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RE: Language Log

Can anyone tell me why I should give a shit about anything Reverend Wright has to say? So Obama is resposible for everything said by all of his associates? If langage log is so interested in language I suggest they do a post about dead horses and how long they should be beat. If I hear one more thing about Wright or fuckig flag pins I am going to propose we change the constitution and just leave Bush in office--it´s what we deserve.

Seconded

"Louis Farrakhan is not my enemy. He did not put me in chains. He did not put me in slavery. And he didn’t make me this color."

Let me get this straight. Putting someone in chains is bad, right? Putting someone in slavery is bad, right? So “making me this color” is also bad, right? Personally, I don’t think that there’s anything wrong with being black. I’m dismayed that Rev. Wright does.

For a website called "Language Log", the poster certainly doesn't understand CONTEXT of language.

Jesus christ, he isn't saying being black is bad. what a stupid reading of those comments. Being black RELATES to being put in chains, being in slavery, in Rev. Wright's past.

He is clearly saying that Mr. Farrakhan is not the person who has caused injustices to blacks (slavery and chains), so he is not his enemy.

You can pull that one sentance out of context by bolding that single line, which Mr. "Language Log" seems to have great pleasure in doing, and completely miss the point. I bet he made a big deal about "annie oakley" too.

I think we've bottomed out.

Thanks for the fact checker Norm. Terrible case of pandering replacing sensible policy. Lets bring every mass transit project in the country to a hault so we can drive our cars for one last summer.

Next year when gas hits $5 we will all be waiting for a bus for an hour wondering how we could be so stupid.

As for the Left Coaster. I wish Obama would just go negative already. Smash the delusion of Clintonian electability and end this silly primary.

2.3 Billion in Earmarks? Millions in shady corporate income? Philandering husband? Bosnia lies? Generally unliked by nearly half of Americans? Untrustworthy? Threatening to obliterate countries?

Yeah, sounds like a shoe-in.

Philandering husband?

Yeah, sounds like a member of the Republican Party.

Disclaimer: I do not necessarily agree with the point of view expressed in the links I post. I do find them interesting for a variety of reasons, and in general worthy of discussion.

You mean... that...{snicker}, that you... {giggle} {snort} you think these things might be clues?! {BHAAWAHAHAAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAALOLOLRFOL wehew} {deep breath} {sigh}

{wipes a tear from his eye}

Gaud, I crack myself up.

:)

Philandering husband?

Yeah, sounds like a member of the Republican Party.

Yes, thats who she will be running against, an argument you use to list all of Obama's electability Issues.

I could care less, but its an issue that derailed the democratic party and helped get Bush elected in the first place.

I am not makeing anything up, the rumors, true or not are out there.

http://gawker.com/5002487/bill-clinton-and-gina-gershon

"Apart from the fact that it doesn't have the benefits claimed by supporters it sends the wrong message about energy consumption."

What people want a holiday from is chanhing their behavior. That's what's going on right now--we''re seeing a huge shift in what people are driving, away from trucks and SUVs and toward cars, especially smaller, fuel efficient ones. People don't like to make that change because they got used to driving the Excursion to work everyday with only themselves in the vehicle. Problem was that that behavior is unsustainable if a huge chunk of the population does it. High gas prices are doing more to make our communities more livable and reduce our dependence on oil than environmental awareness-raising ever did. Demand for mass trasit is rising. Home prices near metro lines are increasing (relative to the overall market). People are actually decreasing their use of fuel. Truck factories are closing or laying off workers. This is the market (along with targeted taxation) actually working, and our political class wants to screw around with it.

I admit it - when driving my Corolla or Civic these days, my view of the traffic signs and signals obscured by a douchebag driving their Hummer on their morning commute - I wish gas taxes were doubled, not eliminated. What? There's a slowdown in consumption? Let's pass a stimulus package! What? High gas prices are actually making people reconsider the wisdom of sitting their 42-inch asses in a Hummer or a Dually for a drive to the grocery store? Let's cut the gas taxes!

Yes, that's John McCain, author of Why Courage Matters, who no longer has the guts to admit his own positions opposing the Bush tax cuts were right, Now he's following in Bush's footsteps - telling the American people, "Don't worry, no sacrifice is too small to forgo!"

Re: Single-Payer Solution

Dr. Rocky White, the Republican physician who has finally figured out that a single-payer health care system will cut out the middleman who doesn't provide one ounce of health care: the insurance companies. He reminds me of the conservatives from England and Canada interviewed in Sicko and the Swiss conservative interviewed in the Frontline show on health care. American conservatives are the only holdouts left.