I do too but I came to a point where it became a conscious decision: you either accept that the past is gone and try and embrace what they have made of them in the now ad enjoy the new stuff or you refuse to accept the changes and lose every aspect of the muppets and must console yourself exclusively with the old material.
Hogwash David, do a post about the glories of the combustion engine and its infinite superiority both in function and asthetic, to the outmoded primitive technology of wind and sail.
Alas, Mr Trub, you misread me for I am one of those very "damnable republican types" though to be fair to my opponents the Monarchy against which I will be tilting is the consitutional Monarchy with its' attendand Paliment system currently in force in the notable failed states of Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Bermuda and the UK, rather than the more classic absolute Monarchies that preceeded them.
A wall is attractive because it'll impress the voters (especially the ones in the geographic region that the pols advocating it most want to impress); it'll funnel Federal money to this region both for construction and upkeep (see point #1) and most especially because it won't actually accomplish a damn thing (which means the corporate and business wings of the party won't mind it).
Oh muppets.. I remember my parents tuning in to the show on the old B&W TV religiously. I'd look on and found it greatly enjoyable but didn't understand why the 'Rents were so worked up over all the boring humans doing things in between the cool muppets.
Then I watched it again on DVD around 2007... mind blowing. Mind blowing, like entertainment archeology.
You wouldn't want us. With the exception of Alberta (and they're centrist) we're all to the left of you. We'd tip the balance to Democrats in no time, or worse one of our several parties would grow like a bacteria in a virgin electoral sample, eat the current lazy fat American parties alive and seize power in Washington!
I talk to myself occasionally, does that count as praying? I don't get down on my knees and put my hands together nor do I usually implore myself or thank myself for much. I don't think I'd take me very seriously if I did.
Canada has some embaressing black spots on its national character and their treatment of free speech is one of them. For citizens this involves emeshment in their extra-judicial HRC kangaroo courts who impose nonsensical remediation and painful legal expenses. For non-citizens it involves specially trained punitive beaver commandos squads. I find your rampant Canukophobia offensive so i've submitted your name to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. If you have any trees, waterways or largely lumber structures within a one hundred mile radius of your residence I'd advise you to spend some time with them building up memories.
Be nice James. I mean the boy is Canadian for one thing and for another thing he's delivering a good demanded by the market (with the market in this case being defined as 13-30 year old women).
Well both swordfish and especially tuna are a complex and likely very sad story. Their international migratory paths make them prime examples of the tragedy of the commons as they are currently well on their way to commercial extinction (and probably literal extinction after that). Shark hunting is a pet peeve of mine since my own childhood digs are utterly plagued with swarming masses of seals which, being cute and cuddly, are protected earnestly front hunting while their primary predators (being neither cute nor cuddle) are being chased to extinction.
I'd say the stuff you've been reading is badly overexcitable. I'd also note that your impression is based on incorrect assumptions. My own impressions have been that the west is importing accountants and making them work as painters because their credentials are not transferrable.
Jay I'll note in passing that all of the countries on that list (except Japan) have vibrant and highly active immigration system so a sub replacement level birthrate merely means they're skimming the cream off the third world populations to make up the difference. From my viewpoint this is an unambigously good thing.
Now Japan, well they're going to have to hope their robots can come through or else they're going to have to join the club and permit immigration. Or I suppose we'll get to see what actually happens with a first world country with actually declining populations.
If you don't believe his apologies, well that's the end of it for you but it's far from dispositive to me or anyone else. It's your opinion, not a fact, and I find it deeply unpersuasive. If Sullvan has apologized (he has, repeatedly) then I will take that at face value and move on; I'm a liberal, not an inquisitor. If you have the power to read peoples souls over the internet then your powers should be used for more important good than throwing names at Sullivan. I expend energy defending Sullivan (and to a lesser degree The Bell Curve)because I disagree with your conclusion, I disagree with your reasoning, I disagree with your methodology and I disagree with your tone. I think it harms our communal cause, fails to persuade (and indeed turns against us) those who are undecided and weakens our ability to argue against our opponents. I also disagree with your selection of opponents. Sullivan is not much of a liberal but he sure ain't a movement conservative (more specifically he's a movement conservative apostate). He makes much more salient criticisms of conservatives than many of the more reliably left wing writers I read, therefore he's an ally and a valuable one at that.
Reading comprehension fail here old shoe. I observed that your shrill inflexible pearl clutching reminded me of the prissy argument style that some of the more crusty right wing Christians indulge in. Just because you're imitating their failed argument styles doesn't make you one their belief group, it just makes you a bad debater.
Sullivan was called out and not pandered to when he did his over the top raving during the dark days of the beginning of the Iraq fiasco. That's part of the reason he has repeatedly recanted.
The book in question may have some counter arguements against it but the idea that a carefully written is equivalent to some ku klux scrawl written on a billboard in the south is pathetic. Materials like The Bell Curve should be refuted with counter arguements, facts and empirical research. Not be screaming "that's racist" and then covering one's ears.
The Democratic party, in my eyes, is doing tolerably well. I can understand your frustration; I feel it in a way. I mean here I have an elder, a fellow lefty and a compatriot with whom I share no doubt many a principal screeching around like some brittle easily incensed schoolmarm (apologies to all school marms out there) over a doughy (and no little bit fey) immigrant Brit and a rather academically written if controversial book and making all of us left wingers look the fool.
Well I'm part of the "decadent left" so that'd be an attack on me too. And since he's already apologized (repeatedly) for it what more do you have to kvetch about?
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On “Joy and Rediscovering the Muppets”
I do too but I came to a point where it became a conscious decision: you either accept that the past is gone and try and embrace what they have made of them in the now ad enjoy the new stuff or you refuse to accept the changes and lose every aspect of the muppets and must console yourself exclusively with the old material.
On “Opposite day at the League!”
Hogwash David, do a post about the glories of the combustion engine and its infinite superiority both in function and asthetic, to the outmoded primitive technology of wind and sail.
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Alas, Mr Trub, you misread me for I am one of those very "damnable republican types" though to be fair to my opponents the Monarchy against which I will be tilting is the consitutional Monarchy with its' attendand Paliment system currently in force in the notable failed states of Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Bermuda and the UK, rather than the more classic absolute Monarchies that preceeded them.
On “A World of His Making: Newt Gingrich and the Far-Right Mind”
A wall is attractive because it'll impress the voters (especially the ones in the geographic region that the pols advocating it most want to impress); it'll funnel Federal money to this region both for construction and upkeep (see point #1) and most especially because it won't actually accomplish a damn thing (which means the corporate and business wings of the party won't mind it).
On “Opposite day at the League!”
I may play if I can find the time. Maybe I'll try putting the arguement against the Monarchy through its paces.
On “Joy and Rediscovering the Muppets”
Oh muppets.. I remember my parents tuning in to the show on the old B&W TV religiously. I'd look on and found it greatly enjoyable but didn't understand why the 'Rents were so worked up over all the boring humans doing things in between the cool muppets.
Then I watched it again on DVD around 2007... mind blowing. Mind blowing, like entertainment archeology.
On “An Open Letter to Those Worried About a Secular War on Christmas”
Ack, now I'm impaled atop the twin horns of my dual American/Canadian nature! Oh this is a fine pickle to be in!
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You wouldn't want us. With the exception of Alberta (and they're centrist) we're all to the left of you. We'd tip the balance to Democrats in no time, or worse one of our several parties would grow like a bacteria in a virgin electoral sample, eat the current lazy fat American parties alive and seize power in Washington!
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One word; Snookie.
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Two words; Paris Hilton.
On “From the comments: Doctors and Bankers”
Calm and cheerful will serve you and your arguements better than this language my dear Kimmie.
On “An Open Letter to Those Worried About a Secular War on Christmas”
Well we have apologized for Brian Adams and also for Celine Dion.
On “A Thanksgiving prayer for an Atheist”
I talk to myself occasionally, does that count as praying? I don't get down on my knees and put my hands together nor do I usually implore myself or thank myself for much. I don't think I'd take me very seriously if I did.
On “An Open Letter to Those Worried About a Secular War on Christmas”
Canada has some embaressing black spots on its national character and their treatment of free speech is one of them. For citizens this involves emeshment in their extra-judicial HRC kangaroo courts who impose nonsensical remediation and painful legal expenses. For non-citizens it involves specially trained punitive beaver commandos squads. I find your rampant Canukophobia offensive so i've submitted your name to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. If you have any trees, waterways or largely lumber structures within a one hundred mile radius of your residence I'd advise you to spend some time with them building up memories.
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So my friends niece claims. I think it's at a frequency inaudible to the male ear.
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Be nice James. I mean the boy is Canadian for one thing and for another thing he's delivering a good demanded by the market (with the market in this case being defined as 13-30 year old women).
That said I never listen to anything he sings.
On “You can carry a gun in New Mexico, but you can’t tuna fish.”
Well both swordfish and especially tuna are a complex and likely very sad story. Their international migratory paths make them prime examples of the tragedy of the commons as they are currently well on their way to commercial extinction (and probably literal extinction after that). Shark hunting is a pet peeve of mine since my own childhood digs are utterly plagued with swarming masses of seals which, being cute and cuddly, are protected earnestly front hunting while their primary predators (being neither cute nor cuddle) are being chased to extinction.
On “Sad News”
Terrible, the poor man.
On ““As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!””
I'd say the stuff you've been reading is badly overexcitable. I'd also note that your impression is based on incorrect assumptions. My own impressions have been that the west is importing accountants and making them work as painters because their credentials are not transferrable.
On “A Thanksgiving prayer for an Atheist”
Isn't this essentially praying to ourselves then?
On ““As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!””
Jay I'll note in passing that all of the countries on that list (except Japan) have vibrant and highly active immigration system so a sub replacement level birthrate merely means they're skimming the cream off the third world populations to make up the difference. From my viewpoint this is an unambigously good thing.
Now Japan, well they're going to have to hope their robots can come through or else they're going to have to join the club and permit immigration. Or I suppose we'll get to see what actually happens with a first world country with actually declining populations.
On ““We Got Sold Out””
Yeah because Cindy Sheehan, for all her loss, is the arbiter of who's repented enough on the internet.
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If you don't believe his apologies, well that's the end of it for you but it's far from dispositive to me or anyone else. It's your opinion, not a fact, and I find it deeply unpersuasive. If Sullvan has apologized (he has, repeatedly) then I will take that at face value and move on; I'm a liberal, not an inquisitor. If you have the power to read peoples souls over the internet then your powers should be used for more important good than throwing names at Sullivan. I expend energy defending Sullivan (and to a lesser degree The Bell Curve)because I disagree with your conclusion, I disagree with your reasoning, I disagree with your methodology and I disagree with your tone. I think it harms our communal cause, fails to persuade (and indeed turns against us) those who are undecided and weakens our ability to argue against our opponents. I also disagree with your selection of opponents. Sullivan is not much of a liberal but he sure ain't a movement conservative (more specifically he's a movement conservative apostate). He makes much more salient criticisms of conservatives than many of the more reliably left wing writers I read, therefore he's an ally and a valuable one at that.
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Reading comprehension fail here old shoe. I observed that your shrill inflexible pearl clutching reminded me of the prissy argument style that some of the more crusty right wing Christians indulge in. Just because you're imitating their failed argument styles doesn't make you one their belief group, it just makes you a bad debater.
Sullivan was called out and not pandered to when he did his over the top raving during the dark days of the beginning of the Iraq fiasco. That's part of the reason he has repeatedly recanted.
The book in question may have some counter arguements against it but the idea that a carefully written is equivalent to some ku klux scrawl written on a billboard in the south is pathetic. Materials like The Bell Curve should be refuted with counter arguements, facts and empirical research. Not be screaming "that's racist" and then covering one's ears.
The Democratic party, in my eyes, is doing tolerably well. I can understand your frustration; I feel it in a way. I mean here I have an elder, a fellow lefty and a compatriot with whom I share no doubt many a principal screeching around like some brittle easily incensed schoolmarm (apologies to all school marms out there) over a doughy (and no little bit fey) immigrant Brit and a rather academically written if controversial book and making all of us left wingers look the fool.
"
Well I'm part of the "decadent left" so that'd be an attack on me too. And since he's already apologized (repeatedly) for it what more do you have to kvetch about?
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