While hunting on Saturday, VP Cheney shot some 78 year
old guy. I glad to see the republicans finally achieving their
desired goal of eliminating old people. I mean its faster
then starving them, by cutting medicare or social security.
I commend the GOP for finally acting upon their fondest desires.
It might be the greatest success of the bush administration,
they have failed at every thing else.
Kropotkin
I wondered how long it would take for someone to make such a sickening and dishonest comment, but sadly there was no doubt in my mind who would make it. Thanks for reinforcing my opinion of you, Pete. 
Of course, since the guy he shot was a multimillionaire-lawyer, maybe it wasn’t so bad. 
It’s pretty common to catch a few pellets while you’re bird hunting. While I haven’t hunted in many years, I’ve come within a yard of taking a facefull of #9’s a couple times. I know several guys who’ve been hit by stray pellets, just as that lawyer was.
I think the Republic will survive it, much to your chagrin.
I really don’t care what you think of me.
So I’m ok, with it.
Kropotkin
You’re getting pretty old, too, aren’t you? Perhaps Cheney will shoot you next. 
What an indicative scenario.
Those elephant bastards shooting the wrong person, yet again.
As opposed to shooting the right person? If you’re gonna shoot someone, why not a lawyer?
Hunting can get a little dangerous, for certain. In the spirit of fairness and sportsmanship, I don’t think you can really complain much if you get hurt while doing it. After all, you’re out in the field trying to kill something, so isn’t turnabout fair play? Of course, it’s one thing if the animal fights back, and another still if your buddy busts a cap in yo’ ass, but the end result is the same.
A word of advice to the VP, though- if you shoot a lawyer, for God’s sake make sure he’s dead! 
Once he’s feeling better he’s bound to sue the shit out of you.
I should really let this pass, but I’m afraid I cannot. You probably shouldn’t care what I think- there’s no reason I’d expect it. But your pettiness is still depressing. You don’t care about honesty nor truth, only hate. You’re so twisted by it that there’s no room for anything else. Sadly, that makes you the most closed-minded poster I’ve ever seen. Every world event you view thru partisan eyes, every action is interpreted vs your party politik.
Pete, you’re the toothless old Arab lady on the news, dancing in the streets when the Towers fell. I find it sickening how you delight in the misfortunes and pains of others and can only see how it advances your political agenda.
Sometimes you seem likeable enough, but you can also come across as so incredibly vindictive, petty and small.
Naturally I doubt my worlds will affect you at all. You’re the kind of guy who doesn’t like to keep mirrors in his house anyway.
Don’t be a knuckle head, Phaedrus. Wasn’t it obvious that Peter was making a polemical satire out of the affair? Of course it was. Do you really think Peter considers shooting old people to be a legitimate form of population control?
And you, Peter. Rather than the snooty “I don’t care what you think about me” comment, you shoulda let 'em have it, dude. You should have said what I said above and not a penny less.
I don’t know who is the bigger twit- him for taking you seriously or you for taking him seriously. Or, I’m missing something, in which case I’m the twit.
note to Imp: please don’t post this in the Hall of Shame thread because that would result in the fallacy of treating what is probable as something that is inevitable, in this case the insult and the possibility of either being a twit, and Hume would be pissed at you for this reasoning. Just thought I’d let you know.
You’re not that thick, are you D? You must only skim his posts.
BTW, I know he was serious, but I don’t take him seriously. If you can understand how those are two different issues.
Twit? Knucklehead? It’s neat so see those old chestnuts revived. Those are a lot classier ad homs than we normally see here. Insults are so rarely classy anymore.
I’ll have to work “dunderhead” into a post somehow.
I was thinking more like 'If you’re going to bomb some innocent village for some roundabout monetary gain you might as well napalm the right one… or should I say… the left one
Btw I like ‘knuckhead’ it’s like a lyrical noogie.
All that I can deduce from the overall meladramatic tone is his general dislike for the Bush administration. Observe the quote above. Aside from the obvious exaggerations in his post, what isn’t part of the satire is that statement. It basically gives the direction to the polemic. He’s talking shit about somebody, right? So yeah, you are justified in assuming a defensive position to counter his sentiments toward the Bush administration, if you are pro-bush. No foul there, everything’s legit. But you certainly can’t base that retort on his comments about shooting old people, etc., etc. You have to aim your ad homs better, cuz, that’s all. You can’t expect to be taken seriously if you literalize Peter’s comments.
I don’t really care much about Bush (the president) one way or the other. I’m must irked by one-trick-pony posters like Pete that seem to exist here only to beat the same dead horse. Do a search- has he made a single post that wasn’t dedicated to advancing a liberal political agenda or harming a conservative one?
Everyone has their sore spot, I guess: PoR gets people pretty worked up, but I don’t mind his babble. Pete’s no different, but he comes across enough like a real person, not just a Nazi spambot, that I occasionally attempt to engage him as though he was a free thinking, intelligent human. That’s where I’m continually disappointed.
questioning who might qualify for twitdom while not actually affirming the candidate is not exactly a shameful offence…
besides, we know who actually thinks that “shooting old people is a legitimate form of population control”…
“PULL!”
-Imp
I don’t know, I don’t really read his posts. Thanks for the insight though.
Well, Petey, is it true? Are you pushing a liberalist agenda and would you like to tell the group about it?
Let’s all welcome Peter to the group.
(Adjacent to an oddly placed wheeled table bearing three hour old coffee and doughnuts, ILP sits in a pseudo-train wagon formation in pitiful undersized plastic school chairs borrowed from the gym. They speak in a horrible droning tone while staring at him with their glinting, blood-shot eyeballs:)
ILP: “WELCOME, PETER.”
If you don’t read his posts then why do you care? Oh well. Yes, I do read his posts, or I used to. Mostly for the same reason I never miss a PoR post. Sadly, though, of the two only PoR has the ability to surprise. His conversion to a hybridized form of Nazism was a brilliant plot twist that I must admit I never saw coming.
Anyway, Pete would be the first to proudly call himself a pinko, so I don’t think it’s really an ad hom to call him one. Although I did just read a thread he posted in where it actually took two or three posts to try to change the subject to Iraq or the Bush administration. I think he’s losing his touch.
For those of you who only think I comment only
on bush lite, I suggest you read America vs Britain post,
or perhaps my review of brokeback mountain. I engage in
many a discussion of other things besides the political.
but I consider the political very important because it defines
us as a people.
So if you wish to hate on me, I say rock on.
It won’t hurt my feelings.
PS, I have read my swift, perhaps you may want to
and then you too can make a modest proposal.
Kropotkin
I crack on you a lot, Pete, but it’s for your own good. 
Deep down I actually like you. I just worry that there’s nothing else in your life except that hatred of everyone that disagrees with your politics. Seriously, when Bush’s term is done, you’ll have a huge party, but three months later you’ll be on suicide watch.
BTW, why is GWB “bush lite”? Logically his father is more deserving of that title. After all, he was a Jimmy-Carter-esque one-term-wonder that really did nothing notably good or bad, while GWB won two terms and will have shaped history more than any president in decades.
Phaedrus:I crack on you a lot, Pete, but it’s for your own good. Deep down I actually like you. I just worry that there’s nothing else in your life except that hatred of everyone that disagrees with your politics. Seriously, when Bush’s term is done, you’ll have a huge party, but three months later you’ll be on suicide watch.
K: I thank you for the love, UMMMMMM, OK, maybe not, anyway
I will only be on suicide watch if another republican wins in 2008.
PH: “BTW, why is GWB “bush lite”? Logically his father is more deserving of that title. After all, he was a Jimmy-Carter-esque one-term-wonder that really did nothing notably good or bad, while GWB won two terms and will have shaped history more than any president in decades.”
K: Bush’s father actually had some competence, especially as
head of the CIA. Bush may be the dumbest president in
the history of the U.S thus bush lite. I have called him this
for several years and I shall continue to call him such until
sometimes around 2050, at which point I shall be 91 years old
and probably won’t remember who he was.
Kropotkin
I think McCain will be the next president. If that happens I’m anxious to see how you’ll cope.
Your answer is odd- Bush seems no dumber than you. He graduated Harvard, didn’t he?