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Gibbons Still Angry Over Obama's Comments

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Posted by Fred 2010-07-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Is there anyone out there this guy hasn't pi$$ed off yet?

Once and for all folks: Do not use monkey / ape / chimpanzee photos when commenting at Rantburg about the current POTUS, no matter how clever you think you are being.

Posted by gorb 2010-07-08 01:12|| 2010-07-08 01:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Me, I'm loving watching this fool as long as it's correctable.

Posted by hairofthedawg 2010-07-08 02:34|| 2010-07-08 02:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Who knew ZZ Top was so upset at the president?

Posted by no mo uro 2010-07-08 06:30|| 2010-07-08 06:30|| Front Page Top

#4 That photo was of a pissed off gibbon. Get the joke?

Yeah, we got it.

Har. Har.

Don't do it. It makes the Burg look like a pack of racist twits. That's not what we're about.

This is a bright-line policy for us, and it WILL be enforced.

AoS

Posted by ed 2010-07-08 08:55|| 2010-07-08 08:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Once and for all folks: Do not use monkey / ape / chimpanzee photos when commenting at Rantburg about the current POTUS, no matter how clever you think you are being.

Oops, sorry. Just for the record, the pi$$ed off gibbon was not intended to be a caricature of Obama. It didn't even cross my mind.

As to why it would cross anyone else's, I have no idea, either.

Posted by gorb 2010-07-08 09:44|| 2010-07-08 09:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Gibbons is referring to comments the president made in February, when he said families shouldn't blow their college savings in Las Vegas.

Yeah, leave that to Barry. He'll do it for you.

Posted by tu3031 2010-07-08 10:31|| 2010-07-08 10:31|| Front Page Top

#7 I heard they're so desperate in Vegas these days that they've reintroduced penny slots.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-07-08 12:59|| 2010-07-08 12:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Pity. As a tri-racial person I've tried not to be racist nor submit to inferior status. I was wrong. The right kind of dhimmitude is expected.

I no longer wish to participate when a pun can not be made even when the target is not of a protected race/class. But because a protected person is peripherally involved in the story, we must walk on eggshells.

What has this gotten us? The first explicitly racist president of the United States in my memory. Denial river is rotten and it stinks.

Eric Holder was right.

Adios.

Posted by ed 2010-07-08 14:20|| 2010-07-08 14:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Where photos of simians are concerned Wiser to walk on eggshells, I think. As the officer in the Kipling story said to his fellow soldier who was boinking another officer's wife, "Is it worth it?"

Posted by lex 2010-07-08 14:26|| 2010-07-08 14:26|| Front Page Top

#10
@#8

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/08/financial-regulation-bill-dictates-ethnic-gender-quotas/

Posted by miscellaneous 2010-07-08 14:53|| 2010-07-08 14:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Sad to see you go, ed.

...though I share your opinion.

Time to start my own blog. Your comments are spot-on.

Posted by logi_cal 2010-07-08 15:27|| 2010-07-08 15:27|| Front Page Top

#12 ed, I do enjoy your comments. Maybe don't take it so hard, eh?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-07-08 16:56|| 2010-07-08 16:56|| Front Page Top

#13 Ed, being offensive is a gift. Be proud and wear it loud. Don't leave please!

Posted by Ford Maude Elle 2010-07-08 17:43|| 2010-07-08 17:43|| Front Page Top

#14 I kinda feel the same as Ed when I start belting out the lyrics to a JaRule Jlow duet, that I assume jaRule wanted me to buy, since he took my money. But if I sing his lyrics out loud, my kids sream at me to shut up! I am NOT allowed to say that... WTF? should never sold it to me in the first place.
Back to Yanni for me.

Posted by Capsu78 2010-07-08 18:43|| 2010-07-08 18:43|| Front Page Top

#15 I'll write what most of the rest of us are thinking: It's clear to me that one or more of the mods are oversensitive blacks, liberal (or both) or suffering from racial guilt.

I agree with filtering inappropriate vulgar commentary, but 8 years of Bushisms against a president I didn't like anyway was too much to take to swallow what the 'bright-line policy' is pushing; what a guilt-laden power trip.

I'm not a bible-toting churchgoer, but it is fitting this is my 314 comment...

Exodus 3:14

finito

Posted by logi_cal 2010-07-08 22:00|| 2010-07-08 22:00|| Front Page Top

#16 I'm afraid, logi_cal, that your thinking is way off base on this issue.

It's annoying even to have to address this sort of thing, but since you seem to be currently obsessed with the mods and their beliefs, perhaps it's useful to note that:

Fred is retired military from the intel side.
Pappy is retired military, a veteran wounded in combat. The real physical kind, not the keyboard kind.
I am the wife of a retired military officer and professionally am involved in Defense activities.

Trailing Wife is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and a father whose work directly benefitted the fighters who founded the modern state of Israel.

Steve White is a cardiologist and researcher at a rather prestigious medical school.

Not one of us, or of the other mods, has either the time or the need to play racial PC games.

What we will do is enforce the very few but very real lines regarding racial speech here.

Posted by lotp 2010-07-08 22:18|| 2010-07-08 22:18|| Front Page Top

#17 finito

"Write if you find work..."

Posted by badanov 2010-07-08 23:02|| 2010-07-08 23:02|| Front Page Top

#18 Not sure what "finito" means, I live here in Northern Mexico, or that state that believes one should follow the rules. Here on the Burg Fred has rules, it's his land, not mine. Don't want to respect them, start your own blog, but grow some thicker skin. You will need it. Adios and good luck.

Posted by 49 Pan 2010-07-08 23:20|| 2010-07-08 23:20|| Front Page Top

#19 Agreed, this is Fred's garden and the mods have very few rules, but all firm rules.
I have been gone for a while from "day to day" interaction, but am always glad I can step away for a while, and yet come back home to the same high quality Rantburg, on days when my "world view" needs some cross checking.

Posted by Capsu78 2010-07-08 23:31|| 2010-07-08 23:31|| Front Page Top

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