Mr. Romney's campaign involved exactly zero preaching about religion, morals, or abortion.
The Dems WANTED the campaign to be about that , rather than the economy, unemployment, the deficit, or the business climate, quite understanably.

"The Dems WANTED the campaign to be about that , rather than the economy, unemployment, the deficit, or the business climate, quite understanably."

- Small Change

Right, because THE DEM(ons) wanted an even larger margin than the Republican Sideshow ensured. The arrogance of presuming what other people think is
remarkable - is telepathy one of those NeoCon powers?

NeoCon powers - predicting the past, redefining words to mean their opposite,
outrage over the possibility that somewhere, somehow, somebody is having fun.

Given the outcry over "The absence of GOD in the Democratic Platform" this sounds like sending a fox to count the chickens. Spare us the sanctimony.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/dems-remove-all-references-to-god-from-2012-party-platform/

Handicapping a loss is for those determined to remain losers.

Q.E.D.

Even when it's accurate, or especially because it accurate?

It's not insulting, when the definition is clearly met.
Perhaps if the TOS included deletion of comments that don't meat basic
logical requirements; such as proof, verification and source materials this
would not so frequently happen.

Given that I've been called worse, and it's still posted elsewhere -
there's a wide variance in what is and isn't in the TOS.

Play fair, Olga.

I agree with Naome on this, Olga. The "insult meter" is not applied across the board equally by the Ed's. I don't know if it's based on an interpretation issue, personal issue or what. Elizabeth McNamara had an issue with someone using "libtard" on a current thread because of a personal family issue. Is it the word itself or is it because it's used in a derogatory..ie: "any idiot can boil water" as opposed to "Leave RI is an idiot" (Naome if you cut and paste that quote you're in the next Phil Steen music video)

@Robert E..
correct she did not..did someone say she did? I couldn't find it.

Please, Olga, I rarely post but I was following a different article and not only were the comments offensive but so were some of the screen names!!! I kept reporting them and you folks did nothing. I had to write directly to Mark and ask him to remove them, their outright obscene comments to get anything done ! I hardly think (though I haven't followed this article) that calling someone an "idiot" is against the TOS !!! Go back, read my e-mail to Mark &, although I've stopped following the article since the comments I referred to were finally deleted, I'll bet that article is still there. It was old news then and if it's still on Patch, it's even older and yes, some of the comments are still irrelevant, somewhat offensive. Clean up the old news - it's not on-going instead of worrying about the word "idiot" - I've seen far worse on this site!!!

Naome..
ok..I'll hold this in abeyance, however, if it comes down to all out dirtiness this would be a recourse..can't confirm the narrator but if you listen close to his wife (or whatever) sister+wife you can guess who..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdYom8RKccs

To quote the hotelier as he addressed Inspector Clouseau: "That's not my dog."

The faux dead husky is a tribute to another famous Patch poster. It's a suggestion/inside joke of sorts, as in "How 'bout playing dead for awhile, Mr. Husky aficionado?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue0fZfwHfzo

The next thing the progressives will want to outlaw is baseball!

And windows - don't forget the windows.

That's not to say ballpoint pens are undeserving of attention, mind you.
I'm always curious about the "Unintentional injuries" category, the JackAss stats....

Robert, excellent post!

These numbers should make Naome’s head explode.

She posts 100's of posts against so-called “Gun Nuts” and yet has no clue as to what the major killers are of folks are in the US!

This is the same tact that liberals take all the time! Remember, don’t let a good tragedy, so I can push my own agenda, go to waste right?

Reading her posts looks like she just likes to post to add fuel to any fire that is posted on the Patch.

Also, her constant name calling and overall post gibberish really gets tiresome............

Again, nice post!

Naome, again with the name calling right?

Just can't help yourself can you..........

The operative word here is intentional........someone wanted to waste the person who was wasted. The rest are accidents or personal choice suicide. Oh....the hospital lobby probably will exert its' power.....just like the NRA

Naome is the female Michael Moore. How are people like this created? Scary

@ housewife in EG

How are people like me created? Education, I suppose. Travel beyond our state?
Disgust at the fashionable Fascist trend on the Right? Put it this way, I love my country and I detest what the Tea Party movement has become.

Now go make me a sammich, Bertha.

@ Naome: As part of your education, why don't you look up "Facism". It is not extreme right, as you claim. It is extreme left, as I suspect you are.

Those of us that read Orwell see the obvious, and call it what it is...

The Koch family fortune has it's roots in Buchenwald...
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-500857

The Bush Presidencies are a legacy of Auschwitz...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/06/10/741048/-A-Need-For-An-Anti-Fascist-Movement-In-The-U-S

It's not a stretch of the imagination to connect the manipulation of White people's fears to home grown terrorism. Anyone with a passing familiarity with Timothy McVeigh and the "sovereign citizens" movement can connect the dots.

These mechanations don't emerge from Socialist movements, on the left.

It's more than a little tiresome to have the loudest, angriest, least curious voices
clanging on about a history they've been spoonfed.

Tell me, Conservative, are you suffering from Fox Geezer Syndrome?

There's no cure, but treatment is simple - turn off the TV.

Calling Fascism a movement from the Left is pure newspeak.

Naome Lixes writes, "These mechanations don't emerge from Socialist movements, on the left."

Well, that was good for 5-minute LOL. Tell me again, Naome, how leftists like Bill Ayers never bombed and killed anyone.

Also, I think you meant to write "machinations." Put the online thesaurus away.

@Naome: The Nazi's were the National Solicialists. They discouraged free enterprise and fostered more government control of the average citizens life, for the betterment of the Fatherland. Collectivism at its worst. You spout the same irrational and divisive rhetoric as the Nazis. They demonized the Jews and others. You demonize EVERYONE who disagrees with you. It's exactly people like you that are bringing this country to its knees. You wont be happy until we are all in re-education centers, perhaps run by the Chineese.

Critique the ideas, not the people who deliver them.

Slander Is Spoken Untruths Abouth An Individual. Libel Is Written Untruths.

This is a fraught point in time for Americans, after the Sandy Hook shootings.
If we're running an encounter group, gut feelings are worthy of consideration.

There are already plenty of places where that carries the day.

If instead, we want dispassionate reasoning on political topics - facts matter.
What you're seeing here is resistance to more of the same from those of us
that sat on the sidelines while the most reactionary voices held sway.

Enough of that, already. We want out Country back, starting right here.

It's what we've sunk to, since 2000. It's getting better, but only with some
acrimony from the loudest, most angry and close-minded sources.

It's unfailingly directed at those that dare insist on proof, validation and corroboration - the cornerstones of solid reporting. Plenty of outlets for the other stuff, elsewhere.

If the TOS were actively applied to prohibit:
"anything that contains Content that: * is inaccurate, false or misleading in any way"

You would have a good deal less frustrated badgering of the dimmer bulbs.
Most of us that are ruthless in attacking the usual suspects do so when a pile
of rubbish, gleaned from a conspiracy site is presented as a missive.

It's insulting, and deserves the sort of response it generates.

If you want less of the exasperation, require a logical explanation.

"Libel Is Written Untruths."

I think Libel requires both defamatory intent and a reputation that can suffer loss.
The TOS absolves The Patch from liability. Given the anonymous nature of most
posting, there is little recourse to sue. It's both rarely heard in court, and unlikely.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/us/01slapp.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

libel: 1) n. to publish in print (including pictures), writing or broadcast through radio, television or film, an untruth about another which will do harm to that person or his/her reputation, by tending to bring the target into ridicule, hatred, scorn or contempt of others. Libel is the written or broadcast form of defamation, distinguished from slander, which is oral defamation. It is a tort (civil wrong) making the person or entity (like a newspaper, magazine or political organization) open to a lawsuit for damages by the person who can prove the statement about him/her was a lie. Publication need only be to one person, but it must be a statement which claims to be fact and is not clearly identified as an opinion. While it is sometimes said that the person making the libelous statement must have been intentional and malicious, actually it need only be obvious that the statement would do harm and is untrue.

Olga - Pls. read my comment again. I haven't followed this article but I saw that you deleted someone (who must have used the word 'idiot') and you deleted them for that????
You haven't deleted me - I've said nothing!!! I just said that I didn't think the use of 'idiot' violated any TOS.
I suggest you check with Mark re: my e-mail to him and the article involved. It's a grab-bag of garbage and as far as any "flagging" , the article I was reading at the time was full of words far worse than 'idiot' and I kept flagging them. Nobody at Patch paid any attention to that !!! I had to contact Mark via e-mail to get some of the comments removed!
Check with Mark. See if he still has my e-mail. I believe I referenced the article, printed on 12/16 on Patch. I asked not only to delete some of the comments but the actual article - it's "old'' news and worst of all, loaded with "slander" and off-color comments.
Frankly, Patch has lost any value in providing local news. It used to be up-to-date, a place to put in our 2 cents. It's news is old and is little more than a gossip board. Try deleting some of the old junk out there and enforce the TOS - 'idiot' hardly qualifies as vicious or slanderous!

While we encourage people to be honest and post what’s on their mind, communities thrive when people care about each other, and as such, Patch expects all of its users to be respectful of others. This means that whether you are being complimentary or critical, whether you are agreeing or disagreeing with the subject of an article or another user’s comment, you should act in a civil manner and refrain from personal attacks – after all, these are your neighbors. Patch TOS

Foxeyroxie15 calling someone an idiot is a personal attack and is not acting in a civil manner and is a violation of the TOS.

Steve I never said I agreed with TOS or they unfair way it is enforced. Foxeyroxie15 said it wasn't a violation of the TOS I just pointed out that it was. Some people are immune from the moderators I myself have had my account suspended for something I never posted and had to send an email to one of the editors to have it reinstated. As far as Naome goes her account should have been suspended a long time ago all she does is launch personal attacks and tries to stir up trouble.

Agreed Shill, it's amazing how some posters escape the Patch Editors when it comes to personal deformation.

Oh well, thanks for the response and look forward to some constructive and informative posts in the future......

To the Shill - I'd like to point out (again) that I hadn't read the article, had missed the comment that someone was an "idiot". While it's far from being a term of endearment, there are far worse terms/words used on Patch's blogs that would definitely violate any TOS !!! Mark knows the article I was referring to, that I kept flagging the same comments over & over and nothing was done until I e-mailed him personally, demanding that these remarks be removed. If "idiot" violates any TOS, then Patch better close up shop since there are far worse words used on many of these blogs - there have been plain out "cuss words'' used, not only in comments, but as "handles" !!! Yes, I've reported them, too.
As for Olga - apparently she needs a reading comprehension course, I didn't say she deleted my comments. She didn't ! Go back and read what I wrote.
Personally, I hardly think being called an "idiot" is really a big deal - one would have to be pretty thin-skinned to even bother reporting it. I've been called worse and yes, on this blog and others.
Putting in these *^(#%$ doesn't lessen the impact or innuendo. I don't see these being reported. Are they a violation of the TOS??? One could argue the point that they are but they are used all the time, aren't they?
How far does "politically correct" go now?? Let's take the person who was called an "idiot" aand have him/her take the other to court now. Is that how we play today?
Sorry, I'm not a member of the "P.C." party,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DIETlxquzY

I see this person of the year on other posts.....come on Joe .....use some creativity.

Ryan would doom the economy for a decade. You do not stop a 60 mph bus with a brick wall.....you guide it until it finds a safe pace.

Stench, I agree we should have term limits placed on our Congressmen and Senators. Then we would see people like Boehner, Cantor, Graham, and McConnell out on their backsides.

I have an idea....some of you will wretch a bit....how about an equal representation for the House......each vote represents the same proportional basis as the other. Gerrymandering would suffer and a true representation of the populace would occur.

@JAT: And you can add to that list Pelosi, Hoyer, Feinstein, Boxer, and the list goes on. Unfortunately I doubt that will happen in our lifetime.

Oh crap I thought I was the only one who saw that coming. If you add the giant firearm magnet we'd be in sync. --not that N'sync--

I wonder if Mark Smith is booking Santa Claus gigs these days.

2006 was the first time I saw people saying what I had been thinking for awhile,
in public. It was one of the bravest things I've seen on television.

"I am America, and so can you!"

lol

And right back at you!

Watch and learn...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqZ-mkdp1H0

Yes, digustingly true.