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To: Brumar89 who wrote (51030)	9/11/2006 7:37:39 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Say what? Is she trying for the first one-person thread? Shouldn't we tell her coug already has it? (It must be okay to use that "Assholious" phrase and I'm sure she wouldn't mind - since she uses it in her own header.) Now THAT would be positively CHOICE! :-) I see she has posted a couple posts to me on the thread following my banning. Haven't read them yet. I so love when people ban you, then try to have the last word and hurl a few last insults. It's so "polite"! Of course, they can only pretend to have the last word as there are plenty of other boards around to reply on. Yeah. And Admin Dave says it's a no-no, too, and she knows it. If you care to, you could take the matter to him. Man, THIS is a real class act! And she throws stones at us? siliconinvestor.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (51030)	9/11/2006 8:35:07 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 90947

Sorry I got you banned, Brumar. It seems you're known by the company you keep :-) I really misjudged our friend. I didn't think she would have the nerve. Judging from the hysterical tone and shouting cap's in her last post to you, I would say she had a VERY bad day.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (51030)	9/12/2006 5:50:54 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 90947

My open reply to X's hostile post to me after I was banned. (BTW I hope people will note that this post is in response to X's nasty post to me that she posted AFTER having banned me. As I've said before, in my opinion posting nasty hate-filled diatribes toward people after you have banned them from replying is an indicator of cowardice and low character. ) My banning and that of Mr. Dithers is testimony to your infamous intolerance of non-left wing views. We showed conservatives can post politely on liberal moderated boards. You showed you can't tolerate that. Your "experiment" in politeness was a failure because you failed in your short-lived attempt to maintain politeness. You couldn't maintain the veneer of politeness even in your own header. The "experiment" started out so nicely - "Finding no political thread to my liking I dedicate this thread to polite political discussion. .... Please try to depersonalize your ideas." But as the days went by the "polite" board header turned increasingly impolite and then downright ... well, "assholious", to use your own word. "Assholious" - I had to laugh when that showed up in the header of a board titled "Polite Political Discussion". With these last two bannings, the "Polite" board ceases to have a reason for existence. It now simply duplicates the View from Left of Center board. I presume it will go inactive in time like most of the boards you've founded over the years. It's not everyone who coins a new word. Especially a word that describes so fittingly their own personality. Assholiouis, The Assholious, Her Assholiousness, Assholia - can anyone who knows you on SI hear that and not know who is meant? Oh, well. Your post was a doozy. Let's go over it: ... my tolerance of people who look to the fringes, and try to tar the mainstream. That would be "intolerance". However only a demented freak would think criticism of publicly aired death wishes and assassination fantasies is a fringe view. It is only in your own fringe world that fantasizing about the assassination of a hated President can be defended as a mainstream opinion. Since I don't like you or Mr. Dithers.. LOL - So much for depersonalizing ideas. Your hatred of people you disagree with is well known. Even you can't deny it yourself. If you had more character, I'd attribute that admission to honesty. But I think it's just that you can't help expressing your hatred and contempt for conservatives. That's why your "experiment" with politeness failed. You simply aren't mature enough to be polite to people you disagree with. Plenty of bigots on the left, who try to stomp on republicans because the far rights is the way it is, but I like those lefties, so I cut them slack because of that.* Ah yes, more depersonalized ideas. That you would whine about being banned from a thread is ridiculous. Oh, I'm not going to whine. But I will expose you for what you are. And all I really have to do to accomplish that is post your own words. Back to it. Grow up and post somewhere else. I'm doing that right now. And thank you for inviting me to do it. You didn't really have to tell me to. I would have done it anyway. I hate whiners. It's so childish. What are you? 9? 10? MOMMY, the thread moderator isn't FAIRRRRRR. WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I know you hate a lot of people. You say so frequently enough. But its good to hear you don't like whining. That means we won't be hearing any more whining from you about what others have to say about you, will we? Remember now, no whining! I swear, if you boys that whine about me on SI ever grow up I'll eat my hat. Not going to happen, but it would be worth eating a hat if it did. Now go find someone to fight with who actually cares to fight with you. You don't have to fight with me. But you do have to read what I have to say about you - here and elsewhere. Not because I have any power to compel you. Because we all know you can't help reading about yourself. It's too bad you forgot you had been assholious. This was great! Since you first you used your new "assholious" word against me, you now have no reason to complain if I dub you henceforth Assholia . I don't see that have any grounds to complain since you've already used a form of the word yourself about others. Remember, no whining. If you'd been more careful I'd have continued to let you spew here, but you weren't careful. Sucks for you. Oh don't feel bad about that. It doesn't really suck for me. I know you'd like it to. I realize intolerant folks of your political persuasion would love to be commissars and banish people to dark dungeons for speech you oppose. That's why you love to start boards where you ban offending speakers. But it's fortunately only in your imagination that you can actually accomplish anything by these bans. You see there are all those other boards where you can't ban anyone. And I can and will say pretty much whatever I want to. As you can see in this post. Also as I mentioned to others, your banning me actually frees me from my self-imposed constraint of being polite to you (as long as I wasn't banned) in spite of your ... well, assholiousness ... to me and others. Turning the other cheek to obnoxious people like yourself is a Christian virtue and I honor and respect those who do it. But I have to admit it goes against my tit-for-tat nature. I suspect you felt great relief by banning me too. Wasn't it torture for you to tolerate the posts of people you despise for so long? We all know it was. No one can read the emotions you expressed above and doubt that. Well, I hope you've enjoyed my reply to your post, Assholia. Rest assured there will be more comments coming in the future. Whoops, here is the end: * In re. to Your hatred of people you disagree with is well known, here is an interesting Assholia post from April 2000. It could have been written yesterday. I am posting it to illustrate that her inability to avoid personalizing disagreements and exploding in hatred toward people she disagrees with is nothing new. Out of respect from the person she posted to, I will not post that person's identity or the link to the post - these will be provided to anyone interested by PM though Also to spare their embarrassment, I will blank out the names of people she referred to in the body of the post. 4/10/2000 10:13:00 AM From: eleutheria Read Replies (1) 77301of 108720 I am very self aware. I am hostile (as in I take positions against) to ideas. There are LOTS of people I don't like- but I don't care enough about them to be hostile- it's a matter of degree. Perhaps you mistake honesty for hostility. It isn't hostile to dislike people who are completely unappealing to you. If you (who I don't like) or [**] (who I do) advanced the same idea- I wouldn't disagree with you and agree with her. I might ignore you, seeing no need to discuss something I already agreed with with someone I don't like, but I might do the same to her merely because I might think chiming in would be repetitive. I would disagree with both of you if either of you advanced an idea I perceived as silly. I might worry about [*'s] feelings and I wouldn't worry about yours- but that is hardly hostile, it's merely not going out of my way for people I don't care about. People aren't worth the waste of time. I TRIED to get this across to [**]- but it seems to be a foreign idea here. Ideas aren't personal- they are just, ideas. I really think you need to take this discussion up with some of your friends, who are, in fact, hostile. Perhaps long association with such people has confused you. [ link deleted - inquire by PM if interested ] Compare the similarities between the post from April 2000 and the one from the yesterday: " I am hostile (as in I take positions against) to ideas. There are LOTS of people I don't like- but I don't care enough about them to be hostile.... Perhaps you mistake honesty for hostility. It isn't hostile to dislike people who are completely unappealing to you. If you (who I don't like) .... I might worry about *'s [ditto] feelings and I wouldn't worry about yours- but that is hardly hostile, it's merely not going out of my way for people I don't care about. People aren't worth the waste of time." .................................... "Since I don't like you or Mr. Dithers, I have no reason to cut you any slack for your bigotry. Plenty of bigots on the left, who try to stomp on republicans because the far rights is the way it is, but I like those lefties, so I cut them slack** because of that. .... " What I find interesting is this persistence of this ugly personality disorder with no change or growth. She can't talk about a disapproved idea without telling the people who hold the idea how much she dislikes them. The intent is clearly aggressively hostile despite her denial in the first post - no one goes around telling people how much they don't like them unless they want to hurt the person. In times past, I've noticed Assholia try to turn over a new leaf and renounce her poisonous past. Yet she can't help reverting to her basic personality pattern again and again and again.