facepalm of the day

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by OldDog

http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/24/if...-die-in-fires/

http://happynicetimepeople.com/resea...m-yeah-right/#!

Everyone would like to think that the ability to get irony and sarcasm has something to do with being smart — it just makes sense, after all, that picking up on the subtle cues that a statement isn’t meant to be taken at face value has something to do with intelligence, or discernment, or something like that. And god knows when we don’t pick up on a sarcastic remark, we definitely feel dumb. While I suspect that there’s probably something to that, some recent research published in Frontiers in Psychology suggests that, in children at least, the ability to understand irony and sarcasm appears to be related to the child’s ability to empathize with others.

[OldDog]

So, slate was being sarcastic. Or you were. Got it.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by OldDog

So, slate was being sarcastic. Or you were. Got it.

no, i think slate was pointing out the irony.
people say no government...and then they find out later how often they actually need part of it.
and then they say 'oh'

[OldDog]

Originally Posted by Danzig

no, i think slate was pointing out the irony.
people say no government...and then they find out later how often they actually need part of it.
and then they say 'oh'

http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/24/if...-die-in-fires/

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by OldDog

http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/24/if...-die-in-fires/

did something change from that story you just linked above?

[OldDog]

"Irony," cries slate - where there is none. Because slate doesn't understand that limited government does not equal no government. Or maybe that was you.

[Danzig]

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/gay-coupl...ounty-kentucky


I really wish that these few clerks could explain why that one sin they don't like is what crosses the line.
but then....she can't judge someone getting married and divorced, and then coming to her to get married again. and again.
she's done it four times so far. yeah, those sincerely held beliefs are only so sincere.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by OldDog

"Irony," cries slate - where there is none. Because slate doesn't understand that limited government does not equal no government. Or maybe that was you.

I'm sorry you didn't get it.
or maybe you didn't get to this part of the article?

To be clear, I understand that FreedomWorks has not literally called for the elimination of public fire departments. (If it did, it wouldn't be the first time that proposal has been made by a libertarian group or activist.) FreedomWorks has, however, opposed funding for federal disaster relief funding of the sort that Washington state has requested and received from FEMA to fight ongoing fires in the Okanogan area. FEMA also paid for more than $2 million in fire-related infrastructure repairs in Okanogan County in 2014


I'm all for smaller govt. there's a lot of bloat and waste.
but, quite often those who say 'I don't want no govt' are the first to complain if they don't show when things get tough..
just like people who complain about the aclu, and then wonder when the aclu will sue over something that hits them directly.

then there's 'we don't need to regulate banks' who caused the last economic, worldwide collapse in 08. but let's regulate the living sh!t out of abortion clinics...but no other medical clinics.
hey, maybe we can have another govt shutdown to harm the economy, but our esteemed congress will get paid?

as an aside, I saw something about politicians having to wear their donors names on their suits, just like nascar drivers. I love that idea.