If you have sent me email over the past 24-hours or so, and you are awaiting a response… don’t hold your breath.
As the result of a really stupendous spam attack (at its peak I was receiving hundreds, if not thousands of emails a minute) my mail server has been down for almost a day. I do not know if this attack was commercially or politically motivated, but either way it is an attack on my Constitutional right to free speech, and either way I just want to tell the perpetrators: FUCK YOU!
This is a cowardly, selfish and rude way of doing business, whatever your business may be. I would have added the descriptor “unAmerican,” but too often these days, this is how I see my fellow Americans treating their fellow man.
Goldy
It’s not spam mail, it’s FAN mail.
Fact: As long as Muuuuslims don’t vote Republican, most Democrats could give a shit about terrorism. BUSH is their enemy, not Democrat voting Muuuuuuslims.
6 million Muuuuuuslims in the USA…………Gee, I wonder how they vote??? [ANS: The same way as Sandy “Socks” Berger and Carl Grossman] hehe, JCH
Fuck the righties who can’t stand a level playing field!
“Are there any men left in Washington, or are they all Democrats like Carl Grossman?”
considering you post you fucking e-mail address: goldy@horsesass.org on your website, you should likely expect a lot of spam. I get hundreds a day and I removed my e-mail address from my website a couple years ago.
Further, liberals never do anything like DoS attacks of google bombing, right?
Oh, that’s right, it’s just free speech…
Oh, that’s right #2, anything that is bad is the republicans fault. I forgot. Back in line, lemmings.
SO FUCK YOU!
Hundreds a day mean you have an e-mail address on a website. (I should know, I get that too.)
Hundreds a minute is a deliberate attack. The poster at 1:35 pm seems to know all about that.
Perhaps the poster is of the impression that we somehow approve of anything that any self-declared liberal does. This is not the case. If anyone does a DDoS attack on any website, 99.9% of all liberals would condemn it, yours truly included.
You, however, seem to applaud the attack. Looking at your spelling, you are probably not Scumbag JCH (he got a demotion from Recruit).
Seems to me that some NeoCon is afraid that people here might be a bit too effective. Can’t have folks disputing your talking points now, can we?
Asshole @6,
I made the decision to publish my email address because I wanted to make it easy for people to get ahold of me, knowing full well that it would attract a certain amount of spam. On a normal day, I might deal with 400 to 600 spams, most of which are caught by my spam filter, and don’t get in my way.
What happened yesterday was vandalism.
That you think I deserve to be subject to such attacks speaks volumes about you.
Work “back” to the IP address of the spammer with your ISP. Perhaps a public outing would help.
It’s been over two weeks now, and its an open thread, so its time once again to ask Mike! – when did you make the call.
After criticizing Maria Cantwell for “voting against Washington families”, he neglected to mention that Maria Cantwell is the author of a senate bill to restore the State Sales Tax Deduction. The bill passed the Senate, but is still waiting for the Republican House leadership to bring it to the floor of the House.
So for “Mike!”, the supurb negotiator who managed to talk Safeco’s Board of Directors out of 28.4 million dollars for two months of part-time work, this should be easy pickings. Just pick up the phone, and call the Republican Senate Majority Leader and the Republican Speaker of the House, and tell them its vitally important to Washington families that Cantwell’s bill get passed, so would they please quit the partisonship bickering and pass the bill in the House? After all, its “Mike!” who claims that he wants to get beyond partison politics, and work for Washington’s families even if it goes against the wishes of his party leaders, right?????
So Mike! – when did you place the call? Why have you not publically decried the Republicans in D.C. who are costing Washington families hundreds of dollars in tax deductions that are available to states which use an income tax instead of sales taxes to raise funds?
I’ts been two weeks, and not much time is left before Congress finishes business and recesses for the election. Better get too it!!!!
Or maybe, the whole issue is just another misleading campaign issue, like the adds you “regretted” running in Gorton’s campaign, and you have no intention of helping Washington’s families unless it can help you get re-elected at the same time?
fuck_you_goldy @ 6
A Google bomb is not a DoS attack. Look it up, fool.
I saw Mike!s new ad whre he tells a cute little story about breaking a window with a skateboard and mowing lawns to pay to back. Then he starts blathering about how “taking responsibility and solving problems” is “what we need as a nation, and that we “need to bring back that kind of…problem solving to our national government.” Mike! should get a clue that people already knows he lies, and thus that his “character” ads ring hollow.
One thing I noticed specifically is that Mike! never says in his ads things like “I will do X.” Seriously, you should listen for that. I’m listening to the ad, and I’m thinking “We need a lot of things, but what are YOU going to do?” Mike! doesn’t answer.
Perhaps Mike! is unsure of or unwilling to say exactly what he stands for. Certainly he tells the audience nothing of what he will do to fix the corruption and ineptness in his party. If McGavick is the best our State Republican Party can do, Washington will continue to have two very effective female Senators in 2007.
http://video.google.com/videop.....6202073958
Just a reminder of what’s going on in the rest of the U.S. while we “Blather” on about politics…..
The morning drive host on KZOK this morning (Bob Rivers), at about 6:50 A.M., said he knows that an election is coming up, but he has been avoiding paying any attention to it, and sometime over the next few weeks he will have to set aside some time to look over the Voters Pamplet mailed by the Secty of State’s office. The several other members of the show echoed those thoughts.
So while we have been arguing over politics at some length on this forum, apparantly a lot of the country isn’t even involved yet.
Time to get out and talk to the neighbors, folks. Nature abhors a vacume, and the Republicans will try to fill it with misleading television ads. McGavick has to spend that 28.4 million dollars Safeco provided him for this campaign somehow, doesn’t he? Let your neighbors know the facts in advance, and when the decepting Republican ads start to appear, it will do them more damage than good.
DaddyLove at 12 – So “Mike!” is re-running those old broken window ads? The ones he was running back in June or July, where he says his mother (or father – I forget which) marched him over to take responsiblity and pay for the window? The ones where he doesn’t even mention what party he’s from, or what office he is running for?
The thing which struck me regarding the original ad – aside from the “stealth” attempt to pretend he wasn’t a Republican – was that he had to have one of his parents make him do the right thing. Maybe its a bit unfair to expect a child to do the right thing all the time, but gee whiz, by the time I was eight I didn’t need my parents to tell me I had to clean up after my own mess, or take responsiblity for damage I caused, even if it was not intentional!
The Republicans are going to drag out every trumped-up scandal, every bogus charge, every character smear, and every dirty trick in their very large book in order to deflect voter attention to supposedly “local” issues or false equivbalencies (such as between Maria Cantwell’s alleged ethics violation and the Republican culture of corruption) instead of allowing voters to pass judgment on the GOP’s corrupt and deceitful reign, and specifically, their sheeplike and uncritical support for the president’s disastrous policies.
We can’t let this happen. At every turn, we must respond with reminders that it’s all about Bush and Iraq (and Katrina), and it’s about accountability and oversight. Republicans won’t do it, so it’s time for a change. Democrats will hold them accountable.
I don’t care if your penis is covered with sores, I’ll blow you for five bucks as long as you let me call you Tookie!
–John Craig Herman
Doctor JCH Kennedy STOP SPAMMING GOLDY!!!!!!!!!!
The rightwing attack on Justice Gerry Alexander shows just how loony the right has become. Alexander is a lifelong Republican, noted for moderation if not conservatism in both lifestyle and politics. He has never been someone to upset the apple cart. Nonetheless, he is facing baseless attacks from the right. Remarkably and ironically, they accuse him of judicial activism. Judicial activism involves making decisions based on whim and personal bias rather than the law. A judicial activist, Justice Alexander is not. John Groen, on the other hand, is being promoted by fringe rightwingers precisely because they expect him to be an activist, a vote for fringe property rights groups regardless of what the law might demand. Groen is not an attorney who is accomplished and respected, and he has no business thinking he has earned a place on our state’s highest court. Aside from an abundance of chutzpah, he would not be running for Supreme Court.
An explanation for the mindless rants of wingnuts:
Coulter’s outrageous views and her poisonous rhetoric (click here for examples) rendered her anathema to the respectable right. Over time, though, the Coulter style has gradually crept into conservatism’s mainstream. . . . I’m inclined to think the main driving force is the bankruptcy of contemporary conservatism as represented by the Bush administration. An aggressively interventionist foreign policy has stumbled badly; a sharp cutback in taxes has failed to bring prosperity to the middle class; and, since Hurricane Katrina leveled New Orleans, citizens have come to regard governmental incompetence less as a reason to vote Republican than as a reason to hold Republicans responsible for indifferent stewardship. Things have gotten so bad that the GOP may conceivably lose control of both the House and the Senate in the coming midterm congressional elections.
When you don’t have anything new to say, and what you’ve been saying in the past no longer has much plausibility, you have three choices. You can shut up. For conservative commentators, this is inconceivable, not to mention financially ruinous. You can re-examine your premises. This is not the conservative style. Or you can pump up the volume.
http://www.slate.com/id/2149119/?nav=fix
The LA Times reports:
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I’m sure JCH at least will be properly outraged.
The LA Times story says that the lawsuit which brought this little fiesta to light is just one of “several dozen” that have been filed by U.S. citizens, all charging companies with war profiteering in Iraq. The details of the other cases are being kept from the public until the Justice Department decides whether it wants to be join the suit against the alleged war profiteers. Such cases can be kept secret almost indefinitely as long as the Justice Department claims it can’t make up its mind — which means taxpayers could wait months or years before hearing stories like the Halliburton Super Bowl party.
Daddy Love @ 11
I know full well what a google bomb is and if you think that it is an acceptable exploitation of internet technologies, than I would say you are the fool. Interfering with people’s right to find information they are looking for is bull shit.
As for you, Goldy, I can sling bad words around too – you’re a fucking asshole. Oh, boy am I mature. If someone intentionally mailbombed you, then that is bull shit, but I am certain you would not have a problem if one of your lemmings did the same to “Mike!” or some conservative blogger.
You’re a fucking hypocrite just like everyone else on this POS.
Bummer, dude. Goes to show you how the right fights back: dirty.
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You have a problem. A person with displaced anger like yours really needs to be in counseling. You probably need medications as well. Would you like a referral? If there was anyone on the right who reads your post who has any principles, they would condemn what you’ve written. I don’t expect to see any such condemnations, however.
6 million Muuuuuuslims in the USA…………Gee, I wonder how they vote??? [ANS: The same way as Sandy “Socks” Berger and Carl Grossman] hehe, JCH
Poor Goldy. The eternal victim.
Goldy may want to consider stopping ordering on-line V-I-@-G-R-A and visiting all those pay-per-view porn sites.
FYG
I find your concept of a “right to find information” to be quaint and refreshingly idealistic but probably wrong. You have a right to free speech. Internet search vendors have the right to order information as they please, subject to market trends and to some extent to public regulation. But your “right to find information” outside of public libraries and such? Not so much. It’s great that we can, though, isn’t it?
BTW, I would not say that Google bombs are an “acceptable exploitation of internet technologies” as much as an established one. The question of whether it is “acceptable” is largely moot. At least they are social. I am not sure I would wish for regulation of people’s Internet behavior sufficiently onerous as to end them.
Having been the victim of an attack like that all I can say is I feel for you.
After tracking back IP addresses, I was able to determine who was doing it. Unfortunately, calls and letters to their ISP did nothing, so my ISP and I had no recourse but to block all email originating from that ISP. My ISP also sued their ISP over it, hopefully yours can do the same.
Hope it gets taken care of soon.
for you goldy to post yet another “i’m a victim” piece on this ,of all days, is so obscene it’s beyond belief!
it is really all about YOU YOU YOU…….isn’t it?
silly little man……….
Since the only thing the righties seem to understand is playing dirty, I hope some one launches a DNS attack against the homo Steffy at UnSoundPolitics as retaliation. Too bad these cowards won’t step into the open for a fair fight. But that is not the GOP way.
WOW!
I don’t post on this thread. Nary a word until now, but what do I see? I see that John Craig Herman has mentioned me by name or inference a minimum of FOUR times.
He thinks about me endlessly. He can’t stop. I am in his head. He can’t get me out. (Possibly because there is nothing else in his head.) This man is a doctor like I am an astronaut. Now he is claiming POW experience. This man is a liar, a sham and miserable waste of air.
Carl Grossman
Liberal, Democrat
Vote early, Vote often, Vote Democratic!!!
Arguing with a rightie like JCH or MTR is like trying to negotiate with a falling piano. There’s no point in trying to parse what they’re saying and formulate a reasoned response because:
(1.) What they’re saying consists of nothing but lies and delusions.
(2.) THEY’RE NOT LISTENING. Whatever you say, they’ll just keep repeating the same lies over and over and over again. In fact, they’ll do so even if nobody responds to them at all.
“I don’t belong to an organized political party. I’m a Democrat.” – Will Rogers.
Commentby ArtFart— 9/11/06@ 4:40 pm
I agree that arguing with JCH and MTR is wasted effort. I doubt that even they believe many of the talking points they spew. That really isn’t the point. They aren’t trying to convince anyone posting here, although they may be trying to convince casual viewers.
They routinely cut-and-paste long articles off of “everything’s Clinton’s fault” websites and then make noise when their obvious lies are not answered point-for-point. I think they’re hoping someone casually reading will think “they must have a point, because nobody has been able to refute it.”
Actually, I think that JCH is a group of pimply-faced 14 year olds who are using their daddy’s computers. They get so pleased with themselves when they can get one of their vowel keys to stick.
The mental picture I have for him/them includes a bunch of high school freshmen standing around and giggling about how clever they are. I doubt that he/they belong to Young Republicans, because I doubt if they would have him/them.
32 John, it paints an even worse mental picture to think that JCH and Mark are actually grown men.
Oh, and Carl. Don’t worry too much about JCH. I’m told that some young men tend to fantasize about older men.
“I don’t belong to an organized political party. I’m a Democrat.” – Will Rogers.
Commentby ArtFart— 9/11/06@ 5:12 pm
“John, it paints an even worse mental picture to think that JCH and Mark are actually grown men.
No, that really doesn’t seem very likely now, does it?
There’s physical growth, and then there’s emotional growth. I don’t know how much they have of the former, but I have a pretty good guess as to the latter.
john why dont you go to the flight deck for fod walk down im sure a great chief like you should be able to spot that fod a mile away.ill give you a hint dont pick up any brown fod.
That you think I deserve to be subject to such attacks speaks volumes about you. Commentby Goldy— 9/11/06@ 2:05 pm
Goldie: What you don’t say but condone speaks double density DVDs of you!
You know, as this day draws to an end, I realize that I’m more and more pissed at how much Bush has screwed up this country. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al have taken a national tragedy and used that to further their own selfish interest. Worse, they took the good will of this nation, unifying after a tragedy, as an opportunity to ram through their policies in all areas at any cost.
I still (perhaps foolishly) believe they did so with the best of intentions. They figured that the war on terror gave them cover to attack Iraq and settle some scores. I also believe they thought it would be easy, and that they could set up a democracy in the Mid-East which would pacify the region. But in doing so, they took their eye off the real problem, terrorism. And to do so, they fudged everything they could and they preyed off our fears.
Worse, they do not care what we think. They think we are all too stupid to know what is right or wrong, and that only they have the ability to do what is right. Having been proved time and time again wrong, having been shown day after day that their assumptions and reality are at odds, they refuse to admit their mistakes, or, much more importantly, change their actions. Bush’s refusal to hold people accountable and to change leadership when it fails is his worse sin of all.
Hopefully Iraq will not be the failure it is looking more and more like, but what is clearly a failure is the war on terrorism, for Bush has ignored it at the expense of his folly in Iraq.
It has become clear that new leadership is needed at the highest level. At this point, the only thing we can hope for is a Democratic Congress which will at least hold Bush accountable for his continuing mistakes. Perhaps, if faced with the music, Bush will finally take charge, admit his mistakes, and lead the United States of America, and not just the 28% of the population who make up the Republican Party.
Yes, JDB we don’t need Hillary, or JFK or Howard Dean, or Cheucky Schumer, or Nancy Pelosi, or Harry Reid.
Will you please step up and get on your problem NOW? STAT! Achtung! Ondele!
We need Al Gore. He makes us laugh!
MWS:
Lay off the booze. Go sleep it off. There will be plenty for you to hate in the morning.
“Al-Qaida lieutenant warns of new attacks” …………Doctor JCH Kennedy warns of Trident Sub unloading all missile tubes on Muuuuuslim targets! Enjoy, mother fucking ragheads!!!!
MWS: Lay off the booze. Go sleep it off. There will be plenty for you to hate in the morning. Commentby JDB— 9/11/06@ 9:48 pm
If I lay off the booze what will you lay off of? Kos? George Soros? Michael Moore? My my the withdrawal symptoms will make your head hurt more than facts do! Your bitter hatred of GWB is very obvious, it eminates from the words you type.
Here moonbats see their words watch their joy.
http://www.memrifilms.org/
Kind of reminds me of moonbats and their immediate actions regarding GWB when 9/11 happened. Then that phoney God Bless America song sung by moonbats on the capital steps. I bet that was the first time some of those moonbats sang that song in decades. Probably had teleprompters for the moonbats!
Nothing will be done about Muuuuuuuslim terrorists as long as the 6 million Muuuuuuuslims in the USA vote Democrat.
Rasmussen now has Bush at 44%
Rasmussen has Santorum trailing Casey 47-43. Just two months ago he was down by 20.
Rasmussen has Tom Kean Jr slightly ahead of Melendez. Melendez was up 6 or more two months ago.
Moonbats: No plan, no fortitude, and no attitude; just hatred and emotion.
Bush – 39%
Melendez – up by three points
Santorum down by 15 points.
In case anyone wants to know the truth.
Righties – all they have for sale is lies and fear.
Goldy,
Want me to go over the mail logs from your ISP?
You are all worried about gettng spammed, ohhh boo hoo, like that’s not a risk of having an Internet blogging presence with open comments. Cry me a river. And technology can fix that, so get it fixed and shutup you whiner.
You want a see a fucking coward? Look in the mirror. What kind of an asshole posts an Open Thread with a still of the President getting assasinated? Is that what you call courageous discourse? If the Democrat gets elected in 2008 will it then be wrong to casually discuss assaasination of the President as appropriate disagreement?
You are a real fucking asshole Goldy. You deserve the spam attacks. The spammers are in the same league as you.