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Elena
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Elena
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Elena
 

Larry, I flamed out at your comment because of a prior experience in a thread when I was defending katievs for being unfairly attacked and you were wanting me to simmer down my defense of her.  My prior history with you has made me perceive you have a stinkin' double standard when it comes to Kennelena.  You didn't want me "fighting" with katievs' attacker, but you seem to have no qualms with Kennace's combativeness.  You seem to regard it as entertaining and a positive feature of Ricochet.  And in that prior case, I wasn't even fighting.  Further, you are completely ignoring the barrels of proof at Kennelena's bullying and insulting comments. · Dec 1 at 9:51pm

Care to show us the "barrels of proof?" Is that like the barrels of proof for global warming or the barrels of proof for racism among Tea Partiers?  

From what I can see, there are five or six Members here who hate my husband.  Given that Ricochet probably has about 8,000 Members, that's not so bad.

Edited on December 2, 2011 at 6:58am
Elena

Karl Rove: the architect of George W. Bush's popular-vote loss to the lunatic Al Gore; and the navigator to George W. Bush's hairsbreadth victory over gigolo John Kerry. 

I was on the 2010 post-election National Review cruise.  Every political luminary there was happy to allow their pictures to be taken with the paying customers - except for Karl Rove, who demanded payment.  In cash.

Elena

Mike LaRoche

Larry Koler

Let's take a poll on this.

How about we take a poll on whether or not the Code of Conduct should be scrapped?  Because that's what is really at issue here.

Larry Koler

Well, I want to point out the heaps of disrespect in this post against Kenneth personally.

Let's get down to that underlayment, why don't we?

Disrespect?  I'll tell you about disrespect.  Disrespect is insulting members like Bob Lee and Lance who have never hurt anyone.  Disrespect is littering the Member Feed with bigoted "let's nuke the camel jockeys" posts.  Disrespect is personally attacking people who are minding their own business but have committed the "sins" of liking bullfighting, hunting, or Sarah Palin.  Disrespect is sending unsolicited PMs to other Ricochet members with the intent of acting out with the mentality of an eight-year-old prankster leaving dog poop on a neighbor's doorstep.

That's disrespect.  And there's only one Ricochet member showing such disrespect in this thread.  Reveling in it, in fact. · Dec 1 at 9:31pm

Kenneth never, ever, used the term "camel jockeys".  But he does detest bullfighting.

Elena

Gosh, I have frequently posted here and elsewhere that we should immediately withdraw from Afghanistan.  

Does that make me an Al Qaeda sympathizer.?

Is that a drone I hear outside my window?

Elena
Edited on December 2, 2011 at 6:02am
Elena

Mama Toad

Elena: Gee, I know my husband can be controversial, but I don't recall him ever saying anything about someone else like, "...a malicious, spiteful person with a serious personality disorder"  Or accusing someone else of not being very smart.

Pot, meet kettle. · Dec 1 at 6:18pm

Hi Elena -- I thought it was pretty funny on your Little Video Zombies post when you said, "assuming I believe anything you've just said" -- are you the pot or the kettle? · Dec 1 at 6:26pm

I'm entitled to disbelieve you.  But I didn't say you had a psychological disorder or that you were stupid, did I?

Elena

Gee, I know my husband can be controversial, but I don't recall him ever saying anything about someone else like, "...a malicious, spiteful person with a serious personality disorder"  Or accusing someone else of not being very smart.

Pot, meet kettle.

Elena

Rob, where did you learn such wonderful voice inflection?  That's not easy.

Elena
Southern Pessimist: I was a registered Libertarian from 1980 until 2010, only partly out of conviction. I had heard that being registered Libertarian prevented you from being called for jury duty. I don't know if that is true but I have never been called for jury duty. That said, I think Johnson compares very favorably with anyone still in the primary but the election of Barack Obama and his presidency has convinced me that voting for the lesser of two evils is not always wrong. · Nov 30 at 5:01pm

We are registered Libertarians and we've both been called for jury duty multiple times.

Gary Johnson is our first choice, but, alas, not to be.

Elena

Kelly B:

Romney never did much for me - he falls in the "running because he thinks he ought to be president" category.  So I never flipped for him at all.

I heard Bachmann at a live event a couple of years ago and was impressed, so was a fan after the Iowa straw poll, briefly - until the Gardasil->retardation thing.

Perry sounded good on paper - and then he opened his mouth.  Articulate?  Persuasive?  Not.

Cain met those two criteria, but his foreign policy remarks seemed to lack depth, and his campaign handled the recent allegations very badly.

Then I heard some Newt soundbites, and I'm old enough to recall his work as Speaker.  Right now, he's meeting my criteria.

Don't know if that's flipflopping or not. · Nov 30 at 3:07pm

Totally with you, sister.

Elena

My practice is a Subchapter S corporation.  I pay my accountant thousands of dollars each year and yet I continue to get notices from the IRS that I haven't filed or haven't paid.  Honestly, I never know where I stand and whether I have paid too much in taxes.

One thing's for sure, I know I haven't paid too little.

Elena

Midget Faded Rattlesnake: So, according to Elena, Frozen is...

 Elena: ...just blindly supporting someone because they happen to be, um, a member of one's church.

I hope you have some hard evidence to back that up, Elena. Because that's a pretty serious charge to make.

Harry Reid was Mormon of the Year 2009. You honestly think Frozen supports Harry Reid as well? Because that would be the implication of Frozen just blindly supporting his coreligionists. · Nov 30 at 2:38pm

Where's his hard evidence that I am a mindless flip-flopper?  I am tired of certain Members branding the rest of us as ignoramuses because we don't support Romney. 

And you bringing Harry Reid into it is irrelevant.  

Edited on November 30, 2011 at 11:44pm
Elena

We've had an unprecedented number of debates in which we've had the opportunity to gauge the candidates.  And Newt Gingrich has consistently shown himself to be better informed and better prepared for the challenge ahead than the other candidates.  

That's what the primary process is supposed to be about: letting voters have a chance to weigh the strengths and weaknesses of the various candidates; not just blindly supporting someone because they happen to be, um, a member of one's church.

You're just pouting because, month after month, your preferred candidate continues to languish.  

Edited on November 30, 2011 at 11:23pm
Elena

LowcountryJoe

Elena

Not JMR

  And all you so-called Reaganites who want a damned wall and want to shun your foreign brothers ought to watch the conclusion of The Gipper's farewell address before going ape explicative on me." ·

QFT · Nov 29 at 10:02pm

My "foreign brothers"?  

Excuse me, but I came here legally.  It took me ten years and many thousands of dollars and endless bureaucratic red tape to achieve citizenship, which I cherish.  

Yeah, I'm happy to go ape.   · Nov 29 at 10:08pm

Edited on Nov 29 at 10:09 pm

So you enjoyed the hoops you had to jump through to get here and you think that others may like them, too?  Or is it because you had hurdles and now you also want others to endure them as well; like some rite-of-passage? · Nov 29 at 10:23pm

You have no idea what you're talking about.  Yes, I think that admission into the greatest nation in the history of the world should be more difficult than just swimming across the Rio Grande.

Edited on November 30, 2011 at 7:34am
Elena

ETD

Elena

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Elena

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 Elena:

George Romney was CEO of AMC and made a respectable upper middle class living, but Mitt's $250 million dollar net worth far eclipses that of his father's. That kind of serious money has to be earned and doesn't come easy in any day or age. I have great respect for Bain Capital.

A respectable upper-middle-class living?  Oh, please.  

And you left out the part about George Romney being Governor of Michigan, which certainly helped to open the door to Harvard Law and Harvard Business School - with all the white-shoe connections that entails.  

I left out George Romney's governorship because, frankly, the state of Michigan holds little influence in the Ivy League. And Mitt may have been born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but his kids were born with platinum. · Nov 29 at 10:14pm

If you think any Governor lacks influence in Ivy League admissions, I have a bridge to sell.  

By the way, and I don't mean to be offensive, but are you an adherent to the LDS?

Edited on November 30, 2011 at 7:20am
Elena

Not JMR

 And all you so-called Reaganites who want a damned wall and want to shun your foreign brothers ought to watch the conclusion of The Gipper's farewell address before going ape explicative on me." ·

QFT · Nov 29 at 10:02pm

My "foreign brothers"?  

Excuse me, but I came here legally.  It took me ten years and many thousands of dollars and endless bureaucratic red tape to achieve citizenship, which I cherish.  

Yeah, I'm happy to go ape.  

Edited on November 30, 2011 at 7:09am
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