Comments on: Links For A Snow Day http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2007/03/01/links-for-a-snow-day/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:08:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Jon Swift http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2007/03/01/links-for-a-snow-day/#comment-38271 Jon Swift Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:36:15 +0000 http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2007/03/01/links-for-a-snow-day/#comment-38271 You might want to check out my piece on Conservapedia, which has a number of examples of its scholarship: http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2007/02/conservapedia.html You might want to check out my piece on Conservapedia, which has a number of examples of its scholarship:
http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2007/02/conservapedia.html

]]> By: dave http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2007/03/01/links-for-a-snow-day/#comment-38275 dave Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:55:57 +0000 http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2007/03/01/links-for-a-snow-day/#comment-38275 Seriously, it's like the conservatives have no sense of their own irony. Self-parody at its finest. This entry on Bill Clinton is just <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Bill_Clinton" rel="nofollow">delicious snark:</a> <blockquote> Bill Clinton managed to serve two terms without botching the prosecution of two wars, manipulating intelligence, engaging in a systematic program of torture, or mishandling the federal response to flooding of a major American city. Obviously, he is the devil incarnate. Clinton also attempted to use the American military to kill Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, an action which was properly seen as a mere attempt to distract the nation from the Monica Lewinsky scandal.</blockquote> Or the article on the existence of <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/Unicorn" rel="nofollow">unicorns?</a> Seriously? <i>Unicorns!?</i> What I love most about the site is that it is expressly biased - and yet claims Wikipedia is biased. Let's be clear: as a quick and easy source of information, Wikipedia is great. As scholarly research, it's awful, and no instructor in their right mind would accept it. Seriously, it’s like the conservatives have no sense of their own irony. Self-parody at its finest.

This entry on Bill Clinton is just delicious snark:

Bill Clinton managed to serve two terms without botching the prosecution of two wars, manipulating intelligence, engaging in a systematic program of torture, or mishandling the federal response to flooding of a major American city. Obviously, he is the devil incarnate. Clinton also attempted to use the American military to kill Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, an action which was properly seen as a mere attempt to distract the nation from the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Or the article on the existence of unicorns? Seriously? Unicorns!?

What I love most about the site is that it is expressly biased - and yet claims Wikipedia is biased. Let’s be clear: as a quick and easy source of information, Wikipedia is great. As scholarly research, it’s awful, and no instructor in their right mind would accept it.

]]> By: dave http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2007/03/01/links-for-a-snow-day/#comment-38276 dave Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:01:21 +0000 http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2007/03/01/links-for-a-snow-day/#comment-38276 Oh, and <a href="http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" rel="nofollow">Uncyclopedia</a> kicks their ass in terms of sheer absurdity and detachment from reality... but at least they are <i>trying</i> to be absurd. Oh, and Uncyclopedia kicks their ass in terms of sheer absurdity and detachment from reality… but at least they are trying to be absurd.

]]> By: Jerry Chandler http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2007/03/01/links-for-a-snow-day/#comment-38351 Jerry Chandler Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:37:13 +0000 http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2007/03/01/links-for-a-snow-day/#comment-38351 The following was published on the Smirking Chimp 2-28-07 "Mark my words!!! I'm going to say this while there is still a modicum of free speech available, and while The Smirking Chimp is still able to publish it' web-site. Sometime between Memorial Day and the 4th of July, 2007, Bushco will do the following: 1.Invade Iraq, the carrier groups are already there) and 2.Suspend the Constitution and declare himself emperor for life. Our only hope is that the Generals to say as we did in the mid and late 60s; HELL NO, WE WON'T GO. The following was published on the Smirking Chimp 2-28-07
“Mark my words!!! I’m going to say this while there is still
a modicum of free speech available, and while The Smirking
Chimp is still able to publish it’ web-site. Sometime between Memorial Day and the 4th of July, 2007, Bushco will
do the following: 1.Invade Iraq, the carrier groups are already there) and 2.Suspend the Constitution and declare
himself emperor for life. Our only hope is that the Generals
to say as we did in the mid and late 60s; HELL NO, WE WON’T
GO.

]]> By: dave http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2007/03/01/links-for-a-snow-day/#comment-38353 dave Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:46:40 +0000 http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2007/03/01/links-for-a-snow-day/#comment-38353 I'm a cynical bastard, but even <i>I'm</i> not that cynical. Bush has been amping up the rhetoric on Iran, and we should be very concerned about that, but declare himself emperor for life? You're venturing beyond nutty conspiracy theories into complete "tinfoil hat" territory. I’m a cynical bastard, but even I’m not that cynical. Bush has been amping up the rhetoric on Iran, and we should be very concerned about that, but declare himself emperor for life? You’re venturing beyond nutty conspiracy theories into complete “tinfoil hat” territory.

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