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Old 05-03-2012, 03:16 PM   #11
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Oh, it's all right. I'm sure that we can handle this situation maturely, just like the responsible adults that we are. Isn't that right, Mr..........Poopy Pants?
Think you have me confused with Real World...who never made it home after driving really fast cuz he hadda poop.
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Old 05-03-2012, 03:29 PM   #12
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Constantly done to me,....
always the victim...
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Seems to be a librul tactic and it's grotesquely idiotic and childish.
so we are clear...

That line is "comedy" correct?
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so we are clear...

That line is "comedy" correct?
Not just that line.

The entire schtick.
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so we are clear...

That line is "comedy" correct?
PR explained it to me one time.....if there's a little next to it, then it's meant to be a joke. If there's not a little next to it - then it isn't.
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Why does the Left Wing Liberal Democrat Media and many in Congress including Harry (weasel) Reid want to do away with Talk Radio and Fox News..................
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Why does the Left Wing Liberal Democrat Media and many in Congress including Harry (weasel) Reid want to do away with Talk Radio and Fox News..................
Well the world would be a better place without Faux news......Talk radio is a joke, new gen won't even be tuning in, Talk Radio will be dead in 10 years.

I just want the facts, I don't care about opinions or what people "think" give me the facts and let me decide.Most if not all news is bias but Fox and talk radio are just out of control.

H.Reid is a low life scum sucking POS. We can agree on that

Fox News is for the stupid people that can't think on their own:http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=3409
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Constantly done to me, they despise what I post that is in the Free Press and because they don't like it instead of talking about the content they attack me and the source that originally reported it.

They HATE Drudge Fox etc for the same reason, they believe that news should be repressed that they and their little world don't agree with.

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhh
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhh

If I was the first person to post about OJ Simpson beheading the mother of his children they wouldn't condem Simpson they would call me a racist for posting it, it's weird, it must of killed them that 9/11 made the news.
shut the @#$% up, you are an idiot.
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On a serious note - in well moderated forums you either stick to the topic at hand or your post gets deleted ... just saying ... back to your regular scheduled programming now.
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Yeah, having done the mod gig for a couple years on AOL, I've made that point. You train mods, you tell them they're supposed to model good behavior, "smile from the wrists down" (yeah cracked me up too,) etc. etc. And above all, you enforced ad hom rules. It's a well-known principle, and one they just don't do here. It falls under the rubric of "the rules are looser on the political forum because you're all a buncha hotheads etc."

Given that I don't have the time to be a mod here, I'm not about to pound away on that solution. When I've brought it up, it seemed like this Utopian solution to the board brass, like it's sooooo hard to decide when someone is going after a person rather than their arguments.

It's incredibly simple. There are gray areas but there are gray areas either way. You can walk a fine line, but you can walk a fine line either way.

It's probably the single most effective rule (no ad hom attacks) for improving the quality of a board like this -- but it's apparently not what we do here.

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