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Title: Welcome to TOS4
Source: me
URL Source: http://none
Published: Jan 29, 2005
Author: christine
Post Date: 2005-01-28 10:54:16 by christine
Keywords: Welcome, TOS4
Views: 19789
Comments: 272

Let's get this thing going ;)

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#151. To: crack monkey (#149)

I'm glad to have the software used to promote liberty.

Neil McIver  posted on  2005-01-29   22:48:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#152. To: wbales (#148)

"WELCOME IRAQ VOTERS" -- in block english letters. I wonder if the ballots are in all English?

hell..... Maybe our elections would go more smoothly HERE if we printed them in a different language?

CAPPSMADNESS  posted on  2005-01-30   0:07:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#153. To: Mekons4 (#145)

Of all the monkeys, he is the one I disliked the most

You are very discerning - I could never chose which one I hated the most as there are SO MANY in such a wide assortment of BUSHBOT flavors!

JJ was always a pig - but I think that's just a part of his psychosis. Trace90210 is just a STORMTROOPER (hehehehehe) and Floyd the Barber was about as useful as a case of tapeworms.

But hey, I am being nice, you may feel differently and I apologize if I have under-offended you.

CAPPSMADNESS  posted on  2005-01-30   0:11:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#154. To: rowdee (#128)

I wish I had been here more today - but I slept the day away. went to take a nap at 1pm and just woke up.

Guess I needed it.

good to see you as well Dee!

CAPPSMADNESS  posted on  2005-01-30   0:13:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#155. To: robin (#136)

I know this the 4th time I have posted and it looks a bit like I am playing catch up, and I am....

But HI ROBIN!

It sucks to be alone on a thread.....

;0)

CAPPSMADNESS  posted on  2005-01-30   0:14:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#156. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#155)

You're not alone, we're just talking to you. ;)

FUCK! (This was a test of the profanity filter, we now return you to your regularly scheduled broadcasting)

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-01-30   0:45:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#157. To: All (#156)

Make that we're just NOT talking to you...

shit (that one was for the lack of edit feature.)

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-01-30   0:46:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#158. To: Neil McIver (#151)

I'm glad to have the software used to promote liberty

So am I. I think the people here genuinely care about our country, and are the REAL patriots, not the SUV drivers with SUPPORT OUR TROOPS on their bumper. We can differ about all sorts of things, but I think everyone here loves this country and wants the best for it. And the Bushies are rapidly dismantling everything good we have. I think the country is catching on, but too late. There's a slim possibility of impeachment, but I wouldn't count on it. These people have bought the press, bought the business community, bought every big bucks constituency. The only thing that will drive them out is five million people laying seige to OUR house.

Mekons4  posted on  2005-01-30   2:03:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#159. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#153)

Under-offended! Jesus, that is hilarious. Consider it officially stolen. See, this is why I love this place, we can disagree and be fun. I think if we met at a bar or something sometime we would like each other a lot. We really have to think about a third party that doesn't allow the powermongers to run it, either way. I'm so liberal some people might puke, but I am a deficit hawk and more or less pro-business. In this space, we do not judge people by one view. I am so happy Neil did it again.

Mekons4  posted on  2005-01-30   2:11:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#160. To: Samuel Gray (#157)

Make that we're just NOT talking to you...

okay.... that makes sense then.

Thanks for telling me!

CAPPSMADNESS  posted on  2005-01-30   10:17:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#161. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#160)

You know I was joking, right?

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-01-30   14:26:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#162. To: Mekons4 (#158)

The only thing that will drive them out is five million people laying seige to OUR house.

yep

christine  posted on  2005-01-30   14:28:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#163. To: christine, Neil McIver (#0)

Have a question... Are you guys going to do something with the logo?? It may be small and petty of me.. but it is driving me nuts... It looks so small and off color...

Sorry if I stepped on any toes.. but I had to say something..

Refinersfire  posted on  2005-01-30   22:02:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#164. To: Refinersfire (#163)

Yes there is someone working on it as we 'speak'.. and Neil is going to change the overall look..

Zipporah  posted on  2005-01-30   22:05:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#165. To: Refinersfire (#163)

yes, zipporah and i are planning a new look. this is temporary. no offense taken.

christine  posted on  2005-01-30   22:06:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#166. To: christine, Zipporah (#165)

Thanks for the replies.. And thanks again for the site... It's nice to have a "home".. :-)

Refinersfire  posted on  2005-01-30   22:31:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#167. To: Refinersfire (#166)

Welcome.. thank you..

Zipporah  posted on  2005-01-30   22:36:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#168. To: christine (#165)

Instead of TOS4Truth...why not call it:

Liberty Underground, or

Freedom Post ;^)

Arator  posted on  2005-01-30   22:50:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#169. To: Arator (#168)

We were just going to call it TOS4. I now actually think this would have been best. But oh well. When this place gets too crowded we'll start TOS5 and just call it TOS5 period.

crack monkey  posted on  2005-01-30   23:32:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#170. To: christine, All (#165)

I've made the title length when posting articles a setable parameter, and upped it to 300 for TOS4.

No one tell TLBSHOW.

Neil McIver  posted on  2005-01-30   23:57:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#171. To: christine (#0)

hey, good to see y'all! :)

kiki  posted on  2005-01-31   0:11:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#172. To: kiki (#171)

HEY kiki!! Welcome to 4!

Zipporah  posted on  2005-01-31   0:12:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#173. To: kiki (#171)

hi kiki!

christine  posted on  2005-01-31   0:14:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#174. To: crack monkey, Arator, Zipporah, Neil McIver, Refinersfire (#169)

i was just iming with Arator and he came up with a good one, "Freedom4um"

hahahahaha. i love that. TOS4Truth is going to look better when we redo the logo and revamp the look with color and font change. coming soon.

christine  posted on  2005-01-31   1:20:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#175. To: kiki (#171)

WB, Kiki. (Which was my daughter's nickname when she was a kid...I still call her keeks, but not around her friends. There she is Kathleen, if you please.)

Happy to see the people of good intention returning. Bush sure is a uniter, ain't he? But this might be a good thing. If we can start talking past the talking points and get down to what is important, we have a chance to forge a real democracy. I mean, how weird is it that liberals like me are the deficit hawks? I always have been one, but it was not a hallmark of the Dem party or the liberal mindset. Now it is.

As usual, I will ramble and free associate. This weekend, NPR here in Chicago had a series of specials about the death of Cabrini Green, the largest public housing project in the country. It has been shut down in stages, torn down and replaced with mixed low-rise townhouse villages, where the wealthy pay $350K for a unit, and the poor pay a prorated rent or can buy for a lot less on very favorable terms. So far it is working, and they shut down the last big buildings this weekend.

In 1955, huge public housing sounded like a good idea to liberals. It turned out to be a very bad one. It was better than what was going on then, and the city sold the world on it with an ad campaign that contrasted the ghetto that was there at the time to nice clean public housing. Well, it was better, but not much. Europe was doing the same thing, calling them council estates, at the time. Clockwork Orange was a prediction of what would happen, and it was accurate, but if anything, too optimistic. When the Sex Pistols sneered "just another council tenancy" in No Future, they were referring to the warehousing of the marginalized disguised as compassion.

That's my longwinded way of saying that some liberal ideas look GREAT on paper, and suck in real life. The job of conservatives is, IMO, to say, yeah, that sounds nice, but society can afford JUST SO MUCH. They act as brakes on the bad ideas for change and force a debate. And liberals force bad conditions to change. It's a healthy thing.

The Neocons are a new phenomenon. They're the most deluded, stars in their eyes, hippy-dippy, peacenlove idiots ever. Starshine and Uncle Truckin's dream of having, like, man, a COMMUNITY in the Maine woods where everyone would do, like, what they wanted, sounds more mature and sensible than delivering democracy like Domino's, only with a bunkerbuster bomb.

I was in grad school with some of these nuts. A couple are in the administration now, in lowly positions, but they make good money. They were fairly normal until they got into grad school, at which point they developed delusions of grandeur, suddenly realizing they were great thinkers. They were not, and their professors told them so, but they started taking over classes. It was like an infection. Pretty soon a friend of mine would start calling me naive. These people were marginal liberals, not activist or anything, but traditionally liberal. And suddenly it was like The Night of the Living Dead. Neoconism is a very seductive philosophy; boiled down, it says you can do good by doing bad. These are people who think saving a village by destroying it makes sense.

The thing I noticed most, though, was how they started saying "grow up." They wanted to be taken seriously, they lost all sense of humor, they suddenly had a mission. The same thing happened to a close friend who is now high up in the Moonies. There has to be a cause greater than all of us for them and if we don't sign on, we're frivolous. Remember the buttholes in the Bushie wing saying, "the adults are in charge"?

These are very dangerous people. They cannot think for a second they might be wrong. They never debate. They scream, they deliver ludicrous talking points without a blink, they change language to mean what they want it to mean, they will do anything to win.

Underlying it is a sense of narcissism. They are all very mediocre people. There is not one truly bright person among them. Ever notice how Condi demands to be called Dr. Rice? How Smirk demands to be called Mr. President? Condi is a mediocrity and Smirk is less than that. Anyone who hangs out at a university long enough and sucks up to the neocon PoliSci profs (yes, that was my major) can get a doctorate. The one guy they had who was truly intelligent was Paul O'Neill. He was spacy, but bright. And look what happened to him. Christie Whitman, despite my dislike of her, was pretty bright too, but she is long gone and her new book is going to kick their ass.

What's surprising is that even the mediocrities, like Ridge and Lindsey and Veneman, have all been thrown overboard too. This gang needs TOTAL loyalty and they were losing it among their functionaries, so they got a whole new crew who had not been around to see them make sausage.

My prediction is, it will not work, they will implode and people like Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch are going to get together and say, OK, we don't agree, but we, unlike them, have the best interests of the country in mind. Let's work it out, get someone in office and start working together more.

I have no idea how to get out of Iraq, but we have to. I have no idea how to cure the health system, but we have to. I have no idea how to repair our image worldwide, but we have to. I have no idea how we can repair this economy, but we have to.

So I am happy to have this site, and we have to make sure that scum like Badeye are banned instantly when they turn discussion into partisan flame war.

Mekons4  posted on  2005-01-31   1:29:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#176. To: Mekons4 (#175)

I mean, how weird is it that liberals like me are the deficit hawks?

lol - i'm a longtime liberal too - i think most of the people here know that. how funny, maybe w really is a uniter, except i don't think the intention was to unite people against him. i've never been a supporter of big government. i do believe in helping people, but helping them get on their feet, not carrying them forever. you know, teaching a man to fish, that sort of thing.

i like it here cause i feel like if i hang out somewhere like du, i'm not gonna get any fresh perspective. i like finding things in common with people who haven't shared my ideology for years and years.

i agree with you about all the things we absolutely have to do, but have no idea how to do. the first step is identifying the problem, right? second step is shedding the labels and realizing we're all in this together. if liberals and true conservatives can find common goals, we may just make the people currently in power irrelevant. and that would be cool.

kiki  posted on  2005-01-31   2:15:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#177. To: kiki (#176)

Yeah, I didn't mean to imply you were a conservative. I was just riffing on how nice it is to see good people come back. We CAN solve this mess, but we have to totally discredit these creeps. There is no way we can say, well, they had a point. They did not. The reason we got attacked was not that they envied what we have, as the Bushies like to say, but because they hate us for supporting Israel, subverting the Saudis and supporting their fascist regime, and basically telling them they are savages. I have friends who are Palestinian and Lebanese. They were so gung ho at the beginning of the war, because they really thought we would bring democracy to Iraq. Yeah, right. That is not our intent and no one sane believes it. Our intent it is to stabilize the oil market, which is not evil in and of itself. But to kill 100,000 people, most of the civilians?

That is not what real Americans do.

Oh, and DU drives me nuts too. I use their LBN page because it has some good stuff, but I avoid most of the other content. If you admit you like a steak once in a while, you will get called a mass murderer. Both sides have bad actors, but no one at DU is as bad as the average person at FRetard City.

Happy to see you here, Kiki.

Mekons4  posted on  2005-01-31   2:38:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#178. To: christine (#0)

Thanks for the invite. It's late but I'll be back. 8^)

PnbC  posted on  2005-01-31   2:52:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#179. To: crack monkey (#169)

Thank you for the invitation, I feel so privilidged!! Oh, I fucked that up didn't I? LOL

Thanks, this should be fun!!

Aric2000  posted on  2005-01-31   3:02:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#180. To: christine, Neil McIver, Flintlock (#0)

So this is where everyone who really matters is hanging out! Hey guys! Nice place ya got here! &;-D

2Trievers  posted on  2005-01-31   6:08:30 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#181. To: 2Trievers (#180)

Well, I'll be damned! Property values just went up here AGAIN! Welcome, 2T.

Haven't seen you since my days at TOS(wherever) when I was living in Arlen, Texas...

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-01-31   7:12:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#182. To: Mekons4 (#175)

OK, I have a site support idea. We need the digital equivalent of a "swear jar" except it'll be used for "that name." Every time someone speaks it, it costs them a buck.

That guy is so universally despised and ridiculed that this place will be MAKING money in no time.

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-01-31   7:15:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#183. To: Samuel Gray (#182)

That guy is so universally despised and ridiculed that this place will be MAKING money in no time.

Are you talking about the Cocktail Weenie?

crack monkey  posted on  2005-01-31   7:19:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#184. To: crack monkey (#183)

That'd be him. Vague reference costs 50 cents. ;)

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-01-31   7:32:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#185. To: Samuel Gray (#181)

Thank you SamG .. so nice to see familiar handles. Guess when you're on the net as long as us "olde dogs", we are bound to run into each other again. That is, iffin' we live that long! &;-)

2Trievers  posted on  2005-01-31   7:53:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#186. To: christine, crack monkey, Arator, Zipporah, Neil McIver (#174)

"Freedom4um"

That is good.

robin  posted on  2005-01-31   8:40:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#187. To: 2Trievers (#180)

So this is where everyone who really matters is hanging out! Hey guys! Nice place ya got here! &;-D

I love the photo.

robin  posted on  2005-01-31   8:41:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#188. To: kiki (#171)

Morning Kiki, welcome.

robin  posted on  2005-01-31   8:41:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#189. To: Neil McIver (#170)

I've made the title length when posting articles a setable parameter, and upped it to 300 for TOS4.

No one tell TLBSHOW.

LOL!!

robin  posted on  2005-01-31   8:43:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#190. To: 2Trievers (#180)

If available, I'd like the fourth one from the left just because.

Cagey  posted on  2005-01-31   9:07:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#191. To: Cagey (#190)

WOW! My partner in crime! Hello Cagey! &;-)

2Trievers  posted on  2005-01-31   9:14:32 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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