On April 20th, 2009 at 12:43 pm, Debbie Schlussel said: #103

Insane . . .

No. I do not think anti Semitism is OK. I post on your BLOG using the same screen name. So your guess is wrong. I choose ignore the incindiary names you mention.

To be consistent -

Would you diminish an entire Police force for the actions of one rogue Police Officer? When that Police Officer beats their spouse off the clock.

Or, diminish AIPAC for what two of it’s members/supporters have done?

Or, diminish an entire family because thay have a black sheep sharing their surname?

I wouldn’t.

I will agree that an organization has an obligation to protect it’s image, but taking that organization to task over one bad apple is akin to throwing out the baby with the bath water. OK, cliched, hackneyed and trite, but that is my position.

I am not asleep. I strive to be consistent, do you?

On April 20th, 2009 at 8:42 am, zyzzyg said

Insane. A so-called conservative organization hires a sick, lying woman who defends Muslim anti-Semitic death threats and fabricates false information on blogs, as its “blog trainer” and you think that’s okay? Then, I guess you think anti-Semitism is okay. Why not hire Goebbels, Adam Gadahn, or Ward Churchill to do their blog training? It does, indeed, diminish the entire organization. Defending Muslim death threats and making up actionable defamatory allegations is not “getting under out individual skins.” It is unacceptable.

WAKE. THE. HECK. UP.

On April 19th, 2009 at 10:20 pm, Debbie Schlussel said: #98

The Sam Adams Alliance does “Fabulous work”? Like having an anti-Semitic “director of web strategy” and blog “trainer,” Emily Zanotti, who defends obscene, Holocaust-denying Muslim death threats against Jews? . . .

I am not a supporter of the Sam Adams Alliance, heck, I wasn’t aware of their existance until now. I followed the link and gave their page a cursory examination, and did not immediately find anything offensive.

Yes, you have shared information with MM about a single individual, who works with/for an organization – understood. However, I find it difficult to accept taking SAA to task over what one single employee does on her own BLOG. Yes, it is done, sometimes too often, and sometimes recklessly.

Your personal exchanges with Zanotti does not, and should not, impact any others person’s dealings with SAA.

I am sure there are single whack jobs in many other organizations, who do silly things not in the name of the organization, that will in many ways, big and small, who get under our individual skins.

I prefer to acknowledge this, but not to diminish an entire organization for it.

And here all this time I thought it was just a poseur!

I definitely need to step up my research.

Nowak, who said he would soon travel to Washington for meetings with officials, also called for a comprehensive independent investigation into the matter and added it was important to compensate the victims [of putative "torture"].

Compensator; an appliance fitted to the muzzle of a firearm, sometimes incorporating a device that silences the report of firing.

We can hope he was talking about that kind of “compensate” as applied to the terrorists….

As I’ve e-mailed you before, Michelle, Sam Adams Alliance’s “director of web strategy” and blog “trainer,” Emily Zanotti, used her blog to defend Muslims death threats on my life and posted completely made up information about me–falsely claiming I had four defamation complaints with the state bar and saying I wrote that students and faculty at her law school were anti-Semitic (when I’d never written about her school at that point), all of which she had to recant, after I was about to sue her. In her “recantation” e-mail, she lied and said she had “several graduate and post-graduate degrees.”

She said she was allowed to make up false, defamatory information about me because she was upset I wrote bad things about the “stellar” Julie Myers.

After this came to light at her last employer, she was allowed to gracefully “resign for personal reasons” only six months into the job, after spending all day long blogging instead of working on law cases. When she got caught, she removed the time stamps from her blog.

This sick woman’s salary and trips around the country to “train” other bloggers is what you helped raised money for, Michelle.

Sam Adams Alliance’s own half-witted lawyer admitted to me in a letter that this woman lied her credentials. Why is this behavior okay on the right? And why would you raise money for a person who defends Muslim death threats on a blog and openly and deliberately lies about third parties, to be a blog trainer to conservatives around the country?

This is the message you endorse? Very disturbing.

Next time we’re taking the grandkids.

On April 19th, 2009 at 10:25 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

Do you know the date of the march? I found a flyer that said “Spring 2010″ and references to “April 2010″, but I ran out of patience before I could find the actual date.

Since the web address is devoted to the march, you’d think the date would be in bold face at the top of the homepage.

Will Obama deny aid to Israel?

Geoff Johns does some more unpleasant and definitely questionable things with the Flash.

A video of a playthrough of the Magician Lord videogame.

bansharia said:
Just,
What you are asking for is too subjective. I understand what at least I think are you intentions. This may sound silly but seems to me if you go to a group that you totally disagree with anyone they endorse would be as valuable as the kind of site you are looking for

LOL, good tip Ban. I suppose my real goal here is to be able to make informed decisions. The whole “R” vs “D” thing is next to useless to me now. I’t comes from my being “P” for PISSED