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Reply to About The Way Some People Retaliate in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Yes, this is a case of going way beyond what is acceptable. First of all, the neighbor was out of line giving her friend's child a permanent without permission for sure. However, the reaction was certainly not the one called for in this case. If it ended the friendship, it wasn't much of a friendship to start with. It says a lot about the character of both women, and not favorably either. Did anyone think about the child? The child is really t

Reply to Harassing fellow bloggers in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I made two attempts at creating blogs on joeuser.com and dismantled them both because of wanton harassment. It is my belief that too many people interpret freedom of speech to mean the right to behave in an abusive manner with total impunity. Removing harassing threads from the forums will never solve the problem, as these persons will continue to harass. Concepts such as respect and decency have gone the way of the Edsel. Actually, that's lib

Notice in Blogging JoeUser Forums

This blog has been discontinued temporarily largely because of the boorishness that prevails on this site. With all the admonishments that exist in the Terms of Service regarding conduct of users, violations routinely take place and outright maliciousness prevails. Until the day comes that users show some respect, there is no reason to resume the blog.<!-- Ju-Anchor-F

Reply to White People Are Becoming Paranoid Schizophrenics in Politics JoeUser Forums

One very basic flaw to your argument: schizophrenia is a psychotic condition. Look it up. Paranoid schizophrenia is one form of that condition. Paranoia is quite a different matter entirely. Too many people mix and match the two interchangeably, which you have done here, and they are not the same at all. It is possible to be paranoid but not schizophrenic. A schizophrenic may be unable to function in society at all in some cases; a paranoiac usually ca

Reply to What IS Child Abuse? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Here is an article that tries to claim that child abuse is something that only men can inflict upon children. It would help if, for a change, some reality were injected into the picture, but that might upset a few feminists, and that we just can't have, can we? In the overwhelming majority of cases of child abuse, it is the mother or female caregiver who abuses the child, yet this article would have us believe that the abuser is some sadistic

Reply to New State Mottos in Humor JoeUser Forums

Maryland: State of sea-level hillbillies.

Reply to New State Mottos in Humor JoeUser Forums

North Carolina: Jesse Helms isn't our Senator any more.

Reply to Neocon, Neocon, Who Art Thou, Neocon? in Politics JoeUser Forums

A neoconservative, as opposed to a conservative, is a person who follows in the political tradition of Ronald Reagan who advocates fiscal irresponsibility. A neoconservative, like most conservatives, will maintain that public welfare programs should not be supported and that each person should assume personal responsibility, so taxes should be reduced. However, a neoconservative will not reduce public spending and will spend above and beyond the existi

Reply to Smart ass answers in Humor JoeUser Forums

I actually don't need to carry a picture with Curly Howard on it (who was a relative, by the way). I look enough like him for the police to get their own laugh without doing that. Of course, I stopped driving when I moved into the District of Columbia; it's just not worth driving in this town unless you're a born masochist. You run the risk of hitting one of the rats of either the two or four legged varieties that are forever running across the streets

Reply to THE RISE OF THE ANTI-CHRIST in Current Events JoeUser Forums

This label, the "anti-Christ," has a resoundingly negative connotation in American society, but it is a rather bigoted term and is really out of place here. I find the way it is hurled around more than offensive. First of all, in a society in which Christians are a minority, they would not appreciate such slurs leveled against them. Secondly, I don't see that the label is even remotely relevant in this discussion. It would seem to me that quite a few p

Reply to Our Multicultural Nation: Love it or Leave It! in Politics JoeUser Forums

Similar sorts of articles are easily found in today's United States by supporters of George W. Bush who have this "If you don't like it, leave" mentality, as if they are the sole proprietors of a nation's criteria for allowing persons to remain. The only difference is that the intolerance comes from the opposite side of the political spectrum. Either way, it's still intolerance and doesn't look pretty on anyone, nor does it reflect well on the country

Reply to The Catholic Church is not a Democracy in Religion JoeUser Forums

It is definitely true that the Catholic Church is not a democracy and that the Pope will not be elected by a popular vote of worldwide parishoners. Why such an idea would exist is truly baffling. Catholics educated in their faith certainly should know that by now. Non-Catholics and uneducated Catholics will always have misunderstandings of the Catholic Church for the simple reason that ignorance always breeds misunderstandings. There's really no simple

Reply to Starve a LIBERAL instead of Terry Schiavo in Politics JoeUser Forums

I consider myself a moderate. I cannot see how you consider yourself a moderate if you post such hate messages anywhere and in such inflammatory language. I would never post such language toward anyone no matter what that person's political leanings, and I have some very serious issues with quite a few political groups. To speak in such insulting, demeaning language reflects badly on the speaker, not on the target audience; that I know as a writer and

Reply to I offically HATE this city in Misc JoeUser Forums

For the sake of the rest of us, can you please identify WHICH city it is you hate? If it's Washington, DC, I'm behind you 100%!

Reply to The Christian Conservative groups are at it again in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I know that what I say will get a lot of right-wingers flaming me, but what I have to say relates to my family, and it's hard for me to be objective because it's my late brother I'm talking about. Before you talk about trashing anyone, realize that there's a lot of trash in general. My brother only wanted to spend the last weeks of his life with his father. He thought that his father and stepmother were okay with that; that's what he understoo

Reply to I respect your point of view, but..... in Blogging JoeUser Forums

In reading your article, the one thing I saw in it which I find very rare these days was a genuine desire to express an opinion and to continue to show respect and to be respected. In today's America, that's almost a lost art. It's so rare that I almost did not believe what I was reading. It seems to me that in today's America, most people watch Jerry Springer to learn manners. That's not much of an exaggeration. Rudeness and arrogance seem to be

Reply to Theodora "Tonie" Nathan: a feminist shunned by feminists in Politics JoeUser Forums

I really wouldn't worry myself as to why one feminist gets attention and why another feminist doesn't. That makes as much sense as worrying why one rat lives and another rat doesn't. Both are still vermin. And, yes, that's my opinion of feminists. Feminism is to female as racism is to race. It's an ideology of hate and nothing else. Anyone who says otherwise is lying. It's impossible to point to any strain of feminism that does not bash men; t

Reply to Liberal Brownshirting = "Good Brownshirting"? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I have to say that I truly have no idea what you were trying to say here. I'm not being snide. I am not a liberal nor a conservative. I'm very much an independent. Perhaps it's because I was over 22 years out of the country, but I read it and had not a clue as to what you were saying. Is it possible to be a little clearer? Maybe if you actually said what you had to say instead of giving hints and expecting people to fill in the blanks, I could

Reply to Racism, Alive and well on the left side in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I am a dual American-Israeli national and lived in Israel from 1975 until 1998. Anti-Semitism is alive and well and often masquerades as anti-Israeli sentiment, but it is still anti-Semitism in its truest sense. As for racism, it takes on many forms, and it can be found on both the Political Right and Left. It is pervasive and there are no real safe havens. Those who believe that it is the product of ignorance are naive, because education often ju

Reply to Arrogant American in Politics JoeUser Forums

Because I have been an American who has lived abroad most of my adult life, I have a very different perspective of the image of the "arrogant American" than most Americans would have. The American who has never stepped out of the United States sees such a label as an attack without reason, which I can understand. The American who has paid thousands of dollars to visit a foreign land who hears it might say the same, but he/she might not realize that he/

New Blog Here, Not New to Much Else in Welcome JoeUser Forums

I just created a blog on JoeUser.com, which is not my first, but I find that reading audiences don't take well to shifts in focus; it's often necessary to maintain separate blogs for separate interests. I have another blog Link that I devoted more to journalistic efforts, and that one I created largely because the publication for which I was writing seemed not to be publishing to the Web as originally