Love it! Love R.E.M.! Love 'em even more, now!

And Michael Stipe is correct. Their music does NOT belong on an outlet like Pox Noise. Anymore than chris christie belongs backstage at a Bruce Springsteen concert or "sippy cupp" belongs on MSNBC.

There'd be a VAST improvement with only one change: Get RID Of sippy cupp!

She has no place on MSNBC anyway! There's this nice cable network down the street that would be PERFECT for someone like her. Only she'd have to get collagen in her lips and dye her hair blonde.

DAYUM, msanthrope - that's a GREAT one!

Dang! These are GREAT!!!! Dittiot and Limbecile!

Those are GREAT, Doctor_J! I agree with you completely, TexasProgressive!

Those need to be said, read, and SPREAD!!!!!!

Only thing that was lacking last night was another little snarky aside -

maybe when Biden brought this up: "republican challenger Mitt Romney once said that it wasn't worth 'moving heaven and earth, and spending billions of dollars, just to catch one person.'"

I would have LOVED for Biden to say something like - "there he goes again, making policy decisions through some cost-benefit analysis. And he calls himself a good businessman? How good was THAT call? How good a cost-benefit analysis did he wind up doing on THAT one?"

Welcome to DU! And I'm with the un-friending advice.

I've had to do it several times, myself.

When they come in on MY page and post their shit on MY page, when I NEVER go over to their pages and do likewise (hmmm, maybe I should rethink that one?), I just un-friend them.

Just ask yourself - "do I REALLY need this aggravation on my page, or in my LIFE for that matter?" No. There's enough of it on Pox Noise and hate radio and s.e. cupp and michael steele and whoever those other 'CON jerks MSNBC brings on to try to get the "opposing view" showcased during the andrea greenspan hour.

I've started deleting their posts, and then soon enough thereafter, I delete them.

Mind you, I posted a status awhile back, announcing that this is campaign season and I will tolerate NO oppositional posts on MY page, and any posts I find objectionable will be deleted. Just making that clear, up front and in advance.

They can post their crap ANYWHERE ELSE across the whole frickin' Facebook universe. But I do NOT want it on MY page. And it won't stay on MY page if they try posting any of it. And neither will they! And you should hear some of the whining and attacks I got for even posting that disclaimer. "YOU LIBTARDS TALK ABOUT FREEDOM OF SPEECH! YOU'RE A HYPOCRITE AND A COWARD and fill-in-the-blank-here blah-blah-blah." They show their true selves when they're challenged or when YOU have the unmitigated gall to get back up in THEIR faces. They don't really want an argument. They want only a "yes sir/ma'am you're right, I give up and give in." I want only for them to keep their toxic shit to themselves and not squirt it all over MY page.

And if they still try to give me shit and call me more names, I just un-friend 'em. Don't need the aggravation anymore! MY page is a CON-FREE zone. It's MY page, after all. I can do that. And I do. Didn't used to want to go that way. Tried to reason with 'em and offer facts and history because chances are, I'm a little older than they are, so I've seen more, especially following politics. And it never does any good. So I just say "FUCK 'em" now. I don't even bother with 'em anymore. They're just not worth it. And that's the attitude I've just had to take. You can't save souls that resolutely refuse salvation.

Welcome to DU!

I get some of those nauseating emails from the old gent my mom used to date in the last couple of years before she died. They met in church.

I'm SICK of those emails by now. They're just as knuckle-dragger as can be!!!!

I've started saving some of the GREAT rants and material from the GREAT links posted here - and sending them back to him in a "Reply All." They're usually layered - MANY forwards. So I go back into those and pick up all THOSE email addresses and add them to the "Send" list. Maybe THAT way I'll finally get them to stop.

One time when I did that I got a response back from one of the people on the email list. She thanked me, saying she didn't like getting these emails either but didn't want to say anything and start an argument, but she was glad there was somebody else sending a corrective response because she didn't feel so alone anymore!

I've gotten a couple from the last round, too. Didn't feel like opening them at the time so I don't know what was in them. Fuck 'em. Don't care. I'm gonna answer EVERY ONE of those bullshit emails from now on.

I've started that with another knuckledragger emailer. I'm actually friends with his wife. She's pretty mellow - a former neighbor. He's a teabagger with bells on. He won't even come up with her when she walks over to our house every time she's back in town. He stays away. He finds me repulsive! I find that utterly delightful - I'm actually proud of it ('cause it means I must be doing something good)!!! Anyway - they share the same email address. So anything he sends around, I get it. I've started sending responses. He hates me anyway, I don't care what he thinks at this point 'cause it can't get any worse than it is already. But at least I can bolster HER if she gets into any political arguments with him.

DESTABILIZE THE ENEMY. The first, best way, is to just do it. They won't be expecting it. They still think Dems just roll over and play dead. So they have no template to fight back with a live one. That's why you see so many of them in FAIL mode when they're checked on their talking points. All they have is the talking points. They don't have any understanding of what's BEHIND the talking points, or what's the next sentence after each talking point, and they sure haven't been offered an alternative so they might be able to make a better choice.

DESTABILIZE THE ENEMY.

Shit! I just got a shot of the crowd!

HUGE! Obama, Michelle, Biden and Jill, and that neat Bruce Springsteen song "We Take Care of Our Own" playing!

Dear God, that must just KILL chris christie! He's been BEGGING Springsteen for a meeting. Evidently he loves Bruce Springsteen and has been to dozens of his concerts. BEGGING to go backstage and meet his rock 'n' roll hero, and Bruce (Bless Him!) refuses to meet with him. Doesn't like him. Doesn't like his politics. And here the dreaded Democrats are blaring a Bruce Springsteen song at the convention and here on CSPAN! That's GOTTA hurt!

VERY cool!!!! Eat your heart out, 'CONS. republi-CONS ('cause all they offer is a CON JOB).

Holy Crap that woman was on FIRE!

They should send her out next time we have to declare war on somebody.

MAN OH MAN!!!!!!!

Well, the B-team went first, just to try to prove they were ready for prime time

before the A-listers featured in the MAIN EVENT.

It was like comparing dinner at a five-star restaurant with a leftover cheese sandwich - made by your angry mother-in-law!