Comments on: Please, Shut Your Face http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/02/17/please-shut-your-face/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:02:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: calling all toasters http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/02/17/please-shut-your-face/#comment-84310 calling all toasters Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:51:16 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6916#comment-84310 Mishu: 1876 was 131 years ago. Did you happen to notice any changes in the Democratic or Republican parties since then? Didn't think so. Here's a hint: do you think that African-Americans supported slavery and Jim Crow? No, don't answer right away. Take your time so you can fake ignorance like Instapudding. Mishu: 1876 was 131 years ago. Did you happen to notice any changes in the Democratic or Republican parties since then? Didn’t think so. Here’s a hint: do you think that African-Americans supported slavery and Jim Crow? No, don’t answer right away. Take your time so you can fake ignorance like Instapudding.

]]> By: Lupus http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/02/17/please-shut-your-face/#comment-84309 Lupus Sun, 18 Feb 2007 15:43:07 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6916#comment-84309 "A man WHOSE tenure". Sheesh...you really should know that, Oliver. “A man WHOSE tenure”. Sheesh…you really should know that, Oliver.

]]> By: Hollywood_Freaks http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/02/17/please-shut-your-face/#comment-84308 Hollywood_Freaks Sun, 18 Feb 2007 08:08:29 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6916#comment-84308 Pedro: Absolutely hilarious. Mr. Willis: What Reynolds said is not advice. It's his opinion on whats bad for a political party. And seriously... enough with the "quotation" marks. Pedro: Absolutely hilarious.

Mr. Willis: What Reynolds said is not advice. It’s his opinion on whats bad for a political party.

And seriously… enough with the “quotation” marks.

]]> By: Oliver Willis http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/02/17/please-shut-your-face/#comment-84307 Oliver Willis Sun, 18 Feb 2007 07:09:08 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6916#comment-84307 You're comparing slavery to the Iraq war. That makes absolutely no sense. You’re comparing slavery to the Iraq war. That makes absolutely no sense.

]]> By: mishu http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/02/17/please-shut-your-face/#comment-84306 mishu Sun, 18 Feb 2007 07:01:06 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6916#comment-84306 I "cracked" open a history book. You should try it too. You might learn something. I “cracked” open a history book. You should try it too. You might learn something.

]]> By: Oliver Willis http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/02/17/please-shut-your-face/#comment-84305 Oliver Willis Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:50:20 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6916#comment-84305 Pedro, your theory is apparently that traffic/viewership is equal to being correct. By that measure, we should all be worshiping American Idol. I'm fine and dandy with my traffic, especially if I'm true to myself and aren't a shill. I could whore out like Glenn Reynolds, but I'm frankly too good for that. Mishu: I have no idea what brand of crack you're smoking. Pedro, your theory is apparently that traffic/viewership is equal to being correct. By that measure, we should all be worshiping American Idol. I’m fine and dandy with my traffic, especially if I’m true to myself and aren’t a shill. I could whore out like Glenn Reynolds, but I’m frankly too good for that.

Mishu: I have no idea what brand of crack you’re smoking.

]]> By: mishu http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/02/17/please-shut-your-face/#comment-84304 mishu Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:09:06 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6916#comment-84304 You crack me up Ollie. You remind me of those Democrats calling for the end of the Reconstruction in 1876. You know the Reconstruction? That thing where Federal Troops occupied the defeated Southern states? Well, during the Reconstruction, disgruntled, former Confederates would launch insurgent missions -- kind of like terrorism. See <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/tguide/index.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. <i>In the South after 1865, and in Iraq more recently, the United States faced the difficult task of restoring order and helping rebuild while seeking to avoid a long and costly involvement.</i> So, after a close election 1876 (popular votes went to Samuel Tilden, electoral votes went to Rutherford B Hayes, sound familiar?), the Compromise of 1877 settled the disputed election. Part of the deal was to end the occupation. Democrats, like you, were whining about the occupation and wanting it to end. They thought if the occupation ends, everyone would be satisfied and any violent insurrections would cease. So, after the Compromise, the occupation ends. Did it end the violence? NO! Not only that, withdrawal hastened the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, segregation and Jim Crow laws. Withdrawal of troops who protected people like your ancestors basically fucked them over. Oh the irony! Now you want to join the Democrats to screw Iraqis over like the Democrats of yore screwed your ancestors. Let selfish myopia rule the day! You crack me up Ollie. You remind me of those Democrats calling for the end of the Reconstruction in 1876. You know the Reconstruction? That thing where Federal Troops occupied the defeated Southern states? Well, during the Reconstruction, disgruntled, former Confederates would launch insurgent missions — kind of like terrorism. See here.

In the South after 1865, and in Iraq more recently, the United States faced the difficult task of restoring order and helping rebuild while seeking to avoid a long and costly involvement.

So, after a close election 1876 (popular votes went to Samuel Tilden, electoral votes went to Rutherford B Hayes, sound familiar?), the Compromise of 1877 settled the disputed election. Part of the deal was to end the occupation. Democrats, like you, were whining about the occupation and wanting it to end. They thought if the occupation ends, everyone would be satisfied and any violent insurrections would cease. So, after the Compromise, the occupation ends.

Did it end the violence? NO! Not only that, withdrawal hastened the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, segregation and Jim Crow laws. Withdrawal of troops who protected people like your ancestors basically fucked them over. Oh the irony! Now you want to join the Democrats to screw Iraqis over like the Democrats of yore screwed your ancestors. Let selfish myopia rule the day!

]]> By: pedromd07 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/02/17/please-shut-your-face/#comment-84303 pedromd07 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:45:20 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6916#comment-84303 yea, and he averages about 4 MILLION hits a month... Keep using his name Ollie, maybe someone will accidentally google you... yea, and he averages about 4 MILLION hits a month…

Keep using his name Ollie, maybe someone will accidentally google you…

]]> By: michael http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/02/17/please-shut-your-face/#comment-84302 michael Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:18:38 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6916#comment-84302 <i>Why don't our people just start giving advice to republicans?</i> You mean like "don't invade Iraq"? Tried and rejected. Why don’t our people just start giving advice to republicans?

You mean like “don’t invade Iraq”? Tried and rejected.

]]> By: norbizness http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/02/17/please-shut-your-face/#comment-84301 norbizness Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:07:38 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6916#comment-84301 I've got one: nominate Duncan Hunter! He's dreamy! I’ve got one: nominate Duncan Hunter! He’s dreamy!

]]> By: Evan http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/02/17/please-shut-your-face/#comment-84300 Evan Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:37:44 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6916#comment-84300 Why don't our people just start giving advice to republicans? If it's a good lick, use it. Why don’t our people just start giving advice to republicans? If it’s a good lick, use it.

]]> By: jerry http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/02/17/please-shut-your-face/#comment-84299 jerry Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:22:31 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6916#comment-84299 Listen, the guy may be a completely reprehensible reichtard, but um, let's leave the flowbee haircut out of this. Please? Listen, the guy may be a completely reprehensible reichtard, but um, let’s leave the flowbee haircut out of this.

Please?

]]> By: Duros62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/02/17/please-shut-your-face/#comment-84298 Duros62 Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:57:58 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6916#comment-84298 Damn, Reynolds, Malkin AND Hugh Hewett. It's like a Trifecta of Stoopid. Damn, Reynolds, Malkin AND Hugh Hewett. It’s like a Trifecta of Stoopid.

]]> By: norbizness http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/02/17/please-shut-your-face/#comment-84297 norbizness Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:18:14 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6916#comment-84297 By "in the minority" do you mean law professors with Flow-bee haircuts who have been wrong on every foreign policy point for the last 5-6 years and who attempt to compensate for said wrongness by playing Tom Clancy Splinter Cell in their minds? By “in the minority” do you mean law professors with Flow-bee haircuts who have been wrong on every foreign policy point for the last 5-6 years and who attempt to compensate for said wrongness by playing Tom Clancy Splinter Cell in their minds?

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