You made it quite clear in the bullying and harassment thread you started that turned this place upside down, that I and several others are not to respond to any posts that you make directed at no one in particular.
Clearly you do not wish to practice what you so loudly preach.
Should I contact management about your breach of good faith ?
Complete hyperbole. I asked not to be stalked and harassed. No one on this forum should be. Replying should always be free to do here. YOU have taken what applied to two others who were banned for obvious ugliness as a blanket decree. I enjoy engaging with the members here and sharing mutual respect — not seeking conflict. Do not twist my intent through your personal filter as doctrine to hammer on these walls.
My goodness Kurtster, you take the smallest thing and make it into far more than it is. It was a simple phrase and funny to some. Why are you so eager to fight with someone? Did I attack you personally? Use foul language? Try to change your mind?
I use this playful phrase whenever anyone points to something irrelevant or a distraction. You take it as though I'm trying to start something. Clearly your perception is one of constant victimhood. My gawd man, I have nothing against you.
Lose the chip and tell us who hurt you. In view of your delicate condition regarding the subtleties between reply and harassment, I won't respond directly to any of your posts.
So stop the word salad of your defense before you even begin.
So stop the word salad of your defense before you even begin.
You don't get off that easy.
Complete hyperbole.
So now you're the hyperbole police ?
OH LOOK! A SQUIRREL!
It was a simple phrase and funny to some.
I use this playful phrase whenever anyone points to something irrelevant or a distraction.
Somewhat disturbing that you would put emphasis by using all caps, italicizing and bolding on your "playful phrase". There is nothing playful about you.
So what exactly made my linked story about Gabbard "irrelevant or a distraction" ? I thought that it was timely and very relevant.
Do not twist my intent through your personal filter as doctrine to hammer on these walls.
Oh ?
You take it as though I'm trying to start something.
Clearly your perception is one of constant victimhood
Lose the chip and tell us who hurt you.
Really ? Just exactly what are you trying to say ? It is much more than
OH LOOK! A SQUIRREL!
You have been stalking and harassing me for quite sometime now.
Remember this reply to me a month or so ago ?
As if you are some kind of right wing Lothario? With THAT? Spare us your attempts at virility rhetoric. Electile Dysfunction immediately comes to mind. Find it interesting that you are married and very rarely mention your wife. Habit? Dysfunctional Comfort? Keeping her alive for her SS? What exactly ARE your feelings toward women Kurt?
And then your apology, if you want to call it that ? kurtster wrote:
Beaker wrote:
Isabeau wrote:
My apologies to Kurtster and his wife. I went over the line. Its hard to witness someone voting for more political and religious control over women's bodies, deporting immigrants and supporting Russia's take over of Ukraine yet claiming to like women and have no problem with gays. Then why vote for someone who is willing to take their rights away if you have no problem with them? Cancer is hell, my mother had it and I am very sorry you are suffering with it. However the political choices being made are out to make everyone suffer; not just cancer victims.
Fixed it for you. You're welcome.
Apology accepted. We can move forward and put this behind us now.
It would have been appropriate if it was just this:
My apologies to Kurtster and his wife. I went over the line. Cancer is hell, my mother had it and I am very sorry you are suffering with it.
But you had to add more to both make it about yourself and then excuse yourself for making an apology to someone you think is below you and not deserving of an apology.
Its hard to witness someone voting for more political and religious control over women's bodies, deporting immigrants and supporting Russia's take over of Ukraine yet claiming to like women and have no problem with gays. Then why vote for someone who is willing to take their rights away if you have no problem with them?
However the political choices being made are out to make everyone suffer; not just cancer victims.
You do not play nice, at least with me, at any level. You are mean and twisted in ways I do not wish to know.
In view of your delicate condition regarding the subtleties between reply and harassment,
I won't respond directly to any of your posts.
Please don't. I think that we are done now.
I need to clean up after having to say this. For some reason I feel the need for a shower after having to take the time and effort to spell this out to you in no uncertain terms.
FTA: Gabbard's past comments supportive of Russia â as well as secret meetings with Syria's president, a close ally of Russia and Iran â are attracting fresh scrutiny from Democrats and national security analysts who fear that as Trump's director of national intelligence she could give Russia a major win, undercut Ukraine, weaken U.S. national security and endanger intelligence ties with allies.
âGabbard, like Gaetz, is like a hand grenade ready to explode,â former Trump national security adviser John Bolton said
You made it quite clear in the bullying and harassment thread you started that turned this place upside down, that I and several others are not to respond to any posts that you make directed at no one in particular.
Clearly you do not wish to practice what you so loudly preach.
Should I contact management about your breach of good faith ?
Complete hyperbole. I asked not to be stalked and harassed. No one on this forum should be. Replying should always be free to do here. YOU have taken what applied to two others who were banned for obvious ugliness as a blanket decree. I enjoy engaging with the members here and sharing mutual respect â not seeking conflict. Do not twist my intent through your personal filter as doctrine to hammer on these walls.
My goodness Kurtster, you take the smallest thing and make it into far more than it is. It was a simple phrase and funny to some.
Why are you so eager to fight with someone? Did I attack you personally? Use foul language? Try to change your mind?
I use this playful phrase whenever anyone points to something irrelevant or a distraction. You take it as though I'm trying to start something. Clearly your perception is one of constant victimhood.
My gawd man, I have nothing against you. Lose the chip and tell us who hurt you.
In view of your delicate condition regarding the subtleties between reply and harassment, I won't respond directly to any of your posts. So stop the word salad of your defense before you even begin.
You made it quite clear in the bullying and harassment thread you started that turned this place upside down, that I and several others are not to respond to any posts that you make directed at no one in particular.
Clearly you do not wish to practice what you so loudly preach.
Should I contact management about your breach of good faith ?
FTA - Even before Gabbard left the Democratic Party, ingratiated herself with Donald Trump and secured his nomination to become director of National Intelligence, she was known as a prolific peddler of Russian propaganda.
In almost every foreign conflict in which Russia had a hand, Gabbard backed Moscow and railed against the US. Her past promotion of Kremlin propaganda has provoked significant opposition on both sides of the aisle to her nomination.
Listen: The Republican Charm-Offensive Kevin OâLeary on Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy at @DOGE: âI donât see any reason why these two canât just release the hounds and go nutsâ¦This is fantastic⦠we havenât had anything quite like this and I absolutely love it.â
I think the exponentially rising costs of a college education is a problem that Trump is not trying to solve. Instead, as evidenced by the video, he is using it as an opening to stir up outrage over age-old conservative complaints that academia is dominated by radical liberals bent on indoctrinating our young people.
I'm not sure how Trump or even a responsible, pro-government POTUS could solve the cost of a college education. Part of the problem is that the top-level college get in a reverse price war with each other: applicants and their parents assume that if a college's tuition is sky-high, then the quality of the education must be the same. The best colleges don't have trouble attracting applicants, so at the high end of education universities have not priced their way out of demand.
The other issue is that the universities are often private institutions and don't have to offer insights into their budgets and actual costs. They can game any system of calculating their actual costs by offering student grants and loans.
As for the "age-old conservative complaints that academia is dominated by radical liberals bent on indoctrinating our young people"—yeah, I think that's really outdated. College-level education has become highly vocational. Majors that might have offered the means to move impressionable young minds to the left—philosophy, political science, gender studies—are losing students to majors that provide technical /business skills and good money right after graduation.
So once again, the GOP has come up with a bogeyman that doesn't add up.
black321 has pointed to the likely trend for higher education, however: online access to courses and degree-granting programs. IF you mix online teaching with some in-person sessions and grouping of students into mutual support arrangements, you can make up for the superior power of in-person classes to teach. People lock into a subject when someone is talking to them about that in person. There's greater emotional bonding and memory retention of the material. However, in-person teaching is expensive and rarely available.
Online programs can drop that cost and be effective, provided students get some in-person interaction during the course. Online courses are also a lot easier for people to fit into their lives. It'd be nice to see a greater number of Americans be able to afford higher education and continued technical training.
Since the current batch of Republicans define themselves by their anger, dissatisfaction, and revolt - now they have nowhere to direct that bile. Now, they have to take the reins and improve things, while bearing the inevitable criticism that they'll run into.
The next two years will be a completely different world for those folks that played Armchair Congressman/President. If the price of eggs, gas, rent, mortgages all don't drop - they've no one to blame but themselves.
As I said many years ago: welcome to the end of the Republican Party, which is already in progress. Pull up a chair.
Complete hyperbole. I asked not to be stalked and harassed. No one on this forum should be. Replying should always be free to do here. YOU have taken what applied to two others who were banned for obvious ugliness as a blanket decree. I enjoy engaging with the members here and sharing mutual respect — not seeking conflict. Do not twist my intent through your personal filter as doctrine to hammer on these walls.
So stop the word salad of your defense before you even begin.
