Sorry you had to use the Armageddon Option Charles, but maybe it'll calm down after a while...

I don't use AOL, and now I can prove it!

Just curious, will AOL track them down for ToS violations?

Charles, you mean "If you seethe a message..."

Charles,

About these "nasty creatures", any idea if they are organized or where they are from? Sometimes I worry about your safety.

Paul: all AOL users go through one of several proxies, so there's no way to know their location.

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

Charles,

just a quick questioin. I have 2 isp's at home (comcast and aol). If I have my email registered under aol but use comcast would i still be able to post? Thanks in advance

Ouch.

Oh well.

Saudis own lots of AOL.......

Switch to Earthlink.....

Right wing conspirator: if you use Comcast you won't have a problem.

switching doesnt hurt, by the way

OT (just testing to see if I am still good to go!!!!! Might as well use good topic as a testing ground :)

H.R. 25 FairTax Cosponsors
Alphabetical: w/State, District and Party affiliation.

The list below is current as of 8:00am (CDT) Sep 29, 2003.
Does not include any Cosponsors who may have signed-on since then.
(Webmaster will update this List as time permits.)

1 Sponsor plus 38 Cosponsors = 39 Total

H.R. 25
Title: To promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.
Sponsor: [R] Linder, John [GA-7] (introduced 1/7/2003)
Latest Major Action: 1/7/2003 Referred to House committee.
Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Cosponsors:

[R] Akin, W. Todd - 4/10/2003 [MO-2]
[R] Baker, Richard H. - 3/26/2003 [LA-6]
[R] Beauprez, Bob - 6/2/2003 [CO-7]
[R] Bonilla, Henry - 4/2/2003 [TX-23]
[R] Brady, Kevin - 3/18/2003 [TX-8]
[R] Burns, Max - 3/31/2003 [GA-12]
[R] Carter, John R. - 3/31/2003 [TX-31]
[R] Collins, Mac - 2/25/2003 [GA-8]
[R] Culberson, John Abney - 2/25/2003 [TX-7]
[R] Deal, Nathan - 3/17/2003 [GA-10]
[R] DeLay, Tom - 3/26/2003 [TX-22]
[R] DeMint, Jim - 9/3/2003 [SC-4]
[R] Doolittle, John T. - 3/25/2003 [CA-4]
[R] Duncan, John J., Jr. - 9/24/2003 [TN-2]
[R] Flake, Jeff - 2/25/2003 [AZ-6]
[R] Franks, Trent - 4/2/2003 [AZ-2]
[R] Gingrey, Phil - 3/31/2003 [GA-11]
[R] Granger, Kay - 7/24/2003 [TX-12]
[R] Gutknecht, Gil - 3/26/2003 [MN-1]
[D] Hall, Ralph M. - 2/25/2003 [TX-4]
[R] Hefley, Joel - 4/3/2003 [CO-5]
[R] Hensarling, Jeb - 6/2/2003 [TX-5]
[R] Isakson, Johnny - 9/3/2003 [GA-6]
[R] Jones, Walter B., Jr. - 9/3/2003 [NC-3]
[R] Keller, Ric - 9/15/2003 [FL-8]
[R] King, Steve - 2/25/2003 [IA-5]
[R] Kingston, Jack - 4/8/2003 [GA-1]
[R] Lewis, Jerry - 4/2/2003 [CA-41]
[R] Miller, Gary G. - 4/30/2003 [CA-42]
[R] Miller, Jeff - 4/30/2003 [FL-1]
[R] Norwood, Charlie - 3/17/2003 [GA-9]
[R] Pearce, Stevan - 3/25/2003 [NM-2]
[D] Peterson, Collin C. - 1/7/2003 [MN-7]
[R] Shadegg, John B. - 3/31/2003 [AZ-3]
[R] Tancredo, Thomas G. - 4/30/2003 [CO-6]
[R] Taylor, Charles H. - 9/15/2003 [NC-11]
[R] Wilson, Joe - 5/22/2003 [SC-2]
[R] Young, Don - 4/30/2003 [AK-at large]
CongressMembers who indicate they'll sign-on as cosponsors in Sept/Oct '03:

[_?_] Number additional at this point = __0__ [_?_]

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H.R.25 Cosponsors by: DATE SIGNED! To: H.R.25 SUPPORTERS! Senate Bill S. 1493!

Still good to go. Yeah. Not that I would use AOL. One of the worst iSP in my book. And expensive to boot.

#11 - ploome

If that was in reference to me believe me I wouldn't mind a bit. Just that my folks have AOL at their place so they are still paying for it and I do not want to go through the trouble of teaching them the ins and outs of a new ISP. So why not just use Comcast since you have that anyhow?

D'oh

Charles...

you and TimeWarner. Just cut off AOL. You're not the first...

What is the difference between AOL Hi-Speed and Road Runner?

#16 Is this a riddle?

Not really.

Who stole the strawberries?

Now thats a riddle.

SOL .... AOL

Someone mentioned in an earlier thread that

Fairfax, VA + Falls Church, VA + Herndon, VA = Jihadi Traiangle

Perhaps there's some logic there; after all, AOL is headquartered in Herndon / Ashburn, Virginia.

**Insert psycho stabbing scene music here, lol!**

#16 Flatulus Maximus (my Roman name is not as cool as yours, dammitallanyway)

K... I'll bite. What is the difference between AOL Hi Speed and Road Runner?

I dunno, I'm not sure there is any.

Who stole da strawberries, who?

One sucks and one blows?

Nah Mike, that's Texas and Kansas...

Which is the reason Oklahoma has so many tornados.

Or something.

I stole the strawberries. What are you gonna do about it?

AOL sux

AOL accounts are the easiest to hack - always been that way, nothing new

If you use it you either don't know any better or you don't know any better

Get DSL or Cable Internet access if you can in most locales they should be the same price as AOL anyways ..

Sounds like someone out there has finally found a non-coaster related use for all those free trial disks.

Has anyone seen the news about Time Warner and Road Runner merging?

Lucia Flavia-

No shore liberty for six weeks! Six weeks, do you hear me!

My little bass ackwards German village doesn't have DSL or ISDN or cable anything. I call my neighbors using cans and string. Or a cowbell. Since most of my neighbors are bovinatious, anyway.

I dumped my AOL for Verizon DSL, so I still get crappy service, but pay alot more for it.

OT: Wasn't the Rutgers Hatefest cancelled? Didn't it move to OSU?

#28

Is that a riddle?

Waiiiiitttt a minute!! Anti-semitism and idiocy emanating from AOL accounts? Why - I've never heard of such a thing. I can't imagine it.

I had Roadrunner for a while (I think, the ownership went thru several companies, with ATT being the absolute WORST) and am now on Bellsouth Fast Access, with a fibre link right out at the street (highly recommended if you can get it!) The big difference that I can tell between AOL and RR is that with RR, you are not having to deal with AOL and their dumbed-down service. Plus, if you have a local ISP and want to use AOL services (why??? Do you like paying twice?? If so, send ME your money!!), you can at a discounted AOL rate.

AOL = Internet services for the inept and Democrats
RR, Bellsouth, Earthlink, etc = Internet service for intelligent folks and non Democrats.

interesting OT tidbit from the NY Times:

On This Date:
Sept. 30 1938: British and French leaders agreed to allow Nazi Germany to occupy sections of the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia

@model4

They make great clock faces too...after they've been nuked in the microwave.

Charles,

Mayhaps it is time for limiting site use by validated members?

Such as all can view comments but only email validated members can post them

Might help

Yes, infidels, bovinatious is a word.

Well, maybe it's not, but I spelled it right.

Because if it was a word, I'm certain it would be spelled like that.

~looks around sheepishly~

Oh, so uh... youse guys meant another kind of roadrunner? Not the cartoon kind?

I've been in Eurabia for too long.

#38:
Who stole da dictionary, who?

Model4 (#27)

LOL!

AOL = CNN = Arafat and Ted Turner.

The Internet was ruined by AOL.

Be individual and independent and dump your dependence on AOL!

Now's a good a time as any!

AOL limits the way your view the Internet

Google AOL Sucks

I personally think that you should take down your filter.

We need to allow them to post.

I certainly disagree with their views but to censor them is the wrong approach. Let them post, then let us shred their views. That way casual readers will be able to see that there are evil people in this world and which causes they align themselves with (thus establishing a link between those causes and the evil people behind them.) The casual reader will then also be to read the public scorn and disgust that their views generate.

Censorship is a tactic used by those who lack a popular position (i.e. Communists, France, Christian Science Monitor, The School of Creation Science, etc...)

bovinaceous

I feel another silly thread coming on.

{giggles bovinatiously wildly}

blindman, admit it... you just like troll-baiting.

#45:

Oh, steve miller, you're so... well, you know {flutters eyelashes bovinaceously}. Just don't start humming any theme tunes.

Blindman, easy on the bold, some of us can see perfectly, thanks. And it's not censorship.

I used to have AOL but cancelled for reasons stated by aaron's rantblog (#42).

The backside of those free AOL discs make perfect mirrors in my Barbie house.

#44

The boldface really works well to make your point, so please continue to use plenty of it. ;)

Actually, (a) it's Charles' blog, so he can do whatever he wants, and (b) the screeching of the bad information can drive out the good. All it takes is the concerted efforts by a few Indymediots and we have Charles sitting over his server logs and setting up blocks. If Indymediots (and others) are blocked, then we've avoid the worst of the trollery.

And then those like Phlegm and InversAll can come by and post their idiocy - but it's not drowned out by the universal IT'S ALL ABOUT THE O-I-I-I-I-I-L! moonbattery.

Hmmm... steve miller's spelling looks more scienceriffical.

yes, infidels, that is a word.

blindman,

There is a difference between an unpopular position and "Sieg Heil!"

And don't bother with the 'slippery slope' nonsense

A mindful person can differentiate between an opinion or viewpoint and "burn all Jews" or worse..

such as: [Link: abbc.net...]

#44 blindman

Charles would not ban them if they actually had views--no matter how disgusting.

I suspect that the banees were posting only derogatory comments not open or conducive to discussion.

******************

Who stole da AOl, who?

I'm thinking of repeating the mad cow joke. That's pretty bovinaceous.

And #48, thanks, but remember, I'm married and happy. And not looking to be either unmarried or unhappy. :)

#52:
LOL!

hey blindman,
your nick is apt. APT!!!/lisa

re #47

No, I just have noticed how LGF is being marginalized by its one sided nature. Censorship will just accelerate that trend. You shouldn't be afraid of your critics if your cause is just. Let them spew hate, let them be theirselves. It will strengthen the fight against them and win others to our side. The worst thing we can do is to shut down the venues where they forget to restrain themselves and they advertise their radical position. LGF is a crack in their propaganda shield that allows their hatred to slip through. We should encourage that.

blindman,

censorship on a private citizens website is not in line with government or public censorship

A private individual has no obligation to anyone on their website

They can, at their whim, decide what they want on their website - private property rights

The opposite would be communism

Forcing a private property owner to not be able to censor / limit things they don't want would be totalitarian rule or communism

SEE! SEE! Evariste used MY spelling! I'm validated!

Hallelujah!

Like, totally bovinatious, dude.

Lucia Non Compos Mentis - don't make me come over there and make kerfuffle mit der Marzipan, eh?

Oh, and if you want to read what a bunch of antisemites have to say, you can always go here. Why should Charles pay for their spe(w)ech?

@38 Lucia Flavia Mensia [aka stormi]

Yaaa, same here, no dsl, no cable just barely dialup.
I'm waiting for wireless, maybe that will be a little better.
Of course we use the string and can system too.

#55:
stevie baby, sorry to give you a fright like that! I was just funnin', like I do with other pals buddies on LGF.

I'm married, too (24 years last June) and I'm so happy I'm positively delirious. Although I'm so restrained when I post that I know it's hard to notice.

Where I come from, kerfuffle means making out. I don't know what steve miller is into!

#45

While I agree with you in principle that censorship is wrong, it would be extremely impractical to let the evil hoards have their way. You're not talking about people who want to have a rational discussion about a difference of opinion. These lunatics are appoplectic with hatred, and I for one don't need to be slimed by their insane vitriol.

Marginalized? Oh I don't think so - we have SDB and Jim-bob stopping by here. It's like the glitzo disco bar of the 70s here, baby - all the cool people are HERE.

aaron's ranblog is right, besides......

Don't talk to fools-- they will just make fun.
Proverbs 23:9

Another option is to do what somethingawful.com does. they allow others, for a small fee of course, to change the user descriptions of those allowed to post. The user descriptions are shown under the users name in each post they make. you have to register to post of course, which this blog doesn't require. that way, if you get some moonbat in here ranting then somebody can change their user description to "I'm a raving moonbat!" for all to see. At the same time we could be supporting Charles and his blogging efforts.

new here...

curious about why every third post is about antisemitism though...

axe to grind?...whole raison d'etre for site?...simply reoccuring theme?

blindman,

Remember, as a private property owner Charles alone bears the weight of the cost and expense to host this bandwidth and space

He has the absolute right and freedom to do whatever he wants on his own privately owned and funded property

Maybe if those whom he doesn't want to take up his space are willing to share the costs of that space they take up on his paid for website then ..

blindman

No, I just have noticed how LGF is being marginalized by its one sided nature. Censorship will just accelerate that trend.

blindman, Charles has been deleting trolls and banning certain IPs for years. In those years the Lizardoid conspiracy has only grown stronger. Whatever it is exactly that you have noticed (accelerating marginalization of LGF??), your observation is inaccurate. I must ask-marginalized by whom exactly? Anyone we care about? Rhetorical questions; answers: Antisemite Trolls, and No.
Who cares?

testing.... testing 1 2 3 4

re #59

I'm not waving the flag here. I am a libertarian. I was just suggesting that Charles keep his (ours?) community open as a way to match crazies with their organizations.

My dad once told me that it is better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it. We should give these moonbats every opportunity to open their mouths and prove it.

#67

It's like the glitzo disco bar of the 70s here, baby - all the cool people are HERE.

Uh. yeah. Especially ME!

Nope, no self esteem problems here.

Just out of idle curiosity and sheer nosiness, steve miller, what part of the northwest are you in? I used to live in Spokompton Warshington.

steve miller, that's a GREAT site! It also says that one possible source for copacetic is Ha-kol B'seder, which thrills me. I didn't know the word before I moved to Canada--the first time I heard it was on the CBC and I thought the guy said, "Hakol b'seder" which confused the hell out of me, as you can imagine.

Especially as it made total sense in the context.

Where I come from, kerfuffle is the frittinancy of the little small things that bring so much irritation to one's life.

Making out, eh? Hmm. My great-aunt will be shocked - shocked! - to hear that.

Alway you make mit der kerfuffle, you. Now scram und go play.

Yes, I did have a great-aunt like that. Too bad she's gone - she made the best Kirschestrudel.

I always thought a kerfuffle was like a total clusterf*. Or as Bloom County put it, "higgledy-piggledy"

#70 Edward:

new here...

May I suggest you peruse the FAQ page? There's a link near the top of the left column.

#70 edward -- open eyes-- shed scales-- look-- all others-- premature gaze

Edward (you aren't Said's ghost are you?), the main point of this blog is to shine a spotlight on the hate towards Western Civilization in general, and often Jews in particular, that comes out of muslims, here, in Europe, and most especially in the middle east. Check out the FAQ in the top left corner, it's a good read.

May I suggest you peruse the FAQ page? There's a link near the top of the left column.

thanks...will have a look...nice html tools, by the way.

Hope Eduardo's not here looking for box scores...

I am in the "Northwest," about 10-15 miles to the east of Seattle.

Btw, the link to bloviate has it wrong in that William F. Buckley used it in his writings and his speech before it became so popular.

cba, primate-ical Paul,

JINX!

#81 Bovinaceous Sciencerrific Paul (evariste):

Check out the FAQ in the top left corner, it's a good read.

Thank you so much. That's what I wanted to say, but modesty forbad!

BTW, zulubaby--I'm getting a slight flashback to yesterday from our newbie. But you can't say I don't try!!

Hmm, I might have to withdraw my last comment in #86 (based on #82). At least, I hope so.

Aol works well for beginers with little or no pc knowledge. Older folks can use aol to get on the internet with very little computer know how. My parents and their circle of friends started with aol and most of them have gone on to other isp's.

I have never seen Charles ban anyone for frivolous reasons. If he has decided that doing this was needed then I am sure it was.

feel like i've stepped into a club house with a highly developed secret language (response to the posts on my first question...not the FAQs, which are intriguing food for thought)

maybe i'll just read for a while until the personalities reveal themselves...

blindman,

In principle I agree with you

I to believe it is important for all to see the worst of mankind so as to bolster our fortitude to fight it

But maybe this is not the place for all 'views' we can always link to the enumerous nutjobs online

I also understand Charles can do what he likes here, if he dislikes something or someone here he has the power to do something about that

As Colin (who do I work for) Powell would say:
"I serve at the pleasure of our leader, he can fire me at anytime"

If Charles banned you or me for no reason at all that is his right and little we could or should bother to do about it

Remember, it is only a website after all
nothing to take too seriously after all

Are we about to have Ingertroll: The Sequel?

Good grief, Charlie Brown. I hope not.

zb--'s'up--wiped from last nite--mucho imbibing and fell off the bar

Edward,

That's a good idea

As in all new environments it is usually good to stand back and watch how things work before diving in - it usually helps

Hrm....the sun hasn't set and already the moonbat/trolls are crawling out.

Ed Moran of the many coded cute names, did you enjoy the gorgemous weather today? I did all kinds of fun farm things today, except shoot any guns.

A couple of days ago I drove into a Scottish car park and found a bright yellow notice at the end of my parking bay: "Please wash your hands after petting Hamish". "Who's Hamish?" I wondered, and then I saw Hamish, reclining nearby. Yes - a perfect example of bovinaceousness. Or bovinacicity. Or bovinaceousicity.

#89 Edward:
Welcome.

I had an email last night advertising for 'fun farm things' or something like that...

It wasn't cute little duckies and piglets.

Also got emails for Viagra, phallic enlargement (what girl doesn't want THAT? I ask you...) and a Russian mail order bride service.

I always thought I was a broad, but apparently these fellas seem to know something I don't. I appear to need Viagra and phallic enlargement to satisfy my brand spankin new Russian mail order bride. Yeah... that sounds about right.

Hi quark2, zulubaby! Haven't talked much to either one of ya lately.

#84 steve miller: Hmmm. For some reason, I was thinking Tukwila.

#95 RC Neo-Jew

There is (are?) a herd of those Fraggle cows about twenty minutes from my house. I almost drove off the road the first time I saw them, I couldn't stop staring. They are freaky looking critters.

#89 edward----good idee fixee--suggest assume stance iranian mullahs take on building nukes-i.e. no comment

#89 Edward:

maybe i'll just read for a while until the personalities reveal themselves...

Good idea, as there is a very large number of interesting personalities on display here. (Anybody seen anything from E. Nough lately?)

evariste--nick change--pourquoi mon ami?

Edward, stick around. It can be entertaining. And enlightening.

There are a few ground rules that will help you, and I will speak for Ploome when I say "This is the site that fact-checks your...tush" (a statement describing LGF heard on a nationally-syndicated radio show as uttered by Ploome, who is in the forefront of those who will do said fact-checking).

If you make an assertion of opinion disguised as fact, you will likely be jumped upon.

If you state an opinion, you may be jumped on, but not as severely.

For example, "The Palestinians are terrorized by Jews who occupy their country illegally" will get you a rousing response. Be prepared to come up with proof that (a) there is a country called 'Palestine' and (b) the inhabitants are a separate people called 'Palestinians' and (d) they suffer terror at the hands of Jews and (d) their land is 'occupied' and not merely 'disputed' and (e) the possession of the Territories is illegal, and so on, or you will be slapped down very fast. We don't abide cant here. If you simply repeat what someone else thinks and feels, you'll receive a round welcome.

Saying, "I think the Palestinians are getting a raw deal" will generate some heat, because it's an opinion.

Leave out with anything like "Hey, Arabs are Semites, too, so how can anti-Semitism only involve Jews?" (a statement arising from MUCH ignorance about history) or "Just because I criticize Israel doesn't mean I'm anti-Semitic" (because UNLESS you are willing to hold EVERY OTHER COUNTRY to the same standards, you're pretty much simply a lofty anti-Semite).

Hope this helps.

#97 Lucia Flavia Mensia Bovinata (aka Stormi):
Doncha love those? And how about the ones that tell me I can hypnotize women into bed--boy, my husband would be shocked!

I think.

Well, I'm not about to put it to the test, anyway :-)

Tukwila? TUKWILA?

Surely you jest!

Tukwila is Kent without the charm.

cba, primate-ical Paul

#96

thanks

#95 RC

Hamish the Highland "Coo" - did I say that right? How cute, I want one!

AOL: the Members Only jacket of ISPs.

The white Reebok mallwalker shoe of the internet.

The Precious Moments figurine display in a strip mall Hallmark card shop of the digital age.

The eating a Wonderbread baloney sandwich with iceberg lettuce, a slice of Safeway American cheese and French's mustard while doing the TV Guide crossword puzzle of the Information Superhighway.

@98 Sciencerrific Gorgemous Paul [evariste] and sometimes is Mu'ab Dib.

Hi ya, you lil' cutie!
It's been to pretty outside to be in staring at a monitor.
Plus the farm does calleth at times.
I discovered another of my young horses is a 'houdini' this morning.

Edward, stick around. It can be entertaining. And enlightening.

will do...thanks

#53 MG Lazer

I checked out some "fair and balanced" reporting on the link you provided-

[Link: abbc.net...]

They haven't discovered spell check yet- and I only looked at 2 or 3 pages before I had enough...

HULUGU,
For fun, really. I'll be evariste again when I'm bored with it. Eventually :-)

HULUGU (#92)

mucho imbibing and fell off the bar

Sheesh, are you alright? I should have watched out for you better! LOL!

#106 steve miller:

Tukwila is Kent without the charm.

LOL! Isn't it though.

Lucia Flavia Mensia Bovinata

I can see the honorificabilitudinitas in what you are trying to do in furthering peoples vocabulary. But sometimes when people can not figure out a word it sends a chill straight to the osteosarchaematosplanchnochondroneuromuelous. Also, it may cause severe stress which may lead to pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. And we all know that the only cure for that is a shot of aminoheptafluorocyclotetraphosphonitrile.

Tukwila is Kent without the charm.

Priceless.

I mean, for those of us who actually have been to these places.

The rest of the crew are just scratching their heads and saying 'Tukwhatahuh? Kent, like Clark? Superman's charming...'

Guess it's a Warshinnun thing.

#109--iowa as usual --funnyy--member's only--lol--i thought iowa had a writer's dept. at the u.-i didn't know it was a comedy writer's dept.

iowahawk omg lol

#107 Edward:
You're welcome. I second steve miller's words of wisdom to you.

You'll also notice lots of in-jokes. After September 19 (Talk Like A Pirate Day) we had lots of pirate names. Then someone suggested we all change our names to "Paul" (didn't really catch on, though). The animal references are from this thread--as I'm sure you figured out!

If you shut down AOL, the icon of the American Internet, the terrorists will have won.

#89 Edward

feel like i've stepped into a club house with a highly developed secret language (response to the posts on my first question...not the FAQs, which are intriguing food for thought)

As long as you know where Charles got the name Little Green Footballs you will be alright. :-)

#116 RWC

Dude, are you trying to give me a brain tumor?

You KNOW I never wear my tin foil hat on tuesdays!

EWWWWWWW Steve Miller's in North Bend er sumpin!

AOL UK has a history of allowing racist drivel on their message boards and when they do act they just find the person signing back onto AOL with a new credit card (and AOL gives them a free month too)

Welcome, and be prepared for just about any action, reaction and diverse things popping up with no warning.

As long as you know where Charles got the name Little Green Footballs you will be alright. :-)

Oh, that's just evil! I love it. LOL!

curious about why every third post is about antisemitism though...

axe to grind?...whole raison d'etre for site?...

Anti-semitism used to mean hatred of jews.

Nowadays it can mean anything from disagreement w. the Likud party or criticism of GWB to insufficient enthusiasm for the new fall season at ABC or a preference for Raisinets over Jujubees, etc, ad nauseum.

The phrase has become so broadly deployed that it is in danger of losing all meaning.

Which may be just as well. The whole guilt trip motivated identity politics trend of academia in the 80s & 90s has imploded mournfully, the problem is only that most of its foremost proponents have been slow to recognize this fact.

Thus the marginalization of sites like LGF, VDare, Aztlan, etc. What you are witnessing right now is the last hurrah of tactical groupthink.

#122 RWC

Well... at least it's not just me. You're going to make Edward's head explode. That just wasn't nice.

There is, of course, the secret Seattle saying of "going to Tukwila..."

#122 RWC:

As long as you know where Charles got the name Little Green Footballs you will be alright. :-)

That's cruuuuuuu-el!

Edward, if you find out the answer to that one you HAVE to share it with the rest of us lizards.

ZB--i'm ok--lizardoid moshpit gave soft landing--gotta trust your friends--but tonight i gotta put the wheels back on the walker :-]

Mygosh, I think I just poked a troll...

As long as you know where Charles got the name Little Green Footballs you will be alright.

from LGF's about us page
The actual roots of this unique name are lost in the mists of antiquity.

Is this like the Londoner who tells the timid Tube traveller who's not sure where to go "Just get on the Circle Line and get off at the last stop" sort of thing?

VFC's just channeling VFI, right? Right??

Well I didn't bring my tin foil hat but maybe I can borrow VFC's...

#128 View from Cleveland:

What you are witnessing right now is the last hurrah of tactical groupthink.

s'funny... that's what I said about the recent "US out of Iraq NOW" protests.

HULUGU (#132)

...but tonight i gotta put the wheels back on the walker :-]

LOL!

View from Cleveland,
Was it fun losing to the Bengals?

#118 HUGULU

I thought iowa had a writer's dept. at the u.-i

That's the Iowa Writer's Workshop. I'm an alum of the Iowa Drinker's Workshop.

Not quite like poking a troll, but try this. Note: you'll need to click rapidly until you get a bite.

#134 Edward

There you go. Not here but a couple of minutes and already fact checking someones a**.

Edward,
Yup.
Oh, and go grab me a bucket of steam, will ya? I'm running kind of low. Oh, and box of grid squares, too, if you please.

If you're talking about the garden of England, Kent, me mum was born there. So therefore I am indirectly kentish too. Is that anything like being 'entish'?
I wuv trees!

Are decendents of Ish Kabibble Ish Kabibblish?

#143 cracker Paul

snipe hunting, I've done

quark2, I believe they're talking about Kent Warshenton.
I think that View from the Bengals Kicked Our Ass is blindman. Aren't they rather similar with this marginalization crap?

I don't want to assign Charles more work but the right answer is login before comment. LGF has become bigtime. There will be trolls but even with cutting off access to IPs and domains, trolls will get in.

Personally I like them and say let them in. Let people see what is really in these people's heart. Let any jackass abuse once.

"Deleted" tells me nothing. The holocaust denying Yob will cause less moonbats to waver. Some lefties are true beleivers, they want Bush to bad and to oppose "Israel's Policies." The only cure is for them to see they are making common cause with Hitler's bastard children.

Chales, it's your blog; and that is my two cents.

#143 Paul(ly wanna a cracker), yarrr (evariste)

LOL -

My brother just had someone start with him and they sent the poor kid to Home Depot to pick up a Beam Bender. For some reason they didn't have it, neither did Lowes. Wonder what happened to them all.

re: Edward

Is it just me, or does starting one's first-ever post with the question "What's this constantly noting anti-Semitism stuff - does someone here have an axe to grind?" seem like a Really Bad Sign?

Troll Warning in effect. (That's less severe than a Troll Watch.)

Something about Edward calling you 'Cracker Paul' strikes me as really funny...

Maybe I'm just sleepy.

But, I'm an idiot, and washed all my sheets, and must wait for them to dry before I can go to bed.

That's not the limit, though... I've had to wait for underwear to dry before, so that I could leave the house.

*Sigh
I ka-new we was are having too much funnzies here.

#108 Claire

Hamish the Highland "Coo" - did I say that right? How cute, I want one!

Your wish is my command.

Father Christmas's Chief Assistant (British Department) is collecting one for you right now.

We need something like the Saffir-Simpson scale for trolls:

1 - early warning, may invoke "anti-Semitism means Arabs, too" canard

And so on.

I think VFI is at most a 2.

I have dual loyaties. To PBR and Schlitz.

#150 HalfLife:
That was my initial concern, too (hence my comment to zulubaby in #86). However, I'm now of the opinion that the Troll Watch--in this case--is over.

Halflife,

Apologies if that entrance was less than subtle. I'm very interested in the problems in Israel (having good friends in Tel Aviv), but I have other interests as well...simply wanted to know if that's the favorite topic on this site all the time or if there's simply been a wave of such postings lately.

If I may say so, being new and clearly on some sort of LGF probation, there's an unusually high sensitivity to trolls here though.

What's that all about?

#153 RC Neo Jew

Where's my Fraggle cow? I want one too!

Edward, you will find the people here extremely closeminded, and ready to throw the "ani-semetic" label faster then you can spin a dradel.

steve miller-Shurely ye meant VFC? VFI is a 4 or 5.
Lucia Flavia Mensia Bovinata (aka Stormi)-lmao at waiting for underwear to dry.
Right wing conspirator-omg!! A Beam Bender! :-)

#151 lucretia or stormie what are you using? the ancient roman dryer a/k/a the sun/old sol--i'm selling my whirlpool stock

Anti-semitism used to mean hatred of jews. Nowadays it can mean anything from disagreement w. the Likud party or criticism of GWB to insufficient enthusiasm for the new fall season at ABC or a preference for Raisinets over Jujubees, etc, ad nauseum.

The phrase has become so broadly deployed that it is in danger of losing all meaning.

You are confused. Anti-semitism doesn't mean any of those things nor is the term used to describe those actions.

However, it is fairly obvious that anyone who:
-reflexively hates Ariel Sharon & George Bush and thinks the 'neocon' 'cabal' is 'controlled' by 'zionists'
-decries US aid to Israel constantly and thinks we should 'let Israel fend for itself'
-uses "occupation" and "Palestinian territory" in the same sentence
-cannot go through one debate cycle w/o mentioning the USS Liberty
is almost damn well certain to be an anti-semite.

Got it?

If you need help with this phenomena, just go to any Yahoo! News story and click 'read messages'--the place is filled with jew haters.

Have a good one.

I would throw "the ani-semetic" label around if I knew what you meant.

#157 Edward:

Try yesterday's* French Shari'a Watch thread for some lovely examples. I'm not going to tell you who the trolls are, I'm sure you'll be able to spot them. It also descends into mayhem, and hilarity ensues. Seriously.

*OMG, was that only yesterday?!!!

#20

It was:

Leesburg+Falls Chruch+Herndon VA = the Sunni Triangle

#161 Hulugu

No, I'm using a miniscule, allegedly energy-efficient German dryer, wherein I can dry a shirt, or two pillowcases, four socks, or one flat sheet, but not any combination thereof.

How doing fourteen pinche loads of laundry as opposed to one normal sized load can possibly be energy efficient is beyond me.

#158 Lucia Flavia Mensia Bovinata (aka Stormi)

Where's my Fraggle cow? I want one too!

I am hastily tying a pink gift ribbon round yours before posting it to you.

cba, primate-ical Paul, dear G-d. I never read that thread. 626 comments! Is it funny/informative enough that I should read it or just the usual yada yada?

Hmm, hamish cows...

Are those the kind they use to make New Square milk?

(sorry, couldn't resist :)

#167

Thank you so much. It's nice to be thought of.

Although, I basically seethed and whined and demanded.

Somebody help me. I'm turning into one of them!

#161 stormi----german lateral thinking-- eventually leads to mass murder followed by pacifism

Actually, here is nice video of some live trolls which I am sure includes a high number of anti-semites. I am sure most of you have already seen this but figure I would post it anyhow. Go to the videos, the second and 3rd are the best.

-

Stinkin' SF moonbats

#153 RC:

Oh thanks so much. I'll wash him, and brush him, and let him sleep in a basket by my bed.....

Think the neighbors will mind much?

(P.S. that guy looks like Michael Moore in a cape, lol)

Hulugu

In the case of my neighborhood, pacifism (of my unwashed hippie neighbors) led to vandalism (of my car).

I wish for more bovinaceous neighbors and fewer human ones. And to be quite honest with you, the cows smell better.

I actually just watched that video for the first time yesterday. One of the guys was dressed like he was in the kkk or something.

(tried a little harder to type real words this time)

#168 evariste are you kidding? one of the best the superbowl of troll bashing and very funny too

edward - isnt the last stop hethrow? or is that the wrong line, or not even close to the end..

hell - i havnt been in london, on the train, in 7 years.

and then I was usually heavily intoxicated.

this sucks

#36 quark2 #50 teal marie

AOHell discs can also be used as reflectors for garland lights (Xmas tree lights),just thread the bulbs through the center hole and voila,psychedelic chic,snazzy......

#169 Avi

And here is the special storage depot for those Highland coo milk bottles.

I am an aol user, my "this sucks" message shouldn't have gotten through should it've? If its only temporary, Id like to say that I hope this group continues to speak out for truth justice and the American (and Israeli) way.

@147 apPauled LGF's accelerating marginalization (ev)

Can this marginalized cr@p be used as fertilizer? *lol

Anyone who uses AOL is a moron.

#177 Bender:

You're thinking of the wrong line.

The Circle line, you see, goes in a circle.

Which is why it's so funny cruel.

#168 Paul's Other T-Shirt Is Clean (evariste): [BTW, I think you're giving Ed Moran a run for his money]

Is it funny/informative enough that I should read it or just the usual yada yada?

Well, I thought it was pretty funny. You can always skip the yada, yada ones.

I spent 2 hours on hold YEARS AGO trying to cancel.

#174 lucia----unfortunately pacifism doesn't preclude petty criminalityand ultimately leads to hypocrisy especially in the land of the ubber menchen--fear not that's another society set to implode for failure to follow the dictates of the great friedman [milton,that is]

Dry at last!

Dry at last!

Hallelujah, they are dry at last!

The little dryer that could finally freakin' DID. So I can make my bed and go to sleep now.

Goodnight, lizardoids.

@155 iowahawk

Schlitz? They still make that stuff? I haven't had one of those in 20 years!

Lucia, sorry, but your word "bovinatious" is obviously a derivitive of my word "bovinity" (herd-like; state of boviness). I won't however, hold you to account for your usage. =)

Blindman, in principle you state that Charles's action is akin to censorship, it isn't. Not only for the reasons mentioned by MG lazer, but because yelling, ranting, raving, feces throwing monkeys aren't debating or sharing opinions; they're yelling, ranting, raving, and throwing feces. Treat them according to thier identity.

#173 Claire

that guy looks like Michael Moore in a cape, lol)

Yes - it's Supermoore!

The coo in #180 is watching him trying to change into tights in a phone box. As you see, he didn't quite manage it.

Izzy of the other clean T-shirt:
You need to read that thread, it's hilarious, maddening and will make you drink beer.

OT being a republican hack: Bush and the rabbis

ANTI-SEMITISM
"He talked about his concern of increasing anti-Semitism in Europe, and how he's trying to work with them to eradicate it. He said that we have to fight hard all the isms. Then the Hillel rabbi there talked about the swatiska that Rutgers had recently and the shouting down of pro-Israel speakers on various campuses. He said that he knows about some of that, and that he is keeping abreast of it, that it's a concern. He spoke often about peace and freedom, the importance of optimism and the love of America. He mentioned several times the speech he gave June 24, 2002, where he laid out his principles of fighting terrorism and said the key is to continue to stick to our values and not deviate from them.

"A rabbi mentioned a book he was reading about how the Saudis have continued to profess to be our friends, but support radical Islam all over the world. He asked the President what he thought about it. The President said, 'You basically stated the question. It's not just the Saudis. We're dealing with every country in the Middle East that way except the one democracy, Israel. We have to try to reform them and help them be true democracies.'

[Link: www.powerlineblog.com...]

#157 Edward

Sorry for the delay in responding - I had to step out.

As the topic of this thread suggests, we do get a lot of trolls. Actually, most of them are not ranting or hate-filled (those get banned) - just annoyingly and persistently wrong, critical, and snide.

Thus when you started with what seemed to be a snide comment/question...

Apologies.

[Link: www.leftwatch.com...]

Was it stuff like the above link?

PB

Whoa.

Mysteriously when signing on with an AOL account... I am not blocked either.

However, I can't use the 'send a letter' thing on the front page.

#16 Ed Moran

What is the difference between AOL Hi-Speed and Road Runner?

I don't think AOL for Broadband is an actual broadband connection, but rather an AOL holding area/pop-up add obstacle course you must navigate your way through, before you get to the internet on the broadband connection you are already paying your real service provider for.

Anyone who still uses AOL should have their computer confiscated.

quark2 & cba-thanks, I'll read it as soon as I have a sex.
Arafat thought Israel poisoned him Bwa ha ha ha ha!

As soon as I have a sec.

#198 K.
I'm a former AOHell user, some people aren't 'puter literate, AOHell is like the poor unwanted step child to the internet. It's easy, hence the wide use. Some people, myself included, take time to learn.

#199 evariste:
Hmm, where's Freud when you need him? ;-)

Hmm, I'd Bwa, ha, ha too, except that it seems my champagne is going to have to go back on ice.

And I thought he was going to be pining for the fjords.

cba, lol

Something familiar,
Something peculiar,
Something for everyone:
A comedy tonight!

Something appealing,
Something appalling,
Something for everyone:
A comedy tonight!

Freudian slip: when you say one thing and mean your mother.

#192: Oh G-d let it be true - let Bush stick to his principles, and let him be true to his word.

Wow. All you folks who are too cool to use AOL: I just wanted to say you're really cool.

That's quite a profound statement you're making with your lifestyle choices. Man, I wish i could be like you. But then I'd have to get AOL and quit, probably in an inept fashion.

Except for you , iowahawk, you're actually funny with your criticism (as always). AOL is the plainest of the plain janes, but still, what gives?

I've just always wondered what motivates people to criticize something that's successful. I mean, obviously it works (unlike Microsoft), and it's the largest ISP (like Microsoft). No one holds a gun to your head and "makes" you get AOL. Why bother attacking something that's not even effecting your life?

#150-
Common misconception.
A Troll Watch means that a thread has conditions favorable for a troll to develop.

A Troll Warning means that a troll has already been sighted on the thread.

Trolls are rated all the way from Troll Depression to Troll Storm to Category 1 Trollcane to Category 5 Trollcane.

Ahem is a Cat 3 Troll, Ingertroll was the rare Cat 5 Troll.

The artist formerly known as VFI is only a Troll Depression, but be warned, she can dump enough Gaelic dankness, misery and love of the BBC to be dangerous in her own right.

I hope that cleared everything up.

Screw AOL, Ted Turner is pure evil. Try netzero, much cheaper and just as good.

BTW View from Cleveland - you belong in Cleveland, which once had Dennis Wunderkind Kucinich as its Mayor.

K.

Anyone who still uses AOL should have their computer confiscated.

Uh oh. I better delete those classified documents I was planning to sell to Robert Novak ...

Yes, I still use AOL, as I started using it for its reliable connection, and I never had cause to complain about it. Besides, controversies over mundane equipment (PC vs. Macs, Netscape vs. Explorer, etc.) really bore me.

#200 evariste

ROTHLMAO!

you bad bad boy you! heh

I should also mention that the children of AOL users should be put into orphanages.

Everyone's Internet is $9/month, and they have an effective virus scanner that cleans up my email.

On the Internet, it's always September now.

/obscure reference

BTW, no one's really ragging on AOL users. Some of my best friends (still) use AOL.

Charles' point is that for those who use AOL for their connection, they may not be able to post a comment. Having an @aol.com after your name doesn't affect it.

#193 HalfLife

Well, we're all a bit snide, that's why we love LGF so much.

Sometimes, though, one's colleagues can be a little too ideological, push Ayn Rand a little to high up their butts.

That'll always get a little "right back atcha" from me!

: - ))

Oh, and I should mention that people who use AOL probably also like blood sausage.

/Bill Murray

BTW -

Thanks, Charles. You are, as always, an Ubermensch and a Paladin of the Great Ethereal Realm.

Don't spoil the fun of heckling aolhell Joel. It's intrusive, changes the settings on your puter without authorization, and when you cancel your account leaves a bot that blocks you from using your new ISP account.
Never used it, but had to fight with it in installing new dsl service for another company.

Testing the aol thing

BTW the Yanks lost today 3-1. Before too long hopefully George Steinbrenner witll be whining and seething.

Evariste of the many names:

I think that View from the Bengals Kicked Our Ass is blindman.

LOW blow my friend! It was that damn non-existant defensive line!

Edward: Take heart, my first post earned me the full wrath of zulubaby; something about referring to a captured terrorist as a human being who shouldnt've been bovinaciously tortured, or something like that.
At some point in time, you're bound to hack someone off, but forgiveness is assured for the pure of ideology.

The below is sick and outrageous! I didn't even try to read the whole think.
Where's my barf bag.

[Link: www.leftwatch.com...]

#219 Quark2

How much does AOHELL cost for unlimited per month now? $30.00 I think. Since I do a lot of surfing on the web on my job, I never felt the need for expensive ISP's. Netzero is $9.95 a month and $15 for highspeed which you really need if you are using websites such as LGF which has a lot of graphics.

#222 lonevoice

as a long time Dallas Cowboys fan I am waiting for a video on the highlights of Dave Campo's 3 straight 5-11 seasons. Finally Jerry Jones realizes that a coach matters. Duh!

They can actually make a whole video out of just 15 wins in three years? Maybe you should look for that on Beta.
;-)

Joel, and anyone else with a slothful connection to the interwebthingy: Download the Opera web browser, it's small (3.something mb), hyperfast, & it lets you turn downloading graphics on & off easily, which helps with the LFG reload times. Plus I'm sure it helps Charles save a couple pennies on bandwidth.
It's really shocking how fast it is, try it, I guarantee you'll be awed. IExplorer or Mozilla will seem stone-age by comparison.
/guy talkin' 'bout mundane 'quipment.

#226 lonvoice?

I think the highlights of the Campo era were:

1. 9 straight vicotries over the Washington Redskins.

2. beating the salary cap cheaters San Francisco 49ers one season which helped knock them out of the playofffs.

Hey joel, why bitch? It's a free market.

Evariste#227 of the many monikers

The new Highspeed netzero has been fine for me. Before that it was excruciatingly slow.

Hobglobin

I ain't bitching. Just killing time until Charles gets a new thread going. lol

So howzaboutdem Colts?

Testing

#228 joel:

We're just sandbagging for the Steelers & Ravens, those are the only games that count around here anyway. But hey, at least we have the Buckeyes.

I've had Road Runner cable modem for over a year now, and no problems yet.

must be a slow news day.

#232 Tyson Poultry
Colts and Chiefs look like the two best teams in the AFC so far. NFC is hard to tell. I still think that the Rams will be back this year despite losing Faulk for a few weeks. 49ers look like shit. Is there a bigger jerk then Terrell Owens around?

@224 Joel

I use Quik.com
It's 19.95 per month with unlimited access and good filters for catching spam.
I live waaaaayy out in the boonies, so there's no dsl or cable now or ever in the future. I am willing to try wireless if we are ever offered it here.
I do have good tech support too.

evariste:
I'm going to download Opera. I've used it in the past. I was using Thunderbird beta until my o/s crashed on me.
IE6.0 is terribly slow opening LGF for me. And I like the idea of saving Charles' a penny here and there. :)

how about those twins and giants... a good news day.

#234 lonevoice

Ever ntoice that coach Bill Cowher and Pete Rose look alike?

#238 Tomcat

I am going to Thursdays night game Yanks v. Twins. I will not openly root for the Twins in the animal house of Yankee Stadium but you can bet in my heart I'll be pulling for them. The Yankees are the Evil Empire. They won't be happy unitl they have a 25 man roster of future Hall of Famers.

...and [the Yanks] spend a many more millions to keep it that way.

Joel-they have the same nose, but very different chins. I think the Colts under Dungy are going to the Superbowl. Maybe this year, maybe next.

#241 tomcat

I want a video on the Yankee careers of:

1. Todd Zeile
2. Raul Mondesi
3. Jesse Orosco (all of 10 days on the team)
4. Armando Benitez (all of 3 weeks on the team)

WAY OT: To all 2nd Amendment loving Lizardoids out there:

National Ammo Buying Day/Week

Make Chuckles Schumer, Diane Blindstien, Sarah "Gun Grabber" Brady, Michael "Fat Liar" Moore and their ilk load their panties.

#240 Joel:

Sorry, never noticed. I refuse to pay for cable television, and am too cheap to put up an antenna. I haven't seen a tv show in over 10 years, and plan on keeping it that way for a long time; it's amazing how much more time I can spend on other things (like blogging). I get all of my news and sports from radio and newsmagazines.

Oh, and LGF too!

#242 Jackson Pollock

Cower looks like Pete Rose used to look before Rose statrted losinghis hair.

Dungy is a fine coach and seems like a class guy.

Hmmmm,..., I've noticed something,...,

Stormi (Mrs. Robinson) has let us know she has a young studmuffin at her beck and call (damn her:-)

Stormi is in Germany.

Hans ze beeman has not been posting very much lately. Has he been buzzing around ze Queen Bee?

Suspicious,...,;-)

#243 Joel

I gotta leave work but I'll check up on that video.
Regarding TO, which qback in the league deserves him?

the mind reels...

#245 lonevoice?

I don't watch the news on TV any more except some times Fox. I will never watch Palestine Pete Jennings or the two other guys on CBS and NBC (and forget about CNN).
I get most of my news on blogs such as this too.

OT

Speaking of Reuters garbage, look at this Yahoo headline story whopper--

160,000 Said Dying Yearly from Global Warming
[Link: story.news.yahoo.com...]

I knew the West was more dangerous than Islamofascists all long. /sarcasm

Horseshit junk science!

Way way OT - I just saw a commercial for the campiest movie of all time. The re-release of Scarface with Al Pacino. "Say hello to my little friend"! He was supposed to sound like a Cuban but he sounds Yiddish!!

Stormi (Mrs. Robinson) has let us know she has a young studmuffin at her beck and call (damn her:-)

Stormi (Demi) Moore, you vixen you.

I made need your help in the near future.

Recently, I told my wife that when she turns 36 I am going to trade her in for two 18 year olds.

Think you could talk to her for me?

@247 Donna V. your one woman gossip provider
hrmmmm...nice and juicy to think about ...hehe

DANIEL PIPES ON O'Reilly NOW

I am watching Pipes right now. Charels has another thread going.

Charles,

Without forcing people to sign up as a member there is a simple PHP email validation routine you can do to verify users are using their own as well as a valid email account before being able to post comments and use other tools you want to restrict

Basically, the first time someones wants to post a comment (email and cookie match required) they must validate their email with a special super-secret time-based encoded (using md5 and time functions) link sent to that email which they click on in their receivng email account

Once validated a cookie is set to the computer the link was validated at so someone who knows someone elses email can't use it unless they had access to that email account as well

re; O'Reilly

What?

CAIR is not the spokesperson for Muslims??????

The Muslim Public Affairs Council? Has anyone ever heard of that org????

She is attacking D. Pipes and not answering the questions...

Re: O'Reilly

Has he gotten a lot more annoying lately?

He seems like such a populist of late. Just "going with the flow" or whatever seems to be popular at the moment.

Maybe he was always like that. I don't really follow him to know much better.

I don't really follow him to know much better.

Should read, "I don't really follow him enough to know better."

lone voice? (#222)

Take heart, my first post earned me the full wrath of zulubaby; something about referring to a captured terrorist as a human being who shouldnt've been bovinaciously tortured, or something like that.

Did you post under a different nick in your first post here because I just searched LGF and this is the only post I could find where I responded to one of yours.

Re: Censorship

Over the years that term has become incredibly loaded. The first definition on Dictionary.com reads:

cen·sor n.
A person authorized to examine books, films, or other material and to remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable.

Technically what Charles does is censorhip. So what? How many people here want to read the standard anti-semitic, L-Cubed crap? And Charles lets the non-standard, well considered, reasoned counter opinions stand anyway. Think Gordon, view from Ireland and others. Despite how most of us feel about them, they stick to their guns, usually have supportive material and don't resort to only slurs and namecalling. As long as there is real content in a post, Charles will almost always keep it.

#70   Edward

Consider the subject material (M.E., Israel, terrorism). Consider the audience that is likely to attract. Is it any wonder anti-semitism is revisited so often?

#74 blindman

Not a bad idea if Charles charged a fee per comment. But allowing for "content" such as you're championing costs real money in terms of storage and bandwidth. Charles has already had to spring for a new host this year due to increased traffic. It's certainly not money coming out of the pockets of these whack jobs.

#109   iowahawk

LOL!! Classic!

#128 View from Cleveland

Red George, is that you? Didja find another library from which to comment?

#159   bob

What do you call a man with no arms and no legs floating in a pool?

#207   hobgoblin

There was a time when AOL made sense. Dial-up connections were a pain outside of AOL / Compuserve / Prodigy. Today, just about any ISP provides painless service.Meanwhile, AOL seems to have become a breeding ground for all that's wrong with the internet.

Donna V--vairy interresstink, my deeeer!

OTOH, "Germany" covers a lot of territory.

#221   Joel

BTW the Yanks lost today 3-1. Before too long hopefully George Steinbrenner witll be whining and seething.

Probably because Derek Jeter was out running up his Visa bill. ;-)

#234   lone voice?

Hey! At least you have a team! We L.A. area Southern Californians have never had a pro team to call our own. And no, with the way the Chargers are playing this year I will not honor them with that title. Rams? Cleveland cast-offs now in St. Louis. Raiders? Oakland cast-offs now thankfully back home in Oakland. Now there's talk of getting some other cast-offs. Seattle, New Orleans, Indianapolis and Arizona have all been mentioned. Thanks but no thanks.

testy test test

I agree that it's within Charles' rights as a webmaster to block whomever he wants, and to block these abusive anti-semitic posters. Racial/ethnic epithets serve no purpose for productive communication. It would be good if the enforcement on this policy was evenhanded.

The top of each story on this site says "obscene or abusive remarks may be deleted" and I think it's too bad he lets stand bigoted statements along the lines of:

"arabs are subhuman maggots who should all be exterminated. we need to turn mecca into glass man!!!@!"

Because as has been brought up on numerous occasions, profoundly bigoted statements like that get posted fairly regularly - hundreds of times - and apparently, and as long as they are directed at certain groups of people, they are left there:

From the LGF search engine:

Search results for "paleo" (739 matches)
Search results for "subhuman" (184 matches)
Search results for "[bigoted word]" (124 matches)
Search results for "maggot" (90 matches)

From the LGF search engine:

search results for "Ahem" (362) matches

Charles is way too tolerant of lies, half-truths, deception and slander in the name of the destruction of the most democratic country in the Middle East.

Ahem, you are such a bore.

SoCalJustice-lol!

Search results for "paleo" (739 matches)
Search results for "subhuman" (184 matches)
Search results for "[bigoted word]" (124 matches)
Search results for "maggot" (90 matches)

1,137 references otta of how many posts? That is a very small number given how many words are to be found on this site.

I MUST PROTEST !!!

A-Phlem?

From the LGF search engine:

Search results for "paleo" (739 matches)
Search results for "subhuman" (184 matches)
Search results for "[bigoted word]" (124 matches)
Search results for "maggot" (90 matches)

I'm amazed that it's so low. I have no patience for "[bigoted word]", etc. but I think that in light of the fact that thousands of people read and post on LGF, 124 matches is remarkably low.

Ahem, you're a boring tool and a liar. Please fuck off. Pretty please?

#267   Ahem

Since 9/11/2001 there have been 7282 posts made on the Little Green Footballs weblog. That means that in just over 10% of the threads there has been a reference to "paleos".

The total number for the terms you searched is 1137. Since the terms for which you seached have never been issued by Charles to the best of my knowledge that means they are limited posts made in the comments sections. Since 9/11/2001, comments have numbered from anywhere between 1 and 900. If we averaged that number down to even 50 per thread, the terms for which you searched dwindle to insignificance.

7282*50=364,100 1137/364,100=3.1227685-03

Not all threads involved Islamists or terrorism and my average may be a bit high but you should get the picture.

Ahem walked right into that one, didn't he?

I can think of other epithets to give away to you Ahem and they still wouldn't make a dent in the overall assumption you've made. I'd recommend using a different tactic.

Ahem,

Yawn.......

Yes, AOL can sometimes suck.

But yes, AOL did get me laid last night also.

evariste #232

Let's see, the Colt's were the ones who beat the crap out of the Ain'ts this past weekend, right? Peyton Manning is a heck of a quarterback, though his off-field attempts at making passes could use some work. A cousin of mine shot him down in college his senior year. :-D It seems he thought that, "Hiiii there! I'm Peyton Manning." would be enough to charm the pants off of any co-ed.

Cybrludite, Peyton Manning is just awesome. I like your story, it's cute :-)
It probably is enough if you're a star qb at most midwestern schools!

#281   evariste

Peyton Manning and "Marvelous" Marvin Harrison were enough to put me over the top in my fantasy football league last weekend. I'll love 'em as long as they keep doing that. Of course they get two of the NFL's toughest defenses the next two weeks too.

Hey, they are one of the nfl's toughest defenses (not like the ain'ts).
And isn't one of those the Bucs, Dungy's old team? He'll know how to handle them, won't he? Who else do they face?

#247 Donna V

Boy, that is some salacious gossip. You have a fantastic imagination. Just to put ALL your wagging tongues to rest, it's not hans ze beeman.

And it's not Ashton 'Dude, Where's my shampoo' Kutcher either.

#253 Right is Right

Recently, I told my wife that when she turns 36 I am going to trade her in for two 18 year olds.

My ex husband once said that to me, only he said when I turned forty he was going to trade me in for two twenty year olds (he'd have probably liked your idea better though). He had to rethink the thought when I said to him 'OK genius, which one of us will be turning forty first? Didn't think about that, did you? Maybe when YOU turn forty, I'll trade you in for two young bucks'.

He didn't think much of that idea. So... if you're older than your wife, I might rethink that thought, if I were you.

#279 Jolly Roger

Yes, AOL can sometimes suck.

But yes, AOL did get me laid last night also.

Oh no... you didn't fall for the Russian mail order bride email did you?

Testing. Fair play Charles, especially if this is still fine.

#279 Jolly Lay,

How?

#267 Ahem,
Those important results MUST be followed up. We need to know exactly how many 'maggot' references refer to 'Paleos', how many to '[bigoted word]s' in general, whether any French are included, and whether any simply refer to maggots.

#285 Stormi:

Girl, you ROCK!