Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
Posted on 09/16/2004 3:54:12 AM PDT by Always Right
· You will recall that the Diary's very own brand new conspiracy theory (which held that Kerry's tanking presidential campaign was a deliberate Democratic feint aimed at giving Hillary Clinton a clear run in 2008) was rather anticipated by those crazy rightwing nerds at freerepublic.com, who had already posted several threads to that effect before we could bestir ourselves to come up with a username and password. In fact, much of the internet-friendly hard right seems to believe that Hillary is working diligently for a Bush victory by supplying the Kerry campaign with forged documents. You have to get up pretty early to outflank these guys, even factoring in the time difference.
· Undaunted, the Diary joined freerepublic.com under the pseudonym weknowthistobetrue (a hasty truncation of the more Jeffersonian weholdthesetruthstobeselfevident, which exceeds the 30-character limit by two), posting a thread that took the conspiracy to its logical conclusion - that a vote for Bush in 2004 was a vote for Hillary in 2008 - and asking if true conservatives shouldn't seriously consider voting for Kerry to prevent such an unhappy executive outcome.
· "Should you blow your head off because eventually you will die anyway?" is just one of nine comments to appear within two minutes of our thread going live. Proper debate at last! But before we could type back "Shouldn't you be in school, sonny?", we received another, terser, message: "This thread has been pulled." Efforts to reword the appeal were met with a further stumbling block: "This account," read the notice, "has been banned or suspended." Come, come. Which is it?
· Who says the power of the printed press is waning? Only last Thursday, on these very pages, John Harris complained that Mercury-prize-winning art-popsters Franz Ferdinand were depressingly conservative, overly polite and "terrifyingly well-adjusted". Not everybody would take umbrage at that, but Franz Ferdinand frontman (try saying that after a good lunch) Alex Kapranos self-evidently did. In an interview in Time Out next week - yes, you are hearing it here first, unless Time Out emailed you the pdf file yesterday as well - Kapranos expressed his typically measured concerns. "That's quite offensive," he said. Nevertheless, he seems to have taken the criticism on board: "But, hey, if that writer wants obnoxiousness, I'll call him a fanny and punch him in the face." Swearing properly takes practice, young man, but otherwise, well done.
· The Diary is intrigued to hear that the new Conservative chair of the London Assembly, Brian Coleman, has taken to turning up at the assembly wearing the heavy gold chain and official regalia of the chairman of the old Greater London Council, which can't have had much of an airing since the Tories abolished the GLC in 1986. Perhaps those old wounds have healed at last. What a great way to symbolise the new spirit of consensus that informs the governance of the capital. Unless he's just taking the fanny.
· Meanwhile, in the short time since the well-meaning, if intensely paranoid, folks at freerepublic.com summarily violated the Diary's first amendment rights, reader Geoff Taylor is in touch to say that yesterday he too signed up at freerepublic.com and had his "posting privileges" revoked after only a quarter of an hour. Hmm. We've examined your posting, Geoff, and we can't see anything untoward apart from a misspelling in the line "the human rights abuses and torture in Guantanamo and Abu Greib [sic] were ordered by Rumsfeld (with the full knowledge of the President)". They do have to maintain certain standards. Be more careful in future, and remember: the time to beat is two minutes.
Frankly, I am disappointed he lasted two-minutes.
Crazy right-wing nerd reporting for duty!
I remember that thread
Yes, hear, hear! Death to the accounts of internet disrupters and their running dog nonsense.
Note - this also might explain the sudden influx of ultra-liberal British "over the ponders"
/john
But the question is, are you in pjs?
We at FR exercise our right to free association and assembly, and that includes following the rules. Comply or don't. It's your choice.
Skunks don't know they stink, Tim.
A Guardian writer is whining about his getting the Almighty Zot?!
BWAAAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!! Hey, Timmy! You really ought to read the rules before you try to enter a PRIVATE FORUM!
Loser!
Yes I am , and I only have on my PJ pants!
Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
Must of been the smell...
Kerry, who can't run on his track record in the Senate, and has at the least, a questionable Vietnam war record, could even be conceived as a winning candidate?!
A guy who doesn't even have the appeal of his own party?
You were saying, Tim?
I better put some new tape on my glasses, too.
LOL! The "logical conclusion" of believing Hillary would act in her own self-interest is that "A vote for Bush in 2004 is a vote for Hillary in 2008"? You've gotta be -kiddin'- me!
LOL. The Guardian is BRAGGING about deliberately trolling with completely ludicrous logic that would insult the intelligence of... well, of a Guardian editor, and then they have the -nerve- to sarcastically proclaim "Proper debate at last!"?!
How freakin' pathetic. LOL. I can't believe they're bragging about deliberate trolling.
Qwinn
In uniform, Soldier!!!!
HAH! I'm a Information Technology Architect.. and I have bi-polar disorder. I've been outed! :-} Better them than James Carville I suppose!
Yes, the left is so compassionate
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.