tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post9091757303585345588..comments2023-10-10T05:30:54.239-04:00Comments on Jo-Joe Politico: INTERESTING QUOTESJoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09693381971064363612noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-63157621767292341492011-09-10T17:47:33.198-04:002011-09-10T17:47:33.198-04:00Joe - So what we are really left with is not your ...Joe - So what we are really left with is not your unwillingness to budge when it comes to your principles.<br /><br />You cannot let go.<br /><br />You refuse to give up the luxury of bashing Obama and Liberals.<br /><br />You are behaving like a two year old child and I can picture you now:<br /><br />sucking your thumb and clenching your blankie.<br /><br />But, Joe, what am I to do?<br /><br />Where is the Joe that has been mentoring me on such important subjects like forgiveness and submissiveness. <br /><br />And when no one else could, who made me see the Light - that I was behaving like a fourth grader lashing out with vulgarities when my feelings were hurt.<br /><br />You have impacted my life in so many important ways, Joe.<br /><br />Who am I going to turn to now, when I need guidance.<br /><br />Because the man that I admire and look up to, the man from whose heart pours the Truth of God's Own Word, is unable himself to give up his childish desire to lash out at the 'other guy.'<br /><br />Joe, tell me that you are not going to let me down in this way.<br /><br />For me this is devestating.<br /><br />Please Joe, pray about this and tell me that your heart can be changed.<br /><br />Take your time. Let me know tomorrow morning.<br /><br />I'll pray too.suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469207337699004766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-69417692052702020862011-09-10T16:30:45.320-04:002011-09-10T16:30:45.320-04:00sue: Liberal bashing is not a principle.
So far y...sue: Liberal bashing is not a principle.<br /><br />So far you have not given me one single principle that you are willing to give up. Not one.<br /><br />Random things are not principles.<br /><br />Principles are beliefs that one holds as core concepts in his philosophy of life and world view.<br /><br />My principles include individual freedom and responsibility.<br /><br />I am not willing to give up that principle because some governmnet believes I should.<br /><br />My principles include truth and honesty.<br /><br />I am not willing to give up those principles because some MainStream Media outlet violates them.<br /><br />My principles include small, effecient federal government with limited powers.<br /><br />I am not willing to give up those principles because some yahoo or yahoos think they know better than I do what's good for me.<br /><br />My principles include a constitutional republic where the power of decision making rests with the people through their elected representatives who seek THEIR input.<br /><br />I am not willing to give up those principles.<br /><br />My principles include that all powers not specifically allowed to the government by the Constitution are to be held by the states.<br /><br />I am not willing to give up that principle.<br /><br />My principles include finding unity by adherence to a Constitution and its precepts rather than trying to work around it to get politicians their own way.<br /><br />I am not willing to give up that principle.<br /><br />I could go on, but in short I am not willing to give up one single principle to which I hold.<br /><br />If I were willing to give up a principle, it would no longer be my principle.<br /><br />That will never happen.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09693381971064363612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-65654691676007100522011-09-10T16:30:41.405-04:002011-09-10T16:30:41.405-04:00Joe - When you confronted me about my language on ...Joe - When you confronted me about my language on blogs, and my childish, impetuous - even hateful-behavior, I was jolted back to reality. The reality that what you were saying was true.<br /><br />You aided Jesus in taking the sword out of my hand, and more importantly - out of my heart.suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469207337699004766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-66929406884188058252011-09-10T16:23:52.715-04:002011-09-10T16:23:52.715-04:00Joe - In the final scene of Ben- Hur, Charlton Hes...Joe - In the final scene of Ben- Hur, Charlton Heston says that while watching the Crucifixion he felt Jesus 'take the sword out of his hand.'<br /><br />Of course, He can do this for all of us, but He may want to wait to be sure that our Heart is ready to give up the Sword.suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469207337699004766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-88542154366212836272011-09-10T14:49:37.615-04:002011-09-10T14:49:37.615-04:00Joe 'this unity that you imagine.'
Unity...Joe 'this unity that you imagine.'<br /><br /><br />Unity is not something that I imagine. <br /><br />It is something that can happen.<br /><br />But we the people have to want it to happen.<br /><br /><br />Are you willing to give up bashing Liberals on you blog for the sake of unity?suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469207337699004766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-81466994718843990572011-09-10T14:47:02.789-04:002011-09-10T14:47:02.789-04:00Joe - I'm waiting to hear what you are going t...Joe - I'm waiting to hear what you are going to give up.<br /><br /><br />Would you be willing to give up some of the Liberal bashing for the sake of 'unity?'<br /><br />Or do you hold Liberal bashing to be one of your strong principles?suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469207337699004766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-23124626766301684332011-09-10T12:30:45.066-04:002011-09-10T12:30:45.066-04:00Joe - You didn't answer my question.
I gave u...Joe - You didn't answer my question.<br /><br />I gave up calling Conservatives names.<br /><br />That's a start.<br /><br /><br />What are you going to give up, Joe?suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469207337699004766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-85449171058559145052011-09-10T12:19:57.981-04:002011-09-10T12:19:57.981-04:00sue: None of my principles, that's for sure.sue: None of my principles, that's for sure.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09693381971064363612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-79589506422219099862011-09-10T11:50:53.942-04:002011-09-10T11:50:53.942-04:00Joe - You asked what I'm willing to give up fo...Joe - You asked what I'm willing to give up for the sake of 'unity.'<br /><br />I gave up the right to use 'vulgarities' on Conservative Blogs.<br /><br />I am no longer going to call Conservatives names when my feelings are hurt.<br /><br /><br />What are you going to give up for the sake of 'unity,' Joe?suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469207337699004766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-66929647724126092512011-09-10T11:37:34.911-04:002011-09-10T11:37:34.911-04:00sue: Am I to understand from your "list"...sue: Am I to understand from your "list" that you are willing to give up all of those things in order to achieve "unity?"<br /><br />My list of principles:<br /><br />faith in God<br />truth<br />belief in self<br />respect for fellow man<br />upholding the Constitution<br />my right to patriotism<br />my right to my basic beliefs<br />freedom to live my life respecting the rights of others<br />freedom to be<br />freedom to move about freely in the confines of the laws of my country<br />freedom to express my political views<br />freedom to dream<br />freedom to achieve my dreams<br />Freedom<br /><br />After all, I did not ask for a list of your principles. I asked for a list of those you are willing to give up for this "unity" you imagine.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09693381971064363612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-72695884542514131432011-09-10T00:24:47.014-04:002011-09-10T00:24:47.014-04:00Joe - Do me a favor,huh?
Ban me from your blog.
...Joe - Do me a favor,huh?<br /><br />Ban me from your blog.<br /><br />Now. <br /><br />Make my comments dissapate into cyberspace even before my very words reach your blog.<br /><br />Please. <br /><br />If you don't comply with this one wish, I may implode into a burst of sniveling drivel as the world has never seen before.<br /><br />Please, Joe.<br /><br />Before I dot another i.suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469207337699004766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-79262803849660742952011-09-10T00:16:03.235-04:002011-09-10T00:16:03.235-04:00Joe - Did you ever see the movie War Games, where ...Joe - Did you ever see the movie War Games, where the computer finally learns that it is just a game?<br /><br />This is just a game, isn't it?<br /><br />For me it is a lose/lose situation.<br /><br />Yet I never learn.<br /><br />I keep coming back for more, like the computer, until it experiences<br />the final truth.<br /><br />That it has been just playing a game.<br /><br />All the time I thought that the people on these blogs were searching for answers.<br /><br />But there are not. No one is.<br /><br />No one wants the Truth. <br /><br />They just want to play games.<br /><br />It is a lose/lose no win situation.<br /><br /><br />And I never learn.<br /><br />But like a true loser, I keep coming back for more. <br /><br />In the end, I lose.<br /><br />There really is no Truth, it is just a game.<br /><br />silly mesuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469207337699004766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-84917546809805579052011-09-09T23:59:38.156-04:002011-09-09T23:59:38.156-04:00Joe - Who are you?Joe - Who are you?suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469207337699004766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-2131119433926627032011-09-09T23:56:04.571-04:002011-09-09T23:56:04.571-04:00Joe - What do you want?
I gave you my list.
I ha...Joe - What do you want?<br /><br />I gave you my list.<br /><br />I have nothing more to give.suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469207337699004766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-55535840946808362752011-09-09T23:24:49.924-04:002011-09-09T23:24:49.924-04:00sue: "For unity's sake I am willing to ac...sue: "For unity's sake I am willing to accept the beliefs of others."<br /><br />You call that giving up something?<br /><br />Is acceptance the same as giving up?Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09693381971064363612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-74446821544498096252011-09-09T23:22:42.852-04:002011-09-09T23:22:42.852-04:00sue: "No one has the right to be overbearing ...sue: "No one has the right to be overbearing in saying what is right or wrong for another person."<br /><br />I say that murder is right for me to do.<br /><br />You're OK with that?<br /><br />Give me a break, sue, your comment is circular in logic and flighty in progression.<br /><br />It is philosophically elementary and theologically unsound.<br /><br />It is a hodgepodge of unrelated ideas and utopian ideologically.<br /><br />Freedom is the right to do what one wants, so long as that does no harm to another or another's property.<br /><br />Every government regulation usurps someone's rightful freedom, "for the good of the majority."<br /><br />That was Hitler's argument for the extermination of the Jews.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09693381971064363612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-30011621131339316482011-09-09T23:06:09.385-04:002011-09-09T23:06:09.385-04:00Joe:
'I'm still waiting for the list of y...Joe:<br /><br />'I'm still waiting for the list of your principles you're willing to give up for 'unity's' sake.'<br />~~~<br /><br />The Free Online Dictionary defines 'principles' as:<br /><br />1. basic truth, law, or assumption: the principles of democracy<br /><br />2. A rule or standard, especially of good behavior<br /><br />~~~<br /><br />To preface my list of principles, I have chosen a local icon, whose statue I pass every day into town, a statue that graces the entrance of the Dirksen Congressional Center, to help me out.<br /><br />Everett McKinley Dirksen himself spoke these words, upon which I build my list of principles:<br /><br />'I am a man of fixed and unbending<br />principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.'<br />~~~<br /><br />My list of principles:<br /><br />faith in God<br /><br />truth<br /><br />belief in self<br /><br />respect for fellow man<br /><br />upholding the Constitution<br /><br />my right to patriotism<br /><br />my right to my basic beliefs<br /><br />freedom to live my life respecting the rights of others<br /><br />freedom to be<br /><br />freedom to move about freely in the confines of the laws of my country<br /><br />freedom to express my political views<br /><br />freedom to dream<br /><br />freedom to achieve my dreams<br /><br />Freedom<br />~~~<br /><br />Which of thses am I willing to give up for unity's sake?<br /><br />For unity's sake I am willing to accept the beliefs of others, in a way that neither I nor others have to give up their principles.<br /><br />Joe, we all want the same thing:<br />freedom. We can all have the same thing. Our Founding Fathers and the brave soldiers that fought and died in the Revolutionary War guarantee that we can have them.<br /><br />Each time we step out of bounds and infringe on the rights of each other, we are bound by those men to once again establish unity, to right the wrongs, and assure that all the citizens of this country can life their lives in a way that was meant for this country.<br /><br />No one has the right to be overbearing in saying what is right or wrong for another person.<br /><br />We have lost our unity. We have gone way past trust. Now we must find trust in one another before we completely lose our bearings.<br /><br />The first step must be taken - and soon - before it is too late. <br /><br />Let us set aside our lists and say, we want to save this nation.<br /><br />And believe me, it's not happening....we must do it here and now.<br /><br />The bottom line of all this turmoil was spoken by Dirksen - to be flexible at all times.<br /><br />Because, Joe, if both sides remain rigid, and no one stands up and says let's unify now, the principles upon which we all have built our lives, will burst like a dam and drown us all.<br />~~~suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469207337699004766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-75098527779085911272011-09-09T21:11:20.392-04:002011-09-09T21:11:20.392-04:00Joe - Re your 'ugly old hag' comment:
...Joe - Re your 'ugly old hag' comment:<br /><br />'I spontaneously told a woman once that she looked very pretty and she reacted by telling me off.'<br /><br /><br />Well, Joe, if you ever told me that I looked very pretty - first I would slug you, then I would smile and say, 'Why thank you, Joe.'suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469207337699004766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-52943816612411263282011-09-09T13:44:56.284-04:002011-09-09T13:44:56.284-04:00Joe - I should have acknowledged
your 'ugly ol...Joe - I should have acknowledged<br />your 'ugly old hag' comment because it made me smile.<br /><br />A precious commodity these days.suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469207337699004766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-202598360130511492011-09-09T13:25:46.242-04:002011-09-09T13:25:46.242-04:00Joe - My 8 year old granddaughter gave me a real c...Joe - My 8 year old granddaughter gave me a real compliment not too long ago.<br /><br />She said:<br /><br />'My grandma's dangerous.'<br /><br />Another time, before that, she said,<br /><br />'You don't want to see my grandma mad.'<br /><br />But this same very smart girl also said,<br /><br />'She's an artist.'<br /><br />That got her a big abstract painting for her birthday.suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469207337699004766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-63092370322119794652011-09-09T10:07:30.094-04:002011-09-09T10:07:30.094-04:00sue: I'm not saying that you are not a kind pe...sue: I'm not saying that you are not a kind person. I am just saying that I never said it.<br /><br />I said you were a nice person.<br /><br />Wouldn't you rather be a nice person than a horrible, dispicable one?<br /><br />If I had called you horrible and dispicable, wouldn't you have had a negative reaction to it?<br /><br />I spontaneously told a woman once that she looked very pretty and she reacted by telling me off.<br /><br />So I responded, "OK...you look like an ugly old hag."<br /><br />She didn't seem any more happy.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09693381971064363612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-1675777280785204812011-09-08T23:36:32.797-04:002011-09-08T23:36:32.797-04:00Joe - The thing is, I am more than a nice person. ...Joe - The thing is, I am more than a nice person. Calling me a nice person is like people calling Jesus a good teacher, or a prophet, when the truth is that He is the Son of God - or He is nothing.<br /><br />Lest any Conservatives think I am comparing myself to Jesus I will plainly state that I AM NOT.<br /><br />But rather I am saying that to me being called a nice person is tantamount to saying that I am nothing.<br /><br />~~~<br /><br />But, Joe, whether you believe it or not, I am kind, and I have been called that.suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469207337699004766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-67518207244788652502011-09-08T23:30:35.015-04:002011-09-08T23:30:35.015-04:00LR - 'Perhaps Mark did not address Sue directl...LR - 'Perhaps Mark did not address Sue directly because he - as a creation of God - thought it would be untoward to directly address the descendant of an ape.'<br /><br />Please explain to me - as if I were a three year old and not a fourth grader - why you think that I am a descendant of an ape, and not a creation of God.suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469207337699004766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-87296673099769420952011-09-08T23:22:07.381-04:002011-09-08T23:22:07.381-04:00sue: I never said you were kind.
I said you were ...sue: I never said you were kind.<br /><br />I said you were a nice person.<br /><br />I might have been wrong.<br /><br />But I don't really think so.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09693381971064363612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632224842501413538.post-81084448574374014722011-09-08T23:18:24.581-04:002011-09-08T23:18:24.581-04:00Joe - So are you saying in so many words that you ...Joe - So are you saying in so many words that you will not support me in what I said to Mark that I am kind?<br /><br />~~~<br /><br />Or are you telling me to clean up my act.<br /><br />Because if you are, then I just may work on that.<br /><br />Out of my deep respect for your opinion of me.<br /><br />(But I so dearly love to say these<br />vulgaritie, Joe, that I will need some time. Say in the next two weeks.I'll let you know how it goes.)suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469207337699004766noreply@blogger.com