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		<title>By: Mike's America</title>
		<link>http://floppingaces.net/2008/03/12/hand-me-my-broom-you-oaf/#comment-25760</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike's America</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;I know what is posted here. And so do you. It is nothing but a stream of hate. And you know it&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

You&#039;re right. ALL your comments are a clear indication of a mind poisoned by hate Steve.

&lt;strong&gt;Go outside, get some air, GET A LIFE!&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><blockquote><p>&#8220;I know what is posted here. And so do you. It is nothing but a stream of hate. And you know it&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>You&#8217;re right. ALL your comments are a clear indication of a mind poisoned by hate Steve.</p>
<p><strong>Go outside, get some air, GET A LIFE!</strong></p>
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		<title>By: Philadelphia Steve</title>
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		<dc:creator>Philadelphia Steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I know what is posted here.  And so do you.  It is nothing but a stream of hate.  And you know it.  But, being Conservatives, not one of you will admit to your fountain of venom, instead choosing to post condescending comments at me for pointing this out.

From this point forward, not one single Conservative here will have a moral right to throw their &quot;hatred&quot; accusations at me, based on the comments they personally posted here.  That will, of course, not stop them from doing so.  For Conservatives Morality, like all other standards, are meant for others, not themselves.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>I know what is posted here.  And so do you.  It is nothing but a stream of hate.  And you know it.  But, being Conservatives, not one of you will admit to your fountain of venom, instead choosing to post condescending comments at me for pointing this out.</p>
<p>From this point forward, not one single Conservative here will have a moral right to throw their &#8220;hatred&#8221; accusations at me, based on the comments they personally posted here.  That will, of course, not stop them from doing so.  For Conservatives Morality, like all other standards, are meant for others, not themselves.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike's America</title>
		<link>http://floppingaces.net/2008/03/12/hand-me-my-broom-you-oaf/#comment-25678</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike's America</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Isn&#039;t it amazing how easily Steve is able to define and characterize the thoughts and beliefs of others whom he has never met and so freely dismiss the characterizations others apply to him from their own observations?

P.S. If you had ever seen the real Hillary Clinton up close and personal as I have you would know that the above is kind and charitable compared with what might be said. Again, based on actual, personal observations of her behavior.

Now go outside and get some fresh air Steve! Smell the flowers and sing to the bees.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>Isn&#8217;t it amazing how easily Steve is able to define and characterize the thoughts and beliefs of others whom he has never met and so freely dismiss the characterizations others apply to him from their own observations?</p>
<p>P.S. If you had ever seen the real Hillary Clinton up close and personal as I have you would know that the above is kind and charitable compared with what might be said. Again, based on actual, personal observations of her behavior.</p>
<p>Now go outside and get some fresh air Steve! Smell the flowers and sing to the bees.</p>
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		<title>By: Philadelphia Steve</title>
		<link>http://floppingaces.net/2008/03/12/hand-me-my-broom-you-oaf/#comment-25665</link>
		<dc:creator>Philadelphia Steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Re: &quot;Steve reminds me of the muslims who kill, burn and destroy in response to “Mo” cartoons. He sees no humor in the photo/caption because it’s “blasphemous” and “hateful”. Sounds just like the muzzies.&quot;

The humor of that photo lies in how much the reader hates Hillary Clinton.  One must be filled with loathing of Senator Clinton to consider such an item a joke.

I recall how touchy Conservatives are when some Liberal makes a joke about how &quot;dumb&quot; George W. Bush is (an act I consider to be both mean spirited and wrong).  But, of course, it is DIFFERENT when Conservatives do it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>Re: &#8220;Steve reminds me of the muslims who kill, burn and destroy in response to “Mo” cartoons. He sees no humor in the photo/caption because it’s “blasphemous” and “hateful”. Sounds just like the muzzies.&#8221;</p>
<p>The humor of that photo lies in how much the reader hates Hillary Clinton.  One must be filled with loathing of Senator Clinton to consider such an item a joke.</p>
<p>I recall how touchy Conservatives are when some Liberal makes a joke about how &#8220;dumb&#8221; George W. Bush is (an act I consider to be both mean spirited and wrong).  But, of course, it is DIFFERENT when Conservatives do it.</p>
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		<title>By: Wordsmith</title>
		<link>http://floppingaces.net/2008/03/12/hand-me-my-broom-you-oaf/#comment-25466</link>
		<dc:creator>Wordsmith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Can any of you look at yor own posts, and express anything other than embarrasment at the degree to which your statements indicate, both a lack of maturity, and a level of personal hatred that borders on the pathological?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

You tell me, Steve.  

&lt;blockquote&gt;The answer will be, “Of course not. We’re Conservatives and incapable of doing wrong.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;

The answer, of course, is that Steve once again paints all conservatives with a broad brush, and fails to acknowledge that the &quot;vitriolic hatred&quot; he speaks of, is not unique to conservatives.  Go to any of the lefty blogs, and you&#039;ll find hate and immaturity aplenty.  

&lt;b&gt;[Philly Steve style]&lt;/b&gt;But don&#039;t expect liberals to ever admit to it.  Liberals will never hold themselves accountable to their own hatred &lt;b&gt;[/Philly Steve style]&lt;/b&gt;

The World According to Philadelphia Steve writes:&lt;blockquote&gt;With heros such as Ann Coulter, Ruch Limbaugh and Karl Rove dictating your beliefs and ideas, ther can be no other answer.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

And so he goes on, living in his fantasy world of what conservatives think and believe.  

I challenge you to look anywhere on the internet, Philly Steve, for an instance where I, the conservative wordsmith from Nantucket, cites from Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, or Karl Rove to support an argument I put forth.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><blockquote><p>Can any of you look at yor own posts, and express anything other than embarrasment at the degree to which your statements indicate, both a lack of maturity, and a level of personal hatred that borders on the pathological?</p></blockquote>
<p>You tell me, Steve.  </p>
<blockquote><p>The answer will be, “Of course not. We’re Conservatives and incapable of doing wrong.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The answer, of course, is that Steve once again paints all conservatives with a broad brush, and fails to acknowledge that the &#8220;vitriolic hatred&#8221; he speaks of, is not unique to conservatives.  Go to any of the lefty blogs, and you&#8217;ll find hate and immaturity aplenty.  </p>
<p><b>[Philly Steve style]</b>But don&#8217;t expect liberals to ever admit to it.  Liberals will never hold themselves accountable to their own hatred <b>[/Philly Steve style]</b></p>
<p>The World According to Philadelphia Steve writes:<br />
<blockquote>With heros such as Ann Coulter, Ruch Limbaugh and Karl Rove dictating your beliefs and ideas, ther can be no other answer.</p></blockquote>
<p>And so he goes on, living in his fantasy world of what conservatives think and believe.  </p>
<p>I challenge you to look anywhere on the internet, Philly Steve, for an instance where I, the conservative wordsmith from Nantucket, cites from Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, or Karl Rove to support an argument I put forth.</p>
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		<title>By: suek</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Steve reminds me of the muslims who kill, burn and destroy in response to &quot;Mo&quot; cartoons.  He sees no humor in the photo/caption because it&#039;s &quot;blasphemous&quot; and &quot;hateful&quot;.  Sounds just like the muzzies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>Steve reminds me of the muslims who kill, burn and destroy in response to &#8220;Mo&#8221; cartoons.  He sees no humor in the photo/caption because it&#8217;s &#8220;blasphemous&#8221; and &#8220;hateful&#8221;.  Sounds just like the muzzies.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike's America</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike's America</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Again, Steve&#039;s assertions are clearly transference. His level of delusion has reached the point where the shortcomings he sees in others are actually descriptive of himself. That&#039;s a symptom  of BDS, which was NOT inspired by Fox News.



&lt;blockquote&gt;THE DELUSIONAL DEAN
by Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON POST 
December 5, 2003 



Diane Rehm: &quot;Why do you think he [Bush] is suppressing that [Sept. 11] report?&quot; 

Howard Dean: &quot;I don&#039;t know. There are many theories about it. The most interesting theory that I&#039;ve heard so far -- which is nothing more than a theory, it can&#039;t be proved -- is that he was warned ahead of time by the Saudis. Now who knows what the real situation is?&quot; 
-- &quot;The Diane Rehm Show,&quot; NPR, Dec. 1

It has been 25 years since I discovered a psychiatric syndrome (for the record: &quot;Secondary Mania,&quot; Archives of General Psychiatry, November 1978), and in the interim I haven&#039;t been looking for new ones. But it&#039;s time to don the white coat again. A plague is abroad in the land.

Bush Derangement Syndrome: the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency -- nay -- the very existence of George W. Bush. Now, I cannot testify to Howard Dean&#039;s sanity before this campaign, but five terms as governor by a man with no visible tics and no history of involuntary confinement is pretty good evidence of a normal mental status. When he avers, however, that &quot;the most interesting&quot; theory as to why the president is &quot;suppressing&quot; the Sept. 11 report is that Bush knew about Sept. 11 in advance, it&#039;s time to check on thorazine supplies. When Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) first broached this idea before the 2002 primary election, it was considered so nutty it helped make her former representative McKinney. Today the Democratic presidential front-runner professes agnosticism as to whether the president of the United States was tipped off about 9/11 by the Saudis, and it goes unnoticed. The virus is spreading.

It is, of course, epidemic in New York&#039;s Upper West Side and the tonier parts of Los Angeles, where the very sight of the president -- say, smiling while holding a tray of Thanksgiving turkey in a Baghdad mess hall -- caused dozens of cases of apoplexy in otherwise healthy adults. What is worrying epidemiologists about the Dean incident, however, is that heretofore no case had been reported in Vermont, or any other dairy state.

Moreover, Dean is very smart. Until now, Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) had generally struck people with previously compromised intellectual immune systems. Hence its prevalence in Hollywood. Barbra Streisand, for example, wrote her famous September 2002 memo to Dick Gephardt warning that the president was dragging us toward war to satisfy, among the usual corporate malefactors who &quot;clearly have much to gain if we go to war against Iraq,&quot; the logging industry -- timber being a major industry in a country that is two-thirds desert.

It is true that BDS has struck some pretty smart guys -- Bill Moyers ranting about a &quot;right-wing wrecking crew&quot; engaged in &quot;a deliberate, intentional destruction of the United States way of governing&quot; and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, whose recent book attacks the president so virulently that Krugman&#039;s British publisher saw fit to adorn the cover with images of Vice President Cheney in a Hitler-like mustache and Bush stitched up like Frankenstein. Nonetheless, some observers took that to be satire; others wrote off Moyers and Krugman as simple aberrations, the victims of too many years of neurologically hazardous punditry.

That&#039;s what has researchers so alarmed about Dean. He had none of the usual risk factors: Dean has never opined for a living and has no detectable sense of humor. Even worse is the fact that he is now exhibiting symptoms of a related illness, Murdoch Derangement Syndrome (MDS), in which otherwise normal people believe that their minds are being controlled by a single, very clever Australian.

Chris Matthews: &quot;Would you break up Fox?&quot; 

Howard Dean: &quot;On ideological grounds, absolutely yes, but . . . I don&#039;t want to answer whether I would break up Fox or not. . . . What I&#039;m going to do is appoint people to the FCC that believe democracy depends on getting information from all portions of the political spectrum, not just one.&quot; 

Some clinicians consider this delusion -- that Americans can get their news from only one part of the political spectrum -- the gravest of all. They report that no matter how many times sufferers in padded cells are presented with flash cards with the symbols ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times -- they remain unresponsive, some in a terrifying near-catatonic torpor.

The sad news is that there is no cure. But there is hope. There are many fine researchers seeking that cure. Your donation to the BDS Foundation, no matter how small, can help. Mailing address: Republican National Committee, Washington, D.C., Attention: psychiatric department. Just make sure your amount does not exceed $2,000 ($4,000 for a married couple).&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Do me a favor Steve and don&#039;t comment again on this thread until you go outside for a walk. I really do have concern that you are short on oxygen and sunshine.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>Again, Steve&#8217;s assertions are clearly transference. His level of delusion has reached the point where the shortcomings he sees in others are actually descriptive of himself. That&#8217;s a symptom  of BDS, which was NOT inspired by Fox News.</p>
<blockquote><p>THE DELUSIONAL DEAN<br />
by Charles Krauthammer<br />
WASHINGTON POST<br />
December 5, 2003 </p>
<p>Diane Rehm: &#8220;Why do you think he [Bush] is suppressing that [Sept. 11] report?&#8221; </p>
<p>Howard Dean: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know. There are many theories about it. The most interesting theory that I&#8217;ve heard so far &#8212; which is nothing more than a theory, it can&#8217;t be proved &#8212; is that he was warned ahead of time by the Saudis. Now who knows what the real situation is?&#8221;<br />
&#8211; &#8220;The Diane Rehm Show,&#8221; NPR, Dec. 1</p>
<p>It has been 25 years since I discovered a psychiatric syndrome (for the record: &#8220;Secondary Mania,&#8221; Archives of General Psychiatry, November 1978), and in the interim I haven&#8217;t been looking for new ones. But it&#8217;s time to don the white coat again. A plague is abroad in the land.</p>
<p>Bush Derangement Syndrome: the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency &#8212; nay &#8212; the very existence of George W. Bush. Now, I cannot testify to Howard Dean&#8217;s sanity before this campaign, but five terms as governor by a man with no visible tics and no history of involuntary confinement is pretty good evidence of a normal mental status. When he avers, however, that &#8220;the most interesting&#8221; theory as to why the president is &#8220;suppressing&#8221; the Sept. 11 report is that Bush knew about Sept. 11 in advance, it&#8217;s time to check on thorazine supplies. When Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) first broached this idea before the 2002 primary election, it was considered so nutty it helped make her former representative McKinney. Today the Democratic presidential front-runner professes agnosticism as to whether the president of the United States was tipped off about 9/11 by the Saudis, and it goes unnoticed. The virus is spreading.</p>
<p>It is, of course, epidemic in New York&#8217;s Upper West Side and the tonier parts of Los Angeles, where the very sight of the president &#8212; say, smiling while holding a tray of Thanksgiving turkey in a Baghdad mess hall &#8212; caused dozens of cases of apoplexy in otherwise healthy adults. What is worrying epidemiologists about the Dean incident, however, is that heretofore no case had been reported in Vermont, or any other dairy state.</p>
<p>Moreover, Dean is very smart. Until now, Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) had generally struck people with previously compromised intellectual immune systems. Hence its prevalence in Hollywood. Barbra Streisand, for example, wrote her famous September 2002 memo to Dick Gephardt warning that the president was dragging us toward war to satisfy, among the usual corporate malefactors who &#8220;clearly have much to gain if we go to war against Iraq,&#8221; the logging industry &#8212; timber being a major industry in a country that is two-thirds desert.</p>
<p>It is true that BDS has struck some pretty smart guys &#8212; Bill Moyers ranting about a &#8220;right-wing wrecking crew&#8221; engaged in &#8220;a deliberate, intentional destruction of the United States way of governing&#8221; and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, whose recent book attacks the president so virulently that Krugman&#8217;s British publisher saw fit to adorn the cover with images of Vice President Cheney in a Hitler-like mustache and Bush stitched up like Frankenstein. Nonetheless, some observers took that to be satire; others wrote off Moyers and Krugman as simple aberrations, the victims of too many years of neurologically hazardous punditry.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what has researchers so alarmed about Dean. He had none of the usual risk factors: Dean has never opined for a living and has no detectable sense of humor. Even worse is the fact that he is now exhibiting symptoms of a related illness, Murdoch Derangement Syndrome (MDS), in which otherwise normal people believe that their minds are being controlled by a single, very clever Australian.</p>
<p>Chris Matthews: &#8220;Would you break up Fox?&#8221; </p>
<p>Howard Dean: &#8220;On ideological grounds, absolutely yes, but . . . I don&#8217;t want to answer whether I would break up Fox or not. . . . What I&#8217;m going to do is appoint people to the FCC that believe democracy depends on getting information from all portions of the political spectrum, not just one.&#8221; </p>
<p>Some clinicians consider this delusion &#8212; that Americans can get their news from only one part of the political spectrum &#8212; the gravest of all. They report that no matter how many times sufferers in padded cells are presented with flash cards with the symbols ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times &#8212; they remain unresponsive, some in a terrifying near-catatonic torpor.</p>
<p>The sad news is that there is no cure. But there is hope. There are many fine researchers seeking that cure. Your donation to the BDS Foundation, no matter how small, can help. Mailing address: Republican National Committee, Washington, D.C., Attention: psychiatric department. Just make sure your amount does not exceed $2,000 ($4,000 for a married couple).</p></blockquote>
<p>Do me a favor Steve and don&#8217;t comment again on this thread until you go outside for a walk. I really do have concern that you are short on oxygen and sunshine.</p>
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		<title>By: Philadelphia Steve</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As I said.  While I have been accused of the FoxNews inspired term &quot;Bush Derangement Syndrome&quot;, I have never expressed the personal venom that I see displayed here every day.  I have expressed anger and described accountability regarding the performance of the Bush Administration (something that Conservatives constantly defer).  But I have never engaged in the kind of schoolyard hate that Conservatives express so easily and fluidly.

Can any of you look at yor own posts, and express anything other than embarrasment at the degree to which your statements indicate, both a lack of maturity, and a level of personal hatred that borders on the pathological?

The answer will be, &quot;Of course not.  We&#039;re Conservatives and incapable of doing wrong.&quot;

With heros such as Ann Coulter, Ruch Limbaugh and Karl Rove dictating your beliefs and ideas, ther can be no other answer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>As I said.  While I have been accused of the FoxNews inspired term &#8220;Bush Derangement Syndrome&#8221;, I have never expressed the personal venom that I see displayed here every day.  I have expressed anger and described accountability regarding the performance of the Bush Administration (something that Conservatives constantly defer).  But I have never engaged in the kind of schoolyard hate that Conservatives express so easily and fluidly.</p>
<p>Can any of you look at yor own posts, and express anything other than embarrasment at the degree to which your statements indicate, both a lack of maturity, and a level of personal hatred that borders on the pathological?</p>
<p>The answer will be, &#8220;Of course not.  We&#8217;re Conservatives and incapable of doing wrong.&#8221;</p>
<p>With heros such as Ann Coulter, Ruch Limbaugh and Karl Rove dictating your beliefs and ideas, ther can be no other answer.</p>
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		<title>By: Fasternu426</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>“Your rabid hate is evident.”
What’s not to hate about Rabbids?


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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>“Your rabid hate is evident.”<br />
What’s not to hate about Rabbids?</p>
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		<title>By: Fasternu426</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Your rabid hate is evident.&quot;

What&#039;s not to hate about Rabbids?

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>&#8220;Your rabid hate is evident.&#8221;</p>
<p>What&#8217;s not to hate about Rabbids?</p>
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