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I happen to have a wonderful sense of humor, and do not have to prove it to you. Second, if you want to start a discussion about media bias in coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I'm sure plenty of people would love to discuss that in the political forum. Posting, for serious discussion, and incendiary diatribe that inflames prejudices and stereotypes is not the way to do it. I have a low tolerance for racism and anti-Semitism. As a joke, the you tube clip you posted is amusing. As something to spark serious discussion, it's not. I, for one, do not appreciate the insult you just leveled at the posters on our political forum. You owe them all an apology for your ignorance.

Duly noted. You can appeal my decision to the other moderators by reporting my post. But please be aware that I have already alerted them and ask them to review my decision and overturn it if they see fit.

Censorship would have been deleting the post. I moved it to where I thought it was more appropriate. Management reserves the right to move threads to a more appropriate forum. More people have access to and visit this forum than the political forum. Censoring something by making it more accessible to more people would be, well, just plain silly.

This thread has been moved here from the Politics and Tacks forum.

Hopefully, the people who've logged in for the first time in the past couple of says will see this: This particular section of Greasespot is here so you can ask a few basic questions, get the lay of the land, etc. Feel free to check in, ask away, etc. Thanks.

FYI: After some consultation with Pawtucket, I made a few edits to posts that appeared earlier in this thread (p.16 and 17, for those interested). I limited my edits to conversations about and specific responses to behaviors that were attributed to Elizabeth during her marriage to John. Some of the dialogue remains intact, such as the fact that such personal information was divulged in the first place. Some things to consider: A marriage dissolved here. How and why that marriage dissolved is not the subject of this thread and is not appropriate for a public message board. Whether STFI's leadership, acting in that capacity, contributed to the dissolution of that marriage is fair game for discussion. Because the marriage in question involved a top member of STFI leadership, those two separate "compartments" are bound to intersect. To the extent the moderators are able to keep them separate, we will. When we cannot, we will assess each post on individual merits and make the best judgment we can, imperfect though we are. I appreciate everyone's understanding and apologize to those whose posts were edited. My goal was to restore as much as possible, and if the end result is a little awkward, I accept responsibility for that.

Lou Diamond Phillips La Bamba Esai Morales

For those who openly wondered: the thread's posts were hidden for a short time as moderators discussed whether to let it be. Thanks for understanding.

The letter is addressed to you with no expectation of privacy, right? Seems it's yours to do with as you please.

The thread was deleted at oldies' request. It's not uncommon to delete threads at the request of the person who started it, particularly if it's a duplicate topic.

Yes'm. Your move.

Let's make it easy. "You wanna cover Brooklyn, then cover Brooklyn! But let me tell you something, it's a little tough to do from a barstool in Manhattan." ----- "What do you think I'm trying to do?. Look, I got news for you. I'm not locked up in the men's room with a cop because it's a good time. Frankly, I've had better times, okay? I'm here because I think the story is wrong. Is it? Is it? If you have something, give it to me now, but don't stand there and act coy and say "F--- you", because, quite frankly, it's a waste of all of our time. And you know what? I don't have any more time. I have no more f---ing time. I need it f---ing today, I need it right now!" ----- "I hate columnists! Why do I have all these columnists? I got political columnists, guest columnists... celebrity columnists - The only thing I don't have is a dead columnist. That's the kind I could really use. We reek of opinions. What every columnist at this paper needs to do is to shut the f--- up."

If you can figure out the setting, you can figure out the movie.

"Now don't overreact. If we go after it early, before it metastasizes to a bone, the majority of these prostate cancer cases are beatable." "Go after it how?" "Irridation therapy." "That's fantastic. That's wonderful, because, as it turns out, that's exactly the portion of my anatomy I'd like to see exposed to radiation." "You'll have to take an hour or two off work for each treatment. We should start right away. How's next Monday?" "To burn a hole in my a**? Sounds good. Then I still have the weekend. [pause] Could you possibly be any more humorless about this?" "I don't believe so. No." ---- "You got a cop quote?" "A what?" "Quote. You know, they talk, you write, we print?" ---- "Are you telling me these banker schmucks lost $5 million of the Mob's money?" "Dumbfellas, huh? Unwise guys." ---- "There's something I'd like to discuss. I didn't want to bother you upstairs. I feel an obligation to... act on this directly with you because I think we have a good - I think we have a good relationship... and I'd like to take it further. And I think the way to do that is face to face. You know, you and I, face to face." "Alicia." "Yeah?" "I'm gay." "Oh! Umm... well, I mean, I wasn't - I mean, that's fine." "Alicia?" "Yeah?" "I'm kidding."

Nope. "You work for the city. It was your turn." *** "The right foot, are you out of your mind? The offer is rescinded. How stupid do you think we are? What do you think I get when I put two and two together? Three? Three and a half?" *** "Aw, Jesus, Bernie. Come on with the smoke. You know the doctor found nicotine in my urine again." "Then keep your d--- out of my ashtray."

Be Good Where Everybody Knows Your Name? Irreconcilable Differences New quote (I've seen this movie done on this game before, but it's been pages and pages and pages). "The bullet came out of the wall. Why did the bullet come out of the wall?" "To get to the other side?" --- "When did you get so paranoid?" "When they started plotting against me." --- "Oh, Henry, this might interest you. The mother whale in the Ukraine had triplets." "She told me she was on the pill!"

I'm the one holding the binocs upside down.

CK, Now you've got at least two of us watching you. We don't believe you had the consent of the "maker of the quote," but if you did and you can show it to us, we'll be waiting for it. This is a simple site with fairly simple rules. We expect them to be followed, and when they are not we take action. If you have a problem with that, or can't handle it without resorting to childish namecalling, then perhaps you can take the time to read the rules provided to you in private by Greasytech, a moderator with integrity.

This thread is just plain silly. :)

STFI is the new name for CES (John Schoenheit, Mark Graeser and John Lynn).

Oh, knock it off, you. :)

Maybe he's PFAL Mike?

I was being rhetorical. "His" has a capital H, so I could only be referring to one Person (or two or three, depending on your theology).

There has to be a balance between letting people run rampant on one hand and nitpicking every post with a creative way of inserting a dirty word on the other. There are a few words in this thread that could probably use a little moderating. Sometimes we err on the side of free speech, and sometimes we err on the side of cordiality. The posts we're specifically discussing haven't been edited, after all. But if anyone doesn't want a comment from a mod on why they're not allowed to use certain words, don't invite the mods to comment by calling them "paranoid" for censoring a few words we wouldn't say in His presence.

How about showing a little maturity and using sensible words instead of going for the base, especially as you are presenting yourself as a Christian while trying to figure out ways to use inappropriate language? We censor words because we want a clean site. If anyone should be expected to agree with that judgment, we would think it would be the Christians on this board.