A Great Local Story

[Supsalemgr]

Maybe Stinger forgot his meds this morning. He seems awfully agitated.

[billy.pilgrim]

Maybe Stinger forgot his meds this morning. He seems awfully agitated.

if so, then all he has to do is take his meds

but as you exibit so often, there ain't no cure for stupid


tag can't even comprehend simple thoughts, such as,



There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me – because they want to give something back. They know they didn't – look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something – there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business – you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don't do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.





so well said and so simple to understand




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[k9nanny]

How appropriate that the forum chicken should show up right when we're discussing the winger's penchant for taking quotes out of context and lying about them.

Yup they only stretch the truth, Right?

No one said that, lying dumbass. You've been shot down on that one multiple times, yet you cut and run and pop back up with the same tired old like.

It's like playing Whack-an-A-Hole.

Your emphasis is all wrong, Thorny, and poorly communicates your meaning.
It would be "Yup, they only stretch the truth. Right?"
And super wonders why all who attended gov't schools aren't successful.

[Colonel Taylor]

How appropriate that the forum chicken should show up right when we're discussing the winger's penchant for taking quotes out of context and lying about them.

Yup they only stretch the truth, Right?

No one said that, lying dumbass. You've been shot down on that one multiple times, yet you cut and run and pop back up with the same tired old like.

It's like playing Whack-an-A-Hole.

Your emphasis is all wrong, Thorny, and poorly communicates your meaning.
It would be "Yup, they only stretch the truth. Right?"
And super wonders why all who attended gov't schools aren't successful.

Sorry you and stinger aren't successful. Maybe your parents should have tried private schools.

[Stinger]

Maybe Stinger forgot his meds this morning. He seems awfully agitated.

You seem as dense as usual. And just as wrong.

You got a quote on what Clapper originally said yet?

[Stinger]

How appropriate that the forum chicken should show up right when we're discussing the winger's penchant for taking quotes out of context and lying about them.

Yup they only stretch the truth, Right?

No one said that, lying dumbass. You've been shot down on that one multiple times, yet you cut and run and pop back up with the same tired old like.

It's like playing Whack-an-A-Hole.

Your emphasis is all wrong, Thorny, and poorly communicates your meaning.
It would be "Yup, they only stretch the truth. Right?"
And super wonders why all who attended gov't schools aren't successful.

Sorry you and stinger aren't successful. Maybe your parents should have tried private schools.

There you go making stupid assumptions again. You show no capability of ever learning not to make stupid assumptions.

Fits in nicely with your cowardice and chronic lying.

[Stinger]

How appropriate that the forum chicken should show up right when we're discussing the winger's penchant for taking quotes out of context and lying about them.

Yup they only stretch the truth, Right?

No one said that, lying dumbass. You've been shot down on that one multiple times, yet you cut and run and pop back up with the same tired old like.

It's like playing Whack-an-A-Hole.

Yea I bet your wife feels the same when when you're done with the 500 lb garbage man.

Stupid is a full-time gig with you, huh?

Where's your wife? Oh, that's right. She took off with one of the garbage men. Best upgrade she ever made.

So what's it like being the forum douchebag?

I have no idea. Why don't you clue us in?

Just wondering since you're so good at it.

Couldn't come close to you, no matter how hard I tried.

Yup just lie and deny and your world is all shit brown.

You're the one who regularly lies . . . and then cuts and runs like the craven coward you are . . . only to appear again spouting the same tired lie.

Stinger wrote:

...Obama certainly stretches the truth and spins

Thanks for proving me right and proving you the liar. Saves me the trouble of looking it up.

And how appropriate that when we were commenting about stupid cons taking quotes out of context and then lying about the quotes, who should show up but the primary offender, Defective Colon.

Apparently, you don't even realize that you just proved yourself the liar. Is that because:

A) you're really that frickin' stupid and illiterate, or

B) you're that shameless and brazen a liar, or

C) you're really that frickin' stupid and illiterate, or

D) all of the above.

Your original lie said that I claimed that liberals ONLY stretch the truth.

I never said that. You provided my quote that proves that I didn't say that.

Furthermore, in the rest of my statement that you deceptively edited, I said that Obama lied. But here comes the forum douchebag repeatedly lying by claiming that I said Obama doesn't lie.

Thanks for being so frickin' dumb as to tell a lie and then prove yourself a liar, and thanks for doing it on such an appropriate thread.

Here's an example of the forum's Hypocrite and Crybaby queen lying . . . on the very same day where he goes full stupid in some lame attempt to claim others lie -- said claim just something else he can't back up.

[Stinger]

Bumping Defective Colon's lying while, on another thread, crybabying that someone else lied.

Gotcha a mug for Christmas.

[neoplacebo]

Not a bad mug, but I'd vote for something like "mug o chicken" with the famous terrified fleeing chicken depicted in about a 270 degree coverage of the mug.

[Stinger]

Not a bad mug, but I'd vote for something like "mug o chicken" with the famous terrified fleeing chicken depicted in about a 270 degree coverage of the mug.

What would really be cool is a mug with chicken that runs in circles, chasing its own tail feathers and going nowhere.

That would be a perfect Defective Colon mug.

[mike]

Not a bad mug, but I'd vote for something like "mug o chicken" with the famous terrified fleeing chicken depicted in about a 270 degree coverage of the mug.

What would really be cool is a mug with chicken that runs in circles, chasing its own tail feathers and going nowhere.

That would be a perfect Defective Colon mug.

Here ya go ... it's not 270 degree coverage but ...



I can do better but this was just a quick one ... I'm otherwise occupied at the moment, unfortunately, watching the Giants killing my Packers.

[neoplacebo]

Excellent, Mike! I should have reconsidered my original angle; it would seem that a 180 degree vista works just fine. Thanks. I'd have a cup, but I have to run.....

[O Really]

OK, nevermind what Obama said, what they think he said, or what anybody else tried to say he said. Take Obama out of the discussion.

Are these guys really going to argue that one can build a successful business without using community resources, relationships with other people, education or training or knowledge of some type received somewhere? Can one actually "build it" - whatever "it" is, totally alone? Let's take the concept literally. You get up and decide to build a deck out back. All by yourself. No help from anyone. Ummm, except for the people who grew the trees and cut the lumber and delivered it to Lowe's and the guy who helped load it on your truck and the people who made the nails and the concrete and the guys who ran the water line from the street so you can hook up your sprinkler and the guys who ran the electricity to your house so you, by yourself, can connect to it for your lighting. Simple project...all by yourself...yeppers.

[neoplacebo]

OK, nevermind what Obama said, what they think he said, or what anybody else tried to say he said. Take Obama out of the discussion.

Are these guys really going to argue that one can build a successful business without using community resources, relationships with other people, education or training or knowledge of some type received somewhere? Can one actually "build it" - whatever "it" is, totally alone? Let's take the concept literally. You get up and decide to build a deck out back. All by yourself. No help from anyone. Ummm, except for the people who grew the trees and cut the lumber and delivered it to Lowe's and the guy who helped load it on your truck and the people who made the nails and the concrete and the guys who ran the water line from the street so you can hook up your sprinkler and the guys who ran the electricity to your house so you, by yourself, can connect to it for your lighting. Simple project...all by yourself...yeppers.

All this "you didn't build it" stuff is something I had been contemplating in moments of abandoned revelry long before it became a point of contention; I used to contemplate the condition of the modern human, being aware of all the devices and conveniences and comforts and labor saving and life saving devices, as well as the sum of human knowledge that currently exists, and the awe inspiring technological advancements in just the past 100 years or so.....but as O Really notes above in the deck example, just as you yourself likely cannot "build it" (the deck) alone, the same is true for just about anything else. How many of us could make a simple battery? How many of us could mine, smelt, and work metal? How many of us could build a car or an airplane or computer? Even though the empirical knowledge to do all of these things is available to any individual who wants to find it / know it, that in itself doesn't make you capable of building anything, even with the assumption that you understand and have mastery of the fundamental principles involved. The bottom line is that things are so intertwined these days, it's as if we've made it impossible for anyONE to do much of anything on their own. Now, I have to go and work on my hydroelectric power plant (I'm only now just in the planning stage; working drawings will be next, then find a suitable site, build a steamshovel, build a railroad) ah...never mind.

[neoplacebo]

As evidenced by my very own avatar, illustrating dominance over the badger.

[O Really]

As evidenced by my very own avatar, illustrating dominance over the badger.

If you keep poking that badger, you'll have serious issues from the Doc and probably Mike, too.

[rstrong]

As evidenced by my very own avatar, illustrating dominance over the badger.

If you keep poking that badger, you'll have serious issues from the Doc and probably Mike, too.

The original source for that badger.

Crank the sound up and watch it until the end!

[mike]

As evidenced by my very own avatar, illustrating dominance over the badger.

If you keep poking that badger, you'll have serious issues from the Doc and probably Mike, too.

The original source for that badger.

Crank the sound up and watch it until the end!

If there is an end, rstrong, can't say I'd have the patience to see it.
I was bored after the first 30 seconds ...

[rstrong]

If there is an end, rstrong, can't say I'd have the patience to see it.
I was bored after the first 30 seconds ...

Actually, the trick is to stop watching when you start to hallucinate.

[mike]

If there is an end, rstrong, can't say I'd have the patience to see it.
I was bored after the first 30 seconds ...

Actually, the trick is to stop watching when you start to hallucinate.

Ah, that explains the reference to 'shrooms ...