Open Thread Friday

I must beat this dead horse….I keep reading the pundits saying that the cop should have "known better" or done this or that in the Gates kerfuffle. Quite simply put, the man did his job and Gates was a total imbecile. He should have been arrested and The One should have not commented. It's hard enough being a cop, and tyou don't need the POTUS calling you stupid. Gates needs to apologize and so does Obama.

Love Tracy/Hepburn. Liked Desk Set.

RCP is one of my 6 must read sites every day

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07...

Is this the one you are talking about?

I remember seeing this years ago. Very funny!

anybody who doesn't get Obama by now must really be a "true believer."

I asked myself the same thing, why didn’t his neighbors know who he was?

Heck.. is there anyone in the press corps now that ISN'T a plant? (Or at least has an IQ higher than a houseplant? *da-da-dum*.)

Open thread:

Talking to a friend of mine who's utterly depressed about the state of the world, and admits to having given up any hope for the future. I asked him why and he said that he's been banned from two online forums in the same day for attempting to talk about things that matter, rather than how many inches he has (if you know what I mean) or what his favorite color is or whether he mourned the death of Michael Jackson.

Everybody only wants to know Whats anymore, not Whys. If you starting bringing Whys into it, not only do people not want to talk to you, they don't want you to talk to them. As he puts it, "they're like the proles in 1984, only worse. The media and the government are both lying to their faces, and the only thing these horny, apathetic sheep want to talk about is penis size — which I'm sure Big Brother is happy about.

"They don't even know why they obsess over these things, and they've never thought about it. Nobody is willing to ask himself a question that isn't utterly shallow. Sometimes they don't even want to know why you like your favorite color… just give us a color we can recognize, then shut the hell up and pass the mike.

"F__k the future. We don't have one. This next generation is going to be the downfall of not only Western Civilization, but the entire human race."

Good news, though over on Drudge. "You Know Who's" approval just dipped below 50%.

Not where it really matters.

Open thread:

Talking to a friend of mine who's utterly depressed about the state of the world, and admits to having given up hope for the future. I asked him why and he said that he's been banned from two online forums in one day for attempting to talk about things that matter, rather than how many inches he has (if you know what I mean) or what his favorite color is or whether he mourned the death of Michael Jackson.

Everybody only wants to know Whats anymore, not Whys. If you starting bringing Whys into it, not only do people not want to talk to you, they don't want you to talk to them. As he puts it, "they're like the proles in 1984, only worse. The media and the government are both lying to their faces, and the only thing these sex-crazed, apathetic sheep want to talk about is their d__ks — which I'm sure Big Brother is happy about.

"They don't even know why they obsess over these things, and they've never thought about it. Nobody is willing to ask himself a question that isn't utterly shallow. Sometimes they don't even want to know why you like your favorite color… just give us a color we can recognize, then yield the floor to the next person.

"I don't think we have a future. My God, I thought the Boomers were bad, but this generation is going to be the downfall of not only Western Civilization, but the entire human race."

If you comment too much, the Admin. Nazi gets you.

One of my most pity never appeared from yesterday, Jake. I savor just guessing what yours was…ha-ha

I like Spencer Tracy, and I like Katharine Hepburn. There's nothing wrong with the acting or script, but this movie has just never clicked for me, except for the scene with Spencer Tracy and the licorice gun.

I dunno.. the more the stories are coming out, it sounds like ALL of the neighbors are doing that, Tread… (there was a quicky story on HotAir saying that.).

Buck-buck-buck-BARACK!

I agree. Jimmy's in a class by himself.

And at least Slick Willie was entertaining. I can't remember exactly what he said, but Dole zinged him good in one of '96 debates, and Clinton responded by biting his lip, fighting back fake tears, and saying, "…a partisan attack has never fed a starving child." He had me on the floor.

I'm trying to be very fair in judging O against Carter. He's not there yet, but when the "fertilizer" (and it's already all over the place) hits the ventilation system, Carter will drop into 2nd place on the list of all-time worst presidents.

Is that what it is? If you post too many comments??

Calm down Jake, All of us have had the misfortune of having a comment or two misplaced.

They are true believers. I simply can't understand how anyone can look at the long, bloody history of statism, and think "Ya' know, this will work if we just have the right person ruling all our lives."

When my teenage daughter was young, she absolutely adored Disney movies. We'd watch them over and over and over. And when the happy couple road off into the sun set, with every one in the kingdom living happily ever after, and the credits started rolling, I was make a point to always ask her "Sure, every one is happy now, but what happens when their grandson is king and he's a total idiot, complete meanie? How happy will every one be then?"

They already can do that. Technically, when a cop stops you while driving, in your home during an investigation of a possible break-in, or even on the street, HE IS ARRESTING YOU. He doesn't have to say you are under arrest. If you fail to cooperate, he has the rule of law behind him to formally arrest you.

And if you read the report, the cop was trying to extricate himself from the Gates' home and lead it outside so that he could leave. Gates should have been happy at that point, but………..he kept up the "attitude" and the comments. He was warned repeatedly to stop the "disorderly conduct". Gates didn't. He got arrested.

a little reason is needed here…

It occurs to us that the site admin people have a responsibility to keep the site clean, not mean, and to keep the threads as linear as possible. We all have had brilliant moments go into moderation, and in retrospect it was usually for those reasons.

This is not a chat room, it is a debate site- and it is THEIR property and responsibility. So, cut 'em a huss and chill a bit.

But don't stop posting…

You know, I agree with you. I used to think it was just a technical glitch, but there does seem to be a correlation. It may even be some kind of program logic that kicks in when there a lot of people trying to post at the same time. In order to keep somebody from monoplolizing, they "kick you" to the back of the que for awhile.

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Open thread:

Talking to a friend of mine who's utterly depressed about the state of the world, and admits to having given up any hope for the future. I asked him why and he said that he's been banned from two online forums in the same day for attempting to talk about things that matter, rather than how many inches he has (if you know what I mean) or what his favorite color is or whether he mourned the death of Michael Jackson.

Everybody only wants to know Whats anymore, not Whys. If you starting bringing Whys into it, not only do people not want to talk to you, they don't want you to talk to them. As he puts it, "they're like the proles in 1984, only worse. The media and the government are both lying to their faces, and the only thing these horny, apathetic sheep want to talk about is penis size — which I'm sure Big Brother is happy about.

"They don't even know why they obsess over these things, and they've never thought about it. Nobody is willing to ask himself a question that isn't utterly shallow. Sometimes they don't even want to know why you like your favorite color… just give us a color we can recognize, then shut the hell up and pass the mike.

"F__k the future. We don't have one. This next generation is going to be the downfall of not only Western Civilization, but the entire human race."

Believe me, I understand. And I just love watching some asswipe getting what they deserve. But this is America. We have the right to be asswipes.

He was arrested on his property. There's a pic floating around of him on his porch in hand cuffs.

Let me put it this way. The left is trying desperately to come up with a way to silence Rush Limbaugh. If they do, it'll be enough for me to go dig up my tri-corner hat and grab my pitchfork. (I don't have a flintlock, and don't like guns much). They want to shut him up because they don't agree with what he says.

As detestable as Gates is, freedom of speech is freedom of speech. The left deplores free speech. On the right we defend it. Which means, even if we don't agree with it.

That being said, now that the situation is over, feel free to let the free speech against that asswipe commence.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

With "Date" comment sorting, main comment #8 had blocked words "banned" and "penis" while #9 had only "banned." Where are the other ones you had problems with?

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The List of Blocked Words Found So Far

Examples posted are using a single letter in italics to bypass automatic filtering.

Any part of the word in another word causes rejection.

anal – blocks analogy, banal, IANAL etc
banned
bitch
boy – blocks boyish etc
breitbart
cross – blocks across etc
dick
fag – blocks faggot etc
jew – blocks jewelry etc
math
penis
terry – blocks the name Terry (Gilliam!)
vagina

And that misspelling of that African country where you use two "gees" instead of one.

Please mention any others you have found. Thank you.

Excuse me Sir I'm here to investigate a possible burglary and to protect your life and property.

You F*%$%%^, Bas*&%^%, I' your White, &$)* As&&#57 and I'ii take %#$@%^& police *^$$^ back man ^$%#$^&*. an your F@#$@%7 Mother.

Are you OK Sir are you on any medication?

None of your FNNN White $##$& nBusiness You Rat Bas$#@&*, Honky Scu&^@g Haravrd FnnnDumb A$#%&&*% Dickww^%#, White devil.

Could you please just step out here on the porch so we can discuss this.

%#$$%6 Don't you know who the %$@^* I Am You White %#$#&*ing Redneck^$#$@#^&. I know the $^$# Black Mayor you ^$%#@^ Racist Bast45##%. Harvard Fuc%#$# Poice Chief %76 Dirtb$## White Mothr F 4%^%$&.
Sir; would you please put your hands behind your back.

He was likely likkered up.

Not to minimize Obama's repugnant racialist attitudes, but I think the prize of the most racist president is still safely in Woodrow Wilson's corner. The man segregated the federal government when he was elected!

But what about the artwork L.B.? Aren't you happy with the poster which is classic old school?

One of my favorite Judy Holliday films is a little know gem called 'Full of Life' with Richard Conte. Ever seen it?

FOX: Congressional Committee Accuses ACORN of Massive Fraud, Racketeering
'Glenn Beck yesterday unveiled a new congressional report accusing the far-left activist group ACORN of massive fraud, money laundering, and racketeering directed from the highest levels of ACORN management"
http://newsrealblog.com/2009/07/24/fox-congressio...
Move along folks
Nothing to see here
/spit

I'm always referring friends to RCP. The best writing of those on the right and the left. Best of the Blogs is always good to check out, too. I've discovered some sites there I probably wouldn't have found otherwise.

Almost like he was channeling Jeremiah Wright……

LOVE Adam's Rib. Hepburn so unconsciously gives away the inherent arrogance of feminist positions only to have it turned back on her at the end. It can be a very frustrating movie if you don't already know the ending – still can't get anyone to watch it with me But I love this one.

It is not the browser, it is the POS Intense Debate system which has stupid automatic filtering and looses track of comment and threads. If you ever get "must be approved," or "in moderation" if you tried to Edit a comment, the filter grabbed it. Delete the comment while that message is still there (it will "disappear" if your refresh) and find the word the filter does not like.

Yeah he doesn't break, he just breaks economies….

I never had that problem, yet. But the stupid automatic filtering catches words within words, some rather common ones, so at some point people will naturally use a perfectly valid word and get blocked. You cannot talk about analyzing something you came across. there are two blocked words right there. Jake just used "banned" in three posts and had three that had to be approved.

Yup, it is frustrating and stupid.

Yeah yeah, neither did Capone…

Great movie.. one of those oldies that I have seen…..

I have to honestly say this flap over the cop's have my blood boiling.. srsly… what type of fool prefeaces something saying he DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED and say they acted STUPIDLY….. what a jackass, honestly…

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534687,00.htm...

I cannot wait until the audio tapes come out and we see that the cop's where acting rationally and the professor was the one out of his mind!!!!

Perfect rant on what the MESSAIH has stepped in some POOOOOO….. I think that by tomorrow he will apologize to the police officers and say he had made a rash decision to say they acted stupidly….

I agree with noise ordinances too. I've spoken with my local police about the asshole kids next door. He says, no matter what the law says, it basically comes down to the office on the scene what constitutes disorderly conduct or too much noise.

But that's an extremely subjective standard. The police in the next town over went so far as to buy noise meters to take the subjectivness out of it.

But to me the bottom line is still, do I believe in my rights to my property. And if so, I must believe in other people's rights to their own property.

Once he showed proper ID, proving it was his residence, the office should have said "thank you, have a nice evening" and left. He was a cranky old, over the hill liberal, with a chip on his shoulder. Let his neighbors worry about it.

If a law abiding American citizen can not be secure in their own property, then we are already a police state.

Again, let me emphasize, in no way am I defending Gates. Not at all. Sounds like a total a-hole. But property rights are still property rights.

Yeah and then it makes me laugh at myself!!!!

PS. especially when I also re-read old post above and misspelled "pithy"–maybe they could moderate all my posts that are not executed properly!

Since you brought it up…I posted this link yesterday, to an interview Sgt. Crowley did on WEEI/Boston. Well worth the listen. After reading the police report and hearing the interview, I'm in support of Sgt. Crowley.

http://audio.weei.com/m/25432556/sgt-james-crowle...

Skip Gates is a black man with a chip on his shoulder. He's the problem. You're correct, it's Gates who needs to apologize to the officer. As for the president, his Biden-like response to the issue has now moved the story to a national level. This same president who took 5 days to comment on thousands of students who took to the streets in Iran, in the name of liberty and freedom because he didn't want to take a side. Yet, on this issue he has no problem with making a comment on behalf of his pal Skip. That's leadership for you.

Here's my opinion. A police officer is a public official and a public servant. In that position, the burden rests on the officer. An officer is armed. They have a badge. They can arrest people, charge them, and offer them up for prosecution. There is a great responsibility that comes with that authority.

At first, I agreed with the majority of opinions here, throw the racist bum in jail. But I've been reading a few opinion pieces over at Taranto's Best Of The Web at WSJ.com.

http://online.wsj.com/article/best_of_the_web_tod...

And he's convinced me otherwise. I'm not saying Gates is right. I'm not saying he doesn't deserve to spend a few nights in the lock up. What I'm saying is, the greater responsibility rests on the public authority, not on the private individual.

That being said, Taranto also has some great digs at Gates, all well deserved.

For example, now that the initial situation is over, Gates, as university professor and public figure, he now bares the majority of responsibility over the officer, who is not operating in his official capacity, and Gates is flubbing it terribly.

That is strange. Can you post from home on a different computer? After purging cache and cookies, even trying a different browser, there should offhand be no way they could identify a specific computer, unless it is some "X-Files" type stuff like perhaps M$ Windoze having some "unique identifier" they can lock into. Likewise a Dell has a "service tag" number that a Windoze app can dig up, etc. But really, once you swap hard drives or change an OS like to Linux, there should be no way to identify a specific computer. And speaking of privacy issues…

Let me take a guess here. You have high-speed at home? On dial-up they normally have dynamic IP address allocation, they give you a number from the pool for the session. With high-speed they have static addresses, one was assigned you. If you have high speed and cannot post from a different computer, the address is blocked. If you have a 56K modem, use the "as needed" dial-up number and can post, the address is blocked. So, ask your provider for a different address.

Hello Jimmy-
Poster art in this case – it's OK, but it is even nicer b/c ugly people are not scowling at me.
Kind of has the look of a rural depiction New Yorker cover from the 40s or 50s.

Jimmy, what a gem of a read…..I have said it countless times before, he WAS a radical and has never LOST HIS SPOTS!!!!! it is pathetic that this man is the president of the MOST powerful country in the world…. it s just pathetic!!!

What about 'Full of Life'? Have you seen it?