You know, just when I think I’ve seen it all, something like that happens. I’ve seen a lot of insolent jerks in my life, but this takes the cake. I’ve never really had a problem with Brian Williams until now. I have to tell you, Ol’ W kept his cool a lot better than I would have. These questions were disrespectful and inane. Let’s go over some of this a bit, shall we?
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I’m about to do something I thought I would never do. I’m about to *agree* with Ray Nagin, the hapless mayor of New Orleans.
I don’t have the exact quote here, but in a recent interview, when he was asked about the slow recovery progress in New Orleans, he answered basically with, “This is going to take time. I mean, look at New York. It’s been five years and you guys still haven’t fixed a hole in the ground.”
This has a lot of conservatives up in arms, and I will admit it’s a dodgy comment, but you know what? For as dumb as this guy is, he’s actually got it right. Why can’t we fix the hole in the ground?
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As made obvious by my last post, I have become fond of having political discussions. Some people find that to be rather morbid, but I don’t know, I think it’s fun. It gives me the potential to learn a great deal, and also figure out what makes some people tick. That’s also very cool in my book. But, as with anything in life you have to take the good with the bad. I can have really interesting conversations with other conservatives, be they Republicans or Libertarians (Who, by the way, are crazy in their own “special” way, and that’s great.) Hell, I can even on occasion have an interesting discussion with a liberal, as long as they aren’t the New-York-Times-reading Starbucks-coffee-swilling-birkenstock-wearing-non-bathing-flag-burning type.
But those are hard to find. The only one who I can site off the top of my head right now is Joe Lieberman, but he’s all the way up in Connecticut. It’s not like I can call him up for a chat.
Nope. I couldn’t get that lucky.
I normally get the crazy hippie, and at some point, the following statement will spew forth from their bearded pie-hole, be they a man or a woman. (Oddly enough, it’s a strange thing how facial hair doesn’t seem to discriminate among the hippie sect of our culture, but I digress.)
Anyway:
“You’re a Neocon!”
“Oh, really?”
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Uh-oh…Look who’s back. It’s me, and I’m plenty irritated. Here we are, over three years into the Iraq conflict, and I still hear the same old crap. “Do you think we should be in Iraq?” and/or the 9/11 conspiracy nut jobs. Today, let’s tackle the conspiracy nut jobs.
As a preface, those of you who know me are very aware that I spend a lot of time on the Internet. Probably too much time, but that is a discussion for another day.
At this moment, I am part of a Google discussion group. A Google group is much like any other discussion board, but with 2 neat little twists:
1. You have to be invited.
2. Instead of logging in to a site to view the ongoing discussion, each successive reply is e-mailed directly to you. This is incredibly convenient, but it can also eat up your daylight if you get too involved.
The group I’m in consists primarily of political discussion. Conservatives, (like me) square off against liberal whack job sad-sacks every day, and it gets to be pretty passionate. As always, I don’t take any crap from anybody, and I go out of my way to make sure everybody knows that.
Recently, a discussion was begun by a liberal member of the group in regard to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. His contention was that the towers were not brought down by the impacts of the airplanes, but by placed thermite charges, and that the superstructures of the buildings would have had to *melt* for them to collapse as they did. Anyone with moderately functioning grey matter knows that these theories are complete garbage, and as I said earlier, I have grown tired of these pointless discussions. As a matter of principle, I took this person (who shall remain nameless) to task. Enjoy.
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