elsa: My first troll

From Wikipedia:

"In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response[1] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[2]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Troll

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"Whoever thinks that those are canadian snipers are retards!" elsa, Oct 4/09 (First post)

"I wasn't attacking you at first just the incorrect information provided." elsa, Oct 16/09

"I was never initially trying to be rude..." - elsa, Oct 20/09

So his first words, calling me and many others "retards" for believing an email were not rude? If it wasn't rude to me and everyone who saw it before me it was most certainly an insult to the millions of people who have mental health issues or a relative who does. Nice work, Mr Diplomat!

Definitely inflammatory with a side order of lying after the fact. (there's more "non-initial" poo being flung if you read the rest of his comments via the link below).

Then again, maybe the Shakespeare Whisperer doesn't technically TRY to be rude— it may just come naturally to him! Here's a link to the post that made him go caveman:

Canadian Sniper Kill Shots in Afghanistan.

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There's an ironic element to his indignation. The video link he objected to (described as actual Canadian military snipers by an American) portrays a bunch of his fellow Americans, pretending to be snipers! (This they do by bravely blasting the smithereens out of animals like they were shooting at tin cans, and leaving the carcasses to the vultures.)

Successfully looking up words in a dictionary is not the same as successfully using them together.

Pat Condell on the Islamic Threat to Freedom

Here is why Islam is a threat to our western culture:

9/11

Please remember the victims of Islamic violence who perished on September 11, 2001.

Here is information on the memorial being planned for them in New York City:

http://www.national911memorial.org/site/PageServer?pagename=New_Visit_Preview

Smothering Society: Who benefits from all the new safety laws the Left creates?

If your first answer wasn't "Lawyers", you might just be one.

The left parades every new safety law (personal and workplace) with their usual "just-savin'-the-world-again" smugness. What they NEVER do is go back to see if their last "save the world law" had any effect in a statistical way or not.

The only sure thing about the passage of m0re and m0re laws is that lawyers get richer and more numerous, and we all become more like slaves of the state.

How the Left suffocates our Freedom, Part I: Personal Injury

Tonight I caught the end of a story on TV about new major league baseball helmets being introduced that can withstand a 100 mph fastball. The players, being practical, say they don't want a 12 pound box on their heads. OK, I thought, someone with lots of money to burn wants the pros to buy his helmet, and he'll learn about the marketplace the hard way. Then the segment ended by saying that there are plans to make it mandatory for minor leagues and hope it spreads up into the big leagues.

When I asked my wife if the story said how many people were killed by fastballs she said they profiled two people with brain damage. Two people out of a population of millions? The average calculator doesn't show that many decimal places. What seems to be happening in the west is that the left has decreed that ALL of society must grieve and pass laws to eliminate risk after each and every death or injury.

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The individual stories are very sad, and I feel sorry for those who suffer. The problem is we all suffer at one time or another. The goal of ending suffering, as exemplified by 100 mph helmets is one more example of how, if nothing changes, we will eventually cease to be free.

We cannot be free if our risk policy is that one injury or death should compel the majority to turn their moderate approach to risk into a panic mode approach. We are now mourning ALL the time about something, and I don't care how many scary pictures of injured people you show me, nothing you or I do will ever stop people from getting hurt. What WILL change is that we'll eventually have to get Big Brother's permission for everything, and we'll STILL have all kinds of accidental suffering.

It is a characteristic of the Left to pass laws that limit what we can do in the name of their never-ending quest to eliminate risk in life. They don't care how many things they ban, or how long it takes. The Left continues to smother and stifle society in the name of safety.

Part II later: Who benefits from all the new safety laws?