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2010-01-07 --Tech & Moderator Notes

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Posted by Steve White 2010-01-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Noted. But I am in short attention span theatre.

Posted by newc 2010-01-07 00:25|| 2010-01-07 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 OK. But when jihadis start using Tiger Woods to smuggle explosives into rehab, we know who gave them the idea!

Posted by Adriane 2010-01-07 00:30|| 2010-01-07 00:30|| Front Page Top

#3 And don't overtly wish doom upon Americans. Like The Worst President Ever, or Hanoi Jane.

Posted by gorb 2010-01-07 01:18|| 2010-01-07 01:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Thanks a lot. Rantburg seems to be becoming the "interesting link of the day" website instead of WoT news. If I want weird news, I can go to thousands of other websites, but for WoT, Rantburg is the best.

I mean, come on - Darwin award winners? Who the F cares?

Posted by gromky 2010-01-07 01:40|| 2010-01-07 01:40|| Front Page Top

#5 I love the Darwin Award winners, gromky. But I s'pose that kind of thing could be posted to the O Club, along with Pappy's Picks, Alaska Paul's gorgeous photos and badanov's wonderful Christmas music collection. What say you all?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-07 02:08|| 2010-01-07 02:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Darwin awards are something I can get from another website. Rantburg is for WoT news. If Rantburg becomes Yet Another Amusing Link Of The Day Site[tm] then there's no point in coming here. Plenty of those about, and all of them are better at being amusing than Rantburg.

Posted by gromky 2010-01-07 03:19|| 2010-01-07 03:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Is that pic a young Nancy Pelosi?

Posted by Gladys 2010-01-07 04:56|| 2010-01-07 04:56|| Front Page Top

#8 O club; works for me.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2010-01-07 06:13|| 2010-01-07 06:13|| Front Page Top

#9 But ... isn't this itself a duplicate post?

Being a jerk is part of my charm. Maybe all of it.

Posted by Bobby 2010-01-07 06:35|| 2010-01-07 06:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Sure looks like pink to me.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-01-07 07:03|| 2010-01-07 07:03|| Front Page Top

#11 But when jihadis start using Tiger Woods to smuggle explosives into rehab, we know who gave them the idea!

Andrew Sullivan?

Posted by lotp 2010-01-07 08:24|| 2010-01-07 08:24|| Front Page Top

#12 We do carry a fair bit of politics ('seedy politician') but even there the focus is on how that news relates to the fight against terrorism and the defense of the good.

My recent posts concerning our socialist/marxist government have gone through, but I will keep this in mind and try to stick closer to Rantburg's raison d'etre.

Posted by Free Radical 2010-01-07 09:13|| 2010-01-07 09:13|| Front Page Top

#13 Thanks to all of you.

Gromky makes the point well: the Darwin awards are funny but we can go there ourselves.

As a mod I will be deleting posts that get away from our raison of entry, or something like that, and I know the other mods will be vigilant as well. So if we dump your post that doesn't mean we don't like you, it just means it was too far from our core mission.

Just a new year's resolution.

Posted by Steve White 2010-01-07 09:45|| 2010-01-07 09:45|| Front Page Top

#14 Ditto.

Posted by lotp 2010-01-07 10:14|| 2010-01-07 10:14|| Front Page Top

#15 How about a category to handle stuff that is unrelated but seems to fit the mood here, such as Darwin Awards, medical stuff, Idiot of the Day, etc.?

And no that isn't a picture of a young Nancy Pelousy, otherwise the text would read more like "Clueless, Rudderless, Veangeful, Hypocritical Bitch For the Children".

Posted by gorb 2010-01-07 10:14|| 2010-01-07 10:14|| Front Page Top

#16 gromky - ...and all of them are better at being amusing than Rantburg.

I politely beg to differ. The snark here, especially Fred's inline, can be very amusing...

Posted by PBMcL 2010-01-07 10:32|| 2010-01-07 10:32|| Front Page Top

#17 The only thing from the above I'd really take exception to are the ellipses.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-01-07 11:03|| 2010-01-07 11:03|| Front Page Top

#18 Sure looks like pink to me.
Hey, they answered that yesterday ;)

Thanks mods for all your work.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-01-07 11:20|| 2010-01-07 11:20|| Front Page Top

#19 Thanks for the handy tips! I have no exemptions.
~~More at the link.~~

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-07 11:28|| 2010-01-07 11:28|| Front Page Top

#20 I'm in -- and I have a wicked Delete button!

Thanks guys -- at least once a day, I get a good laugh out of your comments! Keep the snarks coming -- best on the web. Oh -- and I also learn stuff.

Posted by Sherry 2010-01-07 13:59|| 2010-01-07 13:59|| Front Page Top

#21 maybe a category called 'Darwin at work' for 'work accidents' in the ummah? i always think 'evolution in action' when i read of premature explodation

Posted by abu do you love 2010-01-07 15:01|| 2010-01-07 15:01|| Front Page Top

#22 Andrew Sullivan?

LMAO

Posted by ryuge 2010-01-07 20:15|| 2010-01-07 20:15|| Front Page Top

#23 maybe a category called 'Darwin at work' for 'work accidents' in the ummah?

I like the idea. Perhaps call the category the "Inshallah Files"?

Posted by Pappy 2010-01-07 21:16|| 2010-01-07 21:16|| Front Page Top

#24 I would have posted a Hooter's Calendar, but Sherry advised me that I should go to my room after showing a calendar full of owls. No kidding.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-01-07 21:19|| 2010-01-07 21:19|| Front Page Top

#25 That I did -- that I did! You are now free to roam around Alaska!

Posted by Sherry 2010-01-07 21:28|| 2010-01-07 21:28|| Front Page Top

#26 I have to plead guilty to some of the items both in the reminder and in the thread. I promise to do better.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-07 23:52|| 2010-01-07 23:52|| Front Page Top

#27 abu do you love, I seem to recall that work accidents used to go under Short Attention Span Theater.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-07 23:55|| 2010-01-07 23:55|| Front Page Top

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