Tim Blair

I assume this was just his introduction to 'sleeping with the enemy' but then looking at his wife, this wasn't the first dog that he got to know very very well

OH NO! KERRY HAS OWNED PETS! THE FOURTH SEAL IS BROKEN.

Some of you are freaks. Out and out freaks.

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You know, Ixy, I'm really getting tired of your shit. You say nothing useful, and your "insults" are simply lame. I am thinking of, not banning you, but doing something creative with your next comments, since your own writing is so dull. Perhaps I will change them all to poetry in praise of gay sex (I'm sure I can find some on this internet thing) or links to "My Little Pony" fan websites.

But I don't want to deprive anyone else here of any entertainment. After all, just because Mr IXIXIXIX's spewings are not to my taste doesn't mean he does not bring laughter and merriment to others. (People watch those reality-tv things, I think they are about as compelling viewing as watching paint dry.) So what do you say, guys and gals? Should I make Mr. IXNIXSIXSTIX's entries here more, er, interesting? Or should I leave him be? Or should I simply ban him, since after all bandwidth and webspace don't grow on trees for free.
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Banning differing opinion?

Yes you should, but first let me cache this so I can use it to display your real methods of dealing with intellectual discourse not to your liking.

Censure.

make them more interesting please!

The problem, IXLNXS, is that you are not only boring, you're incredibly predictable. Mostly my eye slides over your stuff on the way to something possibly interesting. I am assuming you get something out of your posts, but darned if I can figure out what that might be. Your life must be really boring if you can't find something better to do than spout predictable, boring stuff at a basically uninterested audience.

Oh, Mr IXSHSXHSHSX, let me help you: here's a screenshot. Never let it be said that I'm not willing to help a person in need! Now if you will excuse me, I have to go laugh hysterically for about half an hour at your labelling of your own paresis-inpired drivel as "intellectual discourse." Meanwhile, the rest of you add your opinions to Kevin's! I'll be collecting the votes after I am able to breathe again.

INXS (btw, i love your song "the one thing"....)

Does the equivalent of "I know you are but what am I" really qualify as intellectual discourse, or even opinion? Perhaps you should up the grade level of your posts.

Bruce Ruxton used to have a dog called Rommel.

Andrea, as long as he keeps his remarks short and stupid (of which he is a master), leave him alone. He's obviously not heavily armed.

BTW, Kerry's dog was named VC (Viet-Cong?), and he was very fond of it! Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

Kerry’s crewmates named their dog VC?

He was just positioning himself for his new career back home.

And say.....doesn't that imaginary foreign leader look like a Real foreign leader, coulda' fooled me!

Let's put it this way.

If Kerry didn't have a dog. Never owned one.

The right wing psycho cult that lives for this stuff would say you couldn't trust a man who didn't own a dog.

There are real issues that over ride political party. The fact Kerry is a looser in no way detracts from the fact that Bush and cronies are liars and thieves.

As an American I would hope people would start seeking truth in all things, instead of bending it to support liars, thieves, and dill holes.

Or in super hero talk.

Use your powers for good instead of evil.

I don't really see the point of the animal question. Do you suppose they ate that dog?

I would leave the disgruntled american's posts alone. Censure is what the is practiced at the DemocraticUnderground.com website. I quote from their forum registration rules:

"We ban conservative disruptors who are opposed to the broad goals of this website. If you think overall that George W. Bush is doing a swell job, or if you wish to see Republicans win, or if you are generally supportive of conservative ideals, please do not register to post, as you will likely be banned."

Hey IX - if you were offering a different opinion, there wouldnt be a suggestion of banning you. But typing:

"OH NO! KERRY HAS OWNED PETS! THE FOURTH SEAL IS BROKEN.

Some of you are freaks. Out and out freaks."

Is not a different opinion. It is a) a misrepresentation of the main point of the post (that Kerry would use any excuse to mention 'Nam), and then just random abuse. Whilst I am sure banning will give his 17 y/o mind some form of satisfaction, that is a price i am willing to pay to remove his rantings. I like when people argue on here, but you need to support your opinion, not just take a mindless contrary stance and then claim free speech protection. You want to rant IX? - start your own blog and generate your own traffic. Till then, don't go away mad, just go away.

Alter away Andrea he is as predictable as Mork.

"Censure is what the is practiced at the DemocraticUnderground.com website."

Yeah I get in trouble over there to. I use several names. Been banned twice. seems leftist whackos refuse to hear truth or fact any more than right wing whackos do.

The 45 word limit seemed to work for trolls whose output was vastly superior to the current troll's undergraduate inanities.

Hmm. Maybe a 45 character limit would be more in order.

"Intellectual discourse"? Surely you jest IXLNXS?

Every parakeet I have seen could easily be taught to speak Finish, Sanskrit, Inuit and Latin. Parakeets are born being fluent in Italian and French. Because Kerry is such a poor leader, the parakeet’s mind regressed under his leadership.

Funny thing, the same thing that happened to the parakeet under Kerry’s leadership happened to every member of the Democrat Party. Not only did the Democrats’ mind regress, they refuse to use a toilet. They defecate on newspapers instead. But only after they have chased off the parakeets.

"Intellectual discourse"? Surely you jest IXLNXS?

"Intellectual discourse"? Surely you jest IXLNXS?"

Well yes of course I jest. Think when the bomb comes I want to be one of those who cowered in the corner daily just waiting for it to hit? No I try and spend each day laughing my ass off as often as possible. Oh, and Australians don't taste as good as I thought. Mexicans give you the runs. Never seems to be enough Chinese a half an hour later. But that Canadian Bacon I have been hearing about sounds mighty good.

Mining for some drivel, aren't we? Kerry is asked a question about pets. He answers. The answer includes an element regarding his service in Nam and it's an issue all of a sudden?! I think IXYs point is that this isn't news. It's opportunism - both on Kerry's part and Tim Blair's. I'm sure John Kerry won't be the first candidate to exploit an opportunity remind people of his percieved positive points. (can you say "9/11 exploitation in campaign ads"?)

This 'exploitation' BS is apparently going to get a nice run, up there with the stolen election and the plastic turkey.
Once again - what did you expect him to run on? Just not mention that slightly important event? Or to put it another way, if Bush had made a hash of 911, do you think that the Dems wouldn't perhaps mention it? The quotes from blatant Kerry supporters among 911 families was one of the more outrageous incidents of media bias recently. And, just like the stolen election and the plastic turkey, people are happy to go along with it, even after it has been disproved. The cognitive dissonance that must be involved involved staggers me

Kerry is asked a question about pets. He answers. The answer includes an element regarding his service in Nam and it's an issue all of a sudden?!

It's not an issue, it's a joke. One that Kerry is determined to live up to. He's like a walking Saturday Night Live sketch.

"Coffee or tea, Mr. Senator?"
"Well, when I was in Vietnam we drank coffee, so I'd like some coffee please."

Wait, I flubbed it by making a choice. He'd probably really say:

"Well, when I was serving honorably in Vietnam we drank coffee, but in Vietnam they also brew delicious teas."

IXIGULLIBL: As an American I would hope people would start seeking truth in all things

Says the guy who still thinks we went into Afghanistan for a pipeline. . .

I say ban him, Andrea. Seriously. Even Miranda could be expected to respond honestly in her own braindead way, Nem only tries to hijack everything into "BUSHLIED!" and Mork actually uses his brain. Each of them has their own points to make, though. IXL just switches arguments mid-post so he can keep flaming. That's not discourse, it's disruption.

Coffee or tea, Mr President?

I'll make my decision tomorrow based on some old CIA data I have here under the carpet. Have a press conference organised on the deck of the John C Stennis. I'll fly in myself.

Release the hounds.....

yuh, IXLELOT should go. or maybe change all his words to pony appreciation. i dont appreciate being called a right wing whacko anyhoo

Was ol' VC also a Heinz? Just wondering.

"Wait, I flubbed it by making a choice. He'd probably really say"

No you flubbed it by being closed minded. Refusing to accept obvious truths. All for the dignity of a political group. Your a real team player.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=slv1-&ei=UTF-8&p=flip+flop+bush

Here we see there are many who will argue the truths of George Bush. That he flip flops.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=slv1-&ei=UTF-8&p=flip+flop+kerry

But here I am willing to show that Kerry plainly does so as well according to political needs, or what he ate for breakfast.

You feeling that unless one agrees with you, they must be the enemy, fail to see discourse can lie in an understanding of the middle ground. Your viewpoints usually tend to the extreme.

Here allow me to illustrate. A simple study in subjective terminology.

Todays Quote.

"Americans are a live-and-let-live people, offering tremendous freedoms. Jews are largely allowed to be who they are, with just a modicum of consideration for the majority."

Now I am going to change the wording very slightly.

"Americans are a live-and-let-live people, offering tremendous freedoms. Jews are largely allowed to be who they are, with just a modicum of consideration for the majority."

Offended yet?

"Americans are a live-and-let-live people, offering tremendous freedoms. Negroes are largely allowed to be who they are, with just a modicum of consideration for the majority."

How about now?

"Americans are a live-and-let-live people, offering tremendous freedoms. Teenagers are largely allowed to be who they are, with just a modicum of consideration for the majority."

At issue here shouldn't be over which is the better liar. Who flip flops the most. Who had a dog. Went to war. Attended which college. Screwed which prom queen. The issue should be rather why, in a country that is supposedly the greastest bastion of democracy in the world is left with such poor choices either way.

Guess that old saying you get what you deserve is really gonna be hitting home come November.

Naw! Let him keep posting - it allows all of us to realize that the left really has no good arguments. Presuming he is just trolling, who knows what his real persuasions are, but the poor quality of his attempts are testiment to the fact that the left, labor, dems, really don't have anything of substance to offer in the political debate. The right, republicans, tories have already ceded that government has a right to move in to the private sphere, so nothing left for the other side.

Let him stay and demonstrate the vacuum that stands for ideas on the left.

Intellectual discourse? Dill hole? What a silly boy.

Anyway, I can't believe Kerry took a dog into a free fire zone. Was the dog suitably equipped with flak jacket and life preserver? What was Kerry thinking?

If the pooch was still alive it could be the mascot for Kerry's "band of brothers". Even better, imagine the dog still alive despite having lost a couple of limbs to a "VC grenade" it dropped.

Kerry knows no shame.

"Guess that old saying you get what you deserve "

You are an ass-clown. What old saying? Do you mean 'get the leaders they deserve'? Or did you just make it up? People rarely get what they deserve, though Osama, Uday and Qusay did.

Ban away Andrea

Maybe I'm missing something here, but I thought Tim was commenting on the oddness of the dog's *name*, not making fun of Kerry for owning a dog.

Though actually, when I saw the name "VC" my first thought was "Victoria Cross" and it seemed par for the course for a Kerry-type to name a dog after a military decoration, especially a European one :).

" One day as our swiftboat was heading up a river, a mine exploded hard under our boat. After picking ourselves up, we discovered VC was MIA. Several minutes of frantic search followed after which we thought we'd lost him. We were relieved when another boat called asking if we were missing a dog. It turns out VC was catapulted from the deck of our boat and landed confused, but unhurt, on the deck of another boat in our patrol"

Doesn't this story appear to be a bit over the top?
A mine explodes under a swift boat with enough force to launch the pup yet seems to cause no damage to the boat. And the pup miraculously lands on another boat unscathed.
Kerry needs some fact checking here.
Let's put a call in to Mr. Gardner.

Was his dog really named VC?

That is funny because AllahPundit has a Kerry campaign poster parody that says "Kerry '04 - You can't spell victory without VC"

On patrol a member of the team yells out VC! Kerry says no you idiot iv got on a leash.

His current dog is a retriever and his current parakeet is yellow.

Fetch those troops, Cym! we're outta here!

Intellectual discourse is fine. Problem is that while we're on discourse, IXIOT wanders off onto datcourse over dere.

Naming a dog after the enemy sounds like typical combat humor, but the dog getting flung by an explosion sounds like the special effects from the A-Team.

Any references whatsoever to any part of the President's record, or any events occurring within the last three years, should be seen as inappropriately capitalizing on his own performance and the exploitation of reality at the expense of whatever Democratic constituency that can also be seen to inhabit that reality.

It is also blatant exploitation of the Office of President for President George W. Bush to use the words "President" or "George W. Bush" or "President George W. Bush" or any image or representation of the aforementioned in any of his campaign ads.

Lastly, any criticism of the above policies or proscriptions is, by definition, censorship and/or the shredding of the Bill of Rights.

Yeah, bannination is in order. Hate to get rid of "intellectual discussion" like "Some of you are freaks. Out and out freaks" (Keep speaking truth to power ISEXLINUX!) At least it saves us the trouble of trying to trick him into saying his name backwards to send him back to the fifth dimension. He's so tedious he makes me long for Big Hawk.

Care for some expensive wine with your long lunch?

have you seen the new Spanish currency at www.StrangeCosmos I recommend a visit.

For some bizare reason I cannot give the entire website address because it comes back as "questuionable content"? I have honestly no idea why. nonetheless, google shoud find it.

"At least it saves us the trouble of trying to trick him into saying his name backwards to send him back to the fifth dimension."

Superman comic book freak.

I might use that next screen name just for you.

The real question is, did good ole V.C. manage to rack up 3 purple hearts in 4 months? Oh, wait, he probably couldn't fill out the application forms nominating himself fast enough. Opposable thumbs and all that.

What ever happened to that dog?

He kind just moved along without even mentioning it again. Has em forgets where he leaves them, gets more.

Probably a dope head.

What the hell is this banning urge that females have? Jesus. The seals joke is fine, and perhaps somebody hasn't seen it. It will go lame when it goes lame. In the meantime, he just didn't get the point, but what else is new? Pet -> Vietnam, a winner in the Vietnam drinking game. It's a _lame_ loser and Kerry thinks it's a winner, is all. A tin ear is always funny. The world will end with some lame line, probably. We just hope it isn't about Vietnam.

When I was on a destroyer in vietnam we weren't allowed to have enemy dogs on board. We weren't allowed to have friendly dogs on board, and we were definitely not allowed to have acrobatic dogs on board. It causes problems when the guns go off.

I can see it now, as President Kerry sees the bright flash of the nuclear detonation he won't live to to send the police out to deal with, his last words will be:

"You know, I learned while reading the words of French Philosphers while I was serving on a swift boat in Vietnam that we humans are eternally destructive and that fighting never solves anyt--"

IXOMATOSIS is a bandwidth thief. He has nothing worthwile to contribute, and never will. Ban him. He can pay for his own blog if he wants to continue polluting the net.

As i sat on the toilet last night and had a shit i was reminded of a crap i once had in Vietnam when i was captaining a boat on the Num Dong Dang river, (did i tell you that i was in Vietnam)?.. anyway, there i was grunting away and i was instantly transported back to my tour of duty in Vietnam (did i ever tell you that i served there? no? ok). Anyway, this reeking POO i was pushing just reminded me SO much of being in Lim Dik street in Vietnam, (did i tell you i onced served there?). (to be continued).

Here in Cape Town we have a large number of old white Rhodesians who fled into exile with their millions. They are ciommonly known as the Wenwes, because every single remark or diatribe about the iniquities of our present government is prefaced by "When we were in Rhodesia ..."

Perhaps a similar term should be coined for "When I was in Vietnam" Kerry.

I just keep thinking about what kind of mind would name a dog 'VC', in a warzone, where the enemy is commonly called VC.

How could you call the dog? Yelling 'VC' in 'Nam is a real good way to get a fire fight started--and wind up with a dead dog--and possibly some dead GIs.

I know it's cute to give dogs odd names, but even JFK isn't that stupid...this sounds like another foreign/more leaders occurence.

Oh, as far as IX, goes, the minute we start banning these fools we become no better than DU/Indy and their ilk.

But I think random tweaking of his posts might be interesting--we could make a game of it. Winner can tell the difference between the real and the tweaked

Oh, as far as IX, goes, the minute we start banning these fools we become no better than DU/Indy and their ilk.

I thought about that.

If it were my blog, I'd just ban him. The moral equivalence is a false one, I think; we are not banning difference of opionion here, but truly abhorrent rantings of a diseased mind.

Changing his words is funnier, but in some ways it's worse than banning him. Whatever. I leave it to Tim and Andrea. I have no doubt they will come up with a suitable fix to the problem.

Does anyone have a frame shot of the eBay page? Unfortunately, eBay appears to have taken it down.