READER COMMENTS ON
"XMas Weekend Open Thread"
(29 Responses so far...)
COMMENT #1 [Permalink]
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phil
said on 12/22/2006 @ 9:17 pm PT...
Seasons Greetings From Sacxtra!
DEMAND National paper ballots and hand counts in 2007.
DEMAND To Restore the Constitution.
http://appealforredress.org/ (Active Duty Folks may be interested in this.)
http://www.unicef.org/ (Help the Tsunami Victims, Yeah I had friends in Phuket)
http://www.nola.com/ (New Orleans news - SO SAD...red cross help maybe...)
I hope this insanity that is the unconstitutional Bush administration ends soon. Keep the pressure on the house and senate!!!
Obviously Support Brad.
Dunno what else to say
Do something nice for someone else...They may need it.
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oldturk
said on 12/23/2006 @ 1:07 am PT...
COMMENT #3 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 12/23/2006 @ 5:25 am PT...
Happy holidays to everyone observing or celebrating them.
Happy blogging to the rest.
:)
COMMENT #4 [Permalink]
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big dan
said on 12/23/2006 @ 6:39 am PT...
Happy Holidays! I say "Happy Holidays" on purpose, because of the "War on Christmas"!
The War on Christmas seems to roll around earlier and earlier every year, doesn't it seem that way???
COMMENT #5 [Permalink]
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big dan
said on 12/23/2006 @ 6:52 am PT...
AGAIN TODAY...on Raw Story...you post a comment...it disappears...and you get "Comment Successfully Posted
Your comment is awaiting moderation "...are they censoring comments at Raw Story? How come no one's talking about this? And I see no explanation for this on Raw Story...
COMMENT #6 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 12/23/2006 @ 11:37 am PT...
Big Dan #5
Hadn't noticed ... Huffpo seemed wimpy to me because every post I did was flagged as "[abusive]" ... then I noticed that they are all flagged that way.
I ask if a "Hi Mom" post would get flagged as "[abusive]", and opined that they had a software bug. My post was "[abusive]"
COMMENT #7 [Permalink]
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GWN
said on 12/23/2006 @ 12:02 pm PT...
I "quit" Christmas this year and it feels wonderful. No stress, no last minute rush for that forgotten gift. Friends don't believe that I could possibly be happy NOT celebrating Christmas, they're insisting I put up something Christmasy, visit, have a holiday drink etc. I feel just fine thanks and will have a drink every night , all year round, instead
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas , Seasons Greetings, Happy New Year and any other name you celebrate under.
I sincerly hope 07 will see things turn around for all you wonderful patriots.
PAPER BALLOTS ONLY
COMMENT #8 [Permalink]
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Brad
said on 12/23/2006 @ 12:44 pm PT...
Big Dan - I don't know what RAW STORY's moderation policy is, but I wouldn't consider moderation to be "censorship", especially right now when there is a massive spam attack going on (comment spam has been a HUGE prob for a long time, and the graphic we use to keep such robo-spammers out here is successful, but only about 85% of the time).
As to HuffPo, I don't believe your posts are all being "tagged as abusive", but rather, there is a link on every post that one may click to alert the Mods over there that a comment is viewed by a reader as "abusive". That gives a heads up to the Mods to check out the post to see if, in fact, it is.
All just FYI.
COMMENT #9 [Permalink]
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GWN
said on 12/23/2006 @ 1:16 pm PT...
COMMENT #10 [Permalink]
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czaragorn
said on 12/23/2006 @ 1:43 pm PT...
GWN - thanks a boodle!!! It's already late in the evening here, but there's always tomorrow...
COMMENT #11 [Permalink]
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JUDGE OF JUDGES
said on 12/23/2006 @ 2:19 pm PT...
COMMENT #12 [Permalink]
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Cheryl Locke
said on 12/23/2006 @ 2:36 pm PT...
The controllers of University of California at Berkeley are planning on cutting down a 38 tree Oak Grove for a $125,000,000 dollar Athletic compound.
The Chancellors contact page is http://cio.chance.berkel...ellor/birgeneau/home.htm
Give the milions of creatures that live in that Oak Grove a holiday present and tell the Chancellor to stop this plan.
Thanks-Cheryl
COMMENT #13 [Permalink]
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Cheryl Locke
said on 12/23/2006 @ 2:55 pm PT...
COMMENT #14 [Permalink]
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Mar
said on 12/23/2006 @ 7:03 pm PT...
I opted out of sending cards this year and am sending this link instead to all my nearest and dearest and that includes all of you wonderful people at Bradblog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km1-qU4aC7w
Here's wishing you all a joyous Christmas and hope the coming year brings you everything your beautiful hearts desire.
Peace....
COMMENT #15 [Permalink]
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Agent 99
said on 12/24/2006 @ 12:14 am PT...
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Larry Bergan
said on 12/24/2006 @ 2:30 am PT...
Mar #14
Right from Barbara Bush's beautiful mind.
I'm going to pull out my favorite video this season. "The Moody Blues at Redrocks". Ahhh, that's better!
COMMENT #17 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 12/24/2006 @ 5:54 am PT...
America is beginning to live up to its rhetoric?
Two Buddhists and one Muslim were elected to congress this year.
And of course the neoCons went rabid about it, and as much as called them all spawn of the devil.
I don't know what holidays either of those keep, but welcome to America. It isn't too far from where the neoCons hypernate.
[abusive]
:)
COMMENT #18 [Permalink]
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big dan
said on 12/24/2006 @ 6:35 am PT...
JOJ #11: I think that's Rep. Virgil Goode's Christmas card he's sending out...
Boss Hogg: "Hey Virgil, fuggeddabout dem Duke boyz, we'z got some Muzzlimz in Congress!!!"
How about the racism and the blending of church/state comments ALWAYS coming from Southern congressmen and Senators? (Macaca, "we need to spread christianity to Iran", etc...)
COMMENT #19 [Permalink]
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big dan
said on 12/24/2006 @ 6:38 am PT...
Although, overall, Virginia DID turn blue, right? They now have 2 Dem Senators and a Dem governor, right? So, Kudo's to THAT! I guess they get a pass for still having some Virgil Goode's, then...sorry Virginia!!!
COMMENT #20 [Permalink]
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big dan
said on 12/24/2006 @ 6:39 am PT...
Hey, I should talk! We had Rick Santorum here in Pa.!!!
COMMENT #21 [Permalink]
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big dan
said on 12/24/2006 @ 6:40 am PT...
...but he WAS really living in Virginia
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oldturk
said on 12/24/2006 @ 7:52 am PT...
COMMENT #23 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 12/24/2006 @ 7:56 am PT...
Perhaps neoCons once inhabited Mars. And destroyed it along with a planet next door where now only the asteroids remain.
Perhaps comets (on which salt water has recently been found) are other debris from such a planetary disaster.
Water frost still forms on Mars at more places than once even imagined. It has formed at the poles in layers over the years. There were vast amounts of water on Mars at one time.
And biologically looking surface material was observed recently at victoria crater by one of the Mars Rovers.
Perhaps there were bloggers and others warning of impending doom if a great respect for life was not found in the hearts and minds of its inhabitants.
It is always the season to Peace out.
COMMENT #24 [Permalink]
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Mar
said on 12/24/2006 @ 1:50 pm PT...
Larry # 16
Yeah right..!! Don't ya wish..!!
There ain't anything beautiful about BB or her mind.
Rock on with the Moody's, brother......they're one of my favourites, and I ain't saying that 'cause I'm biased.. It's 'cause it's the troof...
Merry Christmas, Utah
( Exit Mar, singing......"Knights in white satin, never reaching the end. Letters I've written, never meaning to send".... )
COMMENT #25 [Permalink]
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Larry Bergan
said on 12/24/2006 @ 3:33 pm PT...
"Cold hearted orb, that rules the night, removes the colors from our site. Red is gray, and yellow white, but we, (the people), decide which is right, and which is an illusion."
COMMENT #26 [Permalink]
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Larry Bergan
said on 12/24/2006 @ 4:11 pm PT...
This Christmas season, America is in dire need of more rational minds, like those of Carl Sagan and Rod Serling instead of gay-hating gay preachers.
COMMENT #27 [Permalink]
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unirealist
said on 12/25/2006 @ 6:13 am PT...
Brad, Paypal is refusing to allow my credit card donation to Bradblog. Seems to think that your account is risky for some reason.
COMMENT #28 [Permalink]
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Larry Bergan
said on 12/26/2006 @ 1:52 am PT...
unirealist #27
Try it in $20.00 increments.
COMMENT #29 [Permalink]
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unirealist
said on 12/26/2006 @ 10:56 am PT...
Larry #28, thanks for the tip. It worked.