This is mostly a republication of an essay I published on Daily Kos on Tuesday Dec 15, 2009 10:09 AM PST. The current link to the original is http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/15/814540/-Logic-Refresher-8211-Cl.... I have removed a bit of Daily Kos specific material and fixed some bad grammar and such. I wanted it over here in my archives for reference.
As of today, I'm almost there with the fringers who say that Trump is a stalking horse. A bowling pin. A willing patsy. That he's "in on the play", taking a fall for Her Royal Heinous. Today (almost) put me in that column.
Recently hopped into the world of Online Dating, at the request of one of my friends who thinks I need to get out there and stop being quite as much of a homebody, and it tossed a lot of my online reactions and interactions into sharp relief.
It's amazing, but even in a format where the ostensive goal is to meet and talk to people in a manner that facilitates meetings and interactions, there is the same kind of garbage that you see in all sorts of online interactions.
Good evening friends and fellow judges of the Great Quadrennial National Beauty Pageant, whose season is now upon us.
Now that the preliminary rounds are over and we roll inexorably on to The Marking of the Ballots, it seems that many are concerned about the appearance of shills showing up at our virtual doorstep attempting to work the judges like a horde of deranged, door-knocking religious fanatics seeking converts.
But seriously folks, let's have a talk about shills.
April 14
"I question her judgement voting for the war in Iraq, the worst foreign policy in the history of this country," he said.
He then went on to attack the former first lady for voting for "virtually every disastrous trade agreement."
These people really think if they just stay hunkered down, things will "work out". I guess arrogance like this is needed when attempting a coup of this magnitude. Our government at work.
Report: Justice Department declined FBI request to investigate Clinton Foundation
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the Washington Post, already implicated by the DNC leaks of conspiring to help the Hillary Clinton campaign, should publish an article endorsing voting for lesser evilism.
Wow! Wow! The release of Dr. Bardack's medical assessment of Clinton is devastating to her. There is no way she can weasel her way out of this. Medically, this is "Put Up or Shut Up"
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