World Politics

[Boeing]

I love this line by the old sheep neo-cons: "Keep government out of health care but don't mess with my medicare".

 

[rhubroma]

Have fun this coming summer break.

Me confused maybe, in my opinion your a good example of stupid.

I may be a lot of things, though stupid, dear Oncearunner, in the sense of being culturally and intellectually unprepared, isn't one of them.

But hey, if that's how you see things, then I shall just have to take solace in the fact that such an attack agianst my person is coming from one such as you, whose is hopelessly lost both culturally and intellectually in the provincial hell that is America where everything, litterally everything, inexorably drags your thought down. Whereas Rome, where I live, is the ideal environment to cultivate thought, for which even the Italian language, with its lightness, effortlessess and infinite versitality is utterly congenial to intellectual activity. Rome bears the same relationship to America as a child reared in complete freedom, in a happy and prosperous home, bears to one, as seems to have been your case, who has been cowed and beaten into low cunning in the poorest of poor families. And being in a Mediterranean country has saved me from becoming someone like you, like so many of my fellow countrymen, though of course not all of them, for whom the sole term I can apply is blockheads. Life in the Mediterranean countries is a hundred times more rewarding than in America, where people, as undoubtedly yourself, behave like puppets, not like human beings. They're all tense, they don't move naturally, everything about them is stiff and ultimately ridiculous. It's always a shock to go back there, after Rome, where everthing is completely the opposite, totally natural, totally relaxed and totally spontaneous. And what atrocious food! It's not food, it's just junk, an insult to the stomach and the whole body. When I'm back in Rome it takes me weeks to recover from American cooking. And what's a country with no ancient history?

How fortunate I am to have gotten out when I did, and to have settled down in Rome. Rome has saved me from complete mental atrophy, the debilitating effects of which have ruined your mind, Oncearunner, even if it isn't entirely your own fault, but that of an environment fraught with cultural and intellectual anemia. Rome has been such a salvation, Oncearunner, which has saved me from people like you, that my gravestone is to bear only my name, followed by the words: who left the barbarians behind him at the right moment.

 

[patricknd]

I may be a lot of things, though stupid, dear Oncearunner, in the sense of not being culturally and intellectually unprepared, isn't one of them.

But hey, if that's how you see things, then I shall just have to take solace in the fact that such an attack agianst my person is coming from one such as you, whose is hopelessly lost both culturally and intellectually in the provincial hell that is America where everything, litterally everything, inexorably drags your thought down. Whereas Rome, where I live, is the ideal environment to cultivate thought, for which even the Italian language, with its lightness, effortlessess and infinite versitality is utterly congenial to intellectual activity. Rome bears the same relationship to America as a child reared in complete freedom, in a happy and prosperous home, bears to one, as seems to have been your case, who has been cowed and beaten into low cunning in the poorest of poor families. And being in a Mediterranean country has saved me from becoming someone like you, like so many of my fellow countrymen, though of course not all of them, for whom the sole term I can apply is blockheads. Life in the Mediterranean countries is a hundred times more rewarding than in America, where people, as undoubtedly yourself, behave like puppets, not like human beings. They're all tense, they don't move naturally, everything about them is stiff and ultimately rediculous. It's always a shock to go back there, after Rome, where everthing is completely the opposite, totally natural, totally relaxed and.totally spontaneous. And what atrocious food! It's not food, it's just junk, an insult to the stomach and the whole body. When I'm back in Rome it takes me weeks to recover from American cooking. And's what's a country with no ancient history?

How fortunate I am to have gotten out when I did, and to have settled down in Rome. Rome has saved me from complete mental atrophy, the debilitating effects of which have ruined your mind, Oncearunner, even if it isn't entirely your own fault, but that of an environment fraught with cultural and intellectual anemia. Rome has been such a salvation, Oncearunner, which has saved me from people like you, that my gravestone is to bear only my name, followed by the words: who left the barbarians behind him at the right moment.

i know you're bright and culturally superior, but you might try spell check.

 

[arvens]

What did your other username get banned for?

mocking dear leader

 

[ChrisE]

i know you're bright and culturally superior, but you might try spell check.

He makes those grammatical errors on purpose for our benefit, sorta like "dumbing down" to the audience.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

mocking dear leader

Uh, no you got banned for having a Hitler avatar.

It would be nice if we could just have a debate on the issues rather than resorting to that kind of crap.

 

[rhubroma]

i know you're bright and culturally superior, but you might try spell check.

Thanks, and its true, spell check isn't a bad idea. Hey, everybody makes mistakes. See I, in reality, have no superiority complex, though I can be ruthless with anyone who is rude and makes gratuitous attacks simply to be nasty. Especially when coming from a real blockhead.

 

[rhubroma]

He makes those grammatical errors on purpose for our benefit, sorta like "dumbing down" to the audience.

Ohh, you've figured me out. How brilliant of you...

 

[ChrisE]

Ohh, you've figured me out. How brilliant of you...

It wasn't that hard. I have run across many people on the internet since it came about, and you are by far the most arrogant *** I have ever encountered. Congrats.

I'm curious....did the revelations of pedophillia coverup by the Vatican compel you to make your move to Rome, to be closer to the action?

 

[Oncearunner8]

I may be a lot of things, though stupid, dear Oncearunner, in the sense of being culturally and intellectually unprepared, isn't one of them.

But hey, if that's how you see things, then I shall just have to take solace in the fact that such an attack agianst my person is coming from one such as you, whose is hopelessly lost both culturally and intellectually in the provincial hell that is America where everything, litterally everything, inexorably drags your thought down. Whereas Rome, where I live, is the ideal environment to cultivate thought, for which even the Italian language, with its lightness, effortlessess and infinite versitality is utterly congenial to intellectual activity. Rome bears the same relationship to America as a child reared in complete freedom, in a happy and prosperous home, bears to one, as seems to have been your case, who has been cowed and beaten into low cunning in the poorest of poor families. And being in a Mediterranean country has saved me from becoming someone like you, like so many of my fellow countrymen, though of course not all of them, for whom the sole term I can apply is blockheads. Life in the Mediterranean countries is a hundred times more rewarding than in America, where people, as undoubtedly yourself, behave like puppets, not like human beings. They're all tense, they don't move naturally, everything about them is stiff and ultimately ridiculous. It's always a shock to go back there, after Rome, where everthing is completely the opposite, totally natural, totally relaxed and totally spontaneous. And what atrocious food! It's not food, it's just junk, an insult to the stomach and the whole body. When I'm back in Rome it takes me weeks to recover from American cooking. And what's a country with no ancient history?

How fortunate I am to have gotten out when I did, and to have settled down in Rome. Rome has saved me from complete mental atrophy, the debilitating effects of which have ruined your mind, Oncearunner, even if it isn't entirely your own fault, but that of an environment fraught with cultural and intellectual anemia. Rome has been such a salvation, Oncearunner, which has saved me from people like you, that my gravestone is to bear only my name, followed by the words: who left the barbarians behind him at the right moment.

nice work.

Can you dumb it down a bit?

I am such a "rediculous Blockhead" and can not begin to understand the depth's of your Mediterranean wizardness.

 

[Oncearunner8]

It wasn't that hard. I have run across many people on the internet since it came about, and you are by far the most arrogant *** I have ever encountered. Congrats.

I'm curious....did the revelations of pedophillia coverup by the Vatican compel you to make your move to Rome, to be closer to the action?

you think he may like playing with the boys on the Med?

 

[Anonymous]

My guess is that Rhubarb is either a newly graduated Phd or working on one and got the teaching thing abroad for a year or so...I believe he mentioned having to teach americans at some point and how "utterly' backwards they are...so I am also guessing with a catholic university who has an abroad program for juniors from the place he might be from...I can say this: he comes off like a snobbish sorta fellow and one who can't spell very well either for having his nose so high up into god's *** and given his high "intellectual" station...and I can say this as well, as another "dumb" american who lived for years in europe, over a decade...doing his Phd and teaching ect ect...I have seen this very many times from newbie's getting to Europe...you will get over it if you do indeed have a brain and relate to folks around you and actual italians other than university fodder...that and get over yourself as well...one more thing, do yourself a favor and go down to the Milano train station and take a look at all the wonderful fascist symbols Mussolini and friends had them put into that thing...Rome as well for that matter...a high sense of culture doesn't make you immune from either being an idiot or fascism for that matter...not that I think you are a fascist fellow liberal brother... but you are certainly coming off here like an idiot...

 

[rhubroma]

My guess is that Rhubarb is either a newly graduated Phd or working on one and got the teaching thing abroad for a year or so...I believe he mentioned having to teach americans at some point and how "utterly' backwards they are...so I am also guessing with a catholic university who has an abroad program for juniors from the place he might be from...I can say this: he comes off like a snobbish sorta fellow and one who can't spell very well either for having his nose so high up into god's *** and given his high "intellectual" station...and I can say this as well, as another "dumb" american who lived for years in europe, over a decade...doing his Phd and teaching ect ect...I have seen this very many times from newbie's getting to Europe...you will get over it if you do indeed have a brain and relate to folks around you and actual italians other than university fodder...that and get over yourself as well...one more thing, do yourself a favor and go down to the Milano train station and take a look at all the wonderful fascist symbols Mussolini and friends had them put into that thing...Rome as well for that matter...a high sense of culture doesn't make you immune from either being an idiot or fascism for that matter...not that I think you are a fascist fellow liberal brother... but you are certainly coming off here like an idiot...

Well I would have thought that coming from an extremist fanatic like yourself, that one would have expected at least a thread of hypocricy to help save the form of your pronouncements.

As for your conclusions, you couldn't be farther from the reality. I've lived in Rome for the last 15 years and don't need lessons from someone across the ocean about meeting "actual Italians" to enhance my impressions.

For the record, most of the people I hang out with aren't the university "fodder," as you say, which is quite an alarming statement, but the most down to earth, so called, type of Italians. So rest assured...

 

[arvens]

It wasn't that hard. I have run across many people on the internet since it came about, and you are by far the most arrogant *** I have ever encountered. Congrats.

I'm curious....did the revelations of pedophillia coverup by the Vatican compel you to make your move to Rome, to be closer to the action?

He's a blowhard.

I just scroll past. No need to even use the ignore. He spends time composing 8000 char. posts for what? An audience of 8 or 9 people on a cycling forum? 6 or 7 of them agree with him already. Yawn.

 

[patricknd]

i don't know what this rhubroma started out as but he's obviously a communist eyetalian sumbiitch now. we know what to do with his kind in texas.

 

[BroDeal]

i don't know what this rhubroma started out as but he's obviously a communist eyetalian sumbiitch now. we know what to do with his kind in texas.

Fun lovin' texans. They know what to do with communists, gays, mud people, and anyone with undesirable views. Y'all come back now.

 

[Anonymous]

Well I would have thought that coming from an extrimist fanatic like yourself, that one would have expected at least a thread of hypocracy to help save the form of your pronouncements.

As for your conclusions, you couldn't be farther from the reality. I've lived in Rome for the last 15 years and don't need lessons from someone across the ocean about meeting "actual Italians" to enhance my impressions.

For the record, most of the people I hang out with aren't the university "fodder," as you say, which is quite an alarming statement, but the most down to earth, so called, type of Italians. So rest assured...

Gosh rhubarb....spelling is getting dramatically bad...hey bud, good for you being so cultured and intellectually honest...!!!!

 

[Anonymous]

Well I would have thought that coming from an extrimist fanatic like yourself, that one would have expected at least a thread of hypocracy to help save the form of your pronouncements.

As for your conclusions, you couldn't be farther from the reality. I've lived in Rome for the last 15 years and don't need lessons from someone across the ocean about meeting "actual Italians" to enhance my impressions.

For the record, most of the people I hang out with aren't the university "fodder," as you say, which is quite an alarming statement, but the most down to earth, so called, type of Italians. So rest assured...

btw...since you have been there for 15 years...and don't need lessons about Italy...do you think honestly that we who live here in america need to be lectured by a sad blowhard as to the state of our politics and country? Not really...but, please, if you ARE an academic...just ****ing use spellcheck would you...it is painful...let me help you out so you don't need the computer, it is hypocricy....extremist...ect...

 

[rhubroma]

btw...since you have been there for 15 years...and don't need lessons about Italy...do you think honestly that we who live here in america need to be lectured by a sad blowhard as to the state of our politics and country? Not really...but, please, if you ARE an academic...just ****ing use spellcheck would you...it is painful...let me help you out so you don't need the computer, it is hypocricy....extremist...ect...

Fair enough, I'll b sure to use spellcheck Cash05458, so as not to make you suffer unnecessarily.

I wouldn't consider myself an academic, in the pure sense, rather a prostitute and a semi-intellectual. As for Catholic woes these days, I couldn't care less. And what priests in the US, Ireland and Germany have to do with everyday Roman society is beyond me. Only people like yourself make such ignorant and uninformed connections.

As for the rest let me help you, in the future, it is America...

 

[rhubroma]

It wasn't that hard. I have run across many people on the internet since it came about, and you are by far the most arrogant *** I have ever encountered. Congrats.

I'm curious....did the revelations of pedophillia coverup by the Vatican compel you to make your move to Rome, to be closer to the action?

My, my, now, how honored am I. Most arrogant ***, no doubt you forgot charlatan and, naturally, fraud. I'm surly the worst type of vile creature in your book because, to you, I propose the most impossible questions, that confound each of your tried beliefs. Rhubroma is monster, you would say! Rhubroma is a parasite! Rhubroma is a criminal! Rhubroma is a good-for-nothing rogue! Though from the list of horrific designations you come up with, however, it is aparant that you are actually affraid of me, because I have seen through you at an early stage. Being unable to keep up with me, though I take no credit for this, you have contented yourself with disliking me, and your dislike has intensified from day to day until in the end it has turned out to be overt hatred. Yet you are too stupid to believe that anyone could lead an intellectual existance. How can you exist in this semi-darkness all the time? It's like living in a museum!

 

[arvens]

Fun lovin' texans. They know what to do with communists, gays, mud people, and anyone with undesirable views. Y'all come back now.

That photo was take at Senator Robert Byrd campaign rally.

 

[Anonymous]

My, my, now, how honored am I. Most arrogant ***, no doubt you forgot charlatan and, naturally, fraud. I'm surly the worst type of vile creature in your book because, to you, I propose the most impossible questions, that confound each of your tried beliefs. Rhubroma is monster, you would say! Rhubroma is a parasite! Rhubroma is a criminal! Rhubroma is a good-for-nothing rogue! Though from the list of horrific designations you come up with, however, it is aparant that you are actually affraid of me, because I have seen through you at an early stage. Being unable to keep up with me, though I take no credit for this, you have contented yourself with disliking me, and your dislike has intensified from day to day until in the end it has turned out to be overt hatred. Yet you are too stupid to believe that anyone could lead an intellectual existance. How can you exist in this semi-darkness all the time? It's like living in a museum!

This guy is actually becoming funny! Rhubarb the confounder!

 

[patricknd]

Fun lovin' texans. They know what to do with communists, gays, mud people, and anyone with undesirable views. Y'all come back now.

you do get that i was joking, right? i assume that you are as well.

 

[Oncearunner8]

you do get that i was joking, right? i assume that you are as well.

The Bro is sort-a like the Dude from big lebowski. He takes some time to get used to. I clashed with him some but he is a good hearted fellow. .....Liberal...I guess but a honest message board dude!... he likes to blame random ****nuts and asshat posters on me ....why?????? I have no idea but,,,, he is alright.

 

[BroDeal]

That photo was take at Senator Robert Byrd campaign rally.

Nope. That was last century. Nowadays the Klan prefers Palin and Bachmann rallies.

The Bro is sort-a like the Dude from big lebowski. He takes some time to get used to. I clashed with him some but he is a good hearted fellow. .....Liberal...I guess but a honest message board dude!... he likes to blame random ****nuts and asshat posters on me ....why?????? I have no idea but,,,, he is alright.

That's because you were some of those guys. Not the true nutters, but a few of the trolls many months ago.

I'm not a liberal. I just cannot stand the religious kooks and phony financial conservatives that make up the modern Republican Party. Grown men worshipping a book Atlas Shrugged, which was written for people with the maturity of teenagers, are worse than the religious kooks.