Banned?

In an addendum to one of my comments at Al-Arianna about the McCain campaign, I sarcastically noted that I had reached a milestone, 400 censored posts out of approximately 2200.

I snarked a few other times over the last couple of days about the heavy handed and arbitrary nature of their moderation and now I have noticed that my archived approved comments started disappearing as well as the ones that were blocked. I believe that is leading up to a ban for not meekly taking my soma and putting up with something that is anathema to progressives, snuffing free speech in the name of a moderator's personal predilections even when those posts don't violate their stated guidelines.

In fact, often what gets wiped are long and thoughtful posts about an issue. Then when I answer a conservative troll with a pretty vicious pithy and ad hominem shot, that is permitted to survive scrutiny. What the fuck is up with that?

HuffPo's moderators have their heads up their asses and it is eventually going to drive people away because nobody can figure out where the line is. The only reason I am there so much right now is because I am obsessed with the presidential campaign. Once that is resolved, I am mulling just staying away. I can only put up with so much frustration.

Joe The Plumber: Obama Tap Dances Like "Sammy Davis Jr."

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Joe the Plumber appears to be Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher.

According to Lucas County, Ohio court records, there is a Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher who has a state income tax lien of $1,182.98. According to the court record he lives on a street that is part of the Lincoln Green subdivision.

And Joe the Plumber's Father appears to be Robert Wurzelbacher right wing fanatic and contributor who is the son in law of..... you're not going to believe this. Charles Keating.

This just gets better and better.

Oh there's also a Joe the Twice Divorced Wife Beater.

And The Joe I Haven't Had a Plumbing License Since 2002.

I wonder which of these will turn out to be the guy doing all the talk shows?

I'm sure we'll know by the end of the day.

****Update: Joe the "undecided voter" appears to be a registered Republican. He voted for McCain in the primary.

*** Update 2: There's another Wurzelbacher. Doug Wurzelbacher. Doug is active in competitive dog sled racing. Guess where he lives? Wasilla, Alaska. What are the odds? I wonder if he's related to "Plumber Joe"?

These questions need answers.

# posted by The Punisher @ Thursday, October 16, 2008
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An FYI--

A search on ancestry dot com turns up a Samuel J. Wurzelbacher at some point in the last twenty years living at - get this - 1960 W. KEATING Dr., Mesa, AZ!!!!

http://theobfuscationreport.blogspot.com/2008/10/joe-plumber-nope-joe-tax-dodger.html

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Note: I don't know why this was censored, though HuffPo has been censoring a lot of longer posts lately. Later on, I did put in a post with a short blurb about this and a link to the story, so this time around was a mixed bag. However, that only further exoses the arbitrary nature of the HuffPo censors.

Bill Maher's Fundamentalism

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Sorry, you would be wrong.

Your statement about Maher's "black and white" religious beliefs inherently justifies the existence of all purported religions, be it Christianity, Zoroastrianism, the Rev. Moon as a new improved version of Jesus and even a religion that I want to start using Harold Robbins novels as our holy text. Hey, if a bad science fiction writer, L. Ron Hubbard, can do it, I can too.

How about you give me some seed money? The more religions the better, right?

Look, religion provides comfort to people who are afraid of death because we all want to believe that after we use up our corporeal shells (is that redundant?) we will somehow carry on anyway. And it has also mostly been used as an instrument of governmental control (go to Wikipedia and look up "the Verdict of Verdun," to see one such atrocity early in Christianity that illustrates my point). Our Constitution is partly a reaction to what occurred in the English Civil War brought about by Cromwell and his buddies.

To not look at religion in this way is pure delusion. And Maher is thus much more on the right side of reality than you are.

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Obama Forced To Return Suspicious Donations

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If Obama is going to be forced to return those donations, then something needs to be said about this, too:

"From 2000 through mid-2005 [GOP Rep Dana] Rohrabacher racked up an awe-inspiring $145,463 in trips, paid for by such organizations as the Islamic Free Market Institute Foundation, the Chinese International Economic Cooperation Association, the Taiwan Association for Industry and Commerce and even the Government of Qatar. On all but one of his 13 trips (that one being to Boston), Rhonda Rohrabacher and "additional family members" came along for at least part of the ride." http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/main/it-pays-to-be-a-rohrabacher/

So not only does Rohrabacher love Muslims, but also the commie Chinese. And this is after you get to the fact that he was a pal of the Taliban before 9/11 because he saw them as a stabilizing force in the area.

Where's the outrage? And why won't the DNCC run ads against him detailing all this stuff? Please donate to his Democrat opponent, Debbie Cook: http://www.debbiecookforcongress.com/

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Note: Apparently, the moderator was a friend of Rohrabacher's. Or something. Why is the left blogosphere, especially Huffington Post, Daily Kos and Americablog not helping Cook to try to get rid of this cancer on our national political scene? This guy is ripe for the picking and we are missing an opportunity to get rid of him. We could devastate him with ads about his fondness for the Taliban, this Muslim thing and his taking money from people connected to the Chinese government. Yet, the DNCC and the blogs aren't paying attention to Rohrabacher at all. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

2 Top Alaska Newspapers Question Palin's Fitness

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If they're questioning her fitness now, wait until they take another look at that phony story about the birth of her last child.

I was talking to my mom, a retired nurse who had worked in a pediatric hospital for about 30 years. I told her the story about Palin's baby that the new VP nominee had given to the media. My mom scoffed at it, angrily noting that at the very least Palin ran the risk of a sepsis infection by not immediately going to hospital when her water broke before she gave that energy speech in Texas. Palin supposedly gave the speech, got back on the plane to Alaska and then had it the next morning. To add to this, the kid not only had Down's Syndrome, but was a month premature. Yet, Palin did not do the medically prudent thing.

And here's why: because her 16 year old daughter had that kid back in Alaska and Palin is trying to cover it up. Plain had pulled the 16 year old out of school five months prior for "mono." How convenient. At the very least, she risked the life of a premature baby with her behavior if you want to believe her story, making her too irresponsible to be believed about anything.

And even though the special needs child should have been put in an ICU and may have been), Palin only takes two days off. This definitely bears re-examination.

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Palin Adds Right-Wing Cruelty To GOP Ticket

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This was a reply to a poster who is one of those anti-abortion nuts:

Actually, it appears that it wasn't Palin's water that broke to have that Down's Syndrome baby. It was her 16 year old daughter's!

http://askingwhy08.blogspot.com/2008/08/questions-about-vp-and-some-of-her.html

GOP family and moral values at work!

McCain has always been an impulsive fly by the seat of your pants guy who was protected by his daddy and his wives. So when a non-vetted Palin becomes the GOP's answer to Tom Eagleton and has to step down for lying about this and being a hypocrite it will put the coup d' grace to McCain's presidential bid. She will be gone by the end of September.

Enjoy the McCain Campaign to Nowhere!

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Sarah Palin: Former Beauty Queen, Future VP? (PHOTOS)

She is so amazing. She managed to have her most recent baby even though she never appeared to be pregnant. I wonder what is up with THAT?

http://askingwhy08.blogspot.com/2008/08/questions-about-vp-and-some-of-her.html

Uh oh!

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The Oasis Playlist: What We're Listening To

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Okay, stop it with the self-congratulatory celebrity/politico butt kissing. I couldn't care less about your so-called "oasis." Really, this stuff just sounds vapid.

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Ted Stevens Wins Primary Despite Indictment

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Yet more proof that the GOP is America's biggest organized crime racket. They are like the Nazis in their affinity for criminals and perverts while propounding that they are the party of morality (Hitler used to inveigh against the freewheeling culture of Munich just as how the Republicans do the same about San Francisco).

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Howard Wolfson Goes To War With MSNBC

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Before my state's caucus, I was on the fence about whether to go for Hillary, who I liked a lot at the time, or Barack Obama. I ultimately chose to caucus for Obama because of his JFK-like qualities. Hillary then went Karl Rove on Obama and rightly engendered a furious amount of criticism of herself from liberal-friendly commentators (Olbermann, Maddow, etc) not because they had it in for Hillary per se, but because her behavior was so out of bounds as to be disgusting. I will never vote for her now.

If she had bowed out gracefully, which is what she should have done, then she wouldn't have taken so many verbal brickbats from liberals in the blogosphere and the media.

Wolfson thus just can't acknowledge reality and is little different from a Lee Atwater or a Roger Ailes (the Fox head, not the liberall blogger). He is just engaging in a shoot the messenger type game (how very Republican of him) and shouldn't be taken seriously.

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Little League Pitcher Banned From Playing Because He's Too Good

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John Kruk on Baseball Tonight had it right: the adults opposed to having this kid pitch with his age group are teaching their kids to be quitters. They should be ashamed of themselves and they have now become infamous thanks to the media attention and they have traumatized a child who has done nothing wrong.

This is a joke to the point of farce. Stop coddling your kids you idiots. Teach them how to compete straight up and not runaway from difficult situations. What's next? All the students of a high school class walking out and their parents forcing it to be canceled because a particularly smart kid has set the curve too high? Give me a break!

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The Arabs and the Olympics

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I think those countries are better off attempting to build economies that benefit all of their people rather than worrying about sports. It's a bit putting the cart before the horse to worry about olympic performance at the moment.

The Chinese, though, have not put aside political differences in hosting thw Beijing games. The Politburo there, as in all communist regimes, is mainly interested in propaganda value and the Chinese apparently got their money's worth here even as that country hasn't solved its vast environmental and internal economic problems and continues to put the screws to dissidents.

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Hamdan Case a Joke

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Leave it to the boobs at the Bush Administration to make people feel sorry for Osama Bin Laden's driver.

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