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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mph who wrote (18160)	10/1/2004 1:22:48 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Respond to of 90947

People like Duray shouldn't be allowed to reproduce or be near anybody else's children.

To: mph who wrote (18160)	10/1/2004 1:41:48 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

I still like this description of him: Most of the students who showed up Monday are looking for discussion, not a degree. A quick show of hands at the start of class, revealed only a handful of students are taking the course for credit. The majority of the class, Dollar said, are here because they have strong opinions about what they see on television and read in the newspaper. Duray is one of them. When asked about war, his eyes narrow and fix intently behind his plastic framed glasses. A media cabal in bed with the government, said Duray, has failed to report the real facts about the politics of the war. His cheeks go flush and begin twitch as he expounds on NBC's relationship with its parent company General Electric, a dominant player in the defense industry. "It's astonishing what's not in the major dailies across the country," he said, before launching into an impromptu quiz on media ownership directed at a reporter. headlines.bendbulletin.com Now consider this from a famous English journalist and novelist of the 1940s: "When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases -- bestial, atrocities, iron heel, bloodstained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder -- one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speaker's spectacles and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind them. And this is not altogether fanciful." Or this, which some may recall from his most famous book: "His head was thrown back a little, and because of the angle at which he was sitting, his spectacles caught the light and presented to Winston two blank discs instead of eyes. What was slightly horrible was that from the stream of sound that poured out of his mouth, it was almost impossible to distinguish a single word... it was just noise, a quack-quack-quacking... As he watched the eyeless face with the jaw moving rapidly up and down, Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy." Actually, Orwell's description suits Armpit just as well as Ray-man.

To: mph who wrote (18160)	10/1/2004 2:14:44 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

No one said the lunatic fringe are not a motivated group. :-(

To: mph who wrote (18160)	10/2/2004 8:02:29 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 90947

The old, old question of "Who bans more?" is on the table again. Yeah, I know, you thought this had been settled long ago and the left had won hands down. So did I. But Lindy Bill had the longest banned list of any thread. Message 20589196 NOT EVEN CLOSE!!!!! Here's the numbers: Bans Bookmarks GWB 0 486 Proof That John Kerry is Unfit 2 76 Compendium 4 94 Moderate (?) Forum 29 82 P4P 41 238 Left Wing Porch 51 74 John Kerry for President 63 116 RWET 108 169 Donkey’s Inn 117 55 In fact P4P is about halfway up and 2nd in bookmarks. So it appears the Jackass Hotel wins. Not only that, but it is the ONLY thread with more bans than bookmarks! GWB is impressive with have 485 bookmarks and NO bans! Seems like this would be the left's definition of heaven, but apparently not. Ann's thread and this one don't do badly either. One of our bannees (AS) is being held hostage for the release of Buschman from his ban list after banning, then attacking, Buschman. The goat made the ban list for the 3rd and final time today after popping up and behaving in his usual endearing manner. But, let me tell you, you really do have to wonder. Getting the facts above took a few minutes. I consider it worth a few minutes just not to earn a post like this.