John Kerry: Freedom Makes It Hard to Govern

[Rawlings]

By Todd Konrad
August 25, 2013
American Thinker
 

Speaking before a group of State Department workers last week, Secretary of State John Kerry gave voice to the frustration authoritarians experience because of the easy access to information on the internet.  Secretary Kerry told the audience that the world had been "complicated" by "... this little thing called the internet and the ability of people everywhere to communicate instantaneously and to have more information coming at them in one day than most people can process in months or a year."

http://michaeldavidrawlings1.blogspot.com/2013/08/john-kerry-freedom-makes-it-hard-to.html

[EagleKeeper]

Look, here is another tip...free of charge.

Find your own voice, it's fine and dandy to just do cut'n paste, just don't pretend that is what is going thru your mind.

This is just me but if you develop a history of cut'n paste I will lose interest in your posts.

[Eupher]

Look, here is another tip...free of charge.

Find your own voice, it's fine and dandy to just do cut'n paste, just don't pretend that is what is going thru your mind.

This is just me but if you develop a history of cut'n paste I will lose interest in your posts.

Agreed. And while Michael David Rawlins is, I'm sure, a nice guy, I'm not terribly interested in his opinions all that much. He personifies the term "fundamentalist" and those kinds of people give Christians a rather bad rap.

[marv]

I agree with Eupher.

[Dori]

What's Kerry really trying to say?  We lose more and more freedoms every day, especially under this Administration.  And if you complain about how big the government is getting, you get put on an extremist watch list.

 

[CG6468]

He should complain to the 'Net's inventor, Alworthshitgoreyou.

[EagleKeeper]

Ok, I get it, it's your "blog" right?

Ya know, I took a look at it and I didn't see a single original thought, you just thief all your content from other folkes.

Again, I suppose thats fine but I'm not really inclined to discuss anything with someone who can't even offer their own opinion.

Do you really want to emulate xchrome and kpete?

[Rawlings]

Look, here is another tip...free of charge.

Find your own voice, it's fine and dandy to just do cut'n paste, just don't pretend that is what is going thru your mind.

This is just me but if you develop a history of cut'n paste I will lose interest in your posts.

My own voice?  What are you talking about?  Konrad wrote this article.  I'm just featuring his article on my blog. 

[EagleKeeper]

Ok.

You completely missed my point.

Am I being mean?

[Dori]

Am I being mean?

 

[Rawlings]

Ok, I get it, it's your "blog" right?

Ya know, I took a look at it and I didn't see a single original thought, you just thief all your content from other folkes.

Again, I suppose thats fine but I'm not really inclined to discuss anything with someone who can't even offer their own opinion.

Do you really want to emulate xchrome and kpete?

What is all this hostility from you?  You don't know what you're talking about.  There are literally dozens of articles on my blog written by me.  Dozens of in-depth pieces!  Your statement is a lie.  They're listed under "My Stuff".  Dude.

[Rawlings]

Ok.

You completely missed my point.

Am I being mean?

No.  I didn't miss your point.  Your statement that nothing on my blog is origin is a lie.  Mean has nothing to do with the price of beans. . . .  Dude, there are reams of origin works on that blog!  Pay attention.  

Now let's see if you have any integrity.

BTW, with regard to the Lounge thread, that was erased, apparently.  LOL!  I think because when I inquired I got riddled with negative rep.

In response to your nonsense about whining. . . .

_______________________________________________

First rule of CC is don't whine about reputation. it's mostly a joke and it will only make things worse.

I'm not going to BS you but BS'd you will be.

Huh?  I'm not whining.  In case you didn't notice, once again, I'm wondering why a civil and solidly conservative poster with solidly conservative concerns would get so much negative feedback . . . on a conservative board.  Also, why do I see so many civil and solidly conservative posters with solidly conservative concerns with high negatives on a conservative board?

You don't think that's a bit odd? especially given the fact that leftists, being the know-nothing, nasty little pricks that they are, routinely give negative rep sans any argument on mixed boards while conservatives rarely give negative rep to anyone on the same, but actually make arguments instead.

*Yawn*  

You missed my point entirely, it seems.  And you're "not going to BS me, but BS'd I will be"?  In this context, I don't know what that's supposed to me.  LOL!  Are you saying that conservatives on this board routinely give negative rep just because?  

[Rawlings]

Agreed. And while Michael David Rawlins is, I'm sure, a nice guy, I'm not terribly interested in his opinions all that much. He personifies the term "fundamentalist" and those kinds of people give Christians a rather bad rap.

I'm not a fundamentalist, and I'm not a nice guy to fools or punks who try to marginalize me.  You personify a closed-minded, know-nothing twit.


The topic is not about me.  It's about Kerry, you idiots, whose sentiment is spreading across America.  It's dangerous, a serious threat to liberty.

[EagleKeeper]

I'm not a fundamentalist, and I'm not a nice guy to fools or punks who try to marginalize me.  You personify a closed-minded, know-nothing twit.


The topic is not about me.  It's about Kerry, you idiots, whose sentiment is spreading across America.  It's dangerous, a serious threat to liberty.

This is why I have very little time for cut'n paste artists, it's better that they get their own thoughts out there.

[Eupher]

I'm not a fundamentalist, and I'm not a nice guy to fools or punks who try to marginalize me.  You personify a closed-minded, know-nothing twit.


The topic is not about me.  It's about Kerry, you idiots, whose sentiment is spreading across America.  It's dangerous, a serious threat to liberty.

I've read your stuff -- at least some of it, punk.

You are a fundamentalist.

Now, go **** yourself. With one of these ---> 

Any fool who finds it necessary to sign his name with all three of his names deserves nothing but contempt. Are you really that emotionally needy?

[CG6468]

Dude.

??????? 

WTF? Keep it up to ensure your insulting comments are not welcomed here.

[DumbAss Tanker]

My own voice?  What are you talking about?  Konrad wrote this article.  I'm just featuring his article on my blog. 

No, you are missing the point, it's not the lack of original content on your blog that was the point, it was the lack or original content in your posts here.

Just to be unapologetically blunt about it -

Most folks here want to discuss in the first person, in their own words.  Sure, there are a couple of folks who habitually post a YouTube video with no commentary or a headline that's just a link to a story somewhere else, with no explanation or additional comment at all...I, for one, mostly ignore their posts, because if it doesn't matter enough to them to write any commentary about their own thoughts on the paste-up or link, it doesn't matter enough to me to read it, especially if it means jumping to another site instead of being able to follow complete, composed thoughts in a give-and-take discussion.

Granted, there's no rule against it and you can certainly crank up the old post count (And post-origination count) doing it, but after awhile most of the more-interesting denizens will get used to there being nothing original in them, and those threads will sink like stones.  You can be testy and defensive or actually listen to what people are trying to tell you, it's your choice, and really makes no difference to me one way or the other.

Toodles!

[Linda]

I've read your stuff -- at least some of it, punk.

You are a fundamentalist.

Now, go **** yourself. With one of these ---> 

Any fool who finds it necessary to sign his name with all three of his names deserves nothing but contempt. Are you really that emotionally needy?

Have you ever noticed, most serial killers go by all three of their names too....just saying....

[CG6468]

Original topic: My response is it's way too difficult for the voters (who elect him) to govern HIM, and HE works for US.

[obumazombie]

A link to me is often like a Hallmark card. That is as long as the link is credible.

[Dori]

I was under the impression that when posting a new thread on a news item you didn't post opinions.

Title, a paragraph or two and the link.

Maybe I read the rules wrong

[Eupher]

I was under the impression that when posting a new thread on a news item you didn't post opinions.

Title, a paragraph or two and the link.

Maybe I read the rules wrong

Posting articles, pictures and links:
Standard copyright rules apply and management will enforce them as needed. Do not editorialize your thread titles when referencing someone else’s work. Please use the original title per the author and feel free to comment in the body of the post.  Posts that link to blogs or that are just free form discussions can have any title you deem appropriate.

In the "Breaking News" forum, there are specific rules about posting a story there. One of them states not to editorialize the TITLE of the story -- to keep it as per the original story.

In the Rules of Conduct (portion quoted above), there is also the comment about not editorializing thread titles.

Maybe that's where you misunderstood, Dori.

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,8777.0.html

[Dori]

In the "Breaking News" forum, there are specific rules about posting a story there. One of them states not to editorialize the TITLE of the story -- to keep it as per the original story.

That's a problem sometimes, as the whole thing doesn't always show up anyway.

I have shortened them so they made more sense, but put the full title on the first post with the link.

[dutch508]

What is all this hostility from you?  You don't know what you're talking about.  There are literally dozens of articles on my blog written by me.  Dozens of in-depth pieces!  Your statement is a lie.  They're listed under "My Stuff".  Dude.

Dude. What are you, 12?

I smell grad student.

[Eupher]

That's a problem sometimes, as the whole thing doesn't always show up anyway.

I have shortened them so they made more sense, but put the full title on the first post with the link.

I think the mods are just after an honest effort. Biggest reasons are, I would imagine, avoiding dupes and avoiding any copyright/fair use issues.