Help me respond to a pesky ReThug

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Monday January 30, 2012 · 6:41 PM PST

2012/01/30 · 18:41

Following is an e-mail sent to me by a guy who persists in "fact-checking" me. If you guys have a minute, could you help me out with a coherent response to these silly questions...point by point?
I'll check in later cuz I'm too busy living life and not worrying about idiots. I just wanted to see what kind of response the combined intellect of this site can come up with. I know it will be fucking awesome.
Over the squiggly for the wingnuttiness.
Peace. ;-)>

rogerdaddy

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Tuesday February 02, 2010 · 7:31 PM PST

2010/02/02 · 19:31

Below is the text of an e-mail that I sent a friend I've known since we watched MTV in 1983 while drinking Lowenbrau's (remember those?) when it had no commercials, played only videos and was actually cool and new.
Now I'm all grown up and my eyes are very much wide open and I owe a lot of it to you people.
Thanks a lot...assholes. Kidding, of course...I think.
I just felt like publishing this and getting it out of my system. I'm sure you understand.
As Always...Peace.

See ya below the fold, maybe.

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What is your favorite 80's video?

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What is your favorite 80's video?

Anything Hair Metal

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Anything New Wave

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Anything Pop (Madonna, etc.)

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Anything else?

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What the fuck is MTV?

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Rachel's Opening Smackdown 12/30/09. An Instant Classic. Updated with link.

rogerdaddy

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Wednesday December 30, 2009 · 6:19 PM PST

2009/12/30 · 18:19

If you are not watching the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC right now, I am truly very sorry.
You just missed the most amazing liberal/progressive/truthful values smackdown on Dick Cheney and the entire wingnutosphere in general that I have ever witnessed.
Rachel is pissed and she shows why she is the greatest liberal journalist on TV right now, bar none.

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Does Rachel Maddow Rule?

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Does Rachel Maddow Rule?

Yes, more than Van Halen

23 votes

Yes, More than Journey

10 votes

Yes, more than all good early '80's rock

21 votes

Yes, period.

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Hey, you forgot (insert name in comments below)

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Well Retired Kossacks?...Is Matt Right Or Wrong?

rogerdaddy

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Thursday December 10, 2009 · 11:52 PM PST

2009/12/10 · 23:52

The back and forth on this site recently has been absolutely fascinating in a car wreck sort of way...especially to us "idealistic leftists" who watch the other 80% with a sort of detached revulsion combined with a sad acceptance of a status quo that can only be turned around very slowly, like the accepted metaphor of a gigantic ship at sea.

I have been inspired by people like Hunter S. Thompson and George Carlin...rebels with more than a clue and I offer three paragraphs from Matt Taibbi's latest blog entry regarding health care in order to provoke a discussion where I can hopefully gain insight.

If you care to follow me below the fold I will provide those three paragraphs and comment section afterwards. Is this a diary? You be the judge...I already know the answer.

rogerdaddy

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Tuesday December 01, 2009 · 1:54 AM PST

2009/12/01 · 01:54

The shit is getting really fucking weird man. I just want you to know that I am living in a motel in Ripon with Stacy and Starla...we are receiving homeless assistance. The last check for $390 came to us today after a wait in the Stockton Social Services waiting room that was packed...standing room only with a lot of really desperate, normal-looking people who just need a little help. Real unemployment (U6 rates...not the U3 reports that downplay everything) is affecting 1 in 5 people right now directly and everyone else indirectly. It's fucking scary...

rogerdaddy

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Monday April 13, 2009 · 2:55 PM PDT

2009/04/13 · 14:55

It's kinda weird. I started this diary by figuring out the title, knowing the situation that my family is in and the fact that we don't know where we're going on April 25th when we're supposed to be out of our duplex.

That was a couple of weeks ago but in the last few days I've come to realize that maybe all of this is too much for me. Maybe having no internet hook-up and living in a motel, or worse a shelter is the best thing that could happen to my sanity, to our sanity.

I'm confused right now. I am deeply depressed. I have a deep sense of despair, not just because of my particular situation but because of everything that is going on right now that tells me that we may truly be in some sort of end times...and I'm not a religious person, although I was raised that way. It really is all just too much and I invite you below the fold for my brief rant/story, if you have a few minutes.

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Will you miss me?

Yes

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Who the fuck are you?

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Pie a la mode with a bowl of green and a cup of tea (No bags please:)

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Not Rick Warren or I/P...Got A Minute? I just need some support. Peace ;-)>

rogerdaddy

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Sunday December 28, 2008 · 5:48 AM PST

2008/12/28 · 05:48

I'm just throwing this out there to get a response from a community of individuals that I have come to respect and listen to because well...damnit, you people are smart and cool.
The following is an e-mail I just sent to my bro-in-law/best friend from way back (I introduced him to my sister in the early '90's) who also happens to be a republican that actually voted for Obama. Yippee...there is still hope, thank Gawd.
Anyways...with the proliferation of diaries that should actually be long comments I am actually posting a diary. It is personal...it is a rant of sorts and it contains no links. It is just me being me.
Feel free to tip, flame and comment in your unique fashion. I wouldn't have it any other way.

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I know this site is to elect Dems. Does this diary still have a place here?

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I know this site is to elect Dems. Does this diary still have a place here?

Yes

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2 votes

Pie

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Here Rogerdaddy...have a joint. Obviously you need one right now.

12 votes

Screwed again. A story and a plea for advice.

rogerdaddy

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Friday November 14, 2008 · 2:50 AM PST

2008/11/14 · 02:50

I have been coming to this site for two years now and the wealth of wisdom and depth of learning that I have been exposed to has been one of the best things that has ever happened to me.
Ok...enough ass-kissing. I guess I'll get to my point.
This diary is not intended to be a well-researched expose of the latest Sarah Palin interview or the multitude of reasons why Sen. Joe Schmuckitelli (I?) or Joe the Fake Plumber is an asshole worthy of scorn, contempt and pure, un-adulterated ridicule. It is painfully obvious now that they deserve every karmic result of their actions. That is not my concern...their justice will come around when the time is right.
This is about a regular guy who just got seriously screwed by the "powers that be" who needs a little empathy, sympathy and some really cool comments.
Follow me below the fold anyone?...

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Do I have a good point or am I just a whiny socialist?

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Do I have a good point or am I just a whiny socialist?

Yes

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Pie

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German Chocolate cake with Crown Royal, a fat joint and a sexy M.I.L.F. who supports me

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My Addition To The "Conservative Family & Friends Really Suck" Discourse. Peace ;-)>

rogerdaddy

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Monday October 13, 2008 · 9:36 PM PDT

2008/10/13 · 21:36

This was an e-mail that I also shared with the folks over at DailyKos and it was relatively well-received. Once again, I post it here also because I can and I want to. It's cathartic and therapeutical and you'll just have to read it to fully understand...ok?

On my main source of information (DailyKos) they have a tradition called a "GBCW" diary. It stands for "Good-Bye Cruel World" and it is a way for a person who is known throughout the "community" to let the others know that they are done writing and commenting and reading about all of the stuff that is going on that effects everybody. You know...The real news that the "MSM"(Main-stream media) does not report on due to corporate($$$) influence, blatant bias and out-and-out propaganda purposes.
The truth is out there but, unfortunately, too many of the complacent "American Idol"/FoxNoise(News?)-watching flock that make up the vast majority of our population are painfully unaware of it. After all...do you think Bush and his criminal gang could have taken this country in the truly terrifying direction that they have without a lot of complacency from Joe & Jane Six-Pack?...the flag-waving, yellow-ribbon on the SUV-driving crowd that enabled this catastrophe of historic proportions?

rogerdaddy

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Friday September 05, 2008 · 12:35 PM PDT

2008/09/05 · 12:35

She is his enabler. She supports his over-zealous regulation over a society that might be "subversive", "Anti-American" or in any way "UnPatriotic"...at least according to the chattering/ruling class who control almost everything in the world today.
She is a "hockey-mom" who would choose to arrange "playdates" for her five offspring all while pursuing an extremely right-wing agenda that leaves the heroes of the home (Moms) barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen where they've always been told that they belong by the pin-headed, small-dicked pricks who really run this country from their ivory towers that keep out just enough sunlight to keep them pasty, dull and hidden from the light...the truth about what's going on.
She will set women and the entire human race back another fifty years simply by glorifying the regressive, repressive policies that kept niggers, beaners, wops and bitches in their place for entirely too long in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
We Must Win. We Have No Choice.
I'm done for now.
As Always...Peace...
By whatever brutally honest means necessary.
;-/>

Obama/Best Weapon Against Terror Since Sliced Bread

rogerdaddy

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Friday June 06, 2008 · 9:39 AM PDT

2008/06/06 · 09:39

I may be stating the obvious and this will be a brief diary but I guess I had to say it in my own, unique way.
Correct if I'm wrong but didn't Mr. Obama just accomplish in one day several baby steps towards the goal of real democracy and governmental transparency than most "current" elected Dems and any & all Rethugs could muster in a month...if we were lucky and the right people were paid off?
I mean..c'mon, the guy's got chutzpah and balls bigger than I do...and I've got about the same amount of years as he does for gravity to take it's natural toll. ;-)>

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Well?...which is it?

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Well?...which is it?

Chutzpah

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Balls

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A healthy dose of both with a smattering of intelligence for a change?

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I Just Watched "Fahrenheit 9/11" For The First Time.

rogerdaddy

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Friday March 21, 2008 · 9:19 AM PDT

2008/03/21 · 09:19

And I do not know how I could possibly put into words the seething hatred I feel for the ruling class with their figure-head in the oval office.

However, this is about more than just one lunatic in the oval office. As a matter of fact, I am convinced that he is far from the true puppet-master behind the curtain, pulling the levers of power. This is about a carefully planned, financed and coordinated attack on an entire socio-economic class of people throughout the world, not just here in America. The evidence is too overwhelming to be dismissed. The horror, death and destruction is there for everybody to see.

In fact, the whole "War On Terror" is merely a smoke-screen, an illusion perpetrated on the huddled masses to disguise what is really going on. What better way than to use the greatest illusion of all time to convince the people of the righteousness of the cause. That's correct...religion is the perfect device to once again divide and conquer. It's tried and true throughout history and it has worked perfectly every time to keep the vast majority of people living in fear while the evil elite laugh all the way to the bank.

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