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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</p>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
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		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

----------  

You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65890</link>
		<dc:creator>Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
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		<dc:creator>Randy A. Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65477</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

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D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

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I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
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<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody and others:</p>
<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

----------  

You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
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		<dc:creator>Randy A. Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65521</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

=====

D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

=====

I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65473</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody and others:</p>
<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

----------  

You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65640</link>
		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65570</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65523</link>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</p>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65477</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

=====

D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

=====

I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65473</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
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<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

----------  

You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65791</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65640</link>
		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65570</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65523</link>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65521</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</p>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65477</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

=====

D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

=====

I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65473</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody and others:</p>
<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-66032</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65993</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

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You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65890</link>
		<dc:creator>Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65791</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65640</link>
		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65570</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65523</link>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65521</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65477</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

=====

D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

=====

I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65473</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody and others:</p>
<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-92353</link>
		<dc:creator>Volvo Parts</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Dave...&lt;/strong&gt;

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<p>Interesting topic&#8230; I&#8217;m working in this industry myself and I don&#8217;t agree about this in 100%, but I added your page to my bookmarks and hope to see more interesting articles in the future&#8230;</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-66376</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-66032</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65993</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

----------  

You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65890</link>
		<dc:creator>Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65791</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65640</link>
		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65570</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65523</link>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65521</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65477</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

=====

D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

=====

I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody and others:</p>
<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

----------  

You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65521</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

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D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

=====

I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody and others:</p>
<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

----------  

You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65570</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65523</link>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</p>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65477</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

=====

D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

=====

I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65473</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody and others:</p>
<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

----------  

You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65791</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65640</link>
		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65570</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65523</link>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65521</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</p>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65477</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

=====

D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

=====

I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65473</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody and others:</p>
<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-66032</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65993</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

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You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65890</link>
		<dc:creator>Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65791</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65640</link>
		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65570</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65523</link>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65521</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65477</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

=====

D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

=====

I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65473</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody and others:</p>
<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: The_DC_Sniper</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65993</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

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You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-92353</link>
		<dc:creator>Volvo Parts</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Dave...&lt;/strong&gt;

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<p>Interesting topic&#8230; I&#8217;m working in this industry myself and I don&#8217;t agree about this in 100%, but I added your page to my bookmarks and hope to see more interesting articles in the future&#8230;</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-66376</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-66032</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65993</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

----------  

You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65890</link>
		<dc:creator>Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65791</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65640</link>
		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65570</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65523</link>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65521</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65477</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

=====

D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

=====

I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65473</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody and others:</p>
<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<dc:creator>Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over $4/gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for $5/hr, or $4, or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over $4/gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for $5/hr, or $4, or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

----------  

You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65890</link>
		<dc:creator>Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65523</link>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</p>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65477</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

=====

D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

=====

I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65473</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody and others:</p>
<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: The_DC_Sniper</title>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

----------  

You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65791</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65640</link>
		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65570</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65523</link>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65521</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</p>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65477</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

=====

D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

=====

I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65473</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody and others:</p>
<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-66032</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65993</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

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You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65890</link>
		<dc:creator>Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65791</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65640</link>
		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65570</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65523</link>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65521</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65477</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

=====

D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

=====

I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody and others:</p>
<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65993</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

----------  

You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65890</link>
		<dc:creator>Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65523</link>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65521</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65477</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

=====

D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

=====

I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
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<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

----------  

You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
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		<dc:creator>Randy A. Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65521</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

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D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

=====

I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody and others:</p>
<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
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		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65993</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

----------  

You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65570</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65523</link>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65521</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</p>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65477</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

=====

D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

=====

I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65473</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody and others:</p>
<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

----------  

You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65890</link>
		<dc:creator>Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65791</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65640</link>
		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65570</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65523</link>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65521</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</p>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65477</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

=====

D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

=====

I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65473</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody and others:</p>
<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65993</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

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You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65890</link>
		<dc:creator>Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65791</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65640</link>
		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65570</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65523</link>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65521</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65477</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

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D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

=====

I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65473</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody and others:</p>
<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: The_DC_Sniper</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

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D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

=====

I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

----------  

You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

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D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

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I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
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<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
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<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody and others:</p>
<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody and others:</p>
<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<description>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:

The Social Security Bill

The GI Bill

The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)

What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, all those bills from FDR:</p>
<p>The Social Security Bill</p>
<p>The GI Bill</p>
<p>The Farm Bill (AAA, Price Supports)</p>
<p>What was he thinking? Really screwed it up for later generations.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re still cleaning up bills from FDR, but his bills keep growing rather than shrinking.</description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?

The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#039;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#039;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#039;s the Bush Paradigm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why does a super patriot live in exile in Slovakia?</p>
<p>The Republicans are good at running up bills they can&#8217;t pay and leaving it for Democrats to clean up as Clinton did. This is a fact not an opinion framed in an ad hominem overgeneralization fallacy. Counting the votes sure would change the outcome but when enough minders throw away the ballots anyone can win. They couldn&#8217;t have done it any other way. Purge the lists and spoil the ballots. That&#8217;s the Bush Paradigm.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#039;s not being hung up.  That&#039;s just taking up for myself.  It&#039;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.

----------  

You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#039;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tom, please note that Randy Paul unnecessarily attacked me personally against his prior promise to Marc Cooper to clean up his act.  I simply defended myself after he called me a liar and told me to eat s%!+ and die.  That&#8217;s not being hung up.  That&#8217;s just taking up for myself.  It&#8217;s not normal to tell people to die just for stating their political or economic positions.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-  </p>
<p>You know that the Democrats have no intention of solving any of the problems that they use to get votes.  In fact, they aren&#8217;t even competent enough to do that.  They want people top stay poor and dependent on government so that the Democrats can keep counting on their uneducated votes.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#039;ve said before (even before RP said I&#039;m not a troll.)

Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#039;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.

One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#039;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.

What&#039;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.

I&#039;m really glad that the USA hasn&#039;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#039;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#039;t -- and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.

No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#039;s the average of the G-7? 

It&#039;s kinda easy to complain about &quot;results&quot; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate -- why should I believe some other estimate?

I&#039;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia -- but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &quot;peaceful&quot; way to change people&#039;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &quot;free market&quot;.  
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.

It&#039;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#039;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.

Similarly, it&#039;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, &lt;b&gt;by offering higher paid jobs!&lt;/b&gt;  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#039;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody -- they want to gov&#039;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.

War with Iran before they get nukes?
Or after?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody, I like your ideas most of the time, but you are hung up Randy, which I&#8217;ve said before (even before RP said I&#8217;m not a troll.)</p>
<p>Reg, like so many Dems, has what I call a potty-mouth.  I&#8217;m tired of reading such junk, so I skim most of his now.  And seldom respond.</p>
<p>One of the key ideas I try to express is one of good and bad points of different alternatives.  What I like about Marc Cooper is that he&#8217;s usually pretty honest about the bad points of both alternatives.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a drag here, and most places, is the lack of comparing both bad and good points.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m really glad that the USA hasn&#8217;t suffered another major terror strike.  I&#8217;m also really glad Iraq has had 3 elections, and now has an elected Iraq gov&#8217;t &#8212; and I suspect is on track for long, slow, successful nation building.</p>
<p>No Leftists here, or elsewhere, seem willing to offer numbers.  What unemployment rate would look good?  What&#8217;s the average of the G-7? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kinda easy to complain about &#8220;results&#8221; when one denies that the official results (4.8 unemployment) are accurate &#8212; why should I believe some other estimate?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been paying over /gal for gas for years here in Slovakia &#8212; but high, higher, and ever higher prices are the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; way to change people&#8217;s behavior.  Which is what prices do in a &#8220;free market&#8221;.<br />
In accordance with classical liberal (in Europe) = libertarian thought.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty hard to accept that the Left cares more about the poor on minimum wages, when it&#8217;s clear most on the Left do NOT want to allow the really really poor Mexicans to offer to work for /hr, or , or perhaps even less.</p>
<p>Similarly, it&#8217;s increasingly hilarious to me that the Left refuses to make the minimum wage unnessary, <b>by offering higher paid jobs!</b>  Oh yeah, the Left doesn&#8217;t offer jobs to poor people, or almost anybody &#8212; they want to gov&#8217;t to do it, or the rich, or somebody else.<br />
Lazy anti-peaceful unsustainable solutions.</p>
<p>War with Iran before they get nukes?<br />
Or after?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#039;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.

I didn&#039;t realize that you were banned--if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation--even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  

It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  

I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#039;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#039;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  

Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#039;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#039;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. 

Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.

I&#039;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.

Check back.  It&#039;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reg, I was totally out of the loop on that.  Even if the discourse over at G.M.&#8217;s Corner is below my comments here, that still leaves a lot of room for it to be excellent.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that you were banned&#8211;if you are.  I know that G.M. wrote you a very cordial email wanting to bury the hatchet and to have some positive conversation&#8211;even offering to buy you a beer and take you out for some good Mexican food.  Of course, given your privacy concerns, the email address that you provided was phony and his reconciliation was bounced back to him.  </p>
<p>It was probably a good idea to block someone temporarily and at that point just to stop the back-and-forth attacks, like we avoid here.  </p>
<p>I agree that calling you a murderous pedophile damages the image of those people.  Okay, I&#8217;m kidding.  I agree that is over the line and I&#8217;ll try to straighten that out, but not by calling the offender a necrophiliac of animals.  But, they might rather be called that than a liberal.  </p>
<p>Forgetting differences in political philosophy and the fact that we don&#8217;t have busts of  Stalin on our desks, there is just a totally different thinking process that you bring to the table versus those of others, who are ususally conservative.  It&#8217;s like me, an accountant, trying to discuss something with my daughter, an artist. </p>
<p>Maybe we need a translator.  The commenter Civil Truth brings reason to the discussions and maybe he can help to moderate some of the tension.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m actually sorry for the extreme offense against you and will check with G.M. about righting the situation.</p>
<p>Check back.  It&#8217;s good to hear other sides when the conversation can be calm.</p>
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		<title>By: reg</title>
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		<dc:creator>reg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Woody, you guys in the &quot;Corner&quot; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#039;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#039;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#039;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#039;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. 

Adios amigo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Woody, you guys in the &#8220;Corner&#8221; are truly chickenshit.  When some deranged pyschopath suggests I&#8217;m a murderous pedophile on a blog, such as happened on yours and GMR&#8217;s, it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;M the guy who gets banned and doesn&#8217;t get the benefit of at least calling him a necrophiliac with bestial tendencies.  The level of discourse among your buddies is not terribly impressive.  Even dumber and more coarse than the crap you peddle here. </p>
<p>Adios amigo.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
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		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, I agree.

R.P., I haven&#039;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, I agree.</p>
<p>R.P., I haven&#8217;t done that in a long time, but that comes from my lack of reservation to state the truth.  Maybe it would be better if you quit reading my comments or increased the meds.</p>
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		<title>By: Randy A. Paul</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65523</link>
		<dc:creator>Randy A. Paul</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.&lt;/i&gt;

Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement rather than direct attacks against an individualâ€“which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</i></p>
<p>Coming from a guy who repeatedly referred to me as psycho and pseudo-intellectual. You lack of self-awareness must make you proud.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65521</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If they took jobs from Americans and depressed wages, yes.</p>
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		<title>By: Publius</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65515</link>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&quot;

Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &quot;balance&quot; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#039;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#039;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Another example is that not too long ago, Mark York made that comment that â€œâ€¦something else is eating you now,â€ referring of course to my cancer (which I am whipping by the bye). I did not read very much condemnation in the comments section here about that, with a couple of notable exceptions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well also read an apology for going a bit too far on that one, but I notice the kind of &#8220;balance&#8221; roper seeks goes one way like a quota of useless quotes from biased partisans. For example two wingnuts on Exxon&#8217;s payroll versus to legitimate scientists working for our government. Yeah these two southern clowns love it whrn the Bushies do something they like, but attack their own public servants when facts get in the way of true belief. If that&#8217;s fair I want no part of it. Such blind shillery.</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65477</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rlc, just saw your comment as I was signing off.  Does it count that more Mexicans are working here under Bush than did under Clinton?</p>
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		<title>By: Woody</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65475</link>
		<dc:creator>Woody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mavis, it&#039;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#039;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#039;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  

Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#039;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.

=====

D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized--despite Randy Paul&#039;s contention otherwise...although he has this notion that he knows everything.

On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual--which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.

=====

I&#039;m sorry, guys, but you&#039;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#039;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#039;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mavis, it&#8217;s a valid point that the radical left fringe seem to think that they should be censoring Marc&#8217;s site for him.  Marc makes a post, I express my opinion and facts, and wild-eyes liberals wet their pants when they read that someone doesn&#8217;t agree with them.  Yes, they are disrepectful of Marc and they are criticizing him for not banning many of us on the right, whom only deranged liberals could consider trolls.  </p>
<p>Some of you need to get out more and learn that there&#8217;s a broad nation between NYC and LA that is different and better than the cities of extremists on the opposite coasts.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>D.C., while your response was more cordial, your translation was not what I intended.  I think that I clarified it above by saying that there are some good points about this country and administration, such as the one that I mentioned, that should be recognized&#8211;despite Randy Paul&#8217;s contention otherwise&#8230;although he has this notion that he knows everything.</p>
<p>On the manners issues, please note that my statements, taken from whatever context, were generalizations and observations of a political party and movement  rather than direct attacks against an individual&#8211;which distinguishes me from Randy Paul who, above, told me to eat s#!+ and to die.</p>
<p>=====</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry, guys, but you&#8217;ve accomplished what you wanted but not the way you wanted.  I have to get out of here and do some work that is a lot more productive than trying to reason with many of you, which has wasted a couple of hours of my time.  I don&#8217;t have a job where I can sit on the computer trying to change the world all day.  My views mean nothing, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the way you react.  Try to get some rest tonight.  There will be more conservatives to try to slay tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: richard locicero</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65473</link>
		<dc:creator>richard locicero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody and others:

What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#039;t have to tell people the economy ain&#039;t working for them. They already know.

As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &quot;discouraged worker&quot;, you&#039;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.

Finally, I can&#039;t let Woody&#039;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &quot;Founding Fathers.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody and others:</p>
<p>What Marc listed is common knowlege in these here glorious United States. Check the Michigan or Pew surveys. We don&#8217;t have to tell people the economy ain&#8217;t working for them. They already know.</p>
<p>As for the unemployment numbers. As you should know the figures only list those looking for work. If you have given up, are a &#8220;discouraged worker&#8221;, you&#8217;re not counted. And the labor force participation is down from the Clinton years. So you could probably double the current number and, if you count workers working part-time but desiring full time jobs, raise it even more.</p>
<p>Finally, I can&#8217;t let Woody&#8217;s cheap shot at Gore go by. Did Gore invent the internet? No some people at BBN, Stanford, Utah, UCSB, and UCLA did that when they created the ARPANET for the DARPA in 1970. Government program by the way (evil! evil!) But when Gore was in the House he pushed the legislation that enabled the modern Internet to be born. So, yes, he is one of the &#8220;Founding Fathers.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: The_DC_Sniper</title>
		<link>http://marccooper.com/an-early-thanksgiving/comment-page-2/#comment-65460</link>
		<dc:creator>The_DC_Sniper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woody: &quot;Is anyone thankful that there hasnâ€™t been another 9-11, despite the NY Times and the left?&quot;

Translation: The actions of the left and the New York Times are undermining the war on terror and, consequently, were lucky not to have had another 9/11 event.

While this claim may be dubious I don&#039;t find it offensive and I can&#039;t understand the deranged misreadings made in this thread.

And just to get all dialectical and shit...

Woody: &quot;It seems that you never were taught proper manners&quot;

Do you remember making the following statement, Woody?  &quot;Democrats have long lines because they are stupid.&quot; How about this one? &quot;Bias also distorts public perceptions, which is a goal of the left.&quot;  You aren&#039;t Miss Manners, Woody, and you&#039;re not right for the role of a shrinking violet who&#039;s delicate sensibilities have been offended by someone else&#039;s insults.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woody: &#8220;Is anyone thankful that there hasnâ€™t been another 9-11, despite the NY Times and the left?&#8221;</p>
<p>Translation: The actions of the left and the New York Times are undermining the war on terror and, consequently, were lucky not to have had another 9/11 event.</p>
<p>While this claim may be dubious I don&#8217;t find it offensive and I can&#8217;t understand the deranged misreadings made in this thread.</p>
<p>And just to get all dialectical and shit&#8230;</p>
<p>Woody: &#8220;It seems that you never were taught proper manners&#8221;</p>
<p>Do you remember making the following statement, Woody?  &#8220;Democrats have long lines because they are stupid.&#8221; How about this one? &#8220;Bias also distorts public perceptions, which is a goal of the left.&#8221;  You aren&#8217;t Miss Manners, Woody, and you&#8217;re not right for the role of a shrinking violet who&#8217;s delicate sensibilities have been offended by someone else&#8217;s insults.</p>
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