Yep...he pretty much self destructed. He couldn't get his way and get people banned, so he asked Baron to close his account. Apparently he is one of the "faint of heart" and "easily offended" people that are warned to stay out of P&R if they are such people.
Wow Baron grants wishes. Baron I wish for cash, don't know what the limit you're granting cash wishes are but put me down for the max, and 28 year old twins would be nice for a long weekend too, I prefer thin and good looking and they must be female. Thank you in advance. BigA
LOL The little cry baby will be back. Probably with a username something like, "ObamaAssKisser." Good work LEAPup. First Buckwheat and now KKK47. You're really cleaning up this forum, Sheriff. Baron should delete every post ever made by KKK47. If ever a thread deserved 5 stars, this is it!
Actually read an article that perfectly sums up these liberal ass hats like ak47, so far about a half a dozen of them have been banned cause they thought they could throw a little temper tantrum when they saw something they didnt like. Kudos to Baron for standing up to these pc pussies and their delicate sensitivites. THE SWARM Lions on the web, and lambs on the street. So last week some conservative website posted a photo of a beloved conservative. When some readers saw that the picture was doctored, they tweeted an angry alarm (which is what you do these days; you go public with perceived injustice the moment it presents itself). The website blogger made the mistake of responding sarcastically, and his meaningless snark kicked the hive into full gear. A swarm of Internet bees chased him around the backyard that is the web until he finally apologized. It was a sad thing to watch. When conservatives express outrage and demand scalps of contrition... over stuff like this... it kills me. Itâs embarrassing. But lucky for me, I had other stuff to do. My eyebrows needed plucking. Seriously, itâs like a forest above both eyeballs. Every day seems like thereâs a new swarm of bees surrounding someone, or something. The swarm varies in intensity. Sometimes itâs mild. Other times vicious. In one four day span, hereâs a list of outrages spawned by words, not deeds: Paula Deenâs 300-year-old racial slur Alec Baldwinâs homophobic tweets The use of âcreepy ass crackerâ in court Michele Obamaâs âthe White House is a prisonâ joke Each one of these created a mini-whirlwind of agitation, one destroyed a career, others just went away. But itâs all the same; these are events galvanizing people to attack other people because itâs easyâand because it feels pretty damn good. Itâs not about sincerely desiring an apology but instead just watching someone squirm under a collective, bullying pressure. Itâs gross. I wrote about this in my book The Joy of Hate, hoping my lovely tome might reduce this craze. I was wrong. Itâs getting worse. Way worse. I may have to write another. In Esperanto, so everyone gets it. Just to remind you: thereâs still a kid named Justin Carter whoâs in jail in Texas for making a âjokeâ about shooting up a school. He made the joke while playing a video game. Heâs been locked up there for months. His family cannot make bail. Thereâs a similar case in Mississippiâa lad named Josh Pillaultâwho was arrested last October for making threats while playing something called âRunescape,â and heâs been there ever since. And remember that anti-Islamic filmmaker falsely blamed for Benghazi? Heâs still in jail too. I canât even pronounce his name, but I care. This place is really beginning to suck. We now seem obsessed with words. Not their actual meaningsâbut we relish the power we have to reinterpret the meanings. We are now the Masters of the Misconstrue, and when our hackles are raised, we want nothing short of our intended target of outrage crawling over broken glass. Itâs fun to see the rewardâwhen you never have to leave your pod, your room, your desk, your jammies. You made an impact, in between trips to the fridge. Let me ask you: if someone were to make a sarcastic joke that you disliked, right in front of you, what would you do to express distaste? Would youâknowing it was just a jokeâpretend you didnât hear it and move on? Or would you announce the horribleness of the sentiment to everyone within earshot? Would you then do it in a manner to encourage others to join in the mass outrage, hoping to humiliate said jokester? Probably not. Youâre normal. You would simply ignore it, and in a few minutes, it would be forgotten. Youâd never think about it again. But introduce the web into this premise, and many would take the more dramatic, absurd approach. The extra effort to express outrage, thanks to the web, is nil. So have at it. Eat âem alive. Hereâs my theory on this. The degradation of manners and decline of public decency in society has created a fear of confrontation among the rest of us. Weâd rather cross the street than deal with an angry drunk or face a rude group of teenage girls shouting obscenities. Weâve become cowards in our own cultureâterrified that the aggressors could turn on us. This modern impotence has caused us to funnel our frustrations toward easier targets: people whose sin is saying something stupid or disagreeable. Weâre lions on the web and lambs on the street. I doubt the same person who jumps all over a blogger would also try to prevent an intense-looking man from playing music excruciatingly loudly on a sidewalk. The risk is too high for the latter act and almost nonexistent for the former. The web has reduced the barrier for every kind of connection, so people can exert minimal energy when launching their attack. And the defender must then spend all day in crisis figuring out what to do to calm the phony outrage. Believe it or not, the hassle can get you. I'm going prematurely short. There's absolutely nothing delightful about where this is headed. Words have consequences, sure. But maybe you were just joking. And joking is legal. And joking is understandable, and joking is forgivable. But sadly, "I was being sarcastic" can be trumped with "That was hurtful." Especially when âThat was hurtfulâ can be echoed by 1,000 other bored souls. We are the free-est country on the planet, yet now we seem gladly willing to give up our right to free speech, every single dayâto the horde. Call it the thought jihad, when people claim to know what youâre thinking more than you. So they wage war on projected intent, making everything from bad jokes to sarcasm a cause for an apology that, in their heads and hearts, they donât even want. I call it a form of intellectual welfare. Since everyone else is doing itâattacking people for words and never deedsâwhy not just join in? If that tactic seems to be working, Iâll do it too! Itâs a different kind of dependenceâan addiction to adrenaline one feels from conflict. Imagine what we could be doing if we stopped doing that. Iâd be knitting a sweater for my kneecaps. Seeing whatâs happening to America as it gleefully makes itself miserable; itâs like watching someone destroy himself with drugs. Will America finally seek help before it overdoses? Will it give up this stupid drug called outrage, rejecting its momentary pleasures for something more substantial? Or will we continue to police each otherâs thoughts and words, to the joy of our enemies? After all, the more we do to become as intolerant as they are, the less they have to do to achieve the same thing. We're just doing the heavy lifting now so they don't have to.
Here is your wish....Next time be more specific. Two 28 year old beautiful twin female Macaws! I shudder to think what you are going to do with them this weekend.
Is this a good time to request that people be kinder and gentler in the P&R forum? (I guess not) But seriously folks, I enjoy a good fact-based debate - even with those who disagree with me. I don't appreciate the name calling, etc. that tends to spin threads out-of-control. I know people here are traders and enjoy the rough-n-tumble discourse and many enjoy the crudity that goes with it. Sort of like a trading floor. But is it too much to ask for a little civility in our interactions? Can we self-police stepping over the line with those who have different opinions?
That means he can now see everyone he's had on ignore. I'm not necessarily happy he's gone. I simply ran out of puke at all the non-stop mindless cheerleading. So long, Ak.