Comments on: Fremont Road Work

By: Marty

Marty — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:44:50 +0000

You’re doing a fine job of ignoring, Baxter. And Lifer, I knew you were following this thread closer than John Edwards on a chemo nurse.

By: Fremont Lifer

Fremont Lifer — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:50:40 +0000

Good on ya’ for trying, Niles, but that road leads nowhere. Welcome to the club.

By: Niles Baxter

Niles Baxter — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:50:17 +0000

Thanks, Bbox, for the insight – I’ll join you on that “ignore list” concept.

By: Marty

Marty — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:05:55 +0000

If either one of you had the intellectual fortitude to respond to post 7 without hyperbole and insult to me, perhaps you’d get a more palatable response, box. Again, you can dish it out but surely cant take it.

By: bbox231

bbox231 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:40:07 +0000

What Marty doesnt see is his transition from rational discussion to irrational diatribe when he encounters an opposing viewpoint. He quickly abandons a continuation of thought – perhaps because he is afraid that he can’t continue in a rational manner to a desired end point – and resorts to emotional name-calling or personalized insults.

The trend is that Marty has established for him/herself is pretty clear and his/her last post is an excellent summary of how this individual perceives the world around – - – - if sincere, s/he’s incapable of differentiating between critical discourse or disagreement and personalized rantings.

By: Marty

Marty — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:26:30 +0000

You think I’m a sad guy/gal because I don’t agree with your conclusions? I actually respected your analysis, and don’t see how my response would make you think that you’re on a “hit list”. Tell me, Baxter. What was an acceptable response that wouldn’t offend your sensibilities?

Christ, people can sure dish out a load of criticism but cant take a bit of it back. THAT is very, very sad for you my friend. Good luck.

By: Niles Baxter

Niles Baxter — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:47:13 +0000

I figured this was a lost cause, but I thought I should at least try to reason with you. I’ve seen how that’s played out for other posters so I knew there was a good chance that I’d end up on your hit list too. I feel bad for you – I think you’re a sad guy/gal.

By: Marty

Marty — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:24:23 +0000

Not true, Baxter. Labeling people as racist or radicals for disagreeing with them tracks the definition of marginalizing pretty damn close. This is exactly what Lifer, CAguy and Ashley have done on a regular basis in our little “community”. You cant even say you like a steakhouse on this board without in inference of racism.

It’s the flip side of what the Bush admin did over the prior 8 years, and something I never engaged in it at the time because I knew that labeling people as extremist because you have nothing else to say is damn ignorant and *should* be met with a hair of aggression. Possibly, it was those accusations being “un-American” which made Bush the most hated person of my lifetime. The Obamaphiles are working fast down the same track, and the push back they experience is a direct result.

And it’s fine if only 1 of 100 here agree with me. My feelings aren’t hurt in the slightest. It’s therapeutic for me to remind them.

By: Niles Baxter

Niles Baxter — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:47:19 +0000

Far be it from me to have a dog in this fight but, realistically, no one can marginalize you but yourself. In this world we have no visual cues to judge people by, so you become what you write, for good or ill. If you read this blog long enough, it becomes a community and, as with any community, it has its bright lights and its dim bulbs and everything in between. Pretty egalitarian, actually, with only Matt to judge what’s across the line. Which raises the question, “is there a line?”, but that’s a whole ‘nuther post.

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:08:16 +0000

Ashley, I am fully aware of the stimulus infusion into the NIH. I benefit personally from it- in the short term that is. 70k jobs is a gross over estimate, as most of the grants funded through stimulus dollars were written by researchers already funded by the gov. The figure falls nicely in the “jobs created or saved” mantra Obama has been promoting. If you feel better believing it, so be it. It’s 0.08% of what we gave Wall St, BTW.

The stimulus is winding down, and we are precisely where we were at this time in 2008, sans more government debt that the producers in our economy will be responsible for. So since I’m not happy about all of this, I should join the “Tenther’s” movement?