Peak oil and climate change are fronts in the culture wars, and to some conservatives, watching the price of oil rise as the Arctic ice melts, it might feel like being in Germany at the close of World War II
It brings tears to my eyes, seeing their ideology kicked to the curb:
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The very idea that dirty Gaia-worshipping hippies might be right is absolute anathema.
They haven't finished blaming it on not drilling in the AWNR. _________________ "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts" Earl Weaver
The Republican Party is a dead rotting carcass with a few decrepit old leaders stumbling around like zombies in a horror version of 'Weekend With Bernie,' handcuffed to a corpse.
Weekend with Bernie. I liked that movie.
But is the Republican Party really rotting yet? Doesn't a dead party have to lie around for a while before it begins to rot? Just because something smells putrid doesn't mean that its rotting. Have you ever smelled durian? Or steamed brocolli? Not the rotting kind, I mean. I mean fresh steamed brocolli. It smells like s#it, but it hasn't rotted yet.
One of the many things which forms the backbone of the ttips community, such as it is, and which helps keep things within certain vague boundaries in the OT is the fact that virtually everyone is known personally by at least a few other people if not quite a few. Beyond that, most of us are no more than one or two degrees of separation from the rest of the "community" through this network of who knows who.
So, does anyone know freewheelin?
I've pegged him as a sock puppet from way back and will apologize for doing so if anyone can vouch for his authenticity.
The ttips community isn't quite as thick in Alberta as it is in the states. I don't know freeheelin123 personally, but I know of him. He lives in the mountains, skis where we ski, and buys and sells tele gear.
Skooks is the one no one seems to know.
The Republican Party is a dead rotting carcass with a few decrepit old leaders stumbling around like zombies in a horror version of 'Weekend With Bernie,' handcuffed to a corpse.
Weekend with Bernie. I liked that movie.
But is the Republican Party really rotting yet? Doesn't a dead party have to lie around for a while before it begins to rot? Just because something smells putrid doesn't mean that its rotting. Have you ever smelled durian? Or steamed brocolli? Not the rotting kind, I mean. I mean fresh steamed brocolli. It smells like s#it, but it hasn't rotted yet.
I think "rotting" is an exagerration.
OK, I stand corrected. Rotting was not an exagerration. It was simply prescient.
It's sad, that when people look at conservatism, their first reflex is . . . the gag one.
Perhaps if they gave out clothespegs at tea bag rallies and other conservative events, turnout would improve.
What say you, conservative members of the OT? Would you be more likely to attend a rally if your nasal passages were not to be assaulted? Are clothespegs the last best hope for conservatism? _________________ I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with someone who is clearly unarmed. Target practice, on the other hand . . .
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 2:21 am Post subject:
elk-tamer wrote:
skifreeK wrote:
One of the many things which forms the backbone of the ttips community, such as it is, and which helps keep things within certain vague boundaries in the OT is the fact that virtually everyone is known personally by at least a few other people if not quite a few. Beyond that, most of us are no more than one or two degrees of separation from the rest of the "community" through this network of who knows who.
So, does anyone know freewheelin?
I've pegged him as a sock puppet from way back and will apologize for doing so if anyone can vouch for his authenticity.
The ttips community isn't quite as thick in Alberta as it is in the states. I don't know freeheelin123 personally, but I know of him. He lives in the mountains, skis where we ski, and buys and sells tele gear.
Skooks is the one no one seems to know.
I must have missed this last year when I was on holiday. Let the record show I know several people on the happy forum, but none here in the OT, although I think tamer of elks and I are neighbours. But he seems to have disappeared anyway so it doesn't matter.
Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 3356 Location: The bull's eye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 7:33 pm Post subject:
SteveK wrote:
What say you, conservative members of the OT? Would you be more likely to attend a rally if your nasal passages were not to be assaulted? Are clothespegs the last best hope for conservatism?
Nary a response . . . I guess it's True, conservatives are exstink. It is with profound sadness that I look back at the last 8 years of the US Christian Theocracy that destroyed conservatism. If only I could be as eloquent as a Republican:
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I came to realize that I was in bed with a group of people who were profoundly anti-American. They were professional haters. They wrapped themselves in the flag and "loved America," but it was an America in their imaginations only and cast in their image: white, middle-class, straight, born-again, homophobic and tinged with racism, not to mention misogyny.
_________________ I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with someone who is clearly unarmed. Target practice, on the other hand . . .
Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 9487 Location: Blue Canadian Rockies
Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 7:56 pm Post subject:
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I came to realize that I was in bed with a group of people who were profoundly anti-American. They were professional haters. They wrapped themselves in the flag and "loved America," but it was an America in their imaginations only and cast in their image: white, middle-class, straight, born-again, homophobic and tinged with racism, not to mention misogyny
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Frank Schaeffer
Author of the Calvin Becker Trilogy
Portofino, Saving Grandma and Zermatt.
Highly recommended. Especially for Raisindude.
Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 3356 Location: The bull's eye
Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 9:43 pm Post subject:
Wow, this guy is almost as eloquent as a Republican:
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In a new book, "40 More Years – How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation", he writes in typically barnstorming fashion: "Republicans shouldn't be worried. They should be in agony. They should be throwing up. The Republican brand is the worst political party brand in history."
History, he argues, is on his side.
History is on his side. I think we here in the OT can appreciate the significance of that.
Edit to add: I'd say something else about the worst brand, but then Godwin's rule would come into play and this thread would be as extinct as . . . well, as extinct as . . well, you know. _________________ I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with someone who is clearly unarmed. Target practice, on the other hand . . .
Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 9487 Location: Blue Canadian Rockies
Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 11:39 pm Post subject:
SteveK wrote:
Wow, this guy is almost as eloquent as a Republican:
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In a new book, "40 More Years – How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation", he writes in typically barnstorming fashion: "Republicans shouldn't be worried. They should be in agony. They should be throwing up. The Republican brand is the worst political party brand in history."
History, he argues, is on his side.
History is on his side. I think we here in the OT can appreciate the significance of that.
Edit to add: I'd say something else about the worst brand, but then Godwin's rule would come into play and this thread would be as extinct as . . . well, as extinct as . . well, you know.
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