HELP!          MY CAPS LOCK KEY IS STUCK!

I like links to facts~ or if a person believes a certain opinion writer has a good take on an issue. Sometimes it is helpful to see the links a person posts to ascertain how they reached their opinion.

I would suggest some honey and lemon for that sore throat after all the yelling. You'll just have to trust me on that~ no links! ;-)

Alicen,

I can understand your frustration, sometimes it seems people don't want to believe you are entitled to a different opinion.  Sometimes even if you provide links people still don't want you to be able to have your own opinion.  I provide them as a way to back up what I think.  Also, I do call out other people for facts to back up their information, mostly if it's an absurd claim or over generalization.  I feel that since I ask it of others, I should do the same for myself.  What I found curious is that some of those demanding proof have a hard time providing it when asked.

But hey, it's a blog.  You are entitled to your opinions, who cares what other people think about them?  If I cared, I'd never be on here.  =-)

Ditto Wndrwoman. 

Sometimes there ARE no links to an opinion.  For many of us, our opinions are formed over a period of time through reading, listening and yes, sometimes even from our opponents.  I've stated many, many times on here that the Liberals here have made me a much stronger Conservative through their debates (read arguments), insults, and links.  I look at something and, being a person of logic, thing waaaaahhaaait a minute here, this doesn't make sense and I look it up.

I work crossword puzzles in the paper.  Sometimes I come across something I have absolutely no knowledge of and wouldn't get the right answer if I struggled for a year.  When that happens, I use google.  Cheat?  Maybe, but the next time that clue appears I'm more likely to know what it is and what it means.  And so it is with blogs.

Something coming off of the fingertips of a Liberal on the blog onto my screen is not, in my world "from Gods lips to their fingertips."  I paraphrased a little and used a deity some on here don't believe in but you get the idea.  I don't blindly follow anyone..on either side in spite of the esteemed TBC bloggers say.  I should have been born in MO ...it fits me better than my own birth state.

Enough already.  I'm tired of typing, tired of arguing and will leave you with this little ditty.  I caught about 10 minutes of El Rusbo yesterday and heard him crown the little o with "Dr.  Chicago."  Get it?    C'mon..think about it.  I love it, and in honor of all those who insisted on calling Palin, Bush et al cutesy little names I knew they didn't make up..I'm a-gonna do the same for the little o.

Bwwaahahahaha.

Don:  Yes.  Once in a great while that caps key has its own way.  Nothing I can do about it. 

I do know this:  I've had my computer so long that the letters are worn off the keys -- well, most of them, anyway.  Good thing I could type before I wore the letters off. 

I don't get stuck in caps lock mode often, but when I do, I generally mean it.  Does it look like I'm screaming?  Well, that's because I am!  Rather, was. 

That'll do me for a while.

Sage, I agree.  And, as I said, occasionally I do use links as well as copy specific paragraphs from a column or article when I believe they're particularly useful in expressing what I think.  It stresses me, however, to be hounded by people wanting a "link" to "back up" my opinion.  The idea to me is absurd.

The idea that I must "back up" my opinion is anathema to me.  As I also said, I don't remember asking other people to "back up" their opinions.  I assume they came to their conclusions about whatever in just about the same manner I did, and, to paraphrase Infowar, "if you don't believe me, do your own research!"  Please, now, don't think I'm saying that to you!  It's just something I think of occasionally when people absolutely insist that I "back up" my opinion. 

You might say it gets my back up.  Raises the hackles. (Bet you didn't know that, did you?  LOL)

wndrwoman27:  Thanks for your comments.   And you're quite right about one thing:  even when links are provided, sometimes those very links are denigrated to the extent that they may as well have been omitted.  There was once a few months back when I had meticulously added quotes and links, only to have them shot down as unworthy of anyone's time.  The truth was that the link was to writers who are well known not only for having acute, incisive minds but the ability to write and communicate in a manner almost anyone could understand. 

Needless to say, I began taking a dim view of adding any further links.  And now it has come to what you've read above!  How things change. 

It won't prevent me from blogging; I'll continue to do that.  I should just change my blog name to "The Missing Link."  (I like it!  I wonder if it has been taken already -- just in case I want to change.)

Nancy:  You are so right about your opinions becoming stronger just by virtue of the "spewings" (MY word -- I wouldn't want you to get accused of it!) of a few flaming libs.  In my case it's like setting them in cement. 

I hadn't heard of Dr. Chicago, but I do believe I adore it.  Just as much as I despise the cutesy little names to which you've referred.  (And, sorry, I have no link for those opinions!)

A P.S. to all:  I have nothing against anyone's using links, but there's this:  I won't open a link while on a site away from my Internet "home."  Therefore, when I do use a link, I must copy it, sign out of the TBC site, go back to my browser site, paste the link, and sometimes it doesn't work anyway.  I don't have any reason to believe that others have not had the same experience. 

Nancy,

I couldn't agree with your post anymore if I had written it myself!  I know that when I ask for facts to be posted, I know that I have facts available to support my opinions.  I wouldn't ask something of someone if I wasn't prepared to do the same myself.  Most of my frustration comes from seeing some of the liberals on here post outrageous opinions as if they are some type of fact.  They act as is what they say is proveable (as a fact) and it's not.  Only when you call them out can they finally admit that it isn't a fact.  If you have an opinion, that's fine, express it as an opinion.  It's when they express it as a fact (like, all people who hate blacks are Republicans) that I get irritated.  These same liberals are the ones who influence my thinking to become more conservative because I wouldn't want to be associated with some people who can be so hateful and/or childish in their dealings.

To anyone who wants to say I was making generalizations...notice I said some.  Not all.  =-)  That's the difference between me and some of those other posters out there....

wndrwoman27:  I realize you directed your comment to Nancy, but let me get my 2 cents worth in, too.  Much of what I write about comprises opinions formed after a lot of reading, watching and listening.  Some of what I write is just what I, as an individual, feel as well as think about certain topics.  Sometimes it's just intuition that informs me.  For instance, personal like or dislike of another human being.  You probably have come across people in your lifetime for whom you've taken an instantaneous dislike, for no logical reason.  It's just instinctive.  I'm that way, at any rate. 

The thing is, almost all the time when I express an opinion, it's prefaced, with "In my opinion,...." or "I think ..." or "It seems to me...."  As stated in the blog, we are bloggers, and most of us don't get paid for writing verifiable facts.  A blog is in my opinion a forum just made for people like me who have opinions and have insufficient outlets for them.  The paper (my local one) will publish only so many of my letters to the editor!  LOL.  (Although it publishes many.) 

You will learn, if you hang around long enough, to know who is just jerking your chain and who is really interested in what you have to say.  Who knows -- maybe the blogs are just filled with those "teachable moments!"