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By: I Cried My Heart Out For Want Of My Love

I Cried My Heart Out For Want Of My Love — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:15:58 +0000

Evil people prosper, over the likes of you and me: always.

By: JoeSmoe

JoeSmoe — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 08:41:14 +0000

“And why the fuck is the government blocking the red cross and other relief organizations from entering?”

If you read the Red Cross website carefully, you will see that it is the LOCAL government and LOUISIANA National Guard that prevented the Red Cross from supplying aid. Bush had nothing to do with it. The STATE of Louisiana didn’t want the people to get too “comfortable” in the SuperDome, so they prevented the Red Cross from supplying the people with food and water for several DAYS!!!

By: Dr. BLT

Dr. BLT — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 15:58:26 +0000

Sidhe, have you been spying on me? How did you know what I’ve been up to in the middle of the night? Seriously, though, you have quite a creative imagination.

By: gelatinous cube

gelatinous cube — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 04:29:46 +0000

Chimpeach

From a commenter on a Crooks and Liars post about this heartwrenching video: What we know now is:   The order to send in the National Guard was not given until 72 hours after the levees had broken. FEMA officials prevented a…

By: D. Sidhe

D. Sidhe — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 11:46:34 +0000

Honestly, Doc. You can tell us. When you sit in your La-Z-Boy in the middle of the night, aiming your remote control at the television and pretending you’re on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, ordering the crew to drop out of warp or whatever, do the exotic alien women with green skin you imagine violating the Prime Directive with have an even number of breasts, or an odd number of them?

By: g1lgam3sh

g1lgam3sh — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 01:23:46 +0000

Hey Marie Jon

I’m from the UK and I call Bullshit on you.

Kool Aid is not a big seller over here.

By: Canada Joe

Canada Joe — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 01:11:25 +0000

Good Christ, but you folks are messed up down there. I’ve been watching mostly US network news about the situation in New Orleans, with print supplement by BBC online service, and whether it’s being done on purpose or not, it’s pretty clear that the response of the federal government has been ponderous and, at best, semi-competent.
People shooting at helicopters? I’ll buy it– there’s plenty of guns (especially with looted Walmarts) and people, nationality and ethnicity irrespective, often do incredibly stupid things. Especially when they’re crammed together in a feces-filled stadium.
Bush et al holding up aid for a photo op? I’ll buy it. Since the first election (or whatever the hell that thing was in 2000) the departure from reality undertaken by the administration has had a LOT of us out here in the rest of the world making worried comparisons to Germany, 1936-1939 (I am in correspondence with people in Asia and Europe, and we’re all nervous). To be blunt, what we see is a government that appears to be unable to accept any truth that does not conform to an amazingly narrow and often incorrect world view. I despise terrorists, but I know that what they do is not prompted by a simple hate of freedom. I accept that abstinence is a very good defence against HIV infection, but I cannot comprehend how denying assistance to any African government that subsidizes condoms is going to help that continent.
What baffles me most is the way the people of the US seem to have allowed themselves to be divided into two camps which seem unable to accept any proposition the other holds true. “Trees are green, unless that bunch over there says it.” I wish I could offer some guidance to you, some means of pointing out the vast and useful middle ground of politics where solutions to serious problems are most ofter found. If you carry on like this, your nation is going to fall to bits, and that dissolution is going to mean nothing but bad news for those around you.
Let’s try defining terms:
Liberal- glad in giving.
Conservative- adopting change only when it is of proven benefit.
See? Not what you think they mean at all, and not inherently bad. I practice both philosophies daily, depending on context.
Now, go give a few bucks to the charity of your choice to help out those poor people in New Orleans, if you are not so poor that it would afflict you. They pretty clearly need help, and for whatever reason, the federal government isn’t entirely capable of giving it.
(Oh, just so we’re clear– in my personal politics I’m so far to the left of what happens in the states I’m amazed I’m allowed to cross your border. I don’t mind the taxes because I get a free stay in a hospital if I get sick, and I’m totally OK with someone else using my tax money if they’re sick.)

By: Dr. BLT

Dr. BLT — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 23:55:53 +0000

OK, I’m learning the rules around here: Conform to our left-wing groupthink or we’ll label you a troll (disparaging term for someone with a mind of their own who refuses to conform); repeatedly insult you and call you vile names one might expect to be called by a bunch of bullies on a junior high school playground; then, if all else fails, resort to revealing homicidal, sadistic fantasies about the person, and then, lamely try to take it back. It’s too late, LACJ. Once the cat is out of the bag, once you’ve revealed the real you, you can’t take it back, no matter how fast you backpeddle. Maybe you’re not as violent and vile as you come across, but at the very least, you lack self-control and class in the manner in which you present yourself. This is the kind of behavior that gives liberals a bad name. Not all of you are alike. I have good friends who are liberal. But the rest of you do yourselves a big favor when you distance yourself from his comments, not because you are responsible for him, but because he’s the type of person who hurts your cause.

By: LACJ

LACJ — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 20:53:36 +0000

Oh, I was so wrong! I feel so guiiilty! I have to confess my sins and seek absolution from the relevant parties immediately!

Let me enumerate them, in no particular order:

First, I was wrong for stealing Mordant’s phrase ‘blithering idiot’. Sorry bout that bro, I didn’t notice you had already laid claim to that. I should have said, ’self-centered piece of fucking shit’.

Second, I should not have put ‘holier than thou’ in quotes. That’s a mortal sin there. I mean, that’s like Kaye Grogan territory. Yikes!

Third, I should have not fed the trolls. Stupid move, dunno what the heck I was thinking. Sorry Gavin, Brad, Daddy Seb.

Fourth, I should never have allowed the conversation to get off the real point: They held up the trucks for the sake of a photo op! Please, Gavin, Brad, Timmah420, others, gather all the evidence you can and do your best to get this story out. A related link (sorry I am clueless at html):

http://landrieu.senate.gov/~landrieu/releases/05/2005903E12.html

Dr. Mr. Dingdong (nice one Boing!!!) doesn’t need to worry; I have no intention of hurting him. If I actually ever have the displeasure of meeting him, I am sure I will be too busy laughing at his punk ass to do him any violence. Besides he is not worth expending the calories to raise a hammer and clocking him one. Hammer better than axe for bashing skulls, you see. With the axe you gotta make sure not to hold it the wrong way. In other words, I consider him completely worthless. He dismisses people without so much as a moment’s worth of reflection, and it is exactly that kind of attitude that has allowed our country (not yours, dickweed) to fall so far.

However, if he was stuck in a flooded attic with his daughter, and the government failed to do its duty to save him, I would most certainly fight for accountability. See how that works, shithead? Maybe you could learn from a liberal filled with hate.

Your 15 minutes are almost up, hope you enjoyed it!

By: boing!!!

boing!!! — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 17:14:56 +0000

Dr. dingdong has managed to turn a discussion of a national tragedy into an adolescent pissing match with its doctorhood standing as a narcissistic proxy for the abusive, distant father figure known as W.

Probably the kind of doctor in a special cell wearing a hockey mask. “Agent Starling, Buffalo Bush is a careful man, but a man with a weakness…”

By: D. Sidhe

D. Sidhe — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 16:20:28 +0000

Doc. Trolls don’t get respect. Smart trolls don’t *expect* respect.
If I go trolling at Free Republic, I would expect them to call me a commie pinko dyke or whatever they can spell.
I would not expect anyone there to “distance” themselves from anyone else, because they’re not responsible for the other people. At an absolute maximum, you can probably argue that the blog owners are responsible for what gets posted.
I’m not bothering to excuse away anything anyone else says, because, you know, there’s that personal responsibility thing. For that matter, I’m not going to try to distance myself from your comments about doped up parents, either.
You’re not my problem. At best, you are a mildly amusing diversion.
However, I’m going to endorse, in fact, LACJ’s statements that you have a lot of idiotic beliefs, and that it’s pretty lame to think that we’re all just gnashing our teeth because we’ve been denied access to your oeuvre.

So do you ever just stand over an anthill and say in a deep, ominous voice “You’ll pay for what you did to my picnic!” and then just spray the hell out of them with Raid while cackling?
It’s probably a better power trip than the MP3 thing.

By: Dr. BLT

Dr. BLT — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 15:17:58 +0000

First, my comments about mean-spirited mommies and doped up daddies were not meant to be taken so literally or so seriously. I’m sorry if I insulted some of you,

Second, expressing a violent, sdaistic fantasy or wish is not exactly equal to expressing a wish to go to the moon. That’s about as ridiculous a comparison as any I’ve seen in a long time. I know you call it ‘holier than thou.”

If one of you happened to visit a conservative site, and someone were to speak with such violent, threatening language, I certainly wouldn’t wink at it, or excuse it away. I would be the first to come to your defense, despite our ideological differences. But you folks seem to have a different set of values over here—or, lack thereof. Over here, if you disagree with someone, anything goes—-words of vilolence, vile, crude language (reflecting a lack of class, not to mention no dignity or self-respect) —-anyhing at all-except for intelligent, respectable debate, Call me holier than thou, but this all reflects very poorly on all of you. My comment about your daddies and mommies pales in comparison to some of the stuff you’ve thrown at me. Go back and look at it. It makes me believe society is devolving rather than evolving, Devo had it right with their social commentary.

By: LACJ

LACJ — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 13:19:59 +0000

D. Sidhe: Precisely. This twit thinks (1) all ‘liberals’ are elite coastal rich kids who are lazy and shiftless; and (2) became liberal because their meanspirited parents smoked ‘dope’ or were otherwise unfit to raise children. He certainly has a bunch of other, equally idiotic beliefs, but I won’t be bothered to identify them.

There are hundreds of children and babies dead and dying right now in New Orleans. Drowned, or dying of hunger, dehydration, and/or disease. All of these deaths are directly attributable to government indifference. Meanwhile, Dr. Mr. Sammich is busy deciding who will have the privilege of accessing his stupid jukebox. Oh, but once all the facts are in he will be more than willing to ‘debate’ who is to blame.

I hope he does try to file a complaint, that would be really funny. Let’s just say I will lose little sleep over the possibility that my distinguished career as an axe murderer and terrorist will come to a premature end.

BTW, ‘holier than thou’ should not have been in quotes. Got a little excited there for a second. ‘Dope’ is in quotes because who knows what substance he is referring to, and ‘debate’ is in quotes because in general brain-dead people can’t debate.

By: D. Sidhe

D. Sidhe — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 10:10:31 +0000

It is particularly stupid to refer to LACJ as a “sadistic murderer”, or indeed a serial killer or axe-murderer. (I assume the last was merely hyperbole, in that LACJ didn’t mention axes.)
Because, hey, if I could, I’d live on the moon. Does this make me an astronaut?

To be honest, Doc, I don’t know LACJ from Adam, and I fail to understand why I should distance myself from some statement I didn’t make, just because you insist on painting all supposed liberals with a broad brush. The distance between me and most of the commenters here, including you, is about as extreme as it gets: you say what you want, I say what I want, and neither of us are responsible for other people saying what they want.

Frankly, I have the hardest of times imagining that you are in any way, shape, or form employed in a capacity to help the mentally ill. If this is indeed the case, God help them all.

It’s difficult to determine, really, how much time you must spend scowling into the mirror and trying not to scream at your reflection “Don’t look at me!”
I suspect it’s less time than you spend standing naked in front of the mirror with the cucumber covering your dick, but it’s probably still considerable.
Good to see you can still fit trolling into your busy schedule.

By: Dr. BLT

Dr. BLT — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 08:45:08 +0000

I respect the fact that you’ve distanced yourself, Karl from these outrageous comments. I readily acknowledge that not all liberals are this intolerant and openly hostile. It may indeed be silly to call the comment what it technically is, but at the very least, it’s evidence of somebody who who has the capacity to be violent and someone who seems to have very limited communication skills.

By: Karl

Karl — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 08:26:18 +0000

I am curious though, would any of you like to take this opportunity to distance yourself from what JACJ said?

Yeah, he shouldn’t o’ oughta said that. Sometimes people get steamed up over perceived stupidity, especially when they see similar stupidity costing lives. That’s a fact of life.

It’s pretty silly to call that a felony and a terrorist threat though, regardless of whether that’s technically correct. You may as well call it “germ warfare” when a drunk throws up on your shoes.

By: Dr. BLT

Dr. BLT — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 07:31:08 +0000

Anne, if I were to simply go, as you’ve suggested, I would be letting the terrorists, or, in this case, the terrorist, win. No, LACJ may not be a terrorist in the traditional sense, but by his words, he has just committed a serious crime–a felony. It falls under the category of a making a terrorist threat. Look it up for yourself if you don’t believe me. I’ve seen cases of people going to prison over similar statements made over the internet.

By: Dr. BLT

Dr. BLT — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 07:00:06 +0000

No, I take that back. LACJ has just identified himself as a sadistic murdere, someone capable of committing a hate crime and then laughing about it. Even the most hostile among you has not gone this far in your hatred towards me. I am curious though, would any of you like to take this opportunity to distance yourself from what JACJ said? I would like to believe that you’re not all a bunch of serial killers or axe murderers.

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 06:53:03 +0000

Yes, yes, we’re blinded by hate, etc. So go.

By: Dr. BLT

Dr. BLT — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 06:51:37 +0000

What do you know? Now that’s the closest thing to a death threat I’ve received at “Sadly, no!” Spoken like a loving liberal, LACJ. I really don’t need to expose you for who you are. You’ve just done a fine job of doing just that. I’d encourage others to go back and read exactly what LACJ said. This is what can happen to any of you if you take your hatred of conservatives too far.