I am a peaceable guy, much rather kiss than fight. I love a good argument. I look at everything with a critical eye. I have a certain suspicion about everything. I hunt for motives. I follow the money. I try to separate fact from fiction and am always trying to remove emotions from an argument. I never, ever make an argument personal. An attack against a person always ends a discussion one way or another.
I love my country and am critical of it at the same time. It is one of the few countries in the world where people are attempting to break into, not leave its borders. To imagine the World without the United States
is just imponderable to me. Oh, we have made mistakes, that is for sure. Done some things that maybe we shouldn't have and didn't do others that maybe we should have. We do not conquer countries nor occupy them for long. We liberate them and leave, hoping a chance for freedom will ignite the flame of liberty.
Some are suspicious of our military budget, huge, I admit but we have the military budget of the entire free world. In the effort to free Lybia from the clutches of Gadafi the NATO forces lead by France ran out of ammunition after only three days!!! Much of the world can laugh and be critical only because we are in the room.
I like this country and don't agree with everything it does. I like our elections, our free exchange of ideas, even some our our crazy candidates who run for office. I like the Teabaggers and disagree with most of them. I like the ultraconservatives and disagree with all of them. I have friends of every persuasion. When you are in a bar fight and someone comes to your aid, you never stop for identification. I separate people from ideas and I support the right to every idea.
Sometimes in the Blog World and sometimes in the real world, people will confuse their arguments or get on weak ground and do the equivalent of throwing stones. It is the same as admitting that you have no argument, no real basis, no intellectual proof, no historical suppositions, so you are reduced to attacking the person. Pretty weak. I have no respect for that.
We have lost a friend blogger this week. Someone attacked her personally. I have always believed that if you draw a circle limiting my access then I will draw a bigger circle to include you. But if you pick on my friends, then you are picking on me. If you want a fight, well then, here I am!
My Happier Stuff is HERE
I love my country and am critical of it at the same time. It is one of the few countries in the world where people are attempting to break into, not leave its borders. To imagine the World without the United States
is just imponderable to me. Oh, we have made mistakes, that is for sure. Done some things that maybe we shouldn't have and didn't do others that maybe we should have. We do not conquer countries nor occupy them for long. We liberate them and leave, hoping a chance for freedom will ignite the flame of liberty.
Some are suspicious of our military budget, huge, I admit but we have the military budget of the entire free world. In the effort to free Lybia from the clutches of Gadafi the NATO forces lead by France ran out of ammunition after only three days!!! Much of the world can laugh and be critical only because we are in the room.
I like this country and don't agree with everything it does. I like our elections, our free exchange of ideas, even some our our crazy candidates who run for office. I like the Teabaggers and disagree with most of them. I like the ultraconservatives and disagree with all of them. I have friends of every persuasion. When you are in a bar fight and someone comes to your aid, you never stop for identification. I separate people from ideas and I support the right to every idea.
Sometimes in the Blog World and sometimes in the real world, people will confuse their arguments or get on weak ground and do the equivalent of throwing stones. It is the same as admitting that you have no argument, no real basis, no intellectual proof, no historical suppositions, so you are reduced to attacking the person. Pretty weak. I have no respect for that.
We have lost a friend blogger this week. Someone attacked her personally. I have always believed that if you draw a circle limiting my access then I will draw a bigger circle to include you. But if you pick on my friends, then you are picking on me. If you want a fight, well then, here I am!
My Happier Stuff is HERE
3 comments:
Not sure what this is about but sorry to hear someone left the blogging world over such a thing. Hope everything works out.
I just love you, Jer. Thanks for being my friend. I'm still blogging though, a bit more slowly and you know where, right?
Right there with you on this one Jerry, I know who the person is and is also a friend of mine.. We hang with the same people as you know. we may have a different opinion on some things but we have the same open heart. and attitude about many things. hugs, from Bj..
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