The echo chamber

[osusev]

Its interesting really that only one side posts on a regular basis in here. I do realize this is of course a Browns bulletin board.....however at one time there were many different opinions in here.

It must be an interesting exercise to hear your own opinions constantly echoed back to yourself.

[calfoxwc]

Not at all. People are free to voice their opinions.

Other people who want to control the content, and run

people off, can go give Obamao the Face of UNAmerican smacktivities can

go give him great big smoochies.

Here's a hint: When Sheply was here, and constantly belittled Pres Bush, to the

constant "these are frightening, sad times" and "Cheney is terrifying" and "Halliburton x 1,234,444 times" ...

and you didn't have the nads to

tell him to cheer up.. well, we stayed here the whole time and accepted his right to post

nonsense completely.

Now, the shoe is on the other foot, and your toes hurt. Think about that.

You guys are only bailing because you don't have Pres Bush to be extremely hateful and rediculously negative about.

It isn't our fault we defended Bush when we should, and criticized him when we should - (like doing little about illegal immigration)...

and you goofs don't have any way to defend Obamao at all, and won't criticize him for anything on this planet.

If McCain and Palin had won the election, you guys would all be here raising hell, and you know it.

Now? You got nothin. Obamao is a huge, huge, huge blight on our American Presidency, maybe even bigger a blight that

Woodrow Wilson was.

Plain truth is, a few kept slapping Bush with every death of an American troop, and now, they don't give a crap.

Werid how that works, eh?

I knew Heck was going to bail on this forum, when he started desperately making personal insults to me and T, whever else disagreed

with him.

Like I told T, it was just a last ditch effort, imho, to get dissenters booted off the board.

Have nice day, though.

[Kosar_For_President]

@osusev said:

Its interesting really that only one side posts on a regular basis in here. I do realize this is of course a Browns bulletin board.....however at one time there were many different opinions in here.

It must be an interesting exercise to hear your own opinions constantly echoed back to yourself.

Sev someone could say the say thing about what you and Heck talk about man. I just think you're scared. LOL

[osusev]

I am not "scared" to voice my opinion by any means..... seriously this is a anonymous bulletin board.

Really the problem is that discussion is not happening in any sort of educated meaningful way. There does not seem to be any useful information provided by the right wing dissenting opinions just ranting.....

Its not worth anyones time to debate PR.

[calfoxwc]

baloney. We've given you official, legit info from many sources.

CNN, MSNBC, FOX, Heretige Foundation, Wikipedia, gov sites,

and we gave you videos of the people we've criticize where you saw

them say the crap they said right in front of your eyes.

But you and your lib pals ignore all of it.

Truth is, Sev, you did a pretty fair job of putting up info to explain

your opinions, but Heck rarely did, Mzbeetlejuice and Shep never did.

They all just wanted to control opinions on the board with their partisan

quackery.

I call baloney. I've posted studies to prove my points about gw, and I got

bs personal insults in return.

Don't blow smoke into the wind, it comes right back at ya.

[Kosar_For_President]

@osusev said:

I am not "scared" to voice my opinion by any means..... seriously this is a anonymous bulletin board.

Really the problem is that discussion is not happening in any sort of educated meaningful way. There does not seem to be any useful information provided by the right wing dissenting opinions just ranting.....

Its not worth anyones time to debate PR.

Sev Cal is right here. I'll speak for myself at the least, I've been at it with Heck multiple times on my sources after he insisted I pulled shit from the Drudge Report, then I didn't know what it was until he told me.

[heckofajobbrownie]

Let's put it this way, Kosar - when I see a news story or an interesting opinion piece here's one thought that never goes through my head: "I wonder what Cal/T/Etc. thinks about this."

That's really why nobody else posts anything in here. It's that simple.

[Kosar_For_President]

@heckofajobbrownie said:

Let's put it this way, Kosar - when I see a news story or an interesting opinion piece here's one thought that never goes through my head: "I wonder what Cal/T/Etc. thinks about this."

That's really why nobody else posts anything in here. It's that simple.

Well I decided there is to much cynicism from both sides. There is so much out there, need not more come from me. When I post in here anymore, it is only pose a solution to a problem at hand, not the same old shit, Obama did this or Bush did that crap. That is why I have been leaving things open ended. At least I am trying the best I can.

[Mr. T]

Heck, just maybe nobody wants to be personally attacked or belittled by those radical posters who like to insinuate propagated untruths about them.

Even if someone is using an anonymous name as a handle.

[heckofajobbrownie]

Kosar, weren't you the one who posted that list of 25 things that prove global warming is a lie - the one that took me and Sev about 5 minutes to debunk?

If so, believe me, that was the same old shit.

[calfoxwc]

You didn't debunk jack squoosh.

I don't get your arrogance in your opinions - and you can't back them up

with substance.

You posted a list of things about gw first - and they did nothing to prove your point at all.

Even when you try to get Steve's take on some issue, Heck - you don't respond to what he said,

you just quibble over semantics, you change the subject and hijack what he said, twist it into words

you can refute...

ah... whatever. It's gotten very boring and old.

The only people on this board who I haven't learned from...

are you, Shep, mzbeetlejuice, etc.

That looks like you three are the ones not contributing, just judging, name calling,

and throwing out partisan crap - you know, the throwing you despise unless it's you who does it.

Here's a hint: grow up, stop trying to personally attack anyone who disagrees with you, try being honest

about what you really believe, and I will be happy to avoid your conversations.

[Westside Steve]

My take is that the board is saturated and I don't really have time or interest to read a thousand articles a day.

As far as the other side I'd rather read Truthout to keep up with what the lefties are on about but.....

If you have something to say Sev, post it by all means.

Just bitching that there are too many right wing posts doesn't help.

Plus I'd always rqther discuss somebody's take on any particular issue than read a thousand words from [enter right wing site here] or BarackObama.com....

But as far as name calling belittleing etc etc, come on guys, the first line of attacke is how everybody who doesn't love XXXXX is too stupid to understand.

It really does mirror the football pages.

WSS

[calfoxwc]

Well, if John, T, myself and T quit posting new stuff ...

Sev and Mr. Jellybean rarely ever do.

There is no board.

Where was this outrage when they started so many

anti-Bush threads?

Actually, sometimes I think Mzbeetlejuice logs in under Heck's login,

they both rarely offered up any opinions, but just attacked the opinions and posts

by anybody they disagreed with.

[Mr. T]

IMO: A lot of liberals wont post stuff here is because they know that most of the programs that the progressives want are bogus and silly.

Why is it more and more Americans are tuning into Fox news? Maybe because they are tired of all of the propagated liberal media on the other channels. Just the other day I was reading that more and more Americans are leaning towards libertarian ideals. They were stating that most would move over to vote for republicans but they are waiting to see if the republicans will stand up and deliver.

[heckofajobbrownie]

Honestly, I don't post new material because I already know what you're all going to say. Because it's said for you, then you repeat it. At least Steve has a base of knowledge where he can formulate a coherent (and grizzled) opinion on his own. Kosar seems to be interested in knowing more. Not everyone is versed in this stuff, nor should they be. They've got lives and jobs and families.

[calfoxwc]

Steve is just right center enough, you think you can reach him someday.

You don't post stuff, because you would be sticking your neck out, instead of

attacking everybody else's posts.

Join in. You might be surprised. I can't agree with you if you never give me anything to

agree with.

I know what you'll say too. Why would that lead me to not post anything?

I just don't get progressives. They live in some other dimension and time.

[heckofajobbrownie]

Cal, really. You've displayed an absolute inability to discuss anything on an adult level, have done so for years. Your consistent comparisons of the president to the world's worst dictators, or even some of the world's communist thugs, is as ridiculous as it is offensive.

I prefer that you disagree with me. The further away I am from your beliefs, the better it is.

[Mr. T]

@heckofajobbrownie said:

Honestly, I don't post new material because I already know what you're all going to say. Because it's said for you, then you repeat it. At least Steve has a base of knowledge where he can formulate a coherent (and grizzled) opinion on his own. Kosar seems to be interested in knowing more. Not everyone is versed in this stuff, nor should they be. They've got lives and jobs and families.

Excuses. I have a job and a family like most people on here do. But if you have something worth talking about, let it rip. And that does not mean to rip on other people, tell us your thoughts what is your ideal of utopia.

Otherwise you are just throwing a temper tantrum.

[shoot]

Because it's really hard to argue with people who already have a tenuous grasp on reality. When someone thinks Obama is a diehard marxist despite the massive concessions he's made to insurance companies and banks, or that the current HC bill somehow represents "government health care," it's hard for me to convince you of anything. Instead of wasting time, I'd rather just talk about the Browns, something everyone here has in common.

For the record, I think the HC bill is a piece of shit too, but for completely different reasons.

[shoot]

@mr.-t said:

IMO: A lot of liberals wont post stuff here is because they know that most of the programs that the progressives want are bogus and silly.

I'd agree with this post mostly as well, surprisingly, although I'd replace "progressives" with "the Democratic Party." The Dems are pretty incompetent when it comes to sound policy making. The sad thing is that people end up conflating the idiocy of the Democrats with progressivism/liberalism in general, when it's more like crony capitalism-lite with lip service given to progressive social causes. There is no liberal/left party in the US, unfortunately.