As for Obamacare, has anyone seen a nice little 10 page summary of Obamacare? That would be what a good marketing plan would provide to its perspective supporters. All the left does refute criticisms. Give me what it does, not what it does not do.

Nonetheless, just to make the 18,000 Facebook protestors futile, I’ll make a point to shop there for a few weeks.

Greta just called for it as I write.

On the other hand, this site ( http://walmartstores.com/FactsNews/NewsRoom/9238.aspx ) describes their support for Obamacare. There’s a link there to the letter they sent, jointly with SEIU and CAP, to Obama. I figured I didn’t want to support their efforts, regardless of where they advertise.

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As to your silly comparison to censorship and building roads…keep in mind…the Brownshirts didn’t build any roads since they didn’t hold any power….in fact…the Brownshirts veirtually ceased to exist once they got Hitler elected to the vice chancellorship. After deposing Von Hindenburg in a quiet coup, Hitler sent out his goons in an event known as the night of the long knives and had the leadership of the SA murdered in their beds and disbanded the group. so…building Roads has nothing to do with the Brownshirt’s actions during the beer hall putsch and their rampaging across Germany intimidating people into silence in a bid to put Hitler in Power.

I’m not haphazardly throwing the term around…I’m applying it appropriately to a specific tactic used to silence an effective voice of opposition. There is a historical context that applies here.

And you are two cute by half by cutting my cmments apart and making your counter to my arguments by destroying the context in which I made the comments. By quoting the following:

I’m drawing the comparison of a specific group employing a specific tactic that was used in the past who employed the same tactic to silence their opposition on their way to absolute power and enabled them to create the image you post above

and cutting off the quote I used to tie the thought together:

Censorship was the chief tactic of the Brown Shirts and the Regime they helped bring to power…and this is no different.

you paint a false picture of what I said!

As for this goofiness from you:

Censorship is the use of government power to prevent speech it doesn’t like.

From Webster:

* Main Entry: cen·sor·ship
* Pronunciation: \?sen(t)-s?r-?ship\
* Function: noun
* Date: circa 1591

1 a : the institution, system, or practice of censoring b : the actions or practices of censors; especially : censorial control exercised repressively
2 : the office, power, or term of a Roman censor
3 : exclusion from consciousness by the psychic censor

I see no mention of government in that definition…one doesn’t have to be a government authority in order to censor anyone…one only needs to present a threat and/or control over a thought or statement in order to be a censor…

This group is threatening these corporations with being branded as racist organizations unless they withdraw advertising revenues from Glenn Beck all for the purpose of Censoring Beck and destroying his ability to say what he has been saying…That is censorship…and the tactic this group is using was used by the NAZI party in order to silence their opposition and cease power…It’s a historical fact with a historical context and my use of the term has a proper contextual application in this specific instance no matter what you say…

The fact that you have ignored my repeated attempts to put my comments into a simple to understand context combined with the fact that you have ignored my factual historical statements and instead you have chosen to name call rather than deal with each fact presented says far more about you than I could ever say!

This was started by the left, astroturfing a boycott, OK, other groups in America do that on a regular basis. One thing to be considered when beginning a boycott is the publicity that will naturally result. It’s like banning a book, once people hear its going to be banned they want to read it and see why.

IMO the leftists who started this failed to consider the current political events in America today.

Huge numbers of Americans are frightened, rightly so, by the actions of our leftist driven government. NOT JUST healthcare, with out the Porkulus, TARP, the gov’t take over of GM, Crap and Tax to have proceeded Obamacare, they might have gotten away with it. The problem, for the leftists, is that all these things have been snowballing, one rolled into another, incrementally gaining size and momentum as they were rushed through congress. Once that monster snowball bumped into Obamacare it quadrupled in size.

It’s not a far reach to see the recent actions of the govt will “fill in the blanks” in HR 3200. As thousands of concerned Americans flock to Townhall meetings they also hear about the same people who support the governments actions calling for a boycott on a right wing TV host. Well guess what!

The left may have just created a monster! Beck’s off the wall, borderline conspiracy theory, evil clown act is going to resonate with a lot of new viewers.

Maybe we should write the advertisers thank you notes. While they lost millions, and Beck laughs all the way to the bank, we got some help laughing all the way to the polls.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-warner/advertisers-should-not-ca_b_263012.html

I cancelled my GEICO renter’s insurance today. I felt kinda guilty doing it as GEICO only serves as the agent and the actual insurer is Assuarant. Oh well. Partnerships have consequences too.

Now if I can only find carrier that will cut me as good a rate on my car insurance as Progressive so I can tell them to get lost. So far, no one has come close.

I’m drawing the comparison of a specific group employing a specific tactic that was used in the past who employed the same tactic to silence their opposition on their way to absolute power and enabled them to create the image you post above

Hitler also built freeways, so by your “logic”, environmentalists objecting to new highway construction would be justified calling their opponents Nazis. Even if the environmentalists were correct that highway building was something that Nazis did, comparing the highway advocates to Nazis would still be idiotic.

Censorship was the chief tactic of the Brown Shirts and the Regime they helped bring to power…and this is no different.

Censorship is the use of government power to prevent speech it doesn’t like. Voluntary boycotts, however they’re organized, is not censorship. What I characterize as “stupid” is the idea that people who write companies asking them not to advertise on a show are “no different” from Nazis (whether you use the term “Brown Shirts” here or “Nazi” in your earlier post).

Calling people, “Idiot”, “Moron”, “Stupid”, and “Retarded” is at best bad form and rude to say the least and is considered fighting words in my neck of the woods….at worse it would solicit an invitation to the parking lot for a good thrashing

I really like your rankings as to what’s good manners. According to you, slinging words like “Nazi” is supposedly less offensive than “Idiot” etc, Then Miss Manners rates settling it with a fist fight as more civil. I always enjoy your perspective

However – the control the left wants to exert in MY life straight up pisses me off. I took time out of my busy day to write every one of the advertisers, and explain that I would be exercising my right to boycott their products. And I will. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. It’s past time the left was put in IT’S place.

Particularly Soros, who took time out of his busy day last week to invest in Brazilian oil, so that he can again profit from my tax dollar while Brazil drills and we don’t. Which *shockingly* America on the whole didn’t even know about yet.

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Thank you.

ColdWarrior