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DUBOB 11- more tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast...
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| 01-31-03
| The Heavy Equipment Guy
Posted on 01/31/2003 5:07:21 PM PST by backhoe
At the request of members, I am restarting those "Tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast"-- the stories and issues that the press and media either ignore, won't even talk about, or will mention once and forevermore claim "it's old news..."
Naturally, some will be stories which interest me, or things I think we all need to be aware of.
I am experimenting with a minor change in presentation- when I can, I will cut to
-GoogleNewsBeta--
with a keyword or two and see what kind of links to "mainstream" stories I can find in contrast to what we see here and on other sites.
May I remind you of a couple of points to bear in mind?
Each link usually has many other links within- follow them all to get "the rest of the story."
Don't forget the "open multiple browsers" trick with control-n -- this allows you to hold your place with one, and use the others to follow links, run searches, etc.
Rather than go back and rehash old links, I'll give you links to the original posts here:
-DUBOB 10- the *best of* the Dark Underbelly Series--
-DUBOB 9-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast..... --
DUBOB 8-- still *more* tales from the Underbelly***
DUBOB 7-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB 6-- yet *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB 5-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB IV- yet more Tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast-
DUBOB III -- "Tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast"
DUBOB 2-- more tales from The Dark Underbelly of the Beast-- thread II
-The Dark Underbelly of the Beast- Stories the Media won't Discuss...--
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Hillary Clinton Quote--
Hillary Clinton:
"We can talk all we want about 'Freedom and Opportunity', about 'Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness'.
But what does all that mean to a mother or father who can't take a sick child to the doctor?"
Scott Pelley gets my respect. He asked kick ass questions of the poison dwarf who sounded just like a Democrat in the House or Senate. That is depressing. Rich pointed out;
The midget gave all the Liberal talking points.. ALL OF THEM!
1. We are wasting taxpayer money on a war that could be used elsewhere.
2. We should be helping Katrina victims
3. We shouldn't be listening to US citizens phone calls.
4. He said to Pelley, "What are you, a CIA Agent? Where do you think I
am? In Guantanamo Bay prison, or a secret prison in Europe, or in Abu Ghrab?
And the bullshit meme "the root causes of terror"
It's unbelievable how much he sounds like a liberal congressman or senator.
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posted on
09/24/2007 1:14:45 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
To: All
A GIANT ROUNDUP of LGF vs. GCP:
( in reverse chrono order )
Blog WarZ, III:
May I announce………….
Blog Wars, Part I....
reaganite : I just got an email…
Chuck is still spreading lies.
94 Charles 9/22/07 4:35:36 pm reply quote report 0
By the way, the obsessed morons at GCP are still talking about their plans to sabotage LGF, and another one of their accounts was just blocked.
Chuckette, you are a liar. You know you are and we know you are. Good luck with keeping your day job. Perhaps web design doesn’t look so bad anymore? We forced the issue? Chuckette, “We” don’t post on you site. You forced the issue by banning anyone who posts here. How are you going to justify banning Ed?http://tinyurl.com/3yjlrn
Alrighty, graph goodness as promised / threatened.
/“Nobody ‘Spects the Stat Inquisition!”
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"Reposted for the lurkers: One last thing. Those who so blindly follow are at great risk of being treated the same as all of us here. Word of warning, do not question Charles, do not state your mind, and most certainly do not ever ever comment on another blog about him, his decisions, or his blawg. His skin is about as deep as a shallow puddle after a rain. He has lost any ability to step back and take an objective view of his money maker, and money makers. Yes, that’s you, his money makers. Know that this is all you are, and nothing more. Your thoughts and opinions mean nothing, they are mere clicks on an ad to him. Remember that, as you ass kiss your way through his threads oh minions.
Next, it’ll be you. "
Ann:
A short history of LGF for the lurkers:
Evil Force Part I
Once upon a time, there was a blog called LGF where Fact Checking and Reason was paramount and people posted from all over the world. Most of the posters were brilliant and quite accomplished in their real lives. Emotion, anger and frustration was welcome, but if a factual statement was made, a poster was expected to back it up with documentation. Lots of lawyers on at that time, like Jheka. One poster back then worked for Steve Emerson. I had the pleasure of meeting him in DC because of LGF. I started posting in the spring of ‘03, so I was a newbie compared to reaganite, rayra, EW1, Swampy, Jheka and others here.
This blog faced the threat of the islamists with defiance, knowledge, and much humor. LGFers were meeting each other in the real world all over the USA as well as in Europe and even Israel, IIRC. Friday Night Drinking Threads were a break from the serious issues. It was our mission to make each other laugh on those wonderful nights.
An evil force showed up who thought that a solution was to nuke Europe because of what they did to the Jews. If Israel got attacked, that was the way to go. This was after nuking all of the ME. Most of the posters either treated him as a leper, and many engaged his irrationality. Some, though, fell into his darkness. Eventually his need for power and control on LGF did him in when he lied to egg on yet another conflict between two well respected posters and he finally got banned. What took Charles so long, I don’t know because a lot of stress was caused by that evil force.
After that banning all was well again in the LGF family. Rathergate was exposed, bringing in a flood of people who wanted to post and LGF lost its intimacy, I thought. Did not matter, because the message of LGF was too important and so many people still needed to be educated.
We started noticing that LGF had advertisements popping up. Good for Charles! He had a web design business then, and we were glad that he could possibly afford to do this full time.
Evil Force Part II
After Rathergate, another evil force showed up. This one was much more aggressive than the first. This dark cloud not only wanted the ME nuked, but wanted people crossing the border machine gunned, laughed at the Beslan deaths, stated that our Military was incompetent, trashed our President and the entire Administration, etc. Again, most of the posters did not take this person seriously, many challenged it, yet others started to give in to that Dark Side. Human nature, I guess.
Meanwhile, the meet ups continued. Life long friendships and relationships developed. After one meet up that ‘Nam Grunt had, pictures and posts about how great the party was were posted. The vitriole seemed to escalate by the Dark Ones and turned into personal attacks on many of the posters who attended. Charles did not ever start any threads about these real life get togethers. We thought it would be fun for him to do so, but not our call. It is his house.
Finally the Second Evil got so bad in her attacks that many of us long time posters were getting called skanks, Heathers, etc. reaganite was disparaged as being full of shit about his Military service and assignments to the USSS, even though he posted what EOD Techs do to try to allay her suspicions. The Dark One then started a blog to continue to disparage him. He did post several threads for the benefit of LGF over his time posting there, and e-mailed Charles with unclassified information that would help the efforts of LGF. One was his personal account of walking in President Reagans funeral position as part of his last detail. The Dark One also went after any poster that challenged her evil, defeatist emotion.
Posting became frustrating, because no one could post on any thread without getting attacked unless they agreed with that evil force. Many e-mailed and implored Charles on the blog to ban her.
The ads on the blog increased. Posts numbers were jumping. As the posts increased, so did the number of ads, and income for Charles.
DU and KOS were off the charts for the left, so why not have LGF get some of that blog ad income? Of course those two blogs are made of nutcases who post all day, so the theory was in all of frustration of why this person was tolerated was that Evil and Emotion was good for LGF.
We disagreed at the lack of ethics as we saw it.
Eleven of us got banned, as well as the Evil Force.
We are all over here now. Over the year, anyone who posts here and at LGF gets banned. We only ban idiots here.
This was what LGF was back in the day. No idiots, no one posting shit just to see their Published Posts, no one whining about the End Times and the Doomed Western Civilization and no one trashing everything good about our world. We talk about guns and strength again here and stupid shit sometimes.
And cussing is not a bad thing.
Please Fact Check me if I got something wrong.
Life is good.
Ann
Very good. I think the situation is even more dire now, though, with even some of the worst hinting at walking over the most trivial of matters.
Just a Rathergate baby here, but then, those were truly the salad days AtS. ( ATS means "across the street"-- acronym for LGF... )
Regardless of what happened since or what happens in the future, you have to give Charles “The Throbbing Memo.” That was simply brilliant. A pity it ran downhill, but nothing lasts forever.
TattooedIntellectual - 21 September 2007 06:18 PM
#988 Charles 9/21/07 11:15:35 am reply quote report 0
Just to finish this debacle, please note that “Jheka” registered at least six accounts at LGF. Several other of the GCP people have done the same thing, and have been using these dishonest accounts to cause trouble at LGF.
Those of you defending these people need to have a reality check. This is really ugly, obsessed behavior.
WTF is he going on about? Ed is the only person I can think of that’s registered at both sites and posts regularly at both, and maybe Odinist. Nobody else gives a shit.
He’s lying, yet again. Many many posters back then had multiple nics for various reasons. I had Taarna to poke fun of Geepers with, Jheka had the Pirate one (for talk like a pirate day IIRC) and the Blitz one for April Fools day. This IS NOT A SECRET and never was! Many got Heather nics to poke fun of the idiots with.
His going on like these are new is a lie, and he damned well knows it - if he had any honesty left that is.
What we are witnessing folks, is a full blown breakdown. This is making the likes of the Skanky Sunday pale in comparison.
This is when we get to see, live, how LGF is taken over by a dictatorship. Lies spoken as truth.
Don’t forget, Ann was banned shortly after Chuckette lied about the banning of bigel and she produced the Chuckette’s own words with a link.
Another quick thought (I’m cooking dinner), Chuckette not only banned us, he banned us from searching his database. So he lies about us knowing his new “minions” won’t actually look.
Remember back when Chuckette? What about this one? Or this one? I got more Chuckette.
Really, it’s real simple, you were made by the very same posters you shat on.
How about this Chuckette? Remember when I emailed it to you and you stopped responding to my emails?
"...you’ve been Cast Out™ from the Garden of Chuck. You should probably be weeping and wailing instead of heading out for debauchery..."
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posted on
09/24/2007 3:25:47 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
To: All
September 24th, 2007
From Norfolk (VA) local TV news channel WAVY TV 10:
Norfolk Beating Caught on Tape
Filed by Katie Collett
A violent beating in Norfolk is caught on tape. The 13 year-old victim and his family believe the attack could have been racially motivated.
The victim in this case is a 13 year-old white boy, Damien O’Rourke. The group who attacked him is made up of all African American teenagers. Damien and his family believe the teens may have picked the fight because Damien is white.
“I was going to play football with my friends. The next thing I know when I got there, there was like, seven black kids who said they were going to beat me up and they started beating me up,” says Damien.
Damien and his family say the violent fight was unprovoked.
“They were kicking me and punching me in the face. They weren’t aiming for nothing except my face.”
Damien and his family just moved to the area thinking it’d be a nice place to live.
“We don’t know what we’re going to do now because we can’t even let our kid go outside and play,” says Reesha Price, Damien’s mother.
Reesha says she got the call Saturday afternoon saying Damien was badly beaten just blocks away from their home. When she reached her 13 year-old son, her heart broke. She saw a bloodied and swollen face.
“He was dazed. It makes your stomach hurt. It makes your stomach hurt. There’s no, I mean I was just thanking God his head wasn’t split open.”
Damien says kids at his new school, including one of the kids involved in the fight, treated him badly for a time because he is white. Now his family believes their skin color could have been what led to the first punch being thrown.
“I do kind of think it was racist. I think if he was black he wouldn’t have gotten beat up like that,” says Reesha.
We saw Norfolk police interviewing people in the area of the fight and they said their Gang Unit will get in touch with the family Monday morning. In the meantime, Damien is planning to go to school on Monday.
And this update, also from WAVY TV 10:
UPDATE - Police identify three suspects in taped beating
Sep 24, 2007
Norfolk Police say they’ve identified three of the people seen beating a 13-year-old in a videotape shown to WAVY.com by the victim’s mother.
According to a spokesperson, Investigators from the Gang Squad have identified 3 of the suspects, and are in the process of identifying the other individuals involved.
They say charges will be filed against all of those involved. They also say that the victim, Damien O’Rourke, knew at least one of the assailants. Police said investigators are also trying to determine what circumstances occurred leading up to the assault.
They also said that, contrary to some statements, the assault does not appear to be racially motivated according to information gathered by investigators that we are unable to release.
So it’s already been determined that it’s not a hate crime.
Amazing.
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A painter passing through Minneapolis
When it was announced this past June that Gordon Lightfoot would be performing in Minneapolis at one of my favorite venues on September 22, I ran over to the theater box office and bought first row tickets before I realized I was otherwise committed that evening. I looked to give the tickets to someone who might enjoy the show as much as I would have and found Peter Zeller of the Center of the American Experiment. Peter saw the show this past Saturday and has graciously filed this comprehensive report:
The old ballad master Gordon Lightfoot continues to tour and sell out his gigs, satisfying a full house of 2,000 Saturday night at the State Theatre in downtown Minneapolis. The Canadian folk singer, now 68, recovered from a near-fatal abdominal hemorrhage that left him in a two month long coma five years ago. Age and time have made his emotion-laden lyrics that much more moving and he enjoys a tight bond with his fans. Lightfoot originally gained recognition as a songwriter in the mid-1960s and his songs have been recorded by greats such as Peter, Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and Elvis. Later his unique songwriting and singing style established his trademark folk sound, and some now consider him one of the greatest singer/songwriters ever. He’s been nominated for five Grammies and sold over 10 million albums. His hits include “If You Could Read My Mind” (#5 in 1970), “Sundown” (#1 in 1974), “Carefree Highway” (#10 in 1974), and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” (#2 in 1976).
Saturday night’s performance featured these hits as well as other crowd pleasers including “Beautiful,” "Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” “Cotton Jenny,” “Don Quixote,” “In My Fashion,” and “Rainy Day People.” Lightfoot has remarked that he enjoys being free to concentrate on his shows, and not being under the constant pressure to produce that comes with being signed to a record contract. His loyal band members include lead/rhythm guitarist Terry Clements (since 1969), Rick Haynes on bass (since 1967), drummer Barry Keane (since late/mid-1970s), and “newcomer” Mike Heffernan on keyboards (since 1980).
“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” the tale of the tragic November 10, 1975 storm related sinking of an ore carrier on Lake Superior that claimed the lives of all 29 crew members, has always claimed a special place in the hearts of most Minnesotans. The producers of “The Simpsons” had wanted to use the song in the “Radio Bart” episode but it never happened after Lightfoot insisted that they get okays from the families of all 29 crew members who had died. Following the 1984 election, the musical political satire group The Capitol Steps recorded a parody titled, “The Wreck of the Walter Fritz Mondale.” Also, one-of-a-kind Minnesota radio personality Tommy Mischke made the national media when he interviewed an expert on the tragedy by singing all his questions to the tune of the song. The unforewarned expert, however, answered each question in an academic manner.
Uncovered emotion, often personal, comes through so clear in the songs of the man that Bob Dylan has referred to as one of his favorite songwriters. There are the historical ballads and songs of love and love lost, but it’s hard not to miss the many themes of heartache and loneliness seen in other songs he performed like “Never Too Close,” “Shadows,” “Clouds of Loneliness,” and “Restless.”
I’m sure, like all of us, he’s mellowed some over the years, but perhaps he has a few more wilder days behind him than the rest of us. He had done a fair amount of drinking (though he’s been sober since the early ‘80s) and a fair amount of messing around. Currently separated from his second wife, he had six children by four women, and his onetime girlfriend Cathy Smith’s claim to infamy is that she’s the one who shot up John Belushi when he died from a drug overdose.
One way he sees himself is as “A Painter Passing Through.” Here’s part of his song by that name:
Now that I am old, let me rest a spell
All that I am told, I can never tell
Never in my life, never will it pass
I am still alone, remembering at last
Once upon a time, once upon a day when
I was in my prime, once along the way.
Front row seats have many benefits, but unfortunately acoustics (in this case) weren't one of them. It was difficult to hear the words to his heart-tingling songs. Even so, I won’t soon forget my close-up view of the old legendary songwriter, in the spotlight at center stage, delivering a heartfelt performance of his life’s work on his well-worn guitar.
Peter's report is a terrific complement to our previous posts on Lightfoot including
"Ten degrees and getting colder," "For Lightheads only," and
"Reading Lightfoot's mind."
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What's The Opposite Of Diversity?
University. A long-time reader writes;
I'm a 3rd year polisci/history major at the University of Victoria, and since Thursday, this has been the #1 issue here:
"UVic Students’ Society (UVSS) chairperson Tracy Ho broke a 6-6 deadlock at a Sept. 10 UVSS board meeting by voting that the military should be banned from the SUB."The motion was passed to clarify a policy amendment passed 10-1 by the last UVSS board of directors in April.That board amended the society’s policy on military issues to include, “The Society is opposed to the militarization of Canadian Society, and is unsupportive of a Canadian military establishment that violates international law and human rights.” [...]
"The ban voted in on Sept. 10 means that the Canadian Armed Forces will be unable to attend the annual recruiting fair put on by UVic’s Career Services in the SUB every January. The Armed Forces attended last year’s recruiting fair."
Basically, a radical leftist anti-war organization with a membership around 20 decided to table a motion at the UVic student society meeting earlier this month to ban recruiters, and the UVSS board passed it, deciding we students are too "uninformed" to make our own decisions. The nearly 20,000 students at UVic have been painted with the same brush as these dozen or so wackos, and we're not going to take it. There has been massive outcry in response to the student union board's decision. So far, it has resulted in the formation of a pro-recruiter facebook group numbering 271 in less than 48 hours, reactions from the Army.ca forums, another facebook group at the University of Toronto (if you can believe it) condemning UVic, and a massive stack of letters to the student newspaper. The facebook group founder is going to be speaking to The Zone 91.3fm radio station here in town, several organizers (myself included) will be passing out anti-UVSS flyers on campus, and the local media are being informed. Even students who are against the war have joined up with us because they recognize this for the blatant violation of democracy it is.
I'm just sending this to you to help dismiss the image of UVic students as a bunch of pinkos and hippies. The majority of students here want recruiters on campus, and we're going to fight for our right to have them here at the upcoming student society meeting on monday. There is going to be massive attendance, as well as a major takedown of the radical lefties who have hijacked our democratic process.
I just submitted my application to the air force last week, so I'm not about to let this down.
The link above has to be read in its entirety to be believed.
(More - "Military ban an affront to free speech".)
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A GIANT ROUNDUP of
Simpsons film references, with screenshots from
The Simpsons and the referenced movies.
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posted on
09/24/2007 3:32:15 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
To: All
Both Hillary Clinton and GQ have a lot of explaining to do if the Politico has this story correct According to Ben Smith, Hillary's campaign pressured GQ to kill a piece critical of her by threatening to withhold Bill Clinton's cooperation in the future. The editors of GQ caved into the threat and spiked the article:
Early this summer, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign for president learned that the men’s magazine GQ was working on a story the campaign was sure to hate: an account of infighting in Hillaryland. So Clinton’s aides pulled a page from the book of Hollywood publicists and offered GQ a stark choice: Kill the piece, or lose access to planned celebrity coverboy Bill Clinton.
Despite internal protests, GQ editor Jim Nelson met the Clinton campaign’s demands, which had been delivered by Bill Clinton’s spokesman, Jay Carson, several sources familiar with the conversations said.
Instead of running the article on Hillary Clinton, the magazine decided to opt for a December puff piece on her husband. George Saunders traveled with Clinton to Africa to write the article after GQ's surrender, and his article will run in the issue where GQ selects its Man of the Year. As Smith reports, Bill Clinton's face on a cover can help sell product -- and GQ had to sell out to get it.
That puts an interesting spin on media relations, especially by a federal elected official. While it's certainly not illegal to demand that a story not be run, and even to threaten to cut off access if it does, it makes the quid pro quo of the Clinton story arguably an in-kind donation. After all, the Clinton campaign knew it was valuable enough to buy off GQ, and the deep-six of Josh Green's article on Hillary had at least an equal value to her campaign. It also calls into question just how far the Clintons will go, once back in the White House, to pressure media outlets into shutting down critical reporting on their activities.
The Politico notes that Hollywood celebrities often pull power plays on the media in the same manner, but there's a large difference. Hollywood celebrities don't make national policy or wield governmental power. The media's job is in part to inform the American public of their performance and to keep them from becoming corrupt and unaccountable. If Hillary the candidate manages to push the media around this easily to silence criticism, imagine what Hillary the President would do to those who report negative aspects of her performance.
Does Hillary believe in a free press? It doesn't appear so, but she believes in one she can buy off cheaply.
UPDATE and BUMP: Actually, I'm in agreement with Carol Herman in that GQ deserves more ire than the Clintons in this case. Mickey Kaus puts it succinctly, as usual (via Hot Air):
Obvious Questions: Could the piece have been as bad for the Clinton camp as the publicity they're now getting? Are they still not quite operating in the internet age? ... Doesn't Bill Clinton want to be on the cover of GQ a month before the Iowa caucuses? You'd think [GQ editor Jim]Nelson would have some leverage of his own.
The Clintons can't roll over the press unless the press lets them. GQ obviously wilts under a mild amount of heat. Who else wants to publish Josh Green's piece? I'll be happy to do it, if Green doesn't take Mickey up on his offer.
The World is Flattening -- In America, cutting tax rates is an ideological issue. In the former Soviet satellites of Europe, it is increasingly not an issue at all — so obvious is it that it gives people better lives.
My God! It looks like a chateau.
...letting the public know what you've done is a "vicious smear campaign..."
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference The Zero is a No Show at Ground Zero:
NO GAYS, NO GAY HAIRCUTS, no gay executions, and no gay ties. "Some things really aren't funny. I guess that's the whole point of gallows humor..." I still like the Glenn Greenwald photoshop, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9oX5Q2ft mA&NR=1
It's an excellent anti-Jihad, anti-CAIR music video, spliced together with footage of Wafa Sultan, Walid Shoebat, footage from the Middle East, and references to Jihadwatch.com and Faithfreedom.org.
Shocka -- majority of public hates the "betray us"
Tylenol Murders: An Unsolved 25-Yr.-Old Cold Case
Still crazy after four decades: The case for withdrawing from the 1967 Outer Space Treaty
Parallel Universes Exist - Study
'Raw Deal' busts labs across U.S., many supplied by China
How warheads made an unplanned flight (B-52 flight Minot to Barksdale AGM-129 Snafu)
How does Mexico treat its immigrants? (Video)
Pondering President Thompson
Thompson Gives Little Hitler A Tennessee Smack Down
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posted on
09/25/2007 2:57:40 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
To: All
Meanwhile...
I LINKED ED DRISCOLL'S
ATLAS MUGGED ARTICLE the other day, but reader Tom Johnson emails: "Wow! You underhyped this article.
The most spot on analysis of the MSM vs. the blogosphere I have seen.You need to re-read it, and think again:
Excerpts:
"Prior to the 1920s, American newspapers and pamphleteers had a long, diverse history of vigorous, partisan debate. Which is why there are still newspapers with names like the Springfield Democrat and Shelbyville Republican. That began to change"
" Up until the Reagan years, Love says, “definitely fewer than one hundred people, and maybe as few as twenty people, actually decided what constituted national news in the United States.”
'Love calls this “the Parliament of Clocks”: creating the illusion of truth or accuracy by force of consensus. “Really, the only way that consumers can tell that they’re getting accurate information is to check another media source,” Love says. “And unfortunately, that creates an incentive for the media sources to all agree on the same story.”'
"Journalism by consensus remained essentially unchallenged until President Ronald Reagan—arguably the most media-savvy president in American history— repealed the FCC’s Fairness Doctrine in 1987. That opened the door for “talk radio.”"
"But talk radio was not the only challenger to the entrenched MSM. Also in 1994, a program called Mosaic Netscape 0.9 was released."
"...then came September 11
th.
During that awful, endless day, millions of Americans desperate for information found that the servers for most major news websites, such as those of CNN and the New York Times, had crashed due to the sheer numbers of online visitors. Getting little more than error messages from these elite news sites, many started surfing alternative Web sources."
Death of the Overculture
The ever-expanding number of blogs has helped to neutralize much of the major media’s attempts to influence culture unilaterally and from the top down. As a result, says James Lileks, “we don’t have an overculture anymore.” He adds that “people are no longer having to stifle their own interests in order to absorb mass culture. In the old days, they used to create their own communities by very low-tech means: fanzines, Star Trek convention clubs, things like that. But now, you can find like-minded individuals all over the place, and half of them seem to be creating content in the exact genre that you like.”
And what of Big Media itself? Glenn Reynolds says, “About five years ago, I did a piece for Tech Central Station [www.tcsdaily.com] in which I wrote that while blogs are starting to report more hard news, big media is getting ‘bloggier.’ That seems to hold up pretty well, and I think we’ll see more of that.”
Should Alimony Be Grandfathered Out? [ 1, 2 ]
Immigration, Real Estate Creating Wider Economic Inequalities
Home prices fall 3.9% in past year, Case-Shiller says
Home Prices Post Biggest Drop In 16 Years
A danger within? North Texan files suit over transplanted tissue (Black market cadaver trade)
Florida City 'Mecca' for Scientologists
Exposing the Lies of the Anti-Israel Lobby
NY REPUBLICANS WANT DRIVERS LICENSES FOR ILLEGALS
Mandatory insurance isn't reform
Beyond the pale? (India skin-lightening)
Lunatic Dept:
Warmfighting: New Strategic Document Requirements [Dems: DOD strategy must include Climate Change]
California could be 3rd state to ban forced RFID implants
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posted on
09/25/2007 7:09:49 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
To: All
So I join the "Banned of Brothers" at Little Green Footballs:
Well and good- I regret previously refering people to a site where people are banned by association while trolls, disruptors, and lunatics are tolerated:
...Heh™. Nothing says petty like banning by association.
The Purge was 8 folks over 24hrs, commencing with me in teh middle of the night, 8/31-9/1/06. Reaganite, Sarah, swampwoman, keep ...
Then followed closely by Ann, EW1.
And now this latest wholly unprompted Surge-Purge. Near as I can figure it, speaking the facts about LGF’s severe decline in traffic seemed to have triggered it.
Purge
rayra
sarah
reaganite
sarah swampwoman
keep
Buckaroo?
?
?
...And Your Little Spouses Too!
EW1
Ann
Purge II
Mike C
Princess Bernie
MoG
Patrick Chester
Jheka
army brat
bweep
backhoe
Farng
Havoc
You forgot jpsfudimo, and wasn’t Orson banned too? btw and just as a reminder - we’re such a hive of sabotaging skullduggery that we even MISSED our own banning anniversary.
http://www.gulfcoastpundit.com/index.php?/forums/viewthread/3788/
Fatal :
I guess you can add my name to the recently banned.
I have no idea why. I haven’t posted there in a very long time and did not post anything here that could be construed as “bashing” LGF or Charles (other than coining the term AtS). I never offered my account to anyone here for any purposes whatsoever and cannot think of a single thing I’ve ever done (other than post on this site) that would get me banned (shrugs). It's kind of freaky when you think about it.
And Chuckette is absolutely TERRIFIED of this tiny blog and its posters.
"I’m aware of what’s happening at my web site, now more than ever with the new tools I’ve developed. If I tell you to knock it off, you have two ways to go—you can either knock it off, or lose your account. It’s not open to debate. LGF accounts are not a right, they are a privilege. Abuse it, and lose it."
At a guess, it does indeed look like he’ using his new rating system as his OWN way of rating who to shitcan. Too many votes against his favorite psychotics, or dare to -1 HIS ass, and you are gone.
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09/26/2007 12:22:24 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
To: All
And just to editorialize on
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/833678/posts?page=7626#7626
???
LGF went from a sleepy blog about music and programming to a power house, after 9-11.
It covered a lot of the “dark underbelly”- the “stuff” the Jackal pack media ignores, or tell you you are a fool for wanting to learn about it at all. Rathergate and the Fauxtography scandals were LGF’s high points, and done well.
Recent changes lead me to believe that blog ads are now driving LGF’s reason for being, and it’s a pity.
As my Father used to say,
“I’ve been thrown out of better places than this...”
I want my $20 back, Charles...
Seize you in Hell...
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posted on
09/26/2007 12:31:36 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
To: All
HillaryCare, a precursor
I haven't written yet about the congressional battle over extending the State Children's Health Insurance program (SCHIP), and I don't think my partners have either. The issue is an important one in itself and also, quite likely, a precursor of a larger battle that soon will be fought over "HillaryCare" or some variation thereof.
Currently, SCHIP is a targeted program that provides health insurance for children of low income families. Congressional Democrats, though, are trying to expand the program by providing it to children in families with much higher incomes -- incomes well in excess of the approximately $42,000 per year (or twice the poverty level) that President Bush and congressional Repubicans propose.
However, as Paul Winfree and Greg D'Angelo of the Heritage Foundation point out:
Expanding SCHIP to cover children in higher income families is not an efficient or cost-effective way to reduce the ranks of uninsured children. As the safety net is cast further up the income ladder, it will increasingly substitute government programs and taxpayer dollars for private coverage and funding.
This phenomenon is known as the "crowd-out effect." Winfree and D'Angelo are able to estimate the extent and consequences of this effect, using as their starting point an econometric methodology developed by MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, coupled with findings by the Congressional Budget Office regarding the crowd-out that resulted from previous SCHIP expansions.
They find that under the Senate's SCHIP expansion, an estimated 1 million to 1.2 million children would gain SCHIP coverage, but between 467,000 and 611,000 children would lose private coverage. Due to poor targeting and the relative cost of crowd-out, the annual cost to taxpayers of covering an uninsured child under the Senate’s expansion plan would basically double, increasing from $1,418 to between $2,508 and $2,859. Moreover, these new cost figures are almost 2.5 times the average cost of private insurance. The House bill expands SCHIP even more -- an estimated 2.2 million to 2.4 million children would gain coverage. As a result, the annual cost to taxpayers of covering an uninsured child would increase by an even larger factor.
Beyond the inefficiency and lack of cost-effectiveness of the SCHIP expansion lies the question of whether the federal government can afford it. The Dems deal with this matter by funding the expansion through a sharp increase in the federal tobacco tax (61 cents per pack in the Senate bill). As Rep. Jim McCrery notes, the government is thus tapping into a declining revenue stream. Tobacco taxes also fall hardest on the working poor -- the very people that SCHIP was intended (at least until this latest round of proposed expansions) to help.
Even with this tax hike, the CBO finds the Senate's expansion (less aggressive than that of the House) revenue neutral only for the first five years. As Rep. McCrery explains, after five years, the Dems can maintain the appearance of fiscal sustainability only by mandating a drop in cost from $8.4 billion in 2012 to a mere $600 million in 2013. This means, of course, that a future Congress will be forced either to radically increase funding or let millions of American children lose their health coverage. And due to the crowd-out effect, it will probably be impossible for many families who lose their SCHIP money to find affordable private coverage.
Why are the Democrats pushing so hard for a middle class entitlement program that will promote inefficiency and waste, wreck the private market, and become fiscally unsustainable by 2013 if not before? It looks like an effort to lure middle-class families into government-run health care.
Sort of like HillaryCare.
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DAVID BROOKS says that the adults are in charge in the Democratic Party now.
UPDATE: Andrew Sullivan: "If Clinton is that comfortable with a permanent occupation of Iraq at this point in the election cycle, how comfortable do you think she's going to be next year? You think a politician so obsessed with gaining and wielding power is happy to relinquish any in the Middle East? . . . Hillary is Bush's ticket to posterity. On Iraq, she will be his legacy."
Hey, maybe she will turn out to be "the most uncompromising wartime President in United States history" after all. Science fiction sometimes comes true . . . .
ANOTHER UPDATE: Can you say "inherent authority" to go to war? Hillary can.
If Hillary takes it in 08, any bets on what that body count will be?
I Love My People ... Pull!
by Armed Liberal on September 25, 2007 3:28 PM
Does anyone else find it outrageous that the UK and Netherlands are planning on subordinating their national laws to the EU in the face of wide public opposition without allowing the public to vote on the matter?
I can't understand why the residents of the UK are tolerating this. I'd love to hear from people with more political and cultural knowledge than I have on it.
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We are putting up with it because we have no choice. The three main parties all agree that we are going to stay as a part of the EU, and the one that happens to be in power actually wants the EU to expand its power in the UK, because it stands for the sort of bureaucratic statism that socialists just love.
In addition to this, as it probably is in America, it is more a question of voting in the least offensive bunch of corrupt morons than actually voting for a party that you like the policies of, because most people in UK support better policing, harsher punishments, less immigration and less bureaucrats and none of the main parties advocate any of those.
Labour in particular has been frantically recruiting government employees, because that way they create a constituency that would be diagnosable as insane if they voted anything but Labour, as they depend on Government for their income and have no marketable skills.
Guy Fawkes had a point.
Al Qaeda Targets Our Schoolchildren--While Democrats prepare witless campaign slogans blaming Republicans for millions of children not protected by health insurance, al Qaeda’s blatant threat to exterminate 2 million American kids remains unheeded.
A celebration of barbarism here. Check out the whole page.
It's like Ralph Edwards, "This is your Life Death!"
There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger hat tip wolf
This year Islam and Judaism's holiest holidays overlapped for 10 days. Muslims racked up 397 dead bodies in 94 terror attacks across 10 countries during this time... while Jews worked on their 159th Nobel Prize. More here.
“The Night of the Long Knives”
LINK When the Revenue is threatened, then the rules spoken or unspoken change, people are “let go”.
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September 25th, 2007
From CNSNews:
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Homosexuals Mock ‘Last Supper’ With Sex-Toys Twist
By Susan Jones
September 25, 2007
(CNSNews.com) - Organizers of San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair — sponsored by Miller Brewing Co. — have portrayed Christ and his disciples as half-naked homosexual sadomasochists in the event’s promotional advertisement, and the conservative group Concerned Women for America is complaining about the hypocrisy of it.
“The bread and wine representing Christ’s broken body and lifegiving blood are replaced with sadomasochistic sex toys in this twisted version of Da Vinci’s The Last Supper,” CWA said on its Web site.
“‘Gay’ activists disingenuously call Christians ‘haters’ and ‘homophobes’ for honoring the Bible, but then lash out in this hateful manner toward the very people they accuse,” said said Matt Barber, CWA’s policy director for cultural issues…
CWA is calling on California politicians — House Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sens. Feinstein and Boxer among them — to “publicly condemn this unprovoked attack against Christ and His followers.
“We further challenge the media to cover this affront to Christianity with the same vigor as recent stories about cartoon depictions of Mohammed and other items offensive to the Muslim community,” CWA said.
The Folsom Street Fair describes itself as “the world’s largest leather event.”
“We hope to see the fairgrounds filled with people in their most outrageous leather/rubber/fetish attire enjoying the worlds largest and best loved Leather fair,” the Web site says…
You see, only homosexuality is sacred.
No, nothing is sacred and Christianity MUST be mocked - it’s noble, fashionable, and artistic to put crucifixes in urine, splatter dung on the Virgin Mary, and mock the holy institution of the Eucharist via sexual propaganda.
It’s all in the name of “free speech” and free thought, don’tcha know.
But this story
http://moderncommentaries.blogspot.com/2007/09/read-it-here-ten-months-ago.html
and countless others show that you CANNOT envoke YOUR right to free speech, free thought, or free religious expression when you question, disagree with, or dislike homosexuality.
The Sunlight Foundation has launched its new site designed to root out pork-barrel spending and hold lawmakers accountable for their earmarking. Earmark Watch does much more than just list earmarks -- it gives users the power to do their own research and report earmarks. The system also allows users to comment on earmarks in order to get more information into the hands of its visitors.
It provides a handy tool for searching through the database. For instance, I did a search on all earmarks in the House Defense appropriation currently wending its way to the floor to find all Minnesota earmarks. The system reports 11 earmarks, totalling over $26 million, that will be spent in our state. Almost a quarter of that comes from two earmarks to Phygen, which requires $3 million each on plasma sterilizers and ultra-endurance coating. Looking at Open Secrets, Phygen doesn't contribute to any of the earmarkers, or at least has not until now.
The list of earmarks for Minnesota on the House HHS appropriation contained at least one intriguing entry. Keith Ellison, the only Muslim in Congress, earmarked (along with Republican Jim Ramstad) $200,000 for the Jewish Family and Childrens Service in Minnetonka, to help fund a "naturally occurring retirement community demonstration project". I see no reference to the project on the organization's website, but I have sent an e-mail query to find out exactly what they plan to do with the money.
Take your own tour, and see what research you can do yourself on how your money gets spent. Bill Allison from the Sunlight Foundation will join me today on Heading Right Radio to talk more about the project.
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09/26/2007 2:40:53 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
To: All
BEAUCHAMP UPDATE: Apparently heads are
rolling at
TNR, just quietly. (Via
Bob Owens).
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09/26/2007 5:44:54 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
To: All
Juan Williams Defends Bill O’Reilly, Calls CNN Idiots--Anybody that has logged on to the Internet in the past couple of days is well aware that the far left in our nation are doing what the far left are best at: calling people racists, and hoping folks will be fired as a result. The latest conspiracy fabricated by the left - albeit in a long line of conspiracies - deals with comments made by Fox News's Bill O'Reilly on his radio program.
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posted on
09/26/2007 7:03:11 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
To: All
I Support Israel
In Their Own Words --Dear Muslims:
Hi from the Enlightened West. It's the 21st Century out here, and we infidels have cured most of the diseases that used to drop people like flies. We have air conditioning, and so much food that we eat for entertainment. And for about two hundred and thirty years now, we have lived without tyrannical despots and religious crackpots in charge of every facet of our lives. Well, when we do get them, we can vote them out in four years, so it's pretty much bloodless for us. (Oh, and by the way, thanks for that Zero thing you did a thousand years ago. Got anything new yet?)
Anyway, I just wanted to give you the 411 on how the rest of us view you people. Before 911, we just knew nothing about you at all, except you had a lot of oil and tyrannical leaders who wouldn't share any of the money with you. This whole "Allah" thing? Never heard of it. We figured that was your business, and if you wanted to follow a dead pederast for a religion, hey, knock yourself out. (You see, it's been four hundred years since we Christians tried to convert people by force, and it really doesn't work on a long-term basis.) Yep, far from being the Great Satan and wanting to exterminate you or spit on the Koran that you get so hept up about, we just didn't give a rat's arse.
But then, after years and years of being exploited by your royal masters and having them blame US (U.S), and the centuries of having petty little tin-pot Imams dicate who lives and who dies for things like flying kites or showing a bit of ankle, you decided to blame us for your woes, and you killed 3,000 innocent Americans for the crime of going to work in the morning to feed their families. Suddenly, thanks entirely to twenty bloody Muslim hitmen, all of America woke up for a bit and got a good look at a religion that preaches that this life sucks canal water through a dirty hose, so your only hope to have ANY kind of fun at all is to blow up your own children in the hopes that it might take out a few Americans.
Now, if my pastor started spouting anything this insane, we'd boot him out of the church and find another one, and if my holy book preached it, I'd dump it in a urinal and move on. But not you! You guys just love to be enslaved. All the while you nanner on about the Infidels persecuting you, your own leaders are lopping your hands off. We in America have done all the homework we need to do to understand Islam, and I think I can sum it up thusly:
You are a bunch of raving nutbags. Really. Charles Manson himself would think you had gone round the bend. You passed the Full Tilt Goofytown station a while back, and you are hurtling towards the end of the line, and a quick dip into oblivion.
I live in America. We walked on the moon (symbol of your religion, in case the irony eludes you) and we have saved the world from insane dictators and corrupt philosophy three times now, four counting the near future when we are going to have to thin your herd of wailing morons and make your cities green glass. Before 911, we were content to be ignorant. (Many of my people, sadly, still are.) But we are watching you, and biding our time. You pull another deadly stunt on our soil, and every stinking one of your people in our boarders are going into camps, because after that, perfectly reasonable and senable people like me are going to say, "that's it, Achmed."
Here's what you need to understand about us. You started this. We were all nice and co-existancy before 911. But now, you really ARE the enemy. And I don't care what kind of pipe bombs you have now, there isn't ANYTHING we can't defeat if we all decide to.
Watch your step, towelhead.
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50sDad
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09/26/2007 1:53:17 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
To: All
Raise Taxes to Fight Global Warming--Coming to you from the Marxist Tyrants soon to be in charge of new social engineering policies. If you think about the broader picture it all begins to make sense. Stop a "growth" economy and replace it with a "No Growth" economy through higher taxes, fees and regulatory red tape.
Anti-smoker hate propaganda [ 1, 2 ] --
If smoking is a deadly as they would have us believe it is, then WHY is it legal? If smoking is as bad as it is represented to be then ban it completely, close all cigarette and tobacco manufacturing plants, ban the cultivation of tobacco and put smokers in prison.
If it is to remain legal then back off of smokers and commercial establishments.
The cement heads in a nearby community passed a no smoking by-law without regard to the wishes of those businesses that would be affected by it. The day immediately after the by-law took effect one large pub closed it's doors for good resulting in tax loss, employment loss and an empty building where a pub once thrived. Who was served by that?
--We are “Swift Boating” AtS ( Across The Street- LGF's dismissive name for Gulf Coast Pundit ) --Poor Charles. He’s between a rock and a hard place. I’m not being sarcastic here, either. He knew (or should have known) the caliber of people he was messing with, but his oversized ego won’t allow him to back down.
Y2Kyoto: In The Pay Of Big Socialsm
IBD;
George Soros is known for funding groups such as MoveOn.org that seek to manipulate public opinion. So why is the billionaire's backing of what he believes in problematic? In a word: transparency. How many people, for instance, know that James Hansen, a man billed as a lonely "NASA whistleblower" standing up to the mighty U.S. government, was really funded by Soros' Open Society Institute , which gave him "legal and media advice"?
That's right, Hansen was packaged for the media by Soros' flagship "philanthropy," by as much as $720,000, most likely under the OSI's "politicization of science" program.
That may have meant that Hansen had media flacks help him get on the evening news to push his agenda and lawyers pressuring officials to let him spout his supposedly "censored" spiel for weeks in the name of advancing the global warming agenda.
Hansen even succeeded, with public pressure from his nightly news performances, in forcing NASA to change its media policies to his advantage. Had Hansen's OSI-funding been known, the public might have viewed the whole production differently. The outcome could have been different.
We've
mentioned Hansen in the past;
NASA scientist James E. Hansen, who has publicly criticized the Bush administration for dragging its feet on climate change and labeled skeptics of man-made global warming as distracting "court jesters," appears in a 1971 Washington Post article that warns of an impending ice age within 50 years.
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Comments (32) There's a lot of filthy rich people who want to keep their own wealth but deny anyone else from attaining it. Socialism has replaced feudalism for the elites as a way of repressing the rest of us while living large themselves.
September 26th, 2007
From a surprisingly skeptical Washington Post:
U.N. Urges Quadrupling of Global AIDS Spending to Meet 2010 Treatment Goal
By Craig Timberg
Wednesday, September 26, 2007; A20
JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 25 — The United Nations’ AIDS agency on Tuesday called for the world to quadruple its spending on the disease in order to reach the U.N. goal of providing universal access to effective treatment by 2010.
Agency officials said current spending on AIDS, totaling about $10 billion a year mainly from international donors and the governments of affected nations, would leave two out of three adults who need antiretroviral drugs without them. Efforts to prevent new infections also would fall far below target levels.
“We simply are not spending enough or doing enough,” Michel Sidibe, deputy executive director for UNAIDS, said in a conference call with reporters.
The United Nations in 2006 set a goal of providing universal access to treatment, care, support and prevention efforts by 2010. Many nations have endorsed that goal, but even the rapidly growing rate of global AIDS spending is insufficient to meet it, according to a 36-page report due to be issued Wednesday.
The report says that spending $42 billion a year by 2010 would allow massive new resources to be deployed, including 427,500 medical personnel and 1.5 million teachers. Bolstered programs would be able to distribute 10 billion condoms and provide 2.5 million circumcisions…
The increased spending, officials said, also would halve the number of new infections, though the report does not make clear how this goal would be reached.
Prevention programs have stalled in much of sub-Saharan Africa, the region with the bulk of the world’s estimated 40 million HIV infections. The U.N. report recommends using about $150 million a year to improve the availability of circumcision, which recent research has shown reduces the rate of HIV infections by about 60 percent. But the overwhelming majority of the scaled-up prevention spending envisioned by the report would be devoted to strategies that have shown, at best, only modest success in controlling the epidemic in the hardest-hit areas.
Global spending on AIDS has grown by a factor of 30 over the past decade, driven mainly by international donors such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and President Bush’s $15 billion anti-AIDS program, which he has proposed doubling…
Maybe they can put up some of the billions they skimmed starving the Iraqis in their “Oil For Food” scam.
Just kidding of course. The United Nations only ever uses other people’s money. (Most American taxpayers.)
Come to think of it, what will be the UN’s cut of this $42 billion?
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Best Bad News Possible (Bye-Tax Ememption for mortgate)
Vaccine Compound Is Harmless, Study Says, as Autism Debate Rages
In a 9/11 Survival Tale, the Pieces Just Don’t Fit
Would The Last Person Out Please Take Down The Flag?
Biometric Passport Control: No Place To Hide
To drag over…
( Sub-conversation:
Miss Emily- “You posted it two threads back!”
Me: “It was current when I was writing it!” )
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Comment by backh0e
September 26, 2007 @ 4:31 pm
I have really, really hesitated ( thought, pondered, and consulted Miss Emily ) about raising this subject here, in what I call “The Comfortable Hole.”
I have tried to largely leave politics, and what I term “Forum Wars,” out of the Gerbil Nation… but we have members who belong to other forums, as do I, so we need to put out information on a brewing, nasty
Blog War…
Having never been banned from any forum, in 26 years of being online, I was not amused to find I’d been banned from Little Green Footballs, in the steal of the night.
No warning, no email, no “knock it off!” Just:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/833678/posts?page=7628#7628
–The Formerly Esteemed Heavy Equipment Guy gets whacked from the formerly relevant LGF–
( scroll down to the pic of Fred Thompson to see the whole of it )
The upshot of most ( not all, but enough ) of things leading up to this are here, and hotlinks are provided at this location so you can see what’s what:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/833678/posts?page=7626#7626
-Synopsis–
And here’s the lead-up to it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/833678/posts?page=7622#7622
-A GIANT ROUNDUP of LGF vs. GCP –
I was going to write more and embed hotlinks, but we have Miss Emily’s decrepit old Mom to check on– I may not get back tonite, but any questions I can answer?
Pose them, and I’ll do my damnedest to speak without fear, or favor.
John R, AKA backhoe…
Addendum & annoyances:
Trip was late…
Dog ate my Farmer’s Bulletin…
Could not get all three links to be visible, so I’m stripping the HTML out- sorry for the bleedover.
Read it all, as Atlas says, and use the links you will find there.
Signing off, ’til the Midnite Oil…
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Yes, I am annoyed…
No, it really does not matter very much:
Backhoe’s Law:
In Cyberspace, everybody can hear you scream,
but five minutes later, nobody remembers it…
We’re all just a bunch of 1’s and 0’s and pixels, anyway…
…and that includes the formerly esteemed owner of Little Green footballs, who I actually gave money to, back when it was relevant…
machinist
I knew there were problems there but I rarely go there anymore and had no idea about this BS. I do know you to be a gentleman who simply does not do things that would call for banning, so it seemed something very unsavory was going on. I am disappointed. I guess he’s not the first person to let his ego swallow his honor.
Mac, I think Charles at LGF is a classic example of “a conservative is a Liberal who has been mugged…”
LGF started as a blog about music and programming- but 9-11 got his attention ( much like the old story about the mule you had to hit over the head with a 2 X 4 ) focused on the danger militant Islam posed to the West– and he took the bit in his teeth and ran with it for a while.
Somewhere, along the line, blog ads and traffic counts became more important than content, or the members there. I belonged for years, but rarely made comments- there was something off-putting about it– a little cliquish, a little cultist, a little “I don’t really belong here among these folks”– but it was a good source of stories The Jackal Pack Press doesn’t want you to know about, or think about. God forbid you notice a pack of seventh-century savages trying to impose Sharia Law on your women, you racist, you…
The changes there in the last year ( purging older, more seasoned members, “streamlining” the blog. i.e., increasing traffic counts ) led me to suspect Charles was seeing dollars signs in his eyes more than truth.
And it’s a pity… I had once considered making LGF my home away from home- now, for whatever or what little my influence at Free Republic and Free Dominion and the many other forums & blogs I frequent goes…
I’ll never mention it, refer to it, or care about it, again.
Dust
Shoes
Shake off
and move on…
The Plague Fairy
Backhoe - I see there are more links in tonights post, or that my sleepy self just missed some of them this afternoon. Thank you for your thorough documentation.
Thank you for looking- there is plenty among “the links within the links” to hoist Charles, and LGF, by his own petard.
More will follow, later, at The Dark Underbelly- he seems to have gone crazy with the Banning and Deleting of posts, the better to reinforce the natterings of his own echo chamber.
I’ve seen this so many times before; it’s an old and sorry story.
Little Tin God…
…feet, of clay…
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09/27/2007 6:01:46 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
To: All
A NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE? "If you're tracking the nuclear power revival in America, last Tuesday, September 25, was a milestone. For the first time since 1973, a new application for building a reactor was placed before the federal government. "
It's greenhouse friendly. And if there's nothing more important than combating the greenhouse threat, then nuclear power certainly should be undergoing a renaissance.
Bankruptcy, Democratic-style
One element (but not the only one) of last night's Democratic talkathon that deserves attention is the candidates' unwillingness to challenge the phenomenon of "sanctuary cities" such as Minneapolis and New Haven where local authorities refuse to enforce immigration law. This is one point that supports Bill Kristol's assessment of last night's debate as marking the possible vulnerability of the Democratic nominee in the fall. Today's Yale Daily News reports on New Haven's road show taking the city's municipal identification program for illegal aliens into the 'hood. The consensus of the Democratic candidates' in support of this phenomenon is striking.
Another element of the talkathon that marks the candidates' vulnerability in the general election is the candidates' conformity on the desirability of public schools educating eight-year-olds on homosexual relationships. At one point last night -- was it during the discussion of Social Security? -- one of the candidates referred to the unreality of the talkathon, but bankruptcy seemed to me the more appropriate metaphor. Senator Gravel found a way to salute himelf for his personal and business bankruptcies:
“Well, first off, if you want to make a judgment of who can be the greediest people in the world when they get to public office, you can just look at the people up here,” Gravel said in a nod to his fellow candidates. “Now, you say the condo business,” he continued. “I will tell you, Donald Trump has been bankrupt 100 times. So I went bankrupt once in business. And the other – who did I bankrupt? I stuck the credit card companies with $90,000 worth of bills, and they deserved it – “
“They deserved it,” Gravel repeated, “and I used the money to finance the empowerment of the American people with a national initiative.”
Byron York salutes Gravel:
Gravel’s answer was unprecedented in the history of these debates, and, if nothing else, it seemed guaranteed to win him at least a share of the insolvent vote, even among those who have stuck credit card companies for debts far more prosaic than empowering the American people with national initiatives.
But York misses Gravel's magnanimity. He went bankrupt for us! It seemed to me an emblematic moment.
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Treason, anyone? I know you can say it:
September 27th, 2007
From Germany’s Der Spiegel:
Beijing, June 22, 2007
US, Chinese Officials Hold Secret ‘Post-Bush Era’ Meeting
By Gregor Peter Schmitz in Washington
SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned that Chinese officials and members of the United States Congress have held a secret meeting without White House participation about the future of Washington’s climate protection policies. Beijing officials are trying to determine what they should expect in the post-Bush era.
A shift in American climate protection policies in the post-Bush era could force China to implement emissions limits.
The deputy chief of the Chinese National Development Reform Commission (NDRC), Xie Zhenhue, met on Wednesday morning with a bipartisan group of Republican and Democratic members of Congress to discuss future climate protection policy developments in the United States, SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned.
Officials held the meeting on the eve of a two-day conference on climate change organized by US President George W. Bush that will bring together the world’s biggest carbon dioxide emitters. Critics expect little to happen at the meeting because of Bush’s waning influence and the fact that the US has pushed for “aspirational” targets rather than mandatory emissions limits.
High-ranking sources close to the participants of the meeting between the Chinese delgation and Congress said the Chinese sought to find out how determined Congress is to push through rigorous climate protection laws in the future. During the discussion, members of Congress made clear that they would soon like to vote on legislation that would set binding emissions limits. However, the members of Congress said they didn’t provide the Chinese with a firm timeline for when this might happen…
Participants in the meeting said later that the Chinese grew evasive when the issue of China’s own contribution to climate protection was raised. The Chinese reportedly said, however, that they were concerned it might no longer be possible for them to delay action in the “post-Bush era.” They had set up the meeting to find out if the US position on climate protection would actually change under a new president.
The members of Congress reportedly informed the Chinese emissaries that legislators soon planned to respond to the American public’s broad support by pushing through climate protection laws.
It still remains unclear whether the White House was informed of the meeting. Nevertheless, it demonstrates the waning importance of the Bush administration in determining future climate protection policy in the country…
Unbelievable!
Strike that.
It is all too believable with our current Congress.
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The Norman Hsu scandal has affected more than just the Democratic presidential primaries. The Politico reports that Nebraska Republicans have already started talking about Bob Kerrey's connections to the con man turned Democratic fundraiser... Posted by Ed Morrissey on September 27, 2007 7:56 AM | Comments (11)
Investors Business Daily looks at the S-CHIP expansion and recognizes the political dangers for Republicans opposing it. Any vote against expanding health insurance coverage to children will prompt critics to paint the GOP as the party of Fagins, taking medical attention away from poor sick kids. However, in this case, the kids aren't poor, although that's where the funding will originate: The tobacco tax represents a couple of problems to this program. First, as almost everyone recognizes, tobacco taxes are regressive.And the people who quit will most likely come from middle- and upper-income brackets, according to the Cato Institute. This tax will therefore become even more regressive.
The only explanation is that S-CHIP serves as a Trojan horse for nationalized health insurance. Posted by Ed Morrissey on September 27, 2007 7:05 AM | Comments (52)
"If you accept the numbers that Dick Morris used in an article about Hillary's health care proposal a few days ago, of 45 million uninsured people, 1/3d are illegal aliens, 1/3 are already eligible for Medicaid but don't apply, the remaining third of 45 million are the question. 15 million out of 300 million represents 5% of the population which IMHO just isnt enough to upend the system.
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09/27/2007 10:51:45 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
To: All
POWER GENERATION vulnerable to cyber attacks: "Researchers who launched an experimental cyber attack caused a generator to self-destruct, alarming the federal government and electrical industry about what might happen if such an attack were carried out on a larger scale, CNN has learned. . . . Weiss and others hypothesize that multiple, simultaneous cyber-attacks on key electric facilities could knock out power to a large geographic area for months, harming the nation's economy." Seems like a reason not to connect these things to the Internet.
September 27th, 2007
Why is Mr. George Soros’s famously well-heeled Open Society Institute getting donations from from agencies of the US federal government, as well as the United Palestinian Appeal — which is a relief charity?
From the Open Society Institute’s form 990 (pdf) from 2005:
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These are the only years that are readily accessible. But one suspects these contributions have been going on for quite a while.
So how many taxpayers do you think are aware that they are helping to directly support Mr. Soros’s noble efforts? And to the tune of $16,390,296 in just three years?
And what about the people who give money to the Palestinian Appeal? Isn’t it a reasonable expectation that the money would be going to the relief of the poor Palestinians, rather than to a super deluxe political organization?
Also bear in mind that the Open Society Institute is just the flagship for Mr. Soros’s numerous philanthropic enterprises. Who knows how much money he is getting from the US government?
Still, I am sure there is an innocent, even noble, explanation for all of this.
Sure there is.
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09/27/2007 3:47:57 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
To: All
Flight 93 Memorial: A giant Islamic crescent pointing to Mecca.
Tom Burnett's 9/11 protests against the crescent memorial Error Theory
I missed this last week. Mr. Burnett had an op-ed column in the Somerset Daily American on 9/11. He also did a second radio interview with Pittsburgh talker Fred Honsberger. These heartfelt appeals are well worth the time. If you want to feel the loving and heroic spirit of Tom Burnett Jr., just listen to his father.
It is heartening also to hear the caller with the Indian accent expressing his fury that America is allowing this desecration to go forward, but he makes a mis-statement about the 44 glass blocks that will be emplaced along the flight path. In addition to the 40 inscribed with the names of the murdered passengers and crew, there ARE to be four more, matching the number of terrorists, but they are NOT going to be inscribed with the names of the terrorists, as the caller seemed to think.
CAO's is getting behind the blogburst as well;
You can find the pdf version of the manuscript of Alec’s book at CrescentofBetrayal.com. Alec Rawls also blogs at Error Theory and exposes there not only the hypocrisy of the media on this issue, but leftist thought processes which seem to be totally divorced from rational thinking. Does one have to be a conservative to think that planting an Islamic flag on the crash site doesn’t honor the crew and passengers who fought the terrorists on that fateful day?
X Posted at TWA and STACLU
Flight 93 has once again been hijacked by the terrorists.
After deliberating on this for a while, I’ve decided to start a blogburst regarding the Flight 93 Memorial in order to keep the calculations that verified its orientation to Mecca from going down the memory hole.
In addition, I think bringing heightened awareness to the mosque features of the memorial and other facts are important because they’re moving to start construction of this monstrosity at the crash site.
If you want to join the blogroll/blogburst for the Crescent of Betrayal blogburst, email caoilfhionn1 at gmail dot com, with your blog’s url address. The blogburst will be sent out once a week to the participants, the plan is- we will all be posting simultaneously on this issue on Wednesdays.
Of course, I will fully expect that you will post on this if you join the blogburst. I’ll keep an email list, and if you don’t post on it, your url will come off the blogroll, and your email address will come off the list.
When was the last time you wanted to get back at the terrorists for 9/11? THIS IS YOUR CHANCE.
Let’s roll.
Blog WarZ, take ???
Good morning,
Passing through on my way to work…..must be productive today. Just a brief note to Backhoe concerning his post from MO-I find more honor and merit in your thoughts and words, BH, and Miss Emily’s, than I do in LGF-ain't been there in a long time and won't be going back.
( Sticks head back momentarily )
Cali
Backhoe, I’m so sorry you got whacked by the ban stick. I used to frequent that site a lot after 9/11 but over the last few years, its just too much to follow every day. I just can't imagine you being banned from anywhere, except maybe Daily Kos, but then that would be a badge of honor. Trust me, you wont even miss LGF after awhile, in fact you will have more time to spend here on teh Wheel..a very good thing!
I appreciate the kind and thoughtful words.
Northwesterner?
Backhoe, one of our favorite gentlemen, has been slighted and 86?d like a drunken frat boy at a biker bar? For shame on teh perpetrator of that misguided trick!
But we are happy you are here, Backhoe
I certainly thank you.
Cali
Backhoe, I lost respect for Charles when he never thanked me for the Jackson I put in his tip jar when he was “struggling to make ends meet”. He never got another dime outta me.
I had the same thing happen with me.There is much controversy over Free Republic’s fundraisers ( and little over Free Dominion’s ) but whatever else may be said, the owners have always thanked me, publically, for the pittances I contributed. It doesn’t take much to keep me happy.
Nothing new, but remember- them first, us next...
In the utter digust department:
By Michelle Malkin • September 27, 2007 11:01 AM
When last I wrote about Miller Beer, the company was cluelessly sponsoring illegal alien protests and spinning furiously. Doesn’t look like they learned to stay away from radical politics. Miller went ahead and sponsored the “Folsom Street Fair” in San Francisco…billed as the “world’s largest leather event.”
Here’s the Catholic-denigrating promotional poster for the Miller-backed fair via CNSNews.com, depicting the Last Supper as a gathering of S&M enthusiasts:
Take a closer look. The bread and wine at the supper table are replaced with sex toys. Swell.
In response to complaints from Christian groups, Miller has asked for its logo to be removed. And the Folsom organizers are now disingenuously arguing that they neeeever meant to offend:
There was no intention to be particularly pro-religion or anti-religion with this poster; the image is intended only to be reminiscent of the ‘Last Supper’ painting. We hope that people will enjoy the artistry for what it is - nothing more or less. Many people choose to speculate on deeper meanings.
The NYSun reports that while Miller requested that the poster be changed, it’s still sponsoring the event:
As of yesterday, the Miller Light and Miller Genuine Draft logos, are still on the poster on the fair’s Web site. It also lists the beers as “presenting sponsors” of the event, along with two “hardcore” pornography sites, Nakedsword.com and TitanMen.com.
Take a gander at the NSFW website for the Folsom Street Fair. Here are a few of the runner-up promotional posters…
The question isn’t whether the Folsom organizers should be allowed to promote their bacchanalia however they want. Go right ahead with your bullwhips, dildos, and chains. Knock yourselves out. Really.
The question is one of corporate responsibility. The question is whether a mainstream retailer ought to be lending its name year after year to a fringe group bent on alienating a majority of Americans who happen to be people of faith.
Miller’s answer:
“We are and will continue to be supportive [of Folsom Street Fair and the LGBT community],” said Julian Green, director of media relations of Miller Brewing Company, Wednesday afternoon.
Miller has not requested a refund of any sponsorship money, Green said.
Miller: The beer of open borders and leather-bound Christian-bashers.
Spread the word.
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posted on
09/28/2007 4:02:35 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
To: All
Dems Hot Over Rush's 'Phony Troops' Comment -Talk Show Host Draws Fire--Well if that trick hadn’t been used dozens of times in the past by the loony left, they might have a point. Using phony troops to advance their anti-war agenda is all too common.
O Brave New World
Readers may recall London's Ring of Steel, a network of video cameras that is designed to record movement in streets. A smaller version of the system will be installed in New York. But fixed cameras have limitations. So why not put the camera on a micro-UAV? You can watch future of German law enforcement after the "Read More!" button. Wait for the part when it hovers outside a house window.
- Beverly said...
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We are sacrificing our freedoms -- for what? Round-the-clock government surveillance, as in the UK?
This is insane. And no, it doesn't prevent crime. It does help convict some criminals, but the smart ones wear baseball caps and gloves. So to catch a few petty thieves, we submit to Big Brother? Tens of thousands of CCTV cameras, yet 80% of crime unsolved
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09/28/2007 5:53:44 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
To: All
HATE CRIMES BILL
Blog WarZ:
Haec Olim Meminisse JuvabitOh, and Charles? Or Tattlers reading this?
I want my $20 donation from when you had trouble running the site back. You have my mailing address. Don't bounce a check...
7,637
posted on
09/28/2007 12:05:28 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
To: All
Blog WarZ:
Haec Olim Meminisse JuvabitOh, and Charles? Or Tattlers reading this?
I want my $20 donation from when you had trouble running the site back. You have my mailing address. Don't bounce a check...
7,638
posted on
09/28/2007 4:29:57 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
To: All
IMO, abortion is a great evil under most circumstances:
Blog WarZ, Phase "whatever"
Lurkers go here please. There is a thread debunking all the lies you’ve read at LGF (about GCP). Other threads discuss the lies also.
Tedious.
And BTW, you are all welcome here, unless you’re dumbass mobies.
GCP is purging old threads to save space, so excerpts follow for posterity:
Wow, she just can’t stop spewing lies about us. It’s pathetic.
This is like watching a Mel Brooks parody of an Alfred Hitchcock thriller.
My guess is that Charles is backtracking traffic from LGFwatch (whom I expect are clucking over his meltdown) and found some reference to us. In his paranoid state - shazam - we’re the same. Seems to have been the same mistake some folks at LGFWatch are making. AND that Charles is eager to promote amongst his leftovers.
Obviously LGFWatch, CHarles, and the folks wandering between them didn’t see our earlier discussion about LGFWatch - http://www.gulfcoastpundit.com/index.php?/forums/viewthread/4248/
But even funnier - check out the front page post at LGFWatch right now - it’s all about us and it makes it quite plain that they and we do not abide each other. But in the Land of Paranoia, ‘they’re all against me’.
The funny thing is, is this is the second night in a row that he has derailed his own threads by lying about us. This is simply a way for him to bump his hits. His blogads must really be suffering. He has to keep stirring up his minions or he loses money.
There are some places I will not go.
LGFWatch, DailyKos, Huffington Post...DU, you get the idea. Sadly, LGF is in that column.
... the hilarious Irony of it is that Charles own (repeat) failure to deal with problems created this issue.
In the wake of the hurricanes and LGF donations and the subsequent apparent criminal shenanigans of BayouKing, with folks at LGF demanding transparency and an accounting from BayouKing, Charles (in classic Libtard ‘zero tolerance’ fashion) cried ‘take it somewhere else!’ so many folks here did. And GCP began to accelerate.
Of course they hate GCP- almost all (?) here are ‘ex-lizards’, in one way or another, and that is their prime target- as ‘lizards’ tend to be people who stand more or less together in opinion on the war on terror, supporting the troops, and securing our borders from illegals…
Chuckette? You’re getting b-o-r-i-n-g...another good point - LGF around the time of Rathergate - a topic would go up. At least a dozen folks would immediately gather related or background info, posting links. Finding addendums and corrections. There’d be at least a couple people with directly relevant experience, whatever the subject was, speaking their additional insights. The first 100+ topics would be chock-full of useful info / ‘added value’. A good ‘signal to noise’ ratio.
Now, nearly three years later? Almost none of that. Fact checking is a lost art AtS. ( Across the Street- author: fatal )
reaganite - 28 September 2007 09:24 PM
Notice that when he slanders us, there is never a link. Does he get fact checked? Not often, those that do end up joining us here.
Bingo. All of it is smear. And like you also point out, anyone that dares question - or in several fresh cases, even try to do a search for any of our nics - and BAM, locked out, barred from speaking a single word in opposition. ( W.T.F.? Kicking folks out who do a search on a banned poster’s name? What kinda sense does that make? I don’t think my 15yo would be that petty. )
It’s becoming EXACTLY like DU. Just as fast as the psychotics can cry ‘j’accuse!’ / mash the alert button.
50 quatloos says his traffic is down another third by Halloween.
LGF Traffic
Date - Pageview - Unique IPs
9/11/2006 - 221,514 - 176,126
9/11/2007 - 127,225 - 98,474
Charles blustered, “And by the way, sending me an angry email after being banned [blocked] guarantees that you’re not going to get your account back.”
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=27227#c0272
Open letter to Charles:
There simply was no angry e-mail. That is a lie. For ratings, drama, appeasing heavy donor/posters..?
Check yourself; take a vacation. You are seeing enemies everywhere but missing those under your nose.
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. – Thomas Jefferson
WHICH party has the racists?
Tell me folks, who is fed, housed, clothed from cradle to grave? Slaves that's who. Clinton, once again, baring her "European socilaist" fangs. Can someone alert the democrats that this great nation was founded on the individual and self reliance.
“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Clinton: Give every newborn $5,000 CNN hat tip mph
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Friday that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 "baby bond" from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home.
Clinton, her party's front-runner in the 2008 race, made the suggestion during a forum hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus.
"I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that will grow over time, so that when that young person turns 18 if they have finished high school they will be able to access it to go to college or maybe they will be able to make that downpayment on their first home," she said.
To: All
The Death of the Grown-up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization--“Just how does a kid of 12 go to his grandfather for wisdom and advice?”
It’s men in general. Grandfather was likely a man in every sense of the word. That kind of man is denigrated in every fashion today. The common theme in all media today is, “man = dumb barbarian, woman = smart multi-tasker”. Media presented Family Hierarchy: Mom - Kids - Dad, when a Dad is even present.
Grandpa is now a comedic figure to be laughed at in this country. He’s the old non-PC codger that’s stuck in the corner while the fancy dinner party is going on. He’s exactly what it takes to hold this crazy place together, though.
No wisdom can be accumulated and passed down if “ME” is the center of the universe. Nothing can be learned if one thinks he was born with all he needed to know in the form of “feelings”.
We need grandpa back, in a bad way.
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Is there anyway to stop this runaway train with any rational arguments or are we going to just pay and pay and pay, until some dope from a federal agency tells us its time to die?"
"There is no right to live at another man's expense. "
Hugo Chavez: Enemy in America's Backyard
Texas Immigration Rally Turns Violent
New-home sales plunge 8.3% to seven-year low
In Praise of the Housing Bust. Isn't it time for the market to cool?
Secret Internal Poll and Memo Leaked: Democrats won’t Win?
Social Security Crisis Is Nearing, But Hillary Clinton Sees No Pain--Wow, while she was at it, she should’ve pulled out the “My husband also erased the deficit” lie.
This article points out Hillary’s problem and one of the reasons I believe that she is unelectable - she’s running on Bill’s record. As soon as people figure out that she has no record of her own to run on and realize that she will only recycle Bill’s non-policies (without his “charisma”), Hillary is toast...
Why Middle Class Americans Can’t Afford Health Insurance: Part II
Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself
How Not to Install Windows Vista SP1 Beta
Money for Nothing: More education spending, but poorer test results.
Ex-military to Be Denied Gun Ownership ("disarmament by diagnosis")
State Lawmakers Produce List Of Crimes By Illegal Immigrants