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DISCLAIMER: in my experience, the following doesn't apply to 99% of my readership. Unfortunately, experience also shows it has to be written down for the remaining 1%.

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.
  8. My site is not awfully biased: it's shamelessly opinioned. If you're on my side, you get my vote and are free to rant 'n' roll. If not, live with it or go rot in the gutter.
  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

unknown jane | 7 months, 1 week ago
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United States
08/11 2009
10:45 AM

And thus the reason why my family and I rarely if ever go to the movies and rarely even rent them.  Most of what’s produced is annoying dross anyway, and the ideological bias is a blatant wart as well.  That which we do view, we either screen carefully or, if it turns out to be a clunker of a propaganda vehicle my husband and I make sure to mock in front of the kids (that way they learn to be discerning, I hope).  We mock a lot of things in pop culture…

Reading is a far more enjoyable activity—and the sheer volume of just the classics (which a person can buy for small change at the used bookstore) can keep you busy for a lifetime—and talking/arguing about what you read is a great excercise in critical thinking.  That and some form of physical activity whereby you can learn new things (there are a million things one can learn to do from hunting to fishing to gardening to needlework which are far more enjoyable than sitting on your bum, a captive to some screen -- as admittedly I’m doing right now but perhaps that is different).

Keeps you from becoming a drone, which once you’ve become one you’re wide open for suggestion and being led about by the nose.

O/T: another one of my children just graduated from basic training, so I must brag a bit.  Even more so as she scored 3rd highest in her battalion on the pt test, only 10 pts. below the high score in her company...all against rather strapping young men who are at least a head taller and many pounds heavier than her (this child is rather a slender, willowy, and quiet thing...of all my kids the one we all thought least likely to make a soldier; joke was on us as she’s doing quite well).  The nickname the sargeants gave her: The Beast, because she pt’d the men in her company into the freaking ground! (on another note, my kids are all following the same odd and exasperating trend with BRM—how anyone can ace the kneeling position, come within a point of nailing the standing position, and can then totally muff the prone is beyond comprehension to both their parents and the military; they’ve both done this...with the exact same scores...totally bizarre).  Yes, I am bragging a bit, please excuse, but I think yet another of  my children just proved herself not of the drone category, no?  I hope and pray the rest will follow the same pattern (maybe not with the marksmanship) and not fall prey to what’s being force fed them everytime they step out of the house!
2hotel9 | 7 months, 1 week ago
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In: Western Pennsylvania
08/12 2009
05:36 AM

The rewritting of history has been and effective tactic from the left for decades. Just look at the whitewash job they have so successfully done on Woodrow Wilson, hell, and Teddy Roosevelt.  Both proud "progressives" who embraced the tenets of socialism in their admins. How many people remember Wilson’s decree which removed ALL Negroes from US Government positions and jobs, or the thousands of people he had rounded up and imprisoned for simply voicing the opposition to AMerica’s entry into WWI? Not very damned many!!

 

As for Teddy, he is hailed as a great thinker for instigating the most massive USG seizure of land in our history, the National Park System, effectively closing off access to natural resources to the people of America to this very day.

He who controls the past controls the present, and directs the future.  That is not just a catchy lyric from a rock&roll song.
Proof | 7 months, 1 week ago
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08/12 2009
11:52 PM

"the choices we make as individuals every day, even in such mundane matters as personal entertainment"

Fortunately, this is not difficult for me! When I think of the odious positions some of these folk hold and what the consequences are for my country, I find it hard to be "entertained" by them!
Ansar-III | 4 months, 2 weeks ago
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10/29 2009
08:29 AM

Despite being a dirty liberal, I do enjoy browsing your site. It’s very well designed, funny and offers a alternative viewpoint on world affairs that sometimes does make me change my viewpoint. However, some things border on laughable.

"part of a deliberate, resolute and permanent effort at rewriting history and flooding pop (and therefore mass) culture with radical Left-wing propaganda, by those peculiar "wreched of the Earth" and "oppressed masses" "

My god, can you sound any more dellusional? Fox News, the staple of right-wing, pro-American media is the most watched television channel in the United States. Political commentators such as Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity are enjoying a surge in support. People carry signs that say ‘Glenn Beck for President’ at rallies. It takes the IQ of a tomato plant to think someone with little more than an excess of conservative rage is fit to lead the most powerful nation on earth. What do they have in common? They’re all Republicans. Rapid right-wing media is back, in all it’s frothy, screaming, baseless glory and yet...radical Left-wing propaganda? I’m curious; if these knivving, malicious hippies are seemingly so intent and powerful how come conservative media rallied a nation to go to war with Iraq, defeat health-care initiatives and turn the southern border into something resembling Berlin from the end of the second world war to 1989?
2hotel9 | 4 months, 2 weeks ago
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10/29 2009
11:20 AM

Wow, Froggy. You got a leftard troll leaving droppings in the threads.
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10/29 2009
01:51 PM

Great tactic, hotel! Completely ignore my points and refer to me as a leftard, well done. I knew I would be met with hostility but I thought some effort would be made to at least prove me wrong instead of simply ignoring any facts I put forward. 
2hotel9 | 4 months, 2 weeks ago
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10/29 2009
02:53 PM

You have nothing to say worth listening too.
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10/29 2009
04:05 PM

And apparently nothing you can refute. 
2hotel9 | 4 months, 2 weeks ago
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10/30 2009
05:56 AM

You have said nothing to be refuted, merely that which needs derision heaped upon it.
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10/30 2009
10:40 AM

You mean Fox isn’t the most watched cable news network in the United States?

http://www.tvweek.com/news/2009/03/cnn_ratings_down_fox_msnbc_gro.php 

Can you really tell me it wasn’t the conservative’s masterful handling of the media which almost single-handedly brought down Obama’s attempts at reform? Looking at the pre-Iraq war statistics of those supporting the war and those same statistics now, can you really say the media played no part in leading the charge to attack Iraq? Are you really able to say that political commentators have gained prominence in politics and the news since Obama took office? 

Do you think of these things? Do you even pay attention to facts, statistics and numbers? You haven’t proved me wrong, and haven’t challenged the legitimacy of my claims on any level, so why does it deserve to be derided? 

I know at this point I’m most likely just feeding the troll but I’m not entirely convinced that the GOP (lol what a stupid nickname) followers aren’t really the intellectual equivilant of aborted fetuses. 
2hotel9 | 4 months, 2 weeks ago
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10/30 2009
11:38 AM

You seem awfully hung up on popularity. Your "facts" are hi-larious, and your screeching about "media" creating all of the things you list is even funnier. Do you know anything that was not spoon fed to you by "media" you approve of, or that you link from wiki? Anything at all?  Got a clue of anything that happened before the year of your birth? You do understand there was a world before you, and will be after you. You are not the center of the Omniverse, even if mommy does keep saying you are.
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11/04 2009
07:15 AM

Why are you talking about my mom? Or my historical knowledge? What does that have to do with? And I found that link while writing a paper on Fox news. How can you be critical of my choice in media whenit’s clear you refuse to believe anything which doesn’t come from Fox or your hero Frogman? Oh wait, that’s right. Any media that isn’t right wing is part of the overarching socialist-Obama-Stalin conspiracy to brainwash you, right? Don’t let me keep you from wearing your tinfoil hat and watching repeats of Glenn Beck.
2hotel9 | 4 months, 1 week ago
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11/04 2009
07:53 AM

Ah, poor little leftard gonna cry. Too funny. Keep rewriting history, its all you have.
Ansar-III | 3 months, 4 weeks ago
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11/18 2009
07:07 AM

>Trimming waste of space. Please wait…

Trimming complete.
2hotel9 | 3 months, 4 weeks ago
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11/18 2009
08:07 AM

Your "points"?  You mean the ones on your head?
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Date: 11th August, 2009