Posted on 05/26/2007 1:49:34 PM PDT by Eurotwit
thank you dear!
I never got her.
but she sure got me....I’ll give her that.
And I might add....anyone who depends on "words" written or spoken emanating from liberal politicians or liberal judges...is a fool.
i.e. Judge Blackmun in Roe v. Wade. "emanations from the penumbras of the Constitution".
After that, all their decisions became suspect.
Scalia said: "words have meaning". Unfortunately they are now meaningless when coming from a liberal.
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Agree with you totally.
VERY good point.
Now that they have their own forum, MadIvan's trying his darnedest to keep the anti-freeping off the public threads. Like herding cats.
That is totally sick.
I wasn't aware of it either until a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday I signed up on DarwinCentral to find out why a prominent evolutionist here was banned, Below is the relevant portion if his response followed by his last post.
” Things had been increasingly hostile for science threads, so my "this is not an opus" post was the first I had made there for a few weeks. It was also my last post. It got deleted about an hour before the whole thread was deleted, but then it all got restored the next day. None of that was ever explained; but it seemed as if either JR or a mod regarded my post to be offensive, or maybe embarrassing.Here is PartickHenry’s last post #1031:”After that post I remained registered at FR for a few more months, doing nothing (except answering some freepmail inquiring about my inactivity), and one day it was discovered (by someone searching on my name) that I had been banned. There was no warning, and no activity whatsoever, online or off, that indicated what might be involved. That one "no opus" post was my only interaction with JR in my seven years at that website. My guess is that the banning was solely due to my registration here at DC -- where I never criticized FR or JR”
”Jim: “I haven't been posting since the 11th of this month, after a science news thread got transferred to the Religion forum, and I kinda gave up on science news around here -- at least for a while.I see lots of other former Freeper evolution proponents on Darwin Central. I don’t know their stories but a lot of griping about JimRob’s “purges” on two threads.“When I registered back in '99 it was because this site had been recommended to me by a good friend -- brace yourself! -- Jack Thompson. I looked, I read your mission statement, I liked what I saw. When I discovered that you also had active science threads I was doubly delighted.
“As my homepage said, I've long been concerned by the left's propaganda that conservatives are idiots, while intellectuals belong to them, and I thought that myth should be exploded. I've had a great time helping to keep this website interesting for dozens of scientists, engineers, and university professors. You've had loads of PhDs here, with degrees in physics, chemistry, math, biology, astronomy, etc. Several have said to me that on their liberal campuses they've had no one to talk with, but here they can chat with like-minded conservatives. We loved this place! My science ping lists had just short of 400 names. And -- wouldja believe it? -- most of them are religious people. That's no contradiction.
“Most Christian denominations aren't anti-science, and most scientists aren't anti-religion. We (the people on my ping list) have always tried to walk that line, and to make it clear that our interest in science isn't because of any antagonism to religion. For the most part we've done that rather well -- but you can't please everyone. I don't bash religion, and I've always avoided atheism threads -- I don't start them, don't ping to them.
“However, some folks are hyper-sensitive. If someone says -- correctly -- that Noah's Ark isn't supported by scientific evidence, in my mind that's not Christian-bashing, or Marxism, or devil worship, or an endorsement of homosexuality. But if someone starts complaining that such a scientific view amounts to bashing his religion, well ... he's wrong, and he shouldn't be on the science threads, just as a belligerent atheist doesn't belong in the religion threads. But if he mashes the abuse button and complains to the mods, it requires a mod who understands what's going on.
“Since Dales left, we haven't had a mod who cared enough to follow our threads so that he'd know who was making trouble. It's been a rough year without Dales. Once I even asked the admin mod if there were another mod with whom I could work to smooth out problems, but I got a brush-off. Fair enough. We slogged along, and a lot of science threads ended up in the Backroom that didn't need to go there. Some judicious moderation would have calmed things down, but it just wasn't there. We endured. But then ... my homepage vanished. That was March 6 of this year (or the 5th, I no longer remember).
“The unexplained disappearance of my homepage is literally the reason for the creation of Darwin Central. On March 7 -- the day after the homepage takedown -- we started an emergency site at Yahoo, just like FR has. It was a place where we could find each other in case something crazy happened. I thought I was being zotted. When seemingly senseless things happen (like the homepage takedown) for no apparent reason, people will assume that something's gone wrong, and they will expect more of the same. DC was created as a fall-back site where we could find one another in case a bunch of us got banned -- a fate that was reasonable to expect under the circumstances.
“The non-response to my inquiries to the mods and to John R was troublesome; it was attributed to your distance from day-to-day affairs. It was assumed that you had delegated too much authority to assistants with an anti-science agenda, and that some rogue mod was on a private rampage.
“Seriously, Jim, I had no clue what was happening. I "knew" it wasn't you, because I've had years of happy experience here at FR. I naturally assumed the problem was a rogue mod or maybe computer hacking, and I asked John R to look into it for me. I really wish you had said something to me. But we've never talked. Perhaps it's too late now, but I wanted to lay out my side of all this.
“Anyway, the motive for Darwin Central's creation wasn't anti-FR. It was self-defense. You're the godfather, Jim.
“We're not socialists, nor homos, nor ACLU freaks, nor anti-FR. We'd like nothing more than to have things the way they were, back when Dales was a concerned moderator who understood what was happening in our threads. If that's not to be, okay. It's your website, and we're not your enemies.
“I've always wished you well, and I continue to do so. I'm going to vote straight "R" as I always do. I'll pray for the troops, and you, and for our great country.
“And no, this isn't an opus.”
They’ve been most likely suspended...they’ll be back one day.
They don't have the b@lls to do their anti-FReeping out in the open because they want to have the option of coming back when Roody's candidacy implodes and their site folds up.
Ouch! Don’t tell Jim or I’ll be the next ex-freeper!
Reagan gets a pass on O'Conner and Kennedy from me. O'Conner was the result of pressure to appoint the first female justice and Kennedy got the nod only after the "borking" of Bork and Douglas Ginsburg. If either Bork or Ginsburg had made it through O'Conner would have been irrelevant and Roe would be a bad memory by now.
Howlin is gone, which I just noticed. But, I haven’t been paying much attention to what is going on here. Been busy as it is with real-life stuff.
Perhaps, but Soros would need to buy the votes of a solid majority of Congresspeople and Senators in order to wield any real power through Obama. And if he could do that with Obama in power, he could also do it without Obama in power. At any rate, Soros is getting old and I think he’s on his way down in terms of wielding serious power in any arena.
Good to see you...
Very likely.
kind of a long time freeper, wasn’t she?
i never saw anything hateful come from her...always posted articles IIRC
maybe i’m thinking of another poster...
One day, when enough men have changed enough diapers or enough women have gone through engineering or architecture schools, there will be special "baby sinks" in family houses that feature a molded baby-holder in a safety sink, a reliable water-temperature controller, and a sprayer like the one at the kitchen sink, so you can spray the poopy bottom with tepid water and avoid the wiping and mess. The waste and water will drain into a flushable tank like a garbage disposal without the blades, and there will also be a disinfecting function, a rediapering surface next to the sink, and a dirty diaper receptacle – with consumer choices for trash-compacter style (for disposable dipes) or soaker style (for cloth dipes).
The WA folks want it both ways.
Their spiel on FR and on WA still making snide remarks
about FR.
They continue to post on FR baiting and more snide remarks.
They prove what most WA folks are, they are over at a site where all in stepford lockstep and still not satisfied in kumbaya mode that they were seeking so post back at FR
to argue and bait.
When President Bush leaves office after the ‘08 election
and neither Rudy or Mitt is the candidate the WA folks
will be out there in limbo, except for what will be left,
social conservtives, vs. social Liberals..
Stay tuned, this should be fun to watch.
My comments stand. It's a lot more complex than one man; he has a vast organization which doubtless has an even more radical succession plan, and powerful influence over much of the mainstream media and various far-left orgs. Most importantly, any weakling will be exploited by unelected forces.
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