Nano banned everybody who joined me at the new forum.
Thanks for the tale. I hadn't spent much time at any conservative forum until I discovered IAL while reading comments at one of Breitbart's sites one day and someone had linked to this site. Not sure why I choose to follow the link that day I often don't go to sites because my expectations aren't high for anything worthwhile. But I've said it before--I do enjoy coming 'round here. Most days we all seem to be using the same oar up stream in these frightening times and then there are days when I wonder what the hell are those guys paddling with? But nonetheless, it's never mean or nasty. It's refreshing to be able to debate and no one is worse for wear. AND it's refreshing to be able to laugh and not debate too.
... then there are days when I wonder what the hell are those guys paddling with?
That I did. Hooked from the start.
Oh boy, and you dove right in, too. You spent days reading everything 'round here.
... then there are days when I wonder what the hell are those guys paddling with?
Some of us'n's of "those guys" you mean? Hell, LV; different strokes, right? But, we'll be pulling in the same direction come a crunch, I figger. Savvy?
Yeah Curtis, heard that he took a hard left turn along the way.
And Del Dolmonte him also, an angry left too. Guess being reasonable
got to him and he wigged out.
Yeah Curtis, heard that he took a hard left turn along the way.
And Del Dolmonte him also, an angry left too. Guess being reasonable
got to him and he wigged out.
Wow - how unfortunate.
It's amazing what you can find when you look...in both cases it took me only two to three hours of detective work using nothing more than clues left online and deduction.
Let that be a warning to some of you to not leave too many breadcrumbs leading back to the real world.
It's amazing what you can find when you look...in both cases it took me only two to three hours of detective work using nothing more than clues left online and deduction.
Let that be a warning to some of you to not leave too many breadcrumbs leading back to the real world.
There's nothing like a little cyber stalking to engage the brain cells.
I've never tried to find someone behind their user name. I do look up people I knew in college when their name shows up in the alumni news. One woman took me a few hours to figure out. But I discovered she went from being a strict Catholic with a husband and two kids to married three times and Jewish.
The other one was a PLF kook whose online name I can't even remember now...
...I no longer even recall the name of the moderator (Jim something?) who banned him....
It was my memory that the moderator was Joe Malchow and he was mostly absent...perhaps looking in once or twice a day to see if things where beginning to spiral out of control. The place pretty much was unguided until the very end when there were some ban hammers dropped and then they just pulled the plug.That's right, I forgot about him. I think he was there from the start, helping them get it up and going, and Hoft came on board when Malchow left. Joel, wasn't it? For sure I remember a couple email conversations with Hoft at the time, so I know I'm not imagining his involvement, I'm just unsure of the timeline I guess.
But yeah, they pretty much had the biggest forum for conservatives and just didn't see the value in it. If we had a tenth of that kind of traffic I don't know what we'd do.
It was my memory that the moderator was Joe Malchow and he was mostly absent...perhaps looking in once or twice a day to see if things where beginning to spiral out of control. The place pretty much was unguided until the very end when there were some ban hammers dropped and then they just pulled the plug.That's right, I forgot about him. I think he was there from the start, helping them get it up and going, and Hoft came on board when Malchow left. Joel, wasn't it? For sure I remember a couple email conversations with Hoft at the time, so I know I'm not imagining his involvement, I'm just unsure of the timeline I guess.
But yeah, they pretty much had the biggest forum for conservatives and just didn't see the value in it. If we had a tenth of that kind of traffic I don't know what we'd do.
As to my health if I make it till the morning I will be surprised.
I can't even cut and paste articles I see that normally I would post here.
I just had a phone call with my sister and said basically my last goodbye to her and she was here only yesterday to visit.
Seeing a group of posters, who used the hospitality of your forum to make over 20,000 posts among them, leave in a manner designed to hurt you, then act as though they were victims, was the saddest thing I've seen on the Internet.
I did not know of your health problems .... as of now you are in my prayers ...
The board will recover and prosper ... a few people leaving will not kill it.
Not to give it away but my companies built 3/4 of the backbone that is the internet today.
It is still out there and still working and helping us all.
I just woke up after what goes for me as a long sleep by my standards of late. Still hurting and in deep pain.
I haven't been a drama queen on this but had a sincere belief I would be leaving.
Thank all of you for your most kind words.
It took 20 minutes and 18 edits to type this so it looked a bit presentable.
Part of that is the alcohol I am consuming to kill the pain. Normally I drink only a few beers but yesterday I went through 2 1/2 fifths of Southern Comfort out of need to kill pain off.
Kitty just woke me up with her desire for food. She is a beautiful thing.
For those who would like to think I am recovering you are I am sorry to say wrong.
I am suffering from oxygen slow starvation and getting worse.
Soon I may lose my sight or my sanity and the rest will be an auto pilot end trip.
Hey, dig the new avatar BTW Trap. What prompted the change?
Okay, so morbid curiosity got the better of me and I went to CT just now to look around.
Crap, what a dead site. Only four members there in the last 24 hours .... the execrable Evon...
It's been a while, but I remember Orions by name, if not attitude. The names we've already mentioned (and some better left unmentioned!) I've had my share of run in's with also. Then there were the specialists who only chimed in on certain topics, I remember Old Jim (I called him Old Jaundice)...bitter old bastard, always thought waterboarding was on par with tossing people into ovens, Geneva Convention this & that...ugh! You knew the topics and who would say what and the flaming was on. The psuedo-intellectual jackasses like wDight & he-who-shall-go-unmentioned being the most insufferable. April was a grade-A dingbat. I could see her chaining herself to a redwood or something and being sawed in half. I also see Del posting at HotAir, not sure about the turn to the dark side, but I cannot say I was overly impressed by anything he posted that I read. I might have to pay closer attention to that. It's kind of hard commenting in their format, and posts can go ignored or just passed by in the side-chatter.
Heh! I love it when SH brings his "A" game, rarely does the master disappoint!
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