unless the hero rode a horse or drove a black trans am

The Beatles toyed with the idea of staging excerpts from the work as their third film. John was to play Golem, a slimey man-newt with sociopathic tendencies, while Ringo was to play Frodo, the lead “hobbit” in Tolkien’s masterwork – a character of great charm, and the source of much warm mirth.

I don’t have any problem with Soros spending his money however he wants. The criticism I have heard of him that upsets me is that he pumped a lot of money into McCain Feingold with provisions included that would allow him to circumvent the bill. He then promptly went around the bill he had so tirelessly promoted. Don’t know how true that is, not sure I really care. I would like all financing restrictions removed and replaced with full disclosure with the threat of serious jail time if this reporting isn’t adhered to. I would also like to up the pay of congressmen and the president at least 10 fold, more on that later.

Are the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings the same story just one one adult and one kiddie?

Troll means a comment or poster who adds nothing to the ‘debate’. Like say lefty mcnutjob in this thread, nothing but vitriol and non sequitors, mixed with some craziness. On dailyKos you can ‘troll rate’ individual comments and after a while I think they are either forbidden from posting or their hatefilled posts are deleted (or hidden or something? I just visit once in a while to see if any articles or diaries are worth a quick perusal). Point is, not every post is ‘banned’ and it is done by the community rather than some top down All Father (who rwnjs assume is George Soros, who is Evil!™ because he contributes to liberal causes… )

kos is a component of Markos Moulitsas name (he founded dailyKos). It’s a nickname – it was his Army nick btw. I am not sure I spelled his name right, so I went over there to check: not a single thread on the front page was authored by Markos. It is a community of progressives (which I just this week learned is only for Dem causes/issues? hrmph)

The Hobbit is kind of a kiddie book, but the Lord of the Rings is excellent (like a slow moving river that grows more powerful with each mile [towards Mordor]). The Silmarilion is quite interesting as well tho in a much more epic style. JRRT was part of the Inklings, CS Lewis was another famous Inkling author (Christian centered themes). Lewis’ “The Problem of Pain” has a very lucid analysis of why God allows pain and suffering (indeed seems to revel in it).

It sounds like you must have read more of the Malkin piece than I did, I just read the small section on Sheehan. I like Malkin kind of the same as I like Coulter, they are cute and, well, I’m a guy. I have similar beliefs as both but they go a little farther than I am comfortable with. Malkin seems a little more reasonable than Coulter but the folks that submit to her blog are as goofy as Knarly. I read her blog for a few weeks and gave up on it except in cases like this where I need information. She seems to get the facts right, I just don’t where her audience takes them. I had never heard of Kos before, quite frankly, I don’t have the time to spend on more blogs than this one. My wife would kill me. It seemed about the same as this one anyway. I agree “banned” may be a little harsh. I would like to know what the “I have been warned” part was all about. That could be taken so many ways. Maybe she will talk about it more in a different forum. I just think it is funny when people on either side burn folks they were promoting a few weeks ago.

I go to Charlie Daniels blog every now and then and see the same thing on the right. If you have some time, check his site out. For an old country rock star he is a pretty good writer. You won’t like what he has to say, but he says it well. Don’t bother reading the comments from the rwnj’s, they will just piss you off and for the most part they are just saying “way to go Charlie, I agree with everything you say” kind of like getting an autograph. I think you may be overstating a bit in the last paragraph. But thank god we don’t have to house the Brits.

What does Kos stand for or mean?
What is troll rated? Does it have something to do with the Hobbit? I never read the book so I might need a little help if it does.

If I loved the war, I would join, or re-enlist, as the case may be. If you really wanted to stop it, you’d be doing something more constructive than flapping your cyber-gums on a blog nobody but us ever reads. You might paint a catchy slogan on a sign, like so many hearty anti-warriors do, or you could build a puppet and do an interpretive dance with it in front of the stock exchange – that was popular for a while, too. But your teeth make such sweet music when they rattle, don’t they?

Anyway, it’s cool you got the show the kids your plane. Don’t forget to show them how to keep their fingers out of the way of the rubber band when they fly it. That shit stings!

It doesn’t seem like they ‘banned’ her. Just warned her that the site’s stated goal is to further Democratic candidates/goals etc. I thought they generally supported progressive causes, but I stand corrected.

And yes, they can ban trolls based on IP traces etc. And if rwnjs want to go and talk a bunch of trash while pretending to be liberal, then their comments can be troll rated by the readers. It isn’t some scary monolithic top down organization, it’s a bottom up grassroots community. For rwnjs to pretend that kos is full of hate and compare them oto the nazis or kkk is beyond ludicrous.

If you feel strongly about something, register at kos and write your own rwnj diary. See how far you get. Then scurry back to little green nutjobs or malkin’s little shop of rw horrors.

By the way, perhaps you should report me to the authorities because I don’t show enough ideological purity to rwnj causes. King george w (w for wacko) just signed an executive decree stating that anyone who hinders or opposes the rwnj crusade in Iraq can have their assets seized. Which leaves us with just two bits of the Bill of Rights left: we don’t have to quarter british soldiers and (thanks NRA!) we can still own guns.

Here are a couple links to the Sheehan story, the first is her entry last Thursday.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/12/91014/1295
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/07/12/cindy-sheehan-kicked-off-daily-kos/

Go join up if you love your war so much lefty.
And shcb make sure your offspring all join up too.
*crickets*

cowards