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By SusanUnPC on February 21, 2009 at 3:34 PM in No Quarter Blog

We have worked on the spam filter, but it is still gobbling up some people’s comments. NEVER ASSUME that we have censored you. The first assumption to make is that our spam filter ate your comment.

Do not post the comment again. (That makes things worse, and i’ll explain why below the fold.) INSTEAD: E-mail me at susanunpc at gmail dot com or Larry at larry_johnson at earthlink dot net, and we will fish your comment out for you. MORE BELOW:

Why should you never post your comment more than once? Because every copy ends up in the spam filter. Besides making a bit more work for us (because we have to approve or erase EACH comment individually, we cannot “teach” the spam filter that you are not spam if we have to only okay one comment, and delete the rest. See our dilemma? So just post a comment once and if it doesn’t show up, e-mail us.

I REPEAT: Never assume that we are censoring you. For one thing, we barely have the time to read the comments that have been up for hours, let alone capture them just as they are posted! We wish!

ALSO: We need YOU, as a community, to help us if there are any out-of-line comments posted on the blog. We simply can’t catch them all. So, if you see a comment that is nasty or full of name-calling, send the FULL comment to us at the e-mail addresses above. We will take care of the “perp.” Thank you!

  • sowsear
    • PainkillerJayne

      Barry public enemy number 1……….. Rush

      Barry public enemy number 2……….. Santelli

      When Barry was running in the primaries he had an enemies list on his website. I laughed and thought this guy is delusional or really has more enemies than Richard Nixon.

      I lean towards delusional.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhXA3fXpCFk Woman Voter

    kill hillary clinton group
    http://www.facebook.com/srch.php?q=kill+hillary+clinton!&k=200000010
    ……….

    So, no PUMAs are allowed on FaceBook but Kill Hillary groups live and thrive? Advocating harm to the most prominent woman in the US is welcomed by FaceBook while PUMAS are kicked out for linking to puma sites?

    I didn’t know this was going on until I visited Not Your Sweetie site. Anyone know about this?

    • Julia

      This is repugnant

      • http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

        It HAS to be submitted to the Secret Service. Surely Facebook had the sense to do that. Isn’t it down now, btw? I couldn’t find it.

        • Andy

          NO, THEY (there are many groups!) are still up and running on Facebook….

          Here is the full link again:

          http://www.facebook.com/srch.php?q=kill+hillary+clinton!&k=200000010

          • Andy

            Agrr the last part of the link comes out wrong: don’t click on it; copy and paste the whole thing.

            http://www.facebook.com/srch.php?q=kill+hillary+clinton!&k=200000010

            • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhXA3fXpCFk Woman Voter

              We should pass this on to HillBuzz he seems like he would know whom to contact! This is so wrong on so many levels.

        • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhXA3fXpCFk Woman Voter

          They are still up, shockingly…

          Imagine if Hillary didn’t already have secret service protection and was just running…heavens. FaceBook is worried about breast feeding moms but people seeking to Kill Hillary are just fine?????????? :-(

    • andrew191

      Hillary isn’t the most prominent woman in the U.S., Pelosi is.

      Whoops, I meant preposterous, not prominent.

    • Gary McGowan

      Someone residing in the U.S. should forward this info to a Secret Service Field Office and let them take it from there.

      http://www.secretservice.gov/field_offices.shtml

  • AlexisM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAG0XMRty5Y&eurl=http://email.secureserver.net/webmail.php?login=1&gzipjs=1

    Arlo Guthrie singing “I’m Changing My Name To Fannie Mae.” ROFLMAO.

  • I’m a Linda too

    Can I ask a question?

    Does it get considered catchinga duplicate comment in the spamm filter if it seems the exact comment gets two enters on the “add comment”, but it isn’t accepted by the term “duplicate comment” appearing?

    My question is, it seems it wasn’t accepted when it flashes that, unlike my comments that seem to have accepted, but just disappeared (in the spam filter).

    I don’t know if it’s my fingers, something else or what, but sometimes I enter the comment and I see “duplicate comment” and I don’t know why it shows that.

    And then sometimes I think it didn’t sense my “add comment” or I think I didn’t hit it and then I get that “duplicate coment” too.

    Should we send an email if we get that “duplicate comment” even if our comment is posted?

    WOW, isn’t that exhausting. Sometimes phone calls work better. :)

    • Ferd Berfle

      WOW, isn’t that exhausting

      LOL. The only answer I can give is is about the duplicates. If even a single space or a letter is different from one post to its “duplicate”, it will not be picked up as a duplicate. I have unintentionally done that a couple of times.

      The spam filter, on the other hand, works in mysterious ways and is the all-knowing unknown.

    • lark

      All I know is that immediately after I hit ‘add comment’ I highlight the post and ‘control C’ for copy and then the computer begins the process of uploading the comment. Otherwise it can take eons of patience to wait for the stupid computer to upload my stupid comment.

      • Ferd Berfle

        I do the same with the control-C just to keep things humming crawling at least *moving* along.

        Otherwise it can take eons of patience to wait for the stupid computer to upload my stupid comment.

        ROFL

        • Docelder

          You know, maybe it’s not the spam filters, but connectivity and the server thinks the same content was actually uploaded twice leading to a spam flag. Or it might be some sort of “flooding” control from connectivity issues. I have not seen any of this myself, but I have fiber.

          • Ferd Berfle

            I have fiber, too. But there does seem to be a hang , at times, that is only correctable by the control-C remedy. I’ve had to do it occasionally for months, irrespective of web browser used and apparently not associated with the number of commenters on the site. I’m at a loss to explain it.

  • Julia
    • lark

      Ding ding ding… dong bong kabong! I am sure Obambi will act surprised and dumbfounded on Monday. Rats. The White House needs immediate pest treatment. I hope there is money in the stimulus for getting rid of these pest in the white house.

      • PainkillerJayne

        LMAO, that is some vetting system Barry has.

        Julia I am going to post that link far and wide.

  • Seattle Moss

    For a year I have been saying that Obama is bad for business and a threat to national security

    President Obama is putting the finishing touches on an ambitious first budget that seeks to cut the federal deficit in half over the next four years, primarily by raising taxes on business and the wealthy and by slashing spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, administration officials said

    The straw that breaks the back!

    • AlexisM

      Seattle, let him do it. He’s already ending his career as we speak. That will be the end of that piece of crap Fraud.

      • lark

        Hey Alexis, did cynic said how he liked what Michael J. Panzner said last night on Art Bell’s show? :) I guess after the show he hung himself in his bedroom from one of the blades of the ceiling fan. When the blade snapped he probably stuck his next up the ceiling fan to see if the next blade would decapitate him. Failing to kill himself both times, he is probably suing the fan manufacturer for malpractice.

        • AlexisM

          OMG lark…ROFLMAO.

    • lark

      I know. It sound so funny to me. After going on a binge, then go for treatment as an anorexic. It is simply a master strategy in his pro-forma dynamics of chaos for the country he loves dearly. The idea is to take a prepaid order for sunny side up and deliver scrambled eggs.

  • Docelder

    Glenn Beck’s War Room on now on Fox is sombering. So far the show is about what would happen in case of hyperinflation, loss of free speech etc. Not sure how far he is going, but a lot of regular folks who never think about anything are bound to blow a fuse from this. The most interesting thing may be the reactions. Myself, I have probably already thought thought this stuff, as have a lot of people here. Going to watch it anyway though.

  • TeakwoodKite

    I just wanted say thanks to the staff of NQ for rescuing the “pocket lint” from the lint screen of pergatory.

    It is no small matter considering 80 percent of internet traffic is spam.

    NQ thanks.

  • Seattle Moss

    Now that we have the ability to look back it painfully obvious that Obama and his movement have destroyed the capitalist system

    From IBG
    Last Oct. 13, in trying to explain why the market had sold off 30% in six weeks, we acknowledged that the freeze-up of the financial system was a big concern. But we cited three other factors as well

    • The imminent election of “the most anti-capitalist politician ever nominated by a major party.”

    • The possibility of “a filibuster-proof Congress led by politicians who are almost as liberal.”

    • A “media establishment dedicated to the implementation of a liberal agenda, and the smothering of dissent wherever it arises.”

    No wonder, we said then, that panic had set in.

    http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=320027936229029

    Instead of clean coal..We will be eating coal.
    Thanks for the change utopia.

    • cynic

      Nope.

      This all happened because the world was flooded with trillions of dollars worth of bogus financial instruments having purely imaginary value. The bogus instruments were created on Wall Street and permeated the entire global system. When everyone suddenly became aware of the greatest scam in financial history, nobody knew for sure who was holding all the worthless paper. No financial institution or corporation could be trusted, so money stopped moving. Moving money drives the economy, so the wheels stopped turning.

      The liberal agenda has no more to do with the story than the conservative agenda. A far stronger case can be made that this particular story is actually about pirates.

      • cynic

        45 TRILLION DOLLARS worth of Credit Default Swaps as of mid-2007, almost totally unregulated. A 28 TRILLION DOLLAR a year market.

        Is there anywhere near that amount of actual stuff of real value in the entire world?

  • Mayra Milly

    Even Barbie turning 50, agrees has to “cutting back”

    Recession Barbie:

    Recession Barbie

    But alas, androgynous Ken had made an appointment for them to visit their financial planner who had the indecency to point out that their investments were now roughly half of what they were the year before, and that perhaps they should think about “cutting back.” So Barbie agreed to fewer massages, and facials, less time with her personal trainer, to only buy “on sale” at Saks and L&T and get a few less highlights at Berdorfs. “Well at least I still have my job,” she thought.

    Hi Susan and those who enjoy that part of aging gracefully…

    I was reading about Barbie entering ‘the freedom zone’, where you don’t care if people notice you or not, where you don’t have to be a slave of fashion, where they believe ‘yes you are sick’, it is not ”something in your mind”, that it is okay to read that funny e-mail and forward it to your friends and since you are starting to have a poor memory, hey it does not matter if you remember if you send the email or not, so what, now you are free and -can smell the flowers-…enjoy!

    Want to share this, before I forget
    (*_*)

    >

    February 2–9, 2009

    courtesy of my friends at:
    thethreetomatoes dot com

    Have fun…it is just one life!

    AARP Barbie, Recession Barbie, Reinvention Barbie, Tomato Barbie and more…

    The Three Tomatoes were amused to read that New York’s Fashion Week celebrated the 50th birthday of Barbie. Yes, that still incredibly youthful looking doll turns 50 next month, and 50 top designers came up with Barbie inspired outfits for the occasion in a Barbie Fashion Show.

    Barbie is an ageless wonder. She still gets to wear princess clothes, has the body of an 18 year old, no cellulite, wrinkles, or grey hair. And she’s still with Ken, who is also ageless, and doesn’t have to worry about “ED” because, well to put it politely, he was never anatomically correct. Poor Ken. Sad Barbie. But since Barbie is now right smack in the middle of the “boomer generation”, we’d like to suggest to Mattel that they consider creating a new series of Barbies. Like, AARP Barbie, Invisible Barbie, Nip/Tuck Barbie, Recession Barbie, Downsized Barbie, followed by of course, Reinvention Barbie, and Tomato Barbie. And that got our silly brains thinking, “What would Barbie do as she turns 50?”

    Baby Boomer Barbie gets that AARP letter in the mail. Barbie was enjoying a lovely day in the last days of her 49th year, when that horrible piece of mail showed up in her mail box, making a total mockery of that “baby” boomer term. And she did what every other self-respecting not quite 50 year old woman does when the dreaded “AARP” card arrives — she shredded it to bits and pieces, yelled and screamed about her invasion of privacy, and made Ken’s life miserable for a week, since he obviously must have leaked this news somewhere. But she soon recovered her dignity, because after all, she still looks hot.

    Invisible Barbie
    Or so she thought. To celebrate her milestone birthday, Barbie’s two best friends, Midge and Christie, (who also worked for Mattel) suggested they meet for drinks at trendy, model packed A-lister wanna be hot spot, Balthazar’s for champagne and oysters. And just to catch you tomatoes up, Midge is now divorced and is thinking about appearing in the next season of The Real Housewives of New York City, and Christie lives with Tiffany, the love of her life. Barbie arrived first, wearing her Manolos, and her DKNY mini, and stood at the bar knowing it would only be minutes before one of the good looking guys standing around would offer to buy her a drink, which would be her favorite, an extra dry vodka martini, dirty of course, extra olives. And there she stood. And stood. The good looking guys at the bar gazed right past her to ogle the 20 something, empty-headed gigglers, and the bartender was too busy ogling them too to look up and take her drink order! OMG, thought Barbie in horror, “I’ve become invisible.”

    Nip/Tuck Barbie. So the next morning, slightly hung-over Barbie was walking by one of her hundreds of mirrors,and instead of seeing her usual pleasing appearance reflected back, she saw (gasp!) her Mother’s face! She immediately ordered Ken to cover every mirror in the house and booked the very first appointment she could get with Dr. Nip/Tuck in his fancy Park Avenue office. During her consultation, Dr. Nip/Tuck presented her with a wealth of options, from Botox, to liposuction, a butt lift, tummy tuck, a thigh and arm slimming surgery, an eye lift, a lower face lift, and injections that would make her hands look as young as her chemically or surgically enhanced face. Well, she thought, money can buy most anything.

    Downsized Barbie
    “So, Barbie,” the head of merchandising at Mattel started off, rather uncomfortably she thought, “we totally appreciate everything you’ve done for us over the past 5 decades, but we’re forced to downsize. HR will explain your severance package.” Shocked, she barely noticed when the Hannah Montana doll she passed in the hallway said, “We’ll totally miss you Barbie, but I’ll friend you on Facebook so we can stay in touch.”

    Reinvention Barbie
    So after taking to her bed for a full week, reading the National Enquirer, and watching The Today Show and Oprah, she realized the “secret” was to visualize her new self, get empowered, and reinvent herself. So she bought every advice book on New York Times best seller list, hired a visualization coach, a career coach, a life coach, a yoga coach, a meditation coach, a marriage coach, a shaman, meditated and mantra’d, took art classes, Italian lessons, and every course the 92nd Street Y had to offer, then one day she woke and discovered…

    Tomato Barbie
    She actually liked who she was — savvy, sexy, smart, and powerful -and she didn’t want to reinvent herself after all. And that’s when she fixed herself her own damn martini, and knew she’d be just fine. And that my friends, is how Barbie became Tomato Barbie.

    So Happy Birthday Barbie!

  • Ferd Berfle

    Spammer.

    This must be about the baker’s-dozenth thread upon which you’ve made this claim. You further claimed on another thread that he was a co-sponsor from the beginning, so your story-line is changing ever so subtly. Soon it will be that he was just hanging around when the co-sponsors were meeting.

    Kindly provide a direct link to a credible website that demonstrates his co-sponsoring of this legislation which includes proof of his co-sponsorshipfrom the beginning.

  • HardCoreDemocrat

    Fuck off.

  • Ignignokt

    There you go, making an emotional appeal to the facts again.

    The bill was introduced 07/20/2007 by Sen. Edward Kennedy, sponsor. There were 45 co-sponsors, one of whom was Barack Obama, signing on 07/20/2007.

    http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:SN01843:@@@P

    Obama wasn’t listed on the incarnation of the bill that finally passed, because that successful effort was introduced after he had resigned from the Senate. Instead, he signed it into law as President.

  • AlexisM

    Yes, HardCoreTroll, you should f**k off.

  • Ignignokt

    The truth is like a little ray of sunshine on a cloudy day, isn’t it? Have a good one, pseudo-democrat.