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2003-07-11

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-07-11 00:48|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Atleast leave it for the morning crowd, this should be a hoot :)

Posted by Rafael 2003-7-11 12:58:24 AM|| 2003-7-11 12:58:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Btw, what's been going on with the blogroll? It seems to be pretty temperamental these days.

Posted by someone 2003-7-11 1:13:49 AM|| 2003-7-11 1:13:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Hope you've got the truncheons and giggle juice ready, Fred. Or just delete the bastard.

Posted by Dan Darling 2003-7-11 1:13:51 AM|| [http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2003-7-11 1:13:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Naw. We should keep the troll as a pet for a while like Murat. He just has to realize the posting etiquette - guys like this are a little slow, or their too self absorbed and self righteous to notice or care what's going on.

As for his identity, I think it's this guy. Quick google search results indicate but this is not a certainty. If it is, he's a late night DJ on a popular bilingual radio station in Tokyo and an outspoken war critic (shudder at the thought of Japanese junior high schoolers listing to his garbage).

His wife left a comment and she is an insufferable snob. She informed us that she went to Stanford, Tokyo University (Todai) and speaks Burmese then called Rantburgers dumb white people for not knowing that Aung San Suu Kyi's real name is Daw.

All in all, should make for entertaining trolls if they lurk around for a while.

Posted by Tokyo Taro 2003-7-11 2:02:50 AM|| 2003-7-11 2:02:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 It is a hoot, allright, and it probably is "Mike in Tokyo" -- let's call him M.i.T. He's a little too much in love with the reverberations in his head -- must be the overly-tight headphones he wears at the radio station.

My vote, for what it's worth -- dump 'em.

Posted by Steve White 2003-7-11 2:46:56 AM|| 2003-7-11 2:46:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Fred - Phuck it, Phlush him.

Posted by PD 2003-7-11 3:27:06 AM|| 2003-7-11 3:27:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Dump him. It's a waste of time (mine, at least, to wade through this and yours to sift through it) and space (your space). The one thing we can never recover is the time spent reading something only to find it is from a troll, and therefore probably very suspect.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2003-7-11 7:10:15 AM|| 2003-7-11 7:10:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Isn't there a way for those posting articles to leave emails, and for the scripting you use here to send an email seeing if it is a good one? And recording the IP, etc. Could help reduce the trollage we must endure.

Posted by badanov 2003-7-11 7:30:52 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org/weblog] 2003-7-11 7:30:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 badanov...I suspect Chuck dosen't want him either.

dorf

Posted by Anonymous 2003-7-11 8:29:30 AM|| 2003-7-11 8:29:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Dump him. A waste of time and bandwidth.

Posted by Steve 2003-7-11 8:49:47 AM|| 2003-7-11 8:49:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm sorry , Fred, I know I've been bad lately: posting an op bit about a movie for gawdsake. I will be good now I promise.

Posted by Anon1 2003-7-11 10:06:23 AM|| 2003-7-11 10:06:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Z. We wouldn't want to impugn on Rick Cranium's right to free speech. As long as he follows the rules of "Civil, well-reasoned discourse" I don't have a problem with him posting. Haven't you ever hit a piÃ±ata before =)

Posted by Domingo 2003-7-11 10:27:44 AM|| 2003-7-11 10:27:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Note to Fred and all other Rantburgers,
I'm on my way out of town for a week. While I'm gone, I'll be meeting with a couple of old friends who just returned from Iraq. If they have anything worth saying, I'll try to send Fred an email with the contents, which he can post or not, as he chooses.

As for trolls, I'm in the process of developing a "troll gun". Once I've tested it, I'll be offering its services where needed. Having a good friend who is a C++ hacker extroidinaire does have its positive points now and then.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-7-11 11:01:08 AM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-7-11 11:01:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 OP -- I'd like to see some of that myself. I've posted a letter I received last week from a friend who's over in Baghdad now. He's an MP in the 307th MP Co. I wouldn't mind reading some of your friends' stories as well.

Posted by Dar 2003-7-11 11:27:04 AM|| 2003-7-11 11:27:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 OP: Please tell them thanks.

Posted by Matt 2003-7-11 12:03:44 PM|| 2003-7-11 12:03:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 "Articles should be news, not opinion"

Is that Krauthammer article news or opinion?

Posted by True German Ally 2003-7-11 2:22:47 PM|| 2003-7-11 2:22:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Krauthammer's opinion. The article's up at the moment because of the comments. If I get some time, I'll gut it.

Posted by Fred 2003-7-11 2:47:11 PM|| 2003-7-11 2:47:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Ye Gods! All the comments - they're gone!

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-7-11 5:17:07 PM|| 2003-7-11 5:17:07 PM|| Front Page Top

03:58 Berxwedan
19:20 Stephen
18:50 Paul
18:37 Phil B
17:45 Sharon
17:23 Cyber Sarge (VRWC California Chapter)
17:17 Mike N.
17:17 Zhang Fei
14:52 Laurence of the Rats
14:47 Fred
14:43 Secret Master
14:39 True German Ally
14:26 Chuck
14:24 Chuck
14:22 True German Ally
14:19 Chuck
14:13 Chuck
14:11 mojo
14:11 Domingo
14:11 Chuck
14:09 mojo
14:08 Tom
14:07 ColoradoConservative
14:02 Dishman