How'd I get here from there? (I don't think I'm a 'bot...)

Ramblings' Journal ^ | 9.26.02 | Michael King

[RedBloodedAmerican]

First you said that does it matter, then you say it does not matter. Dang! make up your mind! LOL!

[mhking]

Can we clone you? Pretty please??

I don't know how my wife or my mom would feel about that...[g]

[Liberal Classic]

RedBloodedAmerican,

All I am saying is that we conservatives and libertarians ought to bury the proverbial hatchet. There's more common ground between conservatives and libertarians than that which is different, and there's more difference between us and the socialists as to make our disagreements academic. This essay by Mr. King is a perfect example of that. But it looks like you're twisting my words, so goodbye.

[.38sw]

Shannon Reeves (get this, he's head of the Oakland branch of the NAACP and secretary of the California GOP!)

Shannon Reeves is an irregular guest on the local morning conservative radio show (KSFO plug). He sounds like a GREAT guy (and incidentally, also sounds like he'd be a lot of fun at a party).

I was trying to remember the conversation we were having in front of the gun shop when the black gentlemen joined us. I think we were talking about libers (I'm a recovering liberal) and their relationship to gun-grabbers, and Bush and Gore were also being mentioned in the conversation. There were Bush/Cheney buttons and bumper stickers on the voter registration table. I myself display a bumper sticker (on my car!, not my own bumper) that proclaims Charleton Heston is my president.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Twisting what? First, you said

Who cares if this man calls himself a conservative or a libertarian

then

Some may say Mr. King is conservative, others may claim that he is libertarian. What does that label matter in light of Mr. King's excellent essay?

then

One, it does seem to matter to some people. And two, I am generally on a tear about the whole conservative vs. libertarian dispute and looking for some common ground.

I don't care one way or the other, personally. Just thought it funny you contradicted yourself. See? That's one more reason pot should be kept illegal :o)

[RedBloodedAmerican]

There is only one Miami team. All the rest are fillers.

[Liberal Classic]

With all due respect, no, you're being obtuse. The whole point to my posts in this thread have revolved around the importance some people place on labels, and my opinion that people ought not put quite so much at stake based on them. When I rhetorically ask "who cares if this man calls himself" and then say that it "does seem to matter to some people" I am not being contradictory.

[two23]

"Does that make me a "Bush-bot?" I don't think so. Perhaps a bit zealous in my beliefs. But not a slave to anyone's "cult of personality."

I don't like the "Bush-Bot" accusation/name calling either, but you were rather quick with the number "5" bandwagon the other day. Most of us believe and live for the same values, and if we hastily type something and do not clarify the "/sarcasim", it's rude to slam a 5 on them and dismis them as the enemy.

[mhking]

it's rude to slam a 5 on them and dismis them as the enemy

Point very well taken. And I apologize most deeply to any whom I've offended.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Ok, thanks.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

That was a newbie. There was nothing wrong with the way that the "5" number was used. Great post here, and the other ones you have made.

[two23]

Please see private FR mail (thank you)

[Quicksilver]

If you ever run for elective office in my district you will have my vote.

[Liberal Classic]

May I ask a dumb question? What is this #5 thing you're talking about?

[Focault's Pendulum]

Great essay!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

A quick and easy reply to Dem rhetoric.

[SuziQ]

Great column! We Dosers are called Bush-bots from time to time. Whatever, I'm glad to know that there are black people who are not swallowing the racist bait of the Dems, hook like and sinker!

I saw an interesting interview one night on TV. Some news guy was talking to Morgan Freeman who recently moved back to Mississippi. The news idiot was amazed that he would do such a thing, and asked if he didn't think that MS was racist? Morgan Freeman looked at the guy like he had three heads and said something like "No worse than anywhere else". He was glad to move back to MS where folks weren't hypocritical about their beliefs; what you see is what you get. And he said that folks in MS had gotten over the race thing a long time ago, where the 'liberal' areas of the country couldn't seem to. The news idiot was dumbfounded! Sir SuziQ and I, who are both from MS (he from the Delta) were laughing our butts off!

[Liberal Classic]

Okay, thank you.

[Slip18]

That would be great! We link to a lot of your articles.

[SuziQ]

the woman who I currently refer to as "She-who-must-be-obeyed."
You never know when a Harry Potter reference is going to pop up

Harry Potter? I don't think so! This is from "Rumpole of the Bailey"! I have a mug with that sentiment sitting on my kitchen counter that I got over 10 years ago! I ordered it for myself from the catalog of Public TV.