Was use of the word “douchebag” widespread in the '50s?
It had some popularity as a birth control method, being marginally more effective than prayer.
But the Republican standard is that only they are allowed to make mistakes, even repeated mistakes: only those they oppose are required to be perfect. That is what a Republican means when they say that the perfect is the enemy of the good.
Regardless, you’ve still not offered up any ideas of yours to divert this country from its sin-drenched, hell-in-a-handbasket-bound journey that you so firmly believe it’s on. In other words, you seem to be capable of spewing only hot air and mindless blather, so, again, I posit that you indeed have had your ass firmly, lovingly handed to you, and many times over.
I’m not gloating personally, but I am indeed concerned for America that for every Palin support that admits his error, there are a few thousand that won’t.
You’re not just an individual fucking moron, SA, you’ve one germ of an entire infection of fucking moronitude. I hope America’s immune system is sufficiently strong, because if a political regime comes to power that encourages stupidity instead of one that encourages intelligence and education, your country will be far worse off.
…Should we tell him?
Ahem, the Palin part of the equation is not where I’m admitting error. Did you completely miss the paragraph that followed my admission of error?
It’s already happened, chum. It’s already happened.
Several decades ago, as a matter of fact.
What we have in power now is a regime (or more appropriately, an ideology) that supports drug use; the glamorization of - or at least defense of - thug life criminal activity; the incredibily wrong-headed dumbing down of the educational system so as to make things “more fair” and to avoid harming students’ self-esteem; the … well, you know the drill. I wouldn’t be casting aspersions at other people’s intelligence and educational levels if I were you. It’s people of my generation who know how to spell and punctuate properly (well, at least most of the time) and who know better than to call each other “assholes” and “cocksuckers” at 7-11 in front of children and little old ladies.
I’m pretty sure conservatives support alcohol use. Tobacco use as well. Wanna compare death statistics due to those 2 drugs with all other drugs? Also, cite that the “regime in power” supports (illegal) drug use?
You keep saying this, even though it’s utterly retarded by any vaguely rational standard, and yet I’ve never seen a credible cite from you. How’s this: conservatives glamorize greed and killing the poor. What’s my proof? It supports my ideology!
Won’t somebody think of the children! The stupid, stupid children. Who, unlike previous generations, cuss.
Oh, relax. Just fire up some Glenn Miller on the ol’ Hi-Fi, pour yourself a bracer of Old Granddad, sit back in your easy chair, look out the window at the pretty little birdies a-perched on your lawn jockey, and let yourself drift off into undisturbed slumber.
It’s funny, but I don’t seem to recall too many instances where people on alcohol or tobacco have been hearing voices that encourage them to rape, murder and mutilate their housemates or girlfriends; who offer their children in exchange for a bottle of hooch or a pack of smokes; who break into houses and/or rob people with knives and guns in order to get a drink or a cigarette.
And besides, I’ve said before that as much as I love booze in virtually all its forms, when weighed against the misery and suffering and loss of life it has caused, I would prefer to see it made illegal. Same with cigarettes. I can’t believe that cigarettes, which have caused millions of deaths over the years, are still allowed but diet pills similar to phen-fen only safer and which have been proven highly effective against obesity and the deaths it causes get taken off the market because a relatively small number of deaths were kinda/maybe/sorta caused by them. I’d prefer that tens or hundreds of thousands of people didn’t die from obesity every year rather than preventing a few hundred heart attacks, but apparently that’s just me.
Give it a rest, asshole. Better men and women than you have tried the ‘Starvey’s an old crank’ routine and gotten nowhere with it. And if you had any idea of the types of music I listen to, the kinds of alcohol I drink, or how I spend my time, you’d know how ludicrous (not to mention stupid) your lame little attempt at making fun of me really is.
Well, don’t kid yourself, grampa. There are plenty of old guys who use obscene language in public too (and also plenty of them who can’t spell or punctuate). You just don’t notice on account of being stuck in a nostalgia fantasy world held together by confirmation bias.
Actually, this is a perfect illustration of why the terms of health care should ultimately be under the control of non-profit institutions that are politically vulnerable, such as government institutions run by liberals.
Because then the whiny paranoid anti-government hard-right conservatives such as Starving Artist will actually put their anti-liberal bias and paranoia to some constructive use, in the role of citizen watchdogs.
Sensible liberal government policies will alleviate the precariousness and suffering of a pure dog-eat-dog market system by providing universal safety nets for things like health care coverage. And when the inevitable bureaucratic mistakes occur now and then and somebody starts falling through the safety net, the whiny paranoid anti-government conservatives will scream bloody murder about government inefficiency and indifference to human suffering, and the bureaucrats will notice and say “whoa fuck” and repair the oversight (just as they’re doing now in this case) and the system will be improved. Win-win.
What useful civic purpose did somebody like Starving Artist ever serve back when government was being run by his ideological pals in the right wing? Did he ever get his titties all chafed like this about the scandal of governmental callousness and indifference to the well-being of its citizens back when Bush was doing everything he could think of to defund Medicaid, and private insurers were dropping sick people from coverage left and right? Hell no.
Like I said, it’s real nice that Starving Artist has suddenly discovered his civic conscience tucked away among the loose change in the couch cushions, but let’s not kid ourselves that he’s motivated by any motives more humane or altruistic than simply trying to make a Democratic government look bad.
Which, as I noted, is still an improvement as far as he’s concerned. Starving Artist as a citizen watchdog (even a hysterical, vindictive and partisan one) screaming about social injustice under a Democratic administration is certainly far preferable to Starving Artist as a complacent worthless sack of shit blithely ignoring social injustice under a Republican administration.
Yes, it’s a good thing alcohol has never caused anybody to rape, murder or mutilate anyone. Don’t know exactly what drug you’re talking about that makes people hear voices that cause them to do such things - must’ve missed that After School Special - but again: cite that those in power support its legalized distribution?
So you’re opposed to people being allowed to make their own choices because a minority of people can’t do it responsibly? Guess you’re for banning handguns as well, then. Never figured you for a nanny-government type.
Well, I must have gotten somewhere with it. I mean, you did actually respond to me, didn’t you? Now, put on some 78s and just chill, my man!
Hungry Tiger Insurance, of course. And the beauty of it is, with Hungry Tiger Insurance you don’t need a Death Panel. Everyone gets Death!
A couple of expressions come to mind. “When in Rome…” is one; “A falling tide lowers all ships” would be another.
Certainly the fucking up of this society has had wide-ranging effects. There are plenty of people who are political conservatives these days who behave just as badly as everyone else, just as there were liberals who behaved better in the so-called “good old days”, which as you probably know but choose to forget, I contend only seem good when compared with the way things are now.
Horseshit. Once the government is in total control of health care, you’ll take what they give you and that’ll be that. There aren’t enough hours in the day for news shows to cover, nor politicians in office to contend with, all the complaints that could be levied once single-payer goes into effect.
Again, horseshit! What you fail to understand is that there is ALWAYS social injustice. It’s unavoidable. When you try to manufacture fairness of one type, you create unfairness of another. I happen to think the current system serves more people much better than any government system would ever do. This results in some people not getting the care they need. Your system drags everyone down to what is by today’s standards substandard care, which in my opinion is unfair to the people who have to sacrifice the excellent and immediate care they get today. Unfairness is further created by making a small percentage of the population pay the lion’s share of the costs through no wrongdoing of their own but simply because they have the money to take.
I would have no objection to a dual standard from of health care where everyone who wants socialized medicine can participate in and finance it, and a separate system for people who want to pay for their own private insurance. But of course that won’t work because like with most liberal nanny-state programs, you have to rely on the produce of the country’s acheivers in order to finance it. And I don’t happen to think it’s “fair” to take money from people who have earned it, and to deprive them of the excellent care they have now, in order to support a system that can’t support itself.
Oh, it’s already established and you’re stupid and full of shit; the above paragraphs are merely icing on the cake. I’m just hoping that not enough of your country is the same.
I guess it depends on which concerns you’re talking about.
I’ll bring up something where we have at least some common ground: I agree with you that STDs and teen pregnancy are a problem. You’re probably not going to agree with my solutions, but at least I have some. They involve comprehensive sex education (NOT abstinence only) starting from an early age, government subsidized birth control, free and confidential STD testing, and abortion on demand with no parental notification requirement.
Yeah, well, there are getting to be more and more of us all the time, thanks to the fact that you people no longer have a headlock on the way people get their information. For decades, liberal philosophy ruled the nation’s colleges and universities, news media and entertainment magazines, television shows and movies. Virtually everything about the way people got their information carried a liberal slant, and it was effective in coloring people’s views of how people should think and behave in society.
Now, even though you still have the nation’s mainstream news media, entertainment magazines, television shows and movies carrying your message, we have been able, in a very short time and with little more than Rush Limbaugh and Fox News as weapons, to fight you to a virtual standstill.
The reason for this is that most people have common sense and can readily see the flaws inherent in the way liberals go about doing things, and now that we have rallying points from which to coalesce and fight back, we’ve made great strides in a very short period of time.
So think about this and think about it hard: even though you’ve had decades and decades in which to dominate the thinking of impressionable young minds and politically unaware adults, with only a few year’s time and only a couple of media sources at our side, enough of the nation’s populace has become sufficiently energized to fight you to a virtual standstill.
Personally, I find this very encouraging. You guys want to know how I’d make things better? I’d put the country in the hands of conservatives for a few decades and get us back to educating our kids, behaving like adults and taking responsibility for our own actions.
It’s my understanding that teabaggers and such don’t find information, per se. They get some information they like the sound of and eagerly pass it amongst themselves.
Gotta love it. Comes roaring in here, huffing and puffing about having the goods on us this time. Turns out he’s totally full of beans, and then insists that this proves he’s right.
Tell me, Starkers, when the liberals took over all the media, what did they use for cash? Or was it like a Mafia thing? “Nice little media you’ve got there, shame if something were to happen to it”? Or did the guys who used to own it just hand it over out of the goodness of their hearts?