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MeFi post:
Burning Down The House
I just figured since anything goes the past several weeks, we need some balance. We're open-minded, right?
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 9:33 AM on September 29, 2008
MeFi post:
φαινομαι
great title indeed... as one of the few brilliant enough (ok, honest enough) to call bullshit on 'man made' (how sexist!) global warming I'm warmed to see such a cool post on the blue.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 5:13 PM on September 16, 2008
MeFi post:
RIP, DFW
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." ~DFW
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 8:40 PM on September 13, 2008
MeFi post:
Sarah Palin as McCain's running-mate
Rafaelloello: You're not converting any opposing votes, simply blowing smoke up the asses of your committed brethren.
Marisa Stole the Precious Thing: And why are our choices between posting in this thread or trying to get out and talk to people?
Marisa Stole the Precious Thing: 90 comments
Rafaelloello: 7 comments
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 9:29 PM on September 7, 2008
thanks luke. I guess i missed yahoo last week. :)
odd that there are no plans in place for such an occasion...
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 9:56 PM on September 7, 2008
I apologize for recycling the Huckster comment. I was on the net and the show was in the background and it seemed amusing at the time. Obviously all GOP peeps are reptilian Neanderthals who have zero sense of humor and Mike used a throwaway line for the cheap shot and i fell link, sink and hooker.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 10:21 PM on September 7, 2008
Raf...everyone is human with their own, often fervent opinions. I don't think cortex was offensive at all with his observation. I like that the mods participate w/o an alias. But I do appreciate the vigilance on yr part. And I'm not sucking up to anyone.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 10:27 PM on September 7, 2008
I am so totally embarrassed, it's like I'm a woman driver in a Mexican truck stop.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 10:53 PM on September 7, 2008
good lord, ericb. You are an 'OMG things are afoot' theorist aren't you? I also added Raf as a friend. Perhaps we are gay lovers!!!
I find your observation sad and pathetic, and hope you are also openly admonished by a mod in this thread.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 10:59 PM on September 7, 2008
Eric, you are outta line. I was wrong to call you out for posting 200 cut and paste comments earlier, but I never attacked you personally as being fake or cast aspirations on yr character. I think you know better than this silly shit. A bit of research or an email to the mods would have given you insight.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 11:13 PM on September 7, 2008
I don't know why republicans politicians are allowed to get away with bald-faced lies, time and again.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 3:38 PM on September 8, 2008
I guess she did say "no thanks" to the bridge to nowhere.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 5:08 PM on September 8, 2008
I guess she did say "no thanks" to the bridge to nowhere.
The point is, when it was convenient for them, the dems are they ones who said she killed the bridge. That's all, nothing more. Both sides do it and to act shocked and as if it's just a GOP thing is asinine.
I guess that depends on what the meaning of is, is. Bill Clinton.
That that is is. Shakespeare
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 6:19 PM on September 8, 2008
neroli,
since you ask, my vote is a nay. Even if it makes the cut and isn't deleted, it will be filled with much of what's here, which is hearsay, innuendo and personal attacks, and that's just against other members.
A new thread would have 3k comments in a few days, and since nothing will be done to remedy that situation, someone else will have to start yet another thread. N,o I say we stay here, reloading and remarking and go for 10,000.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 7:29 PM on September 8, 2008
‘Leave room for the Holy Ghost.’
not bad advice at all there...
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 9:02 PM on September 8, 2008
PSH, I'm not piling on (that's Blazecock's job afterall) but who is the 'her' in the 'against you and with her', and what did you mean by the comment, if you don't mind the query?
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 10:06 PM on September 8, 2008
lemme tell you Flyodd, it was some crazy shit! Michelle O ran off with Cindy Mc, Biden and John found true love, and we elected Obama and Palin as the new first couple!
Already Sarah is 5 months, but still not showing!
And Todd? well, I've heard he's blowing Ann Colter's mind, among other things.
(cortex, wtf? Quaalude?)
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 10:22 PM on September 8, 2008
Floydd, even.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 10:25 PM on September 8, 2008
The Hottest Rhetorical Device of Campaign '08
Politicians eager to keep up with the latest fad need more than a flag pin this election season; the hottest accessory of the 2008 campaign is the reversible raincoat. That's the nickname speechwriters have given to the rhetorical device in which words are repeated in transposed order, as with Churchill's famous line: "Let us preach what we practice—let us practice what we preach." The fancy Greek name for the trick is... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 11:18 PM on September 8, 2008
yeah, fucked that formatting up. big time. new thread someone?
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 11:21 PM on September 8, 2008
Sliming Palin: False Internet claims and rumors fly about McCain's running mate.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 8:02 AM on September 9, 2008
5 Myths About Those Civic-Minded, Deeply Informed MeFites, erm, I mean Voters...
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 8:15 AM on September 9, 2008
Well Koch should have read Factcheck.org before he went with the innuendo. I'm glad he has settled on a canditate and that it's the one I've supported over a year now. But with his stellar and prescient pick in 04 I'm sure many were breathlessly waiting for his opinion and this will swing the thing once and for all.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 8:34 AM on September 9, 2008
"About a year ago I first saw this wonderful woman speak, I didn't know who it was. And I said who is this woman? And a year later, I said to myself about three or four weeks ago, why isn't she up for the vice presidency?" Robert Duvall endorses McCain w/o slamming Biden!!eleventyomg.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 8:46 AM on September 9, 2008
For those, a few, asking for my views on why I dislike McCain and/or like Palin, I'm not interested in an ugly shout fest. I will urge you to read the following, by atheist, socialist, far-left libs for some insight into my thinking.
Camille Paglia writing in Salon(four pages, I urge to to read it all before you pop off at the mouth with some rehashed argument about something someone might have said about Palin, maybe.):
Conservative... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 7:46 PM on September 9, 2008
Perhaps I shouldn't have added that last graph...some will no doubt take it as a personal affront and miss the point of my post. All I will add is that the statement was not intended for anyone in particular, I had no one in mind. The unwillingness to accept other viewpoints as possibly valid has no party line. Also, if the shoe doesn't fit, don't wear it. Just read the linked articles and respond to them, maybe. Or don't. But don't assume that everyone who likes Palin is a dolt. If you do... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 7:52 PM on September 9, 2008
five fresh fish,
actually other than my OCD and minor bi-polar I actually AM alright now. Especially compared with most of the other 6 billion. And surely compared with the mass of humanity who has 'gone before'.
So I guess I'll speak for myself on that issue. Of course some say I am going to hell, and I can't stop them or please them. So in that sense I suppose you can say whatever you wish.
I agree with Kolinia's statement above.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 8:03 PM on September 9, 2008
fff, I was referring to your prior statement, not the one that numbered 4409. Sorry for that bad timing.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 8:07 PM on September 9, 2008
of course, nasreddin, yes of course.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 8:11 PM on September 9, 2008
I think dawson and maybe someone else (I've lost track of who now) must be using some sort of script that adds number to comments
correct, it's matthewr's greasemonkey MeFi comment numbering script for FF. An excellent addition. I forgot it wasn't default. Sorry for the confusion.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 9:36 PM on September 9, 2008
Rodger that, cortex.
FFF, I don't think I can give you an anwser that will satisfy you, man. If I try, I'll get lumped in with the 'dolts who can't think for themselves, dammit!' like everybody portrayed in Joe Bageant's lively Deer Hunting With Jesus.
Personally, I make less than 20k a year, I have no insurence. My car is 25 years old and I (before it was cool) drive very little anyway. I can eat, well, on 75 bucks a week, and not badly on 20. I have to buy my meds... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 10:17 PM on September 9, 2008
if my previous comment should be deleted, by all means go for it. Perhaps I was to personal. I was just trying to give an honest question to what I assume was an honest question.
or don't delete it and delete this instead, I'm...ambivalent about it :)
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 10:23 PM on September 9, 2008
I'm from North Carolina. So is John Edwards. And Jessie Jackson. And John Coltrane. And a bunch of other people, like Billy Graham. This means...?
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 10:31 PM on September 9, 2008
OK wendell. And best wishes .
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 10:36 PM on September 9, 2008
I'm on the same page pretty much there sykper.
also, FFF and others, I didn't mean to come off as having a Christ complex and being all Theroeau and St. Francis. I guess I was just describing my own approach to living, which I do not recommend for most.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 10:49 PM on September 9, 2008
Theroeau, Theeieau, Therieau, Therieau, Therieaua, Therieaue, Therieaui, Therieauo, Therieau, Thoreau, even. Damn this unwieldy thread.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 10:53 PM on September 9, 2008
Daddy-O, I was responding to another poster, I guess I missed yr question, which is a good one. I'll answer and mail you later this evening. I've had a few gin and tonics and don't want to attempt it now.
Wow, HaloMan, that is impressive for real, nearly 4500 hundred comments between yr two.
delmoi, I think you misunderstood me and if you think I meant why you say you think I meant, I understand yr anger. However, my statement was not meant to be anti-American or lutz.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 12:41 AM on September 10, 2008
and in honor of the 'lipstick kerfuffle', a golden oldie...Barack flips Hilliary off, or was it an itc ...huh?
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 1:05 AM on September 10, 2008
some of us warned, earlier in this thread to not be petty. now folks are (rightly) upset about a few 'dirty' bits re Obama, but you'd have to be on drugs to deny that dirty, filthy mud-slinging is what most of this thread has been about. Not Obama, he rebuked it in certain terms and plead for it to stop. but no, people had to just keep digging and being all, well...
a "...hallucinatory hurricane in the leftist blogosphere, which unleashed a grotesquely lurid series of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 8:54 AM on September 10, 2008
Citation?
not using preview sucks for me. And 5 minute load times.
Yes, it's Paglia, as I noted before. Salon, the publishing arm of the John Birch Society run by Karl Rove.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 9:19 AM on September 10, 2008
And we have entered the Twilight Zone at long last...
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 7:14 PM on September 10, 2008
'I am a liberal, but I'm blown away by Sarah Palin'
My liberal friends were outraged when rumours about Barack Obama attending a Madrassa or being a Muslim surfaced on the internet, but all week they have been gleefully trading emails of Sarah Palin distortions.
There was the doctored picture of her carrying a rifle, wearing a stars-and-stripes bikini while a man in the background drank Schlitz beer. Or dopey quotes about God, creationism and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 8:52 AM on September 11, 2008
Keep this up, guys, and major backlash is sure to follow. Sarah Palin may be no Hillary Clinton, but if she faces the same sort of sexism that Hillary did, she may yet capture many of her supporters. ~Susan Estrich
posted to MetaFilter by dawson
at 9:50 AM on September 11, 2008
