as human. Then, and only then, are they racist.

Also, using the term racist for every single thing has made it lose much of its stigma.

Just because I like plain milk, instead of chocolate, does not make me a racist.

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 7:28 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
3 years ago, if someone here (in America) were to say that Blacks have/contract a disproportionately high amount of HIV/AIDS, that person would have been labeled a "racist" by the socialist elite.

However, it has been proven that this is true.

Today, if someone were to say that black people, BY THEIR OWN ACTIONS, continue to spread and contract this disease in a disproportionately high way...well, that someone would also be called a racist.

However, truth is truth.

Denying truth because it makes you feel uncomfortable does not change inherant truthfullness of the thing.

Its only when you acknowledge the truth of things, that you can work to correct them.

Racism DOES exist, I know that. However, its not in when someone points out cultural flaws.

Its when a person no longer sees another as human. Then, and only then, are they racist.

Also, using the term racist for every single thing has made it lose much of its stigma.

Just because I like plain milk, instead of chocolate, does not make me a racist.


I agree entirely. So Auraptors insistence that nearly all Muslims are terrorists, not human and deserve to be tortured is racism, right?



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Thursday, October 2, 2008 7:31 AM

WULFENSTAR

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If and only IF he said that (Muslims are not human), then I believe it to be racist.

But I doubt he said that.


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Thursday, October 2, 2008 7:34 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
IF he stated that Muslims are not human, then that is correct.

If and only IF he said that, then I believe it to be racist.

But I doubt he said that.



I forget if he stated it, but he certainly implied it. Besides there's more to racism than simple dehumanisation. Saying levels of criminality amongst blacks isn't racism, saying you won't employ a black man because they're all thieves is.

Racism is as much about stereotyping as anything else.



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Thursday, October 2, 2008 7:42 AM

WULFENSTAR

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Quote:

Originally posted by citizen:
Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
IF he stated that Muslims are not human, then that is correct.

If and only IF he said that, then I believe it to be racist.

But I doubt he said that.



I forget if he stated it, but he certainly implied it. Besides there's more to racism than simple dehumanisation. Saying levels of criminality amongst blacks isn't racism, saying you won't employ a black man because they're all thieves is.

Racism is as much about stereotyping as anything else.



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If he never said it, in those (or damn near close) words, then it is not the truth.

It is just your interpretation of what you THINK he MAY have meant..

What you think is implied, could be misinterpreted by someone else to imply an entirely new thing.


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Thursday, October 2, 2008 7:58 AM

SIGNYM

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RAPO
Quote:

was to contrast the dire lies which the Left were spreading, and has been since Bush was elected.
Funny how those "dire lies" turned out to be true, huh?
Quote:

After 7 yrs and the mortgage crisis they bungled, it's finally taken its toll.
The DEMS bungled??? Who, for god's sake, was in control of the Senate, the House, and the White House for most of those years?

AFA the UN resolution to authorize the "use of force", shall I re-post the last resolution, again??? The one where that VERY QUESTION was decided? And can you now find the quote that you couldn't find last time? From the site that YOU YOURSELF linked as justification? www.un.org/Docs/scres/2002/sc2002.htm

Please, go look for yourselves. Find me the resolution that authorizes use of force. Or STFU. (And I mean that in the nicest possible way.)

AFA "imminent threat"...
Quote:

White House spokesman Scott McClellan lashed out at critics saying "Some in the media have chosen to use the word 'imminent'. Those were not words we used." But a closer look at the record shows that McClellan himself and others did use the phrase "imminent threat" – while also using the synonymous phrases "mortal threat," "urgent threat," "immediate threat", "serious and mounting threat", "unique threat," and claiming that Iraq was actively seeking to "strike the United States with weapons of mass destruction"
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/kfiles/b24970.html

For god's sakes, you right-wingers, there ARE such things as videos!!! Will you PLEASE let go of that moronic talking point?

Rapo, since you're so resistant to recognizing even the most obvious events, I will simply not respond to any more of your posts. You can stand in the corner and crow "I WIN!! I WIN!! I WIN!! until you die, but the fact is that unlike PN you have nothing interesting to say and you're wrong so often you're not worth my time.

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 7:58 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
If he never said it, in those (or damn near close) words, then it is not the truth.

It is just your interpretation of what you THINK he MAY have meant..

What you think is implied, could be misinterpreted by someone else to imply an entirely new thing.



That's only if we accept that your rather extreme and limited definition of racism is correct. Which isn't the case.



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Thursday, October 2, 2008 8:08 AM

WULFENSTAR

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Citizen,

You are right. Its just easier to label everyone a racist (Except brown people of course).

Sort of like how feminists call consenting sex between a man and a woman, rape.

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 8:11 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Citizen,

You are right. Its just easier to label everyone a racist (Except brown people of course).

Sort of like how feminists call consenting sex between a man and a woman, rape.


No Wulfenstar, you are right. It's better not to call a spade a spade. We shouldn't call any one racist (unless they're not White Republicans of course).

Sort of like how we shouldn't use certain other words that might offend people who should be offended, more PC that way. Thanks for opening my eyes to far right political correctness, can't be calling racists racists, we might hurt their feelings.



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Thursday, October 2, 2008 8:17 AM

WULFENSTAR

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Oh, give me a fucking break....

Nevermind. Its not worth the argument.

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 8:30 AM

CITIZEN


I know, this far right PC bullshit is crazy.



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Thursday, October 2, 2008 8:31 AM

SIGNYM

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WULF- please read my post to Rapo. It explains his history in detail. I'll bet you dollars to donuts he can't, or won't, come up with cogent answers to ANY of my questions.

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 8:42 AM

FREMDFIRMA


Meh, I don't play semantics, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck...

Damned well imma assume it's a freakin duck till proven otherwise!

If someone comes off as a racist, sexist, or other general malingerer I call em on it, and they're completely welcome to challenge that and show otherwise or not at their own discretion.

Kinda funny cause some shitheel earlier today tried to pass off a blame-the-minorities fiction to me earlier today, and tried pretty hard to obscure the source, which failed - and come to find the damned thing was penned by David Duke.

AND it happens to have virtually identical word choice and phrasing to some of the blame-the-minorties commentary I've heard around here, which leads me to believe some folks culled talking points from it.

That don't make em necessarily racist, just fuckin stupid, and lazy for not properly vetting their sources.

That being said, I do not believe Raps issue is racial although that may indeed be some part of it, however small.

He's shown time and time again that his primary prejudice and unreasoning hatred is in fact theological in nature, with the added irony of being both wholly ignorant of the beliefs he is slamming, and every single bit the wild eyed zealot that he claims the other guys are.

It's times like this I wonder if he's actually on the side he claims, cause his actions so fully and perfectly poison the well for any conservative argument around there, that one might suspect deliberate strawmanning of that position.

Me, I think he's just an ignorant zealot, the ultimate end product of a society and educational system fully intended to produce exactly that.

I have my own prejudices, to be honest - and one of them is that if no rational thought seems to occur, if all there seems to be is knee jerk reflex trained response...

Then I no longer consider the being in question to be human, or a person, and thus unworthy of that level of regard or respect.

So in my eyes, they're just one more bullet in tyranny's gun, a brain dead chunk of meat.

In essence, a living, breathing pop-up target without any more emotional value than a piece of plastic when it comes right down to it.

Immoral ? sure it is, that's the very essence of dehumanising someone in one's own mind and not a very nice act any way you wanna slice it.

And so, what then does it say about them, to have dehumanised themselves by selling their own humanity in exchange from a pat on the head from a political ideology that sees them as no more than resources to be used and wasted as necessary to achieve the aims of the elite ?

Whenever ANYONE wishes to influence your actions, by word, deed or force, you should be pondering why that is, what they wish to happen by that influence, what it's purpose to them is, and whether you're actually in agreement with that purpose and it's end goals before you act, because to do otherwise is to harm yourself and damage your own humanity without even realizing it... until you don't have any left.

And then you wind up like Rap, here...

Let that be a damn object lesson to you.

-Frem

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 8:44 AM

WULFENSTAR

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No Citizen,

You are just as intolerant of other ideas/opinions/facts as any right-wing Bible-banger.

Point of fact, you are a hypocrite.

The nonsense you spout is the same gibberish as right wing nut jobs, just on the other end of the spectrum.

Same shit, different color.

Its not worth my time trying to show you that the truth is somewhere in the middle. You can't see it. Even if you could, you wouldn't believe it.

So, I'm not going to waste anymore energy with you.

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 8:59 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
No Citizen,

You are just as intolerant of other ideas/opinions/facts as any right-wing Bible-banger.

Point of fact, you are a hypocrite.

The nonsense you spout is the same gibberish as right wing nut jobs, just on the other end of the spectrum.

Same shit, different color.

Its not worth my time trying to show you that the truth is somewhere in the middle. You can't see it. Even if you could, you wouldn't believe it.

So, I'm not going to waste anymore energy with you.

Nope, you just don't know what I'm saying. You don't know what I'm saying, because you are the one that can't tolerate divergent opinions. You hate them so much you'll throw massive tempertantrums over them and start entire threads in spite. I don't do that, but you keep painting me with your brush, it'll save you from having to tolerate other peoples opinions for once.

I don't sound like a right wing nutjob at all, you just have to say that because you ARE a right wing nut job, and lying so you can push your extremist agenda doesn't make ME a hypocrite, yanno.

Deep down you know it, but you'll never admit it. You'd have to think for yourself first, and lets face it, that's real unlikely. I suggest you go back to your chosen far right propaganda organ and flip to the next page of "my struggle", don't go challenging those preconceptions, you know how upset it makes you .



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Thursday, October 2, 2008 9:00 AM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!


" ... I wonder if he's actually on the side he claims, cause his actions so fully and perfectly poison the well for any conservative argument ... "

I read, listen to, and watch the sources that Rap is channeling. He really IS on the side he claims to be on. Their message is his message.

His mistake is that he brings the mindless preaching meant for the choir that already believes - and he thinks it will be enough to convince the people here who don't. His mistake is that he says what conservatives really mean when they don't guard their words.


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Thursday, October 2, 2008 9:09 AM

CHRISISALL


All these words to say one thing...

CRAppy is a punk.
And he has a club.

The He-man Constitution Haters Society.



Seditious bovine bipedsisall

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 9:11 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg


Rue,

Hows the saying go?

"I disapprove/disagree of what you say, sir, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

We need a little more of that around here...


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Thursday, October 2, 2008 9:13 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Rue,

Hows the saying go?

"I disapprove/disagree of what you say, sir, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

We need a little more of that around here...



Indeed. Any time you want to start we're waiting for you to join us.



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Thursday, October 2, 2008 9:15 AM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!


Wulfie

Never said Rap shouldn't post. But if he throws up easy targets, he should expect them to be shot down. If he didn't figure that out by now, then he got fair warning.

BTW, I place Rap pretty close to PN. He's extremely deluded but also very sincere. In my mind that puts him in a vulnerable state. His puts his ego on the line every time he puts his delusions on-line. He HAS to defend them.

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 9:26 AM

CHRISISALL


Quote:

Originally posted by rue:


Never said Rap shouldn't post.


Indeed, we need to see the extent to which some Americans will kiss their Constitutional rights goodbye in lieu of phony national security, insincere patriotism, & the pursuit of the Allmighty Dollar.
Best to see the moral rot out in the open, than let it fester in the shadows, unknown.

Chrisisall

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 9:37 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Rapo is a true believer and he revels in contention; it just amps up the dopamine "reward" that he gives himself whenever he defends his belief system.

Treat him as you would your "special" relative or your alcoholic friend. Smile and nod. But don't expect rationality and don't get emotionally involved. He's addicted.


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Thursday, October 2, 2008 10:30 AM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!


There is that. There is that neurochemical reward from true belief.

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Would it be blasphemous to call him Saint Rap ? After all, he seems to like martyrdom in the name of Bush's economics ... and wars, and fatherland security.

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 11:30 AM

FREMDFIRMA


Quote:

"I disapprove/disagree of what you say, sir, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

Ayep, and then I say *MY* piece, which can indeed often be the verbal equivalent of a crowbar to the cojones, sure.

But if one desires open and free speech, one must also be willing to recieve it, even if it's painful.

Me, I stand up even for the rights of those I despise, cause if a right isn't completely universal, then it's just a tool of oppression.

But remember what I said above, the price for that defense is often being on the recieving end of less than nice folk exercising the same right, and in your direction.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 12:10 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


citizen - not only have I never lied on here, I've never shown any approval of those who who are racist. Calling me a racist is as stupid as is calling me a liar. You have zero evidence for either, yet you try to brand me as both.

Why? Simple. You can't honestly, maturely or coherently respond to my post. In short, you've got no case.



It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager


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Thursday, October 2, 2008 12:11 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:

Originally posted by chrisisall:
All these words to say one thing...

RAppy is a stud.
And he has a club.

The He-man Constitution Protectors Society.



Seditious bovine bipedsisall



Fixed that for ya, Chrissy.





It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager


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Thursday, October 2, 2008 12:29 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Sig -

Yes, the DEMOCRATS bungled, and if you need to figure out how, just read my post, or go here - http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/wrecks_lies_and_barney_frank.ht
ml


Use of force:
Quote:

Over the weekend I sat down and read a few documents that you might find interesting. United Nations resolutions. More particularly, UN Resolution Numbers 678, 687 and 1441. Just click on the resolution number and you can read them for yourself if you like. Maybe you ought to just go ahead and do that right now so that you can be sure I'm not lying to you. You know how us "neocons" will lie about something like this, don't you? But ... If you're not so inclined, you can just listen to my show today and I'll give you a quick rundown on what you'll find in these UN Resolutions.

Sadly, there are a few folks out there who read the Nuze every day who can't hear the show. For you, this briefest of explanations:

Resolution 687, passed in 1991, is the centerpiece here. This is the resolution passed after the United States had liberated Kuwait and while our troops were poised to advance to Baghdad to take care of business with Saddam. Saddam agreed to a plan whereby he would surrender or destroy all weapons of mass destruction, and all implements, machinery and whatnot associated with those weapons programs, forthwith. Saddam's first obligation under Resolution 687 was to provide the UN with a "declaration on the locations, amounts and types of all (WMDs) and agree to urgent, on-site inspection(s)" as specified in the resolution.

Saddam's deadline under 687 was fifteen days. He didn't make it. In fact, in 2002 ... about 4000 days past his 15-day deadline, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1441 putting Saddam on super-secret probation and giving him one last chance to do what he was supposed to do eleven years earlier.

Wait! I forgot Resolution 678! Forgive me! Resolution 678, you see, is specifically incorporated into both Resolutions 687 and 1441 by reference. Resolution 678 was passed in 1990, after Saddam invaded Kuwait. This resolution told Saddam to get the hell out, and authorized "Member States co-operating with the Government of Kuwait ... to use all necessary means to uphold and implement resolution 660 and all subsequent relevant resolutions and to restore international peace and security in the area." (Resolution 660 merely demanded that Iraq withdraw from Kuwait. Iraq didn't. George H.W. Bush made him.) So ... even if you went to a government school; hell, even if you vote for Democrats you can see that under Resolution 678 the United States, a Member State of the United Nations, has the authority under that resolution, and under 687 and 1441 to kick Saddam to the curb.

http://boortz.com/nuze/200401/01122004.html


Just because it's not in the LAST resolution, doesn't mean there's not wording in earlier resolutions which grant the use of force in Iraq for it's failure to comply. You're thinking like a child. Grow up a bit and then we can discuss.


Also ,Bush never said " imminent threat " . Get over it.



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Thursday, October 2, 2008 12:30 PM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
citizen - not only have I never lied on here, I've never shown any approval of those who who are racist. Calling me a racist is as stupid as is calling me a liar. You have zero evidence for either, yet you try to brand me as both.

Why? Simple. You can't honestly, maturely or coherently respond to my post. In short, you've got no case.


I've already shown that you have lied by putting your comments together. So that's at least two lies right there. Further you've made racist comments on numerous occasions, you just defend your racism by denying its racist unless aimed at black people, in and of itself a racist comment.

I've shown evidence for all these things, either now or before. I have plenty of evidence for both. You on the other hand have no evidence for anything you ever say.

Why? Simple. You are the most dishonest person on this site, and even when you try really hard to discuss maturely without resorting to personal insults, you just can't manage it. In short you never have a case, no one takes you seriously, and we're all laughing at you and your deluded red neck conspiracy theories.



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Thursday, October 2, 2008 12:53 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:

Originally posted by citizen:
I've already shown that you have lied by putting your comments together. So that's at least two lies right there.

No, that's one BIG lie on your part. You're delusional , invisible examples might convince the voices in your noggin, but none of us out here , in the real world

Quote:

Further you've made racist comments on numerous occasions, you just defend your racism by denying its racist unless aimed at black people, in and of itself a racist comment.

I've shown evidence for all these things, either now or before. I have plenty of evidence for both. You on the other hand have no evidence for anything you ever say.

Right....you have all the evidence in the world, only you can't produce any of it.

That's gorram funny.

And I own the deed to Buckingham Palace. I just don't have it WITH ME right now.

As for MY evidence, one needs only to look up in this thread, where I've referenced or linked the sources I use, whether you want to accept them or not. My evidence is there for the viewing, yours is ...well, left wanting.

Quote:

Why? Simple. You are the most dishonest person on this site,
.... a lie, or possibly you're VERY very wrong. Pick one.
Quote:

...and even when you try really hard to discuss maturely without resorting to personal insults, you just can't manage it.
Hypocrisy, thy name is CITIZEN

Quote:

In short you never have a case, no one takes you seriously, and we're all laughing at you and your deluded red neck conspiracy theories.



My neck is quite tan, since I use 50 SPF. I am not one for conspiracies, so I have no such theories. I deal in facts, and if it's facts you hate to face, it doesn't make those facts any less true.

Citizen, there comes a time in your life when you're going to have to put away childish ideas and grow up. Now is as good a time as any.



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Thursday, October 2, 2008 12:56 PM

CITIZEN


Still showing no evidence for any of your claims Awwwliar, as usual. My evidence is there for the viewing, I've already proven you a liar. Scroll up, you'll see it. You've shown no evidence, save for a few lies by other delusional red necks...

You have no worth while contribution, that's why no one listens to your drivel, and just about everyone here is laughing at you.

Dance my delusional little clown, dance.



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Thursday, October 2, 2008 2:12 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Orginally posted by AuRaptor:


Wrong Sig, all you do is take a quote and then misapply it weeks , months, years later. That's the only way you can claim victory in anything. If I say it was sunny one Saturday 2 yrs ago, and then a hurricane hits on a Saturday this week, you take my dated remarks utterly out of context and claim I don't know what I'm talking about, or that I'm some how " lying ".



Wait a minute. Wasn't there SOMEONE on this board just this week throwing out old quotes and applying them to today?

Who WAS that that was doing that? I can't seem to remember...



Mike

This world is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel.

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 3:11 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


RAPO. I know I'm gonn hate myself, but here goes...

Did you ever READ Resolution 1441?

Simple answer- Yes or no?

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Now, to your other point. Fannie and Freddie are not at the heart of the mortgage crisis.

First of all, by definition "subprime" loans are those that do not meet Freddei/Fannie standards. Analyses of subprime loans, and loans in general, consistently show that subprime loans are more often given to women and minorities EVEN WHEN THEIR INCOMES ARE THE SAME AS WHITE MALES. That means that these people paid higher interest, and had other "toxic" features (interest-only, adjustable rates, prepayment penalties, exhorbitant fees, hidden features, etc.) embedded in their loans EVEN WHEN THEY QUALIFIED FOR STANDARD LOANS.

Both Frem and Kwicko have pointed out how HARD the banks pushed sub-prime loans on them, even tho they qualified for standard loans. Anthony has told you in no uncertain terms that lending was NOT made on the basis of race. Middle- and upper-income borrowers accounted for more than two-thirds of high-rate mortgages issued in 2006. Sub-prime loand were a huge money-maker for the banks. It's THAT simple.

http://activerain.com/blogsview/667186/Women-minorities-subprime-lendi
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02EED61E3FF93AA35757C
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Thursday, October 2, 2008 6:14 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


It's all due to greed on Wall Street.

SARAH PALIN SAID SO, SO IT MUST BE TRUE!

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 6:15 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by SignyM:
It's all due to greed on Wall Street.

SARAH PALIN SAID SO, SO IT MUST BE TRUE!

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And we all know Republicans never, ever lie! Rappy said it, so it must be true!

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Thursday, October 2, 2008 6:19 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:

Originally posted by SignyM:

Now, to your other point. Fannie and Freddie are not at the heart of the mortgage crisis.




My word Marcia, that might be THE dumbest thing ever posted on this here message board.


I mean..really...THE dumbest.






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Thursday, October 2, 2008 6:55 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Fannie and Freddie are NOT at the heart of the mortgage crisis. Even AFTER the Fannie/Freddie bailout, the crisis continued to spiral out of control. Let me put it in terms you might understand: If you've plugged one hole in the dike but the water keeps rising faster and faster, obviously you haven't plugged the BIG hole. Yes, Fannie and Freddie were a problem. But they weren't the sole problem, and not even the biggest problem.

Interestingly though, I found this on a business website (Bloomberg) while researching Fannie/Freddie's role.
Quote:

The companies {Fannie and Freddie} said they were urged to increase purchases of subprime debt by the Bush administration. The Department of Housing and Urban Development said in 2005 that Fannie and Freddie should increase financing for low-income areas or moderate-income regions with high minority populations to 37 percent of new business from 34 percent in 2001 through 2004. That rose to 39 percent last year.
Also
Quote:

Ameriquest paid $295 million to consumers in 2006 to settle charges by states of predatory lending.New Century, now the biggest subprime lender in bankruptcy, produced 24 percent. It created a security for Fannie and Freddie in August 2006. About 75 percent of the loans had interest rates set to adjust to as high as 20 percent, mostly after two years, from an average of 8.3 percent. Countrywide... faces investigations for fraudulent lending practices, supplied about 23 percent of Fannie's and Freddie's total loan volume in 2007, according to Credit Suisse.


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Thursday, October 2, 2008 7:03 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Not the end of the problem by a long shot, but Fannie and Freddie hold the most mortgages by a country mile.

Never said this would be the end of it all, in fact most say it's just the start of putting things back in order.

Lots left to do, and one is thing is to make sure this shit doesn't happen again.



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