September 25, 2009
Those Zany ELFs are at it again (or would it be ELVES?)

According to the Seattle Times, the Earth Liberation Front appears to have struck again. This time in Maltby. The message, visible from SR-522 says "If you continue to risk killing children, mother earth and her creations, all your holdings are targets." As someone in the Seattle Times comments section opined, "don't they know spray cans are bad for air quality?"

Posted by MarkGriswold at September 25, 2009 01:53 PM | Email This
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1. Graffiti? Gosh! What a feared terrorist group!

Posted by: demo kid on September 25, 2009 03:31 PM
2. I bet you wouldn't be saying that if they burned down your house or knocked over your control towers.

Posted by: Mark Griswold on September 25, 2009 03:39 PM
3. ELF is a LEFT group too!

LOL

Posted by: Medic/Vet on September 25, 2009 03:47 PM
4. I think we need to be clear about this. The Earth Liberation Front is nothing less than a criminal terrorist organization. The people who are engaged in violence against our society are really extreme anarchists whose goal is the destruction of modern society. Many of them are communists and hard core socialists.
They have recently restricted their activities to Snohomish County and they have succeeded in accomplishing one thing: they have scared a lot of people in this area.
After they recently knocked down KRKO's radio towers, developers re-enforced their security around their projects and in the case of average citizens: taken steps to arm themselves.
This group fashions itself around the tried and tested underground organizational structure pioneered by the old GRU or Soviet Military Intelligence. That is one reason the FBI has had difficulty breaking into their group: it consists of cells that don't know each other with their collective activities obviously controlled by their own website. This is exactly the same structure used by Al-Qaeda.
I believe it is just a matter of time before ELF kills a number of people in a brazen terrorist attack. I hope the FBI can catch and arrest them before that happens.

Posted by: Retired Cop on September 25, 2009 04:08 PM
5. Yes, the Earth Liberation Front is another leftist group. What a Surprise. Like all true lefties they support the killing of Babies yet, not the killing of children? How come? It doesn't seem to make sense if you were to extrapolate that babies grow into children. But lets continue, you will risk killing Mother Earth and her Creations meaning, killing of the rock and stones that make up Mother Earth and all life with perhaps, the exception of human life not being a concern. It is very difficult to understand that these people are for Real. But then, they are all proud Lefties the same as represent by the first poster on this forum...demo dip or demo sh#t or demo stupid...Well whatever.

Posted by: Daniel on September 25, 2009 04:35 PM
6. This is the face of the radical Left. Not pretty, is it?

Posted by: Yosemite Sam on September 25, 2009 07:26 PM
7. @2: I'd be annoyed if ANYONE did that. However, in terms of the threat posed by environmental groups versus the far-right-wing, does it even compare? These folks aren't shooting or lynching people, or threatening to shoot or lynch people.

@4: If anything, ELF has intentionally stayed away from killing anyone. So comparing it to Al-Qaeda? Suggesting that they'll make a "brazen terrorist attack" and kill people. Please.

@5: Hee hee... I hope that at some point, you're revealed to be a left-wing kinda guy, satirizing right-wing fools in the most absurd way possible. I have a hard time believing that a caricature like you could actually exist.

@6: Again, graffiti?

Posted by: demo kid on September 25, 2009 09:16 PM
8. ELF is akin to all those other demo kids in Pittsburgh. The same douche bags who trashed Seattle in 1999. Same agit prop lemmings in black bandanas.

Posted by: attila on September 25, 2009 10:36 PM
9. Ha, dk and all, ELF in its building-burning, tower-knocking, breaking-and-entering entirety is the problem, as well as their defacement of other people's property.

I have to laugh--"If you continue to risk killing children..." It's about 99% guaranteed these leftwing looney terrorists support the child-killing known as abortion.

Irony of ironies, isn't it?

Posted by: Michele on September 25, 2009 10:50 PM
10. Slavery Party Failed Abortion wrote:

I'd be annoyed if ANYONE did that. However, in terms of the threat posed by environmental groups versus the far-right-wing, does it even compare? These folks aren't shooting or lynching people, or threatening to shoot or lynch people.

Excuse me, when did a "right wing" group recently shoot or lynch people? I know lynchings are near-and-dear to the Democrat Party's heart (you know, the creators of the KKK) but to what are you referring?

Posted by: Shanghai Dan on September 26, 2009 08:17 AM
11. So, Demo kid - what kind of body count would you suggest in order for these groups to stop 'annoying' you and cause you to pay attention?

One? A dozen? More than that?

Or maybe you deflect this issue to some right-wing boogeyman you've created because you support their actions.

Birds of a feather I suspect. Fifth-column birds of a feather.

Posted by: jimg on September 26, 2009 10:28 AM
12. @9: Abortion? Please. Try an argument that's actually relevant.

@10: Oh yeah! Right-wing terrorist groups never shoot or kill people. What WAS I thinking.

Idiot.

@11: Again, equating graffiti with mass murder? It's insane. I don't support their actions, but get a clue and get perspective.

Posted by: demo kid on September 26, 2009 10:48 AM
13. I'm sorry SPFA, is anyone here defending the actions of Tiller's killer, or of McVeigh, like you are doing for ELF?

Didn't think so...

Posted by: Shanghai Dan on September 26, 2009 11:49 AM
14. Demo Kid's position seems to be that there is X amount of crazies on the left, but the right-wing has X+1, so the right-wing is MUCH crazier and dangerous then the left wing. Right demo? Or are you alleging that the left has NO dangerous crazies?

Posted by: Crusader on September 26, 2009 12:23 PM
15. @13/14: Hey, idiots... why don't you actually read what I write before you open your damn fool mouths? I didn't defend ELF, or claim that they aren't criminals (and I would enjoy you pointing out where I did). Heck, I didn't even claim that the left (or the right) has no crazies whatsoever! Both sides have their nutjobs (although it seems like the right is far more willing to embrace them as part of their base).

What I'm AM saying is that graffiti (or even arson) does not equate mass murder of innocents, nor have there been ANY hints that the ELF will kill "a number of people in a brazen terrorist attack". Equating ELF to Al Qaeda is simply wrong, and only fair in the minds of hyper-partisan right wingers.

And hey, ChiCom Traitor, I answered your specific question, when you asked: "Excuse me, when did a "right wing" group recently shoot or lynch people?" Don't be whiny and pissy when you don't get the answer you like.

So get perspective.

Posted by: demo kid on September 26, 2009 12:45 PM
16. Uh, Demo Kid there is no evidence that either McVeigh or the nut who killed Tiller were right wingers. There is plenty of evidence that Mao, Che, Stalin, and Castro were leftists. Leftists have killed millions. We don't really need to talk about Hitler, who was also a socialist, do we?

If you really want to talk about lynching perhaps you should look at African American murder statistics since leftist welfare state policies were implemented under LBJ. I'd say those policies have led to more tragic deaths than Democrat Jim Crow policies ever did.

Then there are the millions of innocent unborn children you leftists kill every year. As if they are not human beings.

Liberals make me sick.

Posted by: Bill Cruchon on September 26, 2009 03:11 PM
17. They have burned down a house and knocked over the KRKO radio towers within a few miles of this graffiti. I would urge all Maltby/Cathcart/Echo Lake/Clearview citizens to be on alert.

Posted by: Cathcartian on September 26, 2009 03:49 PM
18. @16: No evidence that they were right-wingers? McVeigh wrote:

I know in my heart that I am right in my struggle, Steve. I have come to peace with myself, my God and my cause. Blood will flow in the streets, Steve. Good vs. Evil. Free Men vs. Socialist Wannabe Slaves. Pray it is not your blood, my friend.

Sounds like a commenter here! Maybe even a little tame in comparison.

The nut that killed Tiller was a member of the Montana Freemen, the Sovereign Citizen Movement, and was interested in Operation Rescue. (And it's darkly ironic that you go from questioning his right-wing status to ranting like a crazy person about abortion!)

So... do you need more of their resumes to prove that they're right-wingers?

Posted by: demo kid on September 26, 2009 03:51 PM
19. Oh, and right back at you. Crotchety whiny right-wingers with victimization complexes make me sick.

Get off my lawn!

Posted by: demo kid on September 26, 2009 03:53 PM
20. demo kid thinks citing McVeigh somehow invalidates free market capitalism. All I can say to that is watch "The Killing Fields".

Posted by: Crusader on September 26, 2009 04:01 PM
21. Interesting isn't it that you never hear leftists condemning the socialists and communists who are nearly always behind their protest marches.

Instead you get goofy comments from Demo Kid equating the right with the Oklahoma City bomber. It's just amazing. As is the denial that leftists have killed in the name of their ideals over and over. And leftists fight for the right to kill unborn children. They have no business lecturing anyone about killing innocent people. They legislate it.

As time goes on more people understand that intolerance has historically been a characteristic of the left.

Those aren't right wing nuts that block traffic every month downtown with their bicycles. They are intolerant leftists that want to tell all of us how to live. Liberals make me sick.

Posted by: Bill Cruchon on September 26, 2009 04:40 PM
22. @20: What? Now you're just not making ANY sense. You say that left-wing whackos that spray paint slogans are going to kill people, I point you to right-wing whackos that do. What does "free market capitalism" have to do with it?

@21: Instead you get goofy comments from Demo Kid equating the right with the Oklahoma City bomber.

Ah, yes. The poor victim opens his mouth AGAIN! You just equated all leftists with Stalin. Why shouldn't I equate you with McVeigh in that case?

Intolerance my ass. You're the fellow that seems quite happy with dictating how other people live.

Get off my lawn!

Posted by: demo kid on September 26, 2009 05:38 PM
23. Demo Kid says, "You're the fellow that seems quite happy with dictating how other people live."

Give me one example.

Posted by: Bill Cruchon on September 26, 2009 05:57 PM
24. I think that a post on EffU by thehim from a year and a half ago summarizes it quite well.

Posted by: demo kid on September 26, 2009 06:20 PM
25. So Demo Kid you need to make it plain where you stand. Are you a leftist that wants to tell us what to eat, mandate that we wear bicycle helmets and ride public transit? Or are you a libertarian that wants legalization of all drug

Posted by: Bill Cruchon on September 26, 2009 06:47 PM
26. Again, Demo Kid, instead of linking to some old HA thread give the readers here a concrete example of where I or any other conservatives have been "happy with dictating how other people live."

If you are referring to abortion, yes I am guilty. I want to dictate that unborn innocent children have a chance at life. If that's what you mean by dictating how others live I plead guilty.

Posted by: Bill Cruchon on September 26, 2009 06:56 PM
27. As regards the post demo kid refers to at #24, I stand by my comments. If you are having trouble sleeping you can read the entire thread.

I didn't have to make obscene comments or the "get off my lawn!" reference that demo kid uses repeatedly in response to my opinions. Jerks gravitate towards liberalism.

It might surprise demo kid that Clint Eastwood is a conservative.

Posted by: Bill Cruchon on September 26, 2009 07:21 PM
28. @25-27: Read the post. Concrete example.

But I guess you just want to play the victim, eh? You ask for evidence that McVeigh was a right-winger, and I give it to you. You ask for evidence that you are quite willing to tell people how to live, and I give it to you.

Saying "get off my lawn" is annoying you? Calling you an "idiot" is "obscene"? How pathetic. Maybe you should just start posting under the name "Whiny McWhinerson", eh?

And who the hell cares what Clint Eastwood's political philosophy is?

Posted by: demo kid on September 26, 2009 08:11 PM
29. It surprises me that no one seems to have caught this...

McVeigh was a wing nut.
Tiller's killer was a wing nut.
The guy who shot up the Jewish office in Seattle was a wing nut.

NONE of these guys were a group nor were they sanctioned by a group nor did any group take credit for their actions.

Ergo, Demo Kid still has failed to answer the original question put forth by Shanghai Dan:

Excuse me, when did a "right wing" group recently shoot or lynch people?

Posted by: Eyago on September 26, 2009 08:25 PM
30. Actually your repeated "get off my lawn" which you have used on thread after thread is amusing.

You cannot have a reasonable discussion with a committed leftist. It is not possible.

They name call. They do it repeatedly. You can find it anytime leftists comment here. For a perfect example look at the above comment, "Whiny McWhinerson".

Chris Wallace said it so well, the leftists in the Obama Administration are the "biggest bunch of crybabies" he's ever seen.

It's why I just can't stand leftists. They are the biggest crybabies in the universe. They hate drilling for oil, mining for metals, cattle ranching,fishing, and nuclear power.

You ever notice they love their computers, cell phones, flushing toilets, hot and cold running water, TV's, airplanes and the endless benefits these spoiled people have due to capitalism?

Has anyone noticed how Obama flies with a major carbon footprint to a different city nearly every day of the week? Yes, he does.

Liberal hypocrites make me sick.

Posted by: Bill Cruchon on September 26, 2009 08:43 PM
31. @29: NONE of these guys were a group nor were they sanctioned by a group nor did any group take credit for their actions.

Folks here seem to believe that all left-wingers should be tried for the crimes of the ELF. If that's the case, I have no problem bringing up those right-wingers that ACTUALLY murder people.

Again, perspective. Equating property damage to killing people is dangerous hyperbole. That's the point here, and one that no one has been able to refute.

@30: And conservative hypocrites like you make me sick, Mr. McWhinerson. How is bringing up computers and cell phones related to the fact that the ELF has only committed property crimes? Again and again, your gripes against liberal smack more of the kvetching of a decrepit old man rather than... well... actual logic.

Posted by: demo kid on September 26, 2009 09:12 PM
32. Eyago, it's all about the leftist playbook. Saul Alinsky, a big hero to Hillary and Barack Obama said it. Demonize your opponents. It's what the left always does. They will stop at nothing. Indoctrinating children. Lying on the campaign trail about "someone I met today" who is somehow suffering due to Republican policies. The dishonesty of these rotten people is endless. The left collects control freaks who take pleasure in stomping on anyone who dares to disagree with their politically correct ideology.

Want proof? Observe the intolerance of the left when the Mayor of Mount Vernon wanted to bestow the key to the city to Glenn Beck. The left has gone nuts, mounting a huge protest.

The left is simply filled with unhappy, angry people. It is where they go.

Posted by: Bill Cruchon on September 26, 2009 09:25 PM
33. demo kid says, "decrepit old man".

Again the name calling.

This "decrepit old man" is probably more than you can handle.

Jeez, what a jerk you are.

Posted by: Bill Cruchon on September 26, 2009 09:33 PM
34. I have to laugh at demo kids constant references to me as "washed up" or "decrepit".

He does this over and over. Leftists do this constantly when they are on the losing side of a political discussion. It's directly out of the Saul Alinsky manual. Demonize your opponent, call them names, it's what the left always does. It is simply impossible to have a reasonable discussion with them.

Look at how demo kid frames debate. If he doesn't agree he calls you "washed up" or "decrepit".

What sort of reasonable people discuss issues in this way?

This is the way the left discusses politics. If you disagree you are immediately marginalized. In my case I am obviously too old and "decrepit" to have any opinion.

Does one have to really ponder what kind of horrid people the likes of demo kid are? A person who simply will dismiss the opinion of someone who they claim is "decrepit"?

Gosh, would those same people ponder the idea of "death panels"?

We don't need to make it up. These rotten people reveal themselves every day.

As for demo kid. I post under my own name. I'm in the phone book. If he wants to see how "decrepit" I am he can look me up. He might learn something.

Posted by: Bill Cruchon on September 26, 2009 10:21 PM
35. Bill - leave it to the young Democrat punks to foolishly throw aside the wisdom of our elders. They are so foolish.

Posted by: Crusader on September 26, 2009 10:34 PM
36. Eyago,

It's also interesting that he has to reach back 15 years to find one of the nuts he lists. That's sure recent, isn't it?

Posted by: Shanghai Dan on September 26, 2009 10:50 PM
37. I think that is entirely true Crusader.

There is an entire generation that has been indoctrinated by the left. I saw teachers at our local elementary school wearing Obama buttons last fall. In places such as Seattle discussion is simply not allowed. It's the way the left always plays. They are not the tolerant people they pretend to be. They are nasty fascists who demand that everyone agree with them.

What always amazes me is that somehow the left is still held as the folks who uphold free speech. The reality is that the left stomps on free speech anytime it doesn't agree with leftist ideology. Did the left scream and yell when Glenn Beck came into town? Sure they did. Did the left want to allow him to speak? No, they didn't.

Was the left of Che, Mao, and Castro tolerant of opposing points of view? No, they simply killed their opposition. Are they idolized by liberals? Yes they are. Tells you something, doesn't it?

Posted by: Bill Cruchon on September 26, 2009 11:04 PM
38. Liberals make me sick.

Posted by: Bill Cruchon on September 26, 2009 11:14 PM
39. How can anyone not be disgusted watching indoctrinated public school children chanting a pro Obama song complete with humming "mmm, mmm, mmm!" between verses.

It's pure mind control. It's what the left is all about. They aren't the free love hippies of Woodstock, who really weren't nice people after all. They are mean nasty fascists that want to control how we live our lives. The left collects these people like a dust mop. They are lawyers. Check almost any Democrat's bio. They are nearly always lawyers.

Posted by: Bill Cruchon on September 26, 2009 11:46 PM
40. So Bill, what do you make of this?

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2006/04/17/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes/

Posted by: Joe Wisconsin on September 27, 2009 04:40 AM
41. Joe Wisconsin...Bush is no Saint nor a Reagan and is guilty of some missteps. However, he is in noway an Obama. Bush's little jingle shared the limelight with Congress, FEMA and most important of all the "People across the land". Obama's jingle was Pure Praise to solely Obama. Get it? Naah...You're a Liberal!

Posted by: Daniel on September 27, 2009 07:14 AM
42. Yup, those kids Joe Wisconsin is pointing out were at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. They were not in school.

Their little song was inappropriate, I agree.

They were not sitting in a public school classroom praising Obama and chanting about equal work for equal pay going "mmm, mmm, mmm".

There is a reason leftists fight against private schools and home schooling. They want to indoctrinate every child in the country.

My 9-year old niece made sneering references about how Sarah Palin "kills wolves" the last time she visited. Where do you suppose she got that notion?

Liberals make me sick.

Posted by: Bill Cruchon on September 27, 2009 09:17 AM
43. @32-34: "Demonize your opponents"? What exactly do you think you're doing? It's a little weird to spout off about folks for doing something, and then practicing EXACTLY the same behavior afterwards. But I'm not the one that sounds unhappy here... I'm merely frustrated with the cognitive dissonance on display.


@35: No wisdom I can see from you folks. And I'm not as young as the name suggests.


@36: So then you're not denying that they're right-wing? I'm so glad that we agree that right-wing whackjobs kill people, and ELF does not.


@37-39: Bitter... bitter... bitter. Blah, blah, blah. You've added six comments, but absolutely nothing of substance. Try again, and address the main point of my argument: can you equate the ELF, who has not (and will not) intentionally kill people, to Al-Qaeda or right-wing nutjobs that do?


@40: WJ, the difference is that it's a president that Daniel (and other conservatives) don't agree with. If any conservative can look at that story of a song at a White House event, in front of reporters and vdiscount it, while equating songs at an assembly where there is ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE of political involvement, they're not practicing what they preach.

I'll be up front in saying that I don't agree with either, and while I don't particularly like the champions of this cause, I'd probably want the teachers disciplined or fired too.

Posted by: demo kid on September 27, 2009 09:30 AM
44. I can already picture a world where liberal punks like demo kid sneer and ridicule our wise elders like Bill. That world is our cruel reality.

Posted by: Crusader on September 27, 2009 09:49 AM
45. @44: Again, not seeing the "wise" part of that statement. If he IS actually old, then he's more like Andy Rooney... but without the humor or profundity.

Posted by: demo kid on September 27, 2009 09:58 AM
46. Well demo kid I am old enough to have grown up around the "counter culture" of the 1960's and early 1970's.

I know that we really weren't nice people. We were intolerant of anyone who didn't agree with our views. We were mean to our parents, grandparents, and other kids who didn't share our views.

It's characteristic of the left. They crush dissent. They sneer at Fox News. They publicly fund NPR which is run entirely by the left. They smash store windows, push over radio towers, and spray paint private property.

That's who Obama and his minions are. I know where they came from. They are controlling facists.

Why in the world would Obama try to ram through his healthcare bill before it could be examined?

I know these people. I think finally America knows them too.

Liberals make me sick.

Posted by: Bill Cruchon on September 27, 2009 10:36 AM
47. Please review the difference in behavior between the demo kids in Pittsburgh and the participants of the 9/12 teaparty demonstration in Washington, D.C.
Please review the difference in behavior between, Oh - almost any conservative demonstration and those from Code Pink, ACT UP, Earth First etc. Lets talk about the SEIU goon in St. Louis assaulting a black tea party participant for handing out "don't tread on me" flags. Lets talk about the moveon.org pond scum who bit off a 65 year old man's finger at the Thousand Oaks CA anti-obamacare demonstration. Lets now review Democrat Nancy Pelosi's characterization of tea party protesters as brownshirts.
Lets now review which side of the political spectrum is having kindergartners line up to sing Kim Jong Il -style praises of Dear Leader Obama.
Please review what happened when a dying cancer patient in Oregon (Barbara Wagner) encountered government healthcare compassion and was gently reminded of her suicide option.

Can we please ban the DK troll from this newsgroup?

Posted by: attila on September 27, 2009 10:58 AM
48. @46: Well, it's nice to see you admit that you're not a nice person. :) Still, you're too blind to see that you're guilty of everything that you're accusing "leftists" and "socialists" of doing. When you write:

You cannot have a reasonable discussion with a committed leftist. It is not possible.

I can point to main point of my argument in this thread (that the ELF hasn't killed anyone, and is not as much of a threat as folks that do), and how you seem to not be able to refute it. The last several posts have just been all about your hate-on for liberals.

They name call. They do it repeatedly. You can find it anytime leftists comment here. For a perfect example look at the above comment, "Whiny McWhinerson".

"Controlling fascists" isn't "namecalling"?


@47: Wow! Cherry-picking your examples, eh?

Unfortunately for you both, I admit that folks on the left AND the right can be idiots. However, my original point still stands, and has not yet been refuted: equating ELF with any feared terrorist organization that is looking to kill people is incorrect.

Go ahead and support the notion that they should be tried and arrested for their crimes, but if you indict ALL liberals on the basis of that, I reserve the right to compare all you folks with those right-wing nutjobs that have ACTUALLY killed people and blown up buildings.

Posted by: demo kid on September 27, 2009 12:25 PM
49. I don't blame you attila, for wanting to have the epitome of Liberalism to be banned from this Forum. It would serve as great relief for all reasonable people on this site not, to have to deal with him. However, dimwit represents the ones who stand on the Dark Side of Life. He is part of the Great Multitude that weighs down upon Mankind and has brought destruction to Societies throughout history. He represents the decay, the corruption, the blind following where his multitudes are the supporters and the armies of Tyrants. Being that this threat to Liberty and Life itself is a reminder that we must be constantly vigilant and stand against such elements is worth the price of allowing the Lefties to post their comments/thoughts and keep us updated as to their thinking and doings. And just, Maybe, some will see enough Light via the exchanges between us and them and come over to our side.

Posted by: Daniel on September 27, 2009 12:39 PM
50. When ELF sets a bomb and/ or an incendiary device off in a building they have no idea whether or not a person (a security guard or construction worker for instance) will walk in on the device when it goes off. They also have little regard for the fire fighters who will inevitably be called out to control the fire. If no one has yet died as the result of ELF terrorism it is a happy concidence. I predict that an innocent bystander or emergency responder will eventually die (if one has not alredy been killed) as a direct result of ELF terrorism. The ELF are terrorists and need to be treated as terrorists.

Posted by: attila on September 27, 2009 12:44 PM
51. @49: It would serve as great relief for all reasonable people on this site not, to have to deal with him.

Or, you know, logic. Or facts. Pesky when they get in the way of your ramblings.


@50: Point? Again, you're equating a group that intentionally does not kill with folks that are, and making gross conjecture to support your argument. In the case referred to in this thread, ELF spray-painted graffiti (which seems oddly self-defeating, as Mark pointed out). It's hardly a capital offense.

Catch them, and try them for property crimes, and maybe conspiracy or reckless endangerment. Case closed. Even using the "terrorist" label is hyperbole here.

Posted by: demo kid on September 27, 2009 01:07 PM
52. Not going to go along with the desire to ban demo kid from this forum.

Sure, he represents liberalism. I think as conservatives we should welcome opposite views and counter them with logic and common sense.

I occasionaly posted on the liberal HorsesAss forum. The moment I posted my conservative opinion I was scolded by other posters, (you KNOW this is a liberal site). Liberals do not want dissenting opinions.

We are better than that. We can tolerate opposing points of view.

Posted by: Bill Cruchon on September 27, 2009 05:39 PM
53. @53: We can tolerate opposing points of view.

Hardly. You yourself claim that all liberals make you sick, and you haven't addressed the arguments that I've made in this comment thread.

But thank you for supporting my right to speak. You may be crotchety, but at least you walk the walk about some important things.

Posted by: demo kid on September 27, 2009 07:21 PM
54. I definitely won't be banning demo kid if for no other reason than he provides some excellent comic relief from time to time. And who knows, maybe one day he'll have an epiphany and realize how ridiculous many of the things he's saying are.

And Bill, I wouldn't take demo kid or any other liberal so seriously as to make you sick. Don't let them get into your head like that. If you came across some poor mentally ill man screaming things about aliens and the end of the world I'm sure he wouldn't make you sick. All you'd feel, I imagine, is self-pity. So just remember, liberalism is a mental disorder and all we can do is do our best to educate them. I know a few erstwhile liberals who've come to see the truth. Steve Beren is a great example. Communist Radical of the 60s now a Five Star Conservative.

Posted by: MarkGriswold on September 27, 2009 08:00 PM
55. Nice distraction, but get back to addressing the point of the thread. Is it fair to compare graffiti to a "brazen terrorist attack" that is intentionally meant to kill people?

Posted by: demo kid on September 27, 2009 11:08 PM
56. @54: And by the way, Mark... in terms of "comic relief", I enjoyed how you essentially committed libel on this board after claiming up and down that you "did the research", and then slinked away from any responsibility for it. That was certainly far more ridiculous than anything I could ever say, and quite worthy of a laugh or two! :)

What you call "mental disorder", I call "cases of projection from reality-challenged right-wingnuts".

Posted by: demo kid on September 27, 2009 11:20 PM
57. DK,
1. Didn't commit libel. Everything I said was true.
2. Didn't slink away. Once Penny responded with an adequate explanation of the facts I apologized for any ill will that may have been caused and she accepted, calling me a "stand up guy."

But continue re-writing history to fit your own view, as you like to say.

As for mental disorders, one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Tell me again where socialism is working out?

Posted by: MarkGriswold on September 28, 2009 07:41 AM
58. @57: The public blog post is still there, but you took down your post (and retraction) from the front page. Penny had to repost her comment on that post, in fact! Given that the public post is the number one news / blog hit on Google, and you yourself made specific note of it, the fact that you did nothing to correct that is pretty pathetic.

In that post, you also claimed that you "did the research", when you simply made conjecture based on very sketchy and circumstantial evidence. You were distracted by irrelevant hyperlinks, and you didn't see the truth. You were easily led around.

Calling you a "stand up guy" doesn't mean that you're not a shoddy blogger. But hey, it's not like she's a Republican or anything, so I guess that's a free pass in your mind.

And yet again, conservatives can't seem to keep focus and stay on topic! That seems like more of a mental disorder to me than anything else. What does an overly broad, nonsensical, and irrelevant question about socialism have to do with ELF?

Posted by: demo kid on September 28, 2009 12:47 PM