(2009-06-02) — Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer sounded exultant today on a conference call with investors as he announced that his firm’s new search engine, Bing.com, already ranks among the top three results for “bing-related” search terms that internet users are Googling.
“We knew that Bing would be hot,” said Mr. Ballmer, “but we had no idea that a mere $100 million marketing investment could buy this kind of Google buzz. It’s a dream come true for our development team. I broke into their staff meeting today just to shout ‘Yahoo!‘ and celebrate with them.”
Mr. Ballmer said Microsoft would not rest on its laurels as the number three bing-related Google result, but would pour on the marketing dollars until it surpasses “Dave Bing“, the NBA great recently elected Detroit mayor, and “Bing cherry recipes”.
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1 Laughing@You // Jun 2, 2009 at 2:02 pm
What? Have I once again been chosen to be first? You deference to me is most humbling, and very gratifying. Thank you all.
That’s just what we need, yet another tentacle for the monopoly. Ever growing, in the hope of becoming “Too big to fail” !
I wonder if Bing will have a special feature for Repugs, you know kind of like Fox is to news.
A place where you don’t really get any facts, but enough propaganda to keep you so stupefied you can’t tell the difference.
Further, I hope Bing has recognized the need to have a cadre of phony clergy on had to help them with the guilt factor, when some fool starts to think for himself.
Everthink?
2 boberinyetagain // Jun 2, 2009 at 2:03 pm
“bing” related searches…good stuff Scott!
I guess Mr. Crosby is spinning…
3 Laughing@You // Jun 2, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Last paragraph, had=hand.
4 Laughing@You // Jun 2, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Yo bober, why don’t you trying drinking a glass of water while I try to type? That should simply mystify RAM.
Then, lets give him a bag full of red rubber balls, and say, “show me your nose”, I bet he will look in the bag first, don’t you?
ET
5 Laughing@You // Jun 2, 2009 at 2:15 pm
First paragraph, trying=try.
6 boberinyetagain // Jun 2, 2009 at 2:28 pm
What’s this I hear? Tricky Dick Cheney came out in favor of gay marriage…say it isn’t so…
7 boberinyetagain // Jun 2, 2009 at 3:08 pm
That, more than any other thing I’ve seen yet surely marks the end of time.
Next thing you know Rush will come out for legalizing painkillers…at least until they make you go deaf. Even he has to draw the line somewhere!
8 Laughing@You // Jun 2, 2009 at 3:13 pm
bober,
I know, it’s not something we are supposed to speak of, and I surely don’t want to get waterboarded, but, isn’t his daughter a bit heavy in her loafers?
Now, if that were not the cause, I think Gitmo might have an entirely different reputation!
ET
9 boberinyetagain // Jun 2, 2009 at 3:28 pm
ET, if only she’d get pregnant and decide she didn’t want the baby…then everyone here would be on board with abortion (for those that see/have no viable option)
10 JQ // Jun 2, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Why are you two the only ones commenting here? Do my fellow conservatives see nothing funny in Microsoft’s abject failure to crush Google? I forwarded this “article” all around my open-source software development office as soon as I read it. Awesome work Scott Adams…er, I mean OTT!
11 Laughing@You // Jun 2, 2009 at 5:03 pm
“ET, if only she’d get pregnant and decide she didn’t want the baby …”
??? bober, please explain proposition one of your hypothesis.
ET
JQ,
“Open-Source” software is just a communist ploy! No profit, no point!
How altruistic of you!
I’m sure real conservatives here will want to skin you!
Get him, Olga!
12 Laughing@You // Jun 2, 2009 at 5:07 pm
No. 8
Cause=case! Yeah, yeah, I know!
13 JQ // Jun 2, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Laughing@You says:
“JQ, ‘Open-Source’ software is just a communist ploy! No profit, no point!”
Not true. Open-source software helps to create a uniform foundation from which to develop our software, much like MS Windows became a uniform OS for applications to be developed for. It actually increases productivity (and profitibility) by enabling software developers to avoid “re-inventing the wheel” every time something basic needs to be done.
The end product is still marketed in order to reward the coders for their labor; the consumer just gets the benefit of more advanced code, built by standing on the shoulders of giants.
(I know, you didn’t actually want a discussion on software development; you just thought that your quick jab would sting, and I’d slink away in shame at the hypocrisy you brought to light. Sorry to disappoint.)
14 JQ // Jun 2, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Boberin says:
“…if only [Cheney's daughter would] get pregnant and decide she didn’t want the baby…then everyone here would be on board with abortion (for those that see/have no viable option)”
I can’t imagine that anyone here has been swayed into supporting gay rights just because Cheney has come out in favor of it. Wrong doesn’t become right just because Cheney says so. I’ll agree with anyone (Republican, Democrat, or otherwise) so long as they don’t take a stance contrary to my own beliefs. Mr. Cheney has chosen his position, and I respectfully disagree with him. He doesn’t speak for me.
Boberin, I’ve always considered you to be a bit more level-headed and less prone to exaggerated prodding. Maybe I’ve been gone too long and you’ve sunken in with the trolls…
15 mindknumbed kid // Jun 2, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Obama declares June ‘LGBT Pride Month’, how “Christian” of him
BTW - God condemns pride as well in the book he authored.
16 mindknumbed kid // Jun 2, 2009 at 9:37 pm
But then again, et hasn’t discipled me yet, perhaps sodomy is one of the things that has been “cleansed” and God is OK with these days…
17 Darthmeister // Jun 2, 2009 at 10:00 pm
It’s a wonder they didn’t name it “Bling.com” in honor of Obamessiah. I wonder how long it will be before the government takes over Microsoft™?
The difference between a conservative and a pointy-headed liberal. At least conservatives typically have a genuine interest in the average joe, sports, firearms etc.. Which is precisely why elitist libtards make fun of your average “gun-toting, NASCAR nut who clings to their religion.” And if the truth be told, liberals are probably only interested in minorities not on a pesonal basis but as a member of a voting bloc. Maybe an overly broad generalization but probably a lot of truth to this observation.
18 Darthmeister // Jun 2, 2009 at 10:15 pm
I don’t agree with Cheney on the marriage issue in the least. Homosexuals have the same right as every other adult American, they can marry any member of the opposite sex … period.
Taking the radical left’s “reasonings” to their logical conclusion, because of the “right of love” polygamists should have the right to marry any person they happen to “love” and bisexuals should be able to marry two people of the opposite sex.
And libs, please don’t get inconsistent and moralistic on us and try to CYA by saying marriage between more than two people is against the law. Who are we kidding here, you liberals are ALWAYS about undermining and perverting western ideals and law to suit your warped political agenda so it shouldn’t be a big deal to change anti-polygamy laws particularly since you liberals could cite the historical record that these anti-polygamy laws came about because of “religious conflict” resulting from Victorian, anachronistic, moralistic Christians trying to force their morality on Mormons and other polygamist movements by outlawing this important, ancient, multi-cultural and diverse expression of marital love between more than two people. See how easy it is!?
19 mindknumbed kid // Jun 2, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Darth, you left out “puppy love”, if someone loves their pet why can’t they marry? Somehow holding to the time honored tradition of marriage is discriminatory nowadays.
20 JamesonLewis3rd // Jun 2, 2009 at 10:59 pm
“The Tiller family’s focus, of course, is to determine what is in the best interests of the employees and the patients,” the family said in a statement.
Carrie Gordon Earll, senior bioethics analyst at Focus on the Family Action, said it’s clear what is in the best interest of the patients.
21 Laughing@You // Jun 3, 2009 at 12:43 am
“But then again, et hasn’t discipled me yet, perhaps sodomy is one of the things that has been “cleansed” and God is OK with these days…”
The context of the subject is government, not your church. Your religious views have nothing to do with it, dimwit!
No one is going to try to make you marry a guy, although you and Darthmeister would make a cute couple.
Then again, your children wouldn’t have a lick of sense, and I’m sure they would look gooney too!
Everthink?
22 Laughing@You // Jun 3, 2009 at 12:50 am
Darthmeister,
I pretty sure their going to put your picture up at the post office before long, if you don’t find a way to calm down.
Let MNK tell you how to find peace, he’s been looking someone to bless anyway.
Later, you two wackos.
Everthink?
23 camojack // Jun 3, 2009 at 1:13 am
boberinyetagain // Jun 2, 2009 at 3:28 pm
…if only she’d get pregnant and decide she didn’t want the baby…then everyone here would be on board with abortion (for those that see/have no viable option)
Since “everyone here” includes me, I’ll have to call you on that one, bud. You’re wrong. And I couldn’t just let that one pass, even though you were responding to a pathetic troll, whose apparent “raison d’etre” is to stir things up here. Much like yourself, perhaps? It certainly seems that way anyhow, at times like this…
24 SGT USMC 1ea // Jun 3, 2009 at 1:48 am
Bada Bing
goes
Bada Boom!
as it hits the marketing floor.
Microsoft Vista, the evil Y@A like controller of this current machine I am using, would not let me on the Bing.com site
- enter http://www.bing.com
- WARNING: this website did not exist when you purchased this copy of Windows Vista, do you want to upgrade?
-No thanks proceed to website
- WARNING: This site has been blocked by Windows security settings, what would you like to do?:
*adjust security settings *upgrade *cancel
- adjust security settings
-NOTICE: you are unauthorized to adjust security settings. Please see your system administrator.
Deus est Semper Fidelis
25 R.A.M. // Jun 3, 2009 at 2:55 am
I’m sorry to tell you this Scott but, listening to the “multiple personality troll” having a conversation with “Itself” is funnier than this entry.
Sorry!
PS: Didn’t I tell you it/they ALWAYS show up at the same time. I bet “It” has a laptop open on a table next to “It’s” desktop?
Then again, being a lib, “It” is probably using a couple of PC’s at the public library?
Wait, I forgot, blabber is “cheating” us taxpayers on his hours by blogging while supposed to be working at his government job?
Anyway, keep it up trolls. It is your best comedy routine to date, almost as funny as the “proping-up” of that baby killer Tiller as a fine upstanding Church going man that you lefties are CONTINUING to do.
Keep stretching that piece of filth’s story out. The left media has already stopped talking about the Muslim that killed one of our brave soldiers and wounded another!
I’m sure you are happy that your boy Obama has honored you trolls with his declaration of a day to honor you gay, lesbian, and transgendered people.
26 JamesonLewis3rd // Jun 3, 2009 at 7:18 am
BHO, in between parties and luxury jaunts, said the United States could be considered as “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”
27 boberinyetagain // Jun 3, 2009 at 8:25 am
Camo, my point was consistent with my other posts on the subject, just worded badly perhaps…
Abortion is not an “option” for me and mine but then me and mine have more resources at our disposal than about 70% of the population (of this country, 95% more than most of the planet) so the “choice” becomes clearer. It’s doubtful that anyone that ever got an abortion said to themselves…let’s get breakfast at the diner then an abortion and then off to the club for a round of golf. I’m betting that 90% can’t afford any of those things and that, even so, the “decision” is gut wrenching.
But, they are folks that know their limits, know they can’t properly provide for/love/care for (another?) child. Does that alone guarantee failure (of the child or parent)? No, but failure is a good bet none-the-less.
So some profess to want all of those children born anyway. Are there not enough people? Is there not enough suffering? Is there not a shortage of people (curiously) that don’t want to help these kids, some even get very angry at the prospect of public funds being spent on something they apparently are willing to murder to achieve.
Hypocrisy is my point and there is lots of it here (and you rarely are…not a problem but when I refer to “all” or “most” you are not among them (usually).
When I compliment most fellow “combatants” they ridicule/ignore/tell me I’m full of it. Common ground (and there is lots of it) cannot be pointed out to some folks
At least you know how to fight fair, several here don’t have a clue…just name calling and such and, once in a while that gets to me and I lower my standards…and am ashamed when that happens.
Now, where is that other keyboard? I need to let ET out of his box…
28 Darthmeister // Jun 3, 2009 at 9:24 am
AP: U.S. Made Deadly Bombing Errors While Obama Is CiC
Obviously Mr. Obama should now be considered a war criminal just like George W. Bush. Obama has had multiple opportunities to shut down America’s war machine in Afghanistan and Iraq and has failed to do so despite his campaign promises. Obama lied, innocent civilians died. [moonbat mode/off]
Hey, just trying to be consistent with liberal’s Bush-hating rhetoric. I’m just the messenger.
29 Darthmeister // Jun 3, 2009 at 9:31 am
So, now it becomes a question of “resources” that determines whether murdering an unborn baby in the sanctity of the womb is lawful or not, eh? Talk about moral relativism. Sheesh, you libs scare me the way you keep moving the goal posts.
BTW, the guy who murdered abortionist Tiller is no more “pro-life” than Tiller himself. I consider this unfortunate turn of events as another example of fratricide … one murderer killing another murderer. Think about it.
BTW, like the removal of Saddam Hussein, Hitler, and any other murdering despot, the world is a better place without the likes of baby murderers like Tiller.
And let me quote you pro-abortion facilitators, “Though I’m personally opposed to killing baby murdering ‘abortion providers’, I won’t sit in judgment of those who feel compelled to do so because of their own beliefs.” There, happy now, libs?
30 boberinyetagain // Jun 3, 2009 at 9:33 am
Hank, you are correct. As you’ve pointed out Obama is an idiot for allowing ANY of George’s policies to stand. I thought some were decent but reading some of your recent posts has convinced me othewise.
Again, I can hardly believe the change in you but it’s surely as welcome as it is surprising. You’ve finally admitted (prior and here now) that George was wrong and I NEVER thought I’d live to see the day…but I did.
31 boberinyetagain // Jun 3, 2009 at 9:42 am
Hank, name 3 people that Tiller “assisted” (as he truly believed he was doing and so did his patients) and the circumstances that brought those soon to be former mothers to be to his door. Were they coerced or were they grateful? I believe you know the story behind Tiller’s work but don’t want to go there.
Unless of course you are one of the people willing to provide lifelong assistance to the children that would have been born had he or someone like him not stepped up. You’d have provided lifelong assistance both by stopping by the home (of all of them) 3-4 times a week for 3-4 hours a day to pitch in wherever your help was needed mosts. Failing that, I’m sure you’d pay 10% more in taxes so that others could have provided that help on your behalf.
Because that’s just the kind of guy you are…a freind to war vets/widows/orphans/aged/infirm/shut ins/crack addicts/and politicians.
Right….
32 Darthmeister // Jun 3, 2009 at 9:48 am
White House More Forthcoming About Obama’s Muslim Roots
Obama: USA “Is one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”
I guess he considers this a badge of honor. I wonder how long it will be before the left’s Amerika is turned into another Islamic hellhole?
Obama: Iran has right to nuclear power
Yeah, just so long they don’t weaponize it, right Mr. Obama? Kinda like the North Koreans, eh?
Sotomayer: It’s better to be a ‘wise latina’ than a white man deciding law
Naw, this isn’t racist. Besides, she misspoke.
Gitmo inmate says tensions have risen under Obama administration
Not to mention their “abuses” have risen, too. Wonder why the national socialist media isn’t making a bigger deal about this? Hmmmm?
The Left and Muslim Fundamentalists: United in Hate
33 boberinyetagain // Jun 3, 2009 at 10:01 am
See? If Obama had just been as wise/tough with N Korea as George was the “problem” would be solved. After all George told them (quite sternly) over and over that they should “quit it” and when that failed he got as tough as “I really mean it!” exclamation point and all.
But, since Hank and (now) I agree that it’s foolish to do as George did…perhaps we should dial it down a notch. Who wouldn’t be “smarting” over those years and years (8 of them) of tough love? George was “this close” to having that whole NK thing resolved. Maybe we should break the “rule” just this one time and continue George’s policy on just this one issue…
What do you say Hank? This one time?
And pointing out that a lot of Muslims live here is an obvious attempt to subjugate the rest of us to them. What else could it mean (besides being a provable numerical fact…and who needs those things?)
34 boberinyetagain // Jun 3, 2009 at 10:15 am
The fuel used in nuclear warheads can come from either uranium enrichment or plutonium reprocessing. North Korea has pursued both tracks. North Korea’s uranium enrichment program, were it to continue, could produce highly-enriched uranium sufficient for nuclear weapons in roughly five years, depending on available technology.1 Prior to acceding to the Agreed Framework, North Korea probably produced enough plutonium for one or two nuclear weapons, although some estimates range to five or six. 2 It is unclear whether North Korea actually produced nuclear weapons with this plutonium. Today intelligence analysts generally agree that North Korea is capable of producing nuclear warheads.3 The Bush administration holds that North Korea has produced a few weapons, but many experts argue that difficulties in building detonation devices may thus far have prevented the North from finishing their weapons. 4 Resumed nuclear production could give North Korea enough plutonium for a nuclear weapon within a few months and five to seven nuclear weapons by mid-2003.5
How dare Obama get us into this mess…and how will he get us out?
Riddle me that Batman!
35 JQ // Jun 3, 2009 at 10:49 am
Boberin says:
Sadly, no one will ever know their names, but I doubt any 3 of the unborn “patients” Tiller killed would be “grateful” for his “assistance.”
Why are you assuming that all un-aborted babies would require “lifelong assistance?” Before these children are even born, you’re labeling them as non-contributing leeches on society.
Setting that aside for the moment, when did we decide that killing off potential welfare recipients was a more attractive option than reforming welfare? No, I don’t want to provide “lifelong assistance” to these people any more than you do, but I’d rather do so than be partially responsible for killing them outright via my silence on the abortion issue.
Maybe if we had more folks like Tiller who don’t mind “stepping up” and doing society’s dirty work, we could just plant them outside welfare offices to pick off people as they come to get their checks.
Oh, wait; that would be wrong, because they’re full-grown adults with lives and families. I forgot that we restrict our practice of eugenics to little babies…
36 boberinyetagain // Jun 3, 2009 at 11:08 am
Tiller “worked on” mothers/babies with severe handicaps/defects and/or when the mothers life was in grave danger.
Check that and get back to me.
Could one or more of them become productive members of society? Not the one’s who’s mothers died while pregnant…but some of the other…certainly! Would that have been the norm? No…
Again, unwanted/unloved children are under extreme duress, often for their entire lives…and that is a shame. My daughter works with/teaches such children all day every day. It’s a thankless (nearly) job that pays very little. She is used and abused by these children…and she carries on, contributes WAY more than her fair share to their care and well being. But, if her efforts were truly supported (more money, more resources if many kinds) then perhaps she (with lots of help currently unavailable) could make a bigger/more profound difference. Perhaps these unwanted children could become extremely productive/contribute to society.
But, the plain truth is that she is one small voice pleading for help against the jet engine of societys “other needs”. Step up, help people like her make a difference. Adopt one of her charges, be a big brother/big sister…if there were no “need”…no “shortage of assistance” (badly needed assistance) then I’d be in 100% agreement that abortion should be illegal and those that did them held severely accountable.
But those are not the facts…not even remotely close…so an abominable option seems reasonable to a reasonable person.
You cannot have it both ways…all unwanted children born at no cost to society. And it’s a cost I see very few stepping up/volunteering to share.
But, the ones Tiller came in contact with really had the deck badly stacked…and few are assisting the less needy let alone those potential children.
It’s not a perfect world…
37 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jun 3, 2009 at 11:41 am
Well, little big man Obama ought to be strutin’ his stuff, you know chillin with his bro Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, tonight.
I think the sounds of the Bangels big hit “Walkin’ Like an Egyptian,” will be heard drifting from the big house on the Nile. Obama will be doin the moves from the song Steve Martin called the King Tut Strut.
Is Michelle with him? Can’t trust Ob1 alone with the Cleopatra chicks. He make make an asp out of himself
’nuff said
38 JamesonLewis3rd // Jun 3, 2009 at 11:44 am
Arise and depart, for this is not the rest [which was promised to the righteous in Canaan], because of uncleanness that works destruction, even a sharp and grievous destruction. ~~Micah 2:10
39 JQ // Jun 3, 2009 at 11:49 am
Boberin says:
I don’t care if Tiller donated both of his kidneys and ran a homeless shelter out of his house; the fact that he murdered babies in order to spare them and their parent(s) a difficult life cannot be rationalized away.
I understand the consequences of allowing an unwanted pregnancy to come to fruition. As you pointed out, it’s not a perfect world. Unwanted pregnancies will always be with us, due both to flagrant irresponsibility/immorality (majority) and to abuse (minority). Even the most desired pregnancies and subsequent childhoods are a trying ordeal for the parents. We as a people (NOTE: Not our government) need to step up and care for those who need our help. All of this is understood and acknowledged.
However, that’s a completely different issue. The issue is whether we as a people will accept murdering the victim as a viable alternative to allowing them to experience a life that may or may not work out for them. I just can’t understand how any civilized society can accept infanticide in any way, shape, or form.
No, an abominable option is still an abominable option, regardless of the rationale applied to it. Infanticide by any other name is still the killing of a baby.
40 JamesonLewis3rd // Jun 3, 2009 at 11:52 am
Kim Jong-il’s official biography states that he was born in a secret military camp on Baekdu Mountain (???) in northern Korea on 16 February 1942. Official biographers claim that his birth at Baekdu Mountain was foretold by a swallow, and heralded by the appearance of a double rainbow over the mountain and a new star in the heavens.
41 boberinyetagain // Jun 3, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Mandating birth and then abandoning the outcome isn’t a workable option either so, where does that leave us?
Again, we agree far more than you might believe, I’ve just seen the reality with my own eyes and cannot shake the sight as much as I can hope/pray to do so…doesn’t help.
42 Laughing@You // Jun 3, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Wait, I forgot, blabber is “cheating” us taxpayers on his hours by blogging while supposed to be working at his government job?
RAM,
boberin doesn’t work for the government, that was the Great Santini! Now, stop it!
Everthink?
43 Darthmeister // Jun 3, 2009 at 12:51 pm
The utter hypocrisy of liberals is most telling in this analysis of Supreme Commander and Dictator Barack Hussein Obama:
Private William Long was murdered in cold blood yesterday. The 24-year old Army recruiter was mowed down outside the Army recruiting station where he worked by Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, a Muslim convert formerly known as Carlos Bledsoe. Muhammad wounded another soldier, Private Quinton Ezeagwula. The jihadist had recently returned from Yemen, where he studied his new faith under an Islamic scholar who apparently forgot to tell him that it was a “religion of peace.” Muhammad had been under investigation by the U.S. Federal Task Force on Terrorism. How did he get his weapons and commit these crimes when he was under investigation?
The sound you heard after this terrorist attack was silence. President Obama, who immediately condemned the murder of abortionist George Tiller on Sunday, still has not – 24 hours later – said one word about the cowardly attack on these soldiers. The U.S. Justice Department, which sent federal marshals yesterday to guard abortion clinics, has sent no one to guard our military recruitment offices, even though more than 100 of those offices have been attacked in recent years.
BTW, Barack Obama dictating the terms of bankruptcy for privately owned companies like GM, Chrysler, et al makes him a dictator …
literally.
44 Darthmeister // Jun 3, 2009 at 12:55 pm
BTW, well put JQ. The laughable obscurantism and rhetoric of liberal ideologues fall apart under the kind of determined fisking/examination that you have provided here. Please post here more.
45 JQ // Jun 3, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Boberin says:
“Mandating birth.” How sad is it that we’ve come to this point, where we consider the basic human right to be born something that needs to be “mandated?”
This leaves us exactly where we started: with a responsiblity to care for our fellow human beings wherever we see them in need. Community outreaches such as churches and other local organizations are responsible for caring for their own.
Haven’t you heard of Crisis Pregnancy Centers? These places welcome mothers with unplanned pregnancies into a homelike atmosphere, where they can live and grow until after the baby’s birth, by which point the mother has been counseled through whether or not she can care for the child or needs to put it up for adoption. The key ingredient here is concern both for the mother and her baby.
As you well know, we can’t make an ugly reality go away by placing it out of sight; neither can we accomplish the same by killing the voiceless victims. In the name of “one less mouth to feed,” we’ve brought the human race down to the same level as a herd of cattle that needs to be thinned.
One last thought: I can’t imagine that any among us would deem it acceptable to see a diseased, homeless, mentally handicapped child, clothed in rags and begging for scraps of food, and shoot her dead in the street. For any reason. How is it any more acceptable to do the same before we’ve even given the child a chance to do better than that?
46 Laughing@You // Jun 3, 2009 at 1:44 pm
“The U.S. Justice Department, which sent federal marshals yesterday to guard abortion clinics, has sent no one to guard our military recruitment offices, even though more than 100 of those offices have been attacked in recent years.”
What a great supporter of the military you are! But, your outrage would seem so much more genuine, if you or one of your sons had joined them when the shooting began!
The Army is fully able to defend itself! All soldiers are proficient in the use of firearms, and they don’t need to seek permission from anyone outside of their own ranks to use them in self defense (meaning state and local authorities)!
Even if arming recruiters is deemed unwise, the Army has its own Military Police, there is no need for U. S. Marshals to become involved.
Please, before you say it, Posse Comitatus is not involved in this issue!
Now, you want put U. S. Marshals in recruiting stations, and then bellyache about the cost to taxpayers later.
Will young Dick be visiting a recruiter soon?
Everthink?
47 boberinyetagain // Jun 3, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Crisis Pregnancy Centers? heard of them, love the idea, even the practice. Do they serve pedominantly minorities (just asking)? Do they serve drug addicts (moms and kids)?
Assuming “yes” to both…what is the placement rate for those children?
Again, helping kids “get born” is wonderful, to be congratulated/supported (RAM included in those congratulations) but it’s hardly the end of the story, light years from it…
Do they offer ongoing (18 years) of support both physical and emotional? Again, if “yes” then they are more than I’ve dreamed and I’ll join RAM in support wholeheartedly (monitarily, I admit I’m useless in supplying real, hands on support that would be needed, salute my daughter and others that can do so (and do).
And Hank, ET made the same point I would have…it’s doubtful that the Army needs help defending recruiting centers. They are staffed with trained career soldiers. One would hope that they of all groups would need the very least help of anyone.
48 JamesonLewis3rd // Jun 3, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Steve Martin once danced like an Egyptian.
49 JQ // Jun 3, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Boberin says:
Here’s the URL for Life Services of Spokane, the CPC where my sister (an RN) volunteered several hours a week, in case you want more info: http://www.lifeservices.org/
What child on earth do you know of that has that kind of guarantee? A single program can’t guarantee happiness and provision for a child’s entire life; that’s why they provide extensive counseling to the mother on how to be a mother (if she so chooses), as well as facilitating adoptions for those who aren’t ready. They also provide couples/parenting counseling if the mother and father plan to raise the child together.
Ultimately, it’s up to the mother to heed the advice and take the few months of respite to realign her life. Churches, friends, and family should be there to help her along, but she needs to make the first steps herself.
I’m really not sure what else I can say. Yes, we need to be there for those in need, but not in a capacity that involves us killing off their inconvenient children. We should look at the issue of helping the downtrodden without murder being an option.
50 Laughing@You // Jun 3, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Darth,
As for putting U. S. Marshalls at clinics, my guess is that when the workers at those clinics start shooting back, the shooting will stop very quickly!
For all you who enjoy playing with guns, and feel you have a right to shoot unarmed people, perhaps you should be reminded that some states allow a defensive shooting when a threat is perceived by a reasonable person.
If that were the case last week, the shooter was known, and pictures of him were posted, he could have been shot by any person at the clinic, or at the church, who felt threatened by him.
What will you say to the killing of one of your assassins? Will you attempt to prosecute the target of an attempted murder for defending himself?
We are a nation of laws, if you good citizens feel you have some obligation to violate those laws, you must be willing to suffer the consequences.
If this use of firearms continues, sooner or later you cowboys will not be allowed to bring guns into Dodge City.
Everthink?
51 Laughing@You // Jun 3, 2009 at 4:40 pm
“Do they offer ongoing (18 years) of support both physical and emotional?”
“What child on earth do you know of that has that kind of guarantee?”
boberin did not ask for guarantee, only a reasonable expectation.
Your answer is a dodge!
If such is not available, are you willing to support such children by paying your share for a surrogate parent, and for food, shelter, health care and education?
If you are willing, then stop your incessant complaining about social welfare programs! If you are not willing, what’s your interest?
In the end, you just can’t have it both ways, and your love for these children is rightly called into question!
Everthink?
52 Laughing@You // Jun 3, 2009 at 4:49 pm
“Steve Martin once danced like an Egyptian.” He did indeed! What a wild and crazy guy he was.
53 JQ // Jun 3, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Laughing@You says:
I’d rather not discuss the issue with you, L@Y. Boberin at least has the decency to treat the issue with a degree of gravity and respect; you’re just looking for something you can use to provoke argument (”Your answer is a dodge!” he gleefully exlaimed).
At any rate, I have no desire to “dodge” any of Boberin’s questions. I simply don’t see where these un-aborted babies are any different than babies that were never considered for abortion. They all have challenges to face as they grow up, the variations of which are too complex to fully discuss in this forum. As a Christian, I feel that most of the problems the mother and child would face could be taken care of by the mother’s church family, the way we are told to handle these types of situations in the Bible.
Then again, that’s just fundamentalist hate-speech and Bible-banging, so I should stop now.
54 Laughing@You // Jun 3, 2009 at 7:00 pm
JQ,
Certainly, it is your right not to discuss any issue with me. But, why do you feel a need to inform me of your decision?
I will comment as I see fit, with or without your permission.
“Then again, that’s just fundamentalist hate-speech and Bible-banging, so I should stop now.”
It appears to be more fundamentalist hate-speech, than Bible banging!
“…you’re just looking for something you can use to provoke argument (”Your answer is a dodge!” he gleefully exlaimed).
That’s the second time you have claimed to understand my motive, what makes you think you are able to do this? Have you received a discernment about me from your God?
Well, you better check your antenna, because you have misread disgust as glee.
Everthink?
55 JQ // Jun 3, 2009 at 7:43 pm
L&Y says:
You specifically directed a comment at me, so I felt that, rather than ignore you outright, I’d explain why I wasn’t continuing the discussion. I’ve been around here long enough to see that your M.O. is to do what you can to rile the resident conservatives. There’s a clear contrast between your approach and that of Boberin; the only reason I responded with any real depth was to clarify my response to him, just in case he felt the same as you about my answer.
Without claiming to “assume your motives,” that statement would appear to be simply goading me for a defensive reaction. I was being sarcastic in my statement; I fail to see anything remotely resembling “hate speech” in my posts. I’ve tried to steer clear of making the needlessly inflammatory statements that I’ve seen from my peers on this forum, so I’m having a hard time seeing why you would take the same aggressive tone with me (see #51).
Go for it; I’m not stupid enough to believe that I could actually censor you in this forum.
56 Laughing@You // Jun 3, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Listen JQ,
Not that I’m not having a great time splitting hairs with you, I can’t see anything either informative or humorous to be gained by continuing this exchange.
So, unless you wish to have the last word, lets just give it a rest.
Everthink?
57 Rahul // Jun 4, 2009 at 2:51 am
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58 gafisher // Jun 4, 2009 at 12:27 pm
We see nothing funny in the mutual admiration society meeting, JQ. Scott's article, as always, is spot-on.
59 gafisher // Jun 4, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Right on the money, JQ! If music had followed the path of commercial software, composers would have to pay a royalty every time they used the diatonic scale. Open Source frees those who prefer liberty over slavery to sing in a major key.
60 gafisher // Jun 4, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Marriage is a Judeo-Christian practice; the property-based counterfeit which hides itself behind the same name bears only a superficial resemblance to actual marriage. The gay "marriage" issue is a property-rights matter brought on by the very big mistake of tying such things as health care, labor laws and Social Security to inappropriate terminology. We've made the same error in our use of the word "Church," which is why so many dubious groups have organized under that name simply to gain tax advantages and other property rights. The latter term will have to be reclaimed before there's much hope of restoring the former.
61 gafisher // Jun 4, 2009 at 1:52 pm
"I pretty sure their going to put your picture up …"
You may have meant to say "I'm" and "they're" in that snippy snippet. But happy days, Laughing — Scott's new technology presents the opportunity to go back and correct the spelling, the grammar and even the tone of your posts! You'll have hours of fun if you take the initiative to follow up on that!
62 gafisher // Jun 4, 2009 at 1:54 pm
"I pretty sure their going to put your picture up …"
You may have meant to say "I'm" and "they're" in that snippy snippet. But happy days, Laughing — Scott's new technology presents the opportunity to go back and correct the spelling, the grammar and even the tone of your posts! You'll have hours of fun if you take the initiative to follow up on that!
63 R.A.M. // Jun 4, 2009 at 2:06 pm
AGAIN, for the umpteenth time, blabber tells us how "his family" is helping America and assuming that none of us scum are doing anything to help others!____Oh how I wish "everyone else" was like the saintly blabberinyetagain family——-NOT!!!____Where do we send the flowers for your daughter who is so "abused" by these (brat) children? Or should we send the police, or maybe a doctor to preform a late-late term abortion on the little brats?____If ONLY you could see yourself as WE see you, you might shut up and stop showing what a low life you are!____Nah—libs will not see that until it is too late. Just like Tiller. I bet GOD is introducing him to those 60,000 HUMANS that GOD knew when they were in their mother's womb!!!
64 gafisher // Jun 8, 2009 at 1:27 pm
(Just testing …)
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