http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/04/17/mitt-romney-would-not-stick-his-dog-on-the-roof-again-because-it-was-so-unpopular-the-first-time Comments On: Mitt Romney Would Not Stick His Dog on the Roof Again, Because It Was So Unpopular the First Time by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 25 May 2013 03:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by welldunsheldon]]> Sat, 07 Jul 2012 08:04:24 -0700 The Stranger "Anytime you feel up to it pal"? Easy words to say to some one miles away. If Matt will allow it, I offer to stand in his stead, since I am not geographically inconvenient.

Meet with me Seattleblues, here in Seattle. I will call you a liar to your face. As I am a small boned middle age lady the risk of physical danger is small. The only thing you have to fear is my derision, which is, of course, what you fear the most.

So yes, anytime you feel up to it pal, anytime at all.
Posted by Lissa]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:41:09 -0700 The Stranger
You have a good family whom you love, immediate and extended.
So do Dan and Eli.
You have good friends on whom you can rely and who can rely on you.
So do Dan an Eli.
You make your living doing something you love and doing it well.
So do Dan and Eli. In fact they do their jobs so well that one won the Pulitzer and the other was invited to the White House in recognition of their work.
They have everything you hold dear and more. You are a mediocrity and you hate them for that.
Posted by Lissa]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:31:23 -0700 The Stranger
He's a fucking lying fruitcake, and I look forward to agreeing to meet with him at a bar to tell him so, only to have him not show up.
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:23:35 -0700 The Stranger
Namely, he doesn't mind doing wrong; he minds getting caught.
Posted by woof]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:52:17 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Patricia Kayden]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:31:18 -0700 The Stranger Posted by venomlash]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:44:08 -0700 The Stranger Certain loci in the brain differ in size between (heterosexual) men and women. Homosexuals of either gender tend to occupy intermediate states in the otherwise bimodal distribution. These are regions that are known to be involved with sexual attraction and do not change much during the course of life. If you don't believe me, I'd be happy to dig up some of those citations I've already thrown at you.
I never claimed that having gay sex is innate. But being gay (sexually and/or romantically attracted exclusively to people of the same gender) is, and it's a fact you've railed against pretty much every time it's mentioned in your presence here on SLOG. You continue to make false claims even after being exhaustively corrected; you are by any reasonable set of criteria a liar.
Now, your ignorance shows when you conflate "innate" with "genetically determined". There is no gay gene as far as we know. But then again, there are no genes associated with the intricacies of fingerprint patterns either. However, you cannot change your fingerprints (barring surgery) any more than you can change your sexual orientation. I've told you this before too, but you don't seem too keen on learning new things...
Posted by venomlash]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:41:33 -0700 The Stranger Posted by sahara29]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:12:17 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Mrs. Robinson]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:24:13 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:07:25 -0700 The Stranger So tell me more about those magical military payroll elves who distribute paychecks to the good troops and death to bad troops.
I'm interested because I am pretty sure that our military is funded via taxes.
But I'm willing to listen to your explanation.

You claim that Romney should not be taxed even a penny more than he currently is because you claim Romney does not get a penny's worth of "military protection" more than anyone else, so why should he pay more.

There are a lot of people out there who have paid a lot more than Romney has for the defense of this nation.
Some have paid with their lives.

But, in your opinion, their lives are not worth a single penny more in taxes on Romney's $250 million.
Is it because of the magical military payroll elves?
Posted by fairly.unbalanced]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:32:34 -0700 The Stranger
Anytime you feel up to it pal.

@53

I noted that homosexual behavior is chosen. And it is. I noted that an urge to some behavior is not a justification for it, from whatever source. And it isn't.

And all your sources are excuse making studies. "We asked 45 gay men if they felt being gay was innate, and by God they said it was!" So, show me where the gay gene has been mapped and proven to exist, and I'll gladly retract my statement that it isn't innate.

But it wouldn't change anything. As I've also written, a predilection to heart disease or Alzheimers doesn't excuse lifestlye choices that increase the risk of either. A predilection for the mental illness of homosexuality doesn't excuse homosexual behavior.

You might learn what the word lie means before you use it, boy.
Posted by Seattleblues]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:30:23 -0700 The Stranger Posted by LEE.]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:29:24 -0700 The Stranger
you do realize Hell was an invention of the Middle Ages, right?
Posted by LEE.]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:26:20 -0700 The Stranger
Comparing Sanders to Hemingway and Kennedy? Clearly education of the young has experienced some radical diminishing of quality since I was in school. Hemingway was a writer and sometimes journalist. Sanders is a hack nobody will remember in 10 years, let alone 6 or 7 decades.

As for the subhuman Savage you can keep your opinion of that pied piper of hell. My dog has more decorum and morality, more integrity and decency, than that piece of human debris has in his little finger. He hasn't helped anyone. Quite the reverse. He is an agent of chaos, immorality and destruction. Books and TV appearances selling perversion and social decay, attacking the family and loyalty to ones spouse and healthy sexuality are things I don't aspire to. Helping ruin the lives of young men and women who could have chosen healthy sexuality but may choose abberant and abnormal homosexuality with his assistance will be held to his eventual account. Young men and women who lose the sole difference between the rutting of barnyard animals and the pleasures of a marriage bed can blame themselves, but also the depraved Savage for helping them make that decision. He sows the wind, and you can bet your bottom dollar that that animal will reap the whirlwind.

Sorry, animals often have a natural dignity and integrity Savage couldn't begin to rise to. I shouldn't insult animals by comparing them to him.

No, I won't ever write books. I won't go into politics. I won't ever appear on television. And I'm not afraid of that. I have a good family whom I love, immediate and extended. I have good friends on whom I can rely and who can rely upon me. I make my living doing something I love and doing it well. So you know what? Savage the trained ape can keep his temporal success. I wouldn't want to pay the spiritual bill he'll eventually be held to account for it for his own ruin, but more for all those he's led to their ruin. I couldn't begin to afford it, and neither, he'll find, can he.
Posted by Seattleblues]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:21:02 -0700 The Stranger
This.
Posted by Donolectic]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:29:47 -0700 The Stranger
@46: No projection. Eli won the Pulitzer Prize. This puts him among the ranks of people like John F Kennedy and Earnest Hemingway. He won it for writing a series that damn near shredded him. The things he saw and heard will never leave him, and yet he still was able to have compassion and grace and convey those awful, awful things to his readers in a way that made us feel for every one involved.
Dan has published four well received books, any number of articles in respected publications, appeared on national new programs, lectured around the country, run a newspaper, dispensed valued advice to countless people on the radio, and in print, established the It Gets Better project, again giving aid to countless people, been received by the White House, and maintained a happy stable marriage and raising a well adjusted son.

In comparison to these two men? You have done exactly squat. And that eats you up inside.

You are a small, not terribly intelligent man, red faced, kicking and screaming like an infant, because you know that you are nothing, have achieved nothing, and will be forgotten. And you are so very, very afraid.
Posted by Lissa]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:14:43 -0700 The Stranger @48: You are a liar.
You claim that homosexuality is chosen. That could be attributed to ignorance at first, but I've repeatedly exposed you to evidence indicating that sexual orientation is fixed during early development. And yet you continue to spew things that you know (or at least should know) to be false. That fits the criteria of lying.
A rational person, when called a liar, defends himself verbally. Are you going to try and punch me out, internet tough guy?
Posted by venomlash]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:53:43 -0700 The Stranger
That's objective, and that makes you a liar. Sort of like when you're all "Happy Easter" a week ago and insulting now - we know you're a liar, so we don't take your rare tactful moments as evidence of anything other than weasly lying.

Next time I'm in Seattle, I'll say so in a thread you're reading. You can come meet me in person, and I'll call you that to your face, and see if your internet tough guy persona translates to anything approximating reality.
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:18:13 -0700 The Stranger "Romney paying more taxes or less won't bring that soldier back, you retarded twit."

Did I say it would? No I did not say it would.

I'm asking you how many dead soldiers would it take to equal a one penny increase in Romney's taxes (on his $250 million).

Is it 10 dead soldiers per penny?
Or is it something like 1 dead soldier from every state per penny?

"Soldiers serving on active duty can get wounded. They can get killed. It is awful and it has not a goddamn thing to do with tax policy."

So you believe in magical military payroll elves who distribute paychecks to the good troops and death to bad troops?
Because I am pretty sure that our military is funded via taxes.

Now you claim that Romney should not be taxed even a penny more than he currently is because you claim Romney does not get a penny's worth of "military protection" more than anyone else, so why should he pay more.

There are a lot of people out there who have paid a lot more than Romney has for the defense of this nation.
Some have paid with their lives.

But, in your opinion, their lives are not worth a single penny more in taxes on Romney's $250 million.
Posted by fairly.unbalanced]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:54:58 -0700 The Stranger
Her successor, David Cameron, is an Obama-ite through and through -- except that he's much more liberal on gay marriage than Obama, which is because the UK does not have a powerful troglodyte lobby that opposes everything that doesn't hail from the depths of the Jim Crow era.

I define right and center-right the way EVERYBODY defines them -- everybody who isn't a Mississippi mudslapper like you. Berlusconi is right wing -- you won't find any intelligent commentator on the right or the left who disagrees. Sarkozy is center-right -- is this really that difficult? Merkel is center-right -- that's what "Christian Democrat" MEANS.

The "postwar shift" in Europe is "leftward" in large part because when you're shifting from Nazism, left is the only direction available. You've heard of the Nazis, right? Supposedly your heroic relatives died fighting them? (Can't win a war without peeling potatoes, I guess).

More practically, sometimes they shift left and sometimes they shift right. Half of Germany, for instance, shifted pretty far right when the DDR collapsed. Communism? You've heard of it, right?

You've apparently not heard of BEFORE the war, however, which is a shame. Left economics didn't just magically appear after WWII, here or there.

Overall, the main European countries are indeed somewhat to the left of the US in terms of social policy, but not in other areas -- and not for the most part recently. Not knowing anything about "Europe" except what you hear on Rush Limbaugh's radio program leaves you at a disadvantage, doesn't it?

The fact is that the US and Europe are very closely aligned economically, because those are the policies that work in the modern world, for the past hundred years: proof that a well-managed modern state with sane economics and high levels of freedom, like Western Europe and America, will beat out right- and left- wing oligarchies everytime.

You on the other hand crave the reinstatement of oligarchy. You think you're following the voice of your hero Ronald Reagan but you don't understand anything that he ever did (actually, neither did he, most of the time).
Posted by Fnarf]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:52:30 -0700 The Stranger
Dude, you really are a moron. How do you not get that what you're writing makes no fucking sense?

Romney paying more taxes or less won't bring that soldier back, you retarded twit. Romney paying less taxes won't either. Soldiers serving on active duty can get wounded. They can get killed. It is awful and it has not a goddamn thing to do with tax policy. Idiot.

Take your meds, reread what you've written and you'll get it. Or not, since like Mile High and Lissa you're a lib and therefore reality challenged.
Posted by Seattleblues]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:45:52 -0700 The Stranger
Ya know, whatever you smoke has to be illegal.

Clearly you, like most liberals, wouldn't know objective reality if it bit you on the ass. You can't distinguish reality from your delusions. But I realize you think you're telling the truth. I don't call you a liar, since you don't even know what truth is.

See, calling someone else a liar where I grew up would get you a bloody nose- if you were lucky. But you're too stupid to realize that truth is objective. Too halfwitted to know that truth doesn't mean 'what Mile High Matt thinks it is,' you call someone a liar for not thinking (and I use that term very loosely with regard to you) as you do.

Best of luck with that relative reality thing you've got going.

I'm just heartbroken that you don't think me intelligent, Mile High. Think I'll go somewhere and cry myself to sleep.

Ass.
Posted by Seattleblues]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:41:12 -0700 The Stranger "It's the left that relies on envy and class warfare for their entire philosophy (such as it is.)"

Really? But you the one who claims that a soldier who gives his life for his country is not worth a penny more in taxes on Romney's $250 million?

A dead soldier does not get to come home to a nice house in a nice neighborhood. He's dead.
Posted by fairly.unbalanced]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:40:17 -0700 The Stranger