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“How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.”

–Margaret Atwood, from The Year of the Flood

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"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."

–Groucho Marx 

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"Heroism often results as a response to extreme events."

–James Geary 

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"… could take the whole ACA down with it."  Riiiight.  You read a bit like a Dwyer posting. 

You know "personal" from "professional" don't you?  How personal is it when the opposing political party in government votes over 40 times to defund & destroy a Federal program?  How personal is it when the Kochheads, Addelsons, and untold other 1%ers (with help from a Roberts court) pump millions into astroturf & provocateur initiatives to fight progress?

I'm not sure about you DT  'cause it sure seems you're compelled to point fingers, softly parrot rightie talking points, and willfully ignore any of the pluses in ACA.

How about this DT, you ever remember quoting this sage advice:

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt

ACA will not FAIL so therefore cannot be considered so in Obama's legacy.  ACA infant roll-out hasn't passed 45 days but you're all in with the nattering negativistic ignorati falling over themselves to lay this at the feet of Obama.  Bringing up CBMS again makes me feel like you're channeling a bit of Algernon, but neither of you in the least quixotic with your ignoble attacks.

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt – See more at: http://blogs.windward.net/davidt/2013/03/17/legitimate-criticism-vs-online-bullying/#sthash.54kPlxsL.dpuf

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt – See more at: http://blogs.windward.net/davidt/2013/03/17/legitimate-criticism-vs-online-bullying/#sthash.54kPlxsL.dpuf

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Me too.

But……………………This has to be said, or I'll regret not doing it.

This FB actually admits to being the author of posts (or a post) ridiculing and taunting someone who's grieving over the death of another person. As well as to a post containing the image of a child that strains common sense to see as anything but the most gutteral of  base human viciousness and depravity. That he admits it tells us this diaperstain doesn't even process the information.

At no time has this troll presented rebuttal to fair debate questions. He never answers a post that challenges him to bring it. He ignores those.Just a nasty, albeit restrained, in comparison to his posts in some rotgut blog, angry, throw shit on the wall, see what sticks demeanor that betrays him as one sick, angry, defeated fuck. 

This military service avoiding coward says "he fears for his country".

Bullshit. He and his ilk ARE the problem with this country.   

fishin'blues, where's that work you owe me? 3 assignments, plus proof of military service. But I warn you, "stateside patriot", "geedunk commando", "nintendo ninja", before you answer the military service question, remember  the  Stolen Valor Act. For your sake, be truthfull. 

Tick tock asshole.

Now, having said that, Here's to a civil discourse. I'm certainly in.

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"Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed."

–C.S. Lewis, from The Magician's Nephew

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Look out kid
It's something you did
God knows when
But you're doing it again

–Bob Dylan, from Subterranean Homesick Blues

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"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion."

–Francis Bacon 

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"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green."

–Francis Bacon

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"A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool."

–Moliere

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