re: BoB 5:26pm #8

Should soldiers be making more money? I think so! But that doesn’t make defense contractors inheriently EVIL. Also, some civilian contractors actually have special forces backgrounds. If I have a contractor who is an ex-SEAL or ex-Delta, has decades of experience, and knows almost all there is to know about counterterrorism and CQB …

You’re telling me he should be making the same, or LESS, than a kid just out of basic?

Nop. GI’s should be merit payed the same as they’d make as contractors, e.g. ~$30K/mo tax-free. America would never again have a war.

America may not stop its war-a-teering because it can well afford the dead & wounded bodies - it most certainly will because it can’t afford the cash, depending on the ROI.

Sorry? Didn’t you just explain that it only need to rise to the level of violating the ToS?

Didn’t you also just make a point of mocking Greenwald for redefining standards to suit his argument?

“They are borderline and perhaps my sense of their propriety would be different on another day.”

What are we thinking would cross that border? Jews go home?

“Context is everything and taking a comment out of a thread and holding it up as an example of “hate speech” is, as Greenwald himself says, unfair.”

Well no, it would be unfair only if that context altered the meaning of the post.

I would hate to think that MuslimsGoHomeGuy’s been unfairly portrayed as bigoted PoS here. Provide some context that put’s him in a better light.

Or quit pretending comments like this are something other than what they are.

In a pinch, you can hold your breath I suppose…”

Oh very nice; nothing hateful about that was there? You hypocrite.

I, like you, am a proud liberal, but you’ve misunderstood the disagreement here. This started because right-wingers like O’Reilly and Malkin started calling DailyKos a hate site because of a few cherry-picked comments out of hundreds of thousands on one of the highest-traffic sites on the web. By their own standard, O’Reilly’s blog and Malkin’s sites are hate sites.

However, Greenwald has explicitly said that he doesn’t believe that standard (that a few deranged comments on a website qualify it as a hate site). But I saw O’Reilly and Malkin the other night. She might not have said outright that DailyKos was a hate site, but she did agree with O’Reilly that site owners have a responsibility to keep out the crazies, and if they don’t then they should be tarred and feathered for it.

Liberals are merely applying Malkin’s and O’Reilly’s standards against them. Unfortunately, as you can see from the comments here, they don’t get it.

But seriously, why does she hate ‘moonbats’ so much?

In a pinch, you can hold your breath I suppose…

Michelle keeps on calling me a moonbat. I find that hateful. What can I do to make it stop?