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2008-10-23

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Posted by Fred 2008-10-23 12:28|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 Have you considerd a ThugBurg like addition ti complement the page?

Posted by .5MT 2008-10-23 13:02|| 2008-10-23 13:02|| Front Page Top

#2 "Crookburg"? Not a bad idea, though I'm afraid it'll come out looking like the Congressional phone book...

Posted by Fred 2008-10-23 13:09|| 2008-10-23 13:09|| Front Page Top

#3 I like the "Seedy Politician" page idea, Fred, then you can have categories such as Idiot, Useful Idiot, and Murtha. If Russell wins the 12th District race, then you can delete Murtha and substitute the synonym -- Useless Idiot.

Posted by GK 2008-10-23 13:10|| 2008-10-23 13:10|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm not a fan of page 6...it seems like pages 1 and 2 are enough, and page 3 was the expansion. Pages 4 and 5 seem irrelevant, and are just dumping grounds for "that interesting link I saw".

It seems as if Rantburg is becoming less and less about the War on Terrorism and more and more a link aggregator like digg.com or fark.com.

Posted by gromky 2008-10-23 13:22|| 2008-10-23 13:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Sure you need the "Seedy" part?

Posted by tu3031 2008-10-23 13:22|| 2008-10-23 13:22|| Front Page Top

#6 My opinion, page 6.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-10-23 13:27|| 2008-10-23 13:27|| Front Page Top

#7 One minor glitch will be the way commerce will be distorted during the Opophis administration. Take for instance the way energy will be treated; you'll have companies that'll only be in business thanks to laws and taxes limiting traditional hydrocarbon energy industries.

(And no, that won't be good for energy independence. They always aim at the Arabs, or say they're aiming at the Arabs, and always land on the domestic industry. Kinda like Von Braun, reaching for the stars and always hitting London).

Posted by Tranquilized Mechanical Yeti 2008-10-23 13:27|| 2008-10-23 13:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Seedville, where the weeds grow unmowed.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-10-23 13:29|| 2008-10-23 13:29|| Front Page Top

#9 I like it as a category: "Crooks and Seedy Politicos". If it's WoT related, it goes onto page 2, otherwise it goes to page 6. Presto -- it's a category AND a page!

Posted by Steve White 2008-10-23 13:28|| 2008-10-23 13:28|| Front Page Top

#10 I vote for a separate page. That way those that wish to concentrate on overt WoT stuff need not scroll past hundred-post impassioned political argument threads.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-10-23 13:32|| 2008-10-23 13:32|| Front Page Top

#11 I concur with TW, but I'm still praying for divine intervention and a Republican win, at any level.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-23 13:39|| 2008-10-23 13:39|| Front Page Top

#12 They're going to basically use climate change and a bogus "energy independence" thing to force through an equivalent to 16th century Royal Patents on Energy.

Posted by Tranquilized Mechanical Yeti 2008-10-23 13:47|| 2008-10-23 13:47|| Front Page Top

#13 So I'd also suggest some sort of category for the brave new world of patent holders. Sorry, kept losing my train of thought.

Posted by Tranquilized Mechanical Yeti 2008-10-23 13:48|| 2008-10-23 13:48|| Front Page Top

#14 I'm still not sure on which page Kyoto compliance will fall...

Posted by Fred 2008-10-23 14:03|| 2008-10-23 14:03|| Front Page Top

#15 There will still be plenty of news on Terror.

Fight for a free press.

Posted by ex-lib 2008-10-23 14:04|| 2008-10-23 14:04|| Front Page Top

#16 Sounds like a good idea. Are you sure your server can handle the storage space?

Posted by SSET 2008-10-23 14:05|| 2008-10-23 14:05|| Front Page Top

#17 I like the Page 6 for just Politics (seems to be a lot of that discussed here). 'Seedy Politician' might redundant and repetitious.

I wonder if it might be worth it to have a seperate set of categories for each page.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-10-23 14:05|| 2008-10-23 14:05|| Front Page Top

#18 I might do away with categories altogether for Page 6. "Lurid Crime Tales" on the Seedy Politicians' page seems really redundant.

Posted by Fred 2008-10-23 14:11|| 2008-10-23 14:11|| Front Page Top

#19 It's a little randian, but "Page 6: Looterz."

Posted by Tranquilized Mechanical Yeti 2008-10-23 14:17|| 2008-10-23 14:17|| Front Page Top

#20 Finally, you don't REALLY think the enemy's gonna stop pressing just because President Zero gets in? They took hostages during Carter, bombed during Reagan, they invaded countries during Bush 1, Bombed the WTC unsuccessfully and blew up embassies during Clinton...

Posted by Tranquilized Mechanical Yeti 2008-10-23 14:21|| 2008-10-23 14:21|| Front Page Top

#21 It could be more inclusive by calling it "Scoundrels & Fools", which would be complementary to "Lurid Crime Tales". Separately, there could be "Political & Legal".

"Local" might also be enlarged to "Local, Misc, & Obits", to take pressure off of "Non-WoT", which might become "Mil Non-Wot".

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-10-23 14:25|| 2008-10-23 14:25|| Front Page Top

#22 I thought "Todays Idiot" covered this....

Posted by Muggsy Glink 2008-10-23 14:27|| 2008-10-23 14:27|| Front Page Top

#23 page 6 is a good idea. label doesn't really matter, but it will be difficult to keep input focused, i think. f'rinstance; would greenpeace / global warming/cooling be a political entry or still the basic page 5 duty nutcase entry?

at the end of the day. it's Fred's toybox and he can divvy up his toys however he see's fit; thank you for being a gracious host and asking us interlopers what we think.....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-10-23 14:32|| 2008-10-23 14:32|| Front Page Top

#24 And here's your first story...

We'll bet even the IRS hasn't heard this one yet. Gov. Paterson's chief of staff now says he owed nearly $300,000 in back taxes, $100,000 more than was previously known - and his lawyer blamed the problem on "non-filer syndrome."

Charles O'Byrne's attorney, Richard Kestenbaum, mentioned the virtually unheard-of ailment at a briefing for reporters intended to quell the firestorm surrounding O'Byrne's failure to file income-tax returns from 2001 to 2005.

O'Byrne, 49, a former Jesuit priest with close ties to the Kennedy family, has already blamed his neglect to file - first reported by The Post - on clinical depression.

Kestenbaum said yesterday O'Byrne also had "non-filer syndrome."

"Many times, that syndrome causes them not to be able to file their tax returns," he explained.

Rhondalee Dean-Royce, a spokeswoman for the American Psychiatric Association, said there is no such disorder or syndrome in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a standard reference.

Plenty of professionals don't file because they're too busy or too depressed or because of a family tragedy, said IRS spokesman Larry Wright. But he's never heard of non-filer syndrome.

Other tax experts found the concept ridiculous.

"Yes, it's quite common," one Manhattan accountant joked. "A hundred percent of my clients suffer from this syndrome, and it gets especially bad every year as April 15th approaches."

Posted by tu3031 2008-10-23 14:38|| 2008-10-23 14:38|| Front Page Top

#25 You are again slipping into the trap of alienating dems who need to be part of the WOT. Bad idea to make this a party issue, which you do even though you say you don't. Leave the pols to other sites.

Posted by Grampaw Omomonter7538 2008-10-23 14:51|| 2008-10-23 14:51|| Front Page Top

#26 "Crooks & Liars"

Posted by Mullah Richard 2008-10-23 15:14|| 2008-10-23 15:14|| Front Page Top

#27 Page 6.

There's a shot for "non-filers syndrome". .45, I believe.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2008-10-23 15:31|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2008-10-23 15:31|| Front Page Top

#28 If I was designing the Burg from the ground up now, given today's lineup, I'd probably have pages 1 and 2 the way they are now, page 3 for commies, page 4 for other bloody-handed dictators, 5 for crooked pols, and 6 for Malefactors of Great Wealth. Pages 7, 8 & 9 would be editorials, local, and the funnies.

Posted by Fred 2008-10-23 15:32|| 2008-10-23 15:32|| Front Page Top

#29 My opinion: seedy politicians.
At present time they are a far greater threat to our way of life than classically kinetic terror ops.

Posted by Minister of funny walks 2008-10-23 15:35|| 2008-10-23 15:35|| Front Page Top

#30 you will have too develop another whole alter internet for enough space for all of them

Posted by chris 2008-10-23 15:53|| 2008-10-23 15:53|| Front Page Top

#31 I would just open a new site called "the socialist corner" or anyother synonym (liberal not liberty, illuminati, the left-wing, progressive page, elitists only)

Posted by Glurong Mussolini6100">Glurong Mussolini6100 2008-10-23 15:55|| 2008-10-23 15:55|| Front Page Top

#32 I think there are a plethora of other sites that cover politics from a variety of perspectives. I don't think it is central to the mission of the Burg, or at least my interpretation of that mission. At least some of us need to stay focused on the stuff that could get our countrymen killed, and likely will under the coming weak-kneed administration. I vote punt or put a category on page 3.

Posted by remoteman 2008-10-23 16:14|| 2008-10-23 16:14|| Front Page Top

#33 Page 6, if anyone cares what a lurker thinks.

Posted by Total War 2008-10-23 17:55|| 2008-10-23 17:55|| Front Page Top

#34 "You are again slipping into the trap of alienating dems who need to be part of the WOT."

If a DemoncRat decides it's OK for islamonazis and others to attack this country just because somebody here says something they don't like, fuck 'em. That kind of loser asshole isn't interested in the security of our country anyway, Grampaw.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-10-23 18:20|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-10-23 18:20|| Front Page Top

#35 "'Lurid Crime Tales' on the Seedy Politicians' page seems really redundant."

ROFL, Fred. Ain't it the truth.

I vote for "Seedy Politicians" (though I do think that's redundant).

I really vote for "Arrogant Assholes" but I understand ~~you want to be mature and take the high road~~ the 'Burg has a reputation to maintain. ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-10-23 18:24|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-10-23 18:24|| Front Page Top

#36 I grew up in Cincinnati, so Porkopolis is taken, but Porkburg would fit in the linklist nicely next to Thugburg.

Posted by Don Vito Omeling5062 2008-10-23 19:37|| 2008-10-23 19:37|| Front Page Top

#37 Actually, the "Good Morning" girl either should be on page 3 (British practice) or on page 6 (NY Post practice).

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2008-10-23 20:11|| 2008-10-23 20:11|| Front Page Top

#38 I'm mostly a 'lurker', but SEEDY is too nice a descript, I like 'SCUM' better. Why stop at just politicians? There's a lot more of those who play the political system, lobbyists, CEos, the MSM, etc..

Posted by Tom- Pa 2008-10-23 20:26|| 2008-10-23 20:26|| Front Page Top

#39 Page 6, but with titties

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-10-23 20:28|| 2008-10-23 20:28|| Front Page Top

#40 This all seems like rearranging desk chairs on the Titanic. Sorry, I am in a dark mood. Rantburg is for rants and it is WOT related, meaning enemies trying to destroy the US and western civilization from external and internal forces. This still should be our main focus.

If you want to talk about seedy and corrupt politicians, than that should be in a separate blog. Let's concentrate mainly on the politicians that are the enemy within. Maybe a separate category for them.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-10-23 21:57|| 2008-10-23 21:57|| Front Page Top

#41 Let's concentrate mainly on the politicians that are the enemy within. Maybe a separate category for them.

That would be about 90% or of them I suspect.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-23 22:05|| 2008-10-23 22:05|| Front Page Top

#42 AP:
Liberal seedy corrupt politicians are gonna cost us lives and destroy civilization because they will gut the military, take kickbacks, open the borders, tax us to death to make sure we don't discriminate against illegal aliens and cover them 100% with welfare and medical benefits paid for by 5% of the population(new math or poor schools?), give all their radical buddies key jobs in the government to siphon more out the red budget, shell out our taxdollars/carboncredits to foreigners who hate us, write laws with loopholes to exclude themselves, and keep our nation so weak the terrorists can afford to focus on destroying Israel, as we will have been destoyed by enemies from within. When radicals like Farrakhan and Khaddaffi, and even Al Jazeera, endorse Obama, and with Congress led by Reid and Pelosi, well, if that doesn't terrorize you and seem pertinent to the idealogical war on on terror, maybe you need to broaden your horizons. It would be so much simpler if we could fight all fronts militarily, as they seem to be the only ones who really "get it" when it comes to the cost of freedom. Rantburg warriors have many weapons at their disposal, and sometimes the enemy target is a politician. Keep up the good work, Fred, as someone has to keep an eye on things.

Posted by Thealing Borgia 122 2008-10-23 22:41|| 2008-10-23 22:41|| Front Page Top

#43 give politix it's own page

politics... from the Greek: poli meaning more than one, and tick a blood-sucking parasite.

Posted by Abu do you love 2008-10-23 22:44|| 2008-10-23 22:44|| Front Page Top

#44 If you want to be nice...
call it "Tammany Hall"
if you want to be edgy
call it "da Wardheeler"
O'man will know what you mean.

Posted by 3dc 2008-10-23 23:05|| 2008-10-23 23:05|| Front Page Top

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