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What a find...Hysterical! I roared with laughter.
ReplyDeletecouldnt happen to a more deserving asshole than Krawl.
looks like no ones going there. gee I wonder why?
cos he turfed out all the real people! to keep his puppets and yes men.
points to members?
I have one.
QUIT NOW :-)
My my.. looks like their closed door policy on free speech has come and bit them on the ass.
ReplyDeleteWhen they outsted some of the most informative and passionate commenters that site had ever seen (COTO) the quality of intelligent, free thinking, discourse at that place went WAaaaaaaayyyyyy down. :) :) :)
LOL oz... great minds! We must have been having the same thoughts and typing at the same time ...hahahahaha
ReplyDeleteI just read a post By Rady at FF
ReplyDeletehttp://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/miami-commissioner-marc-sarnoff-proposes-jail-for-feeding-homeless/#comment-2297
and after that!
I needed that laugh you betcha.
I am so angry! and its 3 am and I need to sleep, blood pressure is sky high with rage.
Ohhh oz.. get to bed! I'm the same way though.. I get all riled up and can't sleep all the freakin' time!
ReplyDeletehey, thx, Oz for promoting that piece. I didnt' write it, one of my authors - Meryl Williamson - did. (altho i helped :)
ReplyDeleteanyhoo... rob is such a flake.... what did he expect?
I'll tell ya, tho, I'm still feeling the effects of his actions and those of his minions. When my work gets posted at many radical sites, snarky comments show up and soon that site won't post my work anymore.
there's one asshole in particular who follows my work around the web and disses it. even your good buddy scott creighton (willy loman) won't leave me alone...
There are a few sites tho that resist the rady-demonization. SOTT - Sign of the Times - still posts my work. and Global Research, to name a couple. Big sites - bigger than oh wee en
so fuck rob kall and his jealous little yes men who not only hate truth, but intelligent women, too.
After the kall-ing faded I couldn't imagine myself wanting to comment on Committee Coolaide drinking dolts.
ReplyDeleteAt that time I was still into wasting my time on trying to convert the unconvertible. Now I realize you might as well castrate them. They'd let you do that before letting you take their little piece of reality. very, very little, I might add.
Kall must be eating more peanut butter sandwiches as of late. Humble pie for wanna-be's.
Rady, anytime, it needs wide reading , I linked to it elsewhere also- its a crime.and farcical.
ReplyDeleteI hope krawl cops a bad batch of peanut paste:-)
Creighton site is full of COTO type stuff. Why is he after you? Other than his problem with alternate 911 theories, what's his beef?
ReplyDeleteCinderman? I see he posts comments there. Poison, that guy. Pure poison. A liar and an opportunist.
My personal opinion of Creighton, just from his posting here for the time he did is that he's emotionally unbalanced. He doesn't like opposing opinions to his own and he becomes a stalker trying to get you to think HIS way. Really weird guy. As for Cinderman, he proved to us all what a vile person he is.
ReplyDeleteI like much of what Scott posts at his site and he often jumps on important issues and pulls alot of info together. Don't know much about his temperment...and mostly don't care. We really need to give each other a little more elbow room and tolerate each's foibles when possible.
ReplyDeleteSure when people go off and say nearly unforgivable things it is hurtful. I'm also sure the Powers That Be just love it when we do that to each other!
As for Rob, self-promoting scum bags make themselves tiresome to everyone eventually. Thankfully, we got out early.
Laudy, I feel that in general too but the guy harassed me by email when the whole thing with Rady and Cinderasshole was going down.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget the support Scott gave that pompous ass, acting as if the rest of us were being unfair and unkind to such an upstanding citizen. I don't like him nor do I have to no matter how many good articles he posts.
Some of these guys who can't take even minor criticism from women are even more prickly online....... Most of us in fact are probably scared by the experience of being considered wacky or misfits- it just shows up in different ways.
ReplyDeleteI am wacky and a misfit, and that's ok.
ReplyDeleteIt's hilarious how RK's banning/censorship policies have come back to bite him.
I remember in the good ol days there, the average story would have 20-30 comments from a wide range of perspectives. Informative and for the most part respectful. I learned a lot. Especially how to question my own beliefs.
As most of us know, some threads would run over 60-70 comments. Now....not so much. The few times I drop by, most posts hae zero or one comment. The odd exception may have like 5-7 tops.
I wonder if the New York Times is still interested in RK's kneepads.
I think you've hit on the key: those of us who comment, do so because we have our own opinions and will defend or modify them. Those who are stuck with tamely received "wisdom" just check in and out. A fitting audience for Rob....
ReplyDeleteInteresting. He has put out that appeal several times over the past few months, and I tried to get more involved for a while, but it was just like talking to myself! There was very little conversing among the commenters. Go figure! Everyone can see what happens when you do that!
ReplyDeleteThere is something going on at OEN that strikes me as weird, however. I tried to comment one day and couldn't and it looked like I'd been banned. It was about two months ago, and the only thing I'd been doing was contacting Rob directly to help a victim of harassment delete his name. I'd had one comment rejected for no reason I could ascertain. It was in response to a poll by Rob on the topic of CEO psychopathy, and I merely wrote that psychopathy would be an asset to a CEO, but there were still plenty of exceptions, especially in Japan (but also signs of psychopathy increasing here as well).
But what is really weird is that about two weeks ago, Rob wrote me directly saying my and the harassment victim's messages to him had gone in his spam box, so for two months he never saw them. He helped the victim delete his name from my article and he told me to contact him by different means. I've been too busy to do that.
It looks like he is unaware that I was banned. If so, then someone else is doing this in some underhanded way. I would not put cyber-infiltration beyond the means of the PTB.
Rob has certainly tied the noose around his own neck, but I think someone else may be giving him the shove.
Rob Krawl, he's a crawling king snake.
ReplyDeleteGet on your hand and knees and crawl, Krawl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veam26T9WR4&feature=related
you got those numbers right, camus. sometimes an article would even get over 100 hits... usually the 911 pieces.
ReplyDeleteI do wonder tho if comment activity is correlated with site popularity. Maybe at that level (150K hits a month), but not at the lower end (<20K hits a month).
It seems the real discussion happens at the more obscure sites, or on list serves.
I mean, over 100 comments
ReplyDeleteAlas, you had to mention SlopEdSnooze didn't you - there is always some last vestige there to remind me of that putrefied excuse for "Progressive" thought.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'm a sucker for wanting my Utopia - like my visits to this wonderful site - it would be just 100% perfect if I didn't have to look at the Members list and see the name Tom Murphy - which reminds me again of the Krawl Den of Iniquity - Oh death where is thy sting?....... I must once again seek the sweet release through inhalation of noxious vapors - but only on days ending in a Y
What was I gonna say......?
ReplyDeleteMaybe there's something in the Ctrl-C cache.
Lemme see.
peanut butter sandwiches
Oh, right.
Dumb ass.
Fuck him.
Still, at least he allows comments and posts which include the words;
"Israel"
"Gaza"
"Ethnic Cleansing" (okay, my bad)
"Genocide" ( ditto the above)
"FUCK ISRAEL !" (I lie....should read "boycott Israel any way you can" but Krall ......I doubt he supports our movement)
curt was here, again
bitches ;-)
keep bitching
Always love your rants Curt :)
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