Hey, TheSlapIsBack. Come on down!

[davidm]

@TheSlapIsBack

If the Obama Administration is breaking the law with their 8.3 billion dollar Demonstration Project why is it not being covered?
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“If the Obama Administration is breaking the law”? So is this a hypothetical question or are you claiming that he is breaking the law? If so, then why not just say so?

@TheSlapIsBack

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It will not be covered by CNN MSNBC and others. To my knowledge those biased Obama hating right wing radicals at Fox News have not either.
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He thinks that trashing Fox News will gain some credibility for his argument with us. Isn’t that cute?

@TheSlapIsBack

The only problem with these types of laws is that they were not already on the books. They are so commonsensical that they only way they appear not to be is by allowing decades of people voting without identifying themselves to pass. Then it opens the door for ridiculous arguments about race and discrimination.

How nice of you to jump into that particular thread on page 7 and, ignoring all of the actual discussion that went before, declare all arguments in opposition to what you support to be ridiculous. Wow. I guess you won that discussion. I’m sure that will sway all of the evil liberals and fraudulent voters in that thread! :rolleyes:

I haven’t even looked at the other couple dozen posts you’ve made but I can guess that they’re similar.

How about you post something serious instead of using a bunch of silly rhetorical tactics?

Or maybe you can just crawl back to whatever PAC or “think” tank spawned you and tell them they’re wasting they’re money in this particular effort.

[GIGObuster]

Wait, what is the other thread? If he was already confronted with evidence of why this amounts to very little I have to check it, I really want to verify if they are just willful ignorants before I continue to engage them. Or is this about two different subjects that show how ignorant he is?

[davidm]

The first two are from this thread:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15400706

and the other one is from here:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15400641#post15400641

I’m not even complaining about his viewpoints, much as I disagree with them. My complaint is more with the way he presents them.

[elucidator]

Where do they come from? What brings them here? Seems like every other week, some tighty righty comes charging in, going to rip the mask off, going to expose the lies and hypocrisy of the left. Always have this tone of voice that suggests they know something we never heard about, something that will send us reeling in dismay and shock.

And usually, within a week or so, they wander off. And then comes another one.

Does someone rat us out, is that it? On rightarded message boards, someone says “Hey, you want to cope with some serious moonbats, go over to StraightDope, they’ll give you a tussle…” I mean, it’s not like we’re famous, or anything.

So many questions! Where do they come from? What do they want? When it will stop? And, of course, what the fuck?

[John_Mace]

August is the new July.

[FoieGrasIsEvil]

@John_Mace

August is the new July.

I’m praying to the infant little baby Jesus that September is better.

[Bryan_Ekers]

I just got the impression he wanted to tell us that we weren’t worth talking to.

[davidm]

@Bryan_Ekers

I just got the impression he wanted to tell us that we weren’t worth talking to.

He was talking at us, not to us.

[what_do_I_type_here]

@elucidator

Where do they come from? What brings them here? Seems like every other week, some tighty righty comes charging in, going to rip the mask off, going to expose the lies and hypocrisy of the left. Always have this tone of voice that suggests they know something we never heard about, something that will send us reeling in dismay and shock.

And usually, within a week or so, they wander off. And then comes another one.

Does someone rat us out, is that it? On rightarded message boards, someone says “Hey, you want to cope with some serious moonbats, go over to StraightDope, they’ll give you a tussle…” I mean, it’s not like we’re famous, or anything.

So many questions! Where do they come from? What do they want? When it will stop? And, of course, what the fuck?

Calm down, stupid.

[Beware_of_Doug]

@davidm

He was talking at us, not to us.

Yup. Basically, he said, “I care deeply about this issue, but it’s not my responsibility to defend my position.” How premeditatively lame is that?

[Bosstone]

These are the dumb days of summer.

[gamerunknown]

Was there a poster here called “TheSlap”?

[Bryan_Ekers]

@gamerunknown

Was there a poster here called “TheSlap”?

Well, it’s already been implied (with some justification) that this isn’t Slappy’s first visit to the SDMB rodeo, so a check of recently-banned posters who used the word “slap” in their posts may be illuminating.

For what it’s worth, which ain’t a lot.

[Bosstone]

What a slaphead.

[splatterpunk]

@gamerunknown

Was there a poster here called “TheSlap”?

Well, there was Slappy The Clown.

[John_DiFool]

@elucidator

Where do they come from? What brings them here? Seems like every other week, some tighty righty comes charging in, going to rip the mask off, going to expose the lies and hypocrisy of the left. Always have this tone of voice that suggests they know something we never heard about, something that will send us reeling in dismay and shock.

And usually, within a week or so, they wander off. And then comes another one.

And on that note, I’m surprised that adaher hasn’t been given a Royal Pit Welcome yet.

[j666]

@elucidator

Where do they come from? What brings them here? Seems like every other week, some tighty righty comes charging in, going to rip the mask off, going to expose the lies and hypocrisy of the left. Always have this tone of voice that suggests they know something we never heard about, something that will send us reeling in dismay and shock…

Hmmm.

From greenslime’s possibly final post:

@greenslime1951

… What’s really going on here, of course, is that the SD is a little clique where the long-time denizens pat each other on the back, beat up on the newbies, and congratulateeems like every other week, some tighty righty comes charging in, going to rip the mask off, going to expose the lies and hypocrisy of the left. Always have this tone of voice that suggests they know something we never heard about, something that will send us reeling in dismay and shock…

Aren’t there still intelligent reasonable conservatives on this board? I have been noticing a lot of posts that seem to intend to get liberal knickers in a twist - and a lot of that nasty little pseudo-reasonable style of argument - lately, but I assumed that was a fluke.

[Smapti]

@Bryan_Ekers

I just got the impression he wanted to tell us that we weren’t worth talking to.

Wake me up when September ends.

[GIGObuster]

@j666

Hmmm.

From greenslime’s possibly final post:Aren’t there still intelligent reasonable conservatives on this board? I have been noticing a lot of posts that seem to intend to get liberal knickers in a twist - and a lot of that nasty little pseudo-reasonable style of argument - lately, but I assumed that was a fluke.

There are, but they do sound more liberal nowadays because very important subjects have been politicized when they should not had been, I have seen several conservatives that do understand science, but even in the outside world we do see now that even reasonable conservatives are being drowned out by the currently very extreme Republicans. Well, it seems to be worse outside than over here, they are not just being shouted down, they are even threatened if they show reason.

Who’s Afraid of Kerry Emanuel? Why Republicans Are Attacking a Republican...

Last week, MIT climate scientist and hurricane specialist Kerry Emanuel received email threats for his view on climate change. These were quickly and appropriately condemned by the progressive and environmental blogosphere—as they are condemned by me—but I want to go a bit further and contemplate why Emanuel’s views in particular appear so menacing to some elements of the conservative base today.

The answer may seem deceptively simple on the surface: Unlike most climate researchers, Kerry Emanuel describes himself as a long time Republican. And he’s been speaking out lately. The precise catalyst leading to the emails was a video posted by Climate Desk, capturing Emanuel at an event in New Hampshire organized by maverick Republicans who actually accept global warming and don’t like the way their party is headed. They want to turn it around (hey, good luck with that).

So Emanuel is presumably seen as a turncoat by some Republicans and conservatives—and you might just leave it at that. But I think it is deeper. It is the kind of Republicanism that Emanuel represents—merged with his identity as a scientist, and a premiere one at that—that really presents the biggest challenge.

You see, Emanuel is what you might call an “Enlightenment Republican.”

He joined the party in the 1970s because he personally viewed it as the home of “reason” at a time of left wing excesses. As I wrote after I interviewed him for the American Prospect magazine (Emanuel is also a featured personage in my book The Republican Brain):

In the early 1970s, as an undergraduate at MIT, [Emanuel] remembers feeling surrounded by the “liberal excesses” then prevalent in the “People’s Republic” of Cambridge, Massachusetts. “I remember hearing fellow students defending Pol Pot and Mao Zedong and Stalin, and I was so horrified,” he says. But now Emanuel sees the situation as reversed: The extremes are on the Tea Party right, the Democrats are centrists and pragmatists, and Emanuel—really always a moderate—finds not so much that he has moved but that his party has. “I’m turned off by those people for exactly the same reasons I was turned off by the ideologues of the 1970s,” he says.

Emanuel also made these comments to me:

“I don’t like it when ideology trumps reason, and I see that the Republicans are guilty of that in spades at the moment,” he says.

[John_DiFool]

@j666

Hmmm.

From greenslime’s possibly final post:Aren’t there still intelligent reasonable conservatives on this board? I have been noticing a lot of posts that seem to intend to get liberal knickers in a twist - and a lot of that nasty little pseudo-reasonable style of argument - lately, but I assumed that was a fluke.

Even the long-termers seem to have become simplistic one-note idealogues to the point of self-parody. <ahem> Bricker <ahem> I mean, when I first joined in '06 he didn’t seem then like he is now (someone correct me if I’m wrong).

To be fair, there are intellectually honest conservatives, such as Senor Beef, who by comparison to his former brethren is akin to a tie-dyed peace-love-and-dope Woodstockian-but that’s more because the GOP has lurched madly rightward while he has more or less stayed still. [I will disavow this entire paragraph tho if he comes here and indicates that I have misrepresented him.]