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Nice Plant #7: Get me off of this planet

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trixR4kids said:
Yeah totally! :rolleyes:
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Given how most people (would have thought all prior to reading your comment on the story) would think that the MnGOP did the right thing in discontinuing the use of that photo after the grandparents requested it of them.
 
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St. Clown said:
Given how most people (would have thought all prior to reading your comment on the story) would think that the MnGOP did the right thing in discontinuing the use of that photo after the grandparents requested it of them.
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No, the right thing would have been to ask permission in the first place. They had no choice after the grandparents request. Let's not give them credit for doing what they had to do instead of what they should have done.
 
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St. Clown said:
Given how most people (would have thought all prior to reading your comment on the story) would think that the MnGOP did the right thing in discontinuing the use of that photo after the grandparents requested it of them.
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Why'd they use it in the first place without the family's permission? You're obviously not bright enough to see the forest here...

Scooby I believe the grandparents requested it get taken down but then the GOP chairman said "they were within their legal rights to use it", but later changed their minds. And now it sounds like they're just going to take out his picture but still use this tragedy to make a political point, which is still complete scumbaggery.
 
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Well given how this will likely be used against them I'd say it's pretty stupid as well. The GOP just seems to be utterly clueless come election time recently.
 
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The Sicatoka said:
GOP?
October?
Engage "Operation: FOOT BULLET".
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You wish, bub. This time it's your candidate attacking a guy married to a Latina for being "wrong" on interracial marriage. Oh, and commenting on his handicap, too. Nice.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
"the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,"
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That was a pretty stupid thing to say, no question. However, it's equally stupid to stand around with your thumb in your rear hoping it happens again.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
Obviously, no one should be receiving death threats (or any threats) for legally hunting. And that's a heckuva a kill to be sure.

That said, the writer of the blog is an ***-clown.
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Are you aware of something else about the blog writer? I certainly see nothing in that blog that would lead me to that conclusion. But then, you likely consider me to be an ***-clown too. :p
 
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The blogger is exploiting a story with national exposure to garner some hits for his otherwise weird niche blog. In other words... he's a blogger. It's no more or less asinine than what Krugman or Sullivan writes on a bad day.
 
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A lot of those "yuppies" (who still uses that term?) are undoubtedly also hunters.

Painting with such a broad brush exposes his own insecurities and shows that he feels a division between himself (a true outdoorsman, apparently) and the "yuppies" who must all be tree hugging nature lovers.

A better writer - and a lesser tool - would have taken on the cowards who were threatening the family without indicting everyone else or making assumptions about them.


A lesson I'm constantly trying to apply myself - to varying degrees of success.


In addition, if people had an appreciation for this rare deer and were taking pictures of it, how is that in and of itself something to be derided? If I saw an albino buck of that one's stature, you can bet that I'd be running for my camera - just like I do when a hawk makes a kill in my backyard or any other time I see an animal that interests me.


I agree with his point about the threats. I agree that he has every right to hunt and am not offended by hunting or hunters. I appreciate that he feels an almost spiritual connection to the hunt.

He brought his own biases into his rant though and those biases really had nothing to do with the subject at hand.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
He brought his own biases into his rant though and those biases really had nothing to do with the subject at hand.
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Again, that makes him a blogger. Check out all the ways Ferguson is used by bloggers. It can be about police brutality or the horrors of poverty or the decadence of the welfare state or whatever else the blogger has in his mind when he sits down to write.

Blog posts are autobiography. They say nothing about the event and everything about the writer.
 
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Or at least, preliminary reports of one.
 
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