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Tuesday, December 2, 2008 04:36 PM

hey dorothy...

Click your heels a few times and hear me out.

Let me put in a sub for the esteemed Dr. Soandso. How about the guy Tracy brings up - that guy who cleans the instraments. What oath does he take? Isn't it discrimination if you only hire self-loathing aetheists to be the guy who cleans the instraments? (We know how much the left hates discrimination)

Look folks - I'm no fundy, I voted for Obama in Ohio. I'm just trying to show you that an agenda doesn't equal logic. Just like the Christian right has an agenda - the left has it's an agenda too - both aren't 100% logical or 100% fair. I'm trying to highlight that.

Also, no one has proven to me that artificial insemination is 'health care'.

Doesn't that oath say 'do no harm'? Consider artificially inseminating someone who dies from complications during labor. Does the oath expire after 8 months?

Your idiot,

Tuesday, December 2, 2008 04:56 PM

the unmerry-go-round

It happens with every post TCF makes.

She doesn't like X. She wants to change how X is handled. Then she stops. And we agrue that changing X doesn't always see eye to eye with post-modern slash feminist liberalism. We don't like X either, Tracy. We don't like X either, but.....

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 11:58 AM

.....

Don't you love seeing an American Flag prominently displayed on the back of a huge Toyota SUV? Way to support America.

We all understand that consumers have options - but, really, if you think you support America so much, buy an American car.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 12:26 PM

hey mjtosp

your second solution is to 'slash the benefits for retirees'.

Well, Ford forced my uncle to retire last year. He's worked there since college - he's in his mid-fifties. You want to SLASH his benefits. How considerate. Thanks for your input.

He's got a few more decades on this rock. And you want to Slash his benefits. Go tell him directly.

He worked in the paint department. How much fault shall we lay at his feet?

Thanks mjtosp. You are a wise one.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 02:46 PM
Original article: Beauty over brains

Brightstar

Women want powerful men. We have to deal with it. Maybe not 'powerful,' but certainly rich. They want rich dudes so they can buy things. Remember, 80 cents of every dollar spent in the US is spent by a woman. It ALL comes down to consumption.

Now, here is the interesting question relating to this BS post. Is it easier for a woman to use her smarts to accumulate money to blow consuming worthless things. Or is it easier for women to use her looks to siphen money to blow consuming worthless things.

Remember, a diamond is forever. No matter how stupid that is.

Thursday, December 4, 2008 08:46 AM

Materialism

is apparently more important than values.

Can't help but imagine her thought process.

::I really want a new pair of shoes. I can't afford them because I don't live at Daddy's house anymore. Oh well, I'll just spread my legs for some old rich guy::

FYI - this is why Muslims hate us.

Thursday, December 4, 2008 09:45 AM

Brightstar

Go read some Bin Laden. They made us read it in college. They being the liberal elites obviously (tounge halfway in cheek). 9/11 was my first week on campus.

The passages which I remember the most were about how he was all pissed about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky - and how it reflected our larger culture.

But, all the liberals in America, who have never read Bin Laden, want to blame Bush for 9/11. Which makes no sense.

___________________

relevancy alert. A year an a half ago I was casually dating a NYU undergrad, I think she was a sophomore (no, I didn't pay for the sex). Her roommate - who was really good looking - had the same type of sugar daddy thing going on as this essayist. The dude would pay her around 3 grand a month to sleep with him whenever he asked. She seemed like a normal girl, but obviously there some something wrong. Which gets me back to my original point. When did materialism become more important than values or elementary ethics? Is it all the advertising? Was it Carrie Bradshaw?

Now, I look back on my college career and I have my regrets. But they're nothing compared to what these chicks are going to remember about their college experience. Those expensive shoes and handbags will all have withered away - and they'll be left with the knowledge that they were prostitutes.

At least some phychiatrists may make some money down the road.

We need to fundamentally change what we value as a society. I'll do my part, try to do yours.

Thursday, December 4, 2008 11:02 AM

brightstar

Just go read his work and reach your own conclusions. Don't jump to them without doing research. That's smallminded.

Thursday, December 4, 2008 01:58 PM

So...

What's it like wearing the editor pants? Pants in general?

How can we be so unlucky that Plaxico shoots himself while you're absent from the sportswriting scene? Let's talk Latin Quarter night club.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 03:07 PM

Amy

It's simple. Rich people often don't realize how elitist their comments are. They look through a different lens.

She probably thought she was being a fabulously fashionable feminist. One for others to look up to. Really... what percent of the underclass and middle class spend 5bucks on a Sunday paper?

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 03:09 PM
Original article: Larry Craig is still guilty

.....

and Eliot Spitzer is still guilty too. But he's writing for Slate and you guys are crucifying Craig.

::insert something about the liberal elites::

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