Before firing him, USF placed Al-Arian on paid leave, saying his presence made the campus unsafe and pointing to an avalanche of hate mail and death threats.”

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/01/19/bubba/

There are reasons not to appear on Faux.

Not exactly Reg. The comment you’re referring to was a short response to K’s short response asking me for a commo sense response. Sort of a petty tit-for-tat on my part. I ain’t perfect……as you know, no?

Look, the terms ‘conservative’ and ‘lberal’ describing ones political bent weren’t just picked out of thin air. Consevatives value tradition and are resistant to change. Liberals not so much
and want to change when they perceive tradition infringes on rights. Both sides are valuable in a democracy and their competition works to strike(find) an acceptable balance and buffer the extremists on both sides.

Our extremist are religious, representated by evangelicals. Yours extremists IMO are leftist representated by the ACLU. Are mainstream liberals trying to destroy christmas? No, but they will rarely speak against the ACLU, that are. So they get tarred. Are mainstream conservatives trying to promote religion in public squares and schools? No, but they get tarred when they don’t speak up against religious extremists.

And that’s the way it is, as Morrow would say.

Yada yada.

This is the entirety of your argument. “Yada yada.”

Such glib dismissal does not become you.

Did you shoot Vince Foster in the parking lot because failed to produce multiple orgasms or because you caught him embezzling the millions you stole from Arkansas workers?

Thank you K for your deliberative, thoughtful, and wise denial. My common sense response would be, they are.

I say judge people by their deeds, not their words. By any such measure, the GOP is nothing but a Big Combo for corporate greed tied, ironically given capitalism’s being so obviously “value-free” and “morally relativist”, to unhinged ideology and crackpot fundamentalism. If this is a recipe for “winning wars that need winning” or anything else that serves America’s interests as a people, it’s difficult to discern. A lot of this GOP “moral capital” is tied up in the Reagan myth – a myth that needs to be dealt relentlessly as total bullshit. It’s little more than a cover for Tax Cuts Uber Alles. Anyone who believes the “Reagan won the Cold War” shibboleth is either rather profoundly ignorant or a calculating liar with a right-wing agenda to sell.

Oh, and Jim, the main reason questions like “why are liberals destroying Christmas” get asked so often is because they boost the ratings of demagogic television personalities whose primary job is to sell more “soap”. The only television news I watch – other than video clips of particularly crazy moments from O’Reilly & Co. – is the Lehrer News Hour. I’ve never heard a single one of those questions asked there because it’s a show done by journalists with professional standards, not posing performers and panderers.

My answer to “why are the liberals destroying Christmas” by the way, would be, “they’re not.” Love to hear you common sense ideas on this burning issue, however.

I am not sure which deception you refer to regarding Boehnhead, there’s been so many, but my guess is it’s because he is a corrupt politician, like most all the others that have been there for more than eight years. I won’t irritate you by mentioning likely candidates on your side. I’m sure you suspect already.

My guess is Cheney may have had some influence in getting Haliburton contracts, but I do believe it would have been more to do with his belief this huge company, one of only two or at most three that would be able to handle the job being asked in a war zone, would do a better job. I hope you can be realistic and recognize Cheney did not need the money and would be smart enough to know there would only be a down side for him politically for his past association with Haliburton.

I honestly believe any influence he may have had would have been for the reasons of winning a war he believed needed winning.

Now, your turn…….or David if he dares.

Hey, you’re right. There are no stupid questions. I think we also deserve answers to other completely fair and balanced questions, such as “Why did John Boehner deceive the public?” and “Did Dick Cheney use his years in public life to line his pockets at Hailiburton—and is he now paying them back?” and “Is Bush Delusional About Iraq or Just Stalling So He Can Blame The Next Administration?” Completely fair questions. No bias at all.

Jim, aren’t you a believer in the axiom ‘there is no such thing as a stupid question’? Does your bias prevent you from acknowleging them, by maligning the questioner instead?

The Kossacks are the most dangerous influence on the Democratic Party with the potential of helping put a lefting candidate in the general election that cannot win.

Why am I helping here? Oh, I forgot, they only listen in their own chamber? This is a good thing….for the rest of us.

Why do these stupid questions get asked so often David? What are your answers to these stupid questions? Aren’t you a believer in the axiom ‘there is no such thing as a stupid question’? Does your bias prevent you from acknowlegeing them, by maligning the questioner instead?

They did what anyone with even a modicum of self-respect would have done.