I think she owes you big time now.

Nonetheless, I’d love to be able to click “hide” on the comments of certain individuals who provide zero additional content (think about the way facebook works).

The subscription thing is a good idea. I get time, I’ll set it up with my paypal account.

My “left” return arrow doesn’t work on your site. Only your site. Why is that? I have to use “home” every time.

I’ll agree that it’s sad to look a the comments of a post hoping for thoughtful discussion and good point/counter point arguments and instead seeing those folks blathering away contributing nothing thoughtful at all. That being said can’t we just ignore them instead of feeding/banning them? That is my $.02.

Proof was wrong once when he claimed that conservatives aren’t collectivists

Refresh my memory, I don’t remember saying that. Can you give us a link, or at least the context in which I supposedly said it. Then we’ll discuss whether I was wrong or not.

Ah, yes! I remember. It was a year ago March…you said that John McCain sounded like a Stalinist. I said:

The “greater cause” is not collectivist at all, at least not in the Stalinist sense! Too much protein deprivation has rotted your brain, AV! Have a cheeseburger!

http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/conservatives_love_war/

BTW, I stand by my earlier statement: Not in the Stalinist sense.

“[A]nd I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

WTF are you complaining about. You’re all on welfare or doing do-nothing
jobs at the government anyway?

As long as it doesn’t go to the “Rob Port Pabst and Whiskey fund” .

I’m not making any promises.

Well, Obama supports take-overs of the private sector. I’m not sure that makes him explicitly socialist, but he certainly trends that way.

And ACORN is systemically corrupt. From the top down.

But I do think Obama is a citizen.

What frightens me is that you’re so blinded by rank partisanship that you can’t even admit that ACORN is fraudulent.

Meaning your comments here are more for my amusement than anything else. But your contributions to my amusement are appreciated!

Thanks Randy, I really appreciate it.

We leftists volunteer our time to correct many of the conservative lies on this site, we’re fact-checkers and we’re working free of charge.

Without us you’d all descend into rightie conspiracy theories like: Obama is a socialist, Obama was not born in America, ACORN is systemically corrupt, blah, blah, blah…

(Except that conservatives are immune to evidence making our efforts ultimately pointless?)

While the stoic view that it is entirely in ourselves is purely true, it is not reality with regard to emotion. The more the lefties show up and act like boneheads, the more they troll, the more they state blatant lies as facts and do so specifically picking subjects that they know will get under the skin, the harder ignoring them gets.

It only works in theory. This is one of the reasons most forums eventually install scripts themselves to let people ignore and start actively kicking trolls. This blog is not a simple blog where the blogger principal makes good posts and thoroughly covers everything. It’s a forum where the principal posts something provocative and the followers then engage in a back and forth and flesh out points, hopefully.

Dino SHOULD HAVE been banned when he joked about ejaculating in a young boy’s mouth. Or before that when he said cops deserve to be shot. This is not public property where people are operating under the first amendment, this is a private site. Rob’s discretion and not a constitutional aspect is what keeps Dino here or anyone else. That calls into question Rob’s judgment by anyone new who sees Dino’s asinine posts and the incongruency between them and the theme of the site.

NOT a good way of building readership. It’s like knowing full well that your product has a serious first-blush drawback and keeping it for no good reason and fighting uphill against it despite knowing you could save yourself the pain by getting rid of the unnecessary impediment.

NO, I am not a world-class blogger, nor have I attempted to be. I use my blog to sound off. Rob is actually trying to build something. Anyone who has been on the Internet for any length of time and has more than a few brain cells can see what the existing top shelf blogs have done to get there. Tolerating an out and out troll like Dino is NOT one of those things. It should not have to get to the point where people are willing to pay you to get the trolls out. Buzz should not have been running loose all that time. Sparkie’s constant non-sequitur posts that have the classic signs of drunkenness, RBB’s pathological obsession with inserting gop into everything and shitting up the reader blogs for NO reason other than he loads the sidebar with HIS name and HIS annoying post titles… That’s not an attraction for anything other than distracting anger.

Done, and thanks for providing the forum Rob! As for most of the previous comments, although I lean toward agreeing with them I’ll reserve my judgment. Let’s see if any of the mentioned characters, and a few others are willing to pony up to help out or if they’re just sponging.

When were you wrong?

I am one of those who got on board just before the tea parties, you folks do a hell of a job, so I just made a donation, and will so again. Keep up the good work Rob and co.

Mickey, what web browser are you running? Firefox seems to work ok under Vista for me. But I mostly use Firefox within Ubuntu, a free (as in freedom) operating system.

Randy-G, Proof was wrong once when he claimed that conservatives aren’t collectivists. If you’re willing to die for: Gods, countries, constitutions, free-markets, or any other collectivist ideologies, then you’re a collectivist.

You see, such a sacrifice is forfeiting your own life to benefit the ideology. An individualist would not do this.