Smoking kills smokers, which is about what they deserve for engaging in such lowbrow, wrong-headed, retarded, vulgarian activity, except they get sick first and that drives up the cost of a single-payer national health care system, plus their second-hand smoke is worse yet because it is a, yuck, inhalation hand-me-down from uncouth people who probably haven’t flossed, and it kills progressive elites who don’t even know anyone who smokes while also releasing greenhouse gases and stinking up the cheery curtains that elites hang in public housing group activity areas to brighten the lives of the underprivileged who are confined to concrete tower blocks with six-by-eight-foot living rooms, seven-foot ceilings, plexiglass windows, and sheet-metal doors with a dozen locks on them. Smoking is wrong.Read it all.
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The elite resent the poor because, although poor people have few pleasures and many troubles, they also have a lot of fun. You can see it in their music videos. The elites whine and mope. You can hear it on NPR.
America is a meritocracy. Elites think those poor people should earn their fun, the way Bill Clinton did with Monica Lewinsky. And, being that America is a meritocracy, poor people obviously have no merit or they’d be rich and could afford to join the progressive elite.
Tell us how you really feel :)
ReplyDeleteMust you say "retarded"?
ReplyDeleteAnon,
ReplyDeletewelcome to comments.
FYI, Gil didn't say it. P.J. O'Rourke said it.
but smoking cigars is soooo right!
ReplyDeleteretarded. retarded.
ReplyDeleteExcellent rant.
Now about these 13,000 people that Newt is going to have living in his moon colony. Will they be collecting foodstamps and unemployment?
ReplyDeleteWhat's Newt smokin?
No, Bob, all they have to do is start a union, call themselves an alternative energy company and come up with a financially comatose business plan.
ReplyDeleteThen Obama will give them half a billion dollars, plus bonuses.
Jake - Thanks for the attempt.
ReplyDeleteAlways glad to educate liberals in denial, Bob.
ReplyDeleteJake - Im not a liberal in denial. I proudly admit that I'm a liberal.
ReplyDeleteBut again you miss the point Jake. You see Jake (or whatever your name is), for my joke to work, you have assume that Newt is the president. Newt's the one that says he's going to start a moon colony. Get it? So if Newt's the POTUS, Obama won't be giving anybody anything.
I take the phrase "liberal in denial" to mean that the liberal is ignoring the reality of liberalism, not that he or she is denying being a liberal. So, Bob, while I will respect until my final breath your right to be wrong, I still think you're in denial. And I will also understand until my final breath that you think I'm in denial on the opposite side of the issues.
ReplyDeleteI take the phrase "liberal in denial" to mean that the liberal is ignoring the reality of liberalism, not that he or she is denying being a liberal. So, Bob, while I will respect until my final breath your right to be wrong, I still think you're in denial. And I will also understand until my final breath that you think I'm in denial on the opposite side of the issues.
ReplyDeleteCharlie Two Times (this is getting too easy) If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."
ReplyDelete- John F. Kennedy, September 14, 1960
"I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. And you're no Jack Kennedy."
ReplyDeleteAnd you're no Jake.
ReplyDeleteHey Fake Jake - On the "who pays what in taxes" post, you claim that Michelle Obama took a $100 million dollar vacation to Spain. I'm still waiting for your explanation.
ReplyDeleteBohnehead,
ReplyDeleteYou're confused again. You are no union bigshot in this blog, just our token left-wing entertainment.
I go by the name that Gil permits and I write on the subjects I care to, whenever it suits me...deal with it.
Jake - I sat on this for a while, trying to come up with a witty answer or a smart ass comeback. But the more I thought about it, the more I started to realize how sad this really is. A grown man, afraid to use his real name. Even when we gathered for drinks, you went by the name of Jake. What is it that you are afraid of? And a grown man making up statistics to make a point. You know Michelle Obama didn't spend $100 million on her trip to Spain. Why would you write such a thing? Here's the headline from an article on a conservative blog - "Michelle Obama’s Holiday in Spain Costs Taxpayers Almost a Quarter of a Million Bucks!" If it's your intent to misinform Gil's readers, I think you are underestimating their ability to research such rediculous claims.
ReplyDeleteIt’s been said it takes a big man to admit he’s wrong. I say it’s a pretty small individual who can’t.
The only thing that is sad, Bob, is your pathetic attempts to bully people who dare disagree with your liberal dogma.
ReplyDeleteI'm certainly never going to change my blog name to satisfy your endless supply of contrived issues and personal attacks.
For the newer blog contributors, I am happy to tell you that my son and Gil's son have the same name and went to Sunday school together. One of my initial posts referenced that connection, and the blog identity just continued from there.
When Gil invited me to contribute posts as well as comments, he itroduced me with a mini-biography. So for Bob to question my manhood (one of his routine tactics) is both factually and materially incorrect.
As the political season moves forward, we can expect Bob to join his liberal cohorts in all kinds of desperate intimidation as they watch "hope and change" justifiably relegated to history's dustbin.
"Jake" - You call it "bullying." I call it calling you out on your lies, misrepresentations, and exagerations. But I see what you're trying to do. I call it the Gingrich style of debate.
ReplyDeletePlease do not relent, Jake. Your are right on point that Bob The Bone has tried to consistently bully anyone with whom he disagrees, or who has the termirity to disagree with him. Spencerblog should not and cannot be a place for anyone to summarily disrecpect other bloggers with snide remarks. Thanks for letting Bob that he is "NOT he who must be obeyed."
ReplyDeleteCharlie two Times - "Spencerblog should not and cannot be a place for anyone to summarily disrecpect other bloggers with snide remarks." Like when you referred to me as "Richard cranium"?
ReplyDeleteCS - You and Jake like to dish it out, but you sure have a hard time taking it.
ReplyDeleteCharlie,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your kind words.
Bob is actually fairly predictable.
Like those annoying stink bugs, you just have to be careful when you squash him because his only defense is to smell up everything around him.
Smoking is one of the reliever of stress but smoke kills the living life also. I want to ask who is this man called "retarded" ?
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