Tim Kisting: Conservative Genius Part Two

If this is you liberal cut and run cockroach, be very afraid, you have like 5 people looking at your blog, grow up, get a life, a job that pays more than 10.00 then become republican. I can crush you little cockroach, don't fuck with me!!!

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What wa the implied threat? crack Rock. Thought so!! Maybe Mikey Plaisted would take your case LMAO. Come to my house if you think you have my address, but the buses lines don't come out this far for welfare losers like you with massive time on your hands. But if you step on my 1 acre lot with a 400k house on it, you won't make it back, but for a body bag


The above were two comments from Tim Kisting, a person who lives in New Berlin and has been featured previously on this blog. This is the final response to him; a very untypical conservative who has made two threats now against my life and will no longer be allowed to comment here.

Dear Tim, you're very proud of your 400K house and one acre lot. It does show how shallow your life must be to think that possessions are the mark of a man. Additionally, I will say you are just a bit off on how far I would need to travel to New Berlin and what mode of transportation I would need to take.

One more thing: the individual you mentioned above is not me. Though he does have a fine name.

[Blog note: There was an address included as part of the original comment. It has been deleted. Mr. Kisting thought it might be me].

In any case, I feel truly sorry for you. You seem like such an angry person and there is really no need to be so unhappy. You seem blessed with material worth. I hope you are able to find some other measure of satisfaction in your life because it is obviously not enough.

It is a shame that someone needs to be that confrontational to the point of trying to come across as threatening. Mr. Kisting has also commented erratically at Plaisted Writes. Many of us in the blogosphere, myself included, have said things in the heat of communicating that were unkind. But no one I know has stooped to this level locally – well, maybe mickey/gus.

No, not even him.

Anyway, enough is enough. He won't be allowed to comment here anymore and will be ignored, as he should be.

Besides, his grammar is absolutely atrocious.

Where's the Beef?

I've been listening to the speeches at the Dem Convention the last two nights. Not all the time, after all the Brewers are in a pennant race. I do have priorities. Anyway, as I listened I found myself becoming excited about our chances in November. The governor from Montana (what's his name?) was quirky in his delivery, but said all the right things. Hillary actually moved me with her speech. I like Hillary, but her speechifying has never impressed me. I missed President Clinton's talk, but Joe Biden was damn good -- I especially liked his denunciation of John McCain's ("his friend") stances and his all too willingness to continue the Bush legacy.

But there was something missing. I couldn't put a finger on it, so I went back to my game, later putting the kids to bed and then myself.

Today's been busy with household chores. My mother is coming to visit from Arkansas. I'm very happy to have her with us for two weeks. As I cleaned and picked up, I couldn't help but continue to wonder what it was that was bothering me about the convention. I took a timeout and jumped around some of my featured sites and lo -- one can always count on Greenwald.

I have got to get back to work, but here are a couple of paragraphs from his opinion piece today that hit the target dead center on what has been missing (followed by a link).

First, there is almost no mention of, let alone focus on, the sheer radicalism and extremism of the last eight years. During that time, our Government has systematically tortured people using sadistic techniques ordered by the White House; illegally and secretly spied on its own citizens; broken more laws than can be counted based on the twisted theory that the President has that power; asserted the authority to arrest and detain even U.S. citizens on U.S. soil and hold them for years without charges; abolished habeas corpus; created secret prisons in Eastern Europe and a black hole of lawlessness in Guantanamo; and explicitly abandoned and destroyed virtually every political value the U.S. has long claimed to embrace.

Other than a fleeting reference to such matters by John Kerry in a (surprisingly effective) speech which most networks did not broadcast, one would not know, listening to the Democratic Convention, that any of those things have happened. Even our unprovoked and indescribably destructive attack on Iraq, based on purely false pretenses, has received little attention. Those things simply don't exist, even as part of the itemized laundry list of Democratic grievances about the Bush administration. The overriding impression one has is that the only things really wrong during the last eight years in this country are that gas prices are high and not everyone has health insurance. Those are obviously very significant problems, but they are garden-variety political issues which don't begin to capture the extremism that has predominated in this country under GOP rule, and don't remotely approach conveying the crises on numerous fronts the country faces.

More here. Thanks, Glenn.

A Series of Tubes

Still silence from the right side of the blogosphere regarding those thugs* in Alaska who voted for Alaska Senator Ted Stevens (R), even though he has been indicted for hiding $250,000 of contributions. One can only assume they're not very smart if this partial text of Steven's attempt to describe the Internet is any indication.

Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.

[...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

Kind of like the thought process that lead Jessica McBride to call those who voted for convicted former alderman Michael McGeee, thugs. She couldn't help herself. Her tubes were full of enormous amounts of racist, right-wing ideology.

(75% of Alaska's 623,000 citizens are white, by the way)

Oh, the Thugs

Who was it that said “Thugs vote for thugs,” referring to those who voted for since convicted former Milwaukee alderman Michael McGee?

Ah yes, Jessica McBride, former WTMJ radio throat and magician known for her blog disappearing act.

I'd be curious what she would have to say about Alaska Senator Ted Stevens winning the Republican primary even though he has been indicted by a grand jury for hiding more than $250,000 in gifts. I'm sure it would be something along the lines of innocence before proof of complicity (albeit not as eloquently). Well, we'll never know because Jessica has hidden herself from view and closed shop on her wastrel of a blog. Unable to stand the light of day I guess.

I do know this statement by Dave Cuddy, who finished second to Stevens, would probably have resonated with those in McGee's district who voted for him while he was held in jail: "People have been voting for Ted for 40 years and their inclination is to keep doing it.”

The thugs.

You Really Need to Leave the House

Patrick McIlheran covers a post by Patrick Dorwin of the humor blog, Badger Blogger, in which is posted a video of a trip to Burlington Coat Factory where are found -- gasp -- Soviet era clothing and other items.

Two things: Mr. Dorwin did not go on the video expedition though Paddy Mac writes that he did. And two, Mr. Dorwin wondered in his blog whether the next fashion statement would be Nazi brownshirts ... Ku Klux Klan hoods. He did not point out anything probably still being out of bounds, again contrary to what McIlheran wrote.

Aside from an issue with accuracy (remember -- McIlheran is a shill, not a credentialed journalist), don't you think these people really need to get a life if this is what trips their trigger.

Mr. Outrage and Yippee Discuss Barack Obama

Two local conservative bloggers, Mr. Outrage and Yippee the Chattering Chihuahua, recently joined forces with the McCain campaign and discussed the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama, as only they could.

As always, special thanks to the genius of Tom Tomorrow.

Very Funny Video

While I could do without the Nazi references, the rest of this song and video is right on concerning the fat slob, Rush Limbaugh. Most conservatives won't like it; not because of the content but because there is no violence.