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Title: I surrender...this shall never be a current news and commetary forum
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Brian S
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Published: May 23, 2006
Author: Brian S
Post Date: 2006-05-23 01:02:21 by Brian S
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Views: 4536
Comments: 124
Try as I might over the last weeks, news and commentary is not relevant to this forum. No problem here, every ship has its course/mission Now mind you, this is not an opus as I may post a "earth swallowed by a busty lesbian" article as need warrants. I thank all of you for the consideration and kindness afforded to me at this venue. Take care and tamp the ground before you. See ya around.
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#85. To: Zipporah (#78)
Oops..bad url, sorry http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details? &range=6m&size=large&compare_sites=&y=r&url=freedom4um.com
"We shall have world government whether or not you like it - by conquest or consent." - International financier and CFR member James Warburg Feb. 7, 1950
No problem.. Neil will have to comment on this ..thanks!!
Some breeds of horses do artificial insemination. The thoroughbred industry forbids it. I would venture to guess it has something to do partly with the gambling aspect, but mainly keeping lineage straight. The prices being paid for these marvelous creatures and their usefulness as a stud have dictated that they now are doing dna matches on all of them. Where you have one dipshit stud, there are tons of them that are real gentlemen. GEnerally at the breeding farms, the animal is taken to a specific barn that is only used for breeding. This seemingly ingrains in them that this is the only place such activity is allowed. They certainly don't just turn a stallion in with a mare. It is all veryyyyyyyyyy controlled. A mare could kick and break a stud's leg, or put a real damaging kink in the penile sheath and penis. At the same time, a stud will oftentimes try to bite a mare's neck--and they have various ways of preventing this as they don't want the mare to get hurt either. There is a horse here in the states, Storm Cat, whose stud fee is $500,000. Yes.....half a million dollars. And now that he is getting up there in age pretty much, they may even kick it up higher to reap big rewards the last couple of years.
Who taught them that?
ok..gotcha..we do have bookmarks for articles you want to save. are you aware of that? 'my posts' might be nice too. neil's aware that the 'title search' is broken. he's working on it. thanks!
I think this is a fine forum, more news than I can deal with usually.
Quit bogarting that peace, crackwhore!
I had no idea. Thanks for all the information...one of our favorite authors is Dick Francis, who, as you probably know, writes mystery novels about the horse/racing industry over the pond.
You should try spending days writing your own material & get one or two responses - now THAT's discouraging!
js.....are you meaning a way by which you can keep track of the threads you initiate? Or by the individual posts, regardless of whichever thread it is? The bookmark feature I find good for keeping track of something I want to keep in mind. I don't know if I really want to know how little I add to the forum via initiating a thread....once upon a time I did much, much better. :( or :)
Oh no, Dak.......LOL.
They's breeding all kinds of crazy thing these days, watch this to see what I mean. One of those horrible things things grabbed a child, see frames 71-77. :)
Quit bogarting that peace, crackwhore!
Hah! You know I accidentally did a private reply once but I have never paid attention to the bookmark link. Thanks, I'll give it a try. I usually enter the site on the latest articles page and rarely attemt to take advantage of other features on the site.
"We shall have world government whether or not you like it - by conquest or consent." - International financier and CFR member James Warburg Feb. 7, 1950
and you have a homepage where you can post your picture! :P
I'm not clear on what that is. If you can expand on it I can see about adding. Thanks.
Okay, it sounds like you are referring to a list of comments *from* you instead of a list of comments *to* you. If so you could get such a list by putting your screen name in the "from" field on the Latest Comments page. How close is that to what you mean?
My experience from my LP days is that alexa is about as accurate as a musket. Some days when posting & activity was up, alexa show drops. And vice versa. For ballpark estimates, they're probably fine, but not for more than that. Their graphs really should have big wide fuzzy lines on them.
Brian, I agree with Arator. Stick around, you post things that would take me hours to locate. And that is hours I do not have. Thanks for posting.
"Our constitution relies on our ... freedom to nourish independent and responsible intelligence and preserve our democracy from that submissiveness, timidity and herd-mindedness of the masses... The priceless heritage of our society is the ... right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it. It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error. Robert Jackson, US Supreme Court, 1954
oh, duh! i forgot about doing it that way! :P
Who taught them that? Saw a video of that once - changed my perception of horses forever.
Bookmarks would probably work much better.
I've told you this before, and I'm telling you again. You got a great set of links. You find some of the most interesting things to post. I don't post much on this forum. I kind of go in binges. But I tell you, I read most if not all of your ariticle postings. If I find one I'm interested in, I will read the responses until it turns into chitchat that doesn't have anything to do with the initial post. This forum does get sidetracked from the topic easily. Not much to debate if you see throught the same lense. Thats not a negetive, nor evidence posters here don't want to discuss politics. I think it's just posters have formed bonds and are less inhibited in their discussions. If you really are going elsewere with your gift I'll take this opportunity to thank you for all the things I've learned from your postings. Regards, and I hope you continue in your endeavers.
Brian this appears to be the case everywhere. The other day I noticed there is a lack of real news in general, even on other forums. I went to a lot of MSM news sites also, and they have articles like "Britney almost drops her baby", or articles about the race horse who broke his leg and got his surgery, things like that. Now and then you might see something about an explosion in Iraq where a small number of people die. CNN, ABC, none of them have much in the way of real news anymore. And Drudge likes to put up articles about eccentric old ladies with 80 dogs and cats who are sickly and end up impounded, or he is busy promoting Da Vince Code. Tonight he has an article about Madonna's latest concert. I believe information is becoming more and more restricted in general. Around here there have been some dumb sex threads, part of that IMO is due to the fact that there is just not much news to be found anymore. Even overseas sources don't have much, though there is plenty of propaganda all around. We are living in an information vacuum now.
I couldn't disagree more, it's more like information overload.
God is always good! Yes the proper way to handle this is to gang up and verbally beat the crap out of this poster who has posted some great articles here. Way to go! I guess you didn't notice he didn't say he was quitting... yet even that would not warrent such a reply IMO. Women, (and some of you guys) please keep those claws retracted and try to show some appreciation instead.
of a bunch of meaningless crap.
What is meaningless crap to some is gold to others. With all of the personal blogs on the Internet there are some very good sources of first hand information out there, much more than there ever has been. That's one the reasons that the federal government is so concerned about the Internet and is looking at ways to control it. Yes, there is a lot of crap too, but it's up to the reader to decide what is crap and what is not.
God is always good! Now that's really nice... at this point I don't think the guy will ever post here again, and I don't blame him if he doesn't. His articles are some of the best and most relevant, he shows a lot of guts by what he posts. And to be treated this way, you'd think he cussed you guys out! As you know posters have different styles. There have always been posters who only post articles and rarely comment, it's the way they are, and they have that right. I don't think it's a quality vs quantity issue, should not be a competition issue either.
It's finding the genuine ones, that's the problem. Not heavily promoted blogs like Riverbend which I believe is propaganda, even if it's not on Bush's side. You are right in that there is a lot to weed through, then you have to decide whether it's worthwhile or not. If I think a source is golden, I would not refer to it as meaningless crap. But the meaningless crap does rule.
Yes sex does seem to be the hot topic around here lately, of course I'm the forum prude. I notice those who enjoy the sex threads the most also enjoy ganging up and kicking the downed dog the most, just an observation.
uh, Diana, did you fail to notice the insult to us in Brian's title, "this shall never be a current news and commentary forum?" wouldn't you agree that it's not only an insult, but also erroneous? I certainly wouldn't characterize my and Zipporah's replies as an attack on Brian, but rather our responsive defense to this!
I read it differently than you and Zip did, came away with a different impression. I didn't notice his "this shall never be..". I focused on what I saw as his unhappiness with real news on here, and my thought to that was that there is hardly any real news anywhere anymore to be found. I still don't think he meant to be harsh, he may have been bugged about the lack of real news but as I said that is now everywhere.
I vote that this thread has cleared the air, and therefore should be placed in the cyber-shredder. What say you guys?
What say you guys? I say yes, please...
I guess it's a matter
of perception then because I think we have plenty of real news here. As a
matter of fact, I'm often information overloaded and enjoy the levity and
relief of the fun threads.
What a crock of shit. An insult indeed!
That's no way to talk to a lady. I saw your post as an insult too and also wrong.
God is always good! Well then you are very 'thin skinned' or unable to comprehend written word. Nothing in my original statement could be considered an "insult". Actually I thought I was rather gracious in my commentary.
I thought so too. Some folks are more sensitive and thin skinned to perceived criticism than others with thick elephant skin like you and I possess:0
"You can't say that!" - please, be careful about our feeeeelings.
Pray you will never know, the hell where youth and laughter go - Siegfried Sassoon. Ypres, Autumn 1914.
#86. To: j.sulli (#85)
#87. To: lodwick (#75)
#88. To: rowdee (#87)
Some breeds of horses do artificial insemination.
#89. To: j.sulli, Neil McIver (#82)
#90. To: christine, Brian S (#89)
#91. To: rowdee (#87)
The thoroughbred industry forbids it.
#92. To: Brian S (#0)
#93. To: j.sulli, Christine, Zipporah, Neil McIver (#82)
#94. To: Dakmar (#88)
#95. To: rowdee (#94)
#96. To: christine, rowdee (#89)
we do have bookmarks for articles you want to save
#97. To: j.sulli (#96)
Try jumping in using "Latest Comments" and you'll get it all.
#98. To: j.sulli (#96)
#99. To: j.sulli (#77)
and maybe a "my posts" section.
#100. To: j.sulli (#82)
If there was a way to keep track of personal posts, people might reply just so the article would be saved in 'my posts'. This might stimulate replies as well.
#101. To: Zipporah, j.sulli (#84)
#102. To: Arator, Brian S (#3)
Brian S...just because people don't post responses doesn't mean you aren't having an impact. I read your posted articles often, but am just as often too busy to post. I know it disappoints when you post something important and get little response. I experience the same disappointment often. Nevertheless, having good, relevant, and revealing articles posted in one place is invaluable. So I hope you'll keep up your good work for all those silent lurkers out there.
#103. To: Neil McIver (#100)
#104. To: Dakmar, zipporah, rowdee (#88)
Some breeds of horses do artificial insemination.
#105. To: christine (#103)
#106. To: Brian S (#0)
#107. To: Brian S (#0)
Try as I might over the last weeks, news and commentary is not relevant to this forum.
#108. To: Diana (#107)
We are living in an information vacuum now.
"It was an interesting day." - President Bush, recalling 9/11 [White House, 1/5/02] More and more of our imports come from overseas. - George W. Bush
#109. To: christine, All (#17)
Since you've posted your perception and criticism, let me post mine. My observation is that you post your articles but very seldom answer replies to them. There's no other way to keep a thread going other than conversing and answering those who have commented to your article. Few here have the time, including myself, to read and comment to everything posted but let me assure you, we get a lot of hits to this site.
#110. To: RickyJ (#108)
it's more like information overload.
#111. To: Diana (#110)
of a bunch of meaningless crap.
"It was an interesting day." - President Bush, recalling 9/11 [White House, 1/5/02] More and more of our imports come from overseas. - George W. Bush
#112. To: Zipporah (#38)
Since I replied this morning I went back and looked at LP at the replies you got there.. and 99% of them are flaming you or making fun of you in some manner.. not sure if that is what you miss ..here you certainly dont get that treatment..so not sure what your beef is other than that you arent getting as many replies here.. personally I go for the quality rather than the quantity..
#113. To: RickyJ (#111)
With all of the personal blogs on the Internet there are some very good sources of first hand information out there, much more than there ever has been.
#114. To: lodwick (#39)
since it will probably put me "off" sex for a month
#115. To: Diana, Zipporah (#109)
#116. To: christine (#115)
uh, Diana, did you fail to notice the insult to us in Brian's title, "this shall never be a current news and commentary forum?" wouldn't you agree that it's not only an insult, but also erroneous? I certainly wouldn't characterize my and Zipporah's replies as an attack on Brian, but rather our responsive defense to this!
#117. To: christine. Zipporah. Brian. all (#115)
Things have righted themselves since first posted.
#118. To: lodwick (#117)
I vote that this thread has cleared the air, and therefore should be placed in the cyber-shredder.
#119. To: Diana (#116)
I still don't think he meant to be harsh, he may have been
bugged about the lack of real news
#120. To: christine (#115)
did you fail to notice the insult to us in Brian's title, "this shall never be a current news and commentary forum?" wouldn't you agree that it's not only an insult, but also erroneous?
#121. To: Brian S, Chirstine (#120)
What a crock of shit. An insult indeed!
"It was an interesting day." - President Bush, recalling 9/11 [White House, 1/5/02] More and more of our imports come from overseas. - George W. Bush
#122. To: RickyJ (#121)
I saw your post as an insult too and also wrong
#123. To: Brian S (#122)
#124. To: Brian S (#122)
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