[Ichneumon]

I like this comment from that thread:

I agree with you that they're intellectual cowards, but my question is, why did you have to post there to tell that about them? Oh, I see... you got suckered in by the hope that somewhere, there MUST be some neocons who aren't yellow-bellied tank-brains.

Oh yes, the discussion here would be *so* improved if we were were only "brave" enough to let in folks whose idea of intellectual discussion is to call everyone "neocons" who are "yellow-bellied tank-brains".

At least a third of the other posts in that thread are along the same vein: "We're much more mature than those conservative poo-poo heads."

[Cicero]

I remember this post. It was dumb. We need to see unfriendly news stories posted here, under the principle of knowing your enemy, but we don't need the querelous complaints of left-wing individuals who wouldn't know what rational argument was if it bit them in the foot.

[Republican Wildcat]

Somehow I doubt the posts pulled were as elegant as what he is claiming. Simply pointing out a factual error wouldn't make him be targeted as a troll. He was saying some other things in addition to that, obviously.

[Do Be]

Good job. Keep deleting their posts and throwing them out. They don't get it. They never will.

Happy New Year and God bless to all.

[The Raven]

If we were a free country and IF we never had liberals and IF everyone had followed the Constitution instead of rewriting it - we'd have a federal government the size of a pea and we wouldn't have a Free Republic web site because it wouldn't be needed. And I would have retired at age 40 because the US growth rates would be 20%/year - poverty would have been long gone and wouldn't be typing this.

[jagrmeister]

LOL. Liberals learn the hard way that uninformed, unintelligent commentary is not suffered on Free Republic. Coherent dissent that is well thought through will gladly be entertained. Unfortunately, what passes for "intelligence" amongst liberal rabble are half-baked conspiracy theories, naiviety on matters of national security and foreign policy, and knee-jerk opposition to Bush's policy consisting of hollow, laughable accusations.

If the charge is that we do not suffer fools gladly at FR, I plead guilty.

[Kay Soze]

One breif section of the four screen pages of rules at DU:


They sure have alot of rules for liberals!


WHO IS WELCOME ON DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND, AND WHO IS NOT

We welcome Democrats of all stripes, along with other progressives who will work with us to achieve our shared goals.

This is a "big tent" message board. We welcome a wide range of progressive opinion. You will likely encounter many points of view here that you disagree with.

We ban conservative disruptors who are opposed to the broad goals of this website. If you think overall that George W. Bush is doing a swell job, or if you wish to see Republicans win, or if you are generally supportive of conservative ideals, please do not register to post, as you will likely be banned.

If you have been banned from Democratic Underground, you are not permitted to log on again using a different username. Previously banned members will be immediately banned, regardless of behavior.

People who repeatedly and willfully break the rules, or who generally engage in rude, antisocial behavior, will be banned. It doesn't matter if you are a progressive or a long-term member of this board.

[weegee]

My reply that "Actually it's pretty obvious that the capture of Saddam hasn't made the world safer - international airline flights had to be cancelled a few days ago due to threats of terrorism and in Iraq the last few days have been as bloody for coalition forces as the days before Saddam's capture" was removed by a moderator within a few minutes.

Boo frickin' hoo.

The capture of Saddam won't end ALL evil in the world and only a simpleton would extrapolate the statement that "the capture of Saddam has made the world safer" to mean so.

So far another despot, Lybia's Qadaffi, has seen the writing on the wall and helped to make the world safer by ending his own WMD program. Saddam won't personally pose a threat either as he is in custody and those who held out hope that he would return to power have been proven wrong.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

[185JHP]

The leftist desideratum is that no one insists: "2 + 2 = 4. Not 3, not 5, not 3.99999 - 4." They want feeling and motivation to rule. And their "moral refinement" and "understanding" to be the justification for their pronunciamentos being unquestioned - in fact unquestionable per se.

[Fred Mertz]

I feel more free talking with my office-mates, than I do expressing my views here.

[zip]

kuro5hin.org

Why post left wing web sites? FR is a conservative site for conservative comments. period

[hosepipe]

[ there are sites with a left-wing bias that are just as cowardly as Free Republic when it comes to allowing an actual debate ]

Just because a troll sounds intelligent don't mean he/she is intelligent...

I vote put this troll back under the bridge where it belongs.. because its the right thing to do..

[Vermonter]

ping for later

[Quix]

This ilk of thing gets tiresome.

It's tolerable to a point because I'm well skilled in page down and scroll keys.

Still, it's somewhat of an offensive drag just to see this sort of thing in the list of threads.

It seems to me that DU etc. is plenty of room for the idiots to roam around in.

[Fledermaus]

As usual with most idiots, felixrayman confuses the articles posted versus the opinions and statements of others.

If he has a problem with what SOMEONE ELSE writes that a Free Republic member post and links to, that's shows his inadequate ability to discriminate between what was posted and the comments that follow.

Boy, they are really afraid of this forum out there, aren't they?

[BraveMan]

This "article" is just one more rant in a rather substantial list of leftist hit pieces penned by the author. His biting insights and rapier wit will not be missed . . .

felixrayman's Diary

[highlander_UW]

2 of his examples of pulled responses are for the same post. Either he's got his links wrong, or he's padding the amount of posts pulled. It's impossible to make any sort of evaluative call on his contentions because it's not possible to determine if he used obscene language or something of the sort.

Ironically, I just finished reading a very long thread at DU where someone stated they had some conservative views and asked if he should bother to post there. A large number responded no, he was not welcome. They did not want to be exposed to views that differed from their own. (not all were as bad, there was a few reasonable ones as well). I would like to think that well reasoned and respectful posts, even if they represent a dissenting view might be allowed here...at least within some reason (don't want the board spammed in any way).

[White Eagle]

If we are going to pick nits on this dollar amount, it is entirely possible that Lake County and Sangamon County have larger budgets than DuPage. And certainly Cook County has the largest budget in the state of Illinois.

Finally, there are various funds paid by the federal government directly to the states that would not show up in an individual county budget. So, if you compare apples to apples, there may ve 10-15 counties in Illinois with larger budgets than Vermont.

And if you've read this far and you're still awake, if Howard Dean was mayor of Milwaukee, that would probably mean he bowls and eats brats, which would make him a better person.

[jagrmeister]

I post both on FR and DU. I post on DU to create trouble but I haven't been banned (and have hundreds of posts). But I have observed that they censor far more there than FR. In the Election forum, they lock a LOT of the threads for being "incivil". Normal posters- not even trolls- routinely get posts pulled because someone thought it was too critical. There is no such as Free Speech on DU, and while both DU and FR bar trolls, even liberal posters on DU have frustration with the incessant censorship.