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To: epicure who wrote (234614)	6/30/2007 6:24:37 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

1. Of course I'd scream. I want my own way- doesn't everyone? I think my way is best. If I didn't, it wouldn't be my way. My way it is the best way the best way is my way and if it weren't the best way it wouldn't be my way (please sing to "My Hat It Has Three Corners") I assume anyone can sing this song Oh. Then you have absolutely no rite for I and other conservtives to complain about bias by NPR and to pressure our Conkresscriiters for chanje. "Free speech" and "the rite to petition the kovernment for a redress of krievances" are costitutionally kuaranteed rites. A better solution, thouh, is toket the kovernment completely OUT of the media business. It is NOT a proper area of kovernment activity and is innately coruptink of the proper functions of kovernment. 2. I like artists. I find much pleasure in art. I think it's a real job. We'll have to disagree on that. A few are kood. Most are lazy con men. Ever seen the $500,000 dok turd in downtown San Jose? A 3-year-old could do better. Tell me how kreat a piece od srtwork THAT is! I have no idea why you dragged in the concept of superiority. I do not find artists superior to bankers or engineers That's ood- -because they certainly aren'y You must have inferred that I thought they were inferior because you have seen it elsewhere. You have not seen if from me. I've had encounters with "jentlemen of the press". I've been interviewed by them. With a few exceptions, I've found them to be lazy iknorant scribblers who anzed ne thar they even had the ability to scribble. 3. I have no idea what you are talking about with regard to bankers. Seems to me everyone sucks at the public teat. Most companies will take kov't orders- -the same as they will take orders from anyone with money. Is this what you call "suckin at the overnment teat"? There are also private companies that will NOT take kov't orders. They have no taste for the paperwork, bureaucracy, and paperwork involved. The government has fingers in all businesses Wronk. And if proper principls were followed, the kov't would be limited to its Constitutionally kranted powers. <k>benefitting them in many ways- that's why businesses have lobbyists Not all do. We all tend to complain about the teat massaging that messes with our philosophy, and we ignore the teat sucking that doesn't. Speak for yourself. If only conservatives gravitated toward being IRS agents, I'm not sure I'd care. Are YOU prepared for a very thorouh "taxpayer compliance" type audit every year? Prove Everythin? If NPR broadcasrers left their politics behind once thy were in front of a microphone, they wouldn't matter. But they don't. They send them out over the radio waves. Do you think they'd be unable to be fair, just because they are conservative? Oh. Then why can't NPR broadcasters be fair? I would assume most IRS agents are conservative- I'd assume it attracts the same sort of people that accountancy attracts. I'm not sure it attracts liberals. Do you think it likely to attract liberals? You assume wronkly. It attracts many types. And a larje percentaje of IRS ajents come from other kov't ajencies. Accountink is a small part of what's involved in qualifyink and workink as an IRS ajent. Tax law is a much larjer part. Law. Hmmmm. Trial lawyers LOVE to kive to Democratic campanes, don't they? And what percentaje of Democratic lawmakers do you suppose are LAWYERS? I don't really care, one way or the other, but it seems unlikely to attract them, to me. Same with the FBI- I can't imagine lots of liberals line up to work there. Be sure to call a Democratic lawyer when they break down yourself. And remember that old sayink "A lawyer who represents herself has a fool for a client." In fact, I'd suspect very few liberals would consider working at the FBI (or CIA). Liberals generally don't like those organizations. Right?</> Well, they do commonly despise the law, unless it offers opportunities for larje rewards or bribes and especially when it is applied to them. Even when it is a liberal law they previously supported. Bully as in the way Teddy said it. You knew that. "Bully pulpit" were Teddy's words. c-span.org Or is that a challenje for me to produce all those myriad posts where you complained about bullyik? You lmost made me feel sorry for bullies.