Weekend open thread

Posted by: ST on August 24, 2007 at 11:28 pm

FYI, lately I’ve had several linkbacks sent my way from, ahem, popular liberal blogs, which has put me in the position of having to liberally (no pun intended) add obnoxious and rude commenters from those sites to my IP#/word blacklist.

If you’re a regular here and your comments aren’t showing up, please email me and let me know so I can look for and correct the problem. When I ban an IP#, I usually will check it against prior comments, to make sure I’m not adding one of those IP#s that anyone can have, but I realize that method may not always be perfect. Not only that, but sometimes I may add a word to the blacklist that is a common spam word, and a partial match of that word can sometimes land a comment in the blacklist black hole, where I will never see it. If you bump up against a situation where your comments repeatedly aren’t showing up, if you can, save a copy of what you tried to post and email that to me as well. I will work hard to get to the bottom of it, as I hate that my attempts at keeping this site free of moonbats and spam sometimes catches regular commenters in the process :(

Apologies for any inconveniences.

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    1. Big Bang Hunter says:

      - You may now return your stewardess to the upright position…. Thank you for flying the Mrs Grace L Furgusen screen door and Airlines company…..(From an Early Bob Newhart routine)… :d

      - BBH -**==

    2. steveegg says:

      Check, 1, 2, check, check.

    3. camojack says:

      Am I a regular? I’m mostly irregular.
      (Unless you’re talkin’ alimentary)
      :d

    4. NC Cop says:

      Poor Jack McClellan. The self-described pedophile just can’t seem to catch a break.

      Jack McClellan leaving California

      Keep an eye out to see where this low life turns up.

      My favorite part:

      “I have to leave the state, really, I can’t live here under this Orwellian protocol,” he told KABC-TV. “It’s nightmarish.”

      Yeah, Jack, it’s really gotta suck when judges tell you stay away from places where little girls are because you brag about how you like to have sex with them. Poor guy.

    5. forest hunter says:

      Bak: Your second link is down.

    6. Baklava says:

      Hey Sister T,

      This is quite the post by Flopping Aces on NSA wiretapping.

      He points out an:

      excellent article written by Phillip Bobbitt, Columbia Law School professor and a former member of the Clinton Administration from 98-99, on the NSA Wiretapping

      Phillip writes:

      “Warrants, which originate in the criminal justice paradigm, provide a useful standard for surveillance designed to prove guilt, not to learn the identity of people who may be planning atrocities.

      For the tommy‘s of the world who act like legal experts, Phillip writes this also:

      there are many instances in which warrantless surveillance has been held to be permissible under the Fourth Amendment. Searches in public schools require neither warrants nor a showing of probable cause. Government offices can be searched for evidence of work-related misconduct without warrants. So can searches conducted at the border, or searches undertaken as a condition of parole. Searches have been upheld in the absence of a warrant where there is no legitimate expectation of privacy. The Clinton administration conducted a warrantless search — lawfully — when it was trying to determine what the spy Aldrich Ames was up to. The day after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt authorized the interception of all communications traffic into and out of the United States.”

      Flopping Aces nails it with this commentary:

      It still amazes me that people who witnesses 9/11, who were aghast at the intelligence mistakes that lead up to 9/11, and who were calling for more and better intelligence years ago are now the very same people who vilify the NSA Wiretapping Program.

      My commentary:
      I, Baklava, think it is just aiding the enemy during a time of war for Democrats in Congress to act like the terrorist surveillance is unlawful and spread that propaganda to the public during a time of war. I’m STUNNED that this article by Phillip was in the New York Times and I’m thinking that it should be referred to for a complete hour by Congressional Republicans each time a Democrat opens his/her mouth with the propaganda. The article is very thorough with past precedence and a review of what the 4th amendment says and means.

    7. Baklava says:

      Every ST visitor I beg of you to watch this pretty darn funny video. You too can be smarter than a journalist about bullets versus cartridges.

      Warning: Mild foul language within.

      Crank up the sound !! And make sure not to split your sides laughing. :d