Aug

30

2004

Teaching New Tricks

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The talkleft Experiment Revisited

I went back to talkleft today. They have a new policy paragragh, for which I do hereby take credit.

Monday :: August 30, 2004

Open Thread: Convention Monday
I’m going to be wandering around the streets for a few hours. Here’s an open thread for convention-related thoughts.

[For new readers, please refrain from name-calling and profanity, and if you post urls, please put them in html format.] {emphasis italics mine, RJ}

11:00 AM | Archived Link | Comments (3) | Trackback (0)

So, if the level of discourse over there improves, well I am your humble servant in pursuit of truth, justice, reasoned debate and everything else American, glad to help out.

I am, however, curious about the wording, “new readers” in the policy advisery. Is this a caveat that excludes old readers, or just an assumption on the part of the administrator that his old readers already knew better?

And, yes, I did leave comments. On two threads, see extended entry, I am not particularly anxious to see the reaction I get. I was polite, within all of the rules, will I still be there when I return? We’ll see.

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Aug

30

2004

The Wind Vane Candidate

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The Kerry wind. Always from the left, less so if his audience leans right, more so if he is seeking his crowd’s endorsement.

Aug

30

2004

The Parade Of Bull Walk

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The second United States civil war continues. Where the first Civil War was about keeping the nation together, the second civil war is about the lefties attempt to end this country as we know it. While the conservative federalists are calling this skirmish, Bull Walk, (politely leaving the first word unfinished), the anarcharist left call it, appropriately, Metroasses.

They can march, but if the real enemy comes here, will they fight?

Aug

30

2004

Dissension among the ranks?

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Well… what do we have here? Dissension among the ranks, or did the Donks just assume that they had a block of voters in the bag when they really don’t? Hmmm. Perhaps it’s the Roe Effect coming to fruition!

Aug

28

2004

Lucinda Beachy

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Ms. Beachy is missing , a mother of three who lives near Tucson Arizona, she went to a well known area for a mountain hike on Monday and has not been heard from since. A search for her began the next day.

I know her parents through business, they were leaving here (Naples, Florida) Thursday to join the search, having been notified that she was missing Wednesday night.

Please say a prayer that this missing woman is found safe and sound.

Update: Found, alive but hurt. She had taken a fall, was unable to walk, survived on grass and stream water. Prayers answered.

Aug

26

2004

My talkleft Experiment

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I took the recommendation of a commentor and posted a recent TBR article on a comment page at talk left. I have avoided visiting reputed left-leaning sites because I have the general impression, from hearing the left speak on television, that there would be little room for discussion, that the idealogical position of the left leaves no room for alternate positions. My worst fears were confirmed, and in some ways, I am grateful that the site’s administrator closed comments on that thread three hours after I posted the first comment on that topic.

The topic was Big Event in New York Monday Night , a call to put pressure on Republicans to support the right to kill babies. While I appreciate that the site is expanding the horizons of its readship by showing that Republicans do not think as a monolith; I hope those readers, and those Republicans come to understand the damage they are doing.

My post really wasn’t connected to their theme, and I must admit that seeing NY and Monday night, I leapt to the conclusion that they were organizing in connection with the RNC convention; but nobody made note of how irrelevant my comments were beyond saying, “wha?”. I am placing the comments made, before they were closed, on the extended area. Caution, some foul language, from one of their readers.

The gem of this experiment was this article. {hat tip Doctor Ace}

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Aug

26

2004

What Is The New Yorkese Word For Chad?

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I am reminded of the old Firesign Theatre lyrical question; “how can you be in two places at once, when you’re really nowhere at all?”

Of the 46,000 registered in both states, 68% are Democrats, 12% are Republicans and 16% didn’t claim a party.

Aug

26

2004

Kerry ‘71

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On C-Span tonight.

Senate Committee
Vietnam War Hearing 1971
Foreign Relations
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
ID: 181065 – 04/22/1971 – 1:11 – ns

Kerry, John F., U.S. Senator, D-MA

On April 22nd, 1971, 27 year old former Navy Lt. John Kerry testified against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War as a member of “Vietnam Veterans Against the War”. Senator J. William Fulbright (D-Arkansas) chaired the committee.

Coverage will include, in its entirety, John Kerry’s opening remarks to members of the committee, followed by questioning by some committee members. This event was filmed by NBC News. In those areas where there is not a complete film archive of Kerry’s testimony, it will be supplemented by audio from Pacifica Radio.

Aug

26

2004

Two-Letter Words

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We.

Note: Link Repaired

The following comment was left by M Simon at the above linked site.

“There is a big difference between William Calley and John Kerry. William Calley is a proven war criminal. For John Kerry we only have his word as an officer and a gentleman.”

Aug

25

2004

Rumors

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The stranger seated next to me at the lunch counter shared an interesting rumor. Seems that he has heard that during the Republican Convention, Bush will call for a flat tax. The restaurant owner scoffed, saying that the accountants would go out of business. Actually, (If I were feeling ambitious I would supply a link here, but what good are rumors supported by references?), the CPAs have supposedly endorsed a flat tax, seems they believe they can make more money doing financial planning.

I can not tell you where I heard that SUVs are secretly planning a counter protest against the anti-RNC protestors in NYC. Word is that the owners of the environment destroying, people hating vehicles are not, I repeat, are not aware of the plans being hatched by their own transportation devices. The owners are none the less responsible for whatever actions are taken by the SUVs, chain of command, you know. The bu(i)ck doesn’t stop where the rubber meets the road! Of course the SUVs have the potential to wipe out the entire population of NYC if they are not restrained. The omni-directional emission of deadly gaseous toxins will do untold damage to non-combatants even if the SUVs are sober enough to target only their intended foe with their main weapon, which the manufacturer calls a bumper. It will be hell to pay for bumper, thumper and the gentle as a rabbit peace protestors if this plan goes forward.

Aug

24

2004

Ant(e)i Meme, Ante(i) Meme!

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You assert that I have learned that the Iraq war Was wrong by something called “induction” and that this explains, or justifies, or something, how your conclusion can differ without creating any problems. In reality I have done no such thing (from what, exactly, do you think I “induced” the wrongevity of the Iraq war?); the notion of “induction” and all that it connotes is simply unrecognizable as anything remotely approximating or even resembling the thought processes by which I have learned the Truth that the Iraq was war WROGN!.

A parody site based solely on one joke, the left does not reason, can’t possibly have staying power; can it?

Or is it a parody at all, they seem sincere when they say, (taken from his “About I” page. Btw this use of parentheses is one of the signature characteristics of this site, along with bad speling and badgrammer, and improper use of capital letters. At leest, that is wat i beleave, and donut tri to talk (resun) ) meo ut fo that postion).

At 11:27 PM, Anonymous said…
A parody? Only the hating mind of a Repulblican could come up with that! Is it beyond your moral calcuas that the WAR was RONG! Everything else is secondary! Even breathing. Especially breathing!

I can’t imagine that I will visit this site often, but it is good to know that somebody is chronicling these all too familiar earmarks of the internet active looney left. If it gets around that this site is a parody expect it to be hit by a hacker who will replace the “Proprietor’s” screed with what the left really believes; but then how will we know that a change in message has occurred?

One final note, Steve and Chris once conspired to create a site like TIWWWB, but found that they could not write like the LLLs without losing the ability to think and had the sense to abandon the project before permanent damage set in.

hat tip: On The Third Hand

Aug

23

2004

Over The BrainBow

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The strawman, it isn’t just for debates anymore.

Aug

22

2004

More Kerry Questions

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Since John Kerry refuses, until he wins (pardon me while I stifle my laughter)………., (back), to tell us his plans for Iraq, the economy, Homeland Security, and all of the other real-time issues; we are left to examine only his record. Now, then with regard to his Senate record, his self proclaimed accomplishments are………(searching)……………(they must be here somewhere)…………(still searching)………….,(enough), apparently he is not claiming his Senate career achievements among his qualifications for President. Let’s try his accomplishments in the private sector,……..(searching)………….(married rich woman, divorced, married an even richer woman)…………(continuing search for pertinent claimed achievement)………….(nevermind), it seems he has not established a record worthy of bragging about in the private sector. Well, he has talked about his military career; but somehow he has failed to mention that while still in the service he also protested against our country, including Senate testimony that disgraced our soldiers, and his secret meetings with our enemy!

I wonder why he hasn’t made more mention of this in his resume? I wonder why we haven’t been granted access to his military records (sign the 180, Senator), or been given a transcript of his private meeting with the communist North Vietnamese government officials while we were at war with them?

What else are you hiding, Senator, your Irish heritage? Tell us please, other than your four months service in Vietnam (35 years ago, and with disputed significance anyway), why should we elect you President? What have you done since VN that makes you worth consideration? What plans for our future do you have, (in detail, Senator)? Give us one reason, (other than, you are not Bush, that one only works for the Bushaters) why you should, even could, be President? And, while you are finally intorducing yourself, why shouldn’t we consider you AWOL form the reserve duty, why shouldn’t we consider you to have given comfort and aid to the enemy, why should we believe anything you say?

Aug

21

2004

Do your worst

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Some may have noticed that I had re-enabled comments after I came back from Charleyville, hoping that perhaps the spammers had found a life and moved on. Of course they hadn’t.

But I’ve found a neat plug-in for MT that we’re going to try using to work around the problem. If you see any comment spam or trackback spam, please be patient while I play with the plug-in and try to excise it. If you get an error while you’re using the comments and you can’t figure out why (or you think your comment is legit), please let me know.

UPDATE: We got hit with our first attack, and the plug-in is very easy to use. Better yet, I was able to configure it to filter out this “bob” craphead who’s been doing most of the spamming. Buh-bye bob!

Aug

20

2004

Press Wrinkled

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Someday, some way; how sweet it would be. Meanwhile, the MSM monopoly is challenged to keep pace with bloggers.

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