Displaying 541 To 570 Of 960 Comments I worked with an evangelical christian man and as much as I admired him and respected his work ethic I got to where his walking in the room just made me ill. He would immediately launch into his religious beliefs and how wrong mine were and from there I could just feel myself shrink away. Thankfully he was a bit of an idiot. The owner was/is Jewish and as liberal as he was he didn’t take kindly to this guy going off one day on a rant about the Jewish conspiracy that was taking over the country. He’d heard a sermon about it in church and was really going on and on. I saw our owner give me one of THOSE looks. I shrugged and two days later we got the announcement he’d moved on to the dreaded “other opportunities”. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 2:17 pm I think on both sides of the fence it tends to endorse or encourage anger, resentment and a willingness to abandon objective disagreements into shouting matches. Many times on HP I would start to comment and find myself getting dragged further and further into anger and my own snarks. Then I would step back and chill. Kilgore talked me off the wall one night when I was getting sorta ballistic at the mean snarks. So when I came here and saw the rules for civility I tested the water and found it just fine. I’ve only seen two even mildly mean words directed at people and a couple that were backhanded slaps directed at people – save the ones who do things to deserve it = some Fox News people etc. What has happened since is there are a couple of truly conservative people here who actually post thoughtful commentary and it’s given us a nice give and take without the half handed snips you know all too well from the other place (I’m doing better about not mentioning it out loud). The last few days there I implored the people tearing into POTUS regarding Egypt and on other issues to simply offer their ideas for a solution. I never heard one response and finally realized they were there simply to make people angry and increase the clicks on stories and pad their responses. So we can experience reason and dialog here. I guess that’s all I was trying to say » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 2:13 pm It seems to be a communicable disease because it’s here in MN too, WI, ND, SD and IA. God – I’m surrounded! » Posted By jdmn17 On February 9, 2011 @ 4:49 pm We have people here in MN arguing over whether Sara or Michele is hotter. Yes, we have some very deformed chromosomes in our gene pool. And the winters are cold and dark so we do get kind of desperate this time of year. I still think Tracy’s comments about her, as much as I am sensitive to demeaning remarks about women (too many feminist g.f.’s over the years), were right on. Way too many on the far right put themselves to sleep with vision of Sara in their head. I think that’s why she’s wearing leather almost every time there’s a photo op. When she puts on the leather studded necklace and holds a riding crop in one hand I think her poll numbers will take a quick spike. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 9, 2011 @ 4:48 pm Glen. be nice to MAD, it was my source of much learning as a ten year old. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 9, 2011 @ 4:43 pm Gifford’s rehab and the plight of others without access to her level of care david, having been in the med device industry for many years I know one thing that would most definitely have to change here is the pricing of products and medication. We sold products (pacemakers) for about 20% of what we charged here in the US. The same was true across the board. And mind you, we didn’t cheat the Canadians with cheaper versions. They got the same products as we sold here. So in order for the national health care to be even modestly cost effective the prices of medication and devices would have to drop a lot. I doubt the medical suppliers would stand for that without a fight and I doubt Wall St would want that either. It’s a monstrous system interlocking together. And that doesn’t even begin to address physician compensation which for some specialties here in the US are extreme. Of interest though is that GP’s. FP’s and allied health worker comps are remarkably similar. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 9, 2011 @ 9:22 am I worked as a therapist in the 70’s at the local county hospital. We had a lot of indigent patients and did our best to help them, scraping together the best we could within a limited budget. To be honest, in some cases the therapy we provided was more outcome focused because we had limited time with them and the resources to support it. They left us as good as we could get them but once they got back “home” and came to us for followup I saw all too often how they slipped back into their disabilities and were often worse than when they left. Contrast that with a one year stint at one of the most prestigious medical centers in the world. Patients there all got gold star treatment and amazing followup. It isn’t really fair of course since wounds I dealt with (burns) didn’t seem to give a socioeconomic damn about how much money you had. Thanks Abby, nice post » Posted By jdmn17 On February 9, 2011 @ 8:03 am Foxhole! Welcome and as Kilgore wrote, put away the code words and be human again. Nice to have you. There will be others coming round to orient you. I came over two weeks ago, Black Monday, and love it. Look to the right of the comments and watch the boxes of recent posts, then you can find people. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 21, 2011 @ 5:56 pm First moderation? First deletion of a well thought out post? First snarky comment about your offspring or lack of a brain? Kidding. I am grateful to HP for eventually getting me here. Welcome JM » Posted By jdmn17 On February 16, 2011 @ 1:40 pm Liberallioness So we can attribute that to skin color, POTUS party affiliation or, as some suggest, she’s using the platform of FLOTUS to launch a Senatorial campaign. That one was funny and a slap at Hilary. What I don’t get is how women buy into it. We talk about TPers and how they vote against their own interests yet here are Republican women supporting the further intrusion of government into their lives. Frankly I think most people are flummoxed by the whole obesity thing, you raise you kids, mine are vegetarian and both of them are thicker than kids when I grew up. And then there are the truly obese, I don’t know, maybe the parents are obese and don’t care. Or maybe they offer up what I’ve seen for years. Food stamps don’t cover a lot of green leafy vegetables so you go with what you can afford. Pasta being one. We don’t eat worth a damn in this country, esp at the lower end of the economic scale Lastly, there is one dark thought I have (such a conspiracy theorist). Maybe most of the noise is coming from a well funded and very below the radar attempt by the fast food industry to discredit her and anyone else who attempts to teach us how to eat better. Nah, that would be like saying the energy companies are working to discredit global warming. Never mind 🙂 » Posted By jdmn17 On February 16, 2011 @ 9:49 am Hey Fuzzy, welcome » Posted By jdmn17 On February 16, 2011 @ 9:10 am I went over this morning and got really pissed (that’s such a singular phenom for my otherwise calm persona) and wrote about Michele Bachman trashing FLOTUS. Once again the posters were raging about the government intruding on peoples lives despite 1. FLOTUS is not an elected official and cannot enact legislation How they can trash her for wanting to help childhood obesity and now nursing mothers to use breast milk for health reasons is beyond me. One (annfromca) actually said “creating a nanny state” was one the MAJOR issues the right had wit POTUS So I threw some stuff out and challenged others and got two posts out of ten to post. And I wonder why I’m here. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 16, 2011 @ 9:01 am I’ve lost my urge to curse. I think that’s a good thing, maybe…… » Posted By jdmn17 On February 9, 2011 @ 4:19 pm I own several power tools for rough cutting my old barn wood. The other day I was completely perplexed and when my son suggested I read the manual he laughed and told me I was getting too crusty. Bah Humbug, he’s thinking I’ll forget that by Christmas. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 9, 2011 @ 2:23 pm If being a socialite means you hang out with Rush and Ikka then I’m glad to be a commoner » Posted By jdmn17 On February 9, 2011 @ 2:21 pm If only we could end relationships so easily 🙂 Nice to see you. Another poster I fanned comes in from the cold » Posted By jdmn17 On February 9, 2011 @ 2:20 pm I don’t know if it’s really possible to be totally conservative or liberal in all affairs. I bounce all over the place, esp when it comes to my 22 year old way too pretty daughter. And I think that’s what went missing for me at HP. The threads were so moderated I cut down my writing a ton just because I didn’t want to write a lot and have it disappear. And I think having other points of view helps me hone my thinking and explore other approaches to the same problem, or in simple terms – I get to read what other people write and in doing so get a short stroll down life’s path in their shoes. What can be better than that? I’ve noticed already the dialog here is more civil, not some love-in but decidedly more open and civil. I’m going to be really po’d when it comes out AH hired a bunch of trolls to come in and stir up trouble in the postings as a means to get more clicks. I can already feel it coming just waiting for the revelation. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 9, 2011 @ 10:55 am I got so tired of writing something out, submitting it to mods who killed is (I can write killed without getting modded now) that I started limiting myself to shorter comments so if they crashed I hadn’t wasted all that time for nothing. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 9, 2011 @ 9:30 am Hi Creole – always loved your snarks 🙂 Glad to see you here » Posted By jdmn17 On February 9, 2011 @ 7:36 am That was funny funk » Posted By jdmn17 On February 9, 2011 @ 7:35 am I realized when I saw an earlier post from you that you were a Giants fan and that clicked for me. I haven’t seen anon here. Then again a lot of us I think are still looking around. I was lucky to see a couple of familiar faces here and stuck around and then struck gold this afternoon » Posted By jdmn17 On February 8, 2011 @ 5:50 pm Arianna seems to have become obsessed with the Palin crowd – Sunday they had four stories about her on the politics page and one more with her photo in it about the polling of the right wing candidates. That’s when I knew I had to think about leaving, that and the way they treated Penner. Not my cup of posting tea but he deserves a voice like the rest of us. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 8, 2011 @ 5:47 pm No I think it’s on a down slope. I just got an alert and went to a post in there on the Bristol creature. Some dude snarked a comment I’d made that didn’t get modded. First time in three days I wrote something that went through. Didn’t matter, I was just commenting that it was good to know HP was keeping the Palin clan in front of the media tour. Now yesterday that would not have gone through so now are they going to open up to try to regain what they lost? I don’t have a good feeling about that. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 8, 2011 @ 5:22 pm SueinCa – actually I think it was you or zoot. I was flying around some of the lesser used stories and saw it. Nothing was getting in the AOL story and I was getting fried that everything went into the black hole » Posted By jdmn17 On February 8, 2011 @ 5:16 pm Dave, we have ideological differences but I always appreciated your comments. Nice you showed up here. That last night, when you got banned, was the second to last nail in the coffin. I was on the thread bitching and whining about you getting banned, not so much to boost your ego but rather that it seemed they were banning you when there were so many other posters who were just awful and if we can’t discuss then how can we ever get you to see the light 🙂 I don’t mind a good fight but I was really getting tired of the stupid comments, snarks and outright mean posts. So when you got banned I was surprised and gratified so many people rose to your defense. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 8, 2011 @ 5:09 pm I’m pretty sure they thought we’d all sit passively and whine and get moderated, nice to see you. Always liked your posts. I went over there an hour ago and saw some responses to older posts of mine, mostly trolls with childish snarks. I’m sure they’ll show up here but it was very freeing to see them and laugh them off knowing there are other places with friendlier faces » Posted By jdmn17 On February 8, 2011 @ 5:04 pm OK, my duh moment about orange, the Bone man of course. I called him the boner and always got deleted » Posted By jdmn17 On February 8, 2011 @ 5:00 pm I got it fine, thanks » Posted By jdmn17 On February 8, 2011 @ 4:57 pm I don’t know about Alienation of Affection. Maybe adultery would be more in order. Sleeping with the enemy is the least of her actions. Feeling better, it was kind of disorienting floundering around all morning » Posted By jdmn17 On February 8, 2011 @ 4:54 pm Chernynkaya – thanks, good to know and I don’t mind the thread jumping, there aren’t as many here, but since HP was about 85% fluff it’s not so hard. And since we don’t appear to be heavily modded I don’t have to go find someplace without mods to say something » Posted By jdmn17 On February 8, 2011 @ 4:51 pmComments Posted By jdmn17
2. They don’t want government intrusion but they want to intrude on womens bodies.
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