Hillary and protection money, er, campaign contributions

Alright. Whatever. I'm the juevenile. Right.

You can't expect zebras to change their stripes.

 

Zag would like us all to return to Victorian England where the poor relied on the "kindness of strangers"

Memo to Zag: this is not about "charity".

 

Well, haven't corporations donating vast sums of money in return for no-bid government contracts been a major problem in the past 15-20 years? Corporations have been buying political influence. The trouble is, there seem to be so many ways to get around the law on this that it's not going to change.

 

I wake up every day trying to be cordial, trying to turn over a new leaf and not be an asshole, but then I run into clueless people like Pastor, people who think they have it all figured out and are too dumb to understand they don't, and it puts me in a bad mood, you know?

But I have indeed tried hard to be a kinder, gentler poster and feel I am doing a very good job of it..

 

Well,

Well, Clarence Thomas, if you want to give a billion to Barack, now you know how. Hand out twenties in the hood and make the folks promise to give it to the Obama campaign.

Everyone's happy!

 

Not really Z. The way you've been talking down to people on this thread has really clouded your points.

 

The only person I have talked down to is Pastor and that's because he is a very slow learner and he is a guy who for some odd reason obvioulsy has a very high opinion of himself and a real problem admitting (a) he might not know it all and (b) he probably could learn a thing or two about the way the world turns.

What's that someone once told me --everyone wants respect, nobody wants to hand it out.

 

And this conversation went from unanswered questions to mud slinging.

Well done, Z.

 

And by using phrases like: " your response was so juvenile and lame it was like shooting fish in a barrell of water, minus the water."; "Blew your argument out of the water"; or the continual condescension you have shown in this and your latest post to AYA makes it very hard to think of you as anything but a bit of a dick.

Apparently, most people are on a lower level of intelligence in comparison to you. Calling someone a preschooler is, in itself, childish.

 

Hey, I call it as I see it.

And I only speak down to Pastor because that's the way he has decided he wants it.

 

This was where the mud started flying. I'd ask you to re-read the last two paragraphs you wrote.

 

That wasn't supposed to be an insult - I have refrained from insulting people and telling them to fu(&& off as I have turned over a new leaf -- it was fair comment and criticism. The guy in question acts like he is in pre-school by running from thread to thread and posting ridiculous, immature, not very funny or witty, one liners in hopes of getting people to pay attention to him.

Again, I c