Comments on: Late Nite FDL: The Real Party of Death http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/22/late-nite-fdl-the-real-party-of-death/ Firedoglake weblog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:29:31 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: anonymous friend http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/22/late-nite-fdl-the-real-party-of-death/#comment-115390 anonymous friend Tue, 23 May 2006 20:47:48 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/22/late-nite-fdl-the-real-party-of-death/#comment-115390 <p>not a plug for the repugs, nor from an EPU, but for .b.a.l.a.n.c.e. see:<br /> <a href="http://www.harpers.org/OutOfControl.html">http://www.harpers.org/OutOfControl.html</a></p> not a plug for the repugs, nor from an EPU, but for .b.a.l.a.n.c.e. see:
http://www.harpers.org/OutOfControl.html

]]> By: Marg http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/22/late-nite-fdl-the-real-party-of-death/#comment-115217 Marg Tue, 23 May 2006 17:59:05 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/22/late-nite-fdl-the-real-party-of-death/#comment-115217 <p>To brkily - #123</p> <p>Sorry, I missed your qn last nite. Had to go to bed at 1:30 a.m. here. </p> <p>No, my brother in law doesn’t have children, and apparently has no sense of any stake in the future. Having 3 kids and having spent a good part of my life teaching low-income, minority kids overburdened with toxic exposures from local heavy industry,–and still am at age 64, I’m steeped in dealing with the disastrous consequences of mercury and lead pollution on young people’s neurological development. We can’t fathom each other. He can’t see why I’m “wasting my life,” not out there making enough money to retire early. </p> <p>If I could figure out how to bridge the gulf between us without avoiding these issues, I’d sell my formula to the Democratic consultants and get rich — or at least feel I’d solved a problem, and use the knowledge to bridge gaps elsewhere.</p> To brkily – #123

Sorry, I missed your qn last nite. Had to go to bed at 1:30 a.m. here.

No, my brother in law doesn’t have children, and apparently has no sense of any stake in the future. Having 3 kids and having spent a good part of my life teaching low-income, minority kids overburdened with toxic exposures from local heavy industry,–and still am at age 64, I’m steeped in dealing with the disastrous consequences of mercury and lead pollution on young people’s neurological development. We can’t fathom each other. He can’t see why I’m “wasting my life,” not out there making enough money to retire early.

If I could figure out how to bridge the gulf between us without avoiding these issues, I’d sell my formula to the Democratic consultants and get rich — or at least feel I’d solved a problem, and use the knowledge to bridge gaps elsewhere.

]]> By: punaise http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/22/late-nite-fdl-the-real-party-of-death/#comment-115126 punaise Tue, 23 May 2006 16:25:32 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/22/late-nite-fdl-the-real-party-of-death/#comment-115126 <p>errr, long wall = long <i>walk</i></p> errr, long wall = long walk

]]> By: punaise http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/22/late-nite-fdl-the-real-party-of-death/#comment-115089 punaise Tue, 23 May 2006 15:54:56 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/22/late-nite-fdl-the-real-party-of-death/#comment-115089 <p>marily, <a href="http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/22/who-started-the-iranian-badge-story/#comment-114598">this</a> was my context: </p> <p><i>Punaise … gives me a reconsent of mirth in words that allows me not to scream out the front door in a very loud voice.</i></p> <p>“gently, drown the scream” / (gently down the stream)….meaning FDL can be the lake of calm in which you find solace. </p> <p>again, sorry for the clumsy wordsmithing. please don’t take it as an affront - <i>au contraire</i>. and please don’t go. </p> <p>rather, ’tis I who need to take a long wall around the <strike>blog</strike> block. A twelve (hundred) step program in de-flippancy. starting now.</p> marily, this was my context:

Punaise … gives me a reconsent of mirth in words that allows me not to scream out the front door in a very loud voice.

“gently, drown the scream” / (gently down the stream)….meaning FDL can be the lake of calm in which you find solace.

again, sorry for the clumsy wordsmithing. please don’t take it as an affront – au contraire. and please don’t go.

rather, ’tis I who need to take a long wall around the blog block. A twelve (hundred) step program in de-flippancy. starting now.

]]> By: punaise http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/22/late-nite-fdl-the-real-party-of-death/#comment-115026 punaise Tue, 23 May 2006 15:09:41 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/22/late-nite-fdl-the-real-party-of-death/#comment-115026 <p>marily, so sorry, you read me wrong and I meant no offense. I didn’t see your comment last night. the “poem” was a tangential response to something you said on a previous thread - ironically, it was meant as supportive encouragement. clearly it missed the mark. my bad.</p> marily, so sorry, you read me wrong and I meant no offense. I didn’t see your comment last night. the “poem” was a tangential response to something you said on a previous thread – ironically, it was meant as supportive encouragement. clearly it missed the mark. my bad.

]]> By: I speak dog » Making us proud http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/22/late-nite-fdl-the-real-party-of-death/#comment-114988 I speak dog » Making us proud Tue, 23 May 2006 14:12:38 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/22/late-nite-fdl-the-real-party-of-death/#comment-114988 <p>[…] He was last spotted over at FireDogLake putting the smackdown on the Republican “Culture of Life,” which I tangentially addressed here. […]</p> […] He was last spotted over at FireDogLake putting the smackdown on the Republican “Culture of Life,” which I tangentially addressed here. […]

]]> By: dave http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/22/late-nite-fdl-the-real-party-of-death/#comment-114962 dave Tue, 23 May 2006 13:34:56 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/22/late-nite-fdl-the-real-party-of-death/#comment-114962 <p>One of the problems is that Evangelicals don’t really care about life itself (except maybe their own). All they really care about is that the person is “born again”. The believe that it does not matter when or how you die, but that you die believing in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. This way, their soul gets to go to Heaven.</p> <p>Barney Frank was absolutely correct when he said “Republicans believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth.” I’ve actually had conversations with conserative religious republicans where they have admitted as much (not in those specific words. In the one case, he stated that life began at conception, and because you don’t know exactly when conception happens, it begins at intercourse. He then stated that it is unimportant to him what happens to the child after birth).</p> <p>It would be laughable if it were not so scary.</p> One of the problems is that Evangelicals don’t really care about life itself (except maybe their own). All they really care about is that the person is “born again”. The believe that it does not matter when or how you die, but that you die believing in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. This way, their soul gets to go to Heaven.

Barney Frank was absolutely correct when he said “Republicans believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth.” I’ve actually had conversations with conserative religious republicans where they have admitted as much (not in those specific words. In the one case, he stated that life began at conception, and because you don’t know exactly when conception happens, it begins at intercourse. He then stated that it is unimportant to him what happens to the child after birth).

It would be laughable if it were not so scary.

]]> By: professor rat http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/22/late-nite-fdl-the-real-party-of-death/#comment-114950 professor rat Tue, 23 May 2006 13:23:20 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/22/late-nite-fdl-the-real-party-of-death/#comment-114950 <p>I miss the old body counts - why doesn’t Amerikkka do body counts anymore?</p> I miss the old body counts – why doesn’t Amerikkka do body counts anymore?

]]> By: e p o n y m o u s http://firedoglake.com/2006/05/22/late-nite-fdl-the-real-party-of-death/#comment-114922 e p o n y m o u s Tue, 23 May 2006 12:56:35 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/22/late-nite-fdl-the-real-party-of-death/#comment-114922 <p>[…] In the meantime, T Rex has an excellent post on the state of healthcare, the GOP and Ramesh Ponnuru: The struggle is always with us. Whether it’s the Right’s opposition to birth control, abortion, contragestives like RU4-86, sex and health education, AIDS prevention, and now to the cervical cancer vaccine or their stubborn refusal to provide health care to the poor and middle class on any kind of resonable and affordable basis, it’s like they’re trying to commit cultural suicide. Or when you consider that the US currently boasts the second highest infant mortality rate in the developed world, economic genocide.  It’s ethnic cleansing, the free market way! Those aren’t the children of Bill O’Reilly’s White Christians who are dying in such staggering numbers.  And all this comes from the people who swear they’re trying to Save the Babies™ by chiselling away at Roe v. Wade, and if that doesn’t work, by bombing abortion clinics and taking out bounties on nurses and physicians who work in clinics that perform abortions.  It’s like Barney Frank says, "Republicans believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth." […]</p> […] In the meantime, T Rex has an excellent post on the state of healthcare, the GOP and Ramesh Ponnuru: The struggle is always with us. Whether it’s the Right’s opposition to birth control, abortion, contragestives like RU4-86, sex and health education, AIDS prevention, and now to the cervical cancer vaccine or their stubborn refusal to provide health care to the poor and middle class on any kind of resonable and affordable basis, it’s like they’re trying to commit cultural suicide. Or when you consider that the US currently boasts the second highest infant mortality rate in the developed world, economic genocide.  It’s ethnic cleansing, the free market way! Those aren’t the children of Bill O’Reilly’s White Christians who are dying in such staggering numbers.  And all this comes from the people who swear they’re trying to Save the Babies™ by chiselling away at Roe v. Wade, and if that doesn’t work, by bombing abortion clinics and taking out bounties on nurses and physicians who work in clinics that perform abortions.  It’s like Barney Frank says, "Republicans believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth." […]

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