(2007-04-09) — A draft proposal circulating in the so-called blogosphere would allow family-friendly blogs to sell “civility offsets” to vitriolic bloggers who prefer to pay for “nastiness indulgences” rather than to tame their bitter tirades.
Advocates say that unlike a proposed “blogger code of conduct,” the new civility offsets will not slash the number of blatant death threats or reduce comparisons between President George Bush and the common chimpanzee, but they may reduce the momentary twinges of guilt experienced by some vicious, vindictive and vitriolic bloggers.
ScrappleFace.com, the family-friendly daily news satire site, has already become a kind of clearing house for civility offsets, by allowing readers to make donations through PayPal.com “to assuage the guilt brought on by indelicate words posted on blogs like The Huffington Post and The Daily Kos,” according to ScrappleFace editor Scott Ott.
132 responses so far ↓
1 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 9, 2007 at 9:25 am
God Bless America
2 Darthmeister // Apr 9, 2007 at 9:33 am
There won’t be enough offsets to cover the left-wing bloggers, Scott. We’ve documented the left’s hateful desires to see Tony Snow die of his cancer, for Dick Cheney’s heart to give out or equating Bush with Hitler.
Sure we hold accountable and skewer liberal liars and hypocrites, but compared the the bile and venom of the lefty bloggers we’re mere amateurs in malice.
3 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 9, 2007 at 10:02 am
Some people have too much time on their hands, if you ask me.
Ed Morrissey had some things to say about that April 9th NYT article this morning.
How hard is it to avoid any particular blog? Why does anybody think I want to march in lockstep with those women at blogher.com? Or with O’Reilly and Wales and their arbitrary, subjective “seals of approval”? Sheesh. Who do they think they are? Anyhow!?! I’ll set my own standards, thank you-just like I don’t watch any HBO whatsoever (though I get it free) because it has the taint of the loathsome Bill Maher’s nauseating, atrocious, disgusting, foul, horrid, nasty, offensive, repellent, repulsive, revolting, sickening, ugly, unwholesome, vile, Puerile, Putrid Presence on it. (Gasping for air)(Wiping spittle from chin, keyboard and monitor)(Yes, imagine the decibel level increasing with each syllable).
4 gafisher // Apr 9, 2007 at 10:08 am
Mo
rveOn dot org tried to buy in but found they’re too off-putting for off-setting.5 boberinyetagain // Apr 9, 2007 at 10:16 am
Jameson,
Are you implying that you don’t agree with/enjoy Bill Maher’s program?
Good stuff Scott!
6 Right Thinking Girl » Blog Archive » Am I Offset Yet? // Apr 9, 2007 at 10:20 am
[…] **UPDATE** Scrappleface jumps on the bandwagon with Genteel bloggers offer ‘civility offsets’ to vitriolic bloggers. I love the interwebs. […]
7 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 9, 2007 at 10:26 am
RE: #5~~
boberinyetagain~~
Yes, your inference as to my implication is correct.
8 boberinyetagain // Apr 9, 2007 at 10:40 am
I just wanted to be certain. You appeared to be on the verge of needing a few of those “credits” that Scott spoke of…
Now I know
9 conserve-a-tips // Apr 9, 2007 at 10:46 am
Ya know? This is really a good idea! Just think. What better way to bankrupt liberals? Make ‘em buy offsets so they can continue their diarrhea of the mouth. They aren’t gonna change their ways because they are addicted. They will just mouth off more and more and pay more and more and suddenly they won’t have anything left to pay…..
Wait a minute. Then they would be passing laws to make us pay their offsets…
Never mind.
Cute Scott ~~ But bad idea!
10 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 9, 2007 at 11:05 am
Shelly’s Cafe is so “civil,” that the authoress falls asleep on the keyboard every time she begins another stooooorrr (snoor, slurp, zzzzxxxx)
11 Darthmeister // Apr 9, 2007 at 11:29 am
bober, you have to wear a tinfoil hat to be able to suffer through Bill Maher’s rant-a-thons … that is if you want to come out on the other side sane.
The guy puts the “bat” in “moonbat”.
12 boberinyetagain // Apr 9, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Bill does make you think. I like that about him and John Stewart and, like it or not, those 2 are where young people get whatever news they might be exposed to. With that in mind I suggest that you buck up and watch them both, just to stay in touch.
I personally make it a point to observe those that disagree (you may have noticed this trend) because, first you learn something, second, you had better know what the other side is thinking/up to.
That and I nearly guarantee that neither man is quite as partisan as many of you might think. They both regularly poke fun at both sides of the aisle, even they know darned well that the Democrats are funny folks.
You might even laugh, anything is possible!
13 boberinyetagain // Apr 9, 2007 at 12:03 pm
abra…ah forget it…
14 Bill's Bites // Apr 9, 2007 at 12:10 pm
“Caution: This blog purchases civility offsets”…
Does The Blogosphere Need A Speech Code?Ed Morrissey The New York Times reports on an effort that has percolated in the blogosphere over the last couple of weeks to clean up the on-line debate. Spurred by threats made against a…
15 Terry Cowgill » Civility Offsets, Anyone? // Apr 9, 2007 at 12:23 pm
[…] I’m sure there are some who would have me buy some of these. […]
16 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 9, 2007 at 12:42 pm
I guess I could have used any of a dozen other examples, such as:
My radio dial does not stop at hip-hop stations. I don’t have to listen to it repeatedly to know that 99.99% of it _____s.
I hear the other 0.01% that doesn’t ____ on the alternative station.
As to that imbecilic traitor Maher scumbag: Why would I even want to listen to him spew outright lies and pathological anti-American/anti-Bush vitriol. There is absolutely no humor-none, zip, nada, zero, zilch-whatsoever associated with that disgusting, despicable, depraved, degenerate piece of putrid, prurient filth.
17 boberinyetagain // Apr 9, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Don’t keep it bottled up inside, it’s not good for you. You have to let it out, tell us how you really feel. You’ll get ulcers otherwise.
Music/politics = apples/oranges.
Music is not “us” vs. “them”, just a matter of taste. In politics both sides have a nearly equal voice and both will be listened to (and believed) by nearly half of the people and thus both should be kept an eye on IMHO.
Your results may vary.
18 Fred Sinclair // Apr 9, 2007 at 12:56 pm
I pray for those at The Huffington Post and The Daily Koz” (I can use those words since I use PayPal regularly each month.) because the Bible tells me to pray for my enemies but I had to go to Lamentations to find a suitable prayer that fit the circumstances:
Lam. 3:58 O Lord, you took up my case; you redeemed my life.
Lam. 3:59 You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause!
Lam. 3:60 You have seen the depth of their vengeance, all their plots against me.
Lam. 3:61 O LORD, you have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
Lam. 3:62 what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long.
Lam. 3:63 Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.
Lam. 3:64 Pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, for what their hands have done.
Lam. 3:65 Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them!
Lam. 3:66 Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.
Now that fellow knew how to pray! In addition to which - he expected results.
But then again, aybody can be saved, even me. And the Capt. of the Slave ship who after accepting Christ - turned from his wicked, evil ways and wrote the words to “Anazing Grace”. So I pray that the folks over on these other blogs may accept Christ, but if they steadfastly refuse, then the prayer from Lamentations.
Actually, if my mother was here, she wouldn’t care a whit about PayPal, she’d wash my mouth out with soap anyway!
Heirborn Ranger
19 boberinyetagain // Apr 9, 2007 at 12:58 pm
For example, I think Rush is a pompous windbag but back in my driving days I listened often. He was and no doubt remains amusing and occasionally, informative. Agreement is not a prerequisite for amusement/learning, ifnfact the opposite is often true.
20 myword // Apr 9, 2007 at 1:03 pm
JL3rd
You’re on a roll today. : ~ )
21 antodav // Apr 9, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Wow. Ironic that I should read that during Free Expression class…
You really think that left-wing bloggers feel guilt for the things they say, Scott? Come on now. In order to feel guilt, they’d have to recognize that what they’re doing is wrong-and for that, they’d have to recognize the existence of “right” and “wrong” in the first place. Won’t happen.
22 conserve-a-tips // Apr 9, 2007 at 1:45 pm
James and Boberin ~~ Did you have a chance to view the video that I posted several days ago, of the former writer for Bill Maher? Please watch it. It is amazing. The guy is brilliant and obviously smarter then his former boss.
Boberin: Your argument regarding watching somebody like Maher is sadly flimsy. If one followed your line of reasoning, one would attend radical Muslim meetings on Jihad to find out how the other side thinks. You would be joining up with the KKK to find out how they operate. As my former minister used to say, “I know poop without having to step in it.” On the other hand, the atheist could attend church to learn what the Bible (the other side) says about Christ. What a concept.
23 Shelly // Apr 9, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Hello, all! Have been away for a few days so it’s good to be back to enjoying Scott’s great wit. I hope they never suggest he buy somber-offsets.
Hope everyone had a truly blessed Easter. Thanks to the global warming it felt more like Christmas here.
24 boberinyetagain // Apr 9, 2007 at 2:57 pm
c-a-t, oddly I think your suggestions have merit. well, “oddly” may be a tad strong. Yes, those are decent examples of seeing what the “other side” is up to and I realize that the concept is lost on most folks here.
Not at all unlike chatting with the “enemy” in any conflict to see what it is they thing, why they think it and (God forbid) if there might be any glimmer of shared values/objectives no matter how small, grasping at those commonalities and attempting to build a healthier relationship from there. Sure, keep fighting, whatever form that may take but be open to the possibility of negotiation no matter how slim. You never know for certain.
If you have exhausted these attempts with no large or small agreement on any point whatever, nuke em and let God sort em out (if your plan is merely to keep fighting anyway, might as well cut to the chase)
25 boberinyetagain // Apr 9, 2007 at 2:58 pm
But Christmas felt more like May so….
26 Darthmeister // Apr 9, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Rush is a pompous windbag, but at least he uses multiple and often independent documented sources for his rants. Maher, on the other hand, buys into the latest left-wing drivel and then trots it out as coming from the Oracle of Delphi itself. And Maher, like most liberals, has a very bad habit of allowing their thinking to be monopolized by the media echo-chamber, never stopping to consider the reality there actually might be a legitimate perspective that doesn’t demonize America or President Bush.
One has to wonder about this body of left-wing “evidence” which constantly renders America and its leadership in the most unflattering light while left-wing socialist regimes and Islamic thugocracies are often given a pass. How often are we’re told how we should try to be “more understanding” of those we don’t agree with when no such consideration is given by these same liberal pinheads and wacademics regarding President Bush or conservative America? You see, in their view, America is to blame for the world’s ills by being “complicit” in anything involving less than four degrees of separation while countries like Iran, Syria, North Korea, China, socialist regimes, or any culture still living in the fifteenth century must be dilplomatically “understood” even when rattling their own sabers.
I mean, there are tons of liberals who still look fondly upon the failed Soviet state! In fact some lib-socialists blame America for the failed Soviet state because our rapacious and evil capitalist system bankrupted the Soviet’s collectivist economy! UNFAIR, they whine! But liberals never stop to consider what the enemies of America would do in their emboldened efforts to act on their religious or national aspirations, hoping to destroy what is left of western civilization if they had the military might, resources, and the technological know-how that America presently possesses.
Until the Prince of Peace comes, there will never be a time when nations will be at peace and some great international status quo occurs. Until the wicked stop troubling, America must always be vigilant even as its European allies seem more than willing to give up some of their liberty and culture to appease the wolves at the door.
27 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 9, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Trust me, my point was not to suggest that Maher was in any way, shape or form a political figure. He’s (at best) a 4th-rate entertainer-from the same mold as O’Donnel.
My point: Just like I don’t listen to certain kinds of music I don’t like, or view entertainers I don’t like, I don’t read blogs (the topic of this particular thread) I don’t like.
I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t use food for an example: I don’t like okra, so I don’t eat it.
I suppose you could compare hip-hop music to okra, or okra to politics, but I wouldn’t.
28 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 9, 2007 at 3:29 pm
When up against the rhetorical wall, start slinging ad hominems to obscure the issue. It doesn’t work but…..
29 myword // Apr 9, 2007 at 3:34 pm
C-A-T #22
That was an excellent video you recommended. He
has trod where few dare to go. I have
shared it with a number of people.
Thanks.
30 tomg // Apr 9, 2007 at 3:53 pm
“A draft proposal..”
One perfectly good “r” wasted
31 tomg // Apr 9, 2007 at 3:59 pm
No. 17, boberinyetagain,
“music is not “us” vs. “them””
…after all, we’re only ordinary men
32 Scrappleface: Civility Offsets // Apr 9, 2007 at 4:00 pm
[…] Read the rest here. […]
33 Anonymous // Apr 9, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Where is my Easter Bonnet?
While some may see the blogosphere and the behavior of its participants as a new phenomenon, it isn’t difficult to find an appropriate predecessor model. That model is found on the streets of any metropolitan area and it is called traffic and the prevalence of road rudeness…or in its extreme…road rage.
Granted, personal attacks and snark on the internet are not likely to lead to fatalities, but if computers had wheels, it certainly would.
The problem on the highway or the internet isn’t going to be resolved through a badge system. Did anyone attend Easter mass yesterday and witness the value of symbols…no not the crucifix behind the altar or the statue at the entrance; I’m talking about the pretty new Easter outfits…complete with bonnets and bow ties. These are the outfits worn by the same people who also attend Christmas mass every year without fail…and then get into their shiny clean vehicle and race out of the parking lot without ever yielding to the old woman walking to her car that is parked in the back row because she forgot that it was Easter Sunday and foolishly arrived at the same time she does each and every Sunday.
Read more on the relationship between blog civility and Easter Bonnets…here:
www.thoughttheater.com
34 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 9, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Yes, good video-he articulates the phenomenon quite well.
35 Mahou Meido Meganekko » Blog Archive » Why Didn’t I Think of That? (part 495) // Apr 9, 2007 at 4:37 pm
[…] Hey, anyone want to buy some vitrol offsets after posting something particularly nasty about the new animé season? […]
36 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 9, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Hm. It’s only been 142 years since the end of the Civil War.
37 camojack // Apr 9, 2007 at 7:08 pm
I took it out on my chocolate Easter Bunny; he no longer has any ears…consequently, he can’t hear all the terrible things I say.
38 Fred Sinclair // Apr 9, 2007 at 8:10 pm
“shared value/objectives” boberin what variation of”whacky backy” have you been smoking?
They have already stated that they have only one objective and that is to kill you (and me). Just what part of that objective do you wish to share? Are you sucidial?
We already have here in America an occasional “suicide by cop” so now you’re talking “suicide by Moslem terrorists”. I learned at an early age that there is only one way to deal with termites and that does not include meaningful conversations with them - if you refuse to call on Orkin, be prepared for your house to come crashing down on your head.
Given your line of reasoning -America (as we know it) will cease to exist within 25 years and we will know that God has brought judgement and destruction upon America, for having turned our backs on Him.
It’s time for a genuine revival in America with Americans returning to God, worshiping Him with the faith of our fathers.
Nineveh was in a bad way; God was set to destroy it but when finally warned by (a very unwilling) Jonah they did turn from their evil and wicked ways and God spared the Ninevehites from destruction.
I’m 70 and in 25 more years will be 95, God willing, but I pray that I don’t live long enough to see the destruction of America which will surely come if all we do is have meaningful conversations with the enemy!
Cowboys have pointy toed boots so they can stomp cockroaches, even in the corners. You may see the day when you are faced with two options - either embrace and accept their Allah and Islam or face the headsman’s axe and decapitation.
All that is required is for good men to stand by and do nothing.
Heirborn Ranger
39 conserve-a-tips // Apr 9, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Boberin~~ re: 24
AlAnon has a quip that states, “You can’t reason with unreasonable people.” In other words, you can’t reason with a drunk or somebody who is high, etc. And you can’t reason with a person who thinks that his holy duty is to get rid of those people who aren’t holy according to his standards. So what do you do? You hold them accountable. In the case of the drunk, you call the police if you see him get behind the wheel. In the case of a jihadist nation, you get serious on sanctions and try to attack them economically and if that doesn’t work, you take them out. People have the opportunity to do right and be reasonable. Unfortunately, those who aren’t reasonable can’t fathom the opportunity to be so.
I have some questions. Do you believe that we should reason with murderers instead of locking them up? Do you believe that the police should let a madman go if he is attempting to shoot at the police, in order not to shoot the madman? Do you believe that we should even have police risking their lives to protect us? Our military is just a bigger, more equipped and trained variation of the police. They hunt down the bad guys, try to bring them in and if the bad guys resist, they shoot them to keep them from hurting someone else.
40 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 9, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Churchill wouldn’t weep, he’d freak out.
41 Defogger // Apr 9, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Yesterday I invented a new “weight loss” plan, using “Calorie Offset Credits!” You won’t lose weight, but you will feel much less guilty about overeating.
http://www.xanga.com/defogger/582632076/a-modest-proposal—ht-al-gore.html
42 gafisher // Apr 10, 2007 at 4:37 am
Anon #33: My wife traded her Easter Bonnet in for a ski mask, a sort of “thermal offset.”
43 Darthmeister // Apr 10, 2007 at 6:20 am
JL3rd,
And how did the Brits reward Churchill for inspiring them and saving their arses from the Nazi hoards? They turned him out to pasture!
And I fear this is exactly what American sheep will do in another twenty months, but this time before the job is finished! The Muslim radicals aren’t stupid. If this does occur in 2008, there probably will be a lull in the operational tempo of the Islamofascists which will be interpreted by the liberal sheeple as proving their point about not provoking Muslim militants. And then little by little we will begin seeing the encroachments of radical sharia here in America (as is already happening in Eurabia) under the cloak of “multi-culturalism” reinforced with a homicide bomber here and a mini-9/11 there.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT FROM A MILBLOG (I paraphrase):
On the face of it the flawed John Hopkins/Lancet study pegged the number of “innocent” civilians killed in Iraq since March 2003 at around 625,000 +. Even an earlier Hopkins Study was found to be flawed and that one was only claiming 100,000 deaths. But if 625,000 innocent civilians died this would mean, as we previously observed here at Scrappleface, that over 500 “innocent” Iraqis were being murdered by coalition troops each day without a single media outlet making note of this high rate of death for even a single day’s worth of casualties, not even al Jazeera. As we also pointed out before, if these are truly “innocent civilians”, the vast, vast majority died at the hands of their own Muslim brethren, not American troops. What does that say about the “religion of peace” … it’s a failure! But there still may be another answer.
What if despite the assurances of John Hopkins and the Muslim Iraqis participating in the poll/study, the vast majority of those questionable 625,000 deaths occurred among MAM (Military Age Males) and in fact mostly represented the deaths of Iraqi males involved in militias and the Iraqi insurgency? Why this would be good news, not bad!
This would mean this is the first time the liberal media was able to report the number of deaths of indigenous jihadist wannabees after spending four years regaling Americans about the deaths of 2,600 Americans in fighting these crazies. If this is true, then the deaths of over a half a million Iraqi radicals can only be a good thing.
But I think it’s pretty clear what the intent of the John Hopkins study was, to discredit the Iraq war by creating a civilian casualty count that would at least come close to exceeding the 800,000 innocent Iraqis which were slaughtered by Saddam’s regime and buried in mass graves in the desert.
Clearly the conclusions of the John Hopkins study is a Big Lie which is being repeated by even bigger liars who are constantly critical of the Iraq War.
44 RedPepper // Apr 10, 2007 at 7:05 am
Scott, ‘Civility Offsets’ are clearly an idea whose time has come -
- but you need to expand your horizons! Why limit yourself to a handful of rabid bloggers? Aim for the stars - offer your services (for appropriate compensation, naturally) to Michael (”Kramer”) Richards! Don Imus ! ! Rosie O’Donnell ! ! !
Yeaaahhah ! ? ! ? !
45 Darthmeister // Apr 10, 2007 at 7:25 am
Surrender Donks admit to only bluffing concerning cutting off Iraq War funds.
Well, what do you expect from a bunch of political scoundrels and scalawags? I bet the radical leftists are fit to be tied. I can just hear it: WE’VE BEEN LIED TOO AGAIN!
46 Darthmeister // Apr 10, 2007 at 7:33 am
How liberals lie like Marxists.
Excerpt:
In the way of background, the early Soviets absorbed not only Karl Marx’s economics but also his morality, such as it was. In their pursuit of the larger truth—pravda—they scorned any petty factual truth—istina—that stood in its way. The man who brought this new system of power, the so-called “lying for the truth,” to the West was an unlikely German Communist named Willi Munzenberg. A sort of roughneck publisher, Munzenberg had an instinctive feel for the power of the media and persuaded Lenin to let him apply it.
In short liberals complain: “Don’t confuse me with the real facts, I have a “progressive” narrative to maintain.” This is very similar to Muslim taqiyya - “holy lying” or lying for the cause. This is not to say Republicans or even conservatives haven’t or don’t lie, but there isn’t an ideological dogma that conservatives have which attempts to justify their lies the way liberalism attempts to do.
47 conserve-a-tips // Apr 10, 2007 at 9:18 am
Defogger, I can’t get the site to come up by clicking on your link. Could you just possibly post the piece? I am on a diet program with a group and would love to share this with other members. We’d have a good laugh, I am sure.
48 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 10, 2007 at 9:37 am
RE: #47~~
This will work:
http://www.xanga.com/Defogger/582632076/a-modest-proposal—ht-al-gore.html
49 Darthmeister // Apr 10, 2007 at 9:39 am
Ed Koch: No Greater Danger Than Radical Islam
Goracle’s convenient lies about Global Warmism runs a very close second.
50 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 10, 2007 at 9:42 am
Guess not. Sorry. There’s too many dashes in the link.
It’s kind of funny, too.
Just go to www.xanga.com/Defogger
51 conserve-a-tips // Apr 10, 2007 at 9:57 am
Thanks so much James. I nearly spit out my Diet Coke through my nose! I wonder if I could have one of those Reeses Peanut Butter Easter Eggs if I “offset” it with this diet coke? I think that I am going to invest in that company!! There are people out there dumb/liberal enough to buy into that kind of logic!!!
52 GnuCarSmell // Apr 10, 2007 at 10:45 am
The Don Imus Hubbub fits perfectly in the “civility offsets” idea. I just heard Imus is going to raise money to atone for his remark. He called a girls’ basketball team “scrappy-headed weeding tools” or something like that…
Never mind that almost any rap song contains much worse. The moral posturing and narcissism of the victimhood industry is on full display. Before the week is over, the race hustlers will be saying Imus’ committed a form of genocide.
53 Fred Sinclair // Apr 10, 2007 at 11:07 am
I am so very puzzled by the weather reports I’ve been hearing about the temps in various locations around the world. Many reporting “Coldest winter on record.”
Seems that Algore is looking for another run for the oval office. Perhaps he feels that an Oscar and a Nobel (he hopes) will somewhat offset his liabilities of being a loser in 2000 and being made out as a fool with his Manmade Global Warming fiasco. Being referred to a “Chicken Little” with his “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” predictions holds him up to ridicule better than anything the Reublicans could have dreamed for him.
Rush Limbaugh is also in nomination for the Nobel Prize so it will be interesting to see how Algore handles losing to Rush. At least he won’t have to face the embarassment of losing the Presidency to Rush, since Rush doesn’t want the job and won’t run.
But then again he might be just smart enough to figure out that anyone perceived as a threat to Mrs. Bill Clinton’s chance for the job, might find life insurance companies refusing to write them a policy. That could have a chilling effect on his ambitions.
Heirborn Ranger
54 myword // Apr 10, 2007 at 11:59 am
I just listened to the Newt Gingrich/John Kerry debate
on global warming on C-span.
Interesting, and they said it will be repeated. Newt is
a great debater. He took what Kerry said and turned
it against him. He said if you accept the premise that
this problem is manmade, the most effective way to
address it is to incentivize entrepreneurs and companies
to innovate, discover and improve. This would entail
tax credits, and public monies to subsidize this kind
of research, letting the private markets work. There is
no amount of legislation, caps and restrictions passed into
law in the US that will have any effect on China and India.
Kerry, of course, then said (paraphrasing) “but that
is just giving money to fat-cat corporations who will
then make a profit.”
Newt said, but the only way to entice India and China
to join in carbon reduction in energy usage is to make
available cheaper, cleaner sources of energy to them.
Passing restrictive, cumbersome laws in this country
will not acommplish that goal.
If you get a chance to catch it on C-span, do. Newt
was impressive.
55 Outside The Beltway | OTB // Apr 10, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Blogger’s Code of Conduct - We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges…
A call by Tim O’Reilly for a formal “Blogger’s Code of Conduct” has captured the attention of the mainstream press, including a front page piece in yesterday’s NYT, as well as quite a few bloggers.
……
56 Defogger // Apr 10, 2007 at 1:14 pm
RE: #s 47, 48, 50 — referring to #41
Sorry, Conserve-a-Tips, RL3rd, I can’t get the link to work, either. Probably because Xanga doesn’t allow comments from outside the Xanga community. But you can click on my link below, and then scroll down. Rats.
57 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 10, 2007 at 2:02 pm
RE: #56~~
Defogger~~
No problem, we figured it out. Had a good laugh, too. Thanks.
58 Darthmeister // Apr 10, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Media and lefty bloggers trying to portray Don Imus as a straight up conservative when he’s more in the vein of a left-of-center libertarian. Imus is an equal opportunity insulter and has insulted both Democrats and Republicans over the years. He apparently voted for John McCain during the Republican presidential primaries of 2000, but admitted here to voting for John Kerry in 2006.
But here’s the problem I have, it’s the ol’ “sticks and stones” adage and the rank double-standards of the left who still wink, wink, nudge, nudge over Jesse Jackson’s racist “hymietown” reference. What Imus did was mere words, the utter destruction of reputations by Al Sharptons race-baiting lies surrounding the Tawana Brawley debacle if far, far worse. And Sharpton has set himself as the Grand Inquistor in judging Imus - what hubris! And let’s not forget the lives and reputations destroyed by shameless liberal race-baiters in the Duke lacrosse faux scandal.
The lamestream media is the one responsible for mainstreaming this story since Imus only reaches a very small fraction of Americans. No one would have been the wiser for this jerk’s comments about the women’s Rutger’s basketball team.
59 conserve-a-tips // Apr 10, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Darthmeister, personally, I think this is a setup by the “lamestream” media in order to be able to say, “See? We’re not biased. We hold everybody accountable.” Right. They are happy with a two week suspension, but cried, “Off with his head,” regarding Trent Lott for a mere reference to an old man.
60 Just Ranting // Apr 10, 2007 at 4:14 pm
I heard that Don Imus apologized to Al Sharpton (I refuse to call him reverend) for his insulting remarks about the Rutger’s Lady Knights basketball team. While his comments were hurtful and repugnant, apologizing to Al Sharpton is like apologizing to Al Capone for insulting Italians.
If he is truly sorry invite the basketball team to MSNBC studios, all expenses paid, apologize in person, kiss their size 15 Reboks, and treat them to a night on the town. Leave the lying, thieving, low lifes like Sharpton and Jesse Jackson out of it. These race baiting opportunists should find another photo-op. “Hiemie-town” Jessie Jackson has no room to call anyone racist. When Sharpton pays the fines imposed on him by the courts in a libel case he lost to a NY Police officer in the Tawana Brawley case, then he can complain about Don Imus. Until then, just butt out.
61 conserve-a-tips // Apr 10, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Myword, I have been trying to see when they show it again, but according to all of the news articles I am reading, Newt disappointed conservatives and thrilled liberals by saying that global warming is caused by humans. Here is the exact quote from one article:
In his first portion of allotted time Gingrich said there were two undisputed areas of scientific consensus on global warming: that the earth is getting hotter and the warming had been caused by human activity.
At one point, Kerry asked Gingrich what he would say to conservatives like Sen. James Inhofe (R.-Okla.) who do not believe global warming is caused by human activity. Gingrich said, “The evidence is sufficient that we should move to the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon.”
“We should be moving to develop all kinds of new green technology,” Gingrich said. He challenged Kerry to find market-based solutions to reduce carbon emission instead of increasing environmental regulations.
This bothers me because the whole problem with this “consensus” idea is that somehow science is based on concensus. If that were true, we would all still think the world was flat and that alchemy is a legitimate source for gold.
62 boberinyetagain // Apr 10, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Imus is another example of someone I don’t often agree with but still manage to find him amusing, sometimes informative.
In this case he should probably be put out to pasture though, he’s not enough of either (amusing or informative) to be let off for this one. He’s just too old to care anymore and so should only be allowed on satellite or nowhere.
63 boberinyetagain // Apr 10, 2007 at 4:45 pm
And, I never said that we would ultimately agree with anyone that we sat down with but I still insist that unless you are certain of the other side’s position you cannot be certain that common ground cannot be found.
Hank points out their “stated desire” to kill us all. That brings me back around to my oft made questions…why are we fighting and dying over there? If that’s the intent then nuke em, nuke em good and be done. In 500-1000 years we can go back in and get the oil (but we never did want it anyway, right?)
Heck no, we don’t need no steenking oil!
We can burn corn as fuel. Soon enough it will dawn on us that we often eat corn and things made of corn and other things that eat corn but, at least until we remember that (about a year, perhaps 2, when many food items cost twice or 3 times what they do now) we are good to go.
I want to at least attempt negotiation, you folks claim it will never work. War isn’t working either, many folks still seem quite upset and find meaningful ways to demonstrate that daily. I say nuke em and the same folks (y’all) tell me how barbaric that is.
I point out that they may want to kill us but they lack the means (this is important) but you tell me I’m crazy. You feel they have the means but buried them in the desert and are saving them for something (after we leave perhaps?)
They claim to be the religion of peace, we claim to be the religion of peace. Both sides are fighting/dying/killing. Both sides are NUTS and neither is representing any religion that God could recognize, He will bless neither.
I stand as confused as always but, again, I’m accustomed to the feeling.
64 Darthmeister // Apr 10, 2007 at 5:20 pm
bober, I agree with you on one thing, it’s stupid to burn food as fuel. I hear sawgrass is an even better source for ethanol production. NO CORN FOR HEMIS!
If we continue using corn for ethanol production, conspiracy theorists will start whining how we’re starving Third World countries and Mexicans just so we have enough gasohol to run our polluting SUVs! I understand there has already been a protest/riot in Mexico City over the rising price of corn tortillas! I think Rush Limbaugh actually predicted that would happen as corn prices continue to rise.
65 Darthmeister // Apr 10, 2007 at 5:25 pm
BTW, how do you “negotiate” with murderous nutbags? Didn’t Neville Chamberlain try that with Hitler and the Nazis? I seem to remember when that didn’t work.
Maybe you can volunteer to negotiate with the jihadists since you seem to have a lot of ideas about the subject.
If you do succeed I’d be impressed, bober, and we Scrapplers will be the first to proclaim … “WE’RE NOT WORTHY” as we genuflect in your general direction! bober, if I truly thought you can negotiate with people steeped in the kind of destructive ideology the jihadists follow, I’d say give it a try, too. You can’t trust these kind of people today or ten years down the road. Don’t be a dhimmie.
66 Darthmeister // Apr 10, 2007 at 5:34 pm
PBS PULLS ‘ALARMIST’ DOCUMENTARY OF RADICAL ISLAM…
Liberal dhimmies! This is precisely the effect Muslim fundamentalism and liberal secularism has on nations steeped in the tyranny of politically-correct multi-culturalism.
Notice how the documentary is referred to as “alarmist”. Does anyone remember the lamestream media referring to Michael Mooron’s crockumentary “Fahrenhype 911″ as “alarmist”, “conspiratorial” or even “controversial”? Heck no. Anyone doubt the media is left-wing?
67 conserve-a-tips // Apr 10, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Boberin: Your penchant for negotiation is admirable, but we have been in the negotiating stage since the 60’s and we still got 9-11 and the 1993 bombing, and the Cole and the Khobar Towers and etc. and etc. Sorry, but there is an old saying about rattlesnakes, “Bite me once, shame on you. Bite me twice, shame on me.”
68 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 10, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Hairy Reed does not speak for the American people. He’s a bald-faced liar. What a punk.
69 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 10, 2007 at 6:25 pm
The MSM love it when people like Imus say something stupid, that way they get to repeat the “bad words” out loud over and over and over (times infinity).
70 conserve-a-tips // Apr 10, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Please read this article!! And Boberin, that means you, especially! The following is just an excerpt from The Rape of Europe:
In a recent op-ed piece in the Brussels newspaper De Standaard, the Dutch (gay and self-declared “humanist”) author Oscar Van den Boogaard refers to Broder’s interview. Van den Boogaard says that to him coping with the islamization of Europe is like “a process of mourning.” He is overwhelmed by a “feeling of sadness.” “I am not a warrior,” he says, “but who is? I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it.”
71 Writeminded // Apr 11, 2007 at 12:01 am
Glad to see many of us can detect the empty charade of this scam. I blogged about it with my invention of Pedophile Points at www.write-minded.blogspot.com
Will the casually-aware general public be able to see thru the charade? It seems so obvious, how could they not?!
72 Al Gore will be so proud « Constitution Club // Apr 11, 2007 at 2:17 am
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73 MargeinMI // Apr 11, 2007 at 7:45 am
Morning all!
[pusssshhhhhhh]
74 Darthmeister // Apr 11, 2007 at 8:26 am
Charges Against Duke Lacrosse Members Will Be Dropped.
Once again conservative bloggers are proven right. The whole case was a sham on the order of Tawana Brawley/Al Sharpton. But the false accuser and Prosecutor Nifong will still walk free despite her golddigging lies and his professional malfeasance. This is the kind of “justice” white upper middle-class kids can expect in the kangaroo courts of liberalism. Not only did the left-wing professors at the Duke University reprehensibly act as judge and jury with respect to these three young men, but also the liberal media and the liberal race-baiters.
75 Darthmeister // Apr 11, 2007 at 8:43 am
c.a.t. that was an excellent link! I’ve emailed it to everyone on my address list. It’s precisely as we’ve been saying here at Srappledom the last three years, Europe is becoming an Eurabia and the Euroweenies aren’t even willing to fight for their own cultural identity! Incredible cowardice.
Also, I remember advancing the notion about two years ago on these threads that westernized atheists, secular humanists and those who worship at the shrine of liberalism aren’t psychologically equipped to deal with a rapacious militant religion like Islam. In the end it will take the villified Christian patriot to engage in a resistance against ever encroaching Islamism even in the streets of our own country! And one of the reasons those steeped in secular humanism and liberalism aren’t capable of dealing with hostile “Islamization” is because they are in denial … just like bober!
Read the commentary, bober, and meditate on the truth that is being played out before our very eyes! Even Winston Churchill was accused of being paranoid and inflammatory when he saw the rising Nazi menace.
76 Shelly // Apr 11, 2007 at 8:44 am
If only liberals could ever support the founding fathers policies, they might stop showing up on the wrong side of every issue. Instead they jumped onto the “guilty until proven innocent” bandwagon and again have egg all over their faces. What kind of offsets can these lacrosse players now use? The accuser and Nifong should be required to pay every penny of their legal expenses.
77 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 11, 2007 at 9:15 am
Yes. Every penny Nifong ever makes from now on should go to those defamed men. Also, the city which permitted the atrocity should cover the legal tab which is, like, $3,000,000! These permanently scarred young men (and their parents, I would assume) are depending on contributions to pay it-wrong, totally wrong.
Oh, and Pelosi and Reid should resign immediately.
78 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 11, 2007 at 9:30 am
Good Morning. I have a few words on the Imus case, but time does not allow me the opportunity to say what is on my mind.
I realize most of you had pretty much finished with the old news and moved on, but forgive my indulgence when I finally spew my 2 1/2 cents worth. Shame on America
(my view of it anyhow)
79 Shelly // Apr 11, 2007 at 9:33 am
At AmericanThinker.com Maj. Gen. Michael Barbero discusses some of the progress being made in Iraq that you will never hear from the MSM. He also describes the latest tactics used by Al Queda in Iraq (AQI).
“I strongly believe this use of chlorine should not be dismissed merely as a new tactic or an emerging trend. Chlorine is a poison gas. It is a poison gas being used on the Iraqi people. Before these attacks, the last time poison gas was used on the Iraqi people was by Saddam Hussein. Al Qaeda in Iraq and other related Sunni extremists are employing this weapon against the Sunni population of Al Anbar province, so we have Sunni extremists attacking innocent Sunnis with a poison gas. We assess this escalation of AQI’s murder and intimidation campaign as a reaction to the growing anti-AQI resistance that we see in Al Anbar province.
In reaction to these poison gas attacks, our commanders report that the Iraqi security forces have conducted their most aggressive operations to date and continue to apply effective pressure against AQI in Al Anbar. The use of poison gas on innocent Iraqi civilians discredits all of the Sunni extremist propaganda of being, quote, “an honorable resistance,” focused on, quote, “driving out the infidels.”
In addition to the increasing use of poison gas, we have also seen another example of children being used to facilitate insurgent attacks. You will recall that last week I briefed you and mentioned a suicide attack in Baghdad on 18 March in which two children were used to help move a vehicle-borne IED through checkpoints; an attack where the adults fled, detonating the bomb with both children inside.
Regrettably, this tactic continues. On 21 March, a three-vehicle Iraqi police convoy was pursuing a suspicious vehicle in Haditha. As they drove past a 12- to 14-year old Iraqi boy riding a bicycle, a bomb in the boy’s backpack detonated killing him instantly. These acts, the use of poison gas and the use of children as weapons, are unacceptable in any civilized society and demonstrate the truly dishonorable nature of this enemy.”
How, exactly, do you suggest we negotiate with these people boberin? Besides the obvious - wearing gas masks.
80 Shelly // Apr 11, 2007 at 9:35 am
I also find it very telling that the Democrat leadership is more than happy to talk with Syria and Iran, but is refusing to converse with the President of their own country. If they are so certain of their ability to negotiate effectively….?
81 conserve-a-tips // Apr 11, 2007 at 9:52 am
Darthmeister, I am glad that you found the link interesting. I read that op ed piece and thought, “How can these liberals be so freaked out over something so out of their control as the climate of one piddly part of the universe, and so laissez faire about something that is in their control, like immigration and not capitulating to totalitarianism?”
82 GnuCarSmell // Apr 11, 2007 at 10:28 am
Shelly #80 - The same thought occurred to me. Pelosi wants to schmooze with the two principal sponsors of terrorism (Syria and Iran), but is unwilling to dialogue with Bush over funding the troops. The way I look at it, Pelosi, Lantos, Waxman, et al are supporting those who are killing Americans on one hand, while denying support to their own citizen-soldiers on the other.
The Democrats have sunk to a new low — if that’s possible.
83 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 11, 2007 at 10:45 am
Even if you see them floating by in a sewer (as they are now, in my opinion), they can still go much, much lower.
Truth be told, they’d hold hands with satan himself if they could (might be, actually, now that I think about it).
84 conserve-a-tips // Apr 11, 2007 at 11:31 am
Heh! I am one to admit that there are other cultures from which we should learn and China is one of them!
I like their marquee.
“China Women Town” to be built
www.chinanews.cn 2007-04-05 15:53:09
Chinanews, Chongqing, April 5 - Chongqing is planning to build the first “Women Town” in its Shuangqiao District, which used to be famous for producing heavy-duty trucks.
The town will be set up in Xinmin Village of the district, where most men have gone to other places to make money, with their wives waiting for them at home.
“The town will be a new tourist resort, but has very little to do with feminist movement,” said Li Jigang, the director of Shuangqiao District Tourism Division.
It is said that a poster bearing the inspription of “Women are never wrong, and a gentleman should never turn down a lady” will be put on the entrance to the town.
“The Women Town will be a supplement to the Dazu Rock Carvings 26 km away, for tourists to relax and enjoy sweet games,” said Tong Jiuying, the future mayor of the Women Town.
85 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 11, 2007 at 11:52 am
Time? Ha, never happens around here. Not only do I battle with my own problems but my cat is dying from prescription food, so my thinking cap has been sitting on the shelf.
Imus, the man who reminds me of the living dead made a few crude remarks and now the major sponsors are dropping him like a hot potato.
I think back to the late ’90s when I was a underpaid op-ed writer. I took on the hot issues of the day and in S. Cal, there are many. Concerning issues like gay nonsense and other problems, like immigration, I wrote it as I saw it.
Imus has a different style than mine and I never really liked him, but if he is being ripped of his stripes, then the sponsors better shut down MTV as well.
When freedom of speech is determined by gender or color, then our founding fathers died for no reason. I still have piles of Letters to the Editors in a box because many area readers wanted to run the “Nazi Woman,” out of town. They never got their way because I packed my own gear and headed up Montana way.
I have been on the hot seat numerous times and never once apologized (except once when I was wrong). Apologizing for what you think, right or wrong, is a worms way out, and most opinion writers know that. America has spent to may years whining and apologizing, starting with Bill Clinton and going through the politicians till today.
Though President Bush has a lot of failures on homeland security he has never once apologized for the war.
It is a good thing we don’t need consumer goods to run the White House. That is all I have time to say.
P.S. Our local news provider dropped the article about Proctor and Gamble stopping the ads on his programs. Hmmm. So now I cannot link the lenghty article
86 RedPepper // Apr 11, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Ms RW #85: “When freedom of speech is determined by gender or color, then our founding fathers died for no reason.”
Excellent! I give you fair warning right here & now, Ms. RightWing … I’m stealing that one stat !
87 RedPepper // Apr 11, 2007 at 12:31 pm
It seems that the principles of the Western Left are — ahem — flexible when it comes to supporting the victims of oppression. It all depends on what your definition of “oppression” is …
Getting Up With Fleas .
88 Darthmeister // Apr 11, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Fred Thompson Admits He is Battling Slow-moving Cancer
I wonder how long it will be before the liberal hatemongers begin wishing Mr. Thompson dies from cancer, too?
89 Darthmeister // Apr 11, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Ms RightWing, check out Michelle Malkin’s Imus vs. the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks Chart. Just take a look at the lyrics if you can bear it.
This points out the utter hypocrisy of the race-baiting liberals who wink at the utter garbage being spewed by rap “artists” which denigrate women as little more that “b!+*#@$” and “hos” that are only there to service their craven sexual appetites. Last time I checked, only conservative blacks and Bill Cosby have been speaking out against such jungle barbarism. Liberals just shrug their shoulders and make some lame reference to the First Amendment and then turn right around and condemn Imus as if he doesn’t have First Amendment rights to speak his mind. Don’t get me wrong, I think Imus is little more than a potty-mouthed shock jock but I guess some people are “more equal” than others in the eyes of the liberal media who whips up such hysteria. I mean, on a day-to-day basis, how many people does Imus reach … 500,000? … or at most a couple of million?
What’s incredible to me are these shameless race-baiters who demand the Rutgers’ basketball players submit themselves to the victimology mentality when they probably didn’t even know who Imus is or even what he stands for before the left-wing media ratcheted this whole kerfuffle up. People who allow themselves to be enslaved by the mindless rants of small-minded jerks like Imus have no self-respect to begin with. I think it shameful how the Rutgers’ coach threw the pity-party that she did just so she could be “enraged” and get some face time to boot. This whole media circus is outrageous and shameful. So typical of liberals to self-righteously thump their chests in the manner they have while giving black rappers and their utter filth a pass.
90 R.A.M. // Apr 11, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Has anyone yet pointed out the irony, that Pelosi will travel half a world away, to meet with a man who, in all probability, has given arms to our enemy to kill our soldiers to “talk”, yet won’t go across town to talk to GWB about funding our troops, so they don’t get killed?
Her and Reid keep saying we need to talk to our “enemies” untill we are blue in the face, but not the President! Sure makes “Stretch” look like the liar she is when she says, she gave the Syrians a message that we, (her and Bush), were united.
Her cohort, (sorry this traitors name evades me right now), said if Iran wasn’t blocking his trip, they would be on a plane there now!
Yet, they won’t travel a few blocks to the White House! She didn’t have a problem putting on that scarf, did she?
Unbelievable, and disgusting! If these traitors were put on trial, (as they should be), and sentenced to death, I would GLADLY volunteer for the firing squad!
91 Darthmeister // Apr 11, 2007 at 1:40 pm
17 dead in 2 al Qaeda bombings in Algeria
We must redeploy American troops from Algeria since our military presence there is only creating an excuse for Muslims to murder other Muslims … wait, we don’t have any stormtroopers there. Never mind.
92 woodnwheel // Apr 11, 2007 at 1:58 pm
R.A.M.: Re. the first paragraph of your post, see today’s edition of OpinionJournal.com’s Best of the Web column, specifically the very first item, “Enmity Begins at Home.” Re. Pelosi’s cohort’s name: Tom Lantos, another Representative of California, who was born in Hungary and whose bio says he was 16 when the Nazis occupied his country; he fought against them, so as you said, you’d think he’d know better than to fraternize with the enemy.
93 conserve-a-tips // Apr 11, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Darthmeister and MsRightwing Ink ~~ Both eloquently written pieces. I agree with everything that you both say. However, I would like to add a “Devil’s Advocate” thought…the liberals are eating their own. I say, “Let them have him.” They are proving to the country exactly who they are. They scream for freedom of speech and right to protest and then use that freedom to take down anyone who does not serve their purpose. I think that it is pretty obvious that these liberals are quite selective in their outrage.
Secondly, this is capitalism at work. If the people of the United States don’t want to purchase a product because it is on a specific program with which they do not agree, then the company is going to pull their product. Companies do not pull advertisement time if they think that time is going to be beneficial to them. I do not believe that corporations are so altruistic as to throw out the opportunity for advertisement in favor of a personal statement. Obviously, they felt that Imus’s time isn’t beneficial. It’s their money and they can do with it however they choose. In previous decades, programs, both radio and tv, were controlled by what the producers perceived would be acceptable to the audience and the audience dictated that to the producers. Today is no different. It seems to me that this is nothing but consumerism. It is not an issue of free speech, but an issue of what speech is acceptable to the consumer. In other words…♪♪ Money makes the world go ’round, world go ’round, world go ’round.” ♪♪
But I loved your original quote, MsRightwing, Ink and have written it down in my “memorable quotes” book!!
94 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 11, 2007 at 2:50 pm
See, here’s the deal:
It’s okay for a Negro to say it, but it’s not okay for a Caucasian to say it.
Simple.
In fact, it’s okay for a Negro to refer to me as Caucasian or white boy but just let me try to reverse that.
On Fox & Friends this morning, the talking heads were incredulous when Ann Coulter stated that she did not think Imus’ remarks were racist-I had to laugh. They said, “What!?!” She kept a straight face, looked them in the eye and reiterated her comment. She’s cool.
As for Pelosi, Lantos, Reid, et al I think they should resign immediately and/or be incarcerated (if they go to Iran, they should be shot)-their deranged agenda is no different from that of the Islamofascists. No different; they are out to destroy the United States of America.
95 Fred Sinclair // Apr 11, 2007 at 3:41 pm
With about 4″ of snow in my yard right now, I am happy for global warming - without it there might be 2 ft.
Interesting quote I ran across - makes me wonder how it got past the liberals.
“As the liberals themselves said in the last season of West Wing:
“If women didn’t vote no democrat would ever again hold office.”
What ever happened to the requirement that one had to own a certain number of acres of land to be eligible to vote? I recall reading that it was the original intent of the founding fathers but somehow got lost in the shuffle.
Heirborn Ranger
96 conserve-a-tips // Apr 11, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Fred, the liberals in government started taking over the land and the government can’t vote for itself, so they had to let everybody in on the game. “Sufferin’ Suffragette!!”
97 Darthmeister // Apr 11, 2007 at 4:39 pm
I like your Sylvester the cat imitation, c.a.t.!
98 Darthmeister // Apr 11, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Remember when this videoclip of a scumbag calling for the “extermination of white people” was making the rounds about six months ago?
How much liberal outrage did you hear about this nutcase advocating genocide? Just one more example of liberal hypocrisy, an hypocrisy which could be detrimental to their own health down the road! How do you appease that kook?
99 conserve-a-tips // Apr 11, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Darthmeister, I’m just touched that you picked up on it! I have a special place in my heart for ol’ Sylvester, just a little lower then Pepe LePue. But then the Martian and the little Mexican mouse are pretty special too. Arrriiiba.
Anybody remember Precious Pup? MMMmmmmmm
100 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 11, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Wow. The 110th Congress sure has been busy in its much-ballyhooed “First 100 Days“, hasn’t it?
101 Darthmeister // Apr 11, 2007 at 7:37 pm
“You make me so aaannggrry earth creature!”
Marvin the Martian is one of my favorite characters. Yosemite Sam is another.
102 Fred Sinclair // Apr 11, 2007 at 7:40 pm
I’m just overjoyed that Nancy is giving us a good open look of just what the most honest, graft free, perfect, scandal free, law abiding Congress in American History looks like!
Let me see how good my memory can be….oh, yes there was the day when all media outlets rejoiced at the arrest of Representative William Jefferson and all of the media fanfare that covered his trial, conviction and imprisonment.
- ah yes that was almost as good as the day Harry Reid was forcibly ejected from the Senate floor and was taken into custody by Capitol Police. - his subsequent trial, conviction and prison sentence was covered in such remarkable detail by the mainstream media! WoW! What a week to remember.
Of course the icing on he cake had to go to Nancy herself as she had formal charges brought against Sen. Mrs. Bill Clinton for, what was it 14 or was it 15 capital crimes and along with the arrest of her husband, former President Bill Clinton, I think Billy is serving time in the Federal prison in Marion, Illinois while Mrs. Bill Clinton is serving her sentence at Club Gitmo (along with several other co-conspirtors - also convicted of treason (aka) giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time ofwar).
Then there was the trial of Nancy herself on several charges ranging from tuna fish to the Logan Act.
As I get older - 70 now, you know, my memory isn’t as good as it once was, but I did get all this right……didn’t I? It’s a pleasure now to realize how honest, graft free, perfect, scandal free and law abiding Congress is today.
Heirborn Ranger
103 Darthmeister // Apr 11, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Now that the thought police have caught up with Imus, I wonder when they’ll go after Rosie O’Donnell and her despicable lies and rants?
104 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 11, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Indeed.
105 conserve-a-tips // Apr 11, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Darthmeister ~ And what about the The Tasmanian Devil?
106 Darthmeister // Apr 11, 2007 at 7:52 pm
JL3rd, you just killed two birds with one stone, dude! How cleverly timed your last post was. Sylvester the cat would be proud!
107 conserve-a-tips // Apr 11, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Fred: “Oh the shame of it all!” (sack over head)
Darthmeister: Whenever I decide to really tangle with somebody who thinks that they can pull one over on me, my favorite line is: “He don’t know me vewy wewl, do he?”
108 Fred Sinclair // Apr 11, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Of course there’s always a fly in the ointment and now Rush is saddened since everything is going so smoothly there’s very little grist for his mill left.
With so many Dem’s in prison the Rep’s now have total control of both houses in Congress and with the Dem’s in total disgrace it doesn’t matter who the Rep’s run in ‘08 they have an automatic landslide !! Wheeee!!! Various anchors are having a field day. The consensus is that it will take the Dem’s 4 - 6 decades to work their way out of the hole they’re in.
Heirborn Ranger
Ain’t it Great? (selective memory, that is)
109 Darthmeister // Apr 11, 2007 at 7:57 pm
He slobbered too much, c.a.t.
Be sure and take the which cartoon character are you quiz.
110 Fred Sinclair // Apr 11, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Too long to post but if you’ll enter on the Dogpile line you’ll get “PBS dropped ‘Islam vs. Islamists’ on political grounds” - it’s pretty fun.
Heirborn Ranger
111 Fred Sinclair // Apr 11, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Darthmeister - I took the test - said I was Bugs Bunny
Fred Sinclair, Heirborn Ranger
112 Hawkeye // Apr 11, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Darth #109,
I’m Tweety Pie!
(:D) Regards…
113 conserve-a-tips // Apr 11, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Well, Darthmeister ~ will wonders never cease? Speaking of Tweety Bird here is what I got:
You are Tweety.
You are cute, and everyone loves you. You are a best friend that
no one takes the chance of losing. You never hurt feelings and
seldom have your own feelings hurt. Life is a breeze. You are
witty, and calm most of the time. Just keep clear of back stabbers,
and you are worry-free.
I like that description!!
114 conserve-a-tips // Apr 11, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Oh, and Fred…did you do LSD in the 60’s? I’ve heard of people having flashbacks…:-)
115 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 11, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Eh, whats up Doc (sounds of raw carrots being consumed)
Well, guess if I am a loped eared rabbit, then I’ll have to live with it.
116 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 11, 2007 at 8:30 pm
I’m Mr. Peabody.
117 conserve-a-tips // Apr 11, 2007 at 8:42 pm
James, that doesn’t surprise me one bit!
118 Hawkeye // Apr 11, 2007 at 9:21 pm
C-A-T #113,
Congratulations! We must be a lot alike… Oh, sorry about that. Maybe you’d prefer to a lot like somebody else?
I don’t blame you.
Regards…
119 Hawkeye // Apr 11, 2007 at 9:24 pm
JL3,
Crank up the “wayback” machine… Whoopee!
120 Hawkeye // Apr 11, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Ms. RW,
Sounds “hare-raising” to me.
(:D) Regards…
121 Darthmeister // Apr 11, 2007 at 10:13 pm
I came up, Tweetie, too.
I went through various scenarios at the site and was able to generate a Bugs Bunny answer, Tweety, and a Pepe Le Pew.
When I gave responses that I probably would have given when I was a teenager, I ended up a Bugs Bunny. Fred, you must be a carefree party animal!
122 Fred Sinclair // Apr 11, 2007 at 10:25 pm
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123 Darthmeister // Apr 11, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Now that Imus has been kicked off MSNBC, lefty bloggers and the liberal media are starting to float the lie that he’s a racist conservative despite the fact he voted for John Kerry in 2004 and has villified the Bush Administration with the same lefty rhetoric from time to time.
The guy is probably one of those confused “moderates” who leans a little left but is an equal opportunity mudslinger for the ratings and the cash it puts in his backpocket.
124 RedPepper // Apr 11, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Darthmeister #123: Musta bin the latest attack by a moral exemplar of the “black community” that did the “I-Man” in.
I refer, of course, to Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. ; his fans know him as Snoop Dogg (or Snoop Doggy Dogg, earlier in his career). Since his remarks are unprintable on a family-friendly blog like Scrappleface, let me state that, among other criticisms, Mr. Broadus seems to think it important that Don Imus was on Network TV (!), unlike the humble rappers (like himself) who actually made the term “ho” an insult known to all.
Then again, IMHO, that cuts both ways. I kinda doubt that Imus
hashad many fans “in tha hood”. Unlike Snoop Doggy Dogg, whose efforts blare from a thousand boom-boxes on every urban street. So who would be more likely to do injury to the young ladies on the basketball team (or other young black women) by his use of this term? Who would they actually hear? Snoop Dogg, or some 66-year-old crack-addled cracker in a cowboy hat?You be the judge …
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126 Harry Daschle // Apr 12, 2007 at 11:55 am
woodenwheel, Thanks for the info!
JL3, re#94. I was amazed when Geraldo, (about a week or two ago), was on O’Reilly crying about racial slurs to Hispanic’s.
He said something like, “They call us the “s” word, —-it rhymes with “Mick”!”
I couldn’t believe O’Reilly let him slide on that because as a person who is half Irish, I would have asked him, why it is NOT OK for him to “speak” a Hispanic racial slur, but he feels it OK to “speak” an Irish one?
The simple answer is Rivera is a racist.
127 Harry Daschle // Apr 12, 2007 at 12:01 pm
woodenwheel, In case you don’t know, I am RAM, but Harry on this computer.
One of these days, I’m going to have to straighten that out!
I heard a good joke about a month ago.
There was this moron, and he goes before Congress, and he says, “The planet has a FEEE-VER!”
128 Radical Muslim :: Blogging Code of Conduct :: April :: 2007 // Apr 14, 2007 at 9:43 am
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