[Protagoras]

So folks need to vent, so nu? It may make some cringe and others laugh. On another thread Registered has posted a photo of Osama bin Laden's head on a pike planted in front of the White House, and next to his severed head is a sign that says, "Public Urination Allowed". Now that may not be everybody's kind of humor, but for a lot of folks it is exactly the antidote we need during these grim days. Lighten up.

Venting is one thing. I concider Registered's pictures as venting. No one takes them for anything other than what they are intended for.

Your post was as follows;
We can't leave without giving appropriate tokens of our appreciation -- like dropping oof some neutron devices to take care of the problems in Jedda, Riyadh -- and a few old style high altitude devices to turn the Arabian Desert into the Sea of Glass...perhaps I am thinking too modestly.

Advocating dropping weapons of mass destruction in the senerio we are in is either crazy or childish. It's not entirely evident to everyone reading the thread that you were kidding. I assume you were kidding but given the earier posts which advocated annexing countries, which in my opinion were not made in jest but just made by morons, it isn't possible to be sure.

The point I made was that all of this nonsense makes this site look like a Yahoo chatroom full of children or otherwise weak minded people. If you like that format, why not go to those types of places? The people who hate this site, liberals and such, are given all the ammunition they need to discredit us all because of this nonsense.

You think I need to lighten up and I think you and others who make similar posts need to grow up. I guess we just disagree about the importance of having a credible place to discuss important things with intelligent people. The kind of posts that we are talking about tend to make them think this place is full of lightweights and move along. I would prefer people think before they post, or move along themselves. Just my preference.

[father_elijah]

There are hundreds upon hundreds of threads on FR. You can take your little preference and move along to another thread that is more in keeping with your humorless desires. Your need to slam posters as morons and immature and your inability to have a laugh says a lot more about you than it does about the people whose posts you dislike. Frankly,who gives a damn what liberals and others think about FR? If you do, you are on the wrong forum, mate.