Pew Research Center doesn’t mean a darn thing to me, Buck. Is it pew as in church pew?

I think someone misspelled and it refers more to a foul smell.

One can pay anyone to come up with the results that you want to prove or disprove.

Buck, do you remember the song from the 60’s called, “The Name Game”.

Banana Nana Foe Fanna

Buck, Buck, Bo Buck

Banana Fana Fo Fuck

BUCK!

Hogan’s Heroes was one of my little brother’s favorite shows, Britwit. He really loved the characters, especially the chubby Sergeant Schultz who would frequently murmur, “I see nothhhing. I know nothhing.” (Hmm. The kind of behavior that essentially kindhearted people might display when caught up in an unhumane bureacracy. Or to flip it around, the behavior that many otherwise decent folks exhibit when something fishy is going on.)
Richard Dawson (Family Feud) played the the modest “brains” of the group.

Lots of us who have observed the rightie species in its native habitat notice that their base motivation is fear. And on top of the fear is hate and rage. These are not happy emotions.

Thanks for coming up with the name of the series.

Yes, I do have concerns, and we probably agree on a lot of things. We’ll probably disagree on the ways and means to address those concerns.

I’d continue our conversation on your side of the fence, but your blog wouldn’t let me in for some reason. Let me know what I’m doing wrong about getting in so I won’t take up Maha’s time. She’s one devoted, intelligent and astute blogger. You may not agree with her, but I’ve been learning a ton of things that make sense to me.

Agree, re: maha. I’ve only been reading her for a month or two, and appreciate the fact she’s pretty moderate. (Usually.)

I don’t know why you couldn’t comment over at my blog, unless it’s Blogger screwing up, again. Blogger is noted for crashing, having native comment capability go south and other sundry glitches.

My last comment, thanks for playing! I hope you try again over at my place, Sam.

I’m glad I didn’t get under your skin. You seemed a little “hot” last time you wrote. Probably just blog enthusiasm. Easy to misread it.

We all read the Pew report some time ago. Nothing new to us but, like you say, “I base my comment on personal experience.” Well, so do we! Maybe you’ve been hanging around a particularly unhappy bunch of liberals? My friends and those in our community are a jolly bunch. It’s the conservatives who are the sour apples- always complaining that the illegal aliens are taking over and that America is going to heck. They spend an awful lot of time writing cranky letters to the editor around here, too. Maybe we’re just a bunch of American pots calling each other black, I don’t know. Also, the report does not say all convervatives are happier. Just 47%. And the report is far from depressing to liberals. Liberals don’t think that way. At least the ones I know. They’re too busy analysing it to be depressed. (Actually, analyzing is fun.)
In the meantime, we do have some serious concerns. Don’t you agree? Do you worry about the world and where it’s going? I’d think we’d all have that in common, too.

Interesting what you say about the survivalists being out there in the mountain states. I’ve lived in Wyoming, but probably not in the regions they are in. I had met a few here in California, though. Haven’t seen them in awhile and I certainly haven’t heard from them since Bush came to office. Just wondered if you had any theories about my question since you lean to the right.

I’d continue our conversation on your side of the fence, but your blog wouldn’t let me in for some reason. Let me know what I’m doing wrong about getting in so I won’t take up Maha’s time. She’s one devoted, intelligent and astute blogger. You may not agree with her, but I’ve been learning a ton of things that make sense to me. It’s that feeling of aha! that you get when things fall into place. I’ve perused many conservative blogs and I simply cannot relate to them . Sorry, I don’t mean to offend. I’m sure you’re a decent guy. Just telling you where I’m at. I’m not personally averse to exchanging views, but this blog belongs to Maha and she’s doing a fantastic job with it without my causing it to veer off topic.

“A survey by the Pew Research Center shows that conservatives are happier than liberals — in all income groups. While 34 percent of all Americans call themselves “very happy,” only 28 percent of liberal Democrats (and 31 percent of moderate or conservative Democrats) do, compared with 47 percent of conservative Republicans. This finding is niftily self-reinforcing: It depresses liberals.

Another interesting thing, Ian (maha, too), re: your mini-rant (ex-this, former that). All y’all find it impossible to take someone at their word, especially if that someone isn’t one of the tribe. Sorry I don’t have a pic of the ol’ ‘69 station wagon with the McGovern sticker on it to scan for you.

maha: I supposed I have wasted about 763 bytes of your bandwidth. Sorry. If you want to delete me, well, it’s your blog. Liberals apparently aren’t all that interested in an exchange of views. All y’all that do feel like chatting can feel free to drop by my place anytime.

Sam: Gosh, I think I got under Buck’s skin a bit. He didn’t seem to be having fun anymore. Buck has never met any survival types before? Amazing. (Where did they all go?)

Nope…it takes a bit to get under my skin, Sam, but I’m not that easy. Last I heard, the survival types were mostly up in Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho and Montana; we’re mostly farmers and military in eastern New Mexico. BTW, I hear Cheney has a special subsidy for the Wyoming boys. Someone should look into that.

What about Colonel/General Klink connection?

Comment #21: You gave me a good giggle this morning. I love self-deprecating humor. Thanks!
Britwit, you’re good at that, too. Shows maturity and being okay in one’s skin, I’ve always thought.

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Gosh, I think I got under Buck’s skin a bit. He didn’t seem to be having fun anymore. Buck has never met any survival types before? Amazing. (Where did they all go?)