Screaming "That's offensive!" is nothing but a ploy. (Liberals) just don't happen to like what you're saying. Liberals trade on this ploy, using it as a standard response whenever their sacred cows come under scrutiny. A translation of what they really mean to say will illustrate why:
"I hate what you're saying, it makes me angry and you should shut your mouth! [expletives omitted]"
And the "Offensiveness Ploy" (OP) is ideal, as it shifts the onus from them to you. A direct command to still your tongue would make them appear the villains, intolerant, immature, imperious clods, incapable of brooking dissent. It would be offensive. But the OP makes you seem the offensive one.
But in a bastion of liberalism (universities), where accountability is as absent as sensibility, ...here's (the) message (of students who shout down conservative speakers):
"I hate what you're saying, it makes me angry and you should shut your mouth! And you're going to shut your mouth whether you like it or not. We don't have to take it anymore [expletives omitted]."
Tyrants agree: the easiest way to win a debate is to prevent the other side from debating.
Thus, there is a lesson here we ignore at our own peril. You can have freedom from being offended or you can have freedom of speech, but you cannot have both.
The great victory of the left is that it has made us apologize for being right. A few may be truly offended, being in the grip of primitive pride. But, mostly, we are in the grip of a primitive ploy. We need more offensiveness, not less. We must offend the liars, the degraded, the darkness, the destroyers of civilization.
So my answer to the offended is, you have every right to be offended. Now, grow up. If you can't sit at the table of reasoned debate, go back to your bread and circuses. Let the adults figure out the problems of the world.
We need more offensiveness, not less. We must offend the liars, the degraded, the darkness, the destroyers of civilization.
The sword cuts both ways...
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Moose, I don't take that sentence to mean being intentionally offensive, but to not let their claims of offense stop one from saying what must be said.
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It’s an assertion repeated by politicians and climate campaigners the world over: “2,500 scientists of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) agree that humans are causing a climate crisis.”
But it’s not true. And, for the first time ever, the public can now see the extent to which they have been misled. As lies go, it’s a whopper. Here’s the real situation....
Determining the level of support expressed by reviewers’ comments is subjective but a slightly generous evaluation indicates that just five reviewers endorsed the crucial ninth chapter (“Greenhouse gas forcing has very likely caused most of the observed global warming over the last 50 years”). Four had vested interests and the other made only a single comment for the entire 11-chapter report. The claim that 2,500 independent scientist reviewers agreed with this, the most important statement of the UN climate reports released this year, or any other statement in the UN climate reports, is nonsense. ....
Yeah, let's reallocate trillions of dollars for this. What does your consensus of one think?
Jeff Jacoby flat out nails, eviscerates and otherwise flays Obama's flip-flop on gun possession and rights to the same.
As a candidate for the Illinois Legislature in the 1990s, Obama had supported legislation to "ban the manufacture, sale, and possession of handguns," so it wasn't surprising that he endorsed the gun ban being challenged in Heller while campaigning for president. In November, for example, his campaign told the Chicago Tribune that "Obama believes the D.C. handgun law is constitutional." In February, when a questioner during a televised forum said, "You support the D.C. handgun ban," Obama readily agreed: "Right."[emphasis added]
Obama now says he believes in the right to keep and bear arms. As Obama himsself said Riiiight!
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Now, that Obama has the Democratic nomination in the bag, he's moving to the right and sounding just like Hillary Clinton. They might as well have stuck with her.
Posted by: Woody at Monday, June 30 2008 09:23 AM (Eb/8J)
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Sorry. Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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When it comes to attacking Republicans versus winning the war on terror, you can always count on The New York Times to put left-wing politics ahead of American lives. Well, here they go again.
Many of you know that I have been fighting cancer since January 2006. Well, I received the news on another CT Scan and once again I am cancer free. Thanks to each of you that have encouraged me with your friendship, your prayers and your many kindnesses too numerous to mention.
Thanks too to all of my blogging friends that have encouraged me and helped keep my spirits up with a joke, a wisecrack or a really wicked pun.
Thanks to my wonderful wife Norma, and my beautiful daughter Jennifer and her Hubster Mike. Now that Jennifer will be presenting me with a grand-baby in late December or early January, you can best believe I'm going to spoil that child rotten. And I'm going to enjoy many, many years of it.
Thanks also and especially to God for keeping me in the palms of his hands.
In honor of this wondeful event... Why aren't you on the cover of Texas Monthly? If they can put Kinky Friedman there (in a wedding gown) Texas Monthly should be able to feature you on the cover in your hospital gown (with your lily white caboose hanging out!)
Hmmmmm... now where's my Photoshop application... and a picture of the infamous George M. Roper Chia Pet Head?
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Posted by: Tom Farnie at Sunday, June 29 2008 04:45 PM (KI/Os)
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Great news! I can barely imagine how stressful and frightening your ordeal has been. I had a minor and insignificant scare with my heart and I was stressed out for months.
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Great news my friend. The power of prayer is remarkable indeed.
Posted by: Big Dog at Sunday, June 29 2008 05:51 PM (bIIf/)
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That is terrific news! And congrats on the incipient grandkid.
Posted by: Cappy at Sunday, June 29 2008 05:57 PM (iayT4)
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Fight On! These milestones keep coming GM- and I'm SO grateful to have you with me then, now and for many more years. Now, just because you're older than Mustang and all that doesn't mean you can get all cockey on us! Just because you and Mustang argue over who was alive when the wooly Mammoths roamed the planet...
Posted by: Raven at Sunday, June 29 2008 06:49 PM (OBHrT)
This is indeed good news, my friend. Congratulations, and may God continue to bless you and yours.
Of course, Raven is correct. I remember you telling me some time back that your first pet was a Wooley Mammoth named Skippy; that he couldn't "fetch" worth a darn.
Semper Fi . . .
Posted by: Mustang at Sunday, June 29 2008 07:28 PM (BFb1r)
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Congrats to you, G.M. I'm glad you're still on target to be here for either the glory of the McCain administration or the folly of that other guy, the one we in Missouri call "The Seeker of Oz," that is Mr. "No-Brains, No-Heart, No-Courage"!
Posted by: Craig Hildreth at Monday, June 30 2008 01:47 PM (wkIRO)
You have no idea what a wonderful time you're headed for with grandchildren. They do make the world go 'round...and what a ride !!!!!!
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Gen. Wesley Clark showed that his experience, military or otherwise, has not qualified him to be a good judge of Presidential candidates.
Gen. Wesley Clark, acting as a surrogate for Barack Obama's campaign, ...said that McCain lacked the executive experience necessary to be president, calling him “untested and untried” on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “I don’t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president.”
I suppose that Welsey Clark thinks that Sen. Obama's vast experience in the military and as a Senator qualifies him to be President. This guy is a hero to the left? Associating with the left must make one unable to think logically.
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And Clark, the man in charge of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy, is qualified. For what, assistant dogcatcher?
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It's so typical. Liberals speak their minds freely, but they insist on continuing to speak...and yell and shout and interrupt when it's turn for their opponents to have the floor--like thisandthisand thisand this and this and this and this and this and this and thisand thisand thisand thisandthisand thisand this...and they actually have a course on how to do it--but, here's how one great guy handled such a situation. What is it with liberal protesters that makes them think that no one has a right to hear other views?
Posted by: dw at Sunday, June 29 2008 10:01 AM (1fjXG)
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What began as a colorful Internet fluke has blossomed into a full-fledged political movement - one that Republicans and Democrats alike are reluctantly having to acknowledge.
Sorry. I really respect GM, but he's too young. He needs more seasoning (A-1 sauce, a couple 'a more trips to St. Petersburg....btw, what WAS he doing there?, some garlic powder and broasted under the Deep South Texas sun).
Besides, does he have any chance against that lad Name We Cannot Say (least we all be called racists)?
No worries, it will all be apples when the Dems completely take over. No limits to spending. Move the rest of my money to the good people of New Orleans. Yep, socialism is really the way to go. It has worked so wonderfully well in so many other countries.
On the up side, I won't have to go the dentist anymore, as by November I will have ground my teeth down to nothing.
Posted by: Tad at Saturday, June 28 2008 05:42 PM (wW/+j)
Let us speak plainly. I know G. M. Roper. G. M. Roper is a personal friend of mine. And the ONLY way G. M. Roper can be elected to the presidency is if he pays me gobs of money to keep damning pictures away from the MSM. No, this isn't blackmail. It's capitalism.
Posted by: Mustang at Saturday, June 28 2008 07:13 PM (BFb1r)
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Obviously Mustang talks to vegetables... he said "Lettuce speak plainly."
Posted by: GM Roper at Sunday, June 29 2008 10:03 AM (1fjXG)
Or, I could just change that to... LOL Nah,
is fine and easy to understand. However, maybe there are some liberals out there that wouldn't understand LOL but would understand
So, I think I'll just leave it.
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I'm getting sick and tired of Muslims being "offended" by this and by that! Acording to The Argus:
Muslims travelling on trains from Brighton have objected to sniffer dogs being used to search them for drugs and bombs.
The trial by the British Transport Police (BTP) on all rail passengers travelling through the station prompted complaints from some Muslims who said their religion did not allow direct contact with dogs.
Well, ex-cuuuuuu-se me! I'm offended that some members of a religion think it is OK to hack off the heads of captives; that some members of a religion feel it is OK to slam passenger jets into buildings. I'm offended that some members of a religion think it is OK to riot and murder over a few cartoon's. I'm damn offended that some members of a religion think it is OK to put children in a car and drive past checkpoints then blow up the car with the children in it. I'm pissed off that some members of a religion think it is OK to call for the death of an author. I'm ticked off that some members of a religion think it is OK to hang gays and stone women and launch missles at Israel. I'm really pissed off that the Saudi Embassy can fund a school where all of the above is thought to be OK and where a student is voted "Most Likely To Become A Martyr" let alone have textbooks that call Christians and Jews apes and pigs. So, for all you folk that given the proclivities of your fellow religionists think that the rest of us don't have the right to protect ourselves, I offer this lil tyke and tell you to just be thankful they don't train these as sniffer dogs:
Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama has received the promise of a prominent Madame (name withheld) to provide him with millions of women to fulfill his needs in exchange for his providing millions of dollars to her for debts, thus, showing there is little difference between the world's second oldest profession and the first.
Now, we know why this unnamed madame is available to answer the phone at three in the morning.
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Typical Nader talk... I admire many of the man's ideals but he's not much of a politician.
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What national pastime could divide the country and cause more arguments than politics? It's not a red and blue map, but it shows more divisions--such as the National League East and the American League West. Here are the fan bases of the MLB teams.
Woodster, there should be a red spot in DEEEEEEEP South Texas because both the Bride and I deserve our little place on the map. Because, of course, Boston Red Sox Fans ARE counted if I have anything to say about it.
Soooooo, I changed the map.
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Awesome picture, but Mets country looks bigger than it ever felt.
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Posted by: QuickRob at Friday, June 27 2008 01:20 PM (U8I/b)
Now, since the President is the one who appoints the Supreme Court justices subject to confirmation by the Senate, it's important in a Presidential election to consider the types of justices that a candidate would appoint.
Our buddy, Delftsman, provides a clue as to what type of justices that Sen. Obama would appoint by providing a comparison of Obama's ideal justice to the oath that a such justice must make. After you read it, you shouldn't have any question as to how Obama's justices would have distorted the Second Amendment and other rulings had they been sitting on the bench today. Consider that for the future.
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