The world is near its end!


by Ted Grant

It’s not just American web-sites that attract people who have no business being allowed near a keyboard. Take, for example, this story from ynet news in Israel, about a gay couple who, after fostering a child thrown out by his family for being gay, were finally, after fourteen years of court petitions, allowed to adopt the boy, now a grown man.

Touching, heartwarming story, right?

You haven’t been on the internet very long, have you?

2 gay males and a younger gay male they call a son. Yep,just
what the world needs , more of. Yuk,yuk,yuk

homosexuals are the product of failing cultures. go against nature, and nature will go against you. now reap what you sow.

Whether or not these two gay men *love* this kid is irrelevant. It is unfortunate that liberal courts allow unnatural relationships such as these to further taint society.

The world is near its end!
Gay couple???? Shame, shame, shame!

a purim joke-or a sad story.
wake up it”s against the torah to be a homo

Well to be honest, I really like Irans approach to the
whole gay matter!

All class, these people.

arabs look to mecca for religion & to jerusalem for sex?
palestinian suggest jerusalem to become the symbol for the gays in the arab world, i wonder why.

I am shocked at reading this. What about the Mitzvot against such unions let alone adoption by such? This hypocrasy will destroy Israel! Haven’t we learned this over the centuries? I must convert to Judaism because my mother wasn’t pure enough according to Israeli standards, but an openly homosexual couple, expressly forbidden by Torah, is allowed to flourish within the boundaries of Israel and adopt.

I am not voicing a condemnation of any Jew. I let G-d make those choices. The blatant disregard for the instruction from G-d made public only shames good observant Jews and brings about condemnation from G-d for such an open violation of Torah. I am not advocating discipline or old Temple justice, but a recognition of this evil for what it is and a censure of such an openly public view. Please consider during this celebration of Purim, that G-d saved us to live as prescribed, not to violate the basic standards of Judaism. I celebrate the salvation of Judaism and you report the destruction of it.

More news like that,
more I understand Palestinians.

…they just wanted the state to sponsor their threesomes…. thats quite pathetic of the state to grant official status to homosexual orgies…its nothing else but that…and i have nothing against gays…but threesomes are just plain wrong..

Really classy, these people.



the fact that this has come up requires an answer


by Ted Grant

Recently, Politico writer Ben Smith posted about the efforts of freshman Congressperson Bill Posey (R-FL) to amend the Federal Election Campaign act so that all candidates for President must provide a birth certificate in order to run. I have absolutely no idea what kind of point Posey is trying to make, but then again, I don’t have trouble understanding the difference between a “birth certificate” and a “certification of live birth.”

Let’s see how Posey’s intended audience reacted to Smith’s post:

I assume this would only pertain to “future” potus candidates- right?

well..where is it…let America see it….not some fuzzy internet copy..let’s see the darn thing…i have mine…you have yours or have access to it…LET US SEE IT..NOW

What bothers me is that it is so simple to just release the birth certificate and be done with it. Yet O’bummer won’t do it. Why?

They lied about John Edwards cheating on his cancer stricken wife and fathering a *******.

Yes, because the situations are exactly equivalent…

Whether you believe the truthers or not, the fact that this has come up requires an answer. Even 9/11 had a commission and answered the questions. I find the answer Snopes, Wiki and Real Clear ” say so ” isn’t complete or valid enough. The country demands better. Clear out the vitriol from both sides and see what the facts are.

That, ladies and gentleman, was a classic “concern troll” in operation.

taxpayer your are correct, they creamed for McCain to release his, and he did so. But their lord and savior can hide his and nothing is said. That’s change we can believe in. He obviously has something to hide, otherwise they would have released it.

Yes, the President’s refusal to devote any more time to fringe conspiracy theorists is proof that he has something to hide.

The President has also refused to divulge the truth about the aliens who abduct me every third Friday night and dress me up in a gingham dress so that I can seduce sailors, and you know what that means…

People who boastfully claim to have committed felonies, as Obama has with his cocaine possession, should also be barred from the White House, and they should also be forced to take drug tests to prove that they still aren’t snorting cocaine and smoking crack. Obama may have won votes from the MTV crowd when he boasted about inhaling drugs, but we need a President we can be proud of and one we can be confidant will have a clear head when making life and death decisions.

Yes, a man who abused dangerous substances in his youth has no business being President.

This isn’t going to go away, and it isn’t just Crackpots who want to see his real birth certificate. Consider this: Thursday, March 12, 2009 Open Letter to the Secretary of Defense Open Letter to the Secretary of Defense Honorable Robert M. Gates, 3 Mar. 2009 Enough is enough! You must be aware at this point of the tempest brewing among the Rank and File. I am writing you in an effort to appeal to your sense of concern for the Military; a concern we share not only for the Military as a whole but for each and every individual who wears the Uniform in the Service of our Country. I am in this regard specifically asking you for your help. I implore you to not wait until the ?pot boils over? and we find ourselves in total disarray. I am convinced, beyond any doubt, that the moral well being and efficiency of our fighting forces to defend our Country is soon to be hanging in a precarious balance if not already. In my humble estimation this is NOT a theoretical possibility to construct a thesis or a contingency plan about. It is a reality and is happening right now. Resolution of this issue must be accomplished in the most expeditious manner available at your disposal to gain immediate relief to those of us who are struggling to fully comply with our sworn Oath to the Constitution while being conflicted by questions relating to the qualifications of the POTUS to hold the office in full and absolute compliance with the Natural Born Citizen Clause. Regardless of differences in the color of our uniforms, the color of our skin, religion or gender WE are Brothers and Sisters in Arms and our family is being torn apart. Are you not looking and listening to what is happening around you? How can anyone of good conscious stand by and let this happen to us? I for one cannot! You must care enough to intercede to stop this. Is this not within your power to do so? Why have you not acted already? What is it that you are waiting for? If you have any doubts of what I am saying is true you need look no further than the comments made on the Military.com site regarding the actions of Lt. Scott Easterling who, in my opinion, is an absolutely courageous young Army Officer. Irrespective of your personal opinion of his actions, one thing is abundantly clear; the horrible, hateful and demeaning things that were being said about him and one to the other among my Brothers and Sisters in Arms were things that I have NEVER experienced in ALL my years of military service. It is no less than gut retching to see this happening. The wounds that are being inflicted will NOT be healed by any Medicine I have at my disposal. There is nothing I learned in Medical School or in my training as a Flight Surgeon that can fix this; save the absolute power of Truth. The POTUS must stop concealing the documents once and for all and the issue of his qualifications must be addressed. Make no mistake; any adverse consequences to the troops as a result of your failure to act responsibly will be in large part directly on your head. Have you considered the legal ramifications for our fighting forces if for any reason the POTUS is not qualified. Are they in Iraq illegally? If so, does this make them terrorists under International law as the Islamic radical elements have been calling them? Have they given up their Geneva protections and do not even know this? If so, when captured can they be killed or tortured without International legal ramifications? Have they been stripped of the legal protections by the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief act? Are you willing to allow this risk to them when they are fighting for us? Once again I find myself at a loss of words to try to explain the abject and total dismay I have at the administration, to include the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, to allow the painful division now occurring in our military to proceed unabated. I hope that I do not need to remind you that you as well took an Oath to support and defend the Constitution. As a point of honor you are either willing to do this or you are not. If you are not, then preserve your honor, resign and let someone who cares more about us than that do what is right. I again respectfully implore you to act within your powers and help us. It is absolutely true and is my Prayer to my Creator to allow me to suffer the slings and arrows of being thought a fool rather than to have my convictions realized that persons of responsibility have allowed through negligence to have the Office of the President of the United States to be USURPED; it is self evident however, that whatever the outcome we must know the truth. V/R (Virtual Regards); Lt Col David A. Earl-Graef USAFR MC

Uh…huh

They need to introduce a bill that makes welfare and burdens on society unable to vote..this way Comrade Obama and the libs would just fade away

All class, these people.

Come on — his broken campaign promises and lies are being exposed more and more every day. Why is it so hard to believe he wouldn’t lie about his birthplace? He’s also blocked access to college records that could reveal more about his background. Bush and Kerry released their college records (so we all knew Bush had a higher gpa than Kerry). What is Obama hiding? College assistance based on his being a “foreign born” student? His disqualification could be the answer to the prayers of those who don’t want him to continue his socialist ways and his destroying of this country.

While the 1961 long form birth certificate, which no one has seen, is important, that is a mere smokescreen to the real issue. On Barack Obama’s campaing website, quoting factcheck.org, is the actual issue… ?When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom?s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.?s children. http://fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcertificate How can British law “govern” the “birth status” of a “natural born citizen” of the United States? Logic and common sense answer the question. However, whether a British citizen at birth can also be a natural born citizen of the United States under the Constitution is a legal question, which must be answered by our judiciary. Murder is wrong. And our judiciary has spoken on the matter. The judiciary should settle the matter: How can British law “govern” the “birth status” of a “natural born citizen” of the United States?

“Scare” quotes make “silly” points “sound” legitimate.

I AM SOOOOOOO TIRED OF ALL YOU LIBS CALLING ME A RACIST BECAUSE I DID NOT VOTE FOR THE MESSIAH, JUST LIKE A LOT OF OTHER CONSERVATIVES WE VOTED AGAIST HIS LIBERAL POLITICS NOT AGAIST HIS COLOR!!!!! ITS SO EASY FOR YOU LIBS TO ACCUSE PEOPLE OF RACISM HIDEING BEHIND A COMPUTER… LOOSERS… HOW ABOUT THAT GOTTALOVETHEGOP, BY THE WAY WHERE IS THE BC?

To all you deniers that are too scared to allow the truth to be told for fear of learning that, in fact, your Messiah is an illegal alien usurper, just remember that the biggest problem with sticking your head stuck in the sand is that it leaves your ass sticking up in the air for everyone that passes by to give it a well deserved kick. This issue is not going away until the truth is laid bare for all to see.

Yes, I am desperate. Everyday I see this idiot Obama do things that destroy the fabric of this once great nation. The Federal government has become a cancer on the United States of America. It has metastasized in the state and local governments and it was the 16th amendment to the Constitution that began the growth of this sickening tumor. This cancerous blight grows and grows bigger and bigger year after year. We have now reached the point where enough people depend on the government for employment or handouts that they can swing an election. And the government grows. So forgive me if I am desperate. My grandmother escaped Russia by hiding in a train’s coal car after her father was murdered by the communists. I’m glad she’s not alive to see what has happened to this country. I’m putting my faith in the military in the hope that they will do the right thing and stop this madness. Someone needs to push the overcharge button. Errr, I meant the reset button and take back this country. The federal government needs to be a tiny fraction of it’s current size. Truth be told, you left-wing idealogues are truly incapable of simple comprehension. Do you realize, that in Bush’s eight years, the only constitutionally valid actions taken by the federal government were military actions and trade agreements. The constitution precludes the federal government from doing most of what it does today. Try reading it for once. It spells out what the feds can do and says that EVERYTHING else is reserved to the states, or the people. Most of us ‘desperate’ people have been upset about this for a LONG time, but it is Obama who is putting government growth on steroids. I’m smart enough to make my own decisions and I don’t want or need the federal government to do it for me. If that’s what you want, maybe you should get the heck out of this country. It was founded on liberty but seems to be ending in tyranny. Signed, Desperate for Liberty

Well this is really getting to be a HOT topic & well it should be! BUT- forget the BC or the COLB, it’s far simpler than either. His Father was a Kenyan. In 1961 even Black men from Kenya had rights. Every Father on planet earth has the right to transfer his citizenship to his new born son! Baby O was born a Brit under the rights of his Father & the British colony of Kenya. His mother was only 17 and to young to transfer her American citizenship to her son at birth in 1961. So whither or not he was born an American, he was born a Brit. Being born a Brit he can not be an American NATURAL BORN CITIZEN! At best he was a dual citizen born Brit & American. Dual citizenships make you NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN. Remember these Obots are not to intelligent, they voted for an unknown quantity in the first place. They refuse to understand that “CITIZEN” & “NATURAL BORN CITIZEN” are two distinctly different things. Arnold Swartzenegger is an American Citizen and Governator of whacko California, but he can not “BE” nor “RUN FOR” president, he is not NATURAL BORN! We appear to have elected a Brit as President of the United States. Wouldn’t our Founding Fathers back in 1776 have a few things to scream at us about if they could see us now!

Congress should introduce a bill requiring the man posing as Paul McCartney to prove he is not the imposter who replaced Paul when he died in the ’60s.

It’s important.

Yeah, I think we can safely leave off there…



you guys are all a bunch of over-emotional queerbait


by Ted Grant

Oh, American Idol. You give us so much. Well, mostly what you give us is the notion that being really good at karaoke is all you need to land a recording contract, but you also give us crazy fans like no other reality show can even dream of doing.

And when Entertainment Weekly looked at the possibility that the next Idol might be a man of ambiguous sexuality, oh, how your fans delievered:

Why does everything have to be labeled as straight or gay? That is the biggest problem. So many things have “I’m gay” written all over everything, but there aren’t labels stating “I’m straight”. God bless American Idol for keeping neutral ground.

I would stop watching it with my kids.I am just a mother with worries of this issue and dont think my kids need more exposure then they already get in the schools and now even on a family show. I think he should just keep it to himself and keep his personal life off TV..

THE ANUS IS AN EXIT, NOT AN ENTRANCE!

All class, these people.

What is wrong with people? Do straight people run around bragging they are straight? Who cares? Leave it in the bedroom just like heterosexuals do.

Yeah! I mean, it’s not like we have entire tv shows dedicated to the idea of straight people hooking up or getting married!

Wait? We do? Oh.

Why is it so damned important to even mention one’s sexual orientation on this or any other show? It seems that gays and lesbians must suffer from some sort of compulsion psychosis if they find it necessary to always reveal their sexual orientation in public venues.
Heterosexuals do not, so why gays?

They must be trying to shove their proclivities into other peoples’ faces. “My song tonight is ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’, and I am Gay!” (Translation: If you do not vote for me you are a bigot.)
Jeeez!

If you define a family as a mother, a father, and one or more kids (as do most humans), as opposed to whomever wants to move in together and have sex, then OF COURSE homosexuality is anti-family. Don’t get me wrong, if two guys or girls want to get together and make like bunnies, more power to them. However, lets not make the mistake of calling them a family.

No, we are NOT all equal. No, it DOESN’T take village, and no, two homosexuals do NOT a family make.

The problem is that some gays are not willing to behave as heterosexuals with their love life, but many gays flaunt it, having pics taken of publicly tongue kissing, dressing as nuns while performing sexual acts in their parades. I would object to heterosexuals behaving in this manner and I am not a far right as one of the comments suggested. If someone is gay, so what. Behave with your lover as others do. It is not necessary to perform public sexual oriented acts as Adam did in the pics. Actually, he may not be gay, but a deviate, and I consider that a threat to any culture. What is next – showing off their toilet habits???

That’s right, coming out as gay is exactly the same as defecating in public.

Marshal Kirk & Hunter Madsen wrote the psychological Homosexual Agenda manifesto titled “Overhauling Straight America”, available from Amazon books.

Both homosexual authors were experts in mass public mind control & psychological programming.

Part of their psychological deception script that admittedly borrows from Communist Chinese mind control tactics was a process they called “jamming & conversion”. This first required desensitization by overwhelming the public with a tireless blitzkrieg of the more sanitized versions of homosexualiuty delivered in the abstract, then siliencing opposition using averse conditioning ala calling everyone a “homophobe”, “discriminator” “bible thumper”, “right wing whacko”, “Nazi”, “hate mongerer”, you know the scripted epithets.

Articles like the Times, of whose board members are comprised of more homosexuals than heterosexuals are merely part of that desensitization grand psychological operations manifesto from Kirk & Madsen.

I think we’ve just witnessed the apotheosis of anti-gay conspiracy theories.

I’m so sick of all the gay people trying to cram their lifestyles down our throats by making us think that there are so many of you that it’s normal! I liked Lambert until my wife found all of those new pictures of him…now we’re both revolted. You know why gay marriage won’t pass anywhere that voters have a choice??? It’s because (not so much the lesbians) but the idea of what it takes for two men to engage in sex makes most of the NORMAL people in the world want to vomit…forcefully! Women are always better off because we don’t think that is so disgusting, it’s even kind of hot sometimes…unless they’re really bullish, but even then it’s not as revolting as two dudes. Of course my wife is as disgusted by lesbos as much as I am by guys, so maybe she should follow up here with her own comments. I know that a bunch of you twinkle-toes out there will think I’m a bigot because I don’t care what you think…I’m the normal breeding one.

There’s that “cramming it down our throats” bit again.  People, if you have to cram, you’re doing it wrong!

you guys are all a bunch of over-emotional queerbait. I’d love to see idol show the backstory of how much lambert likes to dress like a chick and take it in the cornhole, and see how fast America votes him off then. At least I wont have to look at that lame 90’s emo hairdouche anymore. Nobody wants their son sitting there watching this show thinking, “hmm, the person i’m supposed to be idolizing likes screwing other boys, so I’ll go to school tomorrow and kiss a dude”. That’s why this ‘family friendly’ show doesn’t publicize it. They’d lose millions of viewers/ratings. (delete this post now! please, dont let these people hear another side of the arguement. they might not be able to handle it. omg)

Good people should have children if possible. Straight people who can’t conceive should be repaired, if possible…if not then agree to adopt a child into a normal family before Pelosi can abort it. “Octomom” should be shunned and ridiculed too. People who choose not to have children are just being selfish as long as they can afford to provide for the ensuing kidlets both emotionally and financially. To deny a base instinct that exists across all forms of life is not normal. That’s why any gay lifestyle justification vote can’t even pass a simple majority vote in any jurisdiction.

Homosexuality brings nothing positive to society. What it does bring is suicide, depression, disease, identity crises, confusion and a whole lot of unnecessary conflict.

Homosexual relationships are different from heterosexual ones for obvious reasons. Homosexuals should not try to claim that their relationships are the same as heterosexual ones. Nor should homosexuals try to rob the heterosexual community of distinctly heterosexual concepts such as marriage and family.

Homosexuals can do nothing but imitate the heterosexual model, because the heterosexual model has existed from the beginning (a society based on homosexuality can’t survive).

Instead of imitating heterosexuals and perverting heterosexuals’ most treasured institutions, homosexuals should invent their own institutions. But they should do so somewhere where the rest of us won’t have to deal with the consequences of their actions.

Or else they should substitute their harmful behavior with behavior helpful to society.

I would stop watching immediately! The line has to be drawn somewhere. There is no difference between homosexuality and bestiality. I will not have my children in an environment where they are brought up to think homosexuality is normal any more than I would tell them it is ok to marry their uncle when they reach the age of 12. I am agnostic btw. Homosexuality is a sickness like depression or bipolar disorder and should be treated as such.



“How didn’t they catch this dude?? They have pipctures of him.”


by RJ White

In Philadelphia this week, a woman’s purse was stolen. Two Boston salesmen making a call at a nearby hair salon thought a moment, then gave chase. A couple of blocks down, a guy saw the thief run past, called 911 and joined the chase. The thief dropped the purse, the victim got her purse back, people’s faith in humanity and strangers in general was renewed. A nice, feel-good story, right? Let’s go to the Philly.com comments!

We start out pretty positive this time-

Wow, now this is positive news!!! It’s nice to know that many people in and out of Philadelphia, PA are great people.

seriously…way to go guys…it is verymuch appreciated

I still hate Boston people. Good job on the purse though.

Well, okay, mostly positive. But then- a conspiracy?

There are so many pictures of this from different angles the whole thing seems like a staged feel good story.

This seems fake, not because of the good deed, because of the amount of pictures. I don’t get it.

Also, how didn’t they catch this dude?? They have pipctures of him. Why not instead of taking the pictures of the action, join in on the fun and chase him.. I’m curious about who took the pictures.. Anyone wondering if this story was staged? haha

“ELIZABETH ROBERTSON / Staff Photographer”…very convenient that an Inquirer staff photographer HAPPENED to be across the street to take a photo of the mugger making his getaway. F-A-K-E.

Am I the only one who thinks this looks set up? It looks like a bad high school PSA done for class.

Hm. What is this, Little Green Footballs trying to Sherlock up a Reuters photo?

Something seems to be missing, though. Some familiar element-

He’s black?! Get out of town! Never would’ve guessed it.

I’m waitng for the “ya’ll are racist.” Tick tock tick tock.

I am shocked at the race of the perp!

Ah, there it is.

What a scam! We’ve all seen Mr. Deeds.

Okay, that one I liked. Now let’s get some clumsy attempts at topical humor-

Hey, Green Hood guy was just getting his bailout. I thought Congress announced stealing is no longer wrong. Next time Green Hood guy should hit AIG’s offices; millions there!

And one exhortation to cure society’s ills, then we’ll finish up.

Who cares. It’s an effing purse. Wake me when 2 salesman take a flight to Dar Fur to help out, or show up at a Rape Clinic, or offer their time helping many others that are truly in need. This woman had a purse = money. She doesn’t need help.

Thank you.

Though, I believe Dar Fur might actually be a folk cover band that gets booked at Anthrocon.



What is going to be next, some chickens running around the White House????


by Ted Grant

One of the best signs of how deep Obama Derangement Syndrome is in certain segments of the population is how strongly they over-react to innocuous stories about the President and his family.  Take, for example, this recent story about Michelle Obama’s plan to plant a vegetable garden on the White House grounds:

What is going to be next, some chickens running around the White House????
and some clothes lines in the “back yard”????

and wouldn’t that will be more tax money spent. Who will pay for the maintenance of the garden, the water, seeds, etc….

I…what?

Will they be planting telepromters since O-Dumb_AH can’t speak without one LMAO
O-dumb-ah actually thanked himself after a telepromter put in the wrong speech yesterday LMAO.. WhAT a clown, the laughing stock of the world; and tonight he will be the first sitting president to lower himself to going on a comedy show.. but hey maybe thats where he belongs lmao…Obama and his cabinet of clowns.. featuring.. TURBOTAX TIMMY LMAO

did someone say watermelon patch?

All class, these folks.

Doesn’t the White House trust our food supply? Maybe if we all had our own garden we wouldn’t need this massive budget Obama is asking for as well as $11 Trillion dept he keeps growing. Another example he set was accepting over $100,000 from our friends at AIG.

Well he shouldn’t trust the food supply, with so much chemicals used and the soil depleted by the farming methods used. Not that he objects – he appointed the Governor from Monsanto as his Agriculture Secretary.

Is it safe to plant food on the White House lawn? My guess is they’ve been using chemicals for decades on it. How much poison is in the soil that the plants will uptake? Will Sasha and Malia be poisoned by food from the White House garden? Stay tuned.



Ravelry and the Bunker


by evilolive

One might think that a knitting community like Ravelry might confine itself to eternal debates like acrylic vs wool and toe-up or top-down socks. However wherever people gather drama and multiple references to Hitler cannot be too far behind, as found in the mass banning of a conservative group on Ravelry called “The Bunker”.


Our Side of the Story

More problems came when we changed the name to “The Bunker”. Small minds went immediately to the Hitler reference, which it wasn’t. The President of the United States has a bunker below the White House as well as bunkers being used throughout military history. If anyone has watched an episode of “24”, the Presidential bunker has been used many times in the show. It’s a command center that provides safety from outside forces – much like our group had become for Conservatives on Ravelry who were under constant attack from Obama supporters all over the rest of Ravelry. That was the meaning behind the name – nothing more. Besides, Hitler’s regime resembles Obama’s thought process, not ours – so the irony is quite humorous.

So the latest lie…

Let’s just stop dancing around what really happened. Casey and Jess are liberals who have a bunch of liberal friends that didn’t like us being on the site. They did everything in their power to cause trouble for us and complain at every turn. Rather than alienate their buddies and the rabid masses, Ravelry chose to get rid of us.

From the discussion page on an article about Ravelry from the New York Observer:

The owners work very hard to ensure that it is welcoming and inclusive. They have allowed space for all sorts of groups with differing opinions and there are all sorts of political groups with their own forums. The real joy of it is that users may use as much or as little of it as they choose.

I choose to stay well away from the right wing, neo-nazi hatefilled “conservative” groups and I refrain when I can from making comments which would offend my hosts, Casey and Jess, and their other guests.

It’s a shame that some people’s parents didn’t teach them that they are unlikely to be welcome in other peoples’ homes if they are constantly offensive.

Nazi is what the left is all about. look up Communism in wiki.you are on the Left with the commies.You can also go read the Bunker. People complained so much, the Mods. would have to had delete everything, and yes there were members of color ect. It was all about the Libs.

That place is so full of censorship that is it unlivable anymore.

Want to be trapped in like you were sealed in a concentration camp, then join ravelry.

I have requested to be removed over and over and no response. I want my name off there.

From a Topix forum

Dear Bunkerites,

You were not banned for being conservative. You were banned for hiding out on your private Yahoo group and organizing threadjacks and other disruptive behavior. Before that, your group was deleted for multiple violations of the community guidelines that went unaddressed- even defended- by the group’s moderators.

The fact that you have to hunt down every article written about the site to whine about your removal and throw around insane accusations amply demonstrates the sort of behavior you were banned for in the first place.

We like conservatives, liberals, and jabberwocks with lavender spots when they behave civilly. The 300K users- or 150K active users, if you prefer- are living a more peaceful existence without the two dozen of you.

You were banned from a knitting site. Your rights were not violated. You are not being censored. And most of the world doesn’t care. Get over it.

What? Say it isn’t so! More bunkerettes stomping and sulking around the internet telling us all how they don’t care that they’ve been banned?
Somebody call the Wahmbulance – the brain trust conservatives are playing the Jedi mindtrick again: we’re victims, we’re oppressed, we’re just decent and reasonable while all the rest of you are evil socialist wackos. Waaaahhhh!
“I don’t even care any more that I’m banned; I don’t want to be around that kind of people anymore.”
What a coincidence! We feel the same way. Buh bye now.



“The Gallery is just a huge toilet.”


by RJ White

The Gallery at Market East in Philadelphia’s Center City is an odd piece of urban design. Built in the late 1970s to compete with shoppers and stores flocking to the city’s suburbs, it sits on East Market Street with its bare concrete walls facing the street, taking up several blocks between the heart of the city’s downtown and one of the country’s most important historic sites, Independence Hall.

Here’s the thing though- it does rather well. It was constructed on a vital rail transit hub, connects to the convention center, vacancy rates are typically low and the profits are amongst the highest for its management company’s shopping centers. It may be a poorly-designed piece of the urban fabric, but it serves its purpose- it’s a place to shop that lots of people use.

Many in Philadelphia, however, do not see it that way, as an article in the Daily News points out. Of course, the attendant comments section is cram-packed with the type of intelligent discourse that’s the hallmark of Philly.com commenters.

A big part of the problem is that there are virtually no stores that attact an upscale shopper. K-mart, gamestop, and payless do nothing to draw the shoppers who frequent the numerous stores on chesnut and walnut street. Even a target or a best buy would do a lot to improve the shopping there. Its a fair point that the subterranean atmosphere of the Gallery hurts it. Most of the store entrances don’t really give a sense of whats inside. There are too many blank walls and wide open escalator banks, limiting store space. Too much closes early, making it more difficult to accomplish its goal of having city workers shop before getting on the train.

Okay, nice- thinking about it from somewhat of a planning perspective. Maybe this won’t be so bad, after-

Let’s just be honest. The problem is “urban” teens running wild through the Gallery.

Alright, then. See if you can read through there and count how many times “urban” is used as a code word for another word that is in these folks’ heads, hm?

the world’s worst mcdonalds is located in that place…on second thought, it’s the second worst after the one at 30th street station. it’s good to see im busy on a monday morning rating mcdonalds restaurants…sincerely myspace.com/dannyozark

When I moved to CC in ‘79 I found the Gallery depressing and dirty. Now, I am older and fearful of the youth crowds and lack of perceived security presence. I live 5 blocs away and wouldn’t shop there if it was the last place on earth. And, now with the Internet, I can get anything I need online with a delivery charge that is often less than the cab ride to the Gallery and that means Macy’s too. I do, however, still shop and eat at the Reading Terminal Market.

The gallery is your typical ‘urban’ mall. Nothing but baby clothes and sneaker stores!

Just let the cops put a few beatings on the teenagers, who should be in school,loitering down there. A few broken facial bones will set them straight. Police brutality…. WORKS!!!!

I can sort of imagine the PSA with that tagline from the early 80s.

Take the subway to gamble and leave (supposedly) with winnings in your pocket. I hope they’ll be handing out signs for people to wear coming and going: PLEASE MUG ME!

Oh- did I mention that there are plans to maybe turn part of it into a slots casino? Well, there are.

What is so funny is the people who agree here as to what the problem is tend to vote for the same people that the parent(s) of these thugs vote for. WAKE UP will you!!!!!!

Its a mall for the gangsta’s and their Ho’s…nothing more…wouldnt dream of entering that building again…ever..

The Gallery is just a huge toilet. And what can you find in a toilet ? Time for a courtesy flush.

What this article is trying to say is that the Gallery has too many young Black ghetto people that shop there. Lets not pretend that Phila isn’t segregated along class and racial lines. ‘Certain’ people only shop and live in ‘certain’ areas. End of story. I don’t like shopping in malls at all. With the Gallery none of the stores attract me, parking sucks, and I can’t stand teenagers (of any race).

The Gal-ree is the laughing stock of all the “malls” within 25 miles of it. Can it even be considered a mall? It’s a shame that people walking through there from the regional rails have to witness the decadence and despair of the people that populate that area. From the crack-moms to the homeless to the downright nutty. After experiencing that kind of sadness who in their right mind would want to spend their money there? Nobody wants to shop there for fear of getting mugged. Really, the only people not afraid to shop there are people who are used to being in a “dangerous” area.

I have to say- the only reason I’m able to shop at the Gallery is because of my years on the mean streets of Webberville, Michigan.  Also- “downright nutty?” That makes me think of Thorny, the neighbor on Ozzie and Harriet.

Philly has to become more like NYC, where shops are privately owned and operated. The experiment of having government owned properties provide stores and shopping to the masses is too Soviet to be workable.

Brief aside: The city’s Redevelopment Authority (RDA) owns the property, which is then leased to a management company who oversees the mall. Very Soviet. What with the large private real estate developer running the thing and all.

The city of Philly tried to be a shopping mall provider using CC to service the inner city, but the RDA as owner of all this property like the Gallery is not practical. The RDA simply has shops and stalls that cater to the lowest common denominator, creating a creepy vibe like t-shirt stalls where you can get a death memoriam t-shirt airbrushed, aka “RIP RASHEED.”

No, the NBA rescinded those last two technicals. He’s fine.

the only problem with wiping out the gallery is where will all those sorry people go if there’s nothing there? that’s right, the real malls.

Dun-Dun-DUNNNNN.

Let’s end on a positive note, though. RowingMan seems to have his hand up. Perhaps he has a suggestion about how the retail mix at the mall could be diversified, or perhaps some sort of plan to rebuild the building’s facade to open it up a bit more, or maybe he’s been reading up on Jane Jacobs and her theories about continuity of the street-

There was a women who shot up the Delco Springfield Mall with multiple weapons in the mid 80’s. If she’s still around, why don’t we let her out (of prison) and she can patrol the Gallery – it’s gotta work better than today’s situation.