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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:05 PM
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You can't say the spending freeze won't affect anything and then say wait and see what's in it.
Edited on Tue Jan-26-10 01:05 PM by Hello_Kitty
You have to pick one of those positions because you can't logically hold both of them.
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tranche Donating Member (913 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:07 PM
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1. I think it's better not to soil yourself on the internet until you know the details.
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:09 PM
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4. So you've picked your side. eom
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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:12 PM
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8. education is a side?
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:14 PM
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13. Yep. eom
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tranche Donating Member (913 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:07 PM
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35. What's my side? Electing not to piss and moan about Obama on a daily basis.
Edited on Tue Jan-26-10 02:09 PM by tranche
Listen Kitty. As much as I want Daddy to make everything better I believe the decision makers in the Democratic party and government on both sides all the way down to state level are basically corrupted. I can blame everything on Obama and spend my days going keyboard berserk over one man in the executive branch, or I could spend my day figuring out how I'm going to do my small part in helping weed out corruption in government. I elect to do what you and I both know is the more productive endeavour.
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 07:07 PM
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39. Do tell, Dudley Doright, what sorts of things are you doing?
:eyes:
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tranche Donating Member (913 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 08:05 PM
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40. One thing I'm doing is not wasting my life running up 11446 posts on DU.
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 11:21 PM
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42. Oooh burn!
:eyes:

You're not doing jack shit to root out anything.
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Bobbie Jo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 11:34 PM
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44. ROFL
Well...there's that. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:08 PM
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2. But feel free to trash Obama before you have ANY details whatsoever.
Edited on Tue Jan-26-10 01:18 PM by tridim
:eyes:
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:10 PM
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5. Thank you for picking your side. eom
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:11 PM
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6. I'm a Democrat, always.
This issue isn't about picking sides.
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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:13 PM
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9. I do choose information, facts and details as a side against random speculation
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:14 PM
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11. Okee dokee. eom
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:08 PM
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3. Corollary.
You can't say it's a bad thing if you don't know what's in it.

Especially when you refuse to listen.
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:11 PM
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7. How can I listen to something that hasn't been explained yet?
:shrug:

Do you know what spending is going to be frozen, HFCS?
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:14 PM
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12. Are you actually interested in listening?
No, of course you aren't.
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:16 PM
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15. Yes, I am.
HFCS, tell me what's going to be affected by the spending freeze, the details of which haven't been announced yet.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:17 PM
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18. I'm an astronaut.

"HFCS, tell me what's going to be affected by the spending freeze, the details of which haven't been announced yet"

I don't know, HK, I don't know what's in it; and because of that, unlike kneejerking dumbasses, I haven't formed an opinion yet.
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:30 PM
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21. Okay, so what was I supposed to be listening to then?
What were you referring to when you said I didn't listen? The nonexistent details of this spending freeze?
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:33 PM
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24. Typically folks like you make up worst-case scenarios in your head and pretend they're fact.
This tactic is rampant on DU since last night.

Have you not noticed?
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:38 PM
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27. I'm actually considerably calmer since that idiotic Deficit Commission was voted down. eom
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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:40 PM
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28. LOL! "folks like you..."
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:44 PM
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:50 PM
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31. Accusing fellow DUers of being trolls is against the rules.
But you knew that.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:51 PM
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32. That's why I didn't call you a troll.
You are a sky-is-always-falling reactionary though.
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:59 PM
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33. Yes you did. eom
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:06 PM
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34. No I didn't, you're making up crap in your head again.
I did not say, "Kitty is a troll". If you somehow think I did, alert me. No sweat off my back.
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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:14 PM
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10. Sorry, Kitty. Logic is for the reality-based community.
That boat sailed a while back.
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dionysus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:15 PM
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14. or we could all wait to see what it actually is, if it actually comes to be,
without going apoplectic.
:shrug:
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:16 PM
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17. Okay, so you're saying wait and see.
Meaning that you admit you have no basis on which to assure anyone that no one will be adversely affected by a spending freeze.
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dionysus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:20 PM
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19. i never assured anyone anything.
Edited on Tue Jan-26-10 01:22 PM by dionysus
i have no idea what your argument is.
:shrug:
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:25 PM
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:31 PM
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22. The second you put an eyeroll smilie in a post as you did upthread
You lose any credibility you have to accuse anyone else of a superiority complex.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:34 PM
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25. Thanks DU gawd.
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inna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:16 PM
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16. KR+3 and a humble suggestion...
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Mass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:33 PM
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23. As if this will stop them. Absence of logic has never stopped some DUers.\nt
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dave29 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:34 PM
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26. Thank you for painting it all black v white for us
actually, people can say whatever they want!
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 01:45 PM
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30. Yes they can but it doesn't make it logically consistent.
And you calling my OP black vs. white doesn't make it so. You can't say that you know what something will or won't do without knowing that that something is.
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dave29 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 08:27 PM
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41. you should read up on quantum entanglement there are lots
of things not very logical about the world we live in.

"You can't say that you know what something will or won't do without knowing that that something is"

Maybe I know what that something is? (I'm kidding of course, just making a point about logic)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_at_a_distance_(physics)
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Peacetrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:08 PM
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36. How do you know what it is going to affect until you find out what it is?
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:17 PM
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37. You're right! I don't know.
And you don't know that it's not going to affect anyone adversely until you know what it is.
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Peacetrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 02:22 PM
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38. I never claimed to know what it would affect.. ahhh.. my only claim is that I was going to
wait and see what he has to say.. before I make a lot of commentary about something I do not have the facts of yet
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RoadRage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 11:23 PM
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43. Or take NO position until more details are out..
and not start freaking out over nothing because you don't have any information yet.

But, that doesn't appear to be a popular DU trait. NO INFO? Jump to conclusions, make huge assumptions, and then when the details come out and show you were totally over reacting, stick to your guns and be pissed anyway!!!

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