I’ve been getting a kick out of townhall meeting videos the past few days. The Congressmen are back in Washington, but these gems, which dipict everyday people getting in the fat faces of the stuffy politicians will live forever.
First up: chick calls oBBama a Nazi and Frank a supporter:
There are two major fallacies in Frank’s response:
#1, Avoiding the question. He doesn’t answer her question. If he was unclear about the link between Hitler and oBBama, then, why not ask instead of avoiding the question? He did ask a question to address the questioner, but it led to the second logical fallacy:
#2, Ad hominem. Instead of answering the question, Frank criticizes the questioner, implying that she was an alien and likening a conversation to her with coffee table. Well, Mr. Frank, a conversation with you is worse, it’s like having a conversation with an ILLOGICAL person. I’d much rather have a conversation with a coffee table!
Second up: Baron Hill forgets who he’s working for
This is just hilarious. Hill is worried about being put into a compromising position so he doesn’t allow video of “his” townhall meeting. The thing is, it seems like it would be very difficult to not see this arrogant jackass in a compromising position. Irony, I love it.
This one is long, but interesting. Tsongas endures a pretty rowdy crowd of antagnists as she spouts her lies about healthcare “reform”:
You have to give her credit for holding her own, but this video clearly shows that there are a very vocal majority of people who are sick of this government sick care plan.
This is outside a townhall meeting, not much content, but an interesting point at the end:
I wrote a review about “Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar” and made a dig about the authors’ politics being biased and unappealing. And what does Amazon do? They pull my review and another review about a friend of mine’s book. Very interesting, you fascists sons of bitches.
The Senate is expected to vote soon on the $1 trillion+ spending plan cobbled together by Democratic leadership at the last minute. Pelosi, Reid, and Obama are selling the package (S. 1) as a jobs bill, but a quick look at where the money will actually go shows that it is nothing of the sort. Spending $400 million on the prevention of sexually-transmitted diseases or $600 million on new cars for government bureaucrats will do little to nothing to promote sustainable, long-term economic growth.
Senators are facing a barrage of big-government activism from the left, and we need to make sure that the taxpayer’s voice is heard through all of the noise.
Please call your Senators right away and ask them to VOTE NO on the “stimulus” hoax!
Call Barbara Boxer at (202) 224-3553.
Call Dianne Feinstein at (202) 224-3841.
Points to remember when you make those calls:
Bloated government budgets simply don’t make economies soar. Spending willy-nilly didn’t work in the 1970s (the last time Washington tried spending its way out of a slump), and it won’t work now.
It would be an outrage to add $6,700 to each household’s share of the national debt to pay for a desperate attempt to “do something, anything” about the economy.
Low tax rates will do much more over the short and long term to expand prosperity in America.
Vote NO on S. 1!
Every call made by taxpayers like you will help turn the tide against this harmful plan! Thank you in advance for picking up the phone and making these two crucial calls.
Sincerely,
Your NTU Grassroots Action Team
P.S. Want to see which mayor thought that spending $99,600 on doorbells was a good “stimulus” project? Visit StimulusWatch.org to find out.
My buddy wrote this book- it will rock your foundations!
Why do atheists and believers argue for hours without first defining “God?”
Why do people describe Nazis and Soviets in exactly the same way yet place them on opposite ends of the political spectrum?
Why do some judge others for being judgmental? Why are some psychologists trying to disprove psychology? And how does arguing show that we really agree?
In the fascinating and groundbreaking new work, Everyone Agrees, J.S.B. Morse uncovers clues to these riddles and reveals how disagreements are merely the result of a difference in perspective of a shared “mountain of truth.” Using entertaining examples from both scientific literature and pop culture, Morse breaks down the popular “us-against-them” and morally relative mentalities, proving that everyone really does agree, even when it comes to such hot-button issues as politics, religion, and the NFL’s best quarterback.
Everyone Agrees offers an introduction to the theory of concurrence, a unique take on human behavior which places logic (or simple common sense) at the heart of a universal morality. With the same accessible style and penetrating insight found in Morse’s first two books, The Evolution Diet and How To Take Advantage of the People Who Are Trying to Take Advantage of You, Everyone Agrees provides an entirely new perspective on perspective itself.
This report says it all. It seems Google has been freezing anti-Obama blogs. I’ve been a fan of Google, but if this is true, it would be a very ugly stain on Google’s reputation.
I was so ecstatic to see that my book (picture and link on the right) surpassed 1,000,000 on Amazon! That was until I found out that the higher, the worse it’s doing.
Comon people! It’s a great book- one for the ages. Buy 10 and give them away to your friends and fellow Boomer-haters
Millennials Rising may seem like a book about the up-and-coming Millennial Generation, but it’s really just another way that Baby Boomers (the authors Neil Howe and William Strauss) are congratulating themselves. If it really was about Millennials, you’d expect to read about some great things that they’re doing that they’ve come up with on their own–instead, you read about all the great ideas the Boomers came up with for their kids (like school uniforms).
One redeeming aspect of this book is the quotes from the Millennials throughout the book, which show how ridiculous and self-centered they are, but also how they are rejecting the Boomers as one says “Boomers are hypocrites”.
The end result is another way Boomers are trying to remain relevant without doing anything good and another reason Why Baby Boomers Suck!
Who cares what Romney said 12 months ago? Who cares if they’re going to be hiding in the weeds…blah blah blah… Get over it! What we witness in the Republican Debate between McCain and Romney and moderated by the ever-so-suave-even-when-he-lies-to-the-debaters-about-giving-them-time-to-talk Anderson Cooper was a waste of time. I’m glad my boy Ron Paul told it like it was- “Silly”. Is that bickering appealing to anyone? Maybe CNN was just trying to cast the Republican race as a He-said She -said battle. Give me a break!
(What a great title to a review of the Baby Boomers, huh?!?)
When it comes to generations, Brokaw is an inbetweener (like us gen Xers) who was sandwiched between the Greatest Generation and the Boomers. The result of his perspective (and journalistic excellence) is an unbiased, if often saccharine, portrayal of the Baby Boomers through play-by-play of history and reflection. This time, the reflection is a little more fitting than when it was carried out when the generation was in their twenties–note that Joe Queenan’s hilarious Balsamic Dreams derides the same generation for “premature nostalgia” in the ’70s.
The Boomers did some pretty interesting things (and drugs) and the result is a pretty entertaining story. This book is a thoughtful review of that story and the reaction of the rest of the world from the Boomers’ defining moments including the summer of love and the civil rights movement.
