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12.21.2007

 

Turn down the heat and chill

If Santa were to be perfectly frank, he would pronounce some of you not worthy of presents this year, but Santa's always been kind of a sucker. Sees the good in everybody.

So whether you've been naughty or nice in your comments here on the blog, we're going to wish you happy holidays, hope that you have some time in the coming days to sit back, breathe deep and reflect. Maybe take advantage of that perfect snow that coats the state before the mean, old rain gets to it.

You are going to need your strength in the new year.

Poof, right off the bat you have the Iowa caucuses Jan. 3, the N.H. primaries and the start of the Vermont legislative session both on Jan. 8. By then, too, Congress will be investigating something or other, you'll have shelled out another $400 for a tank of fuel oil and five more baseball players will say they only used growth hormones once.

You might even learn sometime in those first weeks of the year who's going to run for some of Vermont's top elected offices. Before you even learn to write 2008 in your checkbook you will already be awash in all the political mud you can manage.

In the meantime, chill. There's more to life than all that stuff. Happy holidays from vt.Buzz.

- Terri Hallenbeck

Comments:
Well said!
 
Terri, jwcoop says "amen" to this topic 4 minutes after posting the following outrageous attack, on your next topic down (Ruminations):

"Even when I toss out the double post, 5 or 6 of 'em are completely-clueless, easily-shredded, delusional drivel, so ya better send out for some imaginary, invisible, anonymous reinforcements, little fella. You're gonna need 'em.

Tough break, kiddo. I just play it as it lays and with you, your imaginary, invisible, anonymous little friends and bubbles on the case, it tends to lie pretty well.

"He's denying reality about the luxury tax because he refuses to acknowledge what happened. The evidence has been put forth and he has his eyes closed and his hands over his ears and he's saying "I can't hear you, I can't hear you."

What's to hear?

No, I'm dismissing your bogus evidence and your pathetic excuse of a case, little fella.

Cyberslop from some bogus wing-nut site regularly cited by fox noise nitwits ain't evidence, little fella.

It never was. It never will be and you still ain't got no case.

However, you do have my sympathies.

Keep you chin up, kiddo. It makes for a better target.

9:08 PM, December 21, 2007

Anonymous said...

"Please DON'T ban JW from this site. As annoying as he is, it is important that the world see exactly where the left in Vermont is coming from, how they think, and the bullying way they go about trying what they want."

Please stop making me laugh so hard that I spit hot black coffee all over my monitor, little fella.

One of these days, it's gonna die and I'm gonna have to stick you and your invisible, imaginary, sorry little anonymous butts with the tab to replace it.

It's called winning legitimate elections You take back Vermont loons might wanna try it some time, little fella.

"Nothing to offer but hate, nasty name calling, hollow rhetoric, a truly twisted view of the world and themselves, and zero ideas."

Are you accusing me of stealing your copy of the wing-nut play book, little fella?!! You've got some nerve!

Hey, is this really karl rove's autograph, little fella? Did ya get to sit on his lap like Santa and get bubbles to take your picture?

What the hell, I can always toss it on E-BAY and see what happens.

Nice try.

No, that would be the likes of you, yourselves and bubbles, little fella.

Wing-nuts like you don't have ideas. If ya did, ya wouldn't be wing-nuts like you.

The next idea you, yourselves, bubbles or any other wing-nut comin' down the pike has will be your first, little fella.

You couldn't refute Hoffer when I got here a month ago and not only can't lay a glove on me now, you prove yourselves to be as gutless, spineless and clueless as every other wing-nut cyberpunk comin' off the conveyor belt.

The only thing you've proved in the Month that I've been here is: that ya don't have a clue, ya can't support your pathetic wing-nut positions with anything remotely resembling legitimate evidence because there is none, ya don't like it when somebody calls ya on your bogus wing-nut cyberslop and ya can't take a punch.

All of which leaves you no alternative but to pretend to be different anonymous individuals so it looks like there's somebody who buys you gop-slop nonsense besides bubbles as you task one of your pathetic alter egos to do nothing but whine about me and try to get me banned for calling you on your BS, knowing what the hell I'm talking about, smacking you back and doing a better job of it than you can or do.

Don't feel bad, little fella. It's not like you, yourselves and bubbles are the only ignorant, ill-informed, knuckle-draggin' nitwit cyber bullies who can't take a punch.

To date, there have been no know sightings of one who could.

Always a pleasure."

4:53 PM, December 22, 2007
 
Merry Christmas JW! That post above means you're winnning. Enjoy that gift!
 
Merry Christmas everyone! Try to think nice thoughts.
 
Anonymous said...

"Merry Christmas JW! That post above means you're winnning. Enjoy that gift!"

Way ahead of ya, but thanks all the same.

May all your worries be so small.

6:07 PM, December 22, 2007
 
Peace on earth, Good will toward men
 
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
 
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
 
Is this the poster who said "Amen" to Terri's request to tone it down?
 
Friend, you seem to be confusing at least a number of people who don't seem to like you very much.
 
Anonymous said...

"Friend, you seem to be confusing at least a number of people who don't seem to like you very much."

Ah, you mean, the number of people posting as "anonymous" and bubbles who allegedly don't like me very much.

Well, given that they're posting under the name "anonymous" how would I know that they're not merely you?

More to the point, how could you prove that they weren't?

That's what I thought.

It's been fun.

Knock yourself out.
 
Peace on the earth, good will toward men
 
and women
 
Merry Christmas. Even to jw.
 
Terri, have a read of jwcivility's posting of 8:18 a.m. on 12/26 on the Ruminations thread. Another gem.
 
And it's yet another chorus of Send in the Clones.

Looks like Santa stiffed you in the new material department, little nonnie one-note.

Bummer.

Always a pleasure.
 
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Terri, how about losing the "anonymous" posters for the New Year and forcing posters to come up with some individual recognizable screen name?

At least bubba has the spine to set himself apart. As far as I know he's the only bubba posting here just like I'm the only jwcoop10.

I fail to see how it's unreasonable to hold everyone to that minimal standard.

That way when some clown decides he's going to google jwcoop10 and start claiming (I'm a 46 yr-old Major in the Air Force - which, for the record, isn't true - who sent a couple of e-mails to Bill Maher - which, for the record is true - irrespective of the fact that I'm not the only person in the World using jwcoop10 as a screen name.

After all, I'd hate to confuse them with the "anonymous" who seems to have thrown in the towel and devoted themselves full-time to whining about me to you in an effort to get me banned if they're different people.

Then again, if they're same poster, he/she/they can't blame it on another "anonymous."

I don't care if people post as "anonymous 27" or harrypotter802, at least they're distinguishable from the pack, accountable for what they say and they can't blame it on "anonymous28".

If they can't stand behind their posts to that extent, what's the point?

They have no credibility to lose.

Just a thought.

Thanks, jwcoop10
 
Gadzooks. I agree with JWCoop.
 
Well, if it were up to me, I'd kick all your asses.
 
"Gadzooks. I agree with JWCoop."

You mean the anonymous jwcoop who complains about everyone else being anonymous?
 
Oy, you're one farcockteh meshuggah schmuck.

How many jwcoop10s are posting on this board, bonehead?

How many "anonymouses" are posting here?

Which is the greater number?

How can you tell?

Are you sure?

That's what I thought.

Christ, little fella. You can't even grasp this simple concept or compete with with this question.

Does bubbles tie your shoes for ya, little fella?

Lord knows, you show no evidence that would lead one to believe you could do it on your own.

You're not merely dismissed, shmendrik, you're sliced, diced, pureed, unwanted, uneaten and unfit for human conception only to be scattered on the lawn for the birds.
 
comment deleted said...

"Well, if it were up to me, I'd kick all your asses."

Clearly, it's not up to you.

Tell me. It's been a bit less than 2 hours, little fella. Has that been enough time to grasp the irony of your statement or are ya gonna need another day or two?

Always a pleasure.
 
It doesn't matter how many jwcoop's are posting. YOU'RE STILL ANONYMOUS, BONEHEAD. You use your anonymous handle to hurl outrageous insults at everyone else on this blog.

Get it, bonehead?
 
Terri, is this acceptable language for this blog:

"Oy, you're one farcockteh meshuggah schmuck."

Posted by jwcoop, 4:54 p.m., 12/27.
 
"farcockteh meshuggah schmuck"

umm, you guys probably don't know this, but Farcockteh Meshuggah Schmuck is a river in Maine.

I've paddled it myself.
 
"comment deleted said...

"Well, if it were up to me, I'd kick all your asses."

Clearly, it's not up to you.

Tell me. It's been a bit less than 2 hours, little fella. Has that been enough time to grasp the irony of your statement or are ya gonna need another day or two?

Always a pleasure."


yeah, its a private joke. One anonymous to another. An old friend used to say this all the time...you had to be there.

..just the way he said it was too funny.

carry on.
 
I was up on the Farcockteh Meshuggah Schmuck fishin' for some brookies once.
 
Anonymous said...

"It doesn't matter how many jwcoop's are posting.

It doesn't, eh? Do you see me passin' the buck to some other jwcoop10 on this board, little fella?

That's what I thought.


"YOU'RE STILL ANONYMOUS, BONEHEAD. You use your anonymous handle to hurl outrageous insults at everyone else on this blog."

I do, eh? Well apart from you, yourselves and bubbles, feel free to provide some examples of me doin' that, little fella.

Knock yourself out.

You've got 6 weeks of my posts. See if you can use up the fingers on one hand.

"Get it, bonehead?"

What's to get? Ya had nothing to say before I got here. You've said nothing in the 6 weeks that I've been here and there's no reason to believe you'll have anything to say in the future, little fella.

There's never any mystery with the ignorant, ill-informed fundamentally-dishonest, invisible anonymous likes of you, little fella.

Oy Gevalt! No wonder they call bubbles the smart one when they see you two comin'.

Always a pleasure.
 
Anonymous said...
I was up on the Farcockteh Meshuggah Schmuck fishin' for some brookies once.

6:28 PM, December 27, 2007

I've heard that. If the nitwits ever stop jumpin' right in the boat here I may give it a go.
 
Ya mean besides the fact that bush and cheney don't give a damn about Democracy here let alone there?
 
Obviously, the last post by jw wasn't even intended for this thread. He must have been involved in an e-mail exchange with Bill Maher and posted the sentence here by mistake.
 
Well, little fella, seein' hows ya got about as much chance of provin' that as ya do provin' I'm Doug Hoffer, Ian and whomever else you chuckleheads are gonna accuse me of being before this day is over, ya best get crackin'.

Always a pleasure.
 
That's right, because you're ANONYMOUS, remember?
 
Anonymous said...

"That's right, because you're ANONYMOUS, remember?"

No, that would be you, little fella. I'm jwcoop10. Remember?

Always a pleasure.
 
Right, ANONYMOUS jwcoop. Remember?
 
Nah, just plain jwcoop10, little fella. I just don't feel the need to hide, pretend, pass the buck or blame it on another jwcoop10, but I can see why you do.

Always a pleasure.
 
Pollina all the way.
 
"Pollina all the way."

Signed, Jim Douglas.
 
Pollina ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2000 and lieutenant governor in 2002 . . ."

. . . and unsuccessfully for Governor again in 2008.
 
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