As Dalton said:
“All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it’s absolutely necessary. And three, be nice. ”
And keep on being nice. Until it’s time to stop being nice.
See, here’s the thing. Breda is, from all I can tell (from reading her blog) One of the most well reasoned bloggers out there, aside from being a particularly fine person. And I will also admit having a thing for librarians, having found the attention of a particularly good one when i was a preteen. She spread vistas before me so well that I had travelled the word and space and time before I was twelve. And I imagine Breda to be that sort of person.
Anyway, dragging this around away from my own twisted adolescent fantasies back onto point, Breda has made it clear that she won’t be taking any liberals to the range, and i wholeheartedly agree. If you voted Obama, she feels, you don’t have much respect for me or my rights. And she’s spot on.
i tend to take this a step further, following Dalton’s rule: When it’s time to STOP being nice, stop being nice. Oh, you can certainly be civil, but you can’t ever underestimate your opponent. The good thing? You can get him to underestimate you. And that is precisely what you must do.
I have a soft spot for the people I know, and I hope and pray that they all do well, and I do everything in my power to treat those I love and respect with as much dignity and decency as I can muster. There is a powerful lot of bullshit in the world, and anything I can do to make anyone’s day nicer, I try to do.
To those who have voted Obama, and those who have figured that we don’t deserve the right to free speech, and to defend ourselves, I have one thing to say: You have lost your humanity in my eyes, and you no longer deserve nor will you get my sympathy nor my well wishes. I will continue to pray for you, that you may come to reason, but I’m damned if I’m going to treat you with kid gloves. You have no respect for me or my rights, and I will show none to you. So the Toms of the world, the ‘anonymous” at Breda… Keep thinking of me as some hick rube. Unenlightened. Yadda yadda.
I like it when you think that. So, I bet, does Breda.
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Nice is a luxury for those with security of their rights and their persons. Regret and second guessing are the luxuries of the victors.
Win, and you’ll can play the parlor game of “Geez, we shouldn’t been so hard on them.” After you win. Then you can say we didn’t give them enough luxuries in Camp Gitmo. But win first.
I just read where today the Taliban killed a Pole because negotiations broke down regarding trading him for captured Taliban fighters. Now how many muslims will do the nice thing and protest this abomination? I mean, the “moderate” ones. But poor ole Pollacks aren’t a *recognized* oppressed people, so his death will go unmarked. But our enemy combatants are stood up for by the nice police.
I am tired of this society mandating niceness, where you get shunned and fined or jailed for not being nice to the right person on the bingo sheet of the week. Where people based their vote not on where someone stands, but “to be nice” to him to compensate for past oppression.
We were the first country to use the A-bomb on another. But once the peace treaty was signed, boy did we fly in c.a.r.e packages and relief. Because we are decent people at heart, and winning meant we could afford to be nice, to an enemy who was no longer one.
Sorry, your post came at the exact moment I myself ran out of nice.
MTS, you’re still plenty civil here. And it’s always welcome. Save your ire- as you know- for those who deserve it.
(*I have a soft spot for the people I know, and I hope and pray that they all do well, and I do everything in my power to treat those I love and respect with as much dignity and decency as I can muster.*)
You sure do. I’d like to spend this moment in thanking you for allowing me to play a little rough at your house, these days, Og.
When I write what I do, I try to be in the mindset of ‘with Goodwill towards all, and Malice towards none’. Looking over some of my posts I realize that my humor may have gone over the edge just a leeeetle bit. So if you are annoyed, I’d like to put on the record that I feel my snarkiness has been burning a little too rich lately and I need to self correct my behaviors some.
…and thank you for letting me camp out on your doorstep. I’m having a lot of fun.
I used to go by the name libsarepondscum until I figured that pond-scum may actually have a purpose on this Planet.
Understand?
I can’t wait until we get you and Breda at the same blogmoot. And I want to be there, too.
M
Blogmoot… Hah! Thats funny! You’re a Tolkien grognard, aren’t you, Mark?
Oh. Wow.
Well.
I was just making the rounds, reading the blogs on my day off, and find this.
Thank you.
(also – yes! I can’t wait for the eventual Breda Og Blogmoot meeting. Plan for April. There will probably be hugs, just ask Alger.)
Hugs…. not so good. Sorry. But lively conversation and etc? Fine!
Good deal.
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