[Kudsman]

This guy is a Lib that pens a weekly op-ed. I have had a *few* letters to the editor printed and have included links to FR in some of them. After reading many of Mr. Lib's columns I suspect he may be lurking (if not trolling) around FR. I will forward this thread to Mr. VanNostrand with any FRiendly responses y'all wish to make. Thx.

[Kudsman]

May I ask you to use your ping lists to generate some FRiendly responses to Mr. VanNostrand? Thanks.

Tim.

[cyborg]

FRiendly???? :-)

[RedlegCPT]

Makes me glad I do not live in Auburn anymore.

[Texasforever]

How old is he? About 12?

[Stentor]

I will forward this thread to Mr. VanNostrand with any FRiendly responses y'all wish to make. Thx.

Is it friendly to report that he made me puke green fluid?

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Today's affairs have me scared

Of course he's scared....he's a liberal.

[Kudsman]

Here's another local conservative's answer to Mr.V that was published in today's edition.

Let's get serious about this war

By Roger Hare

A great divide has been building in the world. Social problems pitting left against right have always been with us, but the terror war has added a vicious "edge" to those differences.

It is worth noting what's at stake in this war and how others are trying to "spin" this conflict into a bogus class warfare template.

The "cold war" lasted 45 years. Socialism lost. For those still fighting the last war, this new conflict is another opportunity to highlight the differences between the "haves" and the "have-nots." Problem is, our new adversaries do not seek land or socialism, so liberals are trying to piggy-back their cause onto an enemy that won't cooperate. Jihadists simply want us dead. Fingerpointing won't alter this fact.

What do radical Muslims want? Wealth-sharing? Social justice for individuals? Peaceful co-existence? If liberals only understood their real intent, they would discard their moldy '60s rhetoric and join the rest of us who understand a growing danger.

Al-Qaida is one of many Wahabi groups who have declared "Jihad;" a command to kill "infidels." What is an infidel? Anyone who doesn't believe in Allah. So while leftists are distracted by their political hatred for Bush, homicidal Muslims plan our deaths. Both liberals and conservatives are infidels in Muslim minds; destined to die equally.

I am eternally curious why liberals have collective strokes over Christian intolerance, yet Muslim intolerance is explained away as Republican-provoked. This same mentality ignores Hamas's putrid habit of sending 14-year-olds to slaughter Israeli bus-riders, yet expresses outrage over an evil mastermind's death.

My curiosity is also piqued over Spain's surrender to terror. If Al-Qaida had nothing to do with Iraq, why are they punishing Spain for participating with us? The fact is, these groups will fight us wherever we are, so it's time for the left to wake up and smell the genocide.

Herein lies the difference between us: Europeans can be intimidated, but after 9/11, Americans refuse to be "cowed." This unique attitude has confounded enemies throughout our history. Whether it's Pearl Harbor or 9/11, beyond a certain "break point," we rally against "sneak attacks;" Europeans surrender. Why should we care what they think of us when their history of inherent appeasement is well known? Churchill likened this to "hoping the alligator eats you last."

It is shameful our president gets worse press than Jihadists seeking our complete destruction. Am I being negative? You bet. It's one thing to be for world peace, but when brutal perpetrators of mass murder are ignored, false Marxist hopes are bolstered.

If the image of victims hanging out the 95th floor of the World Trade Center is not enough, perhaps it will take a mushroom cloud over Manhattan for liberals to finally get serious about this war.

[KellyAdmirer]

Funny that he only picks on Israeli actions to criticize. Isn't someone over there setting off terrorist bombs and killing innocents? You'd never know it from this guy, he's a charter member of the "blame only Israel" crowd. Hmmmm, wonder why that might be....

If the fellow has a problem with republics, he definitely should move somewhere else, because that is what the United States always has been. Since there isn't a pure democracy anywhere in the world, he'll have to settle for something else close to his beliefs - communist Cuba, perhaps?

Also, I laugh when I see people like this bemoan the "corporations" that supposedly run everything and ruin the world. Perhaps he should take a moment and realize that corporations, however "giant," are just assemblages of people. They feed, clothe, and enable him to drive and write his columns. They do the same for people around the world. Some evil force!

What a liberal puke.

[Psycho_Bunny]

*yawn*

[Redcloak]

...it is not democracy we are spreading, but global capitalism for the benefit of multi-national corporations.

He says that like it's a bad thing.

[Post Toasties]

Aristide was driven out of power by Haitian rebels. Israel is not the US. Van Nostrand needs to get a life.

[CougarGA7]

Perhaps Roger Hare was correct last week when he stated we are not a democracy but a republic.

Got news for you bucko. This is a republic. A democracy as defined when the framers were devising our Consititution was "mob rule" which they were not comfortable with. Why do you think that initially the only people who could vote were white, male, land owners. This guy could do himself a favor and read the Federalist Papers and the Constitution to get a better feel of how this system was set up.

[Welsh Rabbit]

Recently, I have been doing some serious thinking about moving from this space. My occupancy on this page has forced an awareness of current affairs that I sometimes find quite troubling on mental, emotional and spiritual levels.

I guess a barf alert wasn't necessary; it's obvious in those first two sentences that this editorial was written by a liberal girlyman. I was surprised it wasn't from a student paper though.

[Enduring Freedom]

What a piece of shiite.

Absolute mindless drivel.

This guy should be selling stale beer at hockey games.

[John Jorsett]

One only has to look as close as Haiti where a duly elected leader was overthrown with the support of our administration and in Aristide's own words, kidnapped and removed from his country by our forces

That was all I needed to revise my assessment of this dope from "misguided tool" to "drooling moron".

[A Jovial Cad]

Reading this gentleman's bilge reminds me of Groucho Marx's famous question to the musician/singer (I can't remember which): "how much do they pay you not to play/sing?"

[mercy]

This guy just doesn't get it. What's good for GM is good for the country ... and the world.

I'll take a million corporations all vying with each other for profits over a few hundred leftists in a politburo running the world any day. These inhuman monsters have plans for the planet. It involves sterilization (as in cleansing the infection) and taking the remaining population back to low tech. The elete will maintain the highest level of technological advantage of course. The survivors will be peasant farmers. Allowed one child and then force sterilized.

[Rocky]

"If this is so, it is not democracy we are spreading, but global capitalism for the benefit of multi-national corporations. "

1960's state of mind in the 21st century. Must be a heavy burden to bear while waiting for the SDS to come back into vogue. John Kerry's right there with ya, man. He's got your back.

[Shmokey]

Please have a stroke

[Objective Reality]

Ow, my soul!

I've said it before, I'll say it again: Get this guy, and everyone like him, on TV at the Democrat convention. Please.