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Published June 27, 2009 10:24 pm - There are only a few things that I can tell you about Uncle Jed, one of the most frequent comment posters at www.joplinglobe.com. The guy pays his property taxes. Several commenters were able to pick up on it as he has made the transition from “Leroy” to “Moe” and then to his current online handle. He’s a master when it comes to knowing which words to capitalize on in order to push people’s buttons. He’s not a fan of liberals. He’s not a fan of whiners.
Scott Meeker: The world according to Uncle Jed
There are only a few things that I can tell you about Uncle Jed, one of the most frequent comment posters at www.joplinglobe.com.
The guy pays his property taxes.
Several commenters were able to pick up on it as he has made the transition from “Leroy” to “Moe” and then to his current online handle.
He’s a master when it comes to knowing which words to capitalize on in order to push people’s buttons.
He’s not a fan of liberals.
He’s not a fan of whiners.
And, to him, both of those groups are interchangeable.
Also, it’s never a good idea to try and engage him in an argument regarding his positions, for Uncle Jed deals in absolutes. As in, Uncle Jed is absolutely right, and you are absolutely wrong and an absolute idiot to boot. There’s really no middle ground.
As he has become one of our most frequent online commenters — and also because I’m short on time and better ideas — I now present to you a roundup of some of Uncle Jed’s commentary on the week that was in stories, letters and editorials from The Joplin Globe.
Voices: Dinosaur of redundancy
“If someone hits you on top of the head with a Craftsman hammer and then hits you again on top of the head with a Stanley hammer, would you be better off with one or the other? Why do you want to close a perfectly good Gitmo prison to pay for the movement of these terrorists to another prison? IT’S A JAIL CELL, IDIOTS, who cares? Some of you have been hit too many times on top of the head.”
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Voices: Fair Tax concerns
“You people must be nuts. First, Social Security is broken and predictions of a total failure are in the near future. So why try to protect it? Second, even with Social Security, the average monthly payment is between $700 and $900. If you didn’t have taxes taken out and you only paid taxes on what you purchased, then YOU HAVE CONTROL on how much YOU WANT TO PUT BACK. Get government away from giving me pennies on the dollar. You all whine about being on a ‘fixed income’ but you want to protect the system you whine about. It’s like saying you hate to hold a block of dry ice in your hand and someone suggests you pour boiling water on your hand to make you feel better. The system does not work and YOU LOVE the broken system.”
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