[dilligras]

Quote by: PatrickHenry You're good for a few laughs anyhow, dilligras. I assume the duck thing was humor, and it made me chuckle.

Thanks, pard.

I like to disarm my foe with a chuckle or two, until I can get close enough to get my hands..........er, I mean....thanks.

I actually like debating "conservatives" such as yourself. Most are even more hostile than you are and eventually get themselves banned from here, though. I don't think that will happen to you, 'cause you seem to have better self-control. The "clueless right-wing" label came out after your insults in post #91, and your base accusations in post #95, heh. But overall it would be best if we left the personal insults aside and stuck to the issues.

Well, ok........but only 'til you piss me off.

Anyhow, in many cases I think that the "conservatives" and I have some congruent world-views, and it's just that I am better informed regarding the issues.

That's a certain, "duhhhhhh". It's like saying,"I can see better than Hellen Keller!"

Better informed than most conservatives, most so-called liberals, most rocket scientists and most ditch diggers...........so what? That still doesn't preclude the possibility that you only think you know what you think......you know.......y'know?

On foreign aggression by the US, I have the unique perspective of living in a nation conquered and occupied by the US military since 1893.

YOU ARE NOT HAWAIIAN........are you? No matter.......the Japanese would have liked to treat anyone living in that tropical paradise exactly as they did the citizenry of China, Korea, and the Phillipines. Are you as knowledgeable about THOSE atrocities?

Who stopped them?

Oh no...........could it be? the US MILITARY?

Why, yes, I believe it was.

Likely we will never agree on how the Empire that was once a republic has been twisted and perverted away from her righteous roots.

"And here I thought sure I could change your mind in a few sentences, as further evidence of my burgeoning intellect.", our hero replied sardonically, shifting the hand-rolled cigarette from one side of his mouth to the other.

This is probably what needs some explanation. You haven't been around enough to know how I arrived at my "paranoid fantasies," but there is no doubt that the US is being ruled under a Declared State of Emergency extending back to 1933, and in any case since the SoE of September 14, 2001. But the press never mentions it. The SoE grants extraordinary and unconstitutional powers to the Executive branch and to the Chief Executive in particular.

Now it's my turn.........was that humor? It sure made me chuckle....

No.......seriously......you didn't start a sentence with the words, "there is no doubt".......did you?

How can you ever claim to be other than a right wing-nut extremist of the most extreme sort?

The US is, at this point, virtually a whitewashed dictatorship, and trending in the direction of more restrictions of freedom than anyone would have thought possible a few years ago.

Izzatso?

Whitewashed dictatorship, eh? So you voted and your candidate didn't win, does that about sum it up? Or are you suggesting something more nefarious?

I shall have to smack you once again with my "parrot" charge, should you try any of that, "Bush stole the election" crap that has been thoroughly dispelled as just so much lefty propaganda.

But wouldn't you agree that Rule by the White House is not really what was envisioned in the balancing act set up by our honored founders? Not to mention that the Ninth and Tenth amendments balancing the Fed/State/individual equation have been rendered obsolete by Federal over-reaching?

There is no "rule by White House".......total fabrication. Rule by RINO is more like it, what with the few lefty Republicans joining with the Democrats to block the so-called "nuclear option" as regards the Presidents judicial nominees.

Yet the "conservatives" never take note of encroaching tyranny by the Federals. Apparently they can't find any objection to Free Speech Zones, fiscal irresponsibility, spying on anti-war groups, disregard of habeas corpus and many other abuses by Federal power.

Aaawww, you just been hangin' out with the wrong conservatives......I heard there was some of them there militia types that object quite a bit to all that stuff..........but they blame it on the Jews, the blacks, the World Bank, etc, etc, ad nauseum..........who do you blame it on?

I expect Posse Comitatus to be disregarded soon, and that the national ID card will be the next great thing .

Too late...........posse comitatus was violated by Gov. Richards, Janet Reno, and General Wesley Clarke, in Waco, Tx. against the Branch Davidians.

I know you've heard of it......

Our views may be more congruent along social conservativism lines. But even there, I don't favor intrusive legislation regarding personal behavior unless there is a clear personal victim.

Maybe........I support the decriminalization of all drugs and the simultaneous criminalization of all anti-American scum, fascist or otherwise.

And yes, I get to "profile".

Anyhow, maybe we should bury the hatchet and debate like civilized men. How about it?

Well..........ok, but only 'til you piss me off.

As to you being anti-war, don't make me laugh. Anti-war means saying "no" to war.

Were the topic not so serious, it is I who should laugh.........your statement is proof that you likely have little idea what anti-war means.

If you think it means allowing evil men to threaten all Americans with their murderous "jihad", then you and I have a very different idea of how to prevent war.

There will be no war, when the evil men see that their greed for power at the expense of others will bear a cost more than they are willing to pay.

Ghaddafi saw the light, maybe others will get it soon, if we show a united front to the tiny men whose main concern is the perpetuation of their power, and thus, their lives.

If you just want to kill everyone opposed to the occupation so that the war is over, how is that anti-war?

Please don't put words in my mouth and then ask me why I spoke....