Sandy Bloem
What SHOULD the mayor and city council have done, last Tuesday night? What would “success” have looked like? Perhaps they’ve gotten into such a defensive mode that they don’t remember how to treat citizens in a responsive, gracious manner. What would you have wanted to see?
Those who support their behavior will explain (and have done so elsewhere in cyberspace), that citizens should be treated with respect. But, they caveat, not all citizens. In other words, it’s okay to question government, but only when your names aren’t Mary Souza, Jim Brannon, or Dan Gookin.
I’m reminded of the phrase from Orwell’s Animal Farm: All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Comment by Dan — March 6, 2009 @ 10:14 am
Perhaps they’ve gotten into such a defensive mode–dan
perhaps. i wonder how that could have happened?
Comment by reagan — March 9, 2009 @ 1:45 pm
Good question, reagan. It probably happened because their spending $35,000 on “public relations” didn’t work.
Comment by Dan — March 9, 2009 @ 1:50 pm
Liberals = can dish it out, but cry like a little girl and run to mommy complaining when it comes back at them.
Comment by Faringdon — March 9, 2009 @ 4:10 pm
STOP! You have now insulted little girls. Please, all of you, stop using girls as the worst thing to compare to, it is so insidiously sexist.
Comment by mary — March 9, 2009 @ 6:07 pm
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner, ladies and gentlemen. Next week’s word of the week is “insidious.”
“The Coeur d’Alene City Council meets insidious library.”
Comment by Bill — March 9, 2009 @ 8:06 pm
Liberals = can dish it out, but cry like a little girl and run to mommy complaining when it comes back at them.–
whether your target is little girls or liberals it is, once again, another attack. even mary gets it. this time.
Comment by reagan — March 9, 2009 @ 9:23 pm
Did you hear Juan Williams, the Fox News commentator who is a Democrat, say that people on the liberal side are more often vicious and angry if he does not agree with their views? So the comment about “dishing it out” might be right on. I just want to protect the character of little girls, who have done nothing to deserve their frequent place as the butt of way too many jokes.
Comment by mary — March 9, 2009 @ 11:13 pm
mary, so you believe that one person’s opinion proves a stereotype created by political bias? fyi, juan williams is most often considered a dino, but fox news needs someone to trot out and display.
Comment by reagan — March 10, 2009 @ 8:07 am
Bob Beckel?
Comment by Dan — March 10, 2009 @ 8:18 am
reagan, why do you assume that everything is about you?
Mary, last time I looked, I was a girl. I have a girl. Sexist I’m not. It is just an old saying and off the top I couldn’t come up with a generic. Having now had my coffee, let us see if I can now do better. How about “crying like a little wimpy wuss”. Even I believe that to be more acceptable and, in actuality, more descriptive.
Comment by Faringdon — March 10, 2009 @ 8:47 am
It’s much more descriptive, Faringdon, thanks for being open to my concern.
Comment by mary — March 10, 2009 @ 9:04 am
Oh! I missed it. Mary wrote, quoting Juan Williams:
Then reagan, our token elitist, said:
See? reagan attacked Juan Williams because he’s not of the same liberal bent as reagan, proving what Williams said. Thanks again, reagan!
The elitist philosophy fails when they create their own official and exclusive club, a ruling party like the nomenklatura of the Soviet Union. You’re in or you’re out. Then, over time, the nomenklatura morphs into the same aristocracy they once loathed so much. They’re okay with this at first, because the new aristocracy is based on their own self-centered superiority, and therefore, they see themselves as enlightened, better than everyone else by intellectual right, not birth. That works until entry into the nomenklatura is by birthright, not merit, which is inevitable because you just can’t have any smartass joining the group. In the end, they become the same aristocrats that they once loathed.
reagan. I wish you and your fellow, future aristocrats the best.
Comment by Dan — March 10, 2009 @ 9:25 am
Elitist = wannabee
Comment by Faringdon — March 10, 2009 @ 10:27 am
attacked? not hardly, just noting a term often used to describe a prominent television figure. maybe you could make ‘attack’ a word of the week so some folks here could learn what it means, that would be helpful. dan, do you remember when ‘elite’ meant ‘the best”?
Comment by reagan — March 10, 2009 @ 11:33 am
btw, dan, thanks for the name calling –“reagan, our token elitist,– and completely destroying the point you were trying tio make. 😉
the irony of claiming i “attacked” juan williams by saying he “is most often considered a dino” and that that proved the point that “people on the liberal side are more often vicious and angry if he does not agree with their views”, followed by your calling me a “token elitist” is very, very rich.
Comment by reagan — March 10, 2009 @ 11:38 am
Well, certainly Gary Ingram is not our token elitist! Shall I conduct an OpenCdA poll for you? 🙂
Comment by Dan — March 10, 2009 @ 1:15 pm
Huh? How did I get into this so called discussion?
Comment by Gary Ingram — March 11, 2009 @ 8:34 pm
dan is lashing out.
Comment by reagan — March 11, 2009 @ 8:48 pm