Performance related firing

[Lanya]

http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/2007/03/saturday-cartoons_24.html

[BT]

Is this an example of how you and geiger treat "the others"?

[sirs]

Is this an example of how you and geiger treat "the others"?

Yea, truely diplomatic, civl, and objective

[domer]

I'm hesitant to speak for Lanya, so I'll speak for myself. Stinging satire can cohabit the realm of political discourse with genuine personal regard in an end-product that is as complicated and complex as the human mind itself. Indeed, robust discourse and commentary is so important to our system of government that it is emblazoned in the founding document itself. And as time moves on and patterns are established -- stubborn and invidious ones -- the tendency of commentators "to make nice" dissolves into a mandate for the politicians to explain themselves, honestly and openly, which, not forthcoming, virtually compels responsible commentators (and editorial cartoonists) to ratchet up the pressure, matching intransigence with evermore scathing "attacks."

[BT]

Domer

In your esteemed estimations what should the exact ratio of fuck you's to kumbaya's be?

2 to 1, 3 to 1,  5 to 1?

[domer]

It's a sliding scale, obviously.

[BT]

Should it be means tested?

[Lanya]

I wonder what the ratio was during the Clinton administration......

No need to take it personally.  I disagree with the administration and the practices it has put forth, the laws it has promulgated.    If you agree with it, then, we disagree.

[BT]

I wonder what the ratio was during the Clinton administration......

Irrevelant.

You say the best way to understand each other is to treat "others" as human beings deserving of respect.

I don't see you practicing that.

I would not expect Knute to practice that approach as he is upfront with his hate.

You haven't come out of the closet quite yet. Your disagreement with policy is mostly exhibitted by demonization " Republicans watnt women to get cancer " type slurs instead of rationally explaining what it is exactly you disagree with and how you came to that conclusion.

And no i don't take any of this personally. But i do hope you examine this post and see whether any of it resonates with your conscience.

[Lanya]

Is there a particular part of the post that is offensive? 

   

[Plane]

I agree with Domer , I think...assumeing that I understood him correctly.


  A satirical bite is the spice of American politics it isn't worse now than it was for Andrew Jackson  , it isn't  all that harmfull either, as long as one is aware of how toally reciprical it is.

   It is hilarious sometimes to see someone justifyng meaness as a proper tool of the compassionate , isn't it?

   The banter is a lot of fun, but there still is such a thing as truth and one should try to keep track of it in the midst of all   the rediculous hyperbole.


   

[BT]

there still is such a thing as truth and one should try to keep track of it in the midst of all   the rediculous hyperbole.

Indeed!

[Plane]

there still is such a thing as truth and one should try to keep track of it in the midst of all   the rediculous hyperbole.

Indeed!

The banter is a lot of fun, ...............
?

[BT]

Keeping track of the truth is more important than the banter.

Banter without a basis in fact is nothing more than a verbal version of whack a mole.