Post replies in the form of strawman arguments only, in this thread.

[Rabrrrrrr]

Of course, to have a strawman argument, we first need something against which to argue. So, I'll start off, and then you guys all respond to me and to each other ONLY with strawnman arguments OR with blatant kudos to someone's argument that is only a thinly-disguised personal insult to the one being argued against (e.g., "Absolutely! At least someone here isn't full of shit!" or "Speak it! At least you speak out of your mouth and not your asshole"). Let's see how funny this can get, while still following the rules. And of course, in truest form, you should give kudos to someone then attack them viciously a few posts later and give kudos to the person you attacked when you gave kudos to the first person. But remember: no direct insults, no off-topic strawmen.

So, here is my premise for us to "debate":

We should require all people to retake and pass a driver's test every time they have their driver's license renewed.

[datasuspect]

1. let's just cut to the chase:

HITLER HAD A PENCHANT FOR MEDDLING BUREAUCRACY SUCH AS YOU ARE PROPOSING!!!!!111111

WHAT'S NEXT? WILL PEOPLE HAVE TO PROVE THEIR ARYAN RACIAL PURITY TOO???!!!!1111

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Good for you for bringin up Hitler. I guess we're not allowed to

have opinions at all then, if opinions are Hitleresque. So who's more like Hitler now, Hitler?

[datasuspect]

4. hey that is supposed to be the "debate" squasher

(if you want to consider debate as two people trying to convince each other of their illogical and irrational viewpoints).

but, mein Komrade, the hitlerian gambit still stands.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. So you're saying we should just go ahead and gas the liberals?

Gas anyone who's trying to have an opinion that differs from yours? Sure would be easier, wouldn't it. Just like your hero Dubya said, it's easier leading a dictatorship.

[datasuspect]

20. well, they ARE just a bunch of islamofascists

hell bent on destroying us.

we need to fight them here before we have to fight them here.

[xmas74]

19. Damn!

First post went straight for the Nazi reference.

That was fast.

[bridgit]

3. "requir(ing) all people to retake and pass a driver's test every time...

"...they have their driver's license renewed" is an expense any & all states can no longer afford to shoulder due to the expenditures required to circumvent all forms terrorism (past, present & furture), while supporting endless war so deal with it

[wildhorses]

5. I always did like the scarecrow better than the tinman...oh

wait a minute....strawman...NOT a scarecrow...NOT ....must remember this

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Rove put this forward as a diversion....

because his wife said "no" last night. NOT because John Mark Karr ate pate and shrimp and drank champagne on his flight to LaLaland from Bangkok.

[leeroysphitz]

7. If you HATE the elderly so much and are so FANATICALLY anti- AARP

then why don't you move to Russia?

[Dangerously Amused]

11. Just because YOU want dangerous drivers on the American taxpayer's

...roadways doesn't mean the rest of us do. And what do you think, that they don't HAVE elderly drivers in Russia???

[leeroysphitz]

13. Um..... Ah.... STRAWMAN.

[Dangerously Amused]

40. There you go trying to change the subject again.

I suppose you think that American strawmen would make better drivers than elderly Russians.


What is it that you have against elderly Russians anyway? Are you a Republican?

[leeroysphitz]

94. When did you stop beating your spouse?

[Rabrrrrrr]

117. ROTFL! You really nailed him! 1.5 days later, and the fucker still hasn't

responded to your impentrable Logic Salvo!



I always find it so funny when people think they're smart and getting along in a debate, and then someone just shuts them the fuck up and they leave, stomping their sad little feet all the way to go crying boo hoo to their overprotective and domineering mothers.

[Gold Metal Flake]

8. Retake the test everytime?

The only people who want that are bleeding heart, do-gooder nanny-staters. And they want everyone else to pay for it, too.

[Arkham House]

9. Lenin wrote in 1903...

...that capitalism would be eroded from within by pornography, promiscuity, drugs, the systematic attack on religion--*and on forcing people to take frequent driver's tests*...

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

10. Don't forget the freedom to own a pit bull as a well-trained family pet.

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. Oh, okay - so you agree with PETA's agenda, then?

Animals before people? Have you sprayed any red paint on expensive coats lately, or you more the type to just put iron bars in the trees so the lumberjacks get hurt?

I'm glad at least some of us believe that people have rights.

[calico1]

28. And how is prohibiting pet ownership

going to give people more rights?

It's a good thing most people have enough sense to know that people and animals can coexist rather than hold these extremist "either/or" views with regard to people and pets!

[Anarcho-Socialist]

41. People have a RIGHT to defend themselves when attacked by animals

It's people like you who want dangerous attack dogs roaming back on the streets.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

77. Why do you hate bunnies? I have two pet bunnies. Why do you hate them?

[Rabrrrrrr]

79. Who said I hated bunnies? Where did I say that? Can you quote me

saying that? No, you can't, can you? Because I didn't say that.

Why don't you just go cozy up to Saddam? That's precisely the kind of bullshit he would say in the middle of a debate. Clearly you are in love with his methods and seek to be a good disciple of his lies and idiocy. Maybe you even love him himself.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

80. Yeah, well you love Bin Laden. Why don't you go tell the president where

he is since you love him so much?

[Rabrrrrrr]

102. I know you are, but what am I?

Christ. Grow up, you sophomore.

[Strawman]

68. Don't give the loony lefties around here any ideas

Some people on this board would jump at the chance to nominate Lenin's corpse in 2008. They're against winning elections and love to "tilt at windmills."



I just HAD to chime in on this thread.

[crim son]

12. You wouldn't by any chance happen to lobby for

the Corrective Lense Industry, would you? Big business... it always comes back to money, money, money!

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. Excellent post!!!

Why is it people can post the most heinous, racist, anti eyeglass wearing bias stuff and get away with it?

The mods are biased, that's why.

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. You and crim son have shown, over a long time, that you are in cahoots.

What, do you PM each other about your posts to say "Give me a pat on the back here!"?

Your obvious cliquish "togetherness" impresses me not the least in this debate.

[crim son]

21. And why shouldn't we support one another?

I know who my friends are, and I know who's a dumbass moron without a pot to piss in!

[ScreamingMeemie]

23. Honest to God. I don't know why Skinner lets some people post

here.

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. So you don't think people should have jobs? Want us all to go back

to a nomadic hunter/gatherer society? Just regulate businesses right out of existence?

Good luck starting that cook fire with the bear breathing down your neck, trying to get at the rabbit you managed to kill in the nuclear wasteland you created when you bankrupted everyone and everything.

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. Pot meet kettle.

Funny how some people are all set to jump on the "I told you so" bandwagon...when mere months ago they were punching the clock at the very same bankrupting corporations. Sure...fine for you.

[ContraBass Black]

24. Of course. I bow to your infinite moral superiority.

Since we're all corporatist, dirtbag, baby-robbing hypocrites and you're the only one who knows and speaks the truth, what should we do, oh enlightened one?

[Rabrrrrrr]

115. If you only knew how hard MrsGrumpy works in her activism,

you wouldn't insulted her that way. You have characterized her exactly opposite to what she is.

America has literally been saved by her, and you would cast her on the dungheap of history.

Your inability to work together, to strive for a common goal beyond our meager and irrelevant differences, is precisely why democrats lose in every election.

I think you would fit better in Ayn Rand's party, and probably be a lot happier and avoid the years of therapy that you surely need.

[SofaKingLiberal]

25. Why do you hate the working class?

I'm sensing a lot of anger here. Are you trying to put body shops out of business?
Did some dent puller hurt you in the past?

[XemaSab]

26. Exactly! That will keep drunks off the road and make our roads safer!

[Fleshdancer]

27. The more we argue about this, the less we focus on BBV!

Jeez people! Stop falling for this Rovian plot to distract us from the REAL problems in Amarica!!! Stay focused!

[ScreamingMeemie]

30. Who's paying you to say that.

I always knew there were paid operatives on DU...and now I have PROOF!

[Fleshdancer]

36. typical leftist scare tactics

this is obviously why the DLC should have full control over the party.

[ScreamingMeemie]

37. You know...call me a loony leftist, checker playing dimwit but at

least I have standards. Some people would sell their mother just to get a vote.

[Rabrrrrrr]

45. Ah, another in your endless, tiresome, boring tirades against Wes Clark.

Why don't you give it up? The election was two years ago.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

38. I bet you're someone who accepts the *OFFICIAL* 9/11 explanation

Open your mind for a change and you'll hear the TRUTH!!!11

[Anarcho-Socialist]

29. You're ready to surrender your civil liberties too huh?

I thought most DUers were anti-Fascist, I guess I'm wrong.

[ScreamingMeemie]

31. This isn't about civil liberties... This is about doing the right thing

..to protect our children...and our children's children.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

34. What do you intend to do? Hide them then your cellar

Isn't that a little extreme? If you don't see this for what it is - a sop to the insurance sector then you're a corporate shill.

[ScreamingMeemie]

39. Did I say that? Show me where I said that? Oh...you can't? Why?

Probably because I NEVER SAID THAT! What is with people that they can't address the subject at hand and always end up going off on some wild tangent? I swear, that's why this country is going to hell.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

42. I know people with attention issues (trolling) when I see them

and yet you claim to be all 'innocent'. Most people here see through your garbage. I have tried to debate with you REASONABLY and all you want to do is write offensive hateful things. You're the reason why the Dems don't do well in south.

[Rabrrrrrr]

44. Nicely said! I prefer people, like you, who see through the bullshit

instead of creating the bullshit, and people who argue using logic and good sense and facts instead of just making shit up or getting all emotional. You have been more than patient, and I applaud you for that. I wish I could say the same about certain others; others who obviously don't care that the South is laughing at us as a party.

[ScreamingMeemie]

57. Real nice...Yep. Pile on.

Just what I expected from people who seem to have a problem with thinking for themselves and grab talking points from the latest RW pundit.

[antigone382]

118. Yeah, well I'm glad YOUR driving skills are so PERFECT!!!!

If you're such a good driver, why don't you just go join Nascar there, Ricky Bobby? I mean, you obviously LIKE guzzling up all the oil with your silly driving tests, raising up prices and ensuring our doom when IT ALL RUNS OUT!!!1!11 Which it will--trust me--and then where will you be? Starving in a mudhut with dysentery, that's where! But hey, it'll all be OK, because there won't be any dangerous drivers on the empty roads of the post-peak oil global wasteland! AREN'T YOU PROUD OF THE WORLD YOU CREATED??????????!!!!!!!1!!11!1111

[Rabrrrrrr]

119. So all that nuclear waste we're making is just fine with you, then?

Perhaps you'd like to store it all in your backyward, then.

But probably not - all you faux-environmentalist are nimbys: not in my backyard types.

But who the hell cares? Bring on the radiation holocaust!

[antigone382]

122. Oh please!!!! Preach it, Ricky Bobby...

(Or would you prefer if I called you Dale Earnhardt???) Just exactly WHERE did I say that I supported nuclear energy? HMMMM??? Could you copy & paste it, bold, italicize, and underline it, and put it in quotation marks so that I could clearly see just where I said what it is you're saying I said?

Oh, that's right, You CAN'T, because I DIDN'T. But whatever, I'm used to these kinds of outrageous claims coming from CERTAIN POSTERS WHO SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS, WHOSE NAME STARTS WITH "R" AND ENDS WITH "rrrrrr."

[Rabrrrrrr]

123. Since you had a chance to deny it and didn't, I can only assume I'm right.

You want our schools filled with spent uranium rods and other nuclear waste, poisoning our children because they are the most vulnerable and most disposable to you.

Perhaps you want to do medical research on the children to see the effects of radiation? Or maybe just out of cruelty or a twisted sense of "hijinks" and "frivoloty".

You make me sick.

You must have had a rotten childhood to be filled with such hatred for all life.

"Hey, antigone382, we have a few tens of thousands elementary schools without any radiation - we better spend grandma's social security on building more and more nuclear plants so we have more waste for the children!"

[antigone382]

125. You know what? I DID have a rotten childhood!!!!

Thanks for bringing THAT up and dredging up all sorts of horrible, painful memories for me. That shows just how much CLASS you have. Just what did that kind of personal attack have to do with your stupid idea anyway? God, I'm so sick of these clueless elitists out there who had completely ROSY childhoods and don't know what real PAIN is!!! Or maybe they're just heartless sociopaths. If I decide I just can't take it anymore and end it all tonight, I just want you to know it's totally your fault!

[Rabrrrrrr]

126. I refuse to apologize for the financial circumstances of my parents

and my subsequent upbringing. It wasn't my fault, and your attempt to malign wealthy people - to compare them to the evil of cancer or tuberculosis - is pathetic, sophomoric, and generates no sympathy from me.

In fact, it repels me even more that you would equate these terrible diseases, under which millions of people suffer, with the "disease" of wealth. You have just made a caricature of hundreds of millions of people, suffering from no fault of their own, suffering terribly, by ridiculing their diseases and trivializing them with your comparison.

I suppose in your perfect world, the sick would be left to die - perhaps even speeded along by "Pain Relief Patriots" commissioned with the work of shooting the sick in the head so they die immediately and can be that much more quickly swept from your oh-so-superior view.

[Marie26]

90. Great post!!

I agreee wholeheartedly w/your reasoned, eloquent post. Today a driver's exam, tomorrow a one-way ticket to Gitmo!1! Since when did we start blindly submitting to authority?? The OP represents everything that's wrong with America.

[ScreamingMeemie]

32. I LOVE how OP starts an obvious thread intended to draw flames...

and then takes off... Troll? Hmmmm.. I wonder

[LostinVA]

52. And, don't we have more important things to worry about?

Like JonBenet, Kudzu, Tom Cruise. I mean... HELLO?! Glad this is all the OP thinks is fucking important. WTF kind of shit is this, anyway???

[Rabrrrrrr]

74. So we should only worry about whatever issue you decide is the world's

most important issue at the time?

We can't address two or three issues at once?

So we either let Iraq burn to the ground and end up in civil that leads to world annihilation, or we let Hezbollah destroy Israel and lead to world annihilation?

So, then, what is the ONE AND ONLY ONE issue that we are allowed to discuss, O Great and Wise Arbiter Of All?

[LostinVA]

75. Oh, great strawman argument!

Give me a break.

Go find someone else, because I'm done playing with you.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

112. Correct

Congressional Dems have been silent on the Kudzu issue. No wonder we lost in 2004.

[LSK]

33. everyone says this is flamebait, so I think you should stop

[ScreamingMeemie]

35. Best. Post. Ever.

But he's not listening. He's already gone on to greener pastures. Ready to post his own unique brand of passive agressive B.S.

[Rabrrrrrr]

43. Oh, okay - so you're willing to live under a one world government

with a sole leader who tells us what we can and cannot do?

I'm sorry, but I believe in the sovereignty of the United States of America.

[LostinVA]

54. This is typical for this poster n/t

[LSK]

62. why do you hate America?

[Gormy Cuss]

46. Driver's licenses aren't the problem. It's cars.

Until this country is ready to commit to more energy efficient transportation solution no one should be allowed to drive.

[Rabrrrrrr]

48. Very nice - let the rural people starve to death.

That will help the population problem.

[Gormy Cuss]

49. Nice try.

Rural people should be growing their own food. If they starve it would be because they didn't take ownership of their food supplies.

[Rabrrrrrr]

51. And I suppose they can hire your militia to guard the food supplies

in this world of chaos and survival-of-the-fittest that you've so negligently created?

It's always about what benefits Gormy Cuss, isn't it?

[Gormy Cuss]

53. That's it. I'm leaving DU.

Right after I alert on your post.

[LostinVA]

55. Consider yourself on Ignore n/t

[Anarcho-Socialist]

109. Anyone who uses the 'Ignore' is a coward and not a real liberal

What's wrong, can't handle the TRUTH!!!1?//

[LostinVA]

130. Don't you DARE challenge my LIberal street cred

Freeper troll.

"Socialist" my ass. Consider YOURSELF on Ignore, too.

Jerk.

[ScreamingMeemie]

59. Right on brother! I mean, looking at this thread one can see

where DUers, who shall remaing nameless, would throw the rest of us under the bus.

[Gormy Cuss]

63. Passive aggressive much?

No wonder the Democrat party always looses.

[antigone382]

120. "Democrat party?" What a TROLL-like thing to say...

REAL Democrats say "Democratic Party." Everyone KNOWS only freepers call it "Democrat party." Maybe you're on the wrong discussion board...

[Rabrrrrrr]

121. Good catch! Fucking trolls can't keep their stupidity secret, can they?

They think they're so damned clever, but are so easily spotted.

I've had my eyes on that one for a long time.

[antigone382]

124. Thanks for backing me up, man!

If it weren't for good DUers like you, stupid trolls like this one would drive me completely insane!

Brilliant idea you've suggested here, and I'm sorry to see it torn to shreds by these whacked out extremists!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

47. What's next? Renewing your voter registration every year?

[ScreamingMeemie]

58. Finally! The voice of reason...

1. I can't believe the mods haven't locked this.

2. It's the same people spewing the same pablum (regurgitated and swallowed four times) as always.

3. I swear if this continues I'm voting for Nader.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

60. I think the longest lines at the DMV should be saved for these nanny law

loving maroons!

[Anarcho-Socialist]

110. Who do you work for? FAUX News?

Spouting the latest garbage. Let me tell you something FASCISM does NOT work.

[LostinVA]

50. What a freakin' nanny state argument

Like seat belt laws aren't intrusive enough??? I suppose you think we need a license to walk across the damned street. Jeez.

[quiet.american]

56. Everything changed after the events of Sept. the 11th.

We need to remember drivers are now living in a post-9/11 world.

[ScreamingMeemie]

61. What are you? A conspiracy theorist? I thought those were planes

driven into the buildings. Keep talking like this and people will start saying that aliens kidnapped the Lindbergh baby.

[quiet.american]

66. Some don't understand there are bad people who want to hurt us.

It's this kind of pre-9/11 thinking that would er... put unsafe cars on the road, leading to er... severe damage to national security.

[Rabrrrrrr]

73. Oh, Christ - what's next? Banning kids from bowling alleys?

Or requiring bowling alleys to offer foam balls whenever kids are present so no child gets hurt?

[quiet.american]

78. After Sept. the 11th, we're not saying "stay the course" --

Just adapt to win. If foam balls is what it takes, heck, we're prepared to go there.

[treestar]

84. Terrorists COULD use bowling balls to attack next time

Every bowling ball must be registered and every bowling ball user must have a license to use that particular bowling ball!

[Rabrrrrrr]

96. Of course, the America in which recreation is only for the rich.

How could I have been so blind as to not realize that all past-times should be regulated and taxed to the point that only the rich can afford to do them. The working class is supposed to work, not bowl, right? Yep - fuck the workers.

And we wonder why the dems lose in the south.

[treestar]

106. Oh, so you think we should just let the terrorist "bowl us over"

and destroy our way of life? Why do you value bowling over America? There are bowlers out there who want to kill us all! We need to have all the bowling alleys over in Iraq, so we don't have to fight them over here!

[Rabrrrrrr]

107. Because these colors don't bleed, jackass.

But what would you know, I'm sure you would rather see us outsource all our fire departments to saudi arabia or mexico.

[treestar]

108. Why do you hate firefighters?

Saudi firefighters are just as good as American firefighters. This is racism, pure and simple. So you think only Aryans make good firefighters, Adolf?

[Rabrrrrrr]

128. Instead of twisting my words, why don't you stop supporting genocide?

Because that's clearly what you're proposing.

[bleedingheart]

64. It would cost too much.

That would be the biggest problem. It would overwhelm the testing centers which are limited to begin with in some states.

I however think that when people are diagnosed with Alzheimers they should have their licenses revoked.

I personally know of two men who are driving around my community who are diagnosed and have Alzheimers and are taking meds for it.
Their wives don't want to make a fuss...and one woman lets her husband drive her around. Now tell me...when one of these gentlemen kill someone's kid with a car what will happen?

[Rabrrrrrr]

65. You favor Soylent Green then? Just dispose of the old people

and make them into food to feed the younger, "more able", "more capable" people. Yeah, well, who raised those younger people? Who made the world in which they live? Don't they deserve at least some modicum of respect? Don't they at least have a right to live beyond retirement? Obviously, you would have us build "Retirement Homes" in which they are euthanized.

Your anti-geriatric stance is disgusting.

[bleedingheart]

67. well only the more fit old people should be used for food

and only those who aren't on too many medications....cuz we don't want some youngsters drinking their geezer-shake and then pissing all day because the geezer had been addicted to water pills...

As for the others...to the fertilizer farm they go.

[ScreamingMeemie]

71. Now that's what I call a modest proposal!!!

More people here should think like you.

[Arugula Latte]

69. Oh, so now you're for exploiting men made of straw?

I suppose you think that the SCARECROW in the WIZARD OF OZ wasn't as SMART as you ... just because he didn't have a BRAIN! Well, La Dee Dah! Mr. "I'm Up Here On My High Horse" kicking over poor raggedy CROP SAVERS and maybe even setting them on FIRE. Why don't YOU try chasing crows all day and then come talk to me! I'll bet you've never chased crows once in your life! I have! Many times!

[ScreamingMeemie]

70. Not to be a scarecrow nazi but, technically, scarecrows are solitary

strawmen, not usually given to chasing anything. If we're going to argue about something, we should at least have our facts straight.

[Rabrrrrrr]

72. Thanks for taking a stand on clarity and facts!

I'm tired of the constant hyperemotionalism that passes for "debate" around here.

Some people will take anything out of context and spin it based on their own personal "issues" (or "demons", more rightly!). Next thing you know he's gonna say that monkeys should be allowed to run hospitals in order to be "inclusive" or that we shouldn't require Nuclear Engineers to have degrees in nuclear engineering because some people can't afford college, or aren't smart enough to pass their "arbitrary" standards, and why should they be included from well paying jobs like nuclear engineering?

Pfft.

[Arugula Latte]

88. Oh, great, so now you and Mrs.G are ganging up against me?

And, you've decided to refer to me as a male even though I'm a female? So, what, you both hate women? I guess I'm not surprised about you but, why does Mrs.G hate herself? Maybe you both have deep inferiority issues, so much so that now you're both advocating rounding up an entire group of people, more than half the population, and putting them behind barbed wire fences in concentration camps. Wow. I really feel sorry you, with your hatred eating away at your insides like acid.

[El Fuego]

76. This is just another transparent GOP ploy to purge the voter rolls

in the motor-voter states. But why would they assume bad drivers vote democratic? Everyone knows that repugs are the worst drivers because their vision is obstructed by virtue of their heads being stuck up their asses.

[Marie26]

93. Exactly

Some people can't see a Rove plot when it's SO obvious. I think the OP, and all the "Democrats" supporting this policy, are actually paid Republican trolls.

[treestar]

81. Let's just make people pass a test every time they go out for a drive!

[treestar]

82. So every time somebody gets a new prescription for their glasses

shouldn't they have to retake the test too? And whenever there is a new law passed, everybody's license should be invalid until they take the test anew!

And lawyers and doctors should have to take new tests every year and all other professionals, including teachers.

Nobody should ever be allowed to permanently be considered good enough for anything!

[Arugula Latte]

83. Well some say that people who fail tests should be shot on sight ...

Call me crazy, but where I come from, our deeply held values tell us that it's WRONG to gun someone down for failing an eye chart test. Sure, you fancy elitists might disagree, but you don't hold the same wholesome American values that I do!

[treestar]

89. So you think that blind people should be allowed to drive?

Why do you hate America?

[Arugula Latte]

92. Oh, sure, you think just because people can't SEE things

when they get behind the wheel of a car, that they shouldn't be able to put the petal to the metal and use their sense of smell to detect obstacles in the road (or sidewalk, as the case may be). Obviously you hate everyone who is "differently abled" and not someperfect specimen of Aryan superiority with blonde hair and SEEING blue eyes. Hmmm ... Why does that sound familiar? Anyone else hear the sound of jackboots coming from treestar's post?

[Rabrrrrrr]

98. Then you advocate doing medical experiments on all "disabled" people?

Why not? If you aren't willing to allow them to be part of society, I suppose we could at least learn something medical from them, right? And who's gonna pay for all this, Mr. Don't-Tax and Spend? The thirty-two racially and genetically pure people you choose?

[Wetzelbill]

85. that's the thing with liberals

they always want more government. Just a little bureaucracy is not enough, they all advocate socialist solutions and make everything as inefficient and ineffective as it possibly can be.

Blah, I have class so I better go.

[Bucky]

86. Maybe it's uncool to love America. Maybe I'm unhip to enjoy sunsets.

Perhaps me saying that all people should retake and pass a driver's test every time they have their driver's license renewed won't get me invited to any of your "free love" Hollywood drug parties...

Well, if that's the case, Hanoi Jane, then I'm glad, nay, proud to be uncool.

[Marie26]

87. So sexist!

I see you really want to take all female drivers' licenses away. You're falling into old sexist stereotypes of the patriarchy - who's to say that more women won't pass your precious test? If you don't think women should drive, I suggest you move to Saudi Arabia, where you can live in a misogynistic oppressive country more to your liking!

[Zomby Woof]

91. A dangerous slippery slope

I suppose you think they should put the person's SCORE on a little decal right next to our driver's license picture, a triangular-shaped decal, which is just another fascist-like erosion of our PRIVACY RIGHTS. What's next? A "V" sticker, to single out vegan drivers? Should they do away with the organ donor program to save money for this unfunded mandate you propose? CHILDREN WILL DIE!!!11!! This is a HUGH burden!!1 Next thing you'll suggest is a "D" sticker so Republican cops can harrass and taser us when we are pulled over for playing our THUMPA THUMPA THUMPA BOOM BOOM HIP-HOP LOUDLY????!1// Or our Laura Branigan CD's, because I want to be all-inclusive and tolerant, ok????//?

HONESTLY, PEOPLE, THIS IS WHY WE LOoSE ELECTIONS!!!11 SERIESLY!! for the DEMOCRATS!1!1!11

FUck U!

[idgiehkt]

95. I'm not smart enough for this thread

that's the best I could do.

[Rabrrrrrr]

97. Your posting of an obviously gay strawman speaks volumes.

But, sadly, nowhere near as much as much as the fake, wrongly appopriated and sarcastically displayed psuedo-Native-American garb the strawman has on.

Haven't the Native Americans suffered enough, that you have to laugh at them and remind them of their shame?



And we wonder why dems lose elections.

[idgiehkt]

99. don't forget the Scottish

there's some plaid in their too. This scarecrow is not gay, just trangender, btw.

[Arugula Latte]

100. Who appointed you the First Amendment Policeman?

Hmmmm? Can't the poster simply put up the visual image of his or her choice without worrying about violating your overblown sensitivities? Why don't you just put a match to the Constitution and turn the whole country into a No-Free-Speech-Zone while you're at it?

[Rabrrrrrr]

101. Ah, wonderful - another perfect pavlovian knee-jerk into Libertarianism

from our foremost salivator, Oregonian.

Whew - maybe you can go back to worshipping Ayn Rand now that the bell is done ringing. Why are you at a democratic site anyway?

[Arugula Latte]

103. If, by calling me a Libertarian, you mean that I am

brilliant, kind, successful, very respected, well-educated, a pillar of the community and totally hot, then, yes, I guess I AM a Libertarian.

As for worshipping, I guess anyone who doesn't worship by your rules and doesn't participate in the sick rituals you espouse (such as poking puppies with sharp sticks) and who doesn't fit into your narrow little definition of what is "allowed" will never gain the approval of your rigid ReligioFascistic mindset.

[Misunderestimator]

104. "Drinking often leads to homophobic remarks. So it would be best..."

"to abolish drinking on campus. This would also significantly reduce sexual harrassment and sex in general."

[Anarcho-Socialist]

111. Yes because having ubiquitous drunk teenagers is so much better

[Misunderestimator]

113. I suppose we should just go back to prohibition and speakeasies then.

[Rabrrrrrr]

127. Well said! That's PRECISELY what the poster is alluding to.

It's so obvious I can't believe more people haven't jumped on him.

Because we all know how well Prohibition worked the first time.

[nuxvomica]

105. I disagree. People should be allowed to drive cars

Why do you hate people who drive cars?

[warrens]

114. Your pro-driving school propaganda is so transparent

How much do they pay you to spam these boards with this divisive, calculated attempt to force unionized motor vehicles dept. employees to quit due to overwork, thereby busting yet another of our few surviving unions?

[Rabrrrrrr]

116. So then you think the taxi industry should just go unregulated

so our children can die in horrible, flaming accidents?

Okay, then.

[treestar]

129. You know, these DU conspiracy theory posts make the democrats

look bad. How could all the drivers in a country carry out a conspiracy to avoid having to retake driver's tests so they can drive poorly and dodge tickets?



This kind of post keep the Rethugs in power.