It has come to this. We are facing a 50 vote deficit with ten days left in the battle for the blogoshere. It is time to pull out the video that most captures the moment (as supplied by Mespo). You are not the first to face an overwhelming army with many assuming certain defeat.
Do you want the orcs to win? Do you want Frodo Baggins stuffed and used as a plaything for Uruk-hai children? Who among us will return to the safety of our virtual homes rather than hold the line?
We need 50 bloggers to step forward and join us at the Black Gate of the ABA competition.
L-katz n’ Jill,
I will post on the LS site once I see some other comments posted therein regarding this issue.
Ms. EM’, Dazza has a good sense of humor, although if you access his site, be forewarned that he uses the trashiest vulgarisms throughout that curl the very devil’s toenails.
Jill, No, I wasn’t advocating a trackback of FFLEO to TLS, I was wondering who tracked back the TLS posting to the Turley blog.
See, The original ‘He’s calling us nazies’ posting was posted on the 16th on XOX and out of context it looks (or could be made to look if enough indignation was brought to bear) like a disparagement. If you’ve been HERE all the while (or following closely via a feed) the context is just more silliness.
But the date stamp for it’s posting on TLS is 3:39PM today, that’s after I posted the XOX posting here at 3:31pm. Why didn’t he just post it on his site on the 16th, and do an update today, why wait until someone else found it tucked away elsewhere and put it up on his ‘rivals’ blog? There’s a time difference there that makes me go ‘hmmmmmm’.
If I actually believed a fraud was being propagated against me, what I was alleging was correct and worthy of outrage, my posting about it would have pride of place on my blog on the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th.
Unless of course when he updates a posting he tidies up, goes back and erases the earlier version(s).
Unless of course it’s all a manufactured controversy.
That time difference is bugging me.
tim, (as in T.T.)
Your brain is obviously too *tiny* to understand the value of distraction, especially among deep thinkers such as Professor Turley.
I would love to see a photograph of you and read your curriculum vitae, that is, if you have a CV.
If you have a CV past high school level, then I think that you are in a sad state of personal affairs.
tim–
I’ll promise to grow up–if you promise to get yourself a sense of humor.
Nal–
Whom you correcting?
“So, humor chaps his ass.”
Then I’d recommend he try not to expose it to the elements…of wit, puns, satire, jolly old good-natured fun, etc., often found swirling through the atmosphere at the Turley blog. Maybe Santa will take pity on Marco and put some Aloe vera in his stocking on Christmas Eve.
P.S. Methinks Marco may not have a “humerus” bone in his body
When grown men and women use nazi and lord of the rings metaphors, throw out charges of ‘fraud’, and create entire blog posts over how to gain a measly vote or two on a meaningless online ABA vote – my opinion of all of them diminishes greatly.
Grow up.
I have some chicken bones, several green candles, five Peruvian crystals and mummy powder to deflect bad karma, should someone need to do so 🙂
Yes FFLEO,
Please do trackback and post the math to Marc. I understand math sooths chapped asses!
Nal and L.K.,
good ones!
Nal: “Whom…”
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More precious than rubies.
FFLEO, did you Trackback to TLS posting?
Call For Votes in the ABA 100 (who you calling a “nazi”?) SB:
Call For Votes in the ABA 100 (whom you calling a “nazi”?)
🙂
… either way, it sorta chaps my ass.
So, humor chaps his ass.
Threaten kittens = Nazi. QED
Good one FFLEO.
P.S. My comment is awaiting moderation. It will be interesting to see if it gets in and he changes his post due to learning new information.
I wrote in to our math challenged friend, Mr. Ethics, at L.S.,
Hello Marc and other readers of this blog.
Regarding the above title, one of the things you should know about Jonathan Turley’s blog is that it’s possible to correct mistakes. I wrote Mr. Turley that I did not understand this title and perhaps others wouldn’t either. He wrote back to me: ” It was a reference to the animal house video…I will change it.” That title was changed right away. Your post above does not address the change in title. That seems unethical to me. I hope you will update your blog post with the additional, corrected information. Thank you, Jill
229 v 186 Yesterday’s vote Sat.
234 v 189 Today’s vote Sun
5 v 3 I would’ve allowed LS to do the math but he caint.
Law Saty linked to Mary’ post above and he is claiming *voter fraud*. Mary jokingly states voting for herself, her mom, her brother, her cat, and her dog.
Hey Dazza don’t they teach basic math at U.of Mass, U. of Florida, or at Georgetown U. Law?
Mary’s joke would have resulted in *5* votes, Einstein, not the 3 that were posted for Turley since noon yesterday, Saturday.
So, Please quit hollering vote fraud.
This posting at AutoAdmit “The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.” as it bills itself:
“Date: December 16th, 2009 8:47 PM
Author: Randazza
Subject: Requesting XOXers help
I would like to request your votes in the ABA 100. The Legal Satyricon has been nominated for recognition, but it seems that my chief opponent is playing the “nazi card,” and I’m a wee bit pissed off about it, and I would like to enlist your help in burying him.
Take a look at the URL for his latest “get out the vote” post.
http://jonathanturley.org/2009/12/13/fight-the-nazis-with-voting-proxies/
Yah, I guess that would make me and my co-writers “the nazis” and you know what “voting proxies” are. I am not sure if he’s saying that we are “nazis with voting proxies” or if he’s calling for the use of “voting proxies” to defeat us “nazis”… either way, it chaps my ass.
I would like to request your help in burying him in an avalanche of terrible terrible karma for playing that card.
I humbly request your vote, if you believe that the Legal Satyricon should prevail. (Hell, if you think that someone else should, then vote for them).
1) Register here: LINK REMOVED BECAUSE THREE LINKS HAVE SEND A POSTING TO MODERATION HELL.
2) Vote here: LINK REMOVED BECAUSE THREE LINKS HAVE SEND A POSTING TO MODERATION HELL. (For The Legal Satyricon, naturally)
“fight the nazis” my ass. ”
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I’m tempted to say his ass needs to divest itself of that massive stick but that probably is too dismissive of the dynamic at work. I commented some time ago that the Professors blawg had as a major part of its charm the feel of a home-made, old fashioned bulletin board with a lot of regular posters and an abundance of humor.
There are more postings by the Professor with humorous flourishes than without. Due to that fact a comedic thread can be taken up by several people over a substantial period of time and work itself into successive similar story lines. The Professor often starts it in his synopsis/description of a story. There is an a delightful abundance of silliness here along with a wealth of knowledge.
I think of this blawg as a hybrid, not quite a humor blawg and not quite a serious blawg, more like a salon with a good liquor cabinet and enthusiastic host. That’s a problem if you’re in a competition with folks at the waaay serious end of the spectrum. They just don’t have a clue and they get worked up about an ‘address’ that is immediately recognizable as verging on the burlesque to anyone that’s spent time here.
It’s disturbing that it would be viewed in a vacuum and used as an indictment but what can you do? I am not convinced that taking this competition so seriously that the Professor should hire a press secretary to screen every posting or link-title that he writes would be a particularly healthy attitude. Or for any blawg-meister to bring to the table. Srsly, if you can’t be silly on your own darn blawg why bother putting in the work to keep it up?
On the other hand, what appears to be a manipulative, out of context use of a link/title for campaign purposes is pretty uncool. Can an otherwise smart guy that got through law school and is known for his Gonzo style of irreverent postings be that dense ’cause that’s kind of singularity-type dense IMO.
I really don’t know what to make of Randazza’s posting but I’m thinking that he just isn’t having nearly as much fun with this whole ABA thing as he should be.
This posting at AutoAdmit “The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.” as it bills itself:
“Date: December 16th, 2009 8:47 PM
Author: Randazza
Subject: Requesting XOXers help
I would like to request your votes in the ABA 100. The Legal Satyricon has been nominated for recognition, but it seems that my chief opponent is playing the “nazi card,” and I’m a wee bit pissed off about it, and I would like to enlist your help in burying him.
Take a look at the URL for his latest “get out the vote” post.
http://jonathanturley.org/2009/12/13/fight-the-nazis-with-voting-proxies/
Yah, I guess that would make me and my co-writers “the nazis” and you know what “voting proxies” are. I am not sure if he’s saying that we are “nazis with voting proxies” or if he’s calling for the use of “voting proxies” to defeat us “nazis”… either way, it chaps my ass.
I would like to request your help in burying him in an avalanche of terrible terrible karma for playing that card.
I humbly request your vote, if you believe that the Legal Satyricon should prevail. (Hell, if you think that someone else should, then vote for them).
1) Register here: http://www.abajournal.com/register
2) Vote here: http://www.abajournal.com/blawg100/2009/imho (For The Legal Satyricon, naturally)
“fight the nazis” my ass. ”
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I’m tempted to say his ass needs to divest itself of that massive stick but that probably is too dismissive of the dynamic at work. I commented some time ago that the Professors blawg had as a major part of its charm the feel of a home-made, old fashioned bulletin board with a lot of regular posters and an abundance of humor.
There are more postings by the Professor with humorous flourishes than without. Due to that fact a comedic thread can be taken up by several people over a substantial period of time and work itself into successive similar story lines. The Professor often starts it in his synopsis/description of a story. There is an a delightful abundance of silliness here along with a wealth of knowledge.
I think of this blawg as a hybrid, not quite a humor blawg and not quite a serious blawg, more like a salon with a good liquor cabinet and enthusiastic host. That’s a problem if you’re in a competition with folks at the waaay serious end of the spectrum. They just don’t have a clue and they get worked up about an ‘address’ that is immediately recognizable as verging on the burlesque to anyone that’s spent time here.
It’s disturbing that it would be viewed in a vacuum and used as an indictment but what can you do? I am not convinced that taking this competition so seriously that the Professor should hire a press secretary to screen every posting or link-title that he writes would be a particularly healthy attitude. Or for any blawg-meister to bring to the table. Srsly, if you can’t be silly on your own darn blawg why bother putting in the work to keep it up?
On the other hand, what appears to be a manipulative, out of context use of a link/title for campaign purposes is pretty uncool. Can an otherwise smart guy that got through law school and is known for his Gonzo style of irreverent postings be that dense ’cause that’s kind of singularity-type dense IMO.
I really don’t know what to make of Randazza’s posting but I’m thinking that he just isn’t having nearly as much fun with this whole ABA thing as he should be.
FF LEO–
One can be a fat woman and STILL be beautiful…doncha know. Just ask Peter Paul Rubens.
Yellow-green-chartreusy people are the exact human duplicates we bin a growin’ in the greenhouse. Them duplicates are that color when they first emerge from their pods. Once they come in contact with sunlight, their skin changes to the correct color. Sumathem pod people are lady songstresses–sumathem ain’t.
I was just remindin’ you that the fat lady didn’t sing yet–so it aint’ over…jess like Jill told ya.
Ms. EM’ sayed
FF LEO–
That’s right it ain’t over–cuz I haven’t heard any corpulent chanteuse exercising her vocal chords yet.
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Can you please quit usin’ words I havta look up within an online dictionary?
Anyhoo, Jill and EM’ what does a fat, ugly yellow-green chartreuse-colored lady songstress have to do with the vote nohow?
Nate,
I do not know how old of a man you are, although I would suggest that humor is critical throughout life.
I spent my dual careers in law enforcement and science, both of which require high levels of seriousness. However, I learned too late—about 6 decades past due—how important humor is to confronting inequities and injustices in life, as well as maintaining a healthy perspective when life appears all-asunder—as it does in today’s world.
Professor Turley exemplifies how a respected scholar possessing a fine legal mind can still be head-and-shoulders above the majority of others within his station in life through exhibiting wit, humor, and just the right measure of self-deprecation.
Jonathan Turley is a possessor of legions more than just mere, brilliant intelligence and his well-deserved acclaim as a genuine Constitutional lawyer and scholar—unlike others who only profess such appellations.
I am pleased that you find humor in any of my nonstandard ‘nglish witticisms.