The Deluge of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts

[Paul Kemp]

Who cares?

[Paul Kemp]

This isn't a thread to express butthurt feelings.

[Paul Kemp]

I have started the water drinking today, though. I didn't drink as much as I wanted to, but I'm just getting started!

Why is this post bad?

It's not bad; it's absurd.

[Paul Kemp]

Most Democrats, the moronic lefties... love to redefine actual events as inaccurate and paint over the inconvenient and painful truths;

Calm down, bro. A sizable portion of your party believes the Earth is ~6,000 years old.

Which isn't necessarily wrong.  I personally believe the earth is millions of years old, but that man is ~6,000 years old, based on the Bible which is infallible.

Beat me to it. I WISH I read that one wrong.

[Paul Kemp]

Lincoln is dead today as well, but does he seriously not make you more likely to support Republicans?

[Paul Kemp]

Another appropriate entry straight into the Deluge.

I like to separate it from the noise.

[Paul Kemp]

RAR RAR JINGOISM AND NATIONALISM RAR

There I just summarized all the people attacking Paul.

[Paul Kemp]

I met a Republican who met Christie at a dinner and had a picture with him.  Then after the hurricane, the person refused to hang the picture up because Christie praised Obama... that's just stupid.

Christie's behavior cost us the election. If he had invited Romney AND Obama to that photo op, the bipartisan thing that would have made Romney trump Obama in the "appearing presidential" category, we would have won. His behavior, giving Obama that platform, absolutely crushed our momentum and elevated Obama back into "presidential" territory after previously making himself look real small in ranting about Big Bird and Binders Full of women. There was not enough time to regain the momentum. All Christie had to do was insist that Romney and Obama appear together and pledge their bipartisan support to rebuild America. Such a maneuver would have won us the election. Instead, Christie chose to elevate Obama at Romney's expense.

Christie, more than anybody else, is responsible for the next four years. He's a Machiavellian. The whole "straight talk" image is a facade. He'd throw his own mother under a bus for a few votes--or donuts for that matter.

[Paul Kemp]

Too much in this thread to put individually...

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=169232.msg3622322#msg3622322

[Paul Kemp]

It's hideous news. Why should gays be allowed to marry when gun rights are not protected.

Classic.

[Paul Kemp]

If you knew anything about Florida at all, you would know that we have gated suburban hells, not row houses, which are commonly found in New York City. I am one of the fortunate few who doesn’t live in those gated communities. I would agree that they are actually worst then NYC. As for NYC, it had 414 murders last year. Palm Beach County had around 60. Proportionally speaking, that makes PBC really, really bad. NYC is relatively good in regards to crime. I won’t deny that. My county has just over a million people; New York has about eight million. New York City is not that heavily overcrowded either. Those are the good things I could say about the city.

Here is the reason why I never will live in that city, and never will bother to visit it-it is freaking New York. It has a school system that has hundreds if not thousands of teachers waiting in rubber rooms for months on end still getting paid while waiting for a review by the school board regarding crimes they may or may not have committed.

You cannot get around in your own car. You pretty much have to deal with the subway, which is a likely terrorist target, it costs thousands of dollars to live there comfortably (unless of course you come from a wealthy family with connections, in which case, you either are supported directly or are able to get stable employment via family ties), and finally, you miss out on the friendliness/stability you might find in a small town (hell, I live in Boynton, and this town is too big for my liking).

I live in a county that has been ravaged repeatedly by Hurricanes. And part of the reason I oppose FEMA is because all the rich people in Manalapan and Ocean Ridge across the river from me (I can actually see Al Haig’s old house right now) get their docks and seawalls rebuilt after every storm, and have their private beaches resanded with tax payer money. There is never any severe flooding here due to the Hurricanes, with the exception of the agrarian western areas of the county, which the county, not the Feds, dried out when we got our brush with Irene (which slightly brushed us). If I recall correctly, much of New York City flooded….

And finally, we come to the last reason to despise New York-the New Yorker. I know them well, because my own dad is one of them. I tolerate them better than most who are not related to New Yorkers, but I still find myself annoyed by them. Kinda like the way New Yorkers dislike people from Alabama. The North-South divide transcends politics and race as of 2013. Its just a natural cultural divide now a days.

Is any one going to post a good reason why they oppose this or just keep empty quoting a vague statement?

Why is Styrofoam bad?

The health and environmental effects are well documented. I'll let you look into it on your own.

Why should the government go out of the way to ban a material that is so readily available and prevalent?

Something shouldn't be banned because it's prevalent? That's odd reasoning. What's your opinion on asbestos?

NYC is a sh**thole regardless of the affects of “Styrofoam pollution.”

No, it's not. When was the last time you were there and what did you experience to make you believe it was a "sh**thole" compared to any other city?

Furthermore, what is the harm in this? Putting Big Styrofoam out of business?

I have news for you guys; everything is an environmental hazard in some way or another. Should we ban cows? Because three weekends ago, I was in a cow pasture in YeeHaw Junction at a Bluegrass festival. I was surrounded by a sea of cow dung. That stuff over time builds up. And it steams. That according to some sources builds nutrients in the soil. According to others, it depletes them. Do we ban cows?

[Paul Kemp]

The worst.

[Paul Kemp]

Looks like we missed out on this one:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=169577.msg3631129;boardseen#new

[Paul Kemp]

This guy should've stopped after the first sentence:

Donald Trump is a damn Yankee fool & a corporate elitist fat cat scumbag. He is like Abraham Lincoln in the sense they are both stupid fat cats who hate the workers & great people of the south & want to kill the south with there damn Tarrifs.

[Paul Kemp]

This guy should've stopped after the first sentence:

Donald Trump is a damn Yankee fool & a corporate elitist fat cat scumbag. He is like Abraham Lincoln in the sense they are both stupid fat cats who hate the workers & great people of the south & want to kill the south with there damn Tarrifs.

That's from a now banned sock/troll, so not really the type of post that belongs here.

I wasn't aware of that but I'm not sure who you are to determine what "type of post" belongs here.

[Paul Kemp]

Of course this is the only thing Naso responds to in this thread:

Approaching this critically, I'd mark it down to the fact that people are not drawn to the internet as a informative source but rather a communicative or social network. Almost everyone avails themselves of information from the internet, but if people aren't doing it often or thinking critcally, then the net gain is zero. And a lot of people aren't thinking critically, which in part explains the rise of conspiracism, combined with pretensions of superiority.

I also think a lot of sources use the internet as a crutch in lieu of proper explaination. Call it the "LMGTFY" effect. People are often just expected to "get" things more nowadays. I think that might explain a lot of the extreme ignorance you're talking about.

Also, I might think the end of the Cold War played a role as well. With the rise of American unipolarity, understanding the world around us as well as why the American system was inherently better than Communism, became less politically pertinent.

Because Lena Dunham

But also this.

You might be on to something regarding the end of the Cold War's effect.

[Paul Kemp]

Here for not ignoring the fact that men get raped too.

There are over 1800 rapes a day in the United States.
Krazen makes an average of 6 posts a day.
Therefore, every time krazen makes a post, 300 women are raped.

#stopkrazen

You're doing this wrong.

[Paul Kemp]

10,228 people died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes in 2010.

8,775 people were murdered by firearms in 2010. *

At this rate, are liberals going to start calling for the return of prohibition and/or "automobile control"?

* - Unable to verify how many of these deaths involved alcohol/drugs either directly (i.e., murderer was under the influence) or indirectly (i.e., gang-related disputes over drugs).

Sources:

http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10shrtbl08.xls

Liberals do not have a leg to stand on with respect to gun control. Most incidents of improper firearm use involve alcohol/drugs in some capacity. Prohibition of alcohol/drugs clearly does not work, so why would prohibition of firearms be any different?

The best we can do is better help the mentally ill, and raise awareness about what drugs/alcohol can lead to if one does not watch it.

[Paul Kemp]

Of course. Obama's whole game is telling us such blatant lies that we're left too confused to call him out on it.

[Paul Kemp]

In some ways, the Hagel pick is like when Bush nominated Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court...

[Paul Kemp]

Of course. Obama's whole game is telling us such blatant lies that we're left too confused to call him out on it.

Hahaha oh? Care to explain that one?

I'm waiting for yours.

I don't support him on the policy from the originating post but still his "whole game is telling us such blatant lies that we're too confused to call him on it"? It sounds absurd on its own...unless of course you're including every member of the United States government in such a statement.

[Paul Kemp]

Of course. Obama's whole game is telling us such blatant lies that we're left too confused to call him out on it.

Hahaha oh? Care to explain that one?

I'm waiting for yours.

No problem. Obama's record is public, have at it. Google is your friend, my friend...don't be ignorant. But as a hint, just take a look at the thread you got that from.

Thanks for the hint dude; read it before I posted it here.

[Paul Kemp]

Yep.  Most musicians outside of country tend to be very liberal, so I don't see why very many people who aren't liberals would listen to their music.

Oh my god. It keeps getting worse.

[Paul Kemp]

Watching would be a half + 7 violation, so I won't do it.

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