Comments on: Appears the Conservatives have left again, “en bloc”. https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/09/appears-the-conservatives-have-left-again-en-bloc/ Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:05:37 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/09/appears-the-conservatives-have-left-again-en-bloc/#comment-52226 RL Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:07:59 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=53521#comment-52226 Now we get another mass murder from a right wing terrorist every few weeks, death threats against law enforcement, jurors, and officers of the court... Banning books, demanding children be taught the GOOD SIDE of slavery... Hundreds of thousands dead unnecessarily as the right fought against public health measures- resulting in disproportionate death rates in Red states and counties. Like rats, they are the ally of the plague. TB was SO outraged I claimed the GOP was a terrorist organization... NOW the GOP BRAGS about that fact... <img src="https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.-RyWjyX6S0yA3f30WFel_wAAAA&pid=Api&P=0&h=180" alt="" /> Now we get another mass murder from a right wing terrorist every few weeks, death threats against law enforcement, jurors, and officers of the court…
Banning books, demanding children be taught the GOOD SIDE of slavery…
Hundreds of thousands dead unnecessarily as the right fought against public health measures- resulting in disproportionate death rates in Red states and counties. Like rats, they are the ally of the plague.

TB was SO outraged I claimed the GOP was a terrorist organization…

NOW the GOP BRAGS about that fact…

]]> By: Robert https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/09/appears-the-conservatives-have-left-again-en-bloc/#comment-34566 Robert Fri, 11 Dec 2015 06:56:41 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=53521#comment-34566 You did that deliberately, knowing that KC pays a reputation-monitoring service to catch the beetlejuicing! Now I'll get one of those cease-and-desist emails, and I'll have to refer his lawyers to you. Bad, RL, bad boy! You did that deliberately, knowing that KC pays a reputation-monitoring service to catch the beetlejuicing! Now I’ll get one of those cease-and-desist emails, and I’ll have to refer his lawyers to you. Bad, RL, bad boy!

]]> By: RobVG https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/09/appears-the-conservatives-have-left-again-en-bloc/#comment-34562 RobVG Fri, 11 Dec 2015 03:58:05 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=53521#comment-34562 You, of all people. You, of all people.

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/09/appears-the-conservatives-have-left-again-en-bloc/#comment-34560 TB Fri, 11 Dec 2015 03:49:48 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=53521#comment-34560 <p>I commented over at Think Progress, too.</p> I had to add the bit over there about population correction of the statistics as a P.S., because it hadn't occurred to me until I put it down here. I'm backsliding again, aren't I? Sigh. Back to work. I commented over at Think Progress, too.

I had to add the bit over there about population correction of the statistics as a P.S., because it hadn’t occurred to me until I put it down here.

I’m backsliding again, aren’t I? Sigh. Back to work.

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/09/appears-the-conservatives-have-left-again-en-bloc/#comment-34559 Jody Fri, 11 Dec 2015 03:39:27 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=53521#comment-34559 Dear Pot, Ummmmm, Kettle. Dear Pot,

Ummmmm,

Kettle.

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/09/appears-the-conservatives-have-left-again-en-bloc/#comment-34558 TB Fri, 11 Dec 2015 03:31:50 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=53521#comment-34558 It's cool. Someone else will check it out. It’s cool. Someone else will check it out.

]]> By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/09/appears-the-conservatives-have-left-again-en-bloc/#comment-34557 RL Fri, 11 Dec 2015 03:28:00 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=53521#comment-34557 Note that you did it yet again... You couldn't bring yourself to answer a direct question.... Sidebar#1: You keep using the same BS tactics, and someone eventually catches on... Sidebar #2: You kinda just proved the point I was making about you... Sidebar #3: ER is right about you... you are not here to discuss or debate... you are here to proselytize. Sidebar #4: Its hard to proselytize when we have seen you to be repeatedly, and tragically, wrong - over and over and over and over again. Good night TB, you sleep with your brain worms - unless they've all starved to death... Note that you did it yet again… You couldn’t bring yourself to answer a direct question….
Sidebar#1: You keep using the same BS tactics, and someone eventually catches on…
Sidebar #2: You kinda just proved the point I was making about you…
Sidebar #3: ER is right about you… you are not here to discuss or debate… you are here to proselytize.

Sidebar #4: Its hard to proselytize when we have seen you to be repeatedly, and tragically, wrong – over and over and over and over again.

Good night TB, you sleep with your brain worms – unless they’ve all starved to death…

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/09/appears-the-conservatives-have-left-again-en-bloc/#comment-34556 Jody Fri, 11 Dec 2015 03:18:04 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=53521#comment-34556 Conservatives are da debil! n/t Conservatives are da debil! n/t

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/09/appears-the-conservatives-have-left-again-en-bloc/#comment-34555 TB Fri, 11 Dec 2015 03:12:50 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=53521#comment-34555 <p>"Divert and derail." Heh.</p> You wrote a satirical bit comparing allowing the "wrong" opinions on this forum to the risk of importing terrorists. When I pointed that out, you flipped over to "Islamic vs. right-wing killings" in the U.S., the evil NRA, and a third thing about a death penalty case I'm still trying to figure out as far as its relevance. I picked up on the first one, and pointed out the problem with the assumptions and methodology. The problems get deeper as you go into their website. Somehow "non-Islamic extremists" mutate into "right-wing extremists," although they concede their database also contains extremists with <a href="http://securitydata.newamerica.net/extremists/analysis.html" rel="nofollow">"left wing, or idiosyncratic beliefs."</a> When you look at "individuals charged" it gets more problematical. And of course, nobody is correcting for the populations of these elements in America either, are they? You ignored that, and leaped over to gun murders, and the War in Iraq(!), which have nothing to do with the original point, any more than automobile deaths do. Then you flipped over to talk radio, the GOP, and Trump again, who seems to be eating your brain out. I've seen squirrels with more linearity. I'm just following you around the tree. Okay, let's talk Trump then. Settle down and think. The only way he becomes President is if he first wins the nomination, and then a big pile of Democrats votes for him over Hillary. Work that brain worm for a while. Note that the important polls right now aren't the primaries, but the more inclusive candidate vs. candidate ones. <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html" rel="nofollow">This poll has to contain a lot of Democrats,</a> and in the cumulative tally Clinton hasn't been more than 4.5 points ahead of Trump since the beginning of September. As an aside, right now Cruz, Rubio and Carson are all closer to her than that. “Divert and derail.” Heh.

You wrote a satirical bit comparing allowing the “wrong” opinions on this forum to the risk of importing terrorists.

When I pointed that out, you flipped over to “Islamic vs. right-wing killings” in the U.S., the evil NRA, and a third thing about a death penalty case I’m still trying to figure out as far as its relevance.

I picked up on the first one, and pointed out the problem with the assumptions and methodology. The problems get deeper as you go into their website. Somehow “non-Islamic extremists” mutate into “right-wing extremists,” although they concede their database also contains extremists with “left wing, or idiosyncratic beliefs.” When you look at “individuals charged” it gets more problematical. And of course, nobody is correcting for the populations of these elements in America either, are they?

You ignored that, and leaped over to gun murders, and the War in Iraq(!), which have nothing to do with the original point, any more than automobile deaths do.

Then you flipped over to talk radio, the GOP, and Trump again, who seems to be eating your brain out. I’ve seen squirrels with more linearity. I’m just following you around the tree.

Okay, let’s talk Trump then.

Settle down and think. The only way he becomes President is if he first wins the nomination, and then a big pile of Democrats votes for him over Hillary. Work that brain worm for a while.

Note that the important polls right now aren’t the primaries, but the more inclusive candidate vs. candidate ones.

This poll has to contain a lot of Democrats, and in the cumulative tally Clinton hasn’t been more than 4.5 points ahead of Trump since the beginning of September. As an aside, right now Cruz, Rubio and Carson are all closer to her than that.

]]> By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2015/12/09/appears-the-conservatives-have-left-again-en-bloc/#comment-34554 RL Fri, 11 Dec 2015 02:26:46 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=53521#comment-34554 If you are serious about summoning chaotic evil, it must be: "Cowing! Cowing! Cowing!" If you are serious about summoning chaotic evil, it must be: “Cowing! Cowing! Cowing!”

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