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  1. Turtle

    It's the Zimmer Man!

    Read #11 on the Code of Conduct Hit Parade. Craft your responses accordingly. That's as fair a warning as you're gonna get.
  2. Turtle

    It's the Zimmer Man!

    Nope. If one has go to great lengths to prove he isn't something, it usually means he is. You're trying too hard. And your history here and elsewhere betrays your frantic and desperate efforts. Like I said, my opinion isn't what's at hand here, what you wrote, is. So own it.
  3. Turtle

    Obama fails again

    Unfortunately, there's no shortage of it, either. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein.
  4. Turtle

    It's the Zimmer Man!

    The use of the term reclaim implies something which can be claimed again, rescue, salvage, recover. I think I'd have used create or begat or develop, instead, since dignity implies decency, decorum, honor, respectability and virtue. Hard to reclaim that which one, well, you know.
  5. Turtle

    Need a shave?

    The only thing I hate more than shaving, is not shaving. 10 days is my limit. :D
  6. Turtle

    FAA to "check" overweight pilots for restful sleep..

    In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance we learn that in order to truly experience quality one must both embrace and apply it as best fits the requirements of the situation. Such an approach avoids a great deal of frustration and dissatisfaction common to modern life. I am therefore I am.
  7. Turtle

    An open letter to Oprah

    I don't know that it is an "extremist" view, at least not any more extremist than anything else that's taken out of context for political purposes. Somebody can always find a reason to be hugely offended or outraged by something, if it serves their purpose.
  8. Turtle

    It's the Zimmer Man!

    You're not going to get one. Repeatedly claiming you don't have a racist bone in your body, while repeatedly posting racist comments, indicates core racism. So does repeatedly referring to Zimmerman by proper name, and then repeatedly referring to Martin by the proper name Animal. Then you...
  9. Turtle

    Ready for hazmat changes?

    Click the link in the OP and look at the pictures. Nutshell training complete. :D
  10. Turtle

    FAA to "check" overweight pilots for restful sleep..

    A am in the best shape that I can possibly be. So there.
  11. Turtle

    Obama fails again

    Not really. He did precisely what Ken Burns asked him to do, which was to read the original "Nicolay copy" (Gettysburg Address | Exhibitions - Library of Congress) of the draft. There are five different drafts of the Gettysburg Address, and Burns had all of them included in his documentary. No...
  12. Turtle

    It's the Zimmer Man!

    I can't. No one can, at least not in any way you are able to comprehend. You're right, it doesn't get any simpler. Your racism is as simple as it gets.
  13. Turtle

    Web Browser choice

    I use Firefox. It's far more configurable and customizable than any other browser.
  14. Turtle

    An open letter to Oprah

    Initially, yes, economic and Constitutional issues. But they were quickly co-opted and turned into something else. The Tea Party doesn't have a single uniform national agenda. The decentralized character of the Tea Party, with its lack of formal structure or hierarchy, allows each autonomous...
  15. Turtle

    An open letter to Oprah

    Welcome to the real world of politics, where otherwise smart people say and do things that make them look or sound incredibly stupid. And no amount of spin or backpedaling will fix it.
  16. Turtle

    FAA to "check" overweight pilots for restful sleep..

    The restrictions shouldn't be any stricter for operating a CMV than they are for the general driving public. Epileptics, for example, can drive a car if they have their epilepsy under control (time varies by state), but drivers of CMVs cannot drive regardless, even if their seizures are fully...
  17. Turtle

    An open letter to Oprah

    The reference used his own words, in the context in which he said them. Yes he was. Initially. But when it took on a life of its own, rightly or wrongly, he then used that on his Web site for political currency. It was then he, himself who equated an effective immigration policy to effective...
  18. Turtle

    An open letter to Oprah

    If you think the GOP is very much left wing, then I got nothing. Equating an effective immigration policy to that of an effective method of pest control, would be considered by most people to be extreme nationalism, since, you know, the most effective method of pest control is extermination of...
  19. Turtle

    An open letter to Oprah

    There is no "standard" version or definition of "far right." The terms far right and extreme right merely apply to groups and ideologies that are further to the right of the mainstream center-right. While the term certainly applies to fascism and Naziism, it also applies to those who hold...
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