Comments on: A: It’s for the geniusness of this kind of commentary. http://thefatguy.com/2007/10/a-its-for-the-geniusness-of-this-kind-of-commentary/ Not-A-Pundit: Just a guy writing about food, music, books, and tractors Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:13:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: charles austin http://thefatguy.com/2007/10/a-its-for-the-geniusness-of-this-kind-of-commentary/#comment-310436 charles austin Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:50:57 +0000 http://thefatguy.com/2007/10/a-its-for-the-geniusness-of-this-kind-of-commentary/#comment-310436 Damnitalltohell, we have to convert to socialism ... for the children! Now, be quiet and get back to generating more revenue to be confiscated as taxes to fund the statist domination plans of the Democrat Party. I can't believe you are so ungallant as to complain about their desire and willingness to use your money to make themselves feel better about helping other people, as if your heart is as pure as theirs. In a related note, I read something about Jimmy Carter mouthing off again and wondered why anyone would/should listen to Jimmy Carter. After a minute or two I decided that we should indeed listen to Jimmy Carter because apparently too many people still don't understand the meaning of the aphorism, "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions." And, yes, I am admittedly being generous here with the word good, but I suspect he really does believe he is advocating the right things. Damnitalltohell, we have to convert to socialism … for the children! Now, be quiet and get back to generating more revenue to be confiscated as taxes to fund the statist domination plans of the Democrat Party. I can’t believe you are so ungallant as to complain about their desire and willingness to use your money to make themselves feel better about helping other people, as if your heart is as pure as theirs.

In a related note, I read something about Jimmy Carter mouthing off again and wondered why anyone would/should listen to Jimmy Carter. After a minute or two I decided that we should indeed listen to Jimmy Carter because apparently too many people still don’t understand the meaning of the aphorism, “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” And, yes, I am admittedly being generous here with the word good, but I suspect he really does believe he is advocating the right things.

]]> By: TFG http://thefatguy.com/2007/10/a-its-for-the-geniusness-of-this-kind-of-commentary/#comment-310189 TFG Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:20:03 +0000 http://thefatguy.com/2007/10/a-its-for-the-geniusness-of-this-kind-of-commentary/#comment-310189 Interviewing the neighbors, publishing the father's business name -- no problem. I didn't read any shelving valuation, nor did I see any home address information. The former is just odd, and the latter is probably public information. My contention is that national spokespeople will get attention. Don't use your kid for advertising if you're not prepared for that attention. You're just asking for trouble. Stick to the adults. So, let's check on the links: - A Republican at a school - check. No links to where the pix are from - check. Equivalent? Not in my book...maybe your's. - Oh well meeting time. C ya Interviewing the neighbors, publishing the father’s business name — no problem. I didn’t read any shelving valuation, nor did I see any home address information. The former is just odd, and the latter is probably public information.

My contention is that national spokespeople will get attention. Don’t use your kid for advertising if you’re not prepared for that attention. You’re just asking for trouble. Stick to the adults.

So, let’s check on the links:
- A Republican at a school - check. No links to where the pix are from - check. Equivalent? Not in my book…maybe your’s.
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Oh well meeting time. C ya

]]> By: BG http://thefatguy.com/2007/10/a-its-for-the-geniusness-of-this-kind-of-commentary/#comment-310188 BG Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:08:43 +0000 http://thefatguy.com/2007/10/a-its-for-the-geniusness-of-this-kind-of-commentary/#comment-310188 Heh heh heh... "Boehner's Kids." I don't care how he pronounces it, he's still a boner to me. Heh heh heh… “Boehner’s Kids.”

I don’t care how he pronounces it, he’s still a boner to me.

]]> By: Cyrus http://thefatguy.com/2007/10/a-its-for-the-geniusness-of-this-kind-of-commentary/#comment-310186 Cyrus Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:56:03 +0000 http://thefatguy.com/2007/10/a-its-for-the-geniusness-of-this-kind-of-commentary/#comment-310186 I hope this doesn't post multiple times, but the page wouldn't load for some reason. I took out some hyperlinks and just left the URLs as text, maybe that'll help. If this does triple-post, sorry. If it doesn't post at all, well, screw it, it's too much trouble. <i>I don’t think I’m being partisan here. Have there been small children used to provide a platform plank for the Republicans?</i> Yes, there have. http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/29/boehners-kids/ http://www.nightlight.org/Copy%20of%20snowflakefactsheet.pdf http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/03/nrsc-uses-small-children-as-human-shields The last of those is hilarious, by the way. <i>One more - don’t enlist small children to be your national spokesmen and expect innoculatoin [sic] from national criticism simply because they’re small children.</i> So you don't see any difference between "criticism" and publishing their home address, interviewing their neighbors, giving the name of the school the kids go to and the name of their father's business, and trying to estimate the value of the shelves in their kitchen? Personally, I don't understand how that disproves whether the family needed help with medical bills (seehttp://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/08/attacking-graeme-frost), let alone how all that is relevant to S-CHIP in the first place. And if people are a little creeped out right now about a family getting attention like that, can you blame us? I hope this doesn’t post multiple times, but the page wouldn’t load for some reason. I took out some hyperlinks and just left the URLs as text, maybe that’ll help. If this does triple-post, sorry. If it doesn’t post at all, well, screw it, it’s too much trouble.

I don’t think I’m being partisan here. Have there been small children used to provide a platform plank for the Republicans?

Yes, there have.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/29/boehners-kids/
http://www.nightlight.org/Copy%20of%20snowflakefactsheet.pdf
http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/03/nrsc-uses-small-children-as-human-shields
The last of those is hilarious, by the way.

One more - don’t enlist small children to be your national spokesmen and expect innoculatoin [sic] from national criticism simply because they’re small children.

So you don’t see any difference between “criticism” and publishing their home address, interviewing their neighbors, giving the name of the school the kids go to and the name of their father’s business, and trying to estimate the value of the shelves in their kitchen? Personally, I don’t understand how that disproves whether the family needed help with medical bills (seehttp://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/08/attacking-graeme-frost), let alone how all that is relevant to S-CHIP in the first place.

And if people are a little creeped out right now about a family getting attention like that, can you blame us?

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