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Tuesday, January 13, 2004     
  
Bob Speaks Again
    

Hey readers!  Bob returned!

We'll see who wins in 2004 kids. The problem with debating liberals is that your point of view is strictly emotional. Republicans tend to deal in logic and fact. If you want to believe the propaganda being passed to you by the ultra-liberal media and ignore common sense, I have no reason to waste my time debating you. When you're a bit older you'll understand and my guess is that all of you will be registered republicans. My anonymity is my right by the way. If you want to host a "public" blog....deal with it kids.

I find this hilarious.  I was in Cup-A-Joe Coffee Haus last week with Trish, the Warren County Coordinator for the Dean campaign, and this guy starts yelling and getting all in our face about how much he hates us liberals because we're all immoral and we're self destructing and yadda yadda yadda.  And I mean spitting mad, and we weren't even doing anything overtly political - we weren't canvassing or handing out fliers or anything, we were just sitting there eating lunch and coordinating calls.  I don't know about you, but I'd call that an emotional response.

But in some ways, Bob is part right - there IS an emotional component to our views, and there SHOULD be!  I DO get SEETHING MAD when I think about how Bush's Department of Labor posted on their site info on how companies can get around the new overtime regulations and essentially cut out overtime pay for their workers by increasing the base weekly hours component of their job.  And I DO get SEETHING MAD when I think about how Bush lied to the American public in his State of the Union about Iraq buying enriched uranium from north Africa - something he had already been informed months prior was incorrect intelligence.  I DO get SEETHING MAD when I think how the No Child Left Behind program forces schools to meet testing criteria at the risk of cutting off funding - funding so minimal (it's called an "unfunded mandate" people) that only the schools in the most desparate areas utterly rely on it - and those schools need the most help meeting the criteria, not just a test of what the criteria is.

And as for your privacy, BOB...  that's true.  But I work for an ISP so I've seen first hand... all they have to do is send me (or your ISP Mediacom or your employer Principal or whoever) a fax summons with your IP, and EVERY bit of your private info gets turned over, lest they get charged with obstruction of justice.  It's good ol' HR 3162 - the US Patriot Act.  And yes, even the idea of being forced to do so for a bleeding idiot like you, Bob, makes me mad.

So I guess there is an emotional component.

BTW - I LOVE the comment about the "ultra liberal" media.  I mean, only that would explain why the worst of what Bush does, the most underhanded, get made back page news while things like "Dean said this about the South" or what not make the front page.  That's why the Clinton blowjob was top of the fold news for months and the Bush WMD issue gets relegated to deeper obscurity.  Oh wait, that's right, while the majority of reporters lean liberal, the vast majority of owners and editors weigh conservative.  And they determine placement and story viability.  But of course, I'm just blindly following rhetoric there, BOB.

Jackass.

   
Posted by Jason on 1/13/2004 at 3:23:07 PM #
  
Ventura Official State Portrait
    

Recently revealed.  Painted by a former wrestler aspiring as an artist for a former wrestler who aspired as a Governor:

My favorite bit from the description:

Gov. Ventura is pictured standing proudly over a landscape filled with symbols of Minnesota and important aspects of his life and career. A dark sky highlights his strong, determined face. He is dressed in a dark suit, white shirt and red-white-and-blue tie. On his lapel are a Navy Seal team pin and Navy jump wings, and in his hand is one of the fine cigars he relishes, this time clearly lit as was not always the case as he went about the State Capitol during his years as governor.

Blended into the landscape behind him are images of an undeveloped, wild Minnesota to his left, and to his right the Capitol building, the Minneapolis skyline, a bridge spanning the Mississippi River, a lush Minnesota golf course and a light-rail train. The governor’s right hand rests on a figure representing “The Thinker,” an image used in his campaign for office that contrasted his reputation as “Jesse, the Body,” with “Jesse, the Thinker.”

   
Posted by Jason on 1/13/2004 at 9:36:13 AM #


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