Dear Red States ... - Page 3

Cicero · 10-24-2008, 12:58 PM

LOSER!

lol!

classicman · 10-24-2008, 01:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SamIam

Our government should be a matter of deep concern for us all. ~snip~ I'd rather see an honest conservative government than I would a liberal one that arose out of the ashes of indifference.

Excellent, well put. Outstanding.....

Big Sarge · 10-24-2008, 02:51 PM

I'm slightly confused about this red/blue state issue. As I understand, the red states indicate "the red-blooded Americans". What does the blue stand for?

HungLikeJesus · 10-24-2008, 02:55 PM

Blue-blooded Americans?

Big Sarge · 10-24-2008, 03:04 PM

Blue-blooded? You mean the aristocrats that trodden the middle class?

Shawnee123 · 10-24-2008, 03:06 PM

No man, the aristo-CATS.

I don't know. I think your basic premise is off: we're all red-blooded americans, though some factions might want us to believe that only the red peeps are.

Wiki, everyone's favorite source, says

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According to The Washington Post, the terms were coined by Tim Russert during his televised coverage of the 2000 presidential election.[1]

They had always used colored maps but he started calling them red and blue and it stuck.

Big Sarge · 10-24-2008, 03:37 PM

I was making a lame joke about the red (Republican) states being the so called true, red-blooded Americans. I guess I am showing my age with the phrase. Just trying to get a "RISE" out of some folks here

Shawnee123 · 10-24-2008, 03:45 PM

You silly goose! I'm easy to get a rise out of, but you're such a friendly sort it didn't occur to me you were being a shmart-ash!

Pie · 10-24-2008, 03:51 PM

Red states: I call them the Red Menace.

TheMercenary · 10-24-2008, 04:04 PM

I was just thinking, if they took the states they said they wanted and left the rest to us, I wonder what they are going to eat this winter and where they are going to get gas and heating oil from. I sure wouldn't send them any.

Cicero · 10-24-2008, 04:15 PM

Hey. No copy-catting.

xoxoxoBruce · 10-25-2008, 01:49 AM

Real patriots get their oil from OPEC & Russia.

Griff · 10-25-2008, 08:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanaC

Politics underpins everything else.

This is what worries my libertarian gut about my support for the "lefty" this time around. I don't believe politics should have much impact on our lives. At least the left admitts they're doing it. The right asserts their control over other's lives and somehow disconnects from that reality.

DanaC · 10-25-2008, 08:40 AM

You misunderstand me Griff. I don't mean government or ideology underpins everything else. I mean everything about life is political.

Someone (may have been aristotle?) said "man is a political animal". I agree with that. 'Politics' is just the name we give to how we organise our societies.

Griff · 10-25-2008, 09:03 AM

Actually, I think I understand. The idea that "we" organize societies rather than societies being a result of natural interactions is my problem. I sat through some right wing organizing the last time I was in a church and listen to left wing organizing at work. So I guess it is the difference between what I want and what I see. The organizers are always out on the right or left edges and are often destroyers not creators.

10-24-2008, 12:58 PM	#31
Cicero Looking forward to open mic night. Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New Mexico Posts: 5,148	LOSER! lol! __________________ Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.- Carl Jung

10-24-2008, 02:55 PM	#34
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	Blue-blooded Americans? __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

10-24-2008, 03:45 PM	#38
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	You silly goose! I'm easy to get a rise out of, but you're such a friendly sort it didn't occur to me you were being a shmart-ash! __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

10-24-2008, 03:51 PM	#39
Pie Gone and done Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 4,808	Red states: I call them the Red Menace. __________________ per·son \ˈpər-sən\ (noun) - an ephemeral collection of small, irrational decisions The fun thing about evolution (and science in general) is that it happens whether you believe in it or not.

10-24-2008, 04:04 PM	#40
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	I was just thinking, if they took the states they said they wanted and left the rest to us, I wonder what they are going to eat this winter and where they are going to get gas and heating oil from. I sure wouldn't send them any. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

10-24-2008, 02:51 PM	#33
Big Sarge Werepandas - lurking in your shadows Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: In the Deep South Posts: 3,408	I'm slightly confused about this red/blue state issue. As I understand, the red states indicate "the red-blooded Americans". What does the blue stand for?

10-24-2008, 03:04 PM	#35
Big Sarge Werepandas - lurking in your shadows Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: In the Deep South Posts: 3,408	Blue-blooded? You mean the aristocrats that trodden the middle class?

10-24-2008, 03:37 PM	#37
Big Sarge Werepandas - lurking in your shadows Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: In the Deep South Posts: 3,408	I was making a lame joke about the red (Republican) states being the so called true, red-blooded Americans. I guess I am showing my age with the phrase. Just trying to get a "RISE" out of some folks here

10-24-2008, 04:15 PM	#41
Cicero Looking forward to open mic night. Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New Mexico Posts: 5,148	Hey. No copy-catting. __________________ Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.- Carl Jung

10-25-2008, 01:49 AM	#42
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Real patriots get their oil from OPEC & Russia. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-25-2008, 08:40 AM	#44
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	You misunderstand me Griff. I don't mean government or ideology underpins everything else. I mean everything about life is political. Someone (may have been aristotle?) said "man is a political animal". I agree with that. 'Politics' is just the name we give to how we organise our societies.

10-25-2008, 09:03 AM	#45
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Actually, I think I understand. The idea that "we" organize societies rather than societies being a result of natural interactions is my problem. I sat through some right wing organizing the last time I was in a church and listen to left wing organizing at work. So I guess it is the difference between what I want and what I see. The organizers are always out on the right or left edges and are often destroyers not creators. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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