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Vanity | 08/31/04 | ChicagoHebrew

Posted on 08/30/2004 10:05:23 PM PDT by ChicagoHebrew

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To: seowulf

Hitler was a dog-lover and a vegetarian. That doesn't make all dog lovers or vegetarians Nazis.


81 posted on 08/30/2004 10:27:51 PM PDT by ChicagoHebrew
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To: ChicagoHebrew
This wasn't intended as a tolerance lecture. It was intended as a lecture on improving the forum to better promote its goals.

Shouldn't that be Jim Robinson's call? You're certainly entitled to your opinion but then again so am I. If he really wanted to force everybody to stop using the term "Hitlery", he could easily do that. Its Jim's bat and ball; we just play in his sandbox, and I'll defer to his wishes on this matter. No offense.

Stopping the name-calling doesn't mean moving leftward. It means moving upward.

The name-calling is a tool that many here including myself use to deal with the frustration with the lies, calumny, and hate of the Left. While I appreciate your advice, I'll keep my own counsel on what sort of terms I choose to characterize the enemies of this country.

My profile sig was intended as a joke, a play on the old Reagan episode.

I remember the sound bite. But, just as all of us know that Reagan was joking around when he made the "bombing begins in 5 minutes" quip, all of us also know that referring to the witch as "Hitlery" is no more than a play on words. Sticks and stones and all that.

Perhaps, in all honesty, I should change it -- as it might give the wrong impression out. At least I don't quote that sig on 1000s of posts a day.

My (unsolicited) advice? Stand your ground - like all good humor, there is a grain of truth in it.

82 posted on 08/30/2004 10:27:59 PM PDT by asgardshill (The Republican's best weapon lies midway between John Kerry's nose and lower chin.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

LOL!


83 posted on 08/30/2004 10:28:05 PM PDT by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Slings and Arrows

you always have some funny crap to say(write).


84 posted on 08/30/2004 10:28:09 PM PDT by rineaux (hardcore for W04)
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To: ChicagoHebrew

At home here I just call her "that Clinton b*tch".


85 posted on 08/30/2004 10:28:09 PM PDT by Sunshine55 (W - Because God still loves America)
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To: HawkeyeLonewolf
If Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter posted here, would you guys call them newbies?

(After reading a questionable new post) "...hmm, lets see... who is this guy..'ElRushbo'... lets see when he registered.. 'Since 2004-08-31'!... just what I thought, another stinkin n00b. He's probably a troll, just like that 'AnnieC2004' we just zotted."

86 posted on 08/30/2004 10:28:22 PM PDT by Steel Wolf (Don't make me roll initiative...!)
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To: ChicagoHebrew
wait?....censorship?
you mean NO name calling?
I suspect you put both hands over your ears and spin in circles three times saying "no no no no no no....make it go away" when you heard the word "stupid","hitler","regime change",for the last three years?

mmmmm..ok ok...just for tonight

ah pooh

Doogle
87 posted on 08/30/2004 10:28:31 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF..408th MMS...Ubon, Thailand "69" ..."Wolfpack".night line delivery "Doogle")
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To: ChicagoHebrew

88 posted on 08/30/2004 10:29:20 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (*Barack Obama ~ Just Another Liberal Honkey With A Tan*)
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To: HawkeyeLonewolf

Welcome to FR


89 posted on 08/30/2004 10:29:26 PM PDT by Danette (The 9-11 Commission is America's newest terrorist cell. Vote Bush 2004.)
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To: ChicagoHebrew

Thought about and decided ...... NO!!!!! You might want to try out www.CENSOREDrepublic.com. Currently your browser reads www.FREErepublic.com! Thanks for being the PC police pal, but I will just wait for the jack booted thugs to break down my door and drag me to the re-education camp for PC, if you don't mind.


90 posted on 08/30/2004 10:29:40 PM PDT by avant_garde
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To: ChicagoHebrew

"If you think that Hillary Clinton would start murdering millions of people if she had the chance, or try to conquer the world, you are either a maniac or an idiot."


She is just another in a long line of commies who have murdered tens of millions. Madamn Klintoon is just asking for one more socialist commie chance to get it right this time. Just ask her, she knows she can, if you will just give her unlimited power, for the children of course.


91 posted on 08/30/2004 10:30:00 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: ChicagoHebrew
enjoy this forum, but lately I've noticed a troubling tendency for posters here to descend into horrible and immature name-calling. Such name-calling, and extremism without reason does nothing but harm our cause.

Big baby... must be from the Chicago Race... never trusted those Illinoisians... smell of corn, they do.

92 posted on 08/30/2004 10:30:23 PM PDT by Porterville (How can the median price of a home in CA be 450,000 dollars? How? Where is the money?)
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To: ChicagoHebrew

"I realize that Democratic Underground uses even more ridiculous terms sometimes. "


Why don't you go, get them to clean up their act, then you can come back and work on us.

Are these the biggest issues that bother you, that we sometimes poke well deserved fun at some Democrats?

I guess Kerry wanting to be president, after having accused his fellow Vietnam veterans of war crimes and mass murder doesn't bother you?

I think you have your priorities skewed, to say the least.


93 posted on 08/30/2004 10:30:28 PM PDT by FairOpinion (FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
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To: ladyinred

Dem'o'craps are virtually impossible to debate fairly with as they feel virtuous in lying. They are evil. They are truly evil, abortion is their holy sacrament, same sex sodomy is the testament of their faith, they loathe the country they live in, and they slaver with hatred towards sincere, heroic men and women.

They worship the earth so they can enjoy it themselves, and hate people. (Except other leftists like themselves.) They hate and fear God, the ACLU are their high priests. Hitlery wants to "do good" - and her good is the destruction of all that is really good, since she sees herself as holy and pure, therefore unable to do wrong.

If Hitlery had the presidency, we can't imagine the nastiness that would ensue.


94 posted on 08/30/2004 10:30:53 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Islamo-Jihadis and Homosexual-Jihadis both want to destroy civilization.)
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To: ChicagoHebrew

I agree with you, but those names are pretty commomnly used around here.


95 posted on 08/30/2004 10:30:55 PM PDT by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: All

I didn't know Rodney King was a Chicago Hebrew...


96 posted on 08/30/2004 10:31:01 PM PDT by HawkeyeLonewolf (Christian First, American Second (Conservative Anti-Smoker))
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To: Republican Wildcat
"This is quite civil. You should have been here in 1999-2000."

Oh my, How True.

Let met get this off my chest, here goes:

I think Hillary Clinton is the most dangerous person in the world regarding the security and prosperity of the United States.

97 posted on 08/30/2004 10:31:17 PM PDT by AGreatPer (Go Swifties)
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To: Calpernia

You wrote:

[Entertaining graphic of kitten apparently scratching
in litter box.]

Given the graphic, should your ID by Cal-PURINA??


98 posted on 08/30/2004 10:31:39 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: asgardshill
Shouldn't that be Jim Robinson's call? You're certainly entitled to your opinion but then again so am I. If he really wanted to force everybody to stop using the term "Hitlery", he could easily do that. Its Jim's bat and ball; we just play in his sandbox, and I'll defer to his wishes on this matter. No offense.

You're right. It is Jim's call, and I'd never suggest usurping his authority. My post was just MY opinion on what I think the moderators should do. They have every right to disagree with me, but it's helpful for them to know what the board itself wants -- opinions expressed somewhat less than artfully by various posters on this thread. My post then was intended somewhat as a feeler -- to see how other Freepers feel about such infantile attacks.

99 posted on 08/30/2004 10:31:46 PM PDT by ChicagoHebrew
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To: ChicagoHebrew

Hitler was a dog-lover and a vegetarian. That doesn't make all dog lovers or vegetarians Nazis.




Being a dog-lover or a vegetarian doesn't lead to mass murder. Being a racist and a power mad, anti individual freedom politician can. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...


100 posted on 08/30/2004 10:32:45 PM PDT by seowulf
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