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Slow Blogging/E-mail

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I apologize for not blogging as regularly as I would like.  For the past few days, my mind has been elsewhere, actually my mind has been a lot of places. I haven’t really been able to focus on crafting an original post or even developing the ideas I have had for such pieces.

I may try to craft a few posts on Hollywood as movies have been much on my mind in recent days or one a reconciliation with my best friend from elementary school from whom until this year I had been estranged since high school. (I have his permission to post the picture of our reunion.)

I may share my thoughts on Mama Mia! which I thoroughly enjoyed despite its abundant flaws and Aliens which I popped into my DVD player last night to watch for just an hour before bed, but ended up watching the movie.  One of the times when a sequel is better than the original.  Hey, there’s an idea for another post, especially given the box office success of another sequel I much enjoyed — The Dark Knight.

While I have not much been up for original posts, I have been taking on some of my critics in a thread on another blog.  When a fellow Williams alumnus linked my post on my classmate at the New York Times on an alumni blog, it generated quite the thread. I found myself chiming in on regular basis–primarily to correct their repeated and regular misrepresentations of conservative, but as is my wont, I did allow myself to get distracted, but had fun doing so.

Amazing how frequent are such misrepresentations.

Finally, I have also been trying to clean out my various e-mail boxes where I allowed missives to accumulate since my trip to Cincinnati. I find that process quite draining. Perhaps I have been in more of a mood to respond to critics on the other blog given the number of e-mails I have been responding to in recent days.

I used to read all my e-mail, especially those of critics, but find now I no longer have the time to do so. I find it amusing that when I do reply to certain critics (via e-mail) that just as soon as I address the point they raised in their initial missive, they go on to attack me on another point. As if their entire purpose is to attack conservatives rather than to engage us and understand our ideas.

And for me who loves a good debate, this is truly sad. Given the limited number of hours in the day, I regret I may not be able to devote as much time as I would like to my critics and even, alas, some of my supporters.

Finally, a point from one of my e-mails: given this one post a critic linked, I wonder if I should use the rationale of this blogger in saying it was environmentalists who really killed and maimed the victims of Ted Kaczynski.  Al Gore, you’ve got some ‘splaining to do.

(Over at Balloon Juice, John Cole offers a good takedown of the post linked above.)

Comments

  2. #2

    You mean like Sleepless in Seattle vs. An Affair to Remember vs. Love Affair?

    I remember finding The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) in the $5 bin at Wal Mart. About half-way through, I thought to myself “I’ve seen this before”. Then I realized it was the same as the 1956 version with Cary Grant and Doris Day. The latter was better at explaining the story.

  3. James Stewart and Doris Day, sorry.

    How about the original The Shining vs. the 1997 USA mini-series? Stephen Webber’s cuter anyways.

  4. The environment will kill us ultimately if we aren’t good to it. That goes beyond any ideology. As far as what Huff Post said, sure, I do believe all those factors and more help spur someone who is on the edge over the line. I think the man felt isolated and alienated. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer and people on the edge lash out. When it comes down to it, the ease of purchasing a gun in this country is alarming. People like that kill. Sooner or later, you will have to realize that this Ideology of hate preached by the Neo-Conservative Right is going to reap what it sows.

    People like Hagee, Robertson, Parsley, Podhoretz et al have a message of extermination of those you despise and hate.

  6. People like Hagee, Robertson, Parsley, Podhoretz et al have a message of extermination of those you despise and hate.

    So that means liberals are responsible for this guy, right?

    When it comes down to it, the ease of purchasing a gun in this country is alarming.

    You do know you were lied to by Michael Moore, right?

  7. #5: “The environment will kill us ultimately if we aren’t good to it. That goes beyond any ideology.”

    That’s what I like about Good Riddance’s comments–so much ignorance and stupidity packed into so few words, but without skimping on the unbelievable arrogance that we have come to expect. GR, the “environment” will kill you if that’s what it feels like doing on any particular day, and no amount of electric cars, composting or recycling is going to keep a tornado from dropping a house on you or your sister if that’s what it wants to do. You don’t control the weather or the climate. No one does. And your unflinching statements to the contrary only reveal how devoid of reason and common sense your entire platform is. Mark Steyn was right about liberals–We CAN’T curb the influx of illegal aliens into the U.S. or deport the ones already here. It simply CAN’T be done. But we CAN CONTROL THE HEAVENS if we just carpool. We CAN’T win the War in Iraq, period. It’s an “irrevocably lost quagmire.” Oh, but we CAN CHANGE THE WEATHER if we use a particular type of light bulb recommended by Al Gore.

    And your view doesn’t “go beyond an ideology.” IT IS THE DEFINITION OF AN IDEOLOGY. The same way it’s an ideology to believe that a dormant volcano won’t kill you if you throw a virgin into it every couple of years.

  8. What a time to go dark, Dan… when there is so much good material out there. From Ted Stevens, to Harry Reid larding up the mortgage boondoggle bill with payoffs to his own cronies, to the House passing a meaningless apology for slavery while blocking any action on domestic energy production. Nancy Pelosi claiming its okay for her to shut out Republicans because “I’m trying to save to world.” (And you thought Barney Frank was Queen of the House).

    Addressing your point, if someone wanted to make a case for environmental activism leading to violence, the evidence is abundant. A quick Google search found these:

    For example, the Earth Liberation Front openly advocates violence, including murder, in the name of their environmental agenda.

    And here, a BBC Environmental Columnist calls for massive reduction in the human population

    Deroy Murdock compiles several statements from environmentalists advocating genocide.

    Alleged Musician Dave Matthews says humans are no more worthy of living than plants.

    Australian neuroscientist John Reid calls for the elimination of 4 billion human beings, again, to save the environment.

    University of Texas Professor Eric Pianka calls for the extermination of 5.8 billion human beings on the altar of Gaia.

    Several other environmentalists agree with Pianka, including professors from the University of Chicago, Texas Lutheran University, and Finnish environmental activist Penti Linkola.

    And what list would be complete without noting the voluntary human extinction movement.

    And it’s not just the environment. a racist professor in North Carolina has called for the extermination of white people.

    On the other hand, there is no one of consequence on the right calling for violence against, let alone the extermination of, homosexuals. Even gay-hating Democrat icon Fred Phelps doesn’t advocate the murder of gay people.

  9. What a time to go dark, Dan… when there is so much good material out there. From Ted Stevens, to Harry Reid larding up the mortgage boondoggle bill with payoffs to his own cronies, to the House passing a meaningless apology for slavery while blocking any action on domestic energy production. Nancy Pelosi claiming its okay for her to shut out Republicans because “I’m trying to save to world.” (And you thought Barney Frank was Queen of the House).

    A quick Google search found multiple references to environmentalists, and one racist professor, calling for violence and/or genocide. Since the comment filter doesn’t like posts with multiple links, I compiled the list and posted it here.

    But no one has ever found a link to anyone on the right advocating the extermination of gay people.

  10. A little birth control could be a good thing especially since Conservatives are against abortion but yet, when the impoverished women have the children, the Cons always cut WIC and Head Start programs. Why don’t these Neo-Cons with Millions of Dollars do something to adopt the lives they save. McSame has over 7 homes, surely one month of Cindy McCain’s Amex Charges could feed a whole bunch of the kids.

    Since when is Phelps a Democrat? Prove that one.

    As for genocide, it isn’t an acceptable solution for anyone. Of course, you hold out the extreme opinions of people who don’t represent real productive solutions, unlike Al Gore who advocates sane solutions to reduce green house gases.

  11. Fred Phelps – Democrat.

    Phelps has been an active contributor to the Democratic Party and was enthusiastic supporter of Al Gore for President in 1988.[3] Phelps’s son, Fred Phelps, Jr., also served as a delegate for Gore.

    Phelps ran for governor of Kansas as a Democrat in 1990, 1994, and 1998.[7] Phelps received 31% of the vote in Kansas’s 1992 Democratic Party primary for U.S. Senate.

    Now, let’s see those quotes from prominent people on the right demanding the extermination of gay people.

  12. Interestingly, Jerry Falwell called Fred Phelps a first class nut… and said of Phelps’s actions after the death of Matthew Shepard “I found it almost impossible to believe that human beings could be so brutal and vicious to a hurting family…”

    Jerry Falwell… demonstrating he was a far, far more decent human being than Pinky “Good Riddance” Bear.

  19. #11: “Why don’t these Neo-Cons with Millions of Dollars do something to adopt the lives they save.”

    Not that facts have any effect on Good Riddance or his “opinions,” but I suspect the Jesse Helms obituaries GR read (and likely celebrated) didn’t contain the following:

    “In 1962 Helms and his wife “Dot” adopted a 9-year-old orphan with cerebral palsy. They already had two daughters and Helms was 41 years old at the time. But it was Christmastime and they read about Charlie in a newspaper. He said all he wanted for Christmas was a mother and father.”

    From Ann Coulter’s July 9, 2008 column.

  23. And actually, McCain has an adopted daughter, Bridget, who was abandoned by her parents.

    In other words, McCain puts his money where his mouth is — and, since McCain supports parental and sexual responsibility, he is taking on a responsibility that he didn’t create in the first place.

    Contrast that to liberals like Obama, Pelosi, and Kennedy, who encourage impoverished women to have promiscuous sex and get abortions instead of taking responsibility. There’s a reason that the group that is nearly twice as likely to get an abortion — black women ages 18 – 24 — becomes the only group other than gays in which the leading cause of death is AIDS.

  24. Whassamatter, Good Riddance? Cat got your tongue?

    Are you ashamed that your shared pension for saying obnoxious, hateful things on the occasion of other people’s deaths put you on the same moral level as Fred Phelps?

    Or, are you just embarrassed that your lame-o talking points can be refuted by a simple internet search?

  25. I believe PB is a computer program. I mean, the lack of intelligence (never mind information) in its comments is astounding. The comments are clearly churned out by a rote automaton.

    Just in case no one hit this only properly yet:

    People like Hagee, Robertson, Parsley, Podhoretz et al have a message of extermination of those you despise and hate.

    It is, of course, crazy talk or in need of evidence, shall we say. PB has offered nothing thus far. As someone pointed out, even Phelps doesn’t advocate murdering anyone. But if PB had instead said this:

    People like bin Ladin, Zawahiri, Ahmadinejad et al have a message of extermination of those they despise and hate.

    then it would have sense, or had some correspondence to reality.

  27. But what’s funny, ILC, is that Pinky Bear and his fellow liberal Democrats DENY that such words by terrorist organizations and groups incite people to violence.

    In short, they believe that NOT telling people to kill others (or telling them not to kill others) makes them kill others, but directly telling them to kill others DOESN’T make them kill others.

    Very strange.

  28. They live in a world of their own imagination. Islamists make real threats against the lives of gays and Westerners and follow up on those threats with documented acts of murder (mass or otherwise), but none of that matters. Meanwhile, “right wing reich” (or whatever) leaders are imagined to make threats against the lives of gays, which they don’t really, so their (non-existent) threats are naturally *not* followed up on… yet those (imaginary) threats matter. A lot. Nutty.