Posted on 10/26/2010 2:39:17 PM PDT by MalPearce
i’m slow and old and lots of stuff doesn’t work
I criticize Bush all the time, with nary a problem.
so are your posts (re: your tagline)
Shhhhhhhhhhhh.. You can’t say things too loudly, the Obambi Gestapo is watching. Would you like some tea?
Advice to n00bs?
Don’t drop the soap around Lazamataz.
trolls are too special for upper case.
“Nice flag!”
I think it is flying upside down :)
That must be why you fail to use it.
Touché. LOL
My gun collection (probably just slightly smaller than the Royal War Museum) has several models of Smith and Wesson revolvers we provided under Lend Lease to augment those ghastly Enfield and Webley things. Us Yanks sent privately owned arms to the UK in it's darkest days. Shame the goverment destroyed most of them after the war, that's thanks for you.
That was fun, but it’s my bedtime now. I’ll check back in a few weeks and see if he’s still here.
A dogmatist is someone who holds a specific ideological view as an absolute, and doesn't tolerate a divergent or dissenting viewpoint.
FR Example: if someone firmly believed that gays cannot be conservatives AT ALL, that is fine and it doesn't make them a dogmatist - it's a perfectly valid position to make.
If that person went one step further and refused to even debate the issue with someone who didn't agree, and they either complained to the Mods or descended into verbal abuse, then the evidence would suggest that that person is a dogmatist.
I'm a dogmatist myself in more than one respect but for now, I'll only give one example: I don't consider a "debate" to be a "debate" unless there's a variation of opinion being discussed.
The interesting debates in English politics are ALL in the Conservative camp. That is why, if someone tells me they're a Conservative AND they want to "debate", they better act like it! If they proceed to shout out any different opinions that they don't want to hear, like some whiny left-wing prole, I'll call them on it. Shutting down legitimate right wing debate is the sort of thing Commies do. It is as ANTI-CONSERVATIVE as saying Obama's the best thing that happened to America, or saying there's such a thing as gay marriage. That's my dogma.
Not intending to be witty at all.
Just a question that occurred to me based upon your posting.
Let me assure you of one thing. I actually hope you are a UK Conservative (meaning using the term in the same sense as a U.S. Conservative).
If you are, then we gain input/insight from a Conservative from another part of the world, and an country known (at least until recently) as a firm ally of America.
If an American had posted the same general info as you did, I would have had the same questions.
It pains me to read about the transition of the UK over the years from a Churchill inspired, strong, independent nation, into a gun grabbing/smashing, subsidiary of the European Union.
The other night I watched a great show about the Battle of Britain, and about the brave people of England who fought off the Nazi war machine, with their chin up, a defiant nation.
I just can't believe that those were a people who would allow a nanny state government, working as a subsidiary of a bunch of Brussels bums, to take away their rights, and their means of personal defense.
I truly hope your country can stop that downhill slide, and head, full steam, in the other direction.
I wish you well, but am not confident that I will see it happen.
Like a moth to a flame.
Did you perhaps have acquaintance with one “Mad Ivan” of Free Britania?
Thou art a troll most foul!
I prefer the Devil's Advocate position, since that implies enough intellectual capital to know it requires supporting argument.
Beliefs and opinions are useless without at least one cogent, rational reason for the position. Unfortunately too many old and new Freepers haven't grasped that.
By the way, hypotheticals are not argument.
OH! Did I mention my new .308??? SWEET!
I thought you told us that you lost it in a terrible boating accident....
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