A Tale Of Two AURaptors by chrisisall

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A Tale Of Two AURaptors

POSTED BY: CHRISISALL
UPDATED: Saturday, May 8, 2010 07:56
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Thursday, May 6, 2010 2:49 PM

Chapter One: I Am Born

(oh crap... wrong novel reference- whatever)

I am come to love the fishies & hate bad big business.
They are evil. I yearn for equality for all beings!

Chapter Two: The Disappointment After College

What a cruel world, I am battered by the knowledge that I have been woosified by my love of mankind... I must be like the world itself to survive!

Chapter Three: My Dichotomy

Ha! I shall be my nice & engaging self in most venues, but my "Jekyll" will have its day in matters of politics! In this way shall I feel vengeance upon my "Leftist" past, and redemption.
Yes, REDEMPTION AT LAST!!! HAHAHA!!!

ooooh- a cool Firefly site.....

AND THE REST IS HISTORY...

The laughing Chrisisall

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Thursday, May 6, 2010 3:07 PM

DREAMTROVE

lol, I think that's all of us.

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Thursday, May 6, 2010 3:18 PM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by dreamtrove:
lol, I think that's all of us.

In different ways, perhaps. But differently than AU, I have swung from far left to nearer the middle, a middle that AU still paints as dangerously Left, irregardless of world opinion.
To learn or to react: that is the question.
(crap... Dickens to Shakespeare- whatever)

The laughing Chrisisall

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Thursday, May 6, 2010 3:49 PM

CHRISISALL

Chapter Four: Righties Are Lefties

Truth is the DOMAIN of the right; those that break to non-fact are of the LEFT. Bloomberg is a Lefty Semite in Republican clothing for not coming out to say that the terrorist who nearly destroyed Manhattan was a Pakistani plant by Al-Queda forces!

The laughing Chrisisall

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Thursday, May 6, 2010 3:51 PM

DREAMTROVE

I wonder if left and right mean anything anymore. Or if they ever did. I find that I have many of the values I always did, and largely it's the methods that I've changed my PoV on. My biggest witch from my youth was on Socialism. I used to think it would be a great idea, I think I had a lot of people telling me that. But that's really a method, not an end goal or value. It's dangerous method that centralizes a lot of power and hands it to someone, but it's still a method.

The values which I've changed, not much, mostly are things where I think I've always held a particular value, and I was just surrounded by people who didn't, and so I succumbed to their viewpoint bowing to their superior wisdom.

A lot of change has been many years of people showing me I was wrong. Listening when they do is another part of that. Now, sure, don't expect me to say "oh, no, you're right." I'm denser than that. It can take weeks to months for it to sink in, but it does sink in.

Often those changes go to how a particular position on a particular issue leads to an impact on a particular value, like 2a on the centralization of power, or gay marriage on the strength of the family. Sometimes I waffle on these.

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Thursday, May 6, 2010 3:52 PM

MINCINGBEAST

It was the best of posts. It was the worst of posts.

Whose biography is next?

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Thursday, May 6, 2010 3:56 PM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by mincingbeast:
It was the best of posts. It was the worst of posts.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Thursday, May 6, 2010 4:44 PM

DREAMTROVE

not a lot of lefties in the financial news media

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Thursday, May 6, 2010 4:54 PM

CHRISISALL

You'll hafta ask AU about that.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Friday, May 7, 2010 1:34 AM

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 dreamtrove:
not a lot of lefties in the financial news media

Paul Krugman?

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Friday, May 7, 2010 1:42 AM

DREAMTROVE

I meant as in, running it, but yes, come to think of it, most of those who run it, also, I'm sure there are exceptions. I get that Bloomberg only ran GOP because that's what was available, but he's not a leftie, just indifferent to Dems vs. Reps, as am I, as I am of him. Feh.

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Friday, May 7, 2010 7:03 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Well, my parents were Republicans, but I paid no attention to politics until my late teens, at which time I followed the family path and actually WORKED for Goldwater (don't hold it against me, I was young and stupid, I admit!).

Then I started thinking for myself and everything changed. I got liberal. I bought into the Camelot thing (tho' I was always more for Bobby than Jack, who seemed a figurehead to me). Still didn't know much, but had leanings. Started when we lived through Ronny Ray-guns in CA and learned who he really was, then I saw him elected as PREZ!!

Pretty much stayed liberal since then. It more fits my values than conservative, tho' there are aspects of both. So I stayed Democrat, unil some time during the Dumbya administration when I got disgusted with the Dms almost as much as the Repubs, and went Independent.

Still liberal tho', and always will be. Whatever the PARTIES and politicians do, my values match the liberal mentality. Maybe except a more reasonable approach to fiscal responsibility (which NEITHER party has anymore!).

I wish we had one aspect of the Brit system for sure: a short election time! Ours starts the day after one Prez or Congress is elected, and goes until the next one. Just think how much less money it would cost to be elected, and how much easier to vote according to your own bleiefs, if you only had to campaign for six weeks or so, instead of four years!

The other thing I admire about their system is the "vote of no confidence". I LOVE that idea!

I think I like the idea of more than two huge parties overshadowing everything, too, but I won't know more how I feel about that until I see what happens in Britain this year...

On the other hand, geeez, a thread dedicated to Crappy?... No comment.

How about we each tell how WE evolved to our current philosophy; that's much more interesting.

"I'm just right. Kinda like the sun rising in the east and the world being round...its not a need its just the way it is." The Delusional "Hero", 3/1/10

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Friday, May 7, 2010 9:55 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
In different ways, perhaps. But differently than AU, I have swung from far left to nearer the middle, a middle that AU still paints as dangerously Left,

The laughing Chrisisall

Perhaps why your lame post fell so flat, you're still so far off-center you don't even know how far left you are.

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Saturday, May 8, 2010 1:07 AM

KWICKO

Yes, it's so lame that Rappy had to bring out one of his sockpuppets to post on it, just to show how lame he thinks it is.

And, of course, to bump it up and make it more relevant and less lame.

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Saturday, May 8, 2010 6:20 AM

DREAMTROVE

I think mike is center left and I'm center right and Chris is center, but in order to be in a wing, you actually need to be in the building. some of y'all are on mars.

Oh, and great, everyone is just rebelling against there parents. Why don't we just skip the politics, pick up Linnea squiggly and head down to the graveyard.

Fargo, the iPad is too smart for me, Linnea Quiggley, NOT squiggly. Feh, autocorrect.

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Saturday, May 8, 2010 7:42 AM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by dreamtrove:
I think mike is center left and I'm center right and Chris is center, but in order to be in a wing, you actually need to be in the building. some of y'all are on mars.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Good one, Dream.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Saturday, May 8, 2010 7:56 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

I agree, DT, good one. I'll freely admit I'm probably center-left-left, but I'm not rabidly left; what bothers me currently is the right being forced to the right fringe and driving out any potential center or center-right.

"I'm just right. Kinda like the sun rising in the east and the world being round...its not a need its just the way it is." The Delusional "Hero", 3/1/10

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