Please convey to Abby my apologies for stereotyping her breed. I have done it several times now on the boards and can see that my use of them (the pitbulls) as stage-prop sterotypes in my writing is wrong. No more.

DW

It sounds beautiful. My family has a nice place in the mountains, but its a 2-day trip. The place is on a mountain ridge at 9,000 feet overlooking a valley with a range of 13,000 footers on the other side. No hunting dogs. Never had any in fact. But I do remember walking through the corn-stubble fields of the family farm in Illinois with my father when I was young (and Adlai Stevenson and Everett Dirksen and othe distinguished Illinoisians were still around) toting my little 410 and hunting ducks.

Retired business folks as neighbors? You DO have good karma. Wish you would come over to the light side and join us liberals.

Woof We Can!

Well I apologize for the Pitbull part of my charming domestic vignette…substitute “shelties” if you like…but it just lacks dramatic punch!

Niblet’s name keep varying because he is posting off some public computer that doesn’t store cookies and he doesn’t remember the old spelling (or doesn’t care) No matter, he is entertaining me and that’s okay because things are pretty bleak right now…

I pretty soon will have to get serious again. Over all, as a participant in this salon, I am happy with the way it is developing and the current contributors are top notch. Even Niblet is beginning to make some points here and there. JT is allowing all voices and that’s great. Object lesson in tolerating speech that is hateful, annoying, obstructive, or simply nonsensical.

Abby, my pit bull, is not amused.

You love it! You are eating this up! You’re getting more attention here than you do at home in your double-wide, with the inlaws yelling, the parakeet screeching, the pitbull growling, and your yahoo neighbors playing their music on loud!

No wonder you hang out at the library tapping away to your invisible friends!

I don’t see how you can complain.. You’re having the time of your life! You ought to be PAYING us for this stuff!

Your bully friend,

DW

NIBLET: You whiney liberals, you all deserve to die!

ADULT: That’s a good one Niblet! Who will protect you from the Terrorists if that happens? Look, if Al-Qaeda really did invade this country, do you think Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, George W Bush, Richard Cheney, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, the House Republican Caucus and all the RNCers would rush to the front lines, rifles in hand to protect you from the turbaned hordes? Not a chance!!!! They would all be boarding private jets flying out to distant countries as fast as they could go. So you better hope liberals stay alive; your conservative “friends” are gonna be of no use if the cards are down. They talk big and tough, but we know what types are like that…Conservative Girly Men!! Little slimey GOP Nancies, draft-dodgers, and sister-boys! Not a man-jack of them worth a 10 year old stick of butter in a real man-fight!

ok, that’s one approach.

In a non-adversarial blog:

NIBLET: You whiney liberals, you all deserve to die!!

ADULT: Why do you think that? That is rather demented! Are you demented, Niblet? Can I help you?

U Decide!

That being said, it’s quite another to do nothing but trash the blog, our kind host, and everyone who doesn’t “think” the way “Niblet” and some other Fox cheerleaders have done the last couple of days and probably longer. As you said, Mespo, JT has a lot more patience than I do with this kind of poster, and I give him a great deal of credit for that.

This is your father-in-law! I can’t believe you cracked on me like that, and with the end of the world just around the corner! I know you’re high on pot you scored from Barney Frank. And to think I’ve had to sell my guns to china to support my family all these years. You no good liberal snake! You’ll won’t just be smoking pot when the world ends. Eternity? That’ll be the smoking section for you!

Pops!

Irrational hatred is always hard to understand and it usually involves some sense of insecurity. We have several articulate conservative posters who do not resort to this type of personal attack, even though a little good natured sarcasm occasionally crosses their keyboards. I can’t plead innocent to that offense myself. What amazes me about neblet is that he is not alone. He probably gives voice to many more hate-filled, resentful people, totally convinced of their unerring dogma, and totally immune to rational discussion. It’s the “fingers in ears and I can’t hear you” approach to contrary ideas and facts. Whether it’s lack of education or some emotional disturbance I cannot say but this type of behavior from a full grown adult (if his posts are to be believed) is distressing. JT is a better man and friend of the First Amendment than me for if it was my blog I would ship this miscreant out with the next keystroke. He adds nothing and detracts from the Board. He’s like a bad graffiti artist, penning his garbage and the disappearing into the fog of anonymity leaving behind only his insipid thoughts.

This is Professor Turley’s site, he gets to set the rules for participation, and despite your continued inability to provide anything remotely approaching constructive participation, he seems okay with letting you keep spamming threads with irrelevant news stories and willfully ignorant invective. That’s his prerogative, and I certainly can put up with dealing with your constant stream of fringe right-wing tripe, but I hope for your sake that this isn’t how you interact with people when you don’t have the veil of anonymity that the internet provides.

I suppose the impending Heat Death of the universe in a few trillion years will be the Democrats fault too!