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In reply to the discussion: The VA Tells the Truth About Guns. The NRA Can't Handle It. [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)38. Actually, I trained the masters of tangent
so I guess that makes me the supreme master of tangent
What does Lawrence O'Donnell have to do with any of this?
I happened to come across his anti-Mormon screed. Quite frankly, it was every bit as vile and full of shit as Mike Savage talking about Muslims or Pat Robertson talking about Wiccans. The fact that the religion happens to be part of my heritage, pissed me off even more. Yeah, I have problems with them just like I do with every other organized religion.
Yet, I have not seen any progressives or other "open minded and tolerant" types. I used LO as an illustration of ideological blindness and hypocrisy. Open minded and tolerant of those who you like, but have no problem with individual rights violations of those who you don't. If you are going to be a liberal, you need to be consistent. I detest dishonesty, hypocrisy, closed mindedness, etc from the left as much as I do from the right. You might call it priggishness, I call it being consistent to principles.
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wonder how well you would do in other forums if you went in and called out
Tuesday Afternoon
May 2012
#100
wrong. Show me where a 2A supporter is the first to throw out the insult.
Tuesday Afternoon
May 2012
#115
3 links.... as opposed to the hundreds of times that it is started by Antis, OK. got it. --
Tuesday Afternoon
May 2012
#117
to me as a woman. you don't see the insults because you don't want to see them
Tuesday Afternoon
May 2012
#119
is DanTex getting us confused or what? I never said anything like that about Iver.
Tuesday Afternoon
May 2012
#138
you still do not understand because you are NOT a female. --- how about I call you
Tuesday Afternoon
May 2012
#135
I never called Iverglass a bitter spinster. good lord! Yes. Yes. and HELL NO to answer your
Tuesday Afternoon
May 2012
#137
Tell us again how the so called "gun religionists" are keeping the Brady bunch and the joyce
rl6214
May 2012
#99
Glad you so readily defend a right-wing political organization like the NRA...
ellisonz
May 2012
#34
What they have to gain is keeping innocent people from getting killed. Something you don't seem to
Hoyt
May 2012
#19
What GSC said, and I'll add that while you describe your experience as anecdotal
Simo 1939_1940
May 2012
#128
Zimmerman and Loughner are recent examples that bring into question your last assertion.
Hoyt
May 2012
#53
There are a bunch of folks like Zimmerman walking around and being called "law-abiding" by the
Hoyt
May 2012
#73
You can repeat, in whatever form you choose, the suggestion that law-abiding citizens are
Simo 1939_1940
May 2012
#130