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    Micheal Moore

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    However, I think we can agree that the film is so flat-out phony that "fact-checking" is beside the point. :devil: And as for the scary lawyers—get a life, or maybe see me in court. But I offer this, to Moore and to his rapid response rabble. Any time, Michael my boy. Let's redo Telluride. Any show. Any place. Any platform. Let's see what you're made of.

     

    By the same token, if I write an article and I quote somebody and for space reasons put in an ellipsis like this (…), I swear on my children that I am not leaving out anything that, if quoted in full, would alter the original meaning or its significance. Those who violate this pact with readers or viewers are to be despised.

     

    If Moore had studied a bit more, or at all, he could have read Orwell really saying, and in his own voice, the following:

     

    The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a minority of intellectual pacifists, whose real though unacknowledged motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration for totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writing of the younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States …

     

    There's that ellipsis he despises. Lets see what follows.

     

    Moreover they do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defense of western countries. The Russians, unlike the British, are not blamed for defending themselves by warlike means, and indeed all pacifist propaganda of this type avoids mention of Russia or China.

    He knows Moore isn't doing that or even suggesting it and that's why he deliberately leaves it out. He's doing exactly what he's criticizing Moore for doing.

     

    If Michael Moore had had his way, Slobodan Milosevic would still be the big man in a starved and tyrannical Serbia. Bosnia and Kosovo would have been cleansed and annexed. If Michael Moore had been listened to, Afghanistan would still be under Taliban rule, and Kuwait would have remained part of Iraq. And Iraq itself would still be the personal property of a psychopathic crime family, bargaining covertly with the slave state of North Korea for WMD. You might hope that a retrospective awareness of this kind would induce a little modesty. To the contrary, it is employed to pump air into one of the great sagging blimps of our sorry, mediocre, celeb-rotten culture. Rock the vote, indeed.

     

    Here's a quote from him earlier in the article.

     

    Moore says loudly and repeatedly that not enough troops were sent to garrison Afghanistan and Iraq. (This is now a favorite cleverness of those who were, in the first place, against sending any soldiers at all.)

     

    He never offers that Moore was against the war just that it's cleverness by those who initially opposed the war. So where does he get his own opinion that Moore would be against his sumations?

    better be careful, you may get some repetitive nerve damage on your right index finger (mouse finger) from all that cutting and pasting... :devil:

    McCain's Brain: White Trash AZ/AK Style

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    I am not pefect at all... In matter of fact we (our family growing up) had 4 children that lived... I had a younger brother that died a week after birth... My mother also had 2 miscarriages. My wife went through one... And with our first child, we seriously thought he would be born with Down Syndrome (the amnio cleared it up).

     

    By no means is anyone perfect.

     

    About NOT talking trash... Maybe for Obama and his people... I could care less... And he probably doesn't think ME saying anything is not okay.

     

    WTF... It is a free country.

     

    Of course Obama will take the high ground... Let pukes like me dish the dirt!

     

    :devil:

    Well nothing better than a self aware person.... puke is pretty vile! glad you realize how vile you are :devil:

    McCain's Brain: White Trash AZ/AK Style

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    Sure... Everything is on the table!

     

    And who knows... Maybe she did? The wackos that get all moral or what not... Are usually the ones that had problems and issues in their life... Just saying... You know the one's that "find Jesus." The are the moral do gooders that have to find push their values on everybody else.

     

    This is not a strange conincidence... Just look at the one's with past issues in their life.

    Glad you're following your leader.... Didn't Obama say that family members were off limits? especially children?

     

    Keep riding high on your horse..... Your family is perfect,,, did your mom have any children that lived?

     

    have a nice day :devil:

    Is Sarah Palin covering for her 16yr old daughter?

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    How is that Barack's responsibilty? This is about Palin's inability to govern her own family.

    Get off your high horse... good kids get pregnant.... doesn't make em bad I can think of a dozen or so people I know who got pregnant did the right thing and have been in great marriages for decades.....

     

    by the way... you can do the math....."When they became engaged, both sets of parents opposed the marriage, with Barack, Sr.'s father in particular objecting. Nevertheless, the couple married on February 2, 1961 in Maui, Hawaii.[6][1]

     

    On August 4, 1961, at age 18, she gave birth to her first child whom she named Barack Hussein Obama II."

     

    doesnt make it a bad thing....

    Micheal Moore

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    It is the nation's busiest port.

    no it isint

     

    New Orleans is an industrial and distribution center.he Port of New Orleans is the 5th-largest port in the United States based on volume of cargo handled, second-largest in the state after the Port of South Louisiana, and 12th-largest in the U.S. based on value of cargo. The Port of South Louisiana, also based in the New Orleans area, is the world's busiest in terms of bulk tonnage, and, when combined with the Port of N.O., it forms the 4th-largest port system in volume handled.

    Sarah Palin

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    Oh I beg to differ. 10x, no McCain is Joe's equal if not worse. Obama, I don't know as well and can't make an informed opinion on that side of him. Part of my problem with him.

    your right... Joe is quiet as a church mouse... an alterboy one might say... gentle as a lamb... what was i thinking

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