After the McGavick press conference I had a delightful conversation with the P-I's Joel Connelly, who, as it turns out, is as friendly and engaging in person as he is sometimes curmudgeonly in his column.
photo credit: Robert Mak!
He is a liberal, full of hot air, and much else as your picture would suggest.
Posted by: Susu on July 19, 2005 03:29 PM"That's one fat bastard."
Posted by: Dr. Evil on July 19, 2005 03:49 PMI am sure that, given the good liberal he is, he would support forced diet controls for the same reason he supports helmet and seatbelt laws. Someone is gong to have to pay for his heart attack and/or diabetes.
Posted by: Huey on July 19, 2005 07:40 PMHelp me out here Stefan! What the heck is he wearing?
I don't get it?
But, like the dude above said: "That IS one fat bastard."
The methane that guy produces contributes more to global warming than my V8 engine!
Posted by: BananaLand(aka Iguana) on July 19, 2005 09:05 PMSent him a civil email disagreement and he jumped straight to insults.
Since then I've made sure that every exchange with fatboy is as unpleasant for him as it was for me ;'}
Posted by: alphabet soup on July 20, 2005 08:30 AMWell, such fraternizing doesn't work. Either you become more like them, or they stab you in the back. One of the main reasons conservatives have lost over the years is because they have been too much the ladies and gentlemen. This is a battle to the death, not some dance. And the Democrats don't play by any rules so nether should we.
You should have learned in childhood this very sage advice - Never Smile at a Crocodile!.
Never smile at a crocodile
No, you can't get friendly with a crocodile
Don't be taken in by his welcome grin
He's imagining how well you'd fit within his skin
Never smile at a crocodile
Never dip your hat and stop to talk awhile
Never run, walk away, say good-night, not good-day
Clear the aisle but never smile at Mister Crocodile
You may very well be well bred
Lots ot etiquette in your head
But there's always some special case, time or place
To forget etiquette
For instance:
Never smile at a crocodile
No, you can't get friendly with a crocodile
Don't be taken in by his welcome grin
He's imagining how well you'd fit within his skin
Never smile at a crocodile
Never dip your hat and stop to talk awhile
Never run, walk away, say good-night, not good-day
Clear the aisle but never smile at Mister Crocodile
So you met John Connelly. BIG DEAL. Get over it.
You and John Carlson have the same problem. You so want to be liked by the liberal establishment.
Posted by: J.K. on July 20, 2005 10:35 AMFrequently after closing the campaign office for the night he and I would go to a bar nearby and drink a few beers. He was a very engaging conversationist. And he had a great sense of humor.
That was quite a while ago. And to this day, I haven't met anyone as personable as he was.
His name - TED BUNDY.
I know it might be hard for you to understand but someone could be an evil monster and still be a very "nice guy".
Posted by: Scott on July 20, 2005 12:05 PMAnd the way one wins a war is by being willing to go one step beyond your enemy in doing what it takes to win.
Perhaps the character Malone (played by Sean Connery) in the movie "The Untouchables" said it best.
Malone: You said you wanted to get Capone. Do you really wanna get him? You see what I'm saying is, what are you prepared to do?
Eliot Ness: Anything and everything in my power.
Malone: And THEN what are you prepared to do? If
you open the can on these worms you must be prepared to go all the way because they're not gonna give up the fight until one of you is dead.
Eliot Ness: How do you do it then?
Malone: You wanna know how you do it? Here's how, they pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone! Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that?
Now again, we aren't in a shooting war with these people, but it is everything but. And we are going to see how really brutal they can get when the Supreme Court hearings start up.
So, all I ask you, is are you willing to get your hands dirty?
Or are you still playing by Queensbury rules. For if you are you might as well pack up your blog and go home as you will lose.
But if you really believe what you are fighting for is that important then you must be willing to do what it takes to win.
Posted by: Kurt on July 20, 2005 12:56 PMAnd, with evil you shouldn't be polite. You don't converse civilly with evil. You don't discuss things over with evil.
You fight evil!
Of course, the truth is exactly the opposite. It is Connoly who is the evil one and the sooner we understand that the better able we will be to fight what he represents.
http://www.beverlye.com/culturewars.html
"We spent 30 years playing by our opponents' rules of engagement instead of forcing them to play by ours. During that time, we imagined that all we had to do was be right, present our views logically, and provide reams of documentation. We were under attack, whereas we thought we were merely under disagreement. We said we just needed to understand each other. The truth was, our adversaries understood us better than we knew."
Looks like Alan and JK are dedicated jihadists. Now, if we could just translate this into Arabic...
Nice to see the eternally navel-gazing cult members don't always follow Jim "the Shark" Jones to his magic kool aid trough every second of every day of every week. I'll give them that.
Posted by: Bax on July 21, 2005 01:19 AMWhy associate speaking Arabic with terrorism?
Why give the impression that all who speak Arabic are terrorists?
Ron Sims needs to arrest you for your crimes against humanity! For your spread of hate.
He needs to soak your white sheets in gasoline, put them back on you, and then light them!
Posted by: Gene on July 22, 2005 08:27 AM