Yeah...I'm another AOL refugee

[InrXeyelArkvst]

Hey, InrX! Glad to see you here!

I hoped I'd find you here.

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Unfortunately the "15 post rule" caused me to already make a nuisance of myself. But you know that I can't simply type my mind.

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[aka520]

Your correct Xeye. You are making a nuisance of yourself. However, in your case I wish it were a one million post rule. I fear soon we are going to find ourselves deluged with a conglomeration of misspelled and made up words, all saying nothing.
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[Againsheila]

and I'm grateful to be here.

I guess you could characterize me as an Independent Libertarian with conservative leanings.

Welcome, from another aol refugee.

 

[Agnapostate]

Nobody is "necessarily" anything. Are all Democrats "necessarily" in favor of big government and high taxes? Are all Republicans "necessarily" opposed to choice when it comes to abortion? What you can say, at best, about any species of belief (short of religion) is that there are certain predominanting tenets. The predominating tenet in Libertarianism is the cultivation of a healthy fear of government.

I'm not referring to members of the "Libertarian" Party, which is itself heavily anti-libertarian. I'm referring to the necessarily anti-capitalist elements of libertarian ideology, which was an anarcho-socialist ideology before its misappropriation by classical liberals.

 

[DamnYankee]

That's OK Cueup, conservatives take abuse better than liberals. I'm still loyal to Bush and getting more loyal every day. Everytime BHO makes another socialist move my wish for the good old days of Bush grow stronger.

[SIZE="4"] The good old days? Doll, when were those? [/SIZE]

Hmmm.... How about when EMPLOYMENT was at it's historical PEAK? You know.... Around December 2006?

 

[InrXeyelArkvst]

Your correct Xeye. You are making a nuisance of yourself. However, in your case I wish it were a one million post rule. I fear soon we are going to find ourselves deluged with a conglomeration of misspelled and made up words, all saying nothing.
gb

Behave.

 

[Rightwngcrkpot]

Welcome aboard there, Annerexic! Good to see ya!


RWC

 

[InrXeyelArkvst]

Welcome aboard there, Annerexic! Good to see ya!


RWC

Dziękuję. Dzień dobry once again. Jak się masz?

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[Captain Ron]

Hey, InrX! Glad to see you here!

I hoped I'd find you here.

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Unfortunately the "15 post rule" caused me to already make a nuisance of myself. But you know that I can't simply type my mind.

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Com' on damnit. I just left an AOL board where this kind of spamming was common. Let's leave that childish crap back at AOL. This board has great possibilities with good people. Let's not muck it up with the puerile poop we left behind.

 

[AnnECUCherry]

Hey, InrX! Glad to see you here!

I hoped I'd find you here.

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Unfortunately the "15 post rule" caused me to already make a nuisance of myself. But you know that I can't simply type my mind.

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Com' on damnit. I just left an AOL board where this kind of spamming was common. Let's leave that childish crap back at AOL. This board has great possibilities with good people. Let's not muck it up with the puerile poop we left behind.

InrX didn't spam the AOL boards.

He's just getting the mandated 15-posts-before-including-a-URL in quickly.

 

[InrXeyelArkvst]

Com' on damnit. I just left an AOL board where this kind of spamming was common. Let's leave that childish crap back at AOL. This board has great possibilities with good people. Let's not muck it up with the puerile poop we left behind.

Nice meeting you, too.

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[MaggieMae]

There are some things that have disturbed me about the incoming administration,(maggie may)

I'm curious...what things would those be? (Cue Up)

You went to a great deal of trouble to double-talk your way through the whole rest of my post but quite deliberately left this little bit unattended to. Perhaps you'd like to now. I'm curious what things about the "incoming administration" have "disturbed" you.

Sorry, it was unintentional.

I have strongly felt that Obama went over the top by his announced policy at the start that he would employ no lobbyists. I knew that once he began trying to actually govern, he would need the expertise of lobbyists (although I think it's noble that he still won't allow them to have as much insider influence, such as actually writing bills). I think he should now come right out and say that he was wrong--that lobbyists do in fact play a crucial role in some of the more complicated issues where politicians are clearly lacking.

I think that his "vetting" committee has done a shitty job. Just because the Democrats never employed IRS records to use against nominees didn't mean that the Republicans wouldn't, and SOMEONE should have KNOWN that. The people nominated who were were ultimately caught with their pants down on taxes owed should have stepped aside at the outset before embarrassing the president (and themselves).

I don't think Obama should have turned over the stimulus bill for Nancy Pelosi to turn around and add everything she's been going after for decades, then not taken her on in some sort of forum to tamp her down. Again, politically that looked bad. Pelosi has her own agenda, she is unpopular except for extremist liberals. I hope she gets knocked out of that position in the next session. Harry Reid is a little more manageable.

That said, it's a delicate walk among the 2 legislative branches and the Executive Branch because of the Constitutional separation of powers. Obama needs to learn how to do that without ruffling feathers, which I had expected Rahm Emanuel would teach him, but apparently not.

The new budget proposals will be dissected in conference, and I'm hoping the carbon tax is eliminated. To me, it's one of those things that is so convoluted it's bound to be affected by political interests. Plus I don't see that it would work in real time anyway. An excellent article appeared in Newsweek a couple of weeks ago confirming my suspicions. It was called "You Can't Get There From Here." (I would post the link, but yesterday, for some reason I lost all my text when I navigated to another site, so if you're interested you can find it yourself, since I don't relish losing all I've already written above.)

Finally, it's clear that Obama has a lot to learn, but it's also clear that he is willing to change policy as events change because he's a quick study, so I shall continue to give him the benefit of the doubt and hope for a half-way point on the domestic issues he is prioritizing, most of which have lingered on the back burner far too long. If he "puts fat in at the beginning" (an old term used in my business when we were attempting to "sell" something to the folks who would have to pay for it), then perhaps he'll be successful in getting about half of what he really wants.

 

[MaggieMae]

and I'm grateful to be here.

I guess you could characterize me as an Independent Libertarian with conservative leanings.

Welcome!

Beware of self-loathing Libtards.

Thanks for the heads up, but I've been arguing with Lefties for years. I know exactly what to expect. Heck...I even used to be one.

It's funny, but I used to be a Republican. Sometimes it takes only one major political gaffe that takes on a life of its own for a person to suddenly decide his/her party preference needs to be changed. Mine was when Ronald Reagan cited a Chicago "Welfare Queen" who had ripped off $150,000 from the government, using 80 aliases, 30 addresses, a dozen social security cards, and four fictional dead husbands. The story was ultimately proven to have been made up, but in the meantime the country was outraged. Reagan came out with that POS at a period in time when my brother was going through an extremely rough time and had to take advantage of the government umbrellas offered just to survive. Although it's a given that welfare fraud takes place, making a mockery of Americans genuinely in need was a monstrous thing for a President of the United States to do. I've voted Democrat ever since.

 

[MaggieMae]

and I'm grateful to be here.

I guess you could characterize me as an Independent Libertarian with conservative leanings.

Welcome!

Beware of self-loathing Libtards.

Thanks for the heads up, but I've been arguing with Lefties for years. I know exactly what to expect. Heck...I even used to be one.

Welcome!

Beware of self-loathing Libtards.

Thanks for the heads up, but I've been arguing with Lefties for years. I know exactly what to expect. Heck...I even used to be one.

Most of us are born a leftie. Then we grow up.

No, we are ALL born under the "veil of ignorance." Some are born into wealth, some are born with the genes necessary to succeed, some are born and unwanted and go through early life a ward of the state, some are born into a cycle of poverty, and some wish they had never been born. And therein lies the crux of class differentials and how our politics later in life reflect it.

 

[MaggieMae]

Hey, InrX! Glad to see you here!

I'm not. He's gone on ignore. When he's ready to play with adults, he can send up a flare.

 

[MaggieMae]

Welcome aboard there, Annerexic! Good to see ya!


RWC

I see a lot of people have recently been TOS'd from AOL. Did they finally wise up and shut down those boards entirely? I used to post there but got tired of the profanity and photoshopped garbage that went unmonitored. AOL of course differs from boards like this because AOL is an ISP and this is well...just a website... Bear in mind, tho, there ARE restrictions.

 

[MaggieMae]

I hoped I'd find you here.

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Unfortunately the "15 post rule" caused me to already make a nuisance of myself. But you know that I can't simply type my mind.

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Com' on damnit. I just left an AOL board where this kind of spamming was common. Let's leave that childish crap back at AOL. This board has great possibilities with good people. Let's not muck it up with the puerile poop we left behind.

InrX didn't spam the AOL boards.

He's just getting the mandated 15-posts-before-including-a-URL in quickly.

Cute. Most folks find something to actually SAY while still in training wheels.

 

[tathagata]

Tathagata here. I don't say much.

 

[AnnECUCherry]

Com' on damnit. I just left an AOL board where this kind of spamming was common. Let's leave that childish crap back at AOL. This board has great possibilities with good people. Let's not muck it up with the puerile poop we left behind.

InrX didn't spam the AOL boards.

He's just getting the mandated 15-posts-before-including-a-URL in quickly.

Cute. Most folks find something to actually SAY while still in training wheels.

The operative word in my comment was "quickly."

InrX has plenty to say that is well worth reading.

And this part of the board isn't for formal debate anyway, is it?

 

[InrXeyelArkvst]

I'm not. He's gone on ignore. When he's ready to play with adults, he can send up a flare.

Nice meeting you, too.

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