Day: March 22, 2010

Stupidity from the moderation cue

Here’s a classic example of what will get your IP address banned from commenting here, and your info published:

The first comment was not so bad:

New comment on your post #17599 “Dana Loesch lays the smack down on the idiotic accusations on racism and gay slurs “
Author : Scott (IP: 66.235.49.173 , c-66-235-49-173.sea.wa.customer.broadstripe.net)
E-mail : surgery@usa.net
URL    :
Whois  : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=66.235.49.173
Comment:
That video doesn’t prove sh*t.  It fails to show anyone shouting anything vile, but so what?  If you’re in that crowd, videoing with your cam or cell phone, and you happened to have footage of the actual incident, are you going to release it?  No friggin way.  Anybody standing in that crowd is a right wing true-believer and would keep such video under wraps forever.
The evidence, such as it is, is firmly on the side of the accusations being true.  There were several witnesses who had nothing to gain by supporting a lie, and they all backed it up.  Game over.

The language was a bit tough, but he did have a point; so, I thought I’d let it stand. Then, he got personal.

Author : Scott (IP: 66.235.49.173 , c-66-235-49-173.sea.wa.customer.broadstripe.net)
E-mail : surgery@usa.net
URL    :
Whois  : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=66.235.49.173
Comment:
Here’s proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT6PNv2GhY4

By the way, I disagree with your point…saying anything other than “there are no circumstnaces under which those remarks are appropriate, I denounce the use of those terms, and the attitudes they represent” is being a total pussy. I mean YOU.  What are you, OK with the KKK burning crosses in your neighbors yards?  Feel like you Don’t have to do what a black cop tells you?  Nunes is worse, but what do you expect from politicians, who are all snakes, Rep or Dem?

I’d have gone even farther in Nunes’ shoes, and said, “Furthermore, the people who screamed those epithets are not in the same camp as me, they are not patriotic citizens of this great nation, they are not fit to be Republicans or for that matter Democrats either.  Those people need to go home, and perhaps form their own political party, I hear David Dukes is looking for a job and could be their leader.  They should buy an island and start their own country, because they are not welcome in Washington DC, nor anyplace else in the United States of America.  In fact, if they did start an island nation under the banner of racism, we should nuke it.”

Yours

Scott

So, instead of trying to make a point. He insulted me. That goes against the rules and I basically told him to hit the road, and things went down hill in e-mail, and here they are:

Forwarded conversation
Subject: two words
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From: Patrick <tpblogeditor@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:14 PM
To: surgery@usa.net


fuck off, don’t come to my fucking blog and expect your insults to be approved.

Goodbye.

-Patrick
http://www.politicalbyline.com

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From: Scott <Surgery@usa.net>
Date: Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:16 PM
To: Patrick <tpblogeditor@gmail.com>

Pussy.  Afraid of someone with an opinion?

Can’t listen to facts that don’t support your argument.  Typical.
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From: Patrick <tpblogeditor@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:17 PM
To: Scott <Surgery@usa.net>

Like I said asshole, fuck you. You wanna insult someone, do it
elsewhere. Your bullshit ain’t fucking wanted…


and I will be blocking the IP.

I have rules. follow ’em or get the fuck on…

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From: Scott <Surgery@usa.net>
Date: Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:29 PM
To: Patrick <tpblogeditor@gmail.com>

Rules?  Are they posted somewhere?  I’m happy to edit my post to accomodate them.  Unless the little boy is afraid to hear an opposing point of view?  Do I hear your mommy calling?
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– Show quoted text –
From: Patrick <tpblogeditor@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:32 PM

To: Scott <Surgery@usa.net>


Nah, I don’t want you here. Your attitude sucks. Don’t need it.

For the record, it is here:

http://www.politicalbyline.com/comment-policy/

But, see you’ve got this idiotic attitude. I choose to not allow you to comment.

See ya.

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From: Scott Welker <hypocrophobe@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:47 PM


Waaaaaah!  Im afraid! Mommy, Scott doesn’t agree with me

From Scott

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From: Patrick <tpblogeditor@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:49 PM
To: Scott Welker <hypocrophobe@gmail.com>

Congrads, you just got yourself published on my blog. Including your
e-mail address and your IP address as well. I will be including your
e-mails to me.
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My rules around here are simple. You are free to comment; but you are not free to insult me. My Blog, my rules; follow ’em or hit the road. Congrats Scott now everyone knows your IP. Idiot.

Hey! I thought I was the only crazy person on twitter?!?!

Dude, you’re not helping….:

Earlier today, self-described conservative blogger Solomon “Solly” Forell posted a tweet that included a call for assassination, as well as this line: “We&apos;ll surely get over a bullet 2 Barack Obama&apos;s head!”

via Conservative Blogger Calls For Obama’s Assassination On Twitter (Updated) – Solly forell – Jezebel.

Here’s his picture:

You can most likely guess what will happen to him, don’t you? After all, he is the right color. If this had been me, I’d already be in jail.

Also, to clear the record, the dude is NOT a Conservative; he is, in fact, a conspiracy theorist. BIG DIFFERENCE!

There’s a big difference between believing in limited Government and Alex Jones kooky horseshit.

Anyhow, this guy is an idiot, and quite obviously over-reacted. I mean, I was none too pleased either, but I didn’t flip my cork like that. I mean, what purpose does it serve? Acting all nutty like that, does not change a thing. I’ve done it myself and all it does, is create headaches for yourself.

The Secret service is investigating; but, honestly? I doubt anything will become of it. Because a brother don’t cut another brother… If you know what I mean; and I think you do! 😀

Next time someone calls me stupid, I am showing them this

HEH!

Police in Kennewick, Washington didn’t have much of a problem tracking down the moron who broke into the Bella Office Furniture store there. It seems the criminally inclined mope felt so sure of not getting caught, he spent five hours on the company’s computer…

He surfed porn and tried to stolen items over the internet. He also helpfully logged into his MySpace account, just to make it extra easy to catch him.

via Moron of the Day Breaks into Furniture Store, Helpfully Logs into His MySpace Account – True Crime Report.

Wow, it’s one thing to be a thief; but a dumb thief…. is a whole other ballgame. 🙄

Depressing Article of the Day

Political Byline pissing in your coffee since 2007. 😉

But Seriously, here’s the real downer of the day:

Already Republicans plan on introducing a bill this week to repeal last night’s historic healthcare vote.

Obviously that’s going nowhere.

But looking out, Republicans will probably try to run on repeal in the runup until November. It’s possible that will play okay at the ballot (we don’t know) but anyone who thinks this is a realistic prospect is smoking something illegal.

First of all, to repeal the vote would be just as difficult legislatively as passing healthcare was, so just think of how hard that was. Republicans would need 60 pro-repeal votes in the Senate to defeat a Democratic filibuster. And remember, they’d need a President who wouldn’t veto the bill (i.e. not Obama or any Democrat).

But even that’s putting too fine a point on it. Here’s the real story, and it gets down to the fact that this new bureaucratic superstructure is now permanently ossified into our federal government.

via One Thing That’s 100% Guaranteed: The Healthcare Bill Will NEVER Be Repealed.

Sad fact, but very true. Thank the Progressive Republicans for it.

Two very valid points about what happened last night

First up Philip Klein over at the AmSpec Blog:

The question conservatives should be asking though, is how did we get in this position in the first place? How come, over the course of two elections, Democrats were able to take back the White House and amass substantial majorities in both chambers of Congress, allowing them to enact this sweeping legislation with no Republican votes – and huge defections in their own party? How could a generally right-of-center nation be taken over by liberals from Chicago and San Francisco?

The answer, of course, is that none of this would have been possible without George W. Bush — or more broadly speaking, Bush era Republicanism. While they were in power, Republicans squandered an opportunity to push free market health care solutions. When they did use their power to pass major legislation, it was for policies like the big government Medicare prescription drug plan, which was (until today) the largest expansion of entitlements since the Great Society.

They took earmarks and doled out farm and energy subsidies. They earned a reputation for fiscal recklessness and corruption and incompetent governance. President Obama ultimately forced through the health care bill in spite of the political consequences to his party because he’s ultimately a true believing liberal. But it was only because of the failures of Bush-era Republicanism that an ideological liberal with little experience was able to capture the presidency on the abstract notion of change.

Today will be largely remembered as the biggest legislative victory for liberals since Medicare in 1965. But it should also be remembered as the day that Bush cemented his legacy as one of the most destructive presidents for advocates of limited government.

and… Robert Stacy McCain:

Which is to say that what happened Sunday night was not the birth of a new era of liberalism. Rather, it was the death of a kind of “conservatism” that was never really conservative at all. It was the “conservatism” of No Child Left Behind and ethanol subsidies, of unprincipled compromise and cynical self-dealing, of “shamnesty” and kowtowing to CAIR.

If the Republican Party can offer America nothing better than that in the future, the GOP will go the way of the Whigs, passing unlamented into political oblivion.

All I can say to add to this is, when you call yourself a Republican and you basically are a Progressive; what do people honestly expect? George W. Bush was, and still is, and will be to his dying breath; a Wilsonian President. That is a Progressive view on foreign policy. Which is why I do not quite understand why the folks over at HotAir are crying the blues.

Look, the point I am trying to make is this. It is the 900 pound gorilla in the room, that nobody on our side wants to discuss. It is a fact, that George W. Bush drove the United States of America into a war; that we all know now, had zero to do with 9/11. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.  There were parts; but no weapons. The Bush Administration decided to stay anyhow, and move the goalposts to keep us there.  For this little foolhardy move, the American people decided that Republicans did not have the ability to govern a nation and as a result of that; the Democrats won. Elections matter, it is just that simple. Because of this, were are all staring — bleary-eyed as we may be — at a socialist nightmare.

I hate to say it, but David Frum is absolutely correct.  We have no one other to blame, than ourselves for this one. Yeah, I know, I do not much care from Frum either; I know what he said about the Paleo-Conservatives, and yeah, I know he is a chameleon. But once and a while, that idiot kanook does get it right. ( 😯 )