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The short version, when it comes to my comments policy, goes down to a line taken from the (mediocre) second opus of the Matrix:

"I built this place. Down here, I make the rules."

Let's elaborate a bit:

  1. Try to stay on topic. If you have a beef against the cow-fart(1) induced climate change and this post is about monkey spanking(2), then it's not the place to draw your sword(3).
    I have nothing against a freewheeling conversation, but if it's off-topic AND stupid or offensive, then it will have a badly limited lifespan.
  2. Consider the two following statements…
    • I'm totally open-minded when it comes to rational ideas.
    • It is quite obvious that Anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, Islamism, Nationalism, Racism, Collectivism(4) and Multiculturalism (non-exhaustive list) exist in complete contradiction with Reason.
    … And guess the total amount of tolerance you can expect from me if you indulge in any of these.
  3. If you shall persist in these ways nevertheless, understand that I'm not spending countless hours of work on this site to "reach out", "debate" with you, "understand" your "root causes" or "learn" about your religion. Unlike race, ideology is something we choose, and for which we must bear all responsibilities. I loathe your sick mindset and what you defend and promote. I've heard all your pitiful excuses for your despicable totalitarian psyche and your compulsion to coerce or enslave your fellow men and women in the name of some "greater good".
    So understand that this is not a public forum: it is my outpost in the culture war you wage against me, my kin, my rights and my freedom — thus, you will only be tolerated here, and only if I decide so. I call the shots and I owe you nothing. As a matter of fact, I don't like having you around, so the only argument you're truly entitled to hear from me would come, if you insist, amplified through the barrel of my Sig-Sauer high powered rifle(5) — because when it comes to intolerant scumbags, I'm an intolerant bastard.
    So keep your distances, and nobody gets hurt.
  4. I also have a very limited patience for social-democrats of all race and creed, center-of-center jellyfish and buttermonkey(6) hybrids, Blame-America-First (and always) Libertarians (usually of the Rothbardian school), Hollywood idiots & Festival-de-Cannes cretins and those Parisians who fancy themselves as an elite when they are nothing but the developed world's rednecks(7). However, I tend to ignore them, so they may consider themselves lucky if they manage to draw some sarcasm in colorful language from me.
  5. Yeah, and don't get me started on journalists and the Wonderful World of Mainstream Media...
  6. American and British soldiers (including the Commonwealth) stand on a special pedestal in my personal pantheon. Disrespect them here, and you'll quickly wish you'd rather stand naked in Mecca during Hajj, wearing only a sign that reads "Muhammad was a pedophile".
  7. I may moderate, remove or edit anything and give neither excuses nor explanations. It has nothing to do with "censorship": I am not a State, you are not a coerced citizen of said State and so you are always free to express yourself on your own facility and by your own means. Commenting is not a right, it is a privilege I grant or take away, according to my right as the owner of this place.
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  9. Oh and, if you're a vegan, be advised that I hunt, kill, cook(8) and eat all sorts of animals, and thoroughly enjoy the whole lot of it. Have fun with your carrots, Doc.
  1. Ha ha. Beef. Cow. Geddit?
  2. It's been known to happen.
  3. Neither is the guestbook by the way.
  4. That includes of course all its variations: Socialism, National-Socialist, Communism, Fascism, etc.
  5. With a loud 'Bang'
  6. Nope, don't know what species is that either, but it does sound like a particularly vile creature, doesn't it?
  7. Tell me London, New-York, Sydney or Tokyo, but Paris is a dump.
  8. Frequently in some sort of wine sauce or with loads of tears-pulling spices. Grapes and pepper count as veggie stuff right?

AVERTISSEMENT : selon mon expérience, ce qui suit ne s'applique pas à 99% de mes lecteurs. Malheureusement, l'expérience prouve aussi qu'il faut que cela soit écrit pour le pourcentage restant.

La version courte, concernant ma politique pour les commentaires, se résume à une ligne tirée du second (médiocre) volet de Matrix:

"J'ai construit cet endroit. Ici, je fais les lois."

Élaborons un brin :

  1. Il existe une subtile différence entre "être familier" et "traiter familièrement". Cela signifie que les culs-sales qui s'imaginent débarquer ici et me tutoyer comme si nous avions gardé les piquets de grève ensemble verront leur contribution à la conversation éradiquée sans autre forme de procès. Quelle que soit la pertinence de ladite contribution. Même si vous n'êtes Vraiment Pas Content® avec ce que j'écris, cela ne vous dispense pas de surveiller vos manières : tant que je n'ai pas été présenté à votre chère Maman, nous nous vouvoierons. Vu ?
  2. Évitez le hors-sujet. Si vous avez une rancune à l'égard de l'impact des pets de vache sur le changement climatique et que cet article traite de la fessée de macaque(1), alors ce n'est pas l'endroit d'où lancer votre croisade (2).
    Je n'ai rien contre une conversation à bâtons rompus, mais si c'est hors-sujet ET stupide ou insultant, ça aura une durée de vie salement limitée.
  3. Considérez les deux affirmations suivantes...
    • J'ai une ouverture d'esprit totale en ce qui concerne toutes idées rationnelles.
    • Il est évident qu' Anti-américanisme, anti-Sémitisme, Islamisme, Nationalisme, Racisme, Collectivisme(3) et Multiculturalisme (liste non-exhaustive) existent en complète contradiction avec la Raison.
    ... Et tâchez de devinez la dose totale de tolérance que vous pouvez attendre de moi si vous cédez à l'une de ces sirènes.
  4. Si vous deviez cependant persister dans ces voies, comprenez que je ne dépense pas un nombre incalculable d'heures de travail sur ce site pour vous "tendre la main", "débattre" avec vous, "comprendre" vos "causes profondes" ou "apprendre à connaitre" votre religion. Contrairement à la race, l'idéologie est le résultat de nos choix, et nous devons en supporter l'entière responsabilité. J'abhorre votre mentalité tarée, et ce que vous défendez et promouvez. J'ai entendu toutes vos pitoyables excuses pour votre détestable psyché de totalitaire et votre compulsion à forcer et réduire vos semblables en esclavage au nom d'un quelconque "intérêt général".
    Comprenez donc que ceci n'est pas un forum publique : c'est mon avant-poste dans la guerre culturelle que vous lancez contre moi, mes semblables, mes droits et ma liberté — vous ne serez que toléré ici, et seulement si je le décide. Je tire les ficelles, et ne vous doit rien. En fait je n'aime pas vous voir dans le coin, et en conséquence les seuls arguments de ma part auxquels vous puissiez réellement prétendre, si vous insistez, se transmettent par le canon de ma carabine de fort calibre Sig-Sauer(4) — Parce dès qu'ils s'agit d'ordures intolérantes, je suis un salaud d'intolérant.
    Alors gardez vos distances, et personne ne sera blessé.
  5. J'ai aussi un patience très limitée pour les sociaux-démocrates de toute confession et couleur, les centristes-du-centre fruits de l'union d'une méduse et d'un cul de singe, les Libertarés de l'École Rothbard conditionnés au "C'est la faute à l'Amérique, toujours et partout", Les Idiots d'Hollywood et les Crétins-de-Cannes, de même que ces parisiens qui se prennent pour une élite alors qu'ils ne sont que les bouseux du monde développé (5). J'ai cependant tendance à les ignorer, et ils peuvent donc s'estimer chanceux s'ils arrivent à me soutirer ne serait-ce qu'un sarcasme en langage fleuri.
  6. Ouais, et ne me lancez pas sur les journalistes et le Monde Merveilleux des Medias...
  7. Les soldats Américains et Britanniques (parmi lesquels j'inclue le Commonwealth) prennent place sur un piédestal particulier dans mon panthéon personnel. Manquez leur de respect ici, et vous souhaiterez rapidement vous trouver plutôt à la Mecque en période Hajj, tout nu avec seulement une pancarte autour du coup sur laquelle on puisse lire "Mahomet était un pédophile".
  8. Je peux modérer, supprimer ou éditer quoi que ce soit, sans fournir d'excuses ni d'explications. Cela n'a rien à voir avec de la “censure”, pour une raison très simple : je ne suis pas un État, vous n'êtes pas un citoyen opprimé dudit État et demeurez donc libre de vous exprimer sur votre propre support et par vos propres moyens. Commenter n'est pas un droit, c'est un privilège que j'accorde ou refuse selon mon droit de propriétaire des lieux.
  9. Mon site n'est pas affreusement partial, il est impudemment orienté. Si vous êtes de mon côté, vous avez mon aval et êtes libre de disserter à l'envi. Sinon, faites avec ou allez crever dans le caniveau.
  10. Oh, et si vous êtes végétarien, sachez que je chasse, tue, cuisine(6) et bouffe toutes sortes d'animaux, et que j'apprécie le tout sans aucune retenue. Soyez heureux avec vos carottes Docteur.
  1. C'est déjà arrivé.
  2. C'est aussi valable pour le Livre d'Or.
  3. Ce qui inclue aussi ses variantes : Socialisme, National-Socialisme, Communisme, Fascisme, etc.
  4. Avec un gros 'Bang'
  5. Londres, New-York, Sydney ou Tokyo, d'accord. Mais Paris, c'est un bled de cul-terreux.
  6. Généralement avec une sauce au vin, ou alors des poignées d'épices à t'arracher la tripaille. Le raisin et les piments, ça compte comme trucs de végétarien, non ?

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  1. Nope, don't know what species is that either, but it does sound like a particularly vile creature, doesn't it?
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Comments | Commentaires

Karma Dancer | 2 months, 4 weeks ago
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United States
10/08 2008
01:23 PM

"Boy, I hate this continent and its unwillingness to learn from past mistakes..."

Just so you know, the grass ain’t greener on the other side of the pond. 

It has taken 16 years +/- for us in the US to get into the bind we’re in.  It started with feel-good efforts on the part of the "urban renewal" crowd to make credit available to uncreditworthy consumers.  Then investors of every stripe, foreign and domestic, started to see the profits roll in and everyone jumped on the bus.  Remember, too, that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were both hybrids—the product of an unholy alliance between the private and public sectors that began as an experiment and whose results are plain to see. 

I guess all I’m trying to say here is that the parallels between our Great Depression of the 1930’s and today’s financial debacle were there for everyone to see and act upon.  Some actually made great noises about it but were marginalized in favor of the present-tense profits.  No one chose to do avert the train wreck; to get between constituents and their paper has been verboten on a number of levels.  So here we sit.  And the rats are scurrying for cover.
unknown jane | 2 months, 4 weeks ago
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United States
10/08 2008
01:55 PM

And who do we have running for President?  None other than Mr. HopeyChangeyRearrangey himself—a strange amalgamation of Carter/Hoover/FDR, with a dash of Farrakhan, Alinsky, and Che to spice things up a bit.  And he’s winning (according to the polls which are unreliable at best I grant), because we’ve devolved into a nation of whimpering, sissy men and petulant, girlie girls  who’s only concern is in being "well liked" and "taken care of" and "showing how tolerant and sophisticated we’ve become".  Agggh, gack, sputter, vomit, cough, cough, cough (give me a shout out of support here—on the brink of a tirade full of vile cursing and unladylike oaths, which is bad for one’s character) ack!

Yea us!  We’ve come so far baby!  I’m sure our forefathers are looking down on us in admiration at how sophisticated, tolerant, wise, benevolent, and noodle dicked we’ve become.

Time to start engendering some self sufficiency and self reliance in ourselves as individuals and as families—may be hitting a patch of very rough weather shortly.

 

 
Grimmy | 2 months, 4 weeks ago
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United States
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In: Stranger from out there
10/09 2008
05:33 AM

Just a head’s-up.

There’s rumors that ACORN may be under a RICO investigation for wide spread voter fraud in the US.
unknown jane | 2 months, 4 weeks ago
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United States
10/09 2008
02:54 PM

No!  Say it isn’t so!  ACORN is a righteous group of do-gooders who help give homes to the poor and oppressed! 

 

Well, enough gloomy-doomy; news has been trending pessimistic lately, so here’s a little link that might cheer y’all up.

http://everythingsawesome.blogspot.com/2008/10/debates-are-awesome.html

Finally, polling a focus group I could put my trust in—AWESOME!
2hotel9 | 2 months, 3 weeks ago
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United States
In: Western Pennsylvania
10/12 2008
07:03 AM

Think you got it bad(granted, you do), the morons over here keep making the "crisis" worse! Everytime they do something shit gets deeper. So they turn around and do the same thing agaoin. The shit gets deeper. So they turn around and do the same thing again. The shit gets deeper. JEEBUS!!!! What the hell is wrong with these morons?

 

When your house is on fire, and man pulls up with a tanker full of gasoline and a high pressure pump, you do not pay him to spray gas on the fire. And you beat the shit out of the idiots what set the damn thing on fire, not beg them to rebuild it!
beachkatie | 2 months, 3 weeks ago
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United States
10/13 2008
10:28 PM

The Democrats are stuck on stupid!!!!!   :)
Boozer Bob | 2 months, 2 weeks ago
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Australia
10/19 2008
01:05 AM

I just find it incredible that the obamamessiah has got so many people totally fooled. We got Kevin Rudd last election, (Hey!. I ordered a John Howard with free trade sauce!. What’s this shit?.) He went mad and signed the Kyoto thingy, just in time for people to start waking up to the fact that GW is bullshit. This traumatised him so much he hasn’t made a decision since. Really - we don’t see the Ruddster, he’s still flying around the world, having his photo taken with everyone important, and talking to the cleaners at the UN.

This what the Obama will be like…

I thought Americans were smarter than this.
TooTall | 2 months, 2 weeks ago
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United States
In: Utah
10/19 2008
09:43 AM

Quote Boozer Bob:

I thought Americans were smarter than this.


Individually maybe, but then you get the herd instinct and it goes out the window.
floridasuzie | 2 months, 2 weeks ago
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United States
In: Florida
10/20 2008
08:25 AM

My apologies on posting off-topic, but I’m very excited and want to share this with anyone who will listen. I’m working for the Republican Party of Florida (hey, I feel bad taking pay but I need the money right now and besides, I’ve also been volunteering for them my entire adult life) until the election and have been having the most wonderul experiences! It may be different in other parts of the state and country, but here in northeast Florida people are EXCITED about John McCain and Sarah Palin. I kid you not, they THANK ME and keep shaking my hand as if I’m doing them some kind of favor. The past few months I’ve been worried that maybe the majority of Americans no longer have the stamina to put country first in times of long-term crisis. But I can tell you, I have met so many people that certainly do love this country and are willing to make long-term sacrifices. One young man - an Army Ranger - who was the most enthusiastic and humble person I’ve encountered thus far, is only here because he had to have shrapnel removed from his head. His only regret is that he’s no longer able to serve in Iraq. (Incidentally, he’s also the most highly intelligent person I’ve met so far in this job - he discussed the issues with me for a long time and put me to shame with his knowledge, esp considering he’s young enough to be my son).

Speaking of son, the second thing I want to say is that my oldest son is running for a small local office again so that’s very exciting. He also had the honor of being asked to serve as an alternate delegate to the Republican Convention in Minnesota, which was a great opportunity for him!

Again, my apologies for this OT post. My best to you, Frog and everyone. God bless, Suzie
2hotel9 | 2 months, 2 weeks ago
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United States
In: Western Pennsylvania
10/20 2008
02:56 PM

Darlin’, I can’t speak for Froggy, that said, you feel free to tell us and everyone else in the world how its going in FLA !

 

Here in PA it is surprisingly positive about McC, glad to hear it is the same elsewhere.
Iwo Gina | 2 months, 1 week ago
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United States
In: Columbia, Maryland
10/28 2008
11:45 AM

Suzie!!! What great and exciting news! Well done, girl - and well done Suzie’s oldest son! Please keep us posted with what happens, especially in these next few days.
2hotel9 | 2 months, 1 week ago
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United States
In: Western Pennsylvania
10/28 2008
01:38 PM

I am getting a tingly sensation up my leg about John Murtha being pitched out on his ass, maybe!
Mike H. | 2 months, 1 week ago
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United States
In: Spokane, Wa
10/28 2008
09:46 PM

Hey! What’s wrong with al-’Bama? The Wright Rev. Right likes him! Billy (blow ‘em up) Ayres likes him! The entire middle east likes him! What better references could a guy have?
Mike H. | 2 months, 1 week ago
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United States
In: Spokane, Wa
10/28 2008
09:50 PM

My last was off topic, ignore it till a good election post comes up! Blehhh!
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