IvyShoots's Comments (31)

“What purpose would retyping the same post serve? Just read more carefully. It doesn't say anything about what "the law in the US does." It says there ought to be a law like Australia's. You're welcome.”

“Hilarious! Best laugh: "once they get a taste of some old guy's eyeballs it's pretty much game on."”

“You illustrate the entire problem in a nutshell. Every critical comment is racist, and if anyone doesn't agree, THAT person is either racist or stupid? Now you're making as much sense as a teabagger.

This is known as CRYING WOLF, and guess what? -- it is COUNTERPRODUCTIVE to the goals of racial equality and civil debate. If you don't get that, you're either not very bright or...well, not very bright pretty much covers it.”

“I didn't see your comment before I posted mine, but you said it better than I did! I didn't realize there was a book, but I was very familiar with the monkey story. As I said, this reminds me of the "lipstick on a pig" comment being called a smear on Palin, when it was no such thing.

Yes, it's tempting to grab anything that looks like ammo and use it as such, but ultimately doing that only discredits your own position.”

“No, we should not ignore racism, but crying wolf by reading racism into a pre-existing, non-racial anecdote only weakens our position (are you aware this story is traditionally told by preachers from the pulpit, to teach that we must accept that we don't have control over everything that happens in life, good or bad?).

Calling it racist is no better than feigned GOP outrage over the supposedly sexist "lipstick on a pig" comment. There are PLENTY of actual racial attacks on Obama to condemn; let's focus on them. Comparing Democrats to disruptive monkeys is not racist.”

“Jones signed a petition to have 9/11 investigated, as did many responsible and concerned Americans. We all should have had questions about our govt's failure to protect us on that day, and many important questions have still not been answered, nor has anyone in power been held accountable for the failure.

Show me any evidence that Jones believes 9/11 was an "inside job," or that the planes were holograms, or a bomb hit the Pentagon, or Jews were tipped off to stay home, etc etc, and I will agree he is a 9/11 conspiracy nut.

But using the word "truther" as an indictment, as if demanding full disclosure and accountability is a BAD thing, is a sad indication that fear and willful ignorance are winning strategies on today's political battleground.”

“"Cinque's sea wife." I don't get this reference. Anyone know what it means?”

“No one was ever burned at the stake in Salem. Fourteen women and six men were executed, none because of threatening "the male masculinity" or for being "sexually aggressive." Don't make things up.”

“If you're going to use a literary reference to make your point, Mr Hari, get it right. Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" did NOT suggest the Irish "should eat their own babies." It argued that the poor Irish should SELL their own babies for rich people to eat.”

“I believe your self-worship is getting in the way of your ability to differentiate between facts and your personal, unsupported opinion. Get over thyself; it's really that simple.”

“Decapitation is "sexy?" Do me a favor, lady, don't speak for me with that "What WE'RE really fantasizing about" nonsense.

Whether a man is the cave man type or the Wall St type says nothing about his ability to love a woman the way she wants. Either one can be tender-hearted OR an abusing lout. Physical strength does not automatically make a good lover. You're welcome to your fantasies, just don't kid yourself that all women share them.”

“Unfortunately, you have set foot in Boston to see it. ; D”

“I feel the same way, Ms Efron. Though my Delacorte-going days were in the 70s, I'll never forget seeing Raul Julia and Richard Dreyfuss as Othello and Iago, or a young Sam Waterston play Hamlet (he played Polonius in last year's production) which then went on to Broadway.”

“I feel your pain. In my experience, Hindus also have polytheistic beliefs which do not deter them from respecting the beliefs of other religions. The problem is religions which are intolerant of those outside the faith. If all faiths would subscribe to a policy of respect for other faiths, we might be able to move forward as a species. There are many ways up the mountain; the view from the top is the same.”

“Humans have been eating animal flesh for 2.5 million years. The problem is mass production through environmentally irresponsible means, and over-consumption, not the practice of meat-eating itself.

The superior tone of this fantasy is revisionary; it pretends eating meat (and eggs and milk) is some modern day abomination which wiser, moral humans would naturally reject. If Obama is so smart, why does he seem to be addicted to hamburgers?”

“Way to prove Rob's point: you not only need to mention God to make your argument, you need to mischaracterize your opposition as "worshipping" govt like a god. Obviously that's the only way you can approach an issue, as a sheep being led by an invisible magic man, so you assume there are no rational people who actually use reason to decide what's right, rather than ancient dogma. Your supernatural world view is better suited to playing World of Warcraft than to making public policy with the grownups.”

“Great post. Keep speaking out; you are one of the rare Christians who GETS it: to be a Christian, follow what Jesus SAID, not what people who came after him claim he really MEANT! Christ even clearly warned about such people, so there's no excuse for being duped by them rather than getting the message directly from his words.”

“Don't assume Obama is sweeping this under the rug. Don't assume "looking forward" means forgetting about these war crimes; it can mean looking forward to the prosecution of Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, etc. We should be demanding Obama appoint a legal task force to build the case against them for trial, not release lurid photos to gape at.

To release these photos now is to say to the world, "Look what the US has done," as if we the people knew about it and approved of it. We did NOT. Releasing the photos as evidence against the criminal Bush admin, during the course of a trial, would say to the world, "Look what these monsters did in the name of the US." That is the proper context to view these photos in.”

“"The AOL home page is where they wrote that I had 'picked a fight' with Maddow and Olberman. "

Sure, sure, Alec, but did they spell your name right? ; )”

“So now it's not enough for a woman to starve herself until she has virtually 0% body fat; she must also do whatever necessary to appear as if she has narrow hips? Next we will all be admonished to don fake beards, and our transformation into male impersonators will be complete. Why does our culture so detest womanliness?”

“If you need it explained, why "outing" this person served no useful purpose except intimidation/retaliation for exercising free speech, all you have to do is go to this link and get a taste of what her life has been like for the past few days:

www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2217069/posts

It's not very pretty, but Free Republic never is. They posted a link to a museum store they BELIEVE is hers, and suggest flooding it with fake orders. Classy.

My favorite post, in its entirety: "'Here's an etiquette suggestion: [quoting Doogan's email] Abandon your phony names, do your own thinking and don't expect everybody to share your obsessions.

I like it!"

The author of the post applauding abandoning phony internet names? Nick Carraway! LOL”

“"Homosexuals have no federal "rights", so there is no discrimination. " So you believe that if a person is homosexual, they lose all the rights others retain? Maybe in your world, but not in the US. Either they have the SAME rights as everyone else or they are being discriminated against.

"Just as there is no "right" to have relations with a child or an animal." If you actually don't realize how monumentally FALSE this analogy is, I pity you. Children and animals by their natures cannot consent to sexual relations with adult humans; any sex with them is rape and abuse. Homosexual adults who consent to relations with others are no different from heterosexual adults who do the same, and retain the same rights.

"The only federally protected "right" is relationships between men and women." You don't think even a single argument to support this proclamation is necessary? Just because you say so is enough? Who died and made you dictator?

"Just because you think there should be a right doesn't mean there is one." Just because you think there shouldn't be a right doesn't mean there isn't one.”

“Um, he didn't "complain" about debating her; he made a JOKE about it. If you need that joke explained to you, maybe humor just isn't your thing.”

“Looks like you get your information about Asperger's from Boston Legal and Wikipedia. Check out the books of Daniel Tammet, who is himself an "Asperger case;" I think you'll be surprised. And doesn't it make more sense to believe politicians' entries are both written AND unwritten by the same staff?”

“All the "Is this for real?" comments just illustrate one thing: people will believe anything if it's on the Internets!”