BTW TLC, you probably already know this, and it was probably just an oversite on your part (because I know you'd never try to misrepresent the issue), but 'many' does not equal 'most'. Just thought I'd point that out to ya.
What do you want? A bj?
BTW, nice of you to feel you were being criticized. Feeling guilty for some reason? I named no names. There are people up here who don't care about the victims. One was permabanned, thankfully. There are plenty of others.
If I lived down there, you can bet your life I'd be helping out. But, I don't and traveling down there is not possible for me right now.
If something bad happens?? You mean like they survived?? Gee's some people just don't have any damn luck, do they???
Your a hopless partisian hack TLC. Your starting to remind of the Rodney Dangerfield character. LOL, "I don't get no respect!"
TastesLikeChicken
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Well I guess we'll just have to wait to find out how many wanted to evacuate and actually couldn't vs. how many knew the risk and decided to stay.
I'll still put my money on "most."
TastesLikeChicken
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Well thanks for straightening me out. If I make a bad decision in the future that puts myself in peril and a horrible situation, I'll contact you so you can fight for me as a victim. I just know you'll be there for me.
:roll:
You dont have to live down there to help. in Michigan, the barracks will only be temporary, the Gov and the Mayors are trying to get these people into real homes, and get them jobs. The police departments are doing most of the coordination as far as collecting donated items for these people to help get them back on thier feet. Lots of people near me are putting up vacant real estate either free or very cheap to displaced people.
And I am helping the only way I can...donating what little extra money I had. I'm on a paycheck-to-paycheck basis right now and in danger of actually losing my apt (having to break the lease) due to what's becoming overwhelming medical bills. Yet, I will still donate what I can, when I can. There are also food drives under way and I donate to those, too. If I had a house, I'd open it up to a displaced family. If I had vacant land, I'd set up tents. But, I don't have those luxuries.
I'm just a victim. Woe is me. Where's my handout.Originally posted by: Gaard
Yeah right. You ain't fooling nobody. You made a 'conscious decision' to not go down there.
You are probably a pretty together person who who leads a pretty together life and who has probably been pretty together all of his life. And your pretty together life you doubtless attribute to your pretty together personal effort. So in your pretty together way you think everybody is and should be just like you. You have made a conscious decision to pat yourself on the back for an accident. You are what you are for no other reason than purely by chance. You are a complete and total nothing just as we all are. You are where you are by grace and are in fact a self congratulatory boob. In the right hands you could be broken and turned into mush and spend the rest of your life crawling up out of the muck. What you are is a profound egotist deficient in empathy. But what I know that you do not is that you can't help but be that way. You are in my mind as pitiable and unconscious as the people who stayed. You blame the lack of their personal responsibility of the fact that yours is built on your own self hate. You are what you are because if you hadn't been you'd have died physically too.
Because you hate the irresponsible you can never see that you are irresponsible and so you close the door on your only escape. Talk about conscious decisions. You are trapped on your own roof judging others.
There is no victim card. We are unconscious and there is nobody to blame, especially ourselves. You are the one who blames and plays the victim card and you are the victim.
And you are just as worthy of compassion as those in the water.
TastesLikeChicken
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What I am or am not has little relevance to my remarks.
I'm just tired of those who seem to think that wringing your hands over a situation supercedes all rational thought and assessment, and you and a few others in here seem to be part and parcel of that very problem, except when handwringing doesn't support your political ideologies.
That about sums it up then. Can we move on now?
That about sums it up then. Can we move on now?
Some people are just tired of your dogged persistence to listen to yourself talk.
Can one criticize Bush without coming across as 'handwringing'? Is it the timing or the criticism itself?
TastesLikeChicken
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Some people are tired of your personal attacks disguised as smarmy commentary too that more often than not is directed at someone personally instead of addressing the actual topic.
Unfortunately, that doesn't stop you from doing it.
Now excuse me while the crass, callous, uncaring bastidge that is TLC goes to work his shift collecting donations for the victims of Katrina.
I imagine while I'm doing that you can find someone else in here to look down your long nose at, Dan.
Absolutely not. "handwringing" is a codeword. One of my favorite codewords to hate is "whining". If you verbally disagree even in the slightest with the administration, its policies, wars and other actions, you are immediately condemned for "wihining".
Yes, the "ingrats" are in need.
What was that about looking down a "long nose"?? It seems to me that if you practiced half of what you preach you would be much more respected. Think about it. Empathy isn't some evil liberal conspiracy.
No no no, you are not allowed to get tired. The more conscious always have to suffer, they always have to shoulder the larger load, eat the bigger pile of sh!t and suffer the slings and arrows or other people's madness. You have to remain a pretty together adult and slug on. You can't allow the unconsciousness of others to suck you down so that you respond in kind. No wringing your hands over hand-wringing. It will cloud your reason and capacity for assessment.
Good luck at work and hope you collect a bundle.You would not be crazy because people disagree with you. A person could be crazy because he or she is an extremist.
What you fail to realize yet again is that some people can agree with some of your positions and disagree with some of your positions, but that doesn't mean that they're automatically a 'Bushie' or whatever. Your extremism is getting out of hand again and is corrupting your mind.
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I didn't collect a thing, as it was not for my personal benefit. Though one guy did try to donate a cat. His reason for donating the cat was sound and emotionally appealing. He claimed many people had lost animals in NOLA to the storm and that the cat would provide comfort to one of them. The only problem was that it was not very practical there were greater needs at the moment.Originally posted by: Moonbeam
No no no, you are not allowed to get tired. The more conscious always have to suffer, they always have to shoulder the larger load, eat the bigger pile of sh!t and suffer the slings and arrows or other people's madness. You have to remain a pretty together adult and slug on. You can't allow the unconsciousness of others to suck you down so that you respond in kind. No wringing your hands over hand-wringing. It will cloud your reason and capacity for assessment.
But it struck me how very liberal his intent was.
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
I didn't collect a thing, as it was not for my personal benefit. Though one guy did try to donate a cat. His reason for donating the cat was sound and emotionally appealing. He claimed many people had lost animals in NOLA to the storm and that the cat would provide comfort to one of them. The only problem was that it was not very practical there were greater needs at the moment.Originally posted by: Moonbeam
No no no, you are not allowed to get tired. The more conscious always have to suffer, they always have to shoulder the larger load, eat the bigger pile of sh!t and suffer the slings and arrows or other people's madness. You have to remain a pretty together adult and slug on. You can't allow the unconsciousness of others to suck you down so that you respond in kind. No wringing your hands over hand-wringing. It will cloud your reason and capacity for assessment.
But it struck me how very liberal his intent was.
"TLC goes to work his shift collecting donations for the victims of Katrina."
What is this "I didn't collect a thing" Was it something you just threw in there or did you think I thought you were collecting for yourself? Hehe, you collected karma points too.
Impractical yes, but as to what you mean by liberal intent I can't begin to guess though it smells a bit like preconception.
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ABSOLUTELY. This freak labelled me a Bushie for contradicting something he said about the wisdom of troop rotation in another thread. Take a look at my thread "Hurricanes stronger than Katrina can be expected" and tell me if you think I am a Bush lover (and try to distinguish sarcastic satire from my serious comments).
If you disagree with this hysterical punk you are guaranteed to hear things like, "Because Bush and his supporters, YOU..."
I pointed out the fact that he was mistaken about me ( http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...STARTPAGE=14&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear ), but he just floated on by, too much of a coward to say, "sorry man."
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