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Friday, July 25th, 2003There was a lot of bickering, flaming, and other types of comments which I consider unacceptable for this blog and thus I have deleted a bunch, and will continue to monitor my blog and remove any posts that bother me.
No, I don’t mean comments I disagree with. As can be clearly seen, I have not deleted posts by commenters who disagreed with me. Just the ones who post things that go against what I have laid out in my Blog FAQ.
I’m tightening up the noose.
Voting: The Next Victim of Modernization?
Thursday, July 24th, 2003Thanks to the The Drudge Report I discovered this story about cybervoting.
I honestly have to say that I am not for internet voting. I believe that voting should no go that route. There’s too much risk for fraud. Does anyone not believe that the first election where cybervoting is allowed for the masses there won’t be hackers out there trying to tamper with the votes?
There is something to be said about taking time out of your day to go to the polls, or having to submit your absentee ballot by a given deadline.
I’ve voted in both fashions.
Voting should never be made easier or more accessible. It is more important for people to make an effort to go and vote. I strongly believe in this. Just as I would be 100% against making Election Day a holiday. People don’t need a day off to go and vote. It just makes it easier for people who normally wouldn’t vote, who probably don’t know enough about the issue to make a well educated vote.
I know some people are thinking, “This is a Democracy, the more people who vote, the better.”
Yes, to a degree this is true. However, I still feel people need to make the effort to go out an vote, and not have their vote reduced to an activity you can do at home in your bathrobe.
People who can’t take the time, or make the effort to break their otherwise repetitive daily routine to make it to the polls are the ones less likely to vote on their own cognizance.
Internet voting can also be the source of multiple votes by one person who happens to have several complacent friends or family members who wouldn’t care to let their friend have their vote.
There are so many problems with this hat I’m sure I can’t even think of all the possible situations.
I’ll always advocate voting the old fashioned way. Tradition does not have to be the victim of modernization.
Make Room on The Book Shelf!
Thursday, July 24th, 2003When I first started this whole blogging thing, and was getting my blog into the whole “scene” I noticed many people would put their Amazon.com Wishlists on their blogs. Seemed a bit weird to me at first, but after a while, when noticed how commonplace this was, I said “Why not?” What’s the worst that can happen?
I’m not the kind of person who asks for freebies and gifts. I don’t expect many gifts for my birthday or the holidays either. However, I thought, “Hey, perhaps there’s someone out there who may decide that he/she likes my blog so much they want to contribute somehow by means of purchasing a book for me to read.”
One kind soul has done this.
George Turner, a commenter on this site, and a member of the Loyal Citizens has done a very kind deed, and purchase a number of titles for me off my Amazon.com Wish List.
The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism
The Myster of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs In The West and Fails Everywhere Else
Off With Their Heads: Traitors, Crooks and Obstructionists in American Poltics, Media and Business
The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left’s Assaults on Our Culture and Values
How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: (and Found Inner Peace)
The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering Our Past
Because of George’s kindness, I am going to read one of these titles next after finishing Basic Economics. Once I am closer to finishing that book, I’ll post a poll for my readers to decide which book I’ll read next.
I would like to once again thank George for doing this. I know that his kindess has gone around quite a bit to other Loyal Citizens, and I greatly appreciate his getting these books for me.
Charlie Rangel
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2003I couldn’t believe it when I was watching Hannity and Colmes last night. This idiot, congressman, Charlie Rangel, a Democrat from New York, showcased the meaning of “liberal idiot.” This moronic ideologue couldn’t even commend the troops for killing two wastes of flesh and bones.
“We have a law on the books that the United States should not be assassinating anybody,”
We’re at war stupid!
“We tried to assassinate Castro and we paid dearly for it… And when you personalize the war and you say you’re killing someone’s kids, then they, in turn, think they can kill somebody.”
And what does that mean?
“How can you get so much satisfaction that two bums have been killed? We got bums all over the world and some in the United States.”
Okay, I know I don’t have to get into the details of the atrocities that Uday and Qusay Hussein have personally committed. He just belittles the significance of their deaths by calling them bums! They’re not merely bums, they’re the human equivalents of evil monsters. Charlie Rangel, on the other hand is a bum. One stupid worthless liberal bum.
“I personally don’t get any satisfaction that it takes 200,000 troops, 250,000 troops, to knock off two bums.”
He probably doesn’t get any satisfaction by the fact we liberated a country of people who would have otherwise ended up in mass graves if we didn’t step in. He probably doesn’t’ get any satisfaction that Saddam Hussein’s regime has been removed and he can longer pursue is WMD programs. He probably doesn’t get any satisfaction over the fact that many, many, many, lives have been saved because George W. Bush sent our troops over to Iraq.
He couldn’t even congratulate our troops. What an asshole. What a liberal idiot.
Welcome to the list…
Kerry Has No Chance
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2003For my first post regarding the 2004 election, I want to talk about Senatory John Kerry, of my state, Massachusetts. He’s running for President, hoping to get the Democratic nomination.
However, he has not chance of the nomination at this point, the way I see it.
It’s becoming more clear to the public that he flip flops on issues. Most obvious right now is the war in Iraq. It’s his inability to think on his own that will cost him the nomination.
I’ve mentioned this before in a blog entry, so I don’t need to go into this in detail again, however, I would like to give everyone a little fun graphic to remember how two-faced Kerry is.
[size=10]My fellow bloggers are welcome to use this graphic for their own blogs, as long as they credit and link me.[/size]
There Is No Warm Blanket of Anonymity Here
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2003Due to the repeated advice of one of my fellow bloggers, I have come to a decision regarding anonymous commenters on my blog.
Anonymous commenters will be deleted at my discretion - and this is to become more strictly enforced.
So here’s my plan:
If I am able to determine the identity of an anonymous poster, I will expose it by putting his/her e-mail address with their posts.
If an anoynmous poster becomes an annoyance to me, I’ll just being to delete their posts until they decide to stand behind their words and opinions and put their name (or e-mail address) to them.
If someone wants to remain anonymous on my blog they MUST e-mail me personally, tell me the alias they will post under, and a justifiable reason why they do not want to put up their e-mail address, and then, if I deem it okay, they may post comments.
Obviously, I can’t always keep up with what people post and what e-mail addresses they use. I cannot waste a great deal of time determining the legitimacy of one’s e-mail address. So I encourage my loyal commenters to report any suspected false e-mail addresses to me.
Further rules regarding this issue will be posted in the FAQ in the near future.
Don’t like my rules? Go somewhere else. I make no attempt to hide my identity. Therefore, I am 100% accountable for my views and opinions. If these people who post anonymously don’t want to be accountable for their views and opinions, then fuck them!
Putting The “Rat” in Democrat
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2003It’s always a blast to get proof of how Democrats work and discover that it’s what you always expected.
SACRAMENTO — In a meeting they thought was private but was actually broadcast around the Capitol on Monday, 11 Assembly Democrats debated prolonging California’s budget crisis to further their political goals.
Democrats? Prolonging a crisis for their own political goals? Who would have thought?
I’ll tell you who. Me.
I am not the least be surprised about this. This about what’s going on in California. You have Terry McAuliffe trying to save Gray Davis by saying no Democrat will run to replace him should the recall go through… Why? To tell the voters that if they vote to recall, they’re getting a Republican. As if that’s supposed to be a threat.
Republicans noted that many caucus members have charged the GOP with holding the budget process hostage. Yet, those same Democrats are now caught on tape discussing ways to hold things up.
This tells you a great deal, not just about the politics in California, but for the whole country. State government is essentially a microcosm for the federal government – does anyone really believe that the Democrats themselves haven’t been putting our country into deficits? Spending, not tax cuts, causes deficits.
So, here we have Democrats in California wanting to prolong the budget crisis for political purposes, and then you have the Democrats in Congress, not to mention the 9 Democrats in the race for President, and you have George W. Bush in the Oval Office. You also have an embarrassing defeat of liberal ideals in the 2002 election…
Is there a parallel? Is there a connection?
Am I suggesting that not only are the Democrats hoping for the economy to get worse, but may be deliberately inducing it?
I am more than just suggesting it.
Howard Dean
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2003As if saying, “We don’t know that yet,” when asked by Wolf Blitzer if the Iraqi people were much better off without Saddam Hussein wasn’t enough to clue you in on how much of an idiotic ideologue Howard Dean is, his reaction to the deaths of Qusay and Uday Hussein are even more proof that Howard Dean is a Liberal Idiot.
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - Presidential candidate Howard Dean, a staunch opponent of the U.S.-led war against Iraq, shrugged off the deaths of Saddam Hussein’s two sons Tuesday, saying “the ends do not justify the means.” He scolded Democratic rivals for backing the conflict.
The end doesn’t justify the means???
This is Dean’s major shortcoming, which will ultimately cost him the Presidential election, if not the Democratic nomination first. He’s completely blinded by liberal ideology that not only can he not even concede the Iraqi people are better off without Saddam Hussein in power, he can’t even make even the slightest suggestion, that he feels this is a victory for the United States. He knows this only stands to help George W. Bush and boost morale among coalition forces in Iraq. Dean has to downplay this all because of his radical left wing hate-campaign for the Democratic nomination and for the Presidency.
Dean is shifting himself further in the wrong direction on the political spectrum for his campaign.
While Dean (obviously painfully) concedes that `It’s a victory for the Iraqi people,” he does however drivel out “but it doesn’t have any effect on whether we should or shouldn’t have had a war.”
Translation: “Of course the Iraqi people are better off – but we shouldn’t have gone in. We should have let them all suffer.”
That’s what he’s saying. He’s making a half-sincere concession, but nevertheless does what he can to retain his liberal armor.
Welcome to the Liberal Idiots List, Howard Dean. Your entry has been long overdue.
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