OBAMA'S TROUBLING INTERNET FUND RAISING

great the former and the wanna be writers are trying to bring the press back to life. give me a break. how about all them images posted in the political satire thread?
you guys are a joke.

when have I attacked anyone????

Seems to Mr. Hankey that the moderators are a little tuchy about anyone who dare question their actions.

Yhis is the kind of stuff everyone knew would happen.
Wyatt knew it , rebublikin knew it , VOR knew it and Mr. Hankey knew it.
so go ahead cut out our freedom. play your cards. you guys are the ones standing there holding the deck.

JD calling someone a joke is now way a attack. telling them that you are going to their home and wack them with a toothpick is.
when this moderation came about it was about threats and volgarity.
if now the poweres that be have decided that calling someone a joke is now an attack and not premited then see ya!

because this form is and always has been nothing more then a joke.

Hank,What troubles me as a moderator is your propensity for copying other peoples' words without noting who wrote them or what source you used. Certainly 'a blog from an old friend' is insufficient.In your topic 'I can't believe it's not earned' you did the same thing. There a picture tells the reader nothing as to the source of the words.Please reference your words if they are not your own,Thankyou.

-pappy

So.......PAPPY,
What bothers you as a Moderator......
We can take this statement as either one or both of the following.

1. It would not touble you if you didn't have your new shinny little badge willed to you by the now passed one Cocklebur.

2. Now that you have this shinny new badge, you are using it to threaten posters on this blog. By saying to MR. Hankey, "What troubles me as a moderator" implies that you have the almighty power to levy punishment.

Well......arn't you guys just soooo richous.

And....JD, you can include yourself in this as well.
It looks to me that you had edited one of you last posts long after the 15min limit that the rest of us have. Another high and mighty privilage?

When ever possible, you should site sources. But sometimes you get emails that have some interesting tidbits that you would like to share. So you post them for others to read. Am I to post the email address of the person I got it from? I think not. You richous idiot moderators need to get a life.

OH wait, you had one and now you are retired and don't have anything to do past 10:30 when McD's switches to lunch so you can't sit there and read the paper for free and drink free coffee on their dime.

I have no idea where McCain's "big money" is coming from, but it ain't coming from unions.

Hey, Citizen1, you wouldn't happen to have a website that clears the air over a few things that have been reported, such as the following:

1. John McCain is too old to be President of the United States. I went to the AARP site - you know, that's the group that lobbies for retirees - and THEY noted that turning 65 doesn't automatically render anybody incapable of handling complex tasks. In fact, one of their newsletters a year or two ago noted that many major corporations love to  hire retirees because of the lifetime of experience and wisdom they bring to the job, as opposed to wannabe bosses in, say, their mid-40s who THINK they know everything but in reality have a lot still to learn.

2. Is there an "intelligence test" or "IQ test" that a candidate for President of Vice President needs to pass in order to be eligible? We keep hearing that Sarah Palin is too "stupid" to be Vice President, but I can't find either any proof that she's lacking in intelligence or anything in the U.S. Constitution that establishes any standards for intelligence and politics other than a few voting rights bits that outlaw such test as requirements for voting in an election.

3. Was Barack Obama a "community organizer" for a group called ACORN or was he not? Up until recently, he proudly claimed he was. In recent weeks, he's kinda hedged that. What's the true story?

4. Is the story I posted above from "Newsweek" accurate, or is it not? I went to snopes.com and found nothing there to refute it. Haven't checked your sites yet, but my guess is there might be some sort of spin there that'll shed light on it.

5. Do you have to be an American citizen in order to vote? I thought that was the law, but apparently it's not. Do you have to live in the district in which you're voting? Do you have to be ALIVE, over the age of 18, or some creature other than a Walt Disney character to be eligible to vote? Can you vote more than once in the same election, or is it okay to register, say, 73 times and vote more than once?

PAPPY, as far as our moderation, partisan B.S. is just part of the annoying game, although I agree with you wholeheartedly that if we cut and paste somebody else's work we should give them credit for it - and, as you say, " ... something from my friend's e-mail" isn't enough to identify the source. And if somebody cuts and pastes something that off-base or just wrong, he or she probably shouldn't get too upset when another members points it out.

Ain't free speech grand? [image]

-jdtippett

Jd: What "concerns me" as a non-moderator is that you keep asking all these
reasonbable questions. Doesn't that give "Pappy The Moderator" fits ? Surely Pappy can't answer your questions, therefore, he must deem your questions "concerning."

Hankey, there was absolutely nothing "personal" about what PAPPY said or what I said, and the request made of you was the same as the one made to another forum member recently: If you're going to cut and paste extensive work by somebody else, please attribute it to a source. Helps us avoid that stupid Millennium Copyright law somebody else (YouTube) was griping about earlier this week.

For your information, the other poster who was warned about that was an Obama supporter. You're a McCain supporter. We're equal opportunity here when it comes to allowing you to steal somebody else's work and post it without giving credit. You know, I usually agree with your side politically (although sometimes I think you do more to hurt the conservative argument than to help it), and PAPPY agrees with the other side, so anybody who thinks this is about trying to silence one "side" of the debate just isn't paying attention.

Also, no one is playing English professor with you. If that had anything to do with anything, you already wouldn't be here.

As for the possible death of this forum, you may feel free to stay around as long as you like to see that if you believe that's what is going to happen. If, on the other hand, you intend to be one of the CAUSES of its posible demise, you probably won't be here to see it. We will defend moderation, whether you like it or not, and it has nothing to do with anybody being "power hungry."

-jdtippett

Arn't we the "high and mighty." Really odd how power affects the blog police.
I've stayed away, biut ion a brief revisit, I see nothing worth anything.

Pappy:

Please source your "implication" and meaning ? I prefer that "free speech" rule the blog - not some 'ole kook like you and your merry band of sensors.

 
Hankey, it is obvious to me that you will never accept the concept of moderation,

-jdtippett

Maybe, Hankey, but the joke's liable to be on you if you continue to disparage moderation of this forum and the moderators of this forum. There is no "sin bin" for second offenders,

-jdtippett

Shall I repeat that slowly for you, or did you understand it?

-jdtippett

Republican: "Please source your "implication" and meaning ? I prefer that "free speech" rule the blog - not some 'ole kook like you and your merry band of sensors"

Were I not a lady, it would totally be worth it to let this whole moderator thing go and tell you exactly what I think, exactly what is in my head right now. Luckily, I don't need any external moderation, so I'll just sit over here and self censor.

Hate this moderation thing all you like, and disagree with his politics all you like but do not call my friend, Pappy an "ole kook." He is a good, kind man who is just as passionate about his beliefs are we all are.