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59 yr. old male, married, two sons. Lifelong surfer, P.G.Wodehouse fan, and a conservative with libertarian tendencies or maybe the other way around.

I grew up in a Christian home and while I'm not a Christian now, at least not in a form recognizable to a modern Christian, I am sympathetic to Christianity in almost any form and remain open to correction (from above. Please don't write me with persuasion in mind). As a teen I was steeped in C.S.Lewis and though I don't agree with him on many things, I still enjoy him immensely.

I am the unapologetic King of mixed metaphors. That's right, I'm proud of it.

leecay@gmail.com


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Severely Ltd.
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10 cents: Are you talking about the video?

Severely Ltd.: I'm at the end of my patience. In the sacred text of this post it says, in bold type,...Fricosis Guy (Deleted).

When is this going to happen? It's really the only reason I keep checking back. · 3 minutes ago

What?! Who said anything about a video?

You're deleting the Fricosis One, right? Or has this been a big tease?

Severely Ltd.

I'm at the end of my patience. In the sacred text of this post it says, in bold type, ...Fricosis Guy (Deleted).

When is this going to happen? It's really the only reason I keep checking back.

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Snirtler:  In a pluralistic society, it takes shape as people choose to employ their resources and creativity and strive for ends as they see fit. Those ends that cannot be realized alone prompt them to associate, coordinate, and cooperate with others. His point is that striving together is itself rooted in and originates in the exercise of personal freedom. The common striving happens because we choose to, not because we have been told to--by a majority, a few, or the one--for the good of all.

This is very good.

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Sorry I haven't been delivering my quota of hate but I'm busy. I'm hitchhiking to Singapore and internet access is a little spotty. Trying to get to JoALTs homeland before the 'Gators decamp.

The pictures of JoAlt will be helpful. Without that, all I know to look for is a Miata rental.

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I'll let you guess which one I am.

There in the background left, the flamboyant Drum Major?

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More seriously, thanks for your service.

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10 cents: Photographic proof that I was a good son-in-law. My mother-in-law is someone who has been so nice to me I can't hate her. · 2 hours ago

You do look like the dutiful son-in-law. Your hands are folded in your lap. You're wearing that hideous pink/violet shirt she gave you. You're a good little soldier.

"No saki for me mama-san. I only drink healthful water."

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Fricosis Guy: @Severely: Ha! My wife is a Texan and ran a trading desk on the Street. I don't need to go shopping for sweet, sour, or bitter. · 19 hours ago

What's your wife's phone number? No shenanigans, I just want to talk to her. I'll probably tell her how great you are or something like that.

Severely Ltd.

Crow's Nest

flownover

Crow's Nest: It's not flownover terseness, however. 

Hey !

 I resemble that remark. · 12 hours ago

I mean it as a complement. You have the ability to distill your comments down into quick witty snippets.

Sometimes they can be abstruse, but part of the fun is trying to puzzle out the reference.  · 6 hours ago

To be fair to the rest of us though, his avatar says so much it kinda give him an unfair advantage.

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For faux-folksiness no one trumps Obama. Instead of a winning lottery ticket, I'll take a nickel for every time he's used the word itself: "Folks".

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"the errors are symptoms of an overburdened bureaucracy, not a political conspiracy..."

and Owen says near the end of the linked video that it was miscommunication and careless attention to detail, but "not incompetence".

So it wasn't incompetence due to being overburdened and it wasn't political shenanigans. I guess it was nothing. What a relief!

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Joseph Stanko

Sigh... I shouldhave left with Foxfier and Western Chauvinist.

I'm beginning to suspect Pope Francis hit a nerve, that many of you have in fact made the almighty and all-knowing Market your idol.  Market is never wrong, Market feeds and clothes us, all bow down before mighty Market!

Larry, I could as easily paraphrase your position as 'the Pope is never wrong, even when he isn't speaking ex cathedra.'

Turning the free-market position into a parody as you've done above is standard-issue leftist rhetoric we see every day on the web. Nearly all conservative positions are given this treatment. We're told that they go too far, they lack nuance and limiting considerations. But no one here is advocating extreme positions despite your efforts to cast it that way.

If Obama had given the same speech I don't imagine you'd be jumping to his defense. This same reflexive reaction occurred with Benedict's anti-capitalist statements. The same excuses were even used: "but unfettered capitalism can be bad" (which we don't all know?) to "it was a small speech and won't do much damage".

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Edited "is" in_last_sentence_to "can_be".

Edited on May 19, 2013 at 3:28pm
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Scrut, I'm leaving and since you're here all alone you can put on 10 cents crown and pretend to be important. Good night.

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Wiping. It's a dirty job but someones got to do it. Clearly a job to hand to government. Keep the bureaucrats busy.

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With you around Fricosis One, I can feel a little hate stirring.

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My thoughts? What Hollywood starlet would date an uber-conservative? I'm a fan and I don't even know who it is.

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I say limit comments to six_words.

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