• Published:March 12th, 2010
• Comments:1 Comment
• Category:Message Boards, Politics

No matter how much people may pine for the “good old days,” the truth is that politics have always been rather ugly. But underneath a great deal of it, certain things were off limits for most people, regardless of party. In Rick Perlstein’s book Nixonland, a sea change is identified, wherein divisions between political ideologies in the 60s and 70s were driven even deeper for short term gain by a certain party in America’s wonderfully diverse two-party system. A strong case could be made that these divisions have borne the fruit of reasoned political discourse in the form of today’s Rush Limbaughs, Glenn Becks and the whimsical Tea Party Movement.

Today’s angry man-on-the-street conservatives have been told over and over again that they have a lot to be angry about- assailed on all sides by political correctness; a president who is just waiting for the right time to throw them into Marxist gulags; police around the corner waiting to take their precious guns; and, currently, a bunch of socialists in Congress ready to come into their houses and make them stop paying a lot of money to health insurance companies.

A wonderful gathering place for these folks is the venerable FreeRepublic.com. Last evening, when I read of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D. Nev.) wife and daughter being hurt in an awful automobile accident, I figured that the “Freepers” would surely be able to put aside partisan rancor and have nothing but good wishes for the Reid family. I mean, there are just some things that transcend politics, right?

That is sad. Prayers for the family.

See, there we go. No matter one’s political beliefs, it is important to-

you do not want my opinion on this one. Right now…..I am a target of Reid……dont ask for my opinion on his family.

Oh, screw it. Let’s just get this over with.

He needs to establish his proper perspectives and put his family first. By all means he should immeddiately resign from the Senate and spend more time with them.

/falsehopes

They suffered enough being in his family

Where was Joe Biden?

“Where was Joe Biden?” is the wrong question. The correct question is:

Where were Eric Massa and Barney Frank?

“Where were Eric Massa and Barney Frank?”

Perhaps out rear-ending each other?

That’s what I thought when I read they were “rear-ended”, but these were females. No reason to suspect either of those two.

In these kinds of situations, there is only one prayer I feel safe with and honest about. As for his family, “May Gods will be done”.

As for Reid…. a traitor to this country, the guy that hates us all, the one that wants to steal our Liberty—our treasure and the future of unborn generations to come, and trash our constitution on a daily basis…. I wish him a horrible day, a debilitating headache caused from an aneurysm and a 10 year shorter lifespan from all the stress he experiences. I would say more, but I’m trying to be nice during his time of need.

Prayers that they’ll be OK.

Oh, and to balance things out – screw you, Harry.

Reid has a son named “Key” and they made fun of Sarah Palin’s children’s name.

Related to Reid, and now this? They can’t get a break. Prayers for them.

trying to give a shi’ite

Hope it wasn’t a Prius!

Really! Wonder how many of The Green Mafia in California are still driving their Prius with their holier-than-thou noses stuck up in the air!

Larry David? Anyone? Anyone? Buellar? (sic?)

Ted Kennedy (D-HELL) is unavailable for comment…

Upon news that Reid later went back to Capitol Hill to continue negotiations on the health care legislation-

Harry Reid was tested. He was given a choice between being with his family in their time of need, or pursing 0bama’s evil agenda to deprive Americans of their healthcare.

He made his choice, and he will reap its consequences.

ISN’T MASSA IN DE COLD, COLD GROUN’?

What?

Frankly, but sadly, I’m suspicious of anything that revolves around the scoundrels Harry Reid and the demrat party.

Could this be a sympathy play like the one The Breck Girl tried to pull off with his wife’s alleged cancer? While, by the way, he was screwing another woman.

Reid doesn’t care, why should we? His goon bureaucrats would probaly turn us down for care…yet we are forced to pay for his family.

I wish his wife and daughter well and hope thay will be rid of this scum sooner rather than later.

Believe me folks, if it was all that bad for them, he would have used sympathy rather than heading back to Capitol Hill.

He stepped on a crack
and broke his wifes back

Damn him

I’m interested in the semi. Was it one of those allowed into the US from Mexico? Or is the driver here legally?

Just wonderin’…

Bill Clinton’s secretary found that her brother had been run down by a semi on his way to get aid for his disabled car. He got up, though, and was hit by a semi coming from the opposite direction.

She was scheduled to testify about Bill some time later that week.

So, yeah, this does look like another bit of the “Clinton Body Count”.

I’d be interrogating that truck driver on a rack in a garage, and hooking up my battery charger as I talked casually to him. Now that won’t happen because there are people in American who don’t want him to tell the truth!

Hey, that’s my tax dollars at work in that hospital. We don’t want people like Harry Reid hanging around scaring the paying patients.

We are better off with him in Downtown DC playing with the gay boys in the House eh!

Judgement at the house of Harry Reid!

Sounds like hardball Chicago style politics…

The fascist Obama thug purge has begun. Right on schedule.Harry must have pished off Rahm Emmanual or Obama big time.

Here’s the thing- during the Last Administration, I did not agree with one iota of one speck of anything swirling around the White House. But you know what? I never wished or would gloat about bodily harm to anyone I disagree with politically. But these people? Not a problem. They’re entirely justified because they’re the “good guys.” And if you watch Lost, you know what a loaded phrase that can be.

• Published:March 11th, 2010
• Comments:1 Comment
• Category:Fandom

Gorillaz are, quite rightly, one of the internet’s favorite bands.  Composed of a vocalist from some big band and an illustrator who co-created a popular cartoon character along with musicians from slightly less popular, but still respected groups, they’ve managed to create a perfect twenty-first century pop act: cartoons that make compelling music and somehow get guest stars like Lou Reed and Snoop Dogg show up on their latest album, Plastic Beach.  They’ve redefined music marketing and promotion while maintaining an artistic integrity that’s admirable.

So, of course someone on the internet has drawn pornographic images featuring them in flagrante.  Here’s a censored version of an image that I discovered while searching for “Cyborg Noodle.”  (Noodle is Gorillaz’ guitarist and she’s apparently a brain in a robot body now, OK?)

There is not enough god damning I can do to the entirety of the internet for this one.

• Published:March 4th, 2010
• Comments:2 Comments
• Category:News Comments

Recently, there have been two separate incidents of teens coming down to Center City Philadelphia after school’s out and wreaking havoc. After the last incident, several members of City Council even had the wonderful idea to try suing Twitter and Facebook, as they hear that these kids today use this “inter-net” thing to organize their little gatherings (BONUS- the media’s been able to use the phrase “Flash Mob” over and over!). Yesterday, the kids didn’t get to the Gallery and 28 were arrested.

It boils down to stupid teens wanting to head to the downtown mall (The Gallery) to be, well, stupid teens and eventually start fighting, a phenomenon in existence probably since Victor Gruen built the Northland Mall in Detroit in the 1950s. Of course, there is a story in today’s Inquirer about last evening’s incident and, of course, there are wonderful, wonderful comments on the philly.com posting of the article.

Can we start with a wildly awful overstatement of something?

I love the part that says the attacke by these animals are “tarnishing the city’s image”. What image would that be? That we have a large segment of our population who are out of control? That if you see a group of blacks …. get away? If the police see more than 2 together they should break them up because it appears that they can’t be expected to act in a civilized manner. It’s like we’re living in Darfur.

Darfur. With the genocide and all. Thank you. Please continue.

Soon we will need a dictator, once the children of our nation completely stop caring about education. Keep encouraging your children to watch reality TV and American Idol. I hope we all die before we turn into Iran.

Iran. Okay, any other nations?

Eventually, no more Flower shows, home shows or boat shows. Goodbye Convention Center conferences. Philadelphia, meet Camden.

Camden? Camden, New Jersey? Judges? Okay, we’ll accept it. Moving on.

look at what the Democrats have done to this city. The racist Democrat agenda built on the lie of gov’t “help” has created a perpetually poor and ignorant black segment of the community. The Democrats derive their power on the dependencies they create. It is a shame that the ignorant voters actually believe the Democrats care about them. Democrats have done one hell of a job blaming racist Republicans for their problems as they are completely clueless that their community and local politicians are 99% Democrat. Wake up you fools rise up against your Democrat slave masters they don’t care about you!

Where’s Bernard Goetz when you need him?

Somebody tell me again why a suburban swim club was worried about who used their facilities. And then white people get chastised as racist if they cross the street when a group of AA walks by. Can’t say I blame them. You not only have these animals running rampant through the streets, but their also the same people that account for almost all of the violent crime in this city.

Try to be more charitable with your comments,after all,these are the future of our country…the scientist,great philosophers and political leaders.Liberia-here we come.

I’m a black belt in the ancient art of karate. I will spend my afternoons around the gallery just hoping to run into these cretins. You ever see Bruce Lee take on 20 dudes with no problem? That’ll be me.

Clockwork Orange

GORILLAS

I just legally bought a Smith and Wesson .38. I plan to get a legal concealed weapon permit. I do not plan to be harmed by such a mob. I will defend myself if a bunch of kids come after me. Nutter and police better get a grip on what is happening.

The Gallery and that part of Market St highlights the problems with the urban renewal prejects of 3 or 4 decades ago. it’s like it was designed by the same people who designed high-rise public housing because it seems to have many of the same problem and the same clientele.

Bring back Frank Rizzo! This garbage wouldn’t happen on his watch!

Stop calling these wastes of sperm ‘animals’. Animals don’t behave like this. These brats are perfect examples of why abortion is a great idea.

To all the folks who are arming themselves. PLEASE DON’T START SHOOTING as soon as you see a gang of rampaging kids, because YOU WILL MISS, or a bullet will ricochet AND KILL AN INNOCENT PERSON.. LIKE ME. And you will be prosecuted!

Or maybe we should hit them where they live and see how their parents, or momma, likes it when her home and neighborhood are vandalized and/or destroyed. Oh right, it’s already destroyed. Forget that idea.

We need the Bristol police on this. They know social media. Those of you who hate the city, please form a flash mob of suburbanites. You can descend upon North Philly and bore everyone with talk of your kids and Burberry scarves.

I think its time the citizens and commuters stand up for this city. Who cares if there are 200 teens…still more of us on the streets than them! Don’t just stand by and watch them chase a man into the CVS, stand up for yourselves, each other, and this city. These kids think they are tough, no one can touch them and they can do what they want…wonder what they’ll think when someone bigger and badder cracks ‘em in the jaw. Bunch of punks who think they seen the world and it belongs to them, the adults around here need to teach them a lesson and put them all in their place.

Seems all they touch,they destroy..I was born/raised in Kensington. Merchants along K&A took pride in their shops, swept their pavements etc. K&A use to be one stop shopping. Then everything fell upon darker days. K&A now is nothing but drabby shops that are either pawn shops/chk cashing places/car stereo shops..It was a shame to see it all unravel..even Harrowgate plaza looks like the slums now. Sec 8 did this. Port Richmond is even falling. Now when I drive thru these areas all I see is misery,gloom,Newport Billboards and Billboards with Billy Dee Williams Hawkin’ Colt 45 malt liqour.

These CHILLRUN didn’t do nuffin. America’s next great city? What about America’s next Detroit or Gary, Indiana? Let’s face it. The savages have won. They have destroyed 75% of this city already. Let’s just throw in the towel. Give them the keys to the place and let them continue to trash and destroy it. Over 200 years and they’re still savages for the most part. That’s why we’ll always be a third rate city – not a great one. Not with the population we have here.

I figured out a deterrant and a fund raising idea for the city. Bring back the stocks then place a tax on rotten vegetables. Id pay some serious coin to blast these fools in the face with a nasty head of lettuce. few days of that, they may reconsider. Also put it on tv so everyone can enjoy…

Someone is going to open up on them with a weapon and then ewe will have to hear about how a ‘good kid’ was ‘murdered’ and didn’t deserve it. I’ll tell you this…..if my wife gets assaulted over there coming from or going to work…..I will be over there fully locked and loaded and searching these punks out !!!!

These “children” need a role model, maybe we should elect someone that they can look up to, how about a black president from another city with a crime problem. Maybe not. What else could we do? I am still thinking………..

• Published:February 17th, 2010
• Comments:1 Comment
• Category:News Comments

In a city as old as Philadelphia, there are a great many time-honored traditions- the Mummers Parade, the yearly collapse of the Eagles, threatened garbage strikes, Justice Department probes of city employees and so on and so forth, et cetera, et cetera. In today’s Daily News (“The People Paper”) we are afforded a glimpse at another time-honored Philadelphian institution- that of using various pieces of furniture to hold your parking space, a precious commodity on the city’s narrow streets.

In the last two weeks, these spaces have become even more precious, due to some of the largest snowstorms in the city’s history. When people dig those spaces out, they want to save them by any means necessary, though doing so is technically illegal. The article is one of those slice-of-life pieces, giving many examples of the lengths to which people will go to save their spots and Mayor Michael Nutter even vaguely gives a winking approval to the practice. And, of course, with this being Philadelphia and this being the internet, there must be a group of reasonable citizens ready to weigh in on the matter, right?

i saw the news story where the woman complained of her tires getting slashed. She called it selfish. My thing is she was too lazy to park a bit further and WALK to her destination. Who is selfish now?

Yes. Reasonable.

A woman and her dog once pooped right on my sidewalk and left it. I scooped it up, followed her home and dumped, no spreaded it, all over her front steps. Since then, no on parks in my shoveled parking spot. And all I put there, was a bucket of sugar.

From ‘Beauty’-

don’t touch my chair in my spot…if i shovel you better believe i don’t want anyone else benefitting from my hard work…i’m petty enough to do something to your car if your bold enough to move my chair and trash can i use as my space holder…

And in response, some not-so-thinly-veiled racism-

Beauty, it’s your mentality, and poor spelling, that represents this city. If a shoveled out spot is such a worry for you, just collect your welfare payment and walk to the store for your 40s, you don’t need to drive.

Its our tradition and if you dont like it, move to Kansas or something. And YES, I will do something to your car if you touch my spot. Like beauty said, if you’re bold enough to move my chair, then im petty enough to do something to your car. lol.

The sad thing is that if you slash the tires of a car that “takes” the spot you recently shoveled, it’s not going anywhere anytime soon and you’ve probably now lost the spot for a lot longer!

Hey, get out of here with that confusing “logic!”

It’s a matter of respect, which is slowly becoming a thing of the past. A crying shame. It’s becoming the George Harrison song, “I, Me, Mine.”

If you take two hours to dig out one car, then you are either in really bad shape, or lousy at shoveling.

You too! Git!

you take my spot and there will be serious hospital bills

Ahh, that’s better.

Hey new people, it’s called traditions. Don’t move here if you ain’t down wit it.

Yeah, youse. Eaayyyy forgett aboutt it!

I can see both sides of the argument — one through the left lens of my beautiful black drop-temple glasses, one through the right lens. Seriously, though, the first thing residents should do is park their main vehicle in the garage (if possible) or the driveway (if one exists). That’s what my family did when we lived in NE Philly. The only times we ever needed a chair to save the spot in front of our house resulted from huge storms (such as those in 1996, 1993, 1978). Now as a suburbanite, I live on a cul-de-sac barely wide enough for two cars, and there is no parking available there even in summer. We all have big driveways to compensate. Too bad the city’s planners couldn’t figure that out centuries ago.

OH MY GOD- now that person, I specifically want their car re-buried.

One other thing. Do the same people that claim to shovel out and then “own” the spot also pick up the trash in the street during the warmer months? That’s what I thought. You folks are pathetic. I shovel out my spots and if someone takes them that’s life. It’s the city. Don’t like it, move to the burbs and get a driveway.

Again- stop with the sense-making. Like that one guy said- don’t move here if you ain’t down wit it. “It” being tire slashings and dinette sets sitting out in salt and slush and 30-degree temps.

watch it when you put a aluminum lawn chair out in the street, people will take it for scrape money.

Wait- what?

Its only laziness that somebody wouldn’t shovel themselves out and benefit from someone elses labor, oh that reminds me isn’t there a goverment program for that…probably the same people who would steal your parking spot.

take my spot, get shot. period.

Finally, someone who I think best exemplifies the spirit of Get Off The Internet-

Is it wrong to hate the people on both sides of the argument? One comes off as lazy and nonchalant to the hard work put in by others, and the other comes off like an entitled neighborhood bully if you dare cross them.

No, it is never wrong to hate both sides. In fact, that is probably the wisest course to take in reading anything, anywhere on the internet.

• Published:February 5th, 2010
• Comments:No Comment
• Category:Facebook, Fandom

• Published:February 3rd, 2010
• Comments:1 Comment
• Category:Craigslist

We here at Get Off The Internet thank you for your patience during our overly long exile. Some of us have been up to other things on the internet, including Agreeable Comics and the Fake AP Stylebook and since we’re flush with success, we figured it was time to find a good butler to buttle around GOTI Towers.

I say, he looks qualifi…oh.

• Published:August 10th, 2009
• Comments:1 Comment
• Category:News Comments

WUXTRY! WUXTRY! Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Melissa Dribben does not use Twitter!

With this being the dead middle of August in a city that virtually shuts down during this period, this news gets space in the Sunday edition of the paper.

And, with this being the Inquirer, the online version of the story gets angry comments. Commenter ‘ppsaq,’ why don’t you start us off?

Melissa – You are among the first of many literate and learned people who will finally have the guts to proclaim “where’s the beef” and “there’s no ‘there’ there” regarding Twitter. It is brain chewing gum for dimwits who are incapable of writing more than 140 characters, and even that severely taxes their mental capabilities. It represents the ultimate in the dumbing down of America. So, you are not lagging behind the hordes. You are out in front revealing Twitter for what it is – just as the phoniness of Obama is being revealed every single day.

Blah, blah, high horse stuff about twitter and then BAM! Agenda! Brandon215, a rebuttal?

This is kind of funny because part of your criticism of the micro blogging in some of the social networks is the self centeredness of the “read me” type posts. But we can intpret your opinion and column in the same way. And it was way over 140 characters. Think about that as well and your approach to communicating with people.

Interesting, interesting. Ppsaq, you have 140 characters, response?

brandon215 is the prototypical Twitter dimwit. Uh, now brandon215, that’s pro-to-typ-i-cal. Take your time, and send me a Tweet if you need any help looking it up. And, don’t hold your breath.

You went over, but the judges will let it slide. Brandon215?

ppasq – I don’t use twitter. Your making assumptions and calling me a dimwit. I don’t use twitter and I am an executive a a very large corporation. If you need a j-o-b you can look me up.

Wait- we have someone else, VanessaJ, obviously an expert on internet marketing-

At this moment Twitter is a pretty useless interactive tool, besides letting your followers know that you just farted, the application itself is in the first inning of a nine inning game. As soon as Twitter figures out how to integrate its services and becomes more like a news, information and or enterainment channel with credible rich content e.g. (video, photos, audio) it will be remain a trend were any moron and post idiotic short messages.

Yes, much like comment threads on news articles. Ppsaq, a response for both of these?

VanessJ – Similar comment I had for brand215. Only besides being a dimwit, you are stupid. That’s “stu-pid,” just like all of the other ones, including The Inquirer, who christened The Great One. He is a joke. That “joh-ohke,” VanessaJ.

brandon215 – Why would I want a job from “an executive of a very large corporation” who doesn’t know the difference between “you’re” and “your.” I am head of my own thriving business. I don’t need a job from a very large corporation of dimwits who don’t know their grammar. And that’s not “grandma.”

Alright, who else wants to chime in?

tweet, tweet lol

I can’t wait until twitter crashes and burns in a firey financial death

Twitter was great until it #failed during the DoS attack on Thursday. I could not tweet via SMS and it blocked many of the API clients and web posts using Firefox. This is the beginning of the end.

Wait- you used a hashtag in your news article comment about Twitter? Please step away from the TweetDeck, son.

i think its hilarous that some people actually think people care what they are currently doing, haha, these people for the most part are concided losers

See also- THE REST OF THE GODDAMNED INTERNET.

Melissa– You nailed it. twitter is pablum for the thumbs.

It is also balderdash, folderol and hooey.

I will be posting a link to this post on my twitter. You’re welcome for my just  TOTALLY BLOWING YOUR MIND.

• Published:June 24th, 2009
• Comments:No Comment
• Category:News Comments

By combining law enforcement data with ZIP code information, a website created a list of the 25 Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in America. Among them are areas in Chicago, Baltimore, Kansas City, and Dallas. In fact, other than the fact that there’s nowhere on the list further west than Missouri, it looks about as you might expect.

And the comments? They look about as you might expect as well. thorin4life, start us out, please!

let me guess self-hating liberals and your negro pets, it’s all whiteys fault right? LOL

Sgrnthumb1 blames the Conservative issue-du-jour:

Our government does not care about lawabidding citizens. That is why they fund criminals through social services which encourages them to breed more criminals. The thugs from south of our border and other third world countries are allowed to continue to come here, with million’s of illegal’s making their fist crime, when they illegaly cross our border and our government does not do a damn thing about it. Why would you expect them to become law abiding. Why would anyone expect them to be responsible when they are rewarded for breaking our laws! Stupid damn government.

Racialcoward starts one thinking that maybe, maybe, this story got linked on a site that, oh, I don’t know, talks about the Civil War a lot.

Everyone of those 25 neighborhoods are BLACK. 90 percent of the US Prision population is BLACK. Once wealthy African Nations are not in the sewer after WHITES were driven out and you still write that crime is not a BLACK thing. Even rich and wealth BLACKS are still killing people so don’t blame it on poverty. It is a BLACK thing. If I see a black man walking down my street I load my shotgun and call 911.

And now, the same author exposes the TRUTH:

The Federal Government and BLACK ORGANIZATIONS now have a policy of breeding BLACKs with WHITE WOMEN. They think they can breed out that NEGRO DNA the creates the Low IQ and desire to Kill. The problem with BLACK MALES is there are too many damm BLACK MALES. Look at what breeding did to OBAMA, he is so tame and timid now that North Korea could bomb us and Obama would just eat a dish of ice cream.

CartwrightFlight points out that these cities are nowhere near as prosperous and safe as the ones you find in predominantly Conservative states:

There is a lesson here. The vast majority of these places (like Chicago) have been run by liberal democrats for decades and therefore should be urban utopias… When you take away peoples (black, white or whatever) pride by promising to give them everything, this is what you get. This is an urgent lesson we must learn fast if we are to survive as a nation

Tackberry is pretty sure you know what he means, hint hint.

No. 3 is Overtown in Miami. I’m very familiar with that area. You couldn’t pay me enough to walk through there unarmed, day or night. Overtown is where all the tourists disappear when they get lost. There’s homeless all over the place. I’d mention something about the demographics of the area but you already know.

Holy cow, now that you mention it, Santiagonoey, I guess that IS true!

Has anyone noticed that the nieghborhoods dipicted here are where the majority of residents are black americans, and thats a fact !

RbTess2 is gonna bust a caps lock on you:

SPAY AND NEUTER LIBERAL WELFARE BREEDER THESE NEIGHBORHOODS WOULDN’T EXIST

Alblonie116‘s battery is dying:

I studied this,intently….There is ‘No”,Answer to this….This is a ‘Clash”,of cultures,,,thats all….The people doing the crime,,if thats what you wish to call it,,are just doing what they always have…The inforcers,are also just doing what they always have…..This does not mean,,there is an answer,,or even,,anyone to blame…If I could talk to some of these criminals in these areas,,they would be totally on my wavelength…If I could talk to the inforcers,,’the police,,they would be totally on my wavelength….this is the price we have to pay…for mistake..

LVen091204 is just saying what everyone’s thinking:

How did the inner city of Atlanta escape this list? As a native Atlantan, I have watched the law abiding people being chased further and further away from the city by crime. The once nice white areas of town are trying to stage a comeback, while the traditional black areas are more involved in crime than ever. Many of those moving back downtown have been assaulted, robbed or killed. ALL by inner city blacks. Yes it is about race. That’s the way the inner city, lazy, elementary school dropouts live.

Acuralo wants you to know he has many black friends on television:

As I read through these posts, I must concur, there seems to be one fact that is being left out of these Top 25 neighborhoods and that is…..WHAT IS THE RACIAL DEMOGRAPHIC? Unfortunately though, in these PC times, it wouldnt be nice to report all the facts.It is a shame, cause there are many many good black americans out there, but a vast minority of their own keep bringing them down.

Robken61 is just telling it like it is.

There is one common denominator in all these cities, the makeup of all these neighborhoods are black and this isn’t racist its just the facts.

RPBXXI wants to assuage your fears about Chicago:

By the way, I live on the SOUTHSIDE and it’s great! A lot of available parking spaces and Sox just won a World Series as recently as 2005. The crimes are done by idiot jungle monkeys in certain areas that I would not even glance at.

Oh hey, Racialcoward is back!

Washington, DC has the world’s most deadly corner in the world. PBS NOVA did a special on death and photographed that corner where more people have been killed by BLACK DEATH CENTER residents than any other corner in the world. The only reason the reporter could photo that corner was that he had hired two armed police officers to guard him during his report. Its two blocks from THE GREAT SATAN’s OVAL OFFICE.

and

America will be a better place to live once BLACKS acknowledge and appologize for their enslavement of God’s choosen people, the Jews. BLACKs should turn over all thier welfare and drug money to the Jewish people as reperations for their crimes. Each year Jewish people celibrate their emancipation from the BLACK EGYPTIAN slave masters called the Passover.

All righty, then!

• Published:May 6th, 2009
• Comments:9 Comments
• Category:Blog Comments, News Comments

This week, the strange tale of Kari Ferrell, the “Hipster Grifter,” came to an end, as so many things do, in Philadelphia, with her arrest this week. Initial reports stated that she had turned herself in to authorities, but in a recent post at the City Paper weblog, local musician Sam Tremble takes credit for setting up the bust.

In the comments, there is a perfect storm of anti-hipster rage, class warfare and anti-snitching sentiment. Let’s go to the tape-

That’s totally rock and roll, man, working with the cops to set people up for a bust. Good work, crime stopper.

Um, since when does Philly like snitches? Impressed, yet surprised. I’m guessing dudes in an emo, not punk, band!

pretty slick pal. Now you get your headline publicity too. I´m really surprised you didn´t name check your band 50 times. Guess you figure it´s even cooler to get the google hits on your name. Fucking losers. Both of y´all. enjoy yr 15 minutes. That´s all you´re gonna get.

Wow, your folks must be so proud. They raised a snitch. And you look like your bands sucks.

You’re a rat fuck, Tremble. Ratting some girl out that didn’t even do anything to you, just to get your ugly mug in the papers. I hope someone breaks a bottle over your skinny little dome at your next show.

Dear Sam Tremble a.k.a. The Hipster Snitcher,

You expect us to believe your motives for setting her up to be arrested were because “she wasted (your) time and energy with her cancer stories”? You’re a prick who wants attention. I’m in no way a Kari Ferrell fan but I’d rather have her around then you any day.

I can’t wait to tomato your band. I can’t wait to watch what everyone else does too!

And stop shopping in the juniors department you dick.

She isn’t rich. Plenty of semi-rich people or people who forge things on their cc apps lie and have debt up to and above $60,000. Should we set them up too?

“Bloviation?” You’re an f***ing douche. You sent a girl to jail and then blogged about it. What a proud moment for you.

Sam Treble is such an ugly deuchebag, even Kari probably didn’t want to fuck him, or take his $, which is why he snitched on her and went to such great lengths to set her up. What a weasel.

Can I call him a deuchebag anymore times? Sam, get a fucking nosejob and buy a grown man’s shirt.

Maybe we are taking it out on the wrong criminal here.
Why aren’t we posting the pictures of the CEOs of major corporations that stole and lied from us on the most wanted lists? I’m a lot more hurt about them and their lies and cons.

Where was her bail out?

So what if she lied about cancer, and didn’t have money. We aren’t all so fortuate to have it ALL together ALL the time. We all make mistakes.
If she had a little more trust and compassion given to her maybe she would have turned it all around gotten a job and paid off her debt – like other people do with credit cards.

She’s totally like Robin Hood or something! A folk hero, like Winona Ryder!

I guess no one with cancer stories will cross you again!

Lol, bitch ass snitch. Like you’re fucking perfect? Die in a fire, snitch.

Avalon’s Willow? You’re in Philadelphia? Let’s get drinks! We’ll hit Fat Jack’s, get some comics. Call me.

of course it was a hipster who dropped the dime on her. god hipsters are scum

http://freekari.com/

Snitch-ass Bitch-ass Tremble! I implore all insecure Asian woman (and men for that matter) to start preying on these hipster assbags. Non-Asians too. Hipsters are a bain upon society. It’s hard for a regular guy like myself to enjoy record shopping, going to the movies, or simply having a smoke outside without having to listen to these tools go on about Calexico or Jarmusch or whatever.

I have to admit- his taking the photo, writing the post- I almost agree with a couple of these folks, but the whole thing, top to bottom, from Mr. Tremble to the commenters, is filled with high levels of jerkitude. I think we can agree that they all need to get off the internet.

People who commit crimes deserve what’s coming to them. People who help police solve crimes are to be commended. But this? This is shameless egotistic self-gratification parading around as civic duty. Congrats – everyone knows who you are now, Sam! And isn’t that what you really wanted in the first place?

Well, okay- except for that dude. That actually made some sense.

• Published:April 30th, 2009
• Comments:2 Comments
• Category:Blog Comments, Gaming

In the world of grown ups, there are many things you will find are not to your taste. Because you’re busy with a job and family and life, “not liking something” is pretty good motivation to discard it and move on. You certainly wouldn’t hang around the internet looking for articles and announcements about the thing you don’t like in order to harangue it for no appreciable gain… right?

Well, do you own a console?

Such is the case with Fable II, the immersive 2008 RPG that boasted a heavy emphasis on storytelling and far-reaching consequences for the player’s actions. One friend cannily pointed out that Fable II is something like a cross between The Sims and The Legend of Zelda. Just so.

The makers of Fable II have announced the second downloadable content (DLC) pack for the extremely reasonable price of about $5. You would think this would be a point of interest for fans and something to ignore for everyone else… and yet.

I downloaded the first DLC, but I haven’t played it. I’m relishing life spent outside of the Peter Molyneux hype machine of ridiculously inflated expectations.

I too have bought the DLC and have not played it. I have a lot of other games to play. Ones where they don’t hold my hand the whole way through.

At first glance this doesn’t make any damn sense: two morons acting like they got one over on a game studio by purchasing the product and then not playing it. But you need to understand something about the entitlement mindset of gamers.

To a gamer, it is inconceivable that they not own anything that rouses their interest even a little; any product that so much as flashes its ankle at them must be owned, even if it is not enjoyed or (in this case) even played. Gamers, rather than exert some iota of self-control by being wiser with their money and time, then reflexively rail against their masters in some limp attempt at regaining some control of their lives. Lucky for us, the Internet has enabled them to do all this in public.

Let’s check out this gamer’s dilemma.

I bought the DLC and started to play it, then my girlfriend took the controller for a killing spree on Knothole Island and manage to “break” the expansion.
Do I download the new one and get rid of the girlfriend or ignore it?

The advice comes in fast and furious:

The girlfriend a real gamer? If so keep her. But if she is a Wii generation gamer I’d move along. You don’t want one of them trying to tell you how to play a game.

That bit of sage wisdom comes from “DravenX23,” the same guy who stated above that he didn’t like it when games (or, presumably, live human women) “hold his hand.” Not content with that bit of overblown pomposity, DravenX23 further discusses what to him is “real” gaming.

What does Rock Band have to do with gaming? I’m talking actual games. Not the casual stuff.

But good glad she has gone back to the classics. best way to go to get her to understand the difference between old school and new school.

If she can beat Mega Man then you sir have found a great gamer wife.

Someone quite rightly responds that there’s very little that’s “casual” about much of Rock Band‘s following, but ah, that way lies fallacy, says Draven.

Just because it has a hardcore fanbase doesn’t mean much. Twilight and High School Musical have tons of fans that would do anything for that stuff. Doesn’t mean its more then it is.

Rhythm games are by nature casual games. Nothing wrong with what it is. But in the end its just people hitting the buttons they see on the screen.

Unlike other games, of course, which are more mature because you have to memorize the buttons first.

Further down-thread, a Fable II fan reminds everyone that the point of the game is not the “challenge” (which would be that button-mashing bit Draven was talking about, only don’t confuse that with the wrong kind of button-mashing) but rather experiencing a good story that you yourself have a large hand in creating. Draven, predictably, misses the point.

So to make it a ‘Real Game’ I have to play it naked and with a wooden sword? Sure there are lots of ways to make the game more challenging. But I didn’t think it was MY job to make the game harder for myself.

I know I am too old to understand the fun of beating an easy game that holds your hand. I was the guy laughing at kids who brag about beating a game when they used the Game Genie. Is it really an experience when there is no challenge?

I wonder what seeing a movie with this guy is like. Did he walk out of The Godfather griping that it was all this B.S. about tragedy and the inescapable gravity of family and how come it was so easy for Michael Corleone to take over, huh? Back in my day, movie mobsters had to work to take over the family business…

It’s pointed out that Draven is completely missing the point, but really, how can you argue with someone who says something like this with complete sincerity?

Gamers used to have pride.

And that pride is increasingly tarnished by morons like you, DravenX23. Keep on rocking.