[Rhodes22-list] Humor Political was Ed reduced to ethnic slurs (political, humor, psychology, pathology)

Andrew Collins sailingvesselcarmen at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 15:25:22 EDT 2008 

Ben

Did someone mention Moose-olini? Our very own Eva Peron Palin?  I could be
wrong but that may also be a variation on elk sausage.

Maybe she can make the trains run on time down Main Street USA.

As they said in the Roman Senate: Tu betchus culus, pucksterus.

Just a little shout out and a wink and a nudge from your dedicated fallow
traveller.

Andrew
sv Carmen soon to be on the hard
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Ben Cittadino <bcittadino at dcs-law.com>wrote:

>
> It's over.  I'm declaring victory.  Ed, with your last name  you might want
> to reconsider the "ethnic slur" route as the way to go here. If that's all
> you've got "my friend", the war's over.
>
> Ben C.
>
> As for Herb;
>
> You're right, sons often disagree with fathers, but in this case
> Christopher
> Buckley is an avowed conservative who wrote for the National Review. I
> don't
> think he has ever manifested basic disagreement with his dad.  I admit I
> haven't followed him closely but I believe most observers consider him a
> conservative. I'll check it out.
>
>
>
> Tootle wrote:
> >
> > Herb,
> >
> > After seeing Ben C.'s post and your reply, I must ask, would all of Ben's
> > views mirror his father's?
> > In this case maybe yes?  Was his father one of the Italian socialist who
> > brought Mussolini to power?  Maybe here we have a chip off the old block?
> >
> > If you go back far enough in history of Italy, you find Rome.  They had
> > slavery in the Roman Empire.  They had emperors.   They sent dissenters
> > such as Christians to the lions.  Maybe his views have a historical or
> > genetic origin?
> >
> > In that Socialism is a modern form or attempt at slavery, have we found
> > the origins of his views?  Inquiring minds want answers.
> >
> > Ed K
> > Greenville, SC, USA
> >
> >
> > hparsons wrote:
> >>
> >> Yep, big news there. A guy disagrees with the standards of his father,
> >> and has for years. Never seen THAT one happen before...
> >>
> >> Benjamin Cittadino wrote:
> >>> More news:
> >>>
> >>> "CNN-
> >>> MChristopher Buckley, the son of conservative icon William F. Buckley,
> >>> said
> >>> Tuesday he's resigned from the conservative National Review days after
> >>> endorsing Barack Obama's White House bid, among the most powerful
> >>> symbols
> >>> yet of the conservative discontent expressed this election cycle.
> >>>
> >>> In an online column, Buckley said he had decided to offer his
> >>> resignation
> >>> from the magazine his father founded after hundreds of readers and some
> >>> National Review colleagues expressed outrage he was backing the
> Illinois
> >>> senator.
> >>>
> >>> "While I regret this development, I am not in mourning, for I no longer
> >>> have
> >>> any clear idea what, exactly, the modern conservative movement stands
> >>> for,"
> >>> Buckley wrote.
> >>>
> >>> "Eight years of 'conservative' government has brought us a doubled
> >>> national
> >>> debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere,
> >>> poster
> >>> boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by
> >>> politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a sideshow, it brought us a
> >>> truly
> >>> obscene attempt at federal intervention in the Terry Schiavo case," he
> >>> also
> >>> wrote.
> >>>
> >>> The resignation comes four days after Buckley formally endorsed Obama
> on
> >>> the
> >>> Web site The Daily Beast, writing the presidential campaign had made
> >>> John
> >>> McCain "inauthentic," and Obama appeared to have a "first-class
> >>> temperament
> >>> and first-class intellect."
> >>>
> >>> In a statement posted on the publication's Web site Tuesday, National
> >>> Review
> >>> editor Rich Lowry noted Buckley was writing for the magazine on a trial
> >>> basis, and took his offer to resign with the "warmest regards and
> >>> understanding" sincerely. Lowry also took issue with Buckley's
> >>> contention
> >>> the magazine had been flooded with angry mail over Buckley's
> >>> endorsement,
> >>> saying it had received a relatively small 100 e-mails expressing
> >>> disapproval.
> >>>
> >>> "It's an intense election season and emotions are running high," Lowry
> >>> said."
> >>>
> >>> Emotions running high?  I'll say.
> >>>
> >>> Ben C.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> hparsons wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Ben,
> >>>>
> >>>> Are you aware of what some Bible passages have to say about doing away
> >>>> with other races, certain races being God's chosen, what should be
> done
> >>>> with people that commit certain acts, etc? Is it your assertion that
> we
> >>>> shouldn't use the Bible because of those passages?
> >>>>
> >>>> Are you aware of what some of our founding fathers said and did during
> >>>> their times?  Is it your assertion that their quotes should not be
> used
> >>>> as well?
> >>>>
> >>>> Are you aware that Obama freely quoted in his memiors from a man who
> >>>> said that God should damn America? Are you going to judge Obama, at
> the
> >>>> top of the Democratic ticket, by the same standard you are now trying
> >>>> judge the VP candidate on the Republican side?
> >>>>
> >>>> I somehow doubt it... But I AM eagerly awaiting your response...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Ben Cittadino wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Pete;
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Speaking of Gov. Palin, Frank Rich (of the NYTimes) had a reference
> in
> >>>>> his
> >>>>> excellent column this past Sunday about her quote from Westbrook
> >>>>> Pegler:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> No less disconcerting was a still-unexplained passage of Palin's
> >>>>> convention
> >>>>> speech: Her use of an unattributed quote praising small-town America
> >>>>> (as
> >>>>> opposed to, say, Chicago and its community organizers) from Westbrook
> >>>>> Pegler, the mid-century Hearst columnist famous for his
> anti-Semitism,
> >>>>> racism and violent rhetorical excess. After an assassin tried to kill
> >>>>> F.D.R.
> >>>>> at a Florida rally and murdered Chicago's mayor instead in 1933,
> >>>>> Pegler
> >>>>> wrote that it was "regrettable that Giuseppe Zangara shot the wrong
> >>>>> man."
> >>>>> In
> >>>>> the '60s, Pegler had a wish for Bobby Kennedy: "Some white patriot of
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises
> >>>>> before
> >>>>> the snow falls."
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I don't believe it is possible to justify any use of Pegler's words
> in
> >>>>> any
> >>>>> context in this day and age.  Either she (or her speech-writer) are
> >>>>> Pegler
> >>>>> disciples, or guilty of appallingly bad judgment. Westbrook Pegler
> was
> >>>>> a
> >>>>> very bad guy.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Best wishes,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Ben C.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> P.S.- Ed- Let me get this straight; You don't listen to Limbaugh,
> >>>>> except
> >>>>> when you do?  Is that it? Anyway,
> >>>>> WFAN(660 AM) is the place for sports talk up this way.  Give it a
> >>>>> listen
> >>>>> next time you're up this way to take in a Broadway Show.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Tootle wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Peter,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Here is the second paragraph of that report which you failed to
> >>>>>> mention,
> >>>>>> "Was the refusal to fire Mike Wooten the reason Palin fired
> >>>>>> Commissioner
> >>>>>> of Public Safety Walt Monegan? Not exclusively, and it was within
> her
> >>>>>> rights as the states' chief executive to fire him for just about any
> >>>>>> reason, even without cause."
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Peter are you being paid by the Obama Campaign for your posts?  Are
> >>>>>> you
> >>>>>> familiar with the term 'cherry picking'?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Ben C. asked, " Do you think Rush Limbaugh has actually read
> Sowell's
> >>>>>> stuff, or just pretends?"  I do not listen to Limbaugh except when I
> >>>>>> am
> >>>>>> driving and that is usually less than an hour, so I have no idea of
> >>>>>> the
> >>>>>> answer to your question. I guess you must listen more than me.  Why
> >>>>>> don't
> >>>>>> you call in and ask him?  Let us all know what you find out.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> As for talk radio, we have a couple of good sports talk shows here
> on
> >>>>>> Wcpi.  One is called 'Road Rage' with Walt Deptula.  He is quite
> >>>>>> knowledgeable and very critical.  His program may have helped get
> the
> >>>>>> Clemson football coach, Tommy Bowdin fired.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Ed K
> >>>>>> Greenville, SC, USA
> >>>>>>  http://www.nabble.com/file/p19981887/Obama%2Band%2BAyers.jpg
> >>>>>> Obama+and+Ayers.jpg
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> petelargo wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> ....except that's not what the bi-partisan investigation committee
> >>>>>>> of
> >>>>>>> 10
> >>>>>>> repubs and 4 demos found.  she clearly abused her power. now they
> >>>>>>> are
> >>>>>>> looking into the sports complex that paid for their personal house
> >>>>>>> with
> >>>>>>> government money. no small town washington reformer here.  just
> >>>>>>> another
> >>>>>>> 'whats in it for me' politician.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> from the time magazine article linked below: " ......the
> >>>>>>> Branchflower
> >>>>>>> report still makes for good reading, if only because it
> convincingly
> >>>>>>> answers a question nobody had even thought to ask: Is the Palin
> >>>>>>> administration shockingly amateurish? Yes, it is. Disturbingly so."
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1849399,00.html?xid=site-cnn-partner
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>  http://www.nabble.com/file/p19981887/Obama%2Band%2BAyers.jpg
> >>>>>> Obama+and+Ayers.jpg
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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