Violent rhetoric

What are you blind? Must be as that is nothing like the picture above it or on the map being bitched about. Duh.

Yes, Zeb. If you can see straight, I most certainly must be blind. :D

You're a trip, you are. What a dummy.
 
The POINT that you missed in your blind eagerness to flame back is that the words of war are used heavily by political strategists on both sides. We don't have a problem with it, but we do have a problem with the left's selective memory. The fact is when it comes to political strategy, "Targeting" is about as innocuous a word as "focusing" -- and synonymous. None of these images are meant as an actual call to assassinate anyone.

Only the media would run with anything that obtuse.

What's really amusing is the tap dancing of folks like Zeb (and you from your posting behavior) to "prove" that it isn't targeting in the first place.

The real point here, though, is that this is all just one thread in the fabric of the rhetoric and images Palin has been using for two years. I don't believe she believes she's advocating murder, but she's using exactly the same tactics that those use to incite crazies to blow up abortion clinics and murder abortion doctors, and she has an audience and following that is just as dimwitted -- and if there's a remote chance she doesn't understand this, she most certainly doesn't have the brains to be anywhere close to the controls in this nation.
 
What's really amusing is the tap dancing of folks like Zeb (and you from your posting behavior) to "prove" that it isn't targeting in the first place.

The real point here, though, is that this is all just one thread in the fabric of the rhetoric and images Palin has been using for two years. I don't believe she believes she's advocating murder, but she's using exactly the same tactics that those use to incite crazies to blow up abortion clinics and murder abortion doctors, and she has an audience and following that is just as dimwitted -- and if there's a remote chance she doesn't understand this, she most certainly doesn't have the brains to be anywhere close to the controls in this nation.

Amen.
 
When I was a little Stella, I tended to drop my clothes on the floor and if left to my own devices a laundry pile would grow to alpine proportions. And then someone would have to yell at me to pick it up.

One day my mother said, as always; "STELLA! PICK up the dirty clothes!"

I said "How come you ALWAYS blame me? Maybe someone else left the clothes on the floor!"

She said; "You're right, I'm sorry. Do you know who left these clothes on the floor?" and I had to admit that... it was me...

Come on, assholes, you're always claiming you're smarter than I am. Man up. Stop making stupid rationalizations that little baby Stella would have tried to get away with.
 
What's really amusing is the tap dancing of folks like Zeb (and you from your posting behavior) to "prove" that it isn't targeting in the first place.

The real point here, though, is that this is all just one thread in the fabric of the rhetoric and images Palin has been using for two years. I don't believe she believes she's advocating murder, but she's using exactly the same tactics that those use to incite crazies to blow up abortion clinics and murder abortion doctors, and she has an audience and following that is just as dimwitted -- and if there's a remote chance she doesn't understand this, she most certainly doesn't have the brains to be anywhere close to the controls in this nation.

Wow, our resident tap dancer finally speak his own opinion about something, my god the world is ending as we know it.
 
Wow, our resident tap dancer finally speak his own opinion about something, my god the world is ending as we know it.

Ahem...he's not the one that plagiarizes others works as their own. As I recall, that was you, and trysail.
 
Wow, our resident tap dancer finally speak his own opinion about something, my god the world is ending as we know it.

I can certainly understand why you would feel the need to veer away from the thread topic, Zeb. ;)
 


If you have any honor, you would retract that statement and apologize.



Why should I? Everyone that's a regular here knows you post nothing but what you "borrow" from others.
 
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The site you got these from, Boortz.com, is a right-wing opinion blogger. Not a cartographer.

Wow aren't you informed! Holy shit, no kidding? And all this time I thought he was an expert map maker, blimey doll thanks for that info. God I don't know how I could have made such a fucked up mistake! :rolleyes: Duh!
 
Wow aren't you informed! Holy shit, no kidding? And all this time I thought he was an expert map maker, blimey doll thanks for that info. God I don't know how I could have made such a fucked up mistake! :rolleyes: Duh!

You of course are quite capable of making fucked up mistakes--you do it constantly. I'll bet you even missed the point of Stella's post (on purpose, of course, because reality doesn't serve your agenda).

I think you've spit your wad, such as it is, on this thread, haven't you? And no one is buying it other than those as dimwitted as you.

Or is it time for DarthWhoever to tag-team in? :D
 
Good News!

Handgun sales are way up since Saturday. America is protecting itself from Usual Suspects.
 
Quoted from a Reuters report on Yahoo UK News:

A CBS News poll released on Tuesday found a majority of Americans reject the view that inflamed political rhetoric contributed to the shootings in Arizona.

The poll found 57 percent of respondents said the harsh political tone had nothing to do with the shooting, while 32 percent felt it did. The rejection of a link was strongest among Republicans, with 69 percent feeling harsh rhetoric was not related to the attack.


Since we don't know what the shooter's motives were, I would suggest that 'Don't Know' would have been a reasonable response to the poll - but it depends on what were the exact words of the question that people were asked.

However, almost all commentators in the US have condemned the killings and expressed their condolences for the victims.

Contrast that with the tens of thousands, albeit a minority, who applauded the killing of Pakistan's Governor of Kashmir by one of his bodyguards.

There may be violent language in US politics, but almost everyone abhors violent acts.

Og
 
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Since we don't know what the shooter's motives were, I would suggest that 'Don't Know' would have been a reasonable response to the poll - but it depends on what were the exact words of the question that people were asked.

If you lived in the States, were able to sustain a thought, and weren't plugging an agenda, I think you'd have no trouble making the connections.
 
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