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Peter Roff

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RP Miles of AZ, (part 1 of 2)

You wrote:

"You are the perfect example of a rude, fat, arrogant white Republican male."

Don't ever accuse anyone else of being hateful, racist, or bigoted as no one fits that description more that you, seeing how you present yourself here with such offensive comments.

You wrote:

"You can't keep your mouth shut and listen to anyone else since you think you're so smart and so powerful."

I find this remark particularly amusing having grown up in a time when the newspapers and the alphabet networks presented a monolithic lift-wing ideology as the only known world view, when dissenting political ideology could only be spread in books, and by word of mouth. This created a situation where left-wing ideologues were unaware of any philosophical principals opposed to their worldview. They now react with shock and denial, demanding us to be silenced without any discussion, whenever they encounter our disagreement. This amuses me because I know those days are over.

For example, Michael Douglas made a movie called 'The American President', which apparently inspired the TV show 'The West Wing'. In both we saw a two party system portrayed. But the two parties presented looked like the Democrats, as they existed in history vs. the Democrats, as they would like to be known. This only showed their own intramural dispute.

Republicans could find no recognizable trace of our philosophical beliefs in the movie or the TV show. This indicates that our ideas are entirely unknown to these producers and writers.

Why didn't they relish the opportunity to present our ideas in full force, and then quash them with what they regard as their own superior intellect? Obviously they are unaware of our ideas, and wouldn't know how to do such a thing. So they try to force us to remain silent. But they can't anymore because we have so many mediums of communication available to us these days.

Even now, with no elected politicians to lead us, our opposition has paralyzed their Democrat administration, even as it enjoys the support of its party's majority in both houses of Congress, with a supposedly filibuster-proof Senate. Having shed politicians whose leadership we found lacking, our party is in ascendancy, and remains a force to be reckoned with. We still have the power to say ‘NO’ when our liberty is threatened.

RP Miles of AZ, (part 2 of 2)

You wrote:

"You avoided real answers in favor of blabbing the Repug party line."

Without a teleprompter, without stuttering, or making insulting racist remarks. Even Obama can't do that.

You wrote:

"You love name calling"

Which names? Please cite examples.

You wrote:

". . . and SHOUTING DOWN YOUR OPPONENTS WITHOUT REALLY LISTENING TO THEM."

That's what your Democrats are trying to do in town hall meetings, as they accuse ordinary Americans of representing evil insurance companies instead of representing ordinary Americans. They cannot cite any examples of insurance companies orchestrating such protests, although that's the accusation from your congressional leadership. Please ask Pelosi to name at least one insurance company as an example of what she is talking about.

You wrote:

"YOU, DUDE, ARE SLIME"

This is name calling you hypocritically accuse Roff of, without citing examples.

You wrote:

" . . . OF THE SORT THAT'S HURTING REAL POLITICAL DISCOURSE IN THIS COUNTRY."

Discourse you would like to silence for fear of loosing arguments you can't understand.

You wrote:

"SOOOOOOOO LET'S KEEP UP THE YELLING AND HATE UNTIL WE TEAR THE COUNTRY APART!!!"

You've shown us here that you don't know how to do anything other than that. Do you go to town hall meetings wearing an SEIU t-shirt looking for opportunities to beat up the people who disagree with you? That's the image I get after seeing the way you present yourself here.

You wrote:

"THAT WHAT YOU WANT, PIG?"

So much name-calling in so few words tells us volumes about you and your Democrat Party. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to present you as an example of the opposition, with your self-caricature, which others will find revealing. I don't care if you ever read this, and it won't matter if you do. I couldn't resist such an easy target, that you made of yourself.

I would also like to thank Peter Roff for his excellent work. Roff must have hit his target most effectively, judging by this result.

Peter's Appearance on MSNBC Aug. 10

You are the perfect example of a rude, fat, arrogant white Republican male. You can't keep your mouth shut and listen to anyone else since you think you're so smart and so powerful. You avoided real answers in favor of blabbing the Repug party line. You love name calling and SHOUTING DOWN YOUR OPPONENTS WITHOUT REALLY LISTENING TO THEM. YOU, DUDE, ARE SLIME OF THE SORT THAT'S HURTING REAL POLITICAL DISCOURSE IN THIS COUNTRY. SOOOOOOOO LET'S KEEP UP THE YELLING AND HATE UNTIL WE TEAR THE COUNTRY APART!!! THAT WHAT YOU WANT, PIG?

You have just been treated to the mirror image of the behavior you exhibited on MSNBC today. I personally think it's counter productive. So, if another bully, bigger than yourself, could punch you (and your rude interruptions) in the nose, would you learn a little more courtesy, empathy, and respect for women and non-Republicans? I doubt it.

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MrRight2u of GA,

I’m not trying to persuade anyone on the left, because what you say about them is correct. What bothers me is the large number of people in the center, and on the right, who would be capable of understanding this problem, and would be willing to vote against the guilty politicians, except that they are completely unaware of what happened, because the news media stopped covering this story as soon as it became embarrassing to their Democrat politicians.

The news media leaves us almost completely uninformed about most of the world around us, especially when the facts don’t support the world-view they want us to believe. For example, all temperature data from satellites monitoring the Earth’s climate show that 2008 was colder that 1988, when Jim Hansen testified before congress, to deliberately scare people about global warming, and he made predictions that turned out to be completely wrong, because the theory they were based on is wrong, as shown by accumulating evidence against it, which grows every day. That should be big news. All of the journalists should be printing retractions, and apologizing for misinforming us. But you would be lucky to find any mention of it, because it would work against the media’s agenda for consolidating political power, and economic power in Washington, DC, where they have so much influence.

They’re still pushing for ‘Cap-and-Trade’ legislation, even though the theory of man-man global warming used to rationalize it has already been thoroughly disproved. If any of them ever really took an interest in the theory, they would know that. But they’re more enamored with the power wielded by the politicians continuing to use this disproved theory as a rationalization. In fact, they’re in a big hurry to get the ‘cap-and-trade’ legislation passed before too many people learn the truth. Of course it will be another emergency that won’t allow anyone time to read what they’re signing.

See page seven of this PDF for the original prediction:

http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1988/1988_Hansen_etal.pdf

This is what really happened:

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/HANSEN_AND_CONGRESS.jpg

This is an explanation of what they were doing in 1988:

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/hansens_anniversary_testimony/

This is another excellent resource:

http://www.petitionproject.org/

This is a summary of the proof against the theory:

http://www.petitionproject.org/gw_article/GWReview_OISM600.pdf

This is a video showing interesting quotes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dDE_e5Pme0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fclimaterealists.com%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D3116&feature=player_embedded

(Please view in full screen mode to clearly read all graphics)

We must depend on each other to get the truth out to anyone willing to listen. Please spread the word.

Reply to Barry

Thanks for all the great references, esp. the NYT article. The end was especially damning...

Too bad all this falls on deaf ears. The left is all emotion. No matter what evidence is served up to them, they refuse to see.

Reply to M. of CA:

It’s very easy to answer your insults with evidence from Obama’s past as a Senator and as a community organizer shaking down the banking industries. His allies in the Clinton administration are also on record. So all we have to do is examine what they have done and look to see what the results were. This didn’t happen overnight, and there is a very long paper trail. The fact that you can only reply with meaningless insults helps to prove my previous points.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivmL-lXNy64&feature=channel_page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU&NR=1

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212948811465427.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091102841.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/business/new-agency-proposed-to-oversee-freddie-mac-and-fannie-mae.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_1_the_trillion_dollar.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZVw3no2A4&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_597487

http://clearinghouse.wustl.edu/chDocs/public/FH-IL-0011-0007.pdf

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Peter Roff is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report. A former senior political writer for United Press International, he is currently a senior fellow at the Institute for Liberty and at Let Freedom Ring, a non-partisan public policy organization. His writing has also appeared on Fox News' Fox Forum.

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