The Bucknuts Hot Spot

The moron is anyone who thinks profiling is a good thing.

You're right Dave... Let's keep frisking little old ladies and kids with cerebral palsy. Wouldn't want anyone to feel discriminated against because our law enforcement didn't screen everyone equally regardless of the probability that they actually pose a threat. I mean it's not like money is an object either so we can hire as many people as needed to placate liberals demented sense of political correctness.

I'm sure though that affirmative action is a "good thing" in your world... Liberals get to decide when it's appropriate to treat others differently based on ethnicity, gender, religion, etc. Play that card as long as you can use it to your advantage. Otherwise, bring the Sharpton's and Jackson's of the world in to shake down government, private enterprise, and individual citizens for more money to unlevel the playing field.

So you guys must be furious with insurance companies... After all, they charge young drivers much higher rates than older ones (that's age discrimination). Males are also assessed more expensive premiums than female policy holders (that's sex discrimination). Why do they do this and more importantly how is it justified? It's based on statistical evidence so that the demographics who tend to get in the most accidents bear a higher financial burden. Why would law enforcement not want to apply similar rationale in their approach to work which has much higher stakes? Liberals only seem to embrace the facts that are convenient to them.

I also have to laugh at the monumental hypocrisy the left displays with their feigned concern for Muslim rights.. I'm not advocating anything other than greater scrutiny of this community because of what the statistics support. However, liberals are doing everything possible to court the female vote suggesting they are the ones who support "women's rights". Yet, Islamic culture is crudely oppressive of women and in many sects treat them as little more than property. I guess you take the votes however you can get them, right?

Profiling has about as much to do with rating insurance policies as ducks have to do with lumberyards, but don't let that stop you from once again spewing forth yet another in your great series of "EXAMPLES!!!"

However, if we take your pitiful example to its absurd conclusion we must then state that Muslims are responsible for the majority of all terror attacks (based on a sample of one), blacks are responsible for the majority of crime (since I'm sure the police force in this country is color-blind), and deer are responsible for the majority of song bird deaths, since the ones in my yard knock over the bird feeders and eat the food.

Perhaps some day the concept of a self-fulfilling prophesy will enter your feeble mind, but I doubt it.

Until then, carry on with the craziness, and don't be too upset while we make fun of you at every opportunity. It's not often we get a gold plated piñata to beat on.

BTW, you DO know that I am neither a Democrat nor a liberal, don't you?

I'm 70 - I formed my thoughts independently long before Maddow was born. She merely confirms them. Right wing lock-steppers are the ones who wouldn't know an independent thought if it bit them in the ass. You need a talking point of the week in order to survive.

"The sky is whatever color Hannity says it is."

WOW!

Whatever website you copied those from must be, um, interesting.

You win straw man of the year, hands down. I mean, some of these are classic, and the best part is: (drum roll)

Nobody - outside of the looney tunes who think Fox is actually honest - believe them. It's not even worth disproving them - although I'm betting a few on here will have a field day doing so.

Doesn't matter if they're true or not - just saying them is enough to make it so!

What you've done (inadvertently of course) is provide information to the rest of us that you are perfectly willing to accept any amount of bullshit being dumped on your shoes as long as you like the smell. You see, simplistic drivel like that is only of use to those who like being led around by the nose. Those of us with critical thinking skills see it for what it is - those who watch Fox see it as fact.

What color is the sky today, booby?

Gray skies as far as the eye can see while this clown is in office.

No website, and as to your brilliant reply, is that the best you can do? An emotional, condescending reply is the trademark repsonse of the liberal mind on much of this board. No one believes them? Seriously? Your unliateral dismissal, "it's not even worth disproving them" only confirms for me you're part of the left's big flock of blind sheep. Anything I put on that list is vehemently defended by the left in, well, just about any thread on this board or anything that passes for progressive "journalism" these days from your "reputable" sources like ABC, NBC, CNN, the Huffington Post, (yeah, right) or MSNBC.

As to critical thinking, my critical thinking, as a businessman, slants towards the rights of individuals and businesses, rather than the emotional, elitist, kumbaya, socialistic, confiscatory, wealth redistributing doctrine you and others like to pass off as "critical thinking." Rule #1 for the liberal mind, deflect, followed closely by Rule #2, demean. Works every time, and your leader is the king of those tactics.

From a simplistic drivel standpoint, do you really disagree with pay for performance vs. tenure and lifetime guaranteed jobs? Do you really think that the most important civil action a US citizen takes, voting, shouldn't require the individual to prove who they are? Do you really believe that recipients of welfare, food stamps and unemployment benefits shouldn't be drug tested, while the working taxpayers who fund those benefits are, for the most part, are? Do you really believe that private companies aren't concerned about the NLRB, labor unions and the decisions they make when opening new facilities? I know the Fortune 50 company I work for is.

So what is critical thinking in your world, with Obama's quest for a nirvana-like society and his redistribution agenda? What actually will happen to this country when we all run out of other people's money? A "critical thinker" might argue we've already run out of other people's money.

US Public Debt as a Percentage of GDP:
http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock

2005 - 37.2%
2006 - 36.8%
2007 - 36.5%
2008 - 42.1%
2009 - 52.0%
2010 - 61.2%
2011 - 68.9%
2012 - 76.3%

I believe I've spotted a trend, but since I'm not capable of critical thought let's just blame it on Bush, the time-worn, time-tested response from the left. I suppose you're on the side of believing Obama's a great leader because he gives a great speech. To many he's the antithesis of a great leader because he seldom takes responsiblity for any outcomes, and the best the left can do is label anyone who disagrees with his policies or calls him out a fear-mongering, uneducated racist. How original. Great leaders take responsiblity, unite, and provide a vision - all he does is make excuses, divide, pander and expand government. Forgive me, I guess he does have a vision - to expand government to the point of where we become another Europe.

The truth hurts, doesn't it? This is your entire platform, along with divide, tax, divide some more, tax some more, spend, spend, spend some more, stimulate, pander, and then divide some more for good measure. Too bad your leader has nothing to run on.

"your academic and professional resume if we were to compare"

Trust me, Simple Simon, that is NOT a road you want to go down.

As for willful ignorance, that is the domain of the true believer, of which you are most assuredly one.

What you see as credible information (i.e. whatever reinforces your already held opinions) is seen by those of us with no ax to grind as just another piece of propaganda/messaging/advertising used to further the cause. RIght or left - doesn't matter. Lots of folks make very nice livings massaging the message, and for you to think otherwise is both foolish and naive.

As for "broadcast news", I wouldn't give it the time of day. Anyone with even the slight awareness of how "news" is manipulated for mainstream consumption would laugh at your assertion that watching "news" somehow equates to being "aware."

Information is available from a myriad of sources - NONE of them have the initials ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, or FOX.

I love how you keep bringing up Fox News. I love that Liberals hate it with a passion.

And let's just see how far Obama goes to glorify his role in the death of Bin Laden since that's about all he has to run on. Go ahead and campaign away on a topic the left would surely chastise the right on if the roles were reversed. Why don't we just stir up and inflame some Muslim passions by commemorating the one year anniversary? Hypocrites abound.

As for GM, re-written bankruptcy laws to allow for $38 billion of tax loss carryforwards, an unprecedented event by virtue of any other corporate bankruptcy, is the albatross around US taxpayers' necks. No GM cars for this taxpayer. Ever.

And I repeat, gray skies as far as the eye can see as long as this loser is in office.

A true master of hypotheticals but utter failure when it comes to facts and reality...

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/an_billion_trick_ImTBFfz7MeuZLJY7JzXEIJ

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/03/01/five-coal-fueled-power-plants-to-close-due-to-obama-administration-regulation/

http://www.gallup.com/poll/152654/Health-Costs-Gov-Regulations-Curb-Small-Business-Hiring.aspx

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-05/obama-chooses-politics-over-principle-in-naming-consumer-bureau-head-view.html

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/27/morning-bell-obama-doctrine-failure/

Well, it certainly works!

You see, you keep incessantly referring to me as a "liberal", when I am of course nothing of the sort.

However, in order to continue to live in the up is down world you seem to inhabit it is imperative that you label groups as "good" or "bad", as this makes life easier.

Were you to actually sit back and reflect on what you are being told, rather than accepting it with a flourish, you'd begin to understand what is truly going on.

If, by some chance, you could actually put aside your hopeless prejudices and ask yourself "hey, is this really true?" rather than allowing it to cloud your already questionable judgment, then maybe you could see what is and is not true.

If, by some chance, you had the ability to look at things with an unbiased eye rather than through the pitiful prism of a true believer, you might find the answers to some of your questions.

The options are there for you - should you wish to truly uncover the truth you supposedly seek. It requires reading, and studying, and going (sometimes) to places that your fellow true believers will call "evil", or "commie", or "lib", or anything else they can use to demonize the SOURCE rather than the message. See, if they can get you to believe in the spuriousness of the source than half the battle (for them) has been won. All they need to do now is to get to to believe their "side", and that's a piece of cake considering how softened up you've become.

Here's a challenge for you - I'll post a piece from a source, but I won't tell you which one. Your job is to effectively refute the facts presented therein. NOT to discredit the source, but to attempt to disprove the facts. We will keep opinion out of the challenge - this will be your chance to show everyone here that you've risen above the third-grade pitiful musings of Hannity and Limbaugh and are able to discuss an issue without resorting to the sophomoric straw man junk that permeates almost everything that you post. Please feel free to have anyone else that agrees with you help out - I'll make the same offer to those who are in agreement with the piece. The one caveat I have is that I am not looking for true-blue Obamabots to chime in. That's not the road I travel. I find the political right (in today's terms) to be insane, but the alternative (as constituted in our farcical two-party system) is not much better.

Can you do it?