Comments on: Another Shocker from Ohio http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/ Author James Bovard Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:02:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Annie http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/#comment-27151 Annie Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:51:50 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/#comment-27151 some lyrics from 'song of the tax resisteur': O politician, on this day I say to you, you work for me. if I say you can't have my dollars any more to pay for your hotel rooms, then that's the way it is, you can't. I won't pay for your wars, That isn't why I'm working; I don't want to fill your pockets with the money I scrape off the counter each night You better take a look in the mirror Nightmares are coming your way You can't turn your back, close your eyes, rob us blind, and expect Life won't teach you a lesson expect Life to teach you a lesson, or two, expect Life will teach you a lesson. some lyrics from ’song of the tax resisteur’:

O politician, on this day I say to you,
you work for me.

if I say you can’t have my dollars
any more to pay for your hotel rooms,
then that’s the way it is,
you can’t.

I won’t pay for your wars,
That isn’t why I’m working;
I don’t want to fill your pockets
with the money I scrape off the
counter each night

You better take a look in the mirror
Nightmares are coming your way
You can’t turn your back, close your eyes,
rob us blind,
and expect Life won’t teach you a lesson

expect Life to teach you a lesson,
or two,
expect Life will teach you a lesson.

]]> By: Lawhobbit http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/#comment-25741 Lawhobbit Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:55:25 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/#comment-25741 Jim, if Brian starts with the mayor's team what in the world makes you think he'd ever have time to work his way down? Jim, if Brian starts with the mayor’s team what in the world makes you think he’d ever have time to work his way down?

]]> By: americanintifada http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/#comment-25635 americanintifada Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:21:58 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/#comment-25635 My mental caliber is a 44 magnum and when I picture those coeds in the front row wearing thongs, it always ends up being a mass debate! My mental caliber is a 44 magnum and when I picture those coeds in the front row wearing thongs, it always ends up being a mass debate!

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/#comment-25533 Jim Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:24:44 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/#comment-25533 Brian - I think it might make an amusing column to pull together the liveliest (most clueless?) attacks on you in the Toledo media and blogs. You could start out with the mayor's team and work your way down the food chain. It is frustrating to see the mental caliber of debate out there.... Brian - I think it might make an amusing column to pull together the liveliest (most clueless?) attacks on you in the Toledo media and blogs.

You could start out with the mayor’s team and work your way down the food chain.

It is frustrating to see the mental caliber of debate out there….

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/#comment-25528 Jim Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:04:31 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/#comment-25528 Hobbit - yep, that's the only issue Penthouse ever printed on industrial-strength paper. It was hell on the graphics but, actually, no loss. Hobbit - yep, that’s the only issue Penthouse ever printed on industrial-strength paper.

It was hell on the graphics but, actually, no loss.

]]> By: Brian Wilson http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/#comment-25440 Brian Wilson Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:17:35 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/#comment-25440 > OK - the future of the Free World will probably not hinge on what has/will happen in Toledo, thank (insert choice of deity or "N/A" here). But my limited vocabulary cannot find, with any economy of words, a way to describe the appalling, ridiculous, amazing, bizzar-o, unlimited stupidity, ignorance, vaccuity, apathy so rampant here! Check out the local blogs for a cornucopia of blithering idiots, non-sequitors, t-boned "logic", double-digited IQ's posing as the Intellectually Adroit with Infallible Wisdom. There might be Hope if any one of these Self-Annointed had the stones to say "I am a statist/collectivist/socialist/noclue-avist who just can't stand Wilson's mainlining Freedom right out there in public! Let's hear it for Ignorance!" and I'd be a happy dude knowing for certain there is at least a hint of self-awareness. With that germ of "wisdom", there just may be hope before global warming fries us all. If the "Toledo mentality" is as firmly entrenched in too many other towns, we are surely doomed! >

OK - the future of the Free World will probably not hinge on what has/will happen in Toledo, thank (insert choice of deity or “N/A” here).
But my limited vocabulary cannot find, with any economy of words, a way to describe the appalling, ridiculous, amazing, bizzar-o, unlimited stupidity, ignorance, vaccuity, apathy so rampant here!
Check out the local blogs for a cornucopia of blithering idiots, non-sequitors, t-boned “logic”, double-digited IQ’s posing as the Intellectually Adroit with Infallible Wisdom.
There might be Hope if any one of these Self-Annointed had the stones to say “I am a statist/collectivist/socialist/noclue-avist who just can’t stand Wilson’s mainlining Freedom right out there in public! Let’s hear it for Ignorance!”
and I’d be a happy dude knowing for certain there is at least a hint of self-awareness. With that germ of “wisdom”, there just may be hope before global warming fries us all.
If the “Toledo mentality” is as firmly entrenched in too many other towns, we are surely doomed!

]]> By: Lawhobbit http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/#comment-25430 Lawhobbit Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:34:39 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/#comment-25430 Am I the only one whose little concerned that Jim appears to have a copy - possibly the only copy - of Penthouse's "The Women Of The Toledo Port Authority?" Am I the only one whose little concerned that Jim appears to have a copy - possibly the only copy - of Penthouse’s “The Women Of The Toledo Port Authority?”

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/#comment-25427 Jim Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:05:53 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/#comment-25427 Brian - I'm sorry the coverage has not justice to the issue. I still got a big hoot out of the Blade article - but perhaps that is merely a reflection of my prurient tendencies. I hope at some point you can write up your battles, wins, and losses against government & apathy in Ohio. Brian - I’m sorry the coverage has not justice to the issue.

I still got a big hoot out of the Blade article - but perhaps that is merely a reflection of my prurient tendencies.

I hope at some point you can write up your battles, wins, and losses against government & apathy in Ohio.

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/#comment-25400 Jim Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:58:51 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/#comment-25400 Joe - as for the "old speaker's trick" - it sure as heck wouldn't work if I was speaking to a college audience with a bunch of coeds sitting in the front row. It's hard enough to think of a good opening line for a speech without wondering which women are wearing thongs. Joe - as for the “old speaker’s trick” - it sure as heck wouldn’t work if I was speaking to a college audience with a bunch of coeds sitting in the front row.

It’s hard enough to think of a good opening line for a speech without wondering which women are wearing thongs.

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/#comment-25399 Jim Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:57:48 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/02/17/another-shocker-from-ohio/#comment-25399 Marc - didn't Bolick's book hit the streets right about the time of Waco? That far exceeds any specific abuse done by local or state governments in the last 20 years. Marc - didn’t Bolick’s book hit the streets right about the time of Waco? That far exceeds any specific abuse done by local or state governments in the last 20 years.

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