Saturday open thread

Post to your heart’s content in this thread about whatever issues you’d like to

I’m getting ready to head out to enjoy some of this gorgeous weather we’re having here today – we’ve had rain on and off the whole week and finally on Saturday it’s nice. Thank goodness!

FYI, I’m getting bombarded with spam and as a result I’ve noticed more legit comments are getting stuck in moderation so some of your comments may not be showing up immediately. I’m sorry about that – this weekend I plan on exploring options to cut down on the spam. The spam programs I’ve used in the past weren’t what I was looking for. Hopefully I’ll find something this weekend that will meet the needs I have to control spam and trolls.

Enjoy your day

27 Responses to "Saturday open thread"

Jim says:

May 20, 2006 at 9:50 am

What better way to spend a lazy Saturday than adding your blog to the Blogiversary Database.

You know I meant now, didn’t you.

Seriously, go!

Then you can enjoy your day.
Mwalimu Daudi says:

May 20, 2006 at 1:34 pm

Here is an interesting post about the Left’s growing taste for sexual violence and degredation against women, particularly Asian women.

Welcome to William Jefferson Clinton’s America.
Big Bang Hunter says:

May 20, 2006 at 2:00 pm

– Notice that Ana Marie is now listed as “Emeritus”, which translates to:

“I was never really the one writing this garbage from day one, so now its official”.

– The hard core left are undoubtedly the most vicious, hateful, intolerant, racist scumbags on the face of the earth, eclipsed only by their beloved Jihadists.

– They’re such a parody of themselves its hard to imagine how you could frolic and laugh and whoop it up, while posting such fowl mouthed hate speech.

– A testimony to how badly Malkins words burn their werewolf foreheads, and how much the light of her truth destroys their smear campaigns, and exposes their mouth frothing bigotry against anyone that speaks out against their hatefest. I aggree with her. they’re just plain bastards.

– Bang
forest hunter says:

May 20, 2006 at 2:14 pm

Mwalimu, what a full blown foul mouthed jerk hosting that site!
Big Bang Hunter says:

May 20, 2006 at 2:50 pm

– The Democrats should condemn this sort of thing, and completely disassociate the party from people that do these things. But they are silent, which tells you all you’ll ever need to know about whats become of them. I frankly cannot understand why any decent person would want theit name associated with a party that has misfits within its ranks that think this is intelligent, or funny, or politically wise, and condones it. If I were a Democrat, seeing this foul-mouthed insanity go year after year, I would simply walk away.

– Bang
Lorica says:

May 20, 2006 at 2:54 pm

Not just has these people in their ranks Bang, but panders to them – Lorica
Severian says:

May 20, 2006 at 4:48 pm

Pander? Heck, is LED by them!
Big Bang Hunter says:

May 20, 2006 at 4:56 pm

– Watching those anti-semitic rally’s at some campus’s its just a mystery to me how any Jew can let him or herself be associated with the Democrats at this point. I simply do not understand it. Being part of a group that openly campaigns against the soveriegn right of your home country to even exist. It makes no sense by any measure.

– Bang
andrew says:

May 20, 2006 at 5:24 pm

“Watching those anti-semitic rally’s at some campus’s its just a mystery to me how any Jew can let him or herself be associated with the Democrats at this point. I simply do not understand it”

Well it seems that identity politics has its place for all of us.
Big Bang Hunter says:

May 20, 2006 at 5:58 pm

– “Identity” politics is another word for “class warfare”. Always helpful when you can polorize people against each other and spread chaos. The Left has raised it to an art form. Something to be really proud of.

– Bang
andrew says:

May 20, 2006 at 6:06 pm

‘”Identity” politics is another word for “class warfare”‘

That is a completely new one. I’d always thought that class considerations were different than other identities such as race or religion.

“Always helpful when you can polorize people against each other and spread chaos.”

Like thinking that jews ought to act the way you think they ought to act. Weird inded.
Big Bang Hunter says:

May 20, 2006 at 6:36 pm

ST – Wading through the daily mass of spam “attachments” is one of the reasons I’m no longer blogging. Wish there was something your readership could to help, but I know the process is outside that purvue. I had a very good anti-spam system, but eventually when the spamers were able to get through the blog engine and attach to each and every link, including side partition blog/news links and everything else, it just got out of hand. at one point I think I was spending 75% of my time removing spam. So I feel your frustration. I’ve heard that theres a blog Engine that provides a thing called an “text recieved window” that let you see anything sent to the php kernal, but I’ve been away so long from blogging I don’t know the details.

– Bang
Big Bang Hunter says:

May 20, 2006 at 7:04 pm

– One question I’d put to the Left, is where they stand on the Iranian Nuclear program issue. Do they support a process that starts with exhausting all possible negotiation approaches, but in the event it should fail, the use of any and all options to preclude Iran having WMD’s?

– Bang
sanity says:

May 20, 2006 at 8:03 pm

You bring up an excellent point Bang on Iran and the nuclear program issue.

I would like to turn it on its head though, and re-ask the the msae question…..

If this was President Bush, and the US saying that we were going to wipe off another country from the map, and President Bush says the ‘program’ he is using for nuclear is for electricity only, and yet enriched uranium (15 to 20 times the amount of enrichment needed for regular electricity and is at the scale for nuclear bomb material) is found, the increase wording of the president that is very threatening, to one specific country and to any that would oppose what he is doing….

What then would the UN and everyone be saying then?

Do you think UN would sit idly by (well duh, were talking about the UN here), I would think they would probably be more vocal about the US than they are on Iran.

Double standards.

What is the difference if both are madmen?

But I can bet you that there would be a big difference in how it would be handled.
Big Bang Hunter says:

May 20, 2006 at 8:50 pm

– I wouldn’t think that would be a comperable scenario sanity….Maybe in the abstract… But as large as America is I doubt anyone would know if we had a program going on…. Iran is small and in a sort of fishbowl….hard to not know when they’re up to something…..even for our Illustrious CIA….

– But theres a reason I asked the question which I’d talk to if any of the Liberals respond…..

– Bang
Pam says:

May 20, 2006 at 9:03 pm

sanity, actually that is part of the arguement that other countries are raising to us. We don’t want other countries to have nukes (for obvious reasons), but we in turn, do have them. To answer your question though..the UN would talk and that is all the UN would do. The UN would find out where our program is because the MSM would let them know!
sanity says:

May 20, 2006 at 9:39 pm

Actually why would other countries NEED nukes now?

It is when insane countries like Iran try and get nukes and threaten to wipe other countries off the map and if anyone tries to stop them or put sanctions on them or refer them to the useless UN, they will be ‘severely hurt’.

At this point in time, I do not think any other country needs ot have nukes, we have existing nukes from before, but as the world slowly becomes more peaceful I can see those finally going away also – as long as the others do also. Little countries with madmen at the helm need not have nukes.
Pam says:

May 20, 2006 at 9:55 pm

Sanity- the nuclear programs don’t always need to lead to weapons..some of these tiny little countries could use them for energy usage and not weaponry but in this day and age, you can’t trust anyone with them. I get mad at this countries laxidasical attitude toward protecting our nuclear power plants but that is another story!
sanity says:

May 20, 2006 at 10:22 pm

Pam I have no problem with a country willing to use it for energy purposes, but wit hthe rhetoric and threats coming out of Iran, plus its ties to terrorim, plus that they have found enriched uranium that far surpasses the needed enrichment for normal energy means and nears or is enriched enough for weapon grade material, plus the fact that Iran has blocked attempts at UN discovery and inspections of the nuclear process and plans they have…It makes for very very very suspicious activity.
Pam says:

May 20, 2006 at 10:36 pm

No Iran can’t be trusted with them I do agree with the Dems asking the POTUS for an NIE on Iran. I only wish the Republicans had thought of it first. I will be more than irked if the Republican leadership doesn’t follow through on this.
andrew says:

May 20, 2006 at 10:42 pm

“Actually why would other countries NEED nukes now?”

To make sure they get treated like North Korea, instead of like Iraq.
Mwalimu Daudi says:

May 20, 2006 at 10:59 pm

There is an election in New Orleans today. Right now the incompetent rich white liberal is leading the incompetent black racist by a small margin.

First Katrina, now these two gentlemen. I wonder how many citizens of New Orleans are wondering if God has it in for the city?
blogagog says:

May 21, 2006 at 1:11 am

Can you believe Nagin won another term? Who in their right mind would vote for him after what he did?
sanity says:

May 21, 2006 at 2:10 am

They get what they deserve I guess.

I wonder, did they vote for him because he was black? I believe he carried a majority of the black voters.

I cannot believe Nagin got re-elected, after abandoning his city, not instituting an evacuation plan, after leaving busses to flood that could have saved many, and after his racists remarks of a chocolate city….

Sometimes I worry about people.
Pam says:

May 21, 2006 at 10:51 am

Now sanity..he did call for people to forget about black, white, yellow and asian… It is one city! (I guess he dumped the chocolate line)
Big Bang Hunter says:

May 21, 2006 at 3:14 pm

– Yes andrew. I’m quite sure a Marxist dictatorship thats basically starved, terrorised, and enslaved its people for 70 years+ is just the sort of government you lefties love. Its also clear how much the Left hopes we’ll fail in Iraq. You’ve made it clear for years that you wish this was France. Thats why you’ll never amount to anything in America.

– Bang
sanity says:

May 21, 2006 at 9:19 pm

Mexico works to keep jobs in Mexico for Mexican citizens.

I posted some on it Here.

Of course Mexico does not want immigrants who want to actually work in Mexico, they want businesses, retirees, ect with money – Link

It is amazing that Mexico has the cajones to criticize America for wanting to enforce our border security, to curb the illegal aliens flowing across our borders. When compared to Mexican Constitution on how they are handling their own immigration, how they handle illegal aliens entering their country and now how they want jobs to be for Mexican Citizens only.

But America is always blamed for being to hard on immigrants, especially illegal ones….

Sorry, it really cheeses me off with the do as I say and not as I do mentality of other countries and even our own damn government.

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