KarenKraft

I also appreciate your doing so, as you already know. I think what really set me off was the deletion of the two-part posts on bad [u.S.] government choices and the special case of Yugoslavia. These took a great deal of time to prepare, and to have some chubby, unskilled, and ill-informed mouth-breather delete it simply sent me off the deep end. I must learn to prepare these things off line and then post them après la préparation. So, to some extent, I was angry at myself for presuming what I post stays posted. Admittedly, a silly presumption on my part.

I am limited as to what I can and cannot do here. I am not at home but at work and I don't have all the tools necessary to adjust jpg files. In any case, the four or five folks who have paid any attention to this drama have already read the thing, so.... It has all passed, like too much coconut.

Hmmm... I'll try. Thanks for the heads-up

People need to realize that there is a point to expressing politically incorrect thoughts. Some people do this because they want to shock others. Some do it because they actually believe an entire race of folks are inferior. But here online, more often than not, we use politically incorrect speech to exercise that right -- not necessarily agreeing 100% with the notions being expressed. Look at it this way: in some [u.S.] states, giving a finger print on your driver's license application is voluntary. Libertarians tend to not leave their finger print on the application -- not because they are afraid to do so, but because they know that every time you give up the right to say no, all of your rights are diminished thereby. As for Mikaila, it is clearly over it's head here. Not being from here, it has not been brought up with The First Amendment etched in it's soul. It is non-native and will never understand what and how Americans think. Now, that's not a bad thing in and of itself. But when one isn't capable of understanding what is going on around them, taking inappropriate action against there superiors in that regard is a recipe for failure. When one is ignorant, often it is best to shut up, listen, and learn. Also, it no doubt is feeding at the public trough here in California. Free this, free that, majoring in Feelings (with a minor in Fairness) with the taxpayers paying it's way. But when something like that takes on the job of moderating an open and free discussion, it needs to understand several things: (1) It does not own the forum; (2) It is given a nearly sacred trust in being allowed to edit or (God forbid) remove other people's work; and (3) It needs to focus squarely on the job, keeping in mind that they are working for the good of the community, not for any particular cause or creed. This last part, I'm afraid, is Mikaila's Epic Failure. Foreigners will never understand why Americans love to allow the KKK or the Neo-Nazis hold some stupid parade downtown. Sure, six guys show up dressed up like jerks and 60 people laugh at them and call them unpleasant names. But we love the fact that our country is so strong that we can allow all points of view to contend. Free Speech and Expression are limited to government action. A private organization like a web site operates under the rules of the Administrator, whose judgement as to the governing laws is absolute. See, we have a choice to be here or not. If we don't like the rules, we are free to move on. Liberals, like the above-mentioned failure, love to talk about "FREE SPEECH" but when they do so, they mean ONLY FREE SPEECH I LIKE. When it signs off with a "fuck you" to the Administrator, as far as I'm concerned, it has become the enemy of all people posting here. If it is ever allowed to moderate other people's speech, it will re-offend. And next time, it might simply create a chilling effect on what happens here. There's no guarantee it will encounter a fighter with some guts. Next time, it will simply drain away the limited amount of traffic moving in the forum. My posting here is designed to stimulate both energy levels and content diversity. It is content diversity that brings in new posters. Nazi-Kittens are free to express themselves here, of course, but they must NEVER be permitted to wear the moderator hat. It has shown that allowing it to moderate is tantamount to having Bernie Madoff as a co-signer on your checking account or, for that matter, Barry Soetoro ("Whoop! Whoop! Where my banana at?") in high office.

It's very difficult to downsize WORD documents, as you no doubt know. I'll work on it a bit.

I can see this place has WAY too much original content, supplied by other posters, so that entire chunks can be precipitously deleted without damaging the rapid flow of fresh input. Go for it.

Yup. The Buffal................ whatever

Looks like the buffalo's gone.

I CAN'T SEEM TO FIND IT.

Major League Baseball Standings whatever.

Okay. Point well taken, I suppose. I left Lyle and moved the commentary to the commentary thread. -KK

NO HUMANS WERE KILLED IN TODAY’S EVENTS IN GARLAND TEXAS. AN OFFICER WAS SHOT BUT HIS WOUNDS ARE NOT LIFE-THREATENING AND HE IS ON THE MEND. LUCKILY, TWO FILTHY CHUNKS OF MUZZIE MANURE WERE DISPATCHED TO HELL. SEE, TEXANS DON’T PLAY THAT MUZZIE-SHIT GAME.

From another view point, Woody. It's all good.