Wonderful.

He should come back with a lot of transparent, inane nonsense that will fulfill his pathetic desire to appear learned and intelligent. This nonsense, mind you, will answer no real question or support any objection, but it’ll be riveted with all sorts of utter liberal bullshit.

I can’t wait, John.

Here’s an example of their work. (Hopefully the video won’t embed.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJRkwpMVOUs The initial fight is between their high scoring Captain, Bobby Clarke. Watch how the team responds to protect their star and how the star later tries to protect his teammates. Also note that the guy flipping the Atlanta player into the bench is their highest scorer, Reggie Leach. Later on, infamous goon, Dave “The Hammer” Schultz clobbers the guy who came after his coaching staff. The Hammer actually wound up scoring the winning goal of that playoff series.

The 70′s Flyers was all about everyone contributing and sacrificing for the good of the team. Ain’t no high paid prima-donnas looking for tax cuts or standing by as the lower ranked players get their asses kicked.

I better stop the 70′s hockey talk before I tear up out of nostalgia.

2) From what I checked out on his blog, Barron seems to be a classic little Libertarian twit. They all have blind, unquestioning, faith in the Holy Free Market. It’s a straight up religious cult built on pure faith. Changing their minds requires a de-programmer and is almost impossible, but they still need to be countered only because their illness may infect somebody else’s mind.

Mental illness is a communicable disease.

3) Sorry if I implied you’re old & weak.

4) Despite blowing a couple hours on my rant I’m not remotely upset you nixed it. Leaving it sit there alone just made no sense.

5) I’ll continue to occasionally drop by. However, I used to do all my postings at work and my job went MIA. I don’t have a home Internet account, so my comments will be sporadic at best. I’m currently reduced to exchanging sex for Internet access. (Which also explains why my comments will be a little less coherent and less brilliant than usual. No time for proof reading.)

6) Satire is a lost & unappreciated art in the Internet era. Everything is blunt, literal and deep thought is discouraged. But try to keep it up anyway. Literacy (and 70′s hockey) makes me nostalgic.

The floor is yours. Are you going to waste it about what you think I will do or try to make a valid point?

People are waiting.

However, you do prove the recent study that shows liberals are more intolerant of dissenting views.

Yes you did.

Puleease John. You can never be honest about what exactly I have said. I clearly didn’t state that I did stand up you but that I simply choose not to waste my time with the likes of you because you take the tact that is uncivil and presumes that your hyperbole is a sound basis for an argument. Your inability to see how you approached me on this topic was a turn-off might explain why you are standing with a sign in your hand saying “I am offended” with a sour puss look on your face. You are yourself offensive and people are only reciprocating that to you. Is that what you want?

You didn’t offer any engaging ideas. But I’ll be magnanimous here and reprint your comments so everyone can see them and judge for themselves if you did or if my assessment of your comments is closer to the truth. Here’s your original response to my root post:

The poor in America are the government/taxpayers’ pets. At least that’s how they’re treated. We feed them, house them, make sure they have phones, and much more. Because the poor in America invalid, or so the left makes them out to be.

Now, I’m not sure your point except that money ought to be confiscated from the wealthy for the benefit of the poor. Is that your point? If so, how long to you expect the wealthy to work hard in order to have their money taken before they reduce their productivity, or worse, move out of the country? Will the poor be better off when no one is wealthy? Take a look at your last pic, that’s what they’ll look like here. That is after they sell their TV’s, gaming consoles, air-conditioners, and other things that make the “poor” in America seem like Donal Trump to the rest of the world.

What of this are you calling an “engaging idea”?

It’s kinda my fault too Sedate for pulling the comment by Barron. It didn’t dawn on me either that I might catch someone like you responding to his comments before pulling them. Hope that doesn’t keep you from coming back in the future and making comments on other topics.

“Sorry, but it’s one of those “instinctual” things. It angers me when I see the elderly/weak/underdog/mild mannered/take-your-pick being bullied by some delusional douche ..”

Trust me, none of these considerations really fit me. And please don’t think by saying this that I thought you were being insensitive. I don’t.

Even at 63, being elderly isn’t something that prevents me from standing up to some zealot like Barron. In fact I am guilty in the past of responding just as you did. But time has been instructive and I have come to realize that this tact doesn’t gain anything other than feeling good after letting off steam. I have done nothing to really get people like Barron to appreciate an opposing view from their own. It simply deepens their convictions about people like me and to some degree even gives them some gratification from ruffling their adversaries feathers.

I would have been glad to have an open honest debate with Barron on this if he had approached the topic in a civil fashion and not began by taking the extreme view he did. But I recognize this form of attack and having seen Barron’s “sentiments” expressed on another blog, I realized instantly that he was someone who wasn’t willing to listen to a rational approach on this.

My original posts was not a rational post but then it wasn’t intended to be. Most rational people would have recognized it as the satire it was and, if they held views like Barron does, would have simply taken some internal offense then moved along without feeling the urge to respond.

But people like Barron, who make up their minds about an issue and are locked into them, are always on the edge, looking for a fight and are never ready to concede that some of what they hold as “truth” may not fit all situations. Nor are they willing to own up to a bit of hyperbole on their own part. Being wrong is something they can’t tolerate either, especially when confronted with someone at the polar opposite of their belief system.

For the record, I welcome any and all opposing views to my posts. I fully understand they are predisposed to a set of views that many would take issue to. But I will not tolerate such attacks that clearly indicate they are not in tune with reality and who have no intention of engaging in civil discourse to confront someone who they don’t agree with. Age has also shown me that dealing with such people at all is usually a total waste of time, which is something I have no intention of doing anymore.

Take care Sedate and I hope to see you around again. I do catch your comments on other blogs that we seem to both appreciate so if not here, then perhaps on one of those blogs.

BTW, your spelling of “favour” indicates you’re British or Canadian or a derivative of the Great Britain heritage. Am I wrong and if not, do you mind sharing where you’re from? Or not.

I just dropped by and noticed that some clueless idiot head over heels in love with his own delusional ideology was trying to shit on Woodgate for no apparent reason. Barron couldn’t even grasp that his comments were more than just laughably wrong, but may have been “hate driven”.

I myself am under no such delusion. I am fully aware many of my comments are “hate-driven” on one level or another. Seeing the potential of things getting nasty, I decided (to use a hockey term) to be the “3rd man in” and do Woodgate a favour by pummelling that clown in the hopes he would slink back to his personal blogging Utopia where the “intelligent, hard working and irreplaceable” 1% are worshipped as the Gods they are while the “stupid, lazy, useless” Poors are left to wither & die as the result of their own flawed characters & bad decisions. (aka Libertarian Paradise!)

Unfortunately, by the time I cranked out my rant, the entire series of posts had been removed and mine was just hanging in the context-free breeze. (And with an embedded video to boot. Damn I hate it when that happens.)

Sorry, but it’s one of those “instinctual” things. It angers me when I see the elderly/weak/underdog/mild mannered/take-your-pick being bullied by some delusional douche pushing an agenda that would further promote the interests of the strong over the interests of the weak.

Next time I see that kind of crap and want to respond, I promise I’ll try to count to 10 first and then hit the browser “refresh” button before posting to ensure my target is still there.