I’m a ‘communist elitist envy class warfare monger’

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Yeah, a communist elitist envy class warfare monger.  I don’t know what it means, either.  Nazi was probably left out by simple oversight.  It’s funny, the person who writes this stuff probably thinks of themselves as a good person, and a Christian.  But, get him riled up in the newspaper’s online forums, and the name calling erupts like BP’s infamous Gulf of Mexico oil well.

“LibertyAlive” is this dim bulb’s moniker, and he misses no chance to call people names when he disagrees with them.  He’s not even very original when he engages in that name calling, however.  The term ‘wingnut’ has come to be used when referring to the radical/TEA Bagger/right wing conservative, and I’ve used it from time to time when talking about things posted online.  In clever and carefully considered response, he’s come up with ‘dingnut’, to refer to people he thinks must be Democrats, and other left leaning individuals.  How original, huh?

He has a real problem understanding what issue is being discussed, and has, in classic wingnut style, redefined words to mean things 180 degrees from what they really are, or simply assigns meanings to words regardless of what the rest of the world accepts.   That of course makes it difficult to have a rational discussion with him, and if not for the fun of ‘yanking his chain’, I’d have stopped interacting with him a long time ago.  It’s too much fun, though.

When several people take similar positions, or agree with each other, he’ll accuse them of being the same person posting under different names.  I suppose he finds it impossible to believe there is more than one liberal in Visalia.  This screen name is at least his second since he started posting, the first was his actual name.  It may have become apparent to him that his views could negatively affect his business, so he changed the moniker.  Probably a good idea, since he’d probably lose business if customers knew how incoherent his ramblings are, and how much of a wingnut he is.  After all, would you want to do business with someone who thinks I’m a ‘communist elitist envy class warfare monger’?  I didn’t think so.

I will give him credit for one thing, though.  He has yet to play the ‘gay card’ with me.  No slurs or derogatory comments.  Yet.  We’ll see if that continues.  In the meantime, the conversation has gone in circles a few too many times, so I may have to ‘yank’ some other chains for a while.  But sometimes it’s just too tempting…

First She Was A Pit Bull, Now She’s A Grizzly Bear?

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A biographer of Sarah Palin’s has found her target audience: 9-12 year olds.  “Speaking up: the Sarah Palin Story” is being published by Christian pulisher Zondervan’s Zonderkidz division.  We can just imagine what they’ll say about her.  At least until it’s actually published, in September.

Sarah Palin is almost as entertaining as Yogi Berra when it comes to saying things she didn’t really mean.  Or maybe she did.

“What would your response be if I asked you to remove some books from the collection?” –Sarah Palin, inquiring with Wasilla librarian Mary Ellen Emmons about banning books right after taking office in 1996

Here are some other Palinisms to consider:
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The Boys Made A Pitch, Just The Wrong One!

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Not them, but close

I’ve been hoping to meet a couple of cute missionary boys for a while,  when I would be both awake and have the time to talk with them for a bit.  Usually they wake me up, or catch me as I’m heading out the door, and I can’t chat with them.  Tonight the stars were aligned just right!

I was tinkering around with my iPhone, playing with the GPS/mapping software, and was standing at the curb at the corner of my property.  The map program that comes with the iPhone was showing me standing right at the edge of my property line, exactly where I was actually standing!  I had always assumed there would be a noticeable error when zoomed down to street level, but danged if it didn’t have me exactly where I was!  I walked back to the back of the property, and the same thing occurred.  The map’s little blue dot was smack on the property line.  I’m impressed.  I  walked back out to the street to check against the satellite map, and was tinkering with it when two white-shirted Mormon boys rode up on their bikes.

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Climate Geek – Climategate’s death rattle

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Climategate’s death rattle.

Another independent review clears the scientists involved.  Climagegate is nothing more than wishful thinking on the deniers part.  Give it up, dudes.

Read the blog at Bad Astronomy.

So Alone. But Not.

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This is a good blog by PZ Myers at Pharyngula. It expresses so much that is true about us, and I urge you to read it.

Sunday Sacrilege: So alone

Category: Godlessness
Posted on: June 27, 2010 11:53 AM, by PZ Myers

Scientists and atheists do something that many believers find repellent: we shatter their perception of their relationship to the universe. And understandably, they don’t like that.

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More Soccer

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Even a straight, womanizing former President knows a hottie when he sees one!

From Huffington Post.

Hot Men? Playing In Their Underwear? What is this “soccer”??

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So, apparently, there’s this game where a bunch of hot men play in their underwear, in front of thousands?  How have I missed this?  I’ve heard about some game “soccer moms” take their kids to, in the mini-van, but it’s surely not this, is it?

Apparently this guy, Landon Donovan had an important goal in the game today.  From what I’m hearing, maybe the winning one?  Well, that’s good, right?  So after the jump, there’s a couple more of him.  Just because.

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This Guy Hates Your Dog

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Iranian Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi

This guy hates your dog.  It’s “unclean”, and too “western”.

Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi issued a fatwa forbidding the keeping of a dog as a pet. “Friendship with dogs is a blind imitation of the West,” he was quoted as saying in Javan daily. “There are lots of people in the West who love their dogs more than their wives and children.” Ever the hypocrite, dogs can be kept, but only as “working” animals.  Guard dogs, herding dogs, and similar duties are OK, but not as a pet.  The “police” in Iran can now stop and fine people if they carry a dog in a car, or walk one in a park.

So, I’m thinking…  what’s up with this?  Did he get bit as a child?  Did some dog piss on his car tire?  Maybe some exited puppy humped his leg, and gave him “the vapors”.   I think maybe his turban is just wrapped too tight.

The Reuters article, here.

How Much Oil Is That?

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One barrel of oil = 42 US gallons

100,000 x 42 = 4,200,000 gallons per day flowing from the blowout “preventer”.

4,200,000 x 63 days = 264,600,000 (two hundred sixty four million, six hundred thousand) gallons of oil.  And counting.

Possible plug date:  August 2010.  Maybe.  If they’re lucky.

Idiot Speak

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Uh, Sarah…  I don’t think he gives a flying flip about the situation.  He’s had several opportunities  to “help”, but he’s passed on the opportunity.  Looks like we’re on our own.

Hey, Wingnuts…  how can ANY of you think this woman is Presidential material? Are you all…  wait, yes, you are.  Never mind.

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