So, suppose the far right wins

We could all move to Mexico City. Brush up on the language people! Smile

It shoud be about an hour
until we find out whether the Good Guy won his race for Congress.

David

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@Thomas,

Thomas wrote:

OmSigDAVID wrote:
I had been defending some decent person
who had fallen victim to your leftist verbal abuses.

Ouch. I hope that hurt, Ms. Olga, you leftist leftie you! Why don't you go back to leftieland where you belong!

Poor old Pinochet. What a convincing victim he makes. You BEAST Msolga!!!

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@dlowan,

I know.
I'm sorry, Deb.

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@jcboy,

Why not go all the way? Santa Monica beckons, and no real language problem to speak of.

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@dlowan,

Thomas wrote:

OmSigDAVID wrote:
I had been defending some decent person
who had fallen victim to your leftist verbal abuses.

Ouch. I hope that hurt, Ms. Olga, you leftist leftie you!
Why don't you go back to leftieland where you belong!

dlowan wrote:

Poor old Pinochet. What a convincing victim he makes. You BEAST Msolga!!!

Yeah, Pinochet was wonderful.
I wish that I 'd had a chance to meet him !
I 'd like to shake his hand and salute him!

David

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With c.25% of the precincts reporting so far,
the good guy, the far right candidate has a very slim lead:
51% over the liberal Democrat at 49%,
but this is a leftist district, so its still an uphill battle
for the far rightist; the lead can easily change and I suspect that it will.
My neighbors don 't have a history of holding personal freedom in high esteem.

If I remember accurately,
the last Republican to be elected to Congress from here
was a guy named Seymour Halpern elected in the 1950s.
He was not much of a Republican. R.I.N.O.

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@OmSigDAVID,

Quote:

My neighbors don 't have a history of holding personal freedom in high esteem.

Your neighbours sound like very nice people, David. Smile

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@msolga,

Quote:

My neighbors don 't have a history of holding personal freedom in high esteem.

msolga wrote:

Your neighbours sound like very nice people, David.

Well, at least thay r quiet.

Returning from voting, I ran into the fellow across the street,
a retired NYPD officer; his wife works for the NYC Medical Examiner's Office.
Thay r not among those who dislike freedom.
Thay 'd voted for the far right fellow.

I see this as a very uphill battle, for right and goodness to prevail.
It 'd take a miracle to win in THIS area.
Its a nice, clean neighborhood, but leftist.

David

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OK, Osso:
the far right won in the 9th Congressional District in NY.

NY TV-1 called it for the rightist, with 56% of precints reporting
the rightist got 53% and the leftist got 47%.

The Associated Press also called it for the rightist with the NRA endorsement,
but the liberal Demo has not given up; he said we need to count the absentee ballots.
As it turns out, the Democrats had sent absentee ballots to some dead voters,
whose surviving Democrats might use them to save the leftist,
but the Republicans found out and thay got a judicial injunction
to impound those absentee votes for examination.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

Quote:

I see this as a very uphill battle, for right and goodness to prevail.

You have a very selective interpretation of "right and goodness", David.

Seems to me that it is very much about what is "good" for you, personally.

Have you ever considered what might be good and fair to others who are a damn sight less comfortable than you?

No, Don't bother answering that.
I'm confident I already know your what your response would be.

What is "good" is purely what is good for you, that is your definition of being "free", right?

Screw anyone less fortunate. That's their problem, right?

If you consider anyone else's welfare, well that could make you <shudder> a socialist, or a communist!

Right?

And we can't have that, can we?

Besides, you can always go to the park & throw some sweets around, for the less fortunate, bringing great spontaneous joy into their lives.
Which makes you a very nice person.
Right?

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@msolga,

David wrote:

I see this as a very uphill battle, for right and goodness to prevail.

Maybe I was too PESSIMISTIC.

msolga wrote:

You have a very selective interpretation of "right and goodness", David.

Thank u, Olga.
I aim for good taste.

msolga wrote:

Seems to me that it is very much about what is "good" for you, personally.

Yea; that 's important.

msolga wrote:

Have you ever considered what might be good
and fair to others who are a damn sight less comfortable than you?

Gee; lemme think; do u mean in THIS century??
Offhand, I don 't remember doing that.

msolga wrote:

No, Don't bother answering that.

OK.

msolga wrote:

I'm confident I know your what your answer would be, already.

What is "good" is purely what is good for you, that is your definition of being "free".

Thay r conceptually distinguishable.

msolga wrote:

Screw anyone less fortunate.

I am more discriminating qua who I screw; bad luck, of itself, is not enuf.

msolga wrote:

That's their problem, right?

It sure IS.
I 'm sure thay think so.

msolga wrote:

Besides, you always can go to the park & throw some sweets around,
for the less fortunate, bringing great spontaneous joy into their lives.
Right?

No. A friend of mine, Marvin, once suggested that I do that (instead of cash).
I decided against it. Ants or other bugs can contaminate those sweets.
I don't wanna be blamed for that. There is too much emotion associated with food,
all kinds of ritualistic beliefs. The closest that I came to that (so far as I remember)
was in 1984. I was at the Mensa Annual Gathering in Washington, with some attenders
of the convention. We walked across a park, approaching a nice restaurant for dinner.
A girl was standing in the park and she hit me up for some small change. I liked her looks.
I invited her to join us for dinner.
Thay have good food in Washington.

David

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@ossobuco,

Well that depends, if I were rich I could hire a balloon and cast pittance to the little people far below, since I am in fact poor, I guess I'll just scrabble around on the ground for a nickel or perhaps a quarter.

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@wayne,

The balloon thing is FUN.
Y don 't u save up??
Thay don't cost much.

David

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THE TEA PARTY WINS!!!!!

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

Sorry, that kind of fun just doesn't appeal to me, I'd rather save up and buy a chicken to roast on Sunday.

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@wayne,

wayne wrote:

Sorry, that kind of fun just doesn't appeal to me,
I'd rather save up and buy a chicken to roast on Sunday.

I bet that kind of fun
does not appeal to the chicken.

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@OmSigDAVID,

Don't worry, I'll eat him all at once, rather than a little at a time.

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@wayne,

wayne wrote:

Don't worry, I'll eat him all at once, rather than a little at a time.

I 'm sure he'll be grateful.
Look out for the feathers.

Bob Baaker is working on turning a chicken into a dinosaur.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

That's some quality work there, I hope someone is paying him disproportionately for his services, so he can afford someone to cook his chicken, and wash the dishes too.

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