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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on May 16, 2012, 08:20:34 AM
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Dear Steve: We understand you're probably at least mildly discombobulated, a little upset, about the results in the primary for the Bellevue city council, but you need to know, big guy, it wasn't personal.....
Oh Hell.
When did the big guy ever pay attention to anything franksolich said?
So screw a letter, and exposit instead.
The big guy, more than any other primitive, past and present, was pummeled, raked over the coals, by decent and civilized people. It's true. While run-of-the-mill primitives get nothing but a feather banged on their shoulder, a beating no harsher than that, the big guy got a wooden popsicle-stick rapped on his shoulder.
This was a result of the Sarah Palin rule, new for 2012, in which it was decreed that if the primitives did it to the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2008, it was okay for decent and civilized people to do it to any primitive from Skins's island running for a public office.
We all know how the primitives treated Sarah Palin, no holds barred, nothing held back, cheap shots, rumors, weird speculations, harassment, name-calling, mud flung, innuendos, &c., &c., &c.
The primitives wrote the Sarah Palin rule in use here; if the primitives think the DUmpster was unfair or uncalled-for, in the case of the big guy, well.....the primitives were the ones who wrote the rule, and we were the ones who followed that rule.
The primitives got only themselves to blame, for how the big guy was mildly castigated here.
If primitives have second thoughts about their own rule, the Sarah Palin rule, well, the primitives are free to change it.
By example; the primitives lead, we follow.
If the primitives during this upcoming presidential campaign stick with the issues, avoid smearing, do no character-assassinating, passing on no unfounded malicious rumors, well then, we in the DUmpster will follow, treating primitives running for public offices in the same manner--sticking with the issues, avoiding smearing, refraining from character-assassination, squelching unfounded malicious rumors.
It's the primitives' call. They treat our candidates a certain way, we'll treat their candidates exactly the same way. If the primitives take the high road, well, we'll take the high road right behind them.
If the primitives take the low road, where anything goes, well.....
Actually, it needs added that at no time was the big guy handled by the DUmpster anywhere near as roughly as Sarah Palin had been handled by the primitives on Skins's island. It's true a little bit of mud was flung from this side, some names were called, wild unfounded speculations were stated.....but to a considerably lesser magnitude.
I recall a conversation with a friend of the big guy--one of those involved with creation of www.electstevedawes.com--in which he commented, "You know, we could've posted stuff, his own stuff, that would've made him look even sillier, but then we decided, nah....."
Our Christian charity and compassion restrains us. The big guy could've really been walloped here, but he wasn't.
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Leave Steve alooone!
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I disagree we were using the Sarah Palin rule. If we were using the rule 90% of the stuff said about Steve would have been untrue, a lot more vicious and involved his family members.
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I have no pity for them, they will never receive even a fraction of what they deserve for the corruption of the foundational values of this country.
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I have no pity for them, they will never receive even a fraction of what they deserve for the corruption of the foundational values of this country.
Ditto. They made the bed--they have to sleep in it, even though it may be on fire at the time.
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I have no pity for them, they will never receive even a fraction of what they deserve for the corruption of the foundational values of this country.
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To summarize:
Karma's a mother****er, ain't it Steve?
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Too bad there isn't a CIMB forum over there, Stevie. The only thing left for you do do is eat. Pound down those empty calories to drown those sorrows.
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I disagree we were using the Sarah Palin rule. If we were using the rule 90% of the stuff said about Steve would have been untrue, a lot more vicious and involved his family members.
Well, yes, that is true.
While Sarah Palin got a whole gallon of the primitives' medicine, we in turn dispensed back only an eighth of a teaspoon of the primitives' medicine to Omaha Steve, the random by-chance primitive who had to take it.
If fairness were mandatory, the primitives running for public office would have to drink down a whole gallon of their own medicine themselves.
They're the ones who concocted it.
But no matter how much the viciousness gets racheted up, this side is always going to be at least two or three notches lower than the primitives, because of our Christian charity and compassion.
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Frank, our med is concentrated :-)
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franksolich
While Sarah Palin got a whole gallon of the primitives' medicine, we in turn dispensed back only an eighth of a teaspoon of the primitives' medicine to Omaha Steve, the random by-chance primitive who had to take it.
Very true. The only thing I would add to the primitives was that this was, indeed, a very, very mild warning shot that could be seen in the far distance from the bow. Unless you start behaving, the next time will be 2 gallons poured on your head and lit.
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Very true. The only thing I would add to the primitives was that this was, indeed, a very, very mild warning shot that could be seen in the far distance from the bow. Unless you start behaving, the next time will be 2 gallons poured on your head and lit.
It galled me that some people, including some of our favorite members of conservativecave, thought we were going "too far" in this, picking on "poor Steve."
Everybody's entitled to their own opinions, and these favorite members are still favorite members of mine, but geezuz--they didn't see that "poor Steve" was getting kinder, gentler, softer treatment than what the primitives dished out to Sarah Palin in 2008.
The treatment "poor Steve" got was past our normal boundaries, but still, it was nowhere near as harsh and savage and slanderous as that accorded the Republican vice-presidential nominee in 2008 by the primitives.
It reminds me of the bleeding hearts on this side, who took Scamdy to task for "picking on a poor dying man," which was utter bullshit, it was no such thing.
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It galled me that some people, including some of our favorite members of conservativecave, thought we were going "too far" in this, picking on "poor Steve."
Everybody's entitled to their own opinions, and these favorite members are still favorite members of mine, but geezuz--they didn't see that "poor Steve" was getting kinder, gentler, softer treatment than what the primitives dished out to Sarah Palin in 2008.
The treatment "poor Steve" got was past our normal boundaries, but still, it was nowhere near as harsh and savage and slanderous as that accorded the Republican vice-presidential nominee in 2008 by the primitives.
It reminds me of the bleeding hearts on this side, who took Scamdy to task for "picking on a poor dying man," which was utter bullshit, it was no such thing.
Conservatives must ever be on the lookout (bolo) for the latest, false but accurate, tug on your heartstrings, artificial liberal sob story.
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Omaha Steve was a dud as a candidate. Would he have fared better or worse if his friends hadn't lent him a hand? Who knows? Who cares?
Omaha Steve promised big announcements again and again and nothing big ever materialized. And every month or so he would announce a "big announcement coming on x day. And x day arrived and no announcement. A day passes and no announcement. Another day passes and still no announcement. And when the announcement finally came, it was far less than promised.
He could have taken advantage of the website his friends set up for him, but he never did. He could have embraced his own statements on Socialism, after all, if it has merit, why not try to convince the voters of his point of view? Why not rally the other Ward 1 Socialists around him? But he never did anything.
He didn't even do a "demon sheep" commercial. Okay, maybe that's expecting a little too much creativity for a Socialist, but still, he could have done commercials with capitalists eating babies or something.
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All of the really good socialists in history weren't lazy. And they weren't shy about breaking a few eggs.
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All of the really good socialists in history weren't lazy. And they weren't shy about breaking a few eggs.
True socialists self-sacrifice for the greater good, disdaining personal comforts and conveniences.
The big guy used a lot of big bucks to get his personal theater-sized television set, counting on others to make their own sacrifices for him so he could get those damned yard-signs.
A Eugene Debs, Abraham Cahan, Norman Thomas, Dorothy Day or Michael Harrington, the big guy isn't.
You know, the best way to get help from others is by first helping yourself, giving your all. And if your all isn't enough, others take note and chip in. Nobody's going to "invest" in anybody who's not investing in himself.
Expressing an example of help by other people in dollars, in my own life, I've found that usually if I put a dollar into myself to achieve some sort of useful goal, and the dollar's all I have, and it's not enough, it impresses others enough that they chip in to the tune of anywhere from 2-to-1 to as high as 20-to-1.
One can't count on it, but it usually happens.
But one has to first give his all, before it happens.