Comments on: The sleazemeisters have taken over http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/ Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a litttle salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, "All politics is applesauce." Wed, 7 Jan 2009 23:12:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.4 By: Pat Cunningham http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/#comment-4587 Pat Cunningham Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:19:21 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/#comment-4587 By the way, good luck in your 20 percent of retirement. By the way, good luck in your 20 percent of retirement.

]]> By: Mike Carroll http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/#comment-4586 Mike Carroll Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:53:32 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/#comment-4586 Pat-1.On my days off I tend to go online far less often. At work, I'm always online and going to Applesauce for a couple of minutes every hour or so tends to clear my head.Of course there are times when it binds up other body parts.2.Thanks, must have missed that. Pat-1.On my days off I tend to go online far less often. At work, I’m always online and going to Applesauce for a couple of minutes every hour or so tends to clear my head.Of course there are times when it binds up other body parts.2.Thanks, must have missed that.

]]> By: Pat Cunningham http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/#comment-4585 Pat Cunningham Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:41:59 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/#comment-4585 Mike: Two things: 1) Why should your new schedule reduce your input here? I would think that just the opposite would be the case. And 2) Regarding the "Democrat Party" thing, I wrote this six months ago yesterday: The genesis of this Democrat-as-an-adjective silliness is not entirely clear. According to one theory, it all started with Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the infamous red-baiter and witch-hunter of a half-century ago. Others say it can be traced to the late 1950s when a man named Meade Alcorn, chairman of the Republican National Committee, issued a directive to his minions to thereafter avoid use of the word “Democratic.” McCarthy’s example or Alcorn’s admonition, whichever it was, has been heeded to this day among the party’s more zealous elements. And woe to he or she who dares stray from this orthodoxy. Jay Nordlinger, managing editor of the conservative National Review Online, has written of the guff he gets from some readers for his refusal to misuse “Democrat.” John L. Perry of the even more rightist NewsMax.com also refuses to go along with those who “abuse consciously or misuse ignorantly” the D-word. The late Sen. Sam Ervin once said: “I have been trying to reform Republicans all my life and have had virtually no success, but I would like for them to adopt good grammar and quit using the noun ‘Democrat’ in lieu of the adjective ‘Democratic.’ If I can teach the Republicans that much grammar, I will feel that my effort to educate them has not been entirely in vain.” Mike: Two things: 1) Why should your new schedule reduce your input here? I would think that just the opposite would be the case. And 2) Regarding the “Democrat Party” thing, I wrote this six months ago yesterday:

The genesis of this Democrat-as-an-adjective silliness is not entirely clear. According to one theory, it all started with Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the infamous red-baiter and witch-hunter of a half-century ago. Others say it can be traced to the late 1950s when a man named Meade Alcorn, chairman of the Republican National Committee, issued a directive to his minions to thereafter avoid use of the word “Democratic.”

McCarthy’s example or Alcorn’s admonition, whichever it was, has been heeded to this day among the party’s more zealous elements. And woe to he or she who dares stray from this orthodoxy.

Jay Nordlinger, managing editor of the conservative National Review Online, has written of the guff he gets from some readers for his refusal to misuse “Democrat.” John L. Perry of the even more rightist NewsMax.com also refuses to go along with those who “abuse consciously or misuse ignorantly” the D-word.

The late Sen. Sam Ervin once said: “I have been trying to reform Republicans all my life and have had virtually no success, but I would like for them to adopt good grammar and quit using the noun ‘Democrat’ in lieu of the adjective ‘Democratic.’ If I can teach the Republicans that much grammar, I will feel that my effort to educate them has not been entirely in vain.”

]]> By: Mike Carroll http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/#comment-4582 Mike Carroll Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:26:44 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/#comment-4582 BTW Pat-You'll see a bit less of me around here (the good news) and the reason will impact you (the bad news). At my request, I am moving to a 4 day a week work schedule as a way to test the retirement waters. Lets see if I can keep myself reasonably busy without the full schedule grind. The bad news? I have asked that my resulting lower Social Security contributions be taken directly out of your benefit. Tighten up the old belt. I see dog food in your future. BTW Pat-You’ll see a bit less of me around here (the good news) and the reason will impact you (the bad news).
At my request, I am moving to a 4 day a week work schedule as a way to test the retirement waters. Lets see if I can keep myself reasonably busy without the full schedule grind.
The bad news? I have asked that my resulting lower Social Security contributions be taken directly out of your benefit. Tighten up the old belt. I see dog food in your future.

]]> By: Mike Carroll http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/#comment-4581 Mike Carroll Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:21:10 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/#comment-4581 Pat-I have never been able to figure out the "Democrat Party" thing. Why do people that use it think its some kind of insult and why do Democrats care? The whole thing sounds like gradeschool playground name calling. Pat-I have never been able to figure out the “Democrat Party” thing. Why do people that use it think its some kind of insult and why do Democrats care?
The whole thing sounds like gradeschool playground name calling.

]]> By: Pat Cunningham http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/#comment-4573 Pat Cunningham Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:52:27 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/#comment-4573 Mike: Good for you, and shame on you. The good: Unlike most of your Publican friends, you used the correct name of the Democratic Party. The shame: I had hoped you were referring to me. I like to be referred to. I want to be talked about and become a celebrity so that maybe John McCain will diss me. I want to be on John McCain's fecal roster. I'm still hurting from having been omitted from Nixon's enemies list. Damn, that would've been sooo cool. Mike: Good for you, and shame on you. The good: Unlike most of your Publican friends, you used the correct name of the Democratic Party. The shame: I had hoped you were referring to me. I like to be referred to. I want to be talked about and become a celebrity so that maybe John McCain will diss me. I want to be on John McCain’s fecal roster. I’m still hurting from having been omitted from Nixon’s enemies list. Damn, that would’ve been sooo cool.

]]> By: Mike Carroll http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/#comment-4571 Mike Carroll Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:18:12 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/#comment-4571 Pat-I wasn't referring to you. I was referring to the Democratic Party. Pat-I wasn’t referring to you. I was referring to the Democratic Party.

]]> By: Pat Cunningham http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/#comment-4546 Pat Cunningham Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:52:15 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/#comment-4546 Mike: I don't follow you. If I'm supposed to be the pot in your little metaphor, the comparison is bogus. You see, I'm not running anybody's campaign. Truth be known, if most of my readers are Illinoisans, as I assume they are, I'm wasting my energy dissing McCain and pimping for Obama. The Chosen One, as we disciples like to call him, is a cinch to carry this state, barring some horrible scandal. Mike: I don’t follow you. If I’m supposed to be the pot in your little metaphor, the comparison is bogus. You see, I’m not running anybody’s campaign. Truth be known, if most of my readers are Illinoisans, as I assume they are, I’m wasting my energy dissing McCain and pimping for Obama. The Chosen One, as we disciples like to call him, is a cinch to carry this state, barring some horrible scandal.

]]> By: Mike Carroll http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/#comment-4543 Mike Carroll Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:31:51 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/#comment-4543 "Steve Schmidt (above), a protege of the infamous Karl Rove, is NOW IN CHARGE of the garbage-slinging detail at John McCain’s campaign. " Newsflash-this just in-Pot calls kettle black. “Steve Schmidt (above), a protege of the infamous Karl Rove, is NOW IN CHARGE of the garbage-slinging detail at John McCain’s campaign. ”
Newsflash-this just in-Pot calls kettle black.

]]> By: LD http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/#comment-4533 LD Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:08:29 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/31/the-sleazemeisters-have-taken-over/#comment-4533 McCain making fun of Paris Hilton? That should teach Paris's parents a lesson for only contributing a paltry $4600 to the McCain campaign. McCain making fun of Paris Hilton? That should teach Paris’s parents a lesson for only contributing a paltry $4600 to the McCain campaign.

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