Democrat Congressional Comittee attacks Rush Limbaugh

[BrianFromWA]

Apology accepted, and no worries. I just didn't want to get generalized and dragged into the middle of pissing matches between grown men. It's a good way to get wet and messy, or so I hear.

 

[barfo]

Apology accepted, and no worries. I just didn't want to get generalized and dragged into the middle of pissing matches between grown men. It's a good way to get wet and messy, or so I hear.

Grown men? I'm only 11.

barfo

 

[BrianFromWA]

My fault. You seem tall for your age, and the size of your computer fooled me.

I don't know many 11 y/o Charlie Daniels fans, either...unless I'm totally misreading your avatar caption.

 

[barfo]

My fault. You seem tall for your age, and the size of your computer fooled me.

The men in my family all have big computers.

I don't know many 11 y/o Charlie Daniels fans, either...unless I'm totally misreading your avatar caption.

Charlie Daniels, huh? You'd be misreading it. On the other hand, that's easy to do because, now that you mention it, I don't even know why it is there. When I started posting with this group for some reason it struck me as funny to label myself as such, but I can't remember exactly why. Probably I was in a political discussion at the time...

barfo

 

[Minstrel]

Not to get in the way of grown men and an 11 year old (and, apparently, some transfer of urine, but I'm not clear on that and probably don't want to know more), but I found the debate in the other thread between BrianFromWA and barfo quite interesting and didn't think either person got embarrassed. Both were pretty cogent and stirred me to do some Internet research to discover who was right.

 

[barfo]

Yeah it has everything to do with Democrats doing things like this to try to stifle guys like Limbaugh.

I still don't quite understand. If the fairness doctrine is the democrats method for stifling Rush Limbaugh, why are they collecting a petition to send to Rush? Why not just pass the law?

barfo

 

[Denny Crane]

I still don't quite understand. If the fairness doctrine is the democrats method for stifling Rush Limbaugh, why are they collecting a petition to send to Rush? Why not just pass the law?

barfo

They're talking about passing the law, too.

Chucky Schumer has been championing it since the election. So this is part of the plan.

And, FWIW, I think it's clear from reading the transcript that Rush clearly said (did I say clearly enough?) that IF the plan is to turn the US socialist, he hopes it's a miserable failure. I see nothing wrong with it.

 

[Denny Crane]

Singular. I recanted one. The rest of the War and Peace post was a detailed technical explanation detailing why I (mistakenly, it seems) generalized excessively. The original statement of "Uranium comes from the ground. We use it in nuclear reactors until it can no longer reach criticality at a certain set of circumstances. Then we'd like to put it back into the ground in a place that's far away from population. What, exactly, is wasteful/toxic/dangerous about that?" wasn't incorrect, and I didn't recant it, though no one really answered why it's wasteful/toxic/dangerous. The followup statement of "but it's not like when Uranium oxide is used up, it becomes Plutonium or something "really bad". The cores are Uranium oxide coming from the ground, and uranium oxide going back in" was what I recanted. Instead it the fuel is 97% Uranium dioxide and 3% fission products, much of which could be reprocessed...and then explained why the original point was still valid. Keeping in line with your quote from post #55:
(substitute "nuclear engineering" and "nuclear engineers" for "climate science" and "climate scientists") and I attempted to prove it, scientifically. I thought I did a decent job.

I hijacked that thread with the original question, deeming it germane since I'd seen Denny bring it up in Post 112. And now it seems I've hijacked another one...but in my defense, it was b/c I thought my good name was being tarnished as a bald-faced recanter of truths.

IMHO, no one should really be embarrassed by that thread, though I would submit it would be fair to, in the future when talking about this, write about how I was challenged on my opinion and responded with enough facts to give dissenters pause, rather than making it sound like I blew hot air all over the interwebz, got caught in it and pulled a quick mea culpa recant to limit the repercussions of my stupidity.

I don't see you, at all, as hijacking threads. It's political discussion and it goes where it goes.

 

[barfo]

They're talking about passing the law, too.

Chucky Schumer has been championing it since the election. So this is part of the plan.

So why the petition? What I'm not seeing is the link between the two.

And, FWIW, I think it's clear from reading the transcript that Rush clearly said (did I say clearly enough?) that IF the plan is to turn the US socialist, he hopes it's a miserable failure. I see nothing wrong with it.

I didn't see the IF in Rush's statement.

barfo

 

[maxiep]

So why the petition? What I'm not seeing is the link between the two.

Baby steps down a slippery slope.

I didn't see the IF in Rush's statement.

barfo

I would guess there's not much doubt in Mr. Limbaugh's mind where he thinks President Obama wants to take us.

 

[barfo]

I would guess there's not much doubt in Mr. Limbaugh's mind where he thinks President Obama wants to take us.

Right. I would also guess there is not much doubt in Mr. Limbaugh's mind where he thinks President Obama is going to take us (given the democratic senate and house and Obama's popularity). So I take Limbaugh's statement to mean "I hope the policies he implements fail", not "I hope that he fails to implement the policies he wants to".

barfo

 

[maxiep]

Right. I would also guess there is not much doubt in Mr. Limbaugh's mind where he thinks President Obama is going to take us (given the democratic senate and house and Obama's popularity). So I take Limbaugh's statement to mean "I hope the policies he implements fail", not "I hope that he fails to implement the policies he wants to".

barfo

I read it as the latter. If I had to put myself in Mr. Limbaugh's head (a scary place to be), I would think that he would prefer the policies are never implemented in the first place.