Good Old Arch-Conservative, Me!

The Libs around here don't believe that I'm independent and was actually pretty liberal myself, once. While I don't do much biographical stuff on the blog, came across this old image of me from college and thought I'd post it. Actually, this was taken during my conversion from Lib to Con because of my encounters with liberal academia.

I went into college with a beard and carrying a guitar and came out with short hair and a briefcase, as a direct result of the intolerance I saw in the academy. It taught me to fear the Left, far more than the Right. And that has never changed.

So, this look is either the result of my more liberal college attitudes at the time. Or, it was a great look/image to score with those really hot-assed liberal chicks I loved so much in college.

Come to think about it, maybe it was a bit of both those factors. Heh!

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Comments

[Fred Beloit]

Oh Dan, wow, man, so groovy. Pass me the tiedye. Can you sing : "Which Side Are You On" for us?

But finally, finally we have a place we can go to that makes a direct compare and contrast between liberal and conservative proposals to lower oil and gasoline prices.

Don't miss this one from Blunt via Powerline:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/06/020729.php

[Fred Beloit]

Lest we forget: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iAIM02kv0g

[WAHOO WILLIE]

Wow.you look like Glen Campbell

[Fred Beloit]

He looks like Glen Campbell on deximill, Wahoo.

[Fred Beloit]

Oh oh. Now the photo is a black square. The Boob probably stole it for some nefarious purposes.

[IslamoLlama]

Seriously. Fred. Who the fuck are you talking to?

[Fred Beloit]

Let me try to help those who can't seem to follow a the threads on Dan's blog. One needs to start at the bottom comment and read up. Reading from the top down, as some seem to do, may provide amusement but adds some confusion.

[WAHOO WILLIE]

"Who the fuck are you talking to?"

My,my what a lady.
Sometimes I think poor Fred thinks he's in a chat room......chatting with no one. Fred please stop,you're frightening the livestock. (LLama/Livestock...get it!!!!)

[Fred Beloit]

Of course if the commenters will throw in a little Anglo-Saxon obscenity here and there more clarity will be added.

[IslamoLlama]

No, dude. You've got four posts inside 20 minutes, one of which is just repeating what Willie said. No one else was here yet and you were yapping away. I'm just trying to figure out who you were posting for the benefit of.

[Fred Beloit]

Not directed at you, Wahoo, of course. Didn't see your addition until after I posted.

[WAHOO WILLIE]

Fred; Sorry but it's a legit querstun. Why do you do that?

[Fred Beloit]

"No one else was here yet."

What we have here is a failure to excommunicate. I don't comment for the here and now. I comment for the ages.

[WAHOO WILLIE]

Well......it was an answer. I guess der LLama has galloped over to huffpo to get the truth and will be back soon.

[Fred Beloit]

"Why do you do that?"

One tries to treat this not as a chat room, but as a living record of the era. And I'm partially serious about that.

[Fred Beloit]

Willy, I wasn't even aware I could find out who was on the line, as it were. I don't want to know either.

[WAHOO WILLIE]

Fred, I find it funny and only slightly frustrating. It appears to really annoy the easily annoyable (word?) so I recommend going full bore!

[WAHOO WILLIE]

It's been fun Fred but I need to go put gas in the boat....48 cents a gallon cheaper to fill it.......Damn what a temptation to get a siphon hose!

[Fred Beloit]

Thank you, I shall. And it seems a rather pompous and flowery prose style helps to drive them to sheer madness. I plan to improve and increase the haughty idioms available in our native tongue to that effect.

[SacTownMan]

Damn, It's Michael Bolton! I really like that guy!

[seekeronos]

"--- Of course if the commenters will throw in a little Anglo-Saxon obscenity here and there more clarity will be added. ---"

Allow me to oblige:

"----
Ðu ure fæðer, ðe eart on heofonum, sy ðin nama gehalgod.
Cume ðin rice, Sy ðin wylla on eorðan swaswa on heofonum.
Syle us todæg urne daeghwamlican hlaf.
And forgyf us ure gyltas swaswa we forgyfað ðampe wið us agyltað.
And ne lae ðu na us on costnunge, ac alys us fram yfele.
----"

(Anglo-Saxon transliteration of the Lord's Prayer: although it is not an obscenity in its own right, giving glory to God is often perceived by liberals and especially marxists to be quite anathema).

[Fred Beloit]

Thank goodness the photo is back up, Dan; I thought I had eliminated it by looking at it. Sort of like the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

[chris]

Wow, a regular renaissance loser. 4 score and 7 years ago you did a real day's work.

[seekeronos]

"chris" the mouse knows all about putting in a hard day's work of thinking up unclever retorts and witless one-liners to post on blogs that are opposed to his/her/its political views.

[templar knight]

chris "the mouse", seek. Where did that come from? It does fit very well, I think.

[joeb]

Hey I like the photo. It reminds me of a young(I mean really young)Bob Dylan. I can see why you got some chicks.
Jimmy Buffet used that same method and 3 chords on a guitar to get chicks when he was in college at Auburn and Southern Mississippi and look where it got him.

[bobInStamford]

Hahaha - "renaissance loser". I bet the tool speaks Klingon too!!

Heed the advice of your betters, oh lazy government drone - more work and less playing online during working hours.

[justoneman]

Hmmmmmm.....by the looks of your picture seems like your trip down memory lane should include your homosexual experimentation. I heard there is a picture of you with platform sandals and pink socks....Rebel Rebel....

[jharp]

"The Libs around here don't believe that I'm independent"

You've made a wise move distancing yourself from the republicans.

Hopefully you'll vote for Senator Obama.

Anyways, I like your weblog and appreciate being able to post.

[obamasucks]

interesting photo, dare i say you were hot.

[seekeronos]

"---
Hahaha - "renaissance loser". I bet the tool speaks Klingon too!!

Heed the advice of your betters, oh lazy government drone - more work and less playing online during working hours.
---"

Nah, I speak neither Anglo-Saxon nor any man-made pseudo-languages.

As for my job, don't you worry your ugly little face over it. I do my job, and have time to reply to brainless would-be "betters" such as yourselves (you and your 53,074,022 sockpuppets).

But on the subject of languages...

どうして、手前が中坊のあほうか？馬鹿やろう。

[bobInStamford]

Wow, that's so impressive. Too bad those little yellow folks don't like round eye types like you. Better stick to government work. Since you don't do much all day, perhaps you can fill us in on why your King Jesus hates Boy Scouts. Wicked, wicked Boy Scouts. Repent thee, Boy Scouts!!!

[Fred Beloit]

"Jimmy Buffet used that same method and 3 chords on a guitar to get chicks..."

I used a 12-string and 15 chords, including two minors. The results? Eeennngghh. So so.

But Michelle Malkin provides a list of those who want to help lower high gas prices by domestic drilling and those who don't. Hint: the Dems don't want to help (surprise!)

"It was a straight, party line vote.

Dems against:

Chair: Norman D. Dicks (WA)
James P. Moran (VA)
Maurice D. Hinchey (NY)
John W. Olver (MA)
Alan B. Mollohan (WV)
Tom Udall (NM)
Ben Chandler (KY)
Ed Pastor (AZ)
Dave Obey (WI), Ex Officio

"Republicans for:

Ranking Member:
Todd Tiahrt (KS)
John E. Peterson (PA)
Jo Ann Emerson (MO)
Virgil H. Goode, Jr. (VA)
Ken Calvert (CA)
Jerry Lewis (CA), Ex Officio

The Republicans on the subcommittee vow to keep pressing the issue:"

This is a great issue for the coming election. No drilling, Democrats (who claim they are on the side of the workers), no peace.

[Fred Beloit]

From WebMD via PJM:

"By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Health News

June 11, 2008 -- U.S. life expectancy has hit a new record: 78.1 years for babies born in 2006, says the CDC.

What's more, the death rate for 11 of the top 15 causes of death -- including heart disease, cancer, and stroke -- slowed in 2006."

Harpo will find this is bad news for him. He says we don't have good health care. Honk honk.

[seekeronos]

"--- Too bad those little yellow folks don't like round eye types like you. ---"

Actually, I am rather well liked by most Japanese I meet. You on the other hand, if you are anything like your on-screen personality, would probably considered to be a くそ外人 (kuso gaijin), which is not a very nice thing at all.

Japanese tend not to judge a person just off of outward appearances or because of their skin colour, which is more than what can be said for certain "blueblood WASPs" from Connecticut.

[Fred Beloit]

You know, seek, the Boob (lib) mindset makes formerly reasonable people quite angry and hostile. That is because they say dumb things, get caught at it, and blame those who catch them out for their own self-hate. Take Dem congressperson Kanjorski, for example:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=alO9asqx_g4

Is this the behavior of a cuso gaijin?

[seekeronos]

"--- http://youtube.com/watch?v=alO9asqx_g4

Is this the behavior of a cuso gaijin? ---"

Yup.

[jharp]

June 11, 2008 -- U.S. life expectancy has hit a new record: 78.1 years for babies born in 2006, says the CDC.

Harpo will find this is bad news for him. He says we don't have good health care. Honk honk.

Yeah, Fred that's great news. I believe that vaults us into 44th place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

And to think we only spend twice as much to end up in 44th place.

Yes sirree, we have one hell of a health care system.

[jharp]

More great news.

Though Wisconsin has been close in recent presidential elections, a new University of Wisconsin poll shows the Badger State solidly in the Democratic column this time around.

Sen. Barack Obama is way ahead of Sen. John McCain, 50% to 37%.

[Fred Beloit]

Why Harpo, you are using CIA data? CIA, the agency that you say helped Bush lie to the American people? Why should we believe this from them?
47 United States 78.14

[Fred Beloit]

Harpo, nota bene:

"However, two economists have argued in a recent book that life expectancy is a lousy way to compare two countries. Murders, suicides and accidents can have a big effect on life-expectancy stats because their victims die younger, on average, than victims of disease. And, they argue, the health-care system can’t do much to prevent those kinds of deaths. After adjusting for those kinds of deaths, the U.S. ranks at or near the top of developed nations in life expectancy, health economists Robert Ohsfeldt (of the Texas A&M Health Science Center) and John Schneider (of Health Economics Consulting Group LLC) write in “The Business of Health,” a 2006 book published by the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank."

http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/does-the-us-lead-in-life-expectancy-223/

[chris]

Great, life expectancy for old fools like Fred is up. Keep drinking, Fred!

[jharp]

Fred,

You are very good at following the excuse making of the GOP.

"Suicides and accidents."

Why would these be excluded from the results. Aren't both of these dealt with through our health care system.

The U.S. health care system is the most expensive in the world.

By double.

And is at best equal to others. Some, myself included, believe it is slightly worse.

You like paying double? Do you ever wonder not one other country uses a system similar to ours? At twice the cost?

Living poor and voting rich. The GOP base.

[Fred Beloit]

Harpo is a laugh riot, I'll say that for him:

"'Suicides and accidents.'

Why would these be excluded from the results. Aren't both of these dealt with through our health care system."

Just what kind of health care would you recommend for those killed in accidents and for people who have committed suicide, Harp? MRIs and knee replacements perchance? Quel drole!

[jharp]

"Just what kind of health care would you recommend for those killed in accidents and for people who have committed suicide, Harp?"

I'd recommend mental health treatment be more readily accessible to prevent suicide. Dumbfuck.

You know. Like providing better and more mental health treatment to returning veterans suffering PTSD.

And faster access and more emergency treatment centers would save more accident victims.

Think, Fred. Think.

And what do you say about the U.S system being twice as expensive as the rest of the world?

[jharp]

Oh, and Fred "wrong about everything" Beloit,

Fred is wrong again on the suspension of habeas corpus. Imagine this, the U.S. Supreme Court upholds a human right dating back to the 1600's.

Those dirty, rotten, America hating, republican appointed Supreme court justices strike again.

"The Supreme Court has ruled that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the U.S. Constitution to challenge their detention in civilian courts."

"The justices, in a 5-4 ruling Thursday (.pdf), handed the Bush administration its third setback at the high court since 2004 over its treatment of prisoners who are being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba."

[jharp]

Bush, Cheney, sink to lowest ratings ever.

A new Harris poll finds that President Bush and Vice President Cheney are now registering their lowest approval ratings ever.

– President Bush’s latest ratings are 24 percent positive and fully 75 percent negative. .

– Vice President Cheney’s ratings are even worse, 18 percent positive and 74 percent negative.

But I'm sure this is good for the republicans.

[chris]

This sad old man may be more entertaining than your current asshat leader

http://www.mccaincondoms.com/

It's a close one!

[seekeronos]

"---
"The Supreme Court has ruled that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the U.S. Constitution to challenge their detention in civilian courts."

"The justices, in a 5-4 ruling Thursday (.pdf), handed the Bush administration its third setback at the high court since 2004 over its treatment of prisoners who are being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba."
---"
(jharp, quoting an unsourced source)

Here is an actual link that corroborates hate Harpo said:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/12/mideast/12scotus.php

Bearing in mind that there was a 5-4 split in opinion along anticipated ideological lines (3 liberals + 2 moderates vs. 4 conservatives), this is not terribly surprising.

And it will take some time before the many court cases can docketed, much less determined as to which court shall hear the cases.

I personally find that six years should have been enough time to determine the guilt or innocence of these terrorists, after having extracted whatever intel they had, and to dispose of them accordingly.

They are much more a tax burden than anything else now, and now they will have the ability to press lawsuits against the government, where tort lawyers will be salivating at the chance to give these hajis a pretty good shot of gaining billions of dollars of taxpayer money which naturally, will get funneled back to Al-Qaeda.

Good job there, Justices John Paul Stevens, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter. Another stellar decision.

[seekeronos]

Ooopsie! Was that ever a freudian slip:

"... corroborates hate Harpo said:" should read "... corroborates what Harpo said:"