very briefly...i know he talks with an accent similar to Jessie the Body Ventura, which I find annoying

6/10/2008 5:19:45 PM

see, that's a non-rational (emotional) reaction, you aren't crying, but you're responding to illogical biases that you have.

6/10/2008 5:21:36 PM

but i dont think any more or less of his words just because i think his accent is annoying...i separate any feeling or emotion invoked by his retard voice when i'm looking at the context of what he says

6/10/2008 5:28:19 PM

Quote :

"Policy should be derived from logic and reason, not emotion."

It's logical and reasonable for policy governing emotional beings to consider emotion.

Quote :

"Look I got into an argument with my dad over his father inlaw. My grandfather had to sell his farm and go through his life savings before medicaid would cover the care for his wife in a nursing home. My dad thought that was unfair. I disagree. I think its unfair to ask others to pay for things simply bc you dont WANT to pay for them, but have or could obtain the means."

Maybe this is one of those things 'Twista was talking about that you don't "get" until you get there.

[Edited on June 10, 2008 at 5:32 PM. Reason : ]

6/10/2008 5:28:40 PM

^^So basically, everything is objective?

[Edited on June 10, 2008 at 5:29 PM. Reason : .]

6/10/2008 5:29:45 PM

policy should be objective, which you guys have been arguing as impossible

6/10/2008 5:31:16 PM

^ It depends how you define "objective."

6/10/2008 5:33:13 PM

It is impossible.

Which is more important-- freedom or security

THINK, TREE

YOU CAN SOLVE IT ONCE AND FOR ALL WITH YOUR OBJECTIVITY

6/10/2008 5:34:59 PM

great analogy

sounds like an analogy made by someone who prepares teenagers for the real world by having them memorize dates

6/10/2008 5:38:32 PM

haha, way to not get what an analogy is.

But really-- the world has been debating this for hundreds of years.

Use your 100% objectivity to solve it once and for all. Show all us feel-a-lot girly men the Truth.

6/10/2008 5:40:41 PM

but really

worst analogy ever

leave it to a high school teacher to come up with that gem

ps: i actually make fun of your actual job, whereas you make fun of some fake profession that you've daydreamed for me in your head in between making flowcharts that obsess over me

6/10/2008 5:42:25 PM

So you not get the difference between an example and an analogy? really?


And I make fun of the fact that you have a job that allows you to post on TWW all day. The specifics of said job don't actually matter.

It's the pathetic nature of it.

6/10/2008 5:46:55 PM

its sad that you have to make up a fake job in order to try and diss me when i can just use your real job

calling me a "PDA technician" would be like calling a high school principal a measly history teacher

oh wait!

6/10/2008 5:52:38 PM

Quote :

"Neal Boortz is a Texan, a lawyer, a Texas AGGIE (Texas A&M)"

now what if he was Joe Liberal, a Bostonian, a Scientist, and a Harvard man?

his speech would likely be the complete opposite, appluaded by like minded individuals, and might flare the tempers of those on the opposite side of the seesaw.

if i've learned one thing from posting here, its that most of you will never, ever, ever get past your predetermined intellectual myopia. most of you love this guy because the most you'll ever be is a confluence of limitations shaped by your tiny environment. this fact should not surprise me, and doesn't really since we are all products of our environment; but it never ceases to make me do the Carl face.

before you go writing off what i said as typical liberal condescension, stop and think -- after all, that is what you claim is your strong point right -- thinking instead of feeling?

6/10/2008 5:52:42 PM

i dont think it has as much to do with liberal vs. conservative, as he is just preparing the graduating class for the real world, which doesnt work the same way as the world of academia that we all passed through for the majority of our young lives

6/10/2008 6:00:01 PM

^^^ You could be the CEO of Intel for all I know. It's irrelevant for reasons already stated.


I'm still curious, though.

Could you tell me the difference between an example and an analogy?

[Edited on June 10, 2008 at 6:01 PM. Reason : .]

6/10/2008 6:01:11 PM

well for one thing, all analogies are examples, not all examples are analogies...why do you act like they're completely independent

nice loaded ad hom question

6/10/2008 6:06:27 PM

Quote :

"i dont think it has as much to do with liberal vs. conservative, as he is just preparing the graduating class for the real world, which doesnt work the same way as the world of academia that we all passed through for the majority of our young lives"

i see what you are saying, but there's a heavy conservative slant. he almost paranoid/us versus them, when talking about diversity and some of the other stuff.

6/10/2008 6:13:38 PM

well forced diversity isnt really a good thing...like he says, it promotes the idea that its more important for a group of people to have a broad range of races and ethnicities and backgrounds, than to be a skilled and motivated group of whatever background and ethnicity...to me he's basically saying that being politically correct for the sake of being political correct is stupid

6/10/2008 6:16:01 PM

Quote :

"if i've learned one thing from posting here, its that most of you will never, ever, ever get past your predetermined intellectual myopia."

said by someone who will never, ever ever get past his predetermined intellectual myopia.

6/10/2008 6:52:59 PM

i see what you did there

6/11/2008 12:26:34 AM