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14 Sep 08 - 07:31 PM (#2440417) Subject: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Little Hawk There have been a series of "Popular Views" threads going on this forum for some time, mostly because of Amos. Here's how they stand at this moment: 1. Popular views on Obama - 2910 posts 2. Popular views on the Bush Administration - 1480 posts (most of them by Amos) ;-) 3. Popular views on McCain - 473 posts 4. Popular views on Chongo - 167 posts 5. Popular views on cheese - 65 posts The level of interest in John McCain is apparently so weak that he is not all that far ahead of an ape and a dairy product! LOL! A similar "Popular views" thread on Sarah Palin would have probably garnered well over 1,000 posts already, judging by all the threads going about her. Hell, maybe 2,000...and it's only been, what? A week? This tells you something. Without Sarah Palin, where would the hell would McCain be right now? Very few people can be bothered to even talk about him much if these thread counts are any indication. |
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14 Sep 08 - 09:53 PM (#2440506) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Amos "The insightful and widely applauded "Popular Views" threads, concatenating some of the best public commentary on a range of political personalities and issues, are the brainchild of an obscure Himalayan Bigfoot in exile who goes by the name of "Amos" No-one knows much about him, aside from the fact that he spent twenty years attaining enlightenment in a remote Nepaesel monastery, and was the original model after whom the popular ballads "John Henry", "The Wreck of the Old Ninety-Seven", "He Came From His Castle So Grand", "Billy Budd, Foretopman", ""The Highwayman", "Ghost Riders in the Sky", "The Ballad of Davy Crockett:", and more recently "I'm Just a Lonely Boy" were written. THe threads have begun a groundswell of acclaim from bloggers all over Western civilization, and in the United States are responsible for a remarkable backlash against hypocrisy, newspeak, corruption, and political dishonesty. So great is the emotional fervor of this wave that it is likely to guarantee a win for Barack Obama in the forthcoming American elections. (...) " (NYT) |
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14 Sep 08 - 10:27 PM (#2440530) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Little Hawk LOL! Man, what an imagination... |
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15 Sep 08 - 01:06 AM (#2440611) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: The Fooles Troupe As far as I can tell, the Popular View, as expressed within the threads themselves, seems to be that they ain't as Popular as you might think from the Titles .... :-P |
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15 Sep 08 - 12:28 PM (#2441087) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: GUEST,lox It could be argued that the difference between the number of "popular views" of MCain and Obama are a little exaggerated, as in order to get a more accurate picture you might need to deduct the "unpopular views" of Obama and Palin first. Perhaps the fairest thing to do would be to create "unpopular views of Obama/Palin" threads and transfer any such posts across. Then you can compare the remainders. just a thought ... |
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15 Sep 08 - 12:33 PM (#2441090) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Little Hawk We should also have threads for people who don't give a flying flip either way....just so they don't get left out. ;-) |
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15 Sep 08 - 12:43 PM (#2441103) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Amos Tgis just in from Salon.com: Sarah Palin Endorses Popular Views Threads!"In a surprise move, VP wannabe Sarah Palin has spoken out forcefully in defense of the surprisingly famous "Popular Views..." threads appearing on a local blues and folk music forum. "Whoever is behind those threads is brilliant," Palin commented. "They are exactly the kind of threads I like to read. They tell you all the news on a given subject, but only after it has been carefully filtered to remove the contaminated information of contrary viewpoints and false assertions from the moonbats at either end of the spectrum. I wish I had someone to write threads like that for the conservatives, because even a fair-minded, honest, intelligent, articulate moderate like that Amos fellow who claims credit for these threads is a little too liberal for my tatstes. I need an Amos Barbie Doll wearing an American Flag Bathing Suit". That's the kind of guy I want to get my |
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15 Sep 08 - 01:11 PM (#2441129) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: GUEST,beardedbruce Amos,, "They tell you all the news on a given subject, but only after it has been carefully filtered to remove the contaminated information of contrary viewpoints and false assertions " is all you need to say. |
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15 Sep 08 - 01:31 PM (#2441140) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Little Hawk Heh! This is getting pretty good. |
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15 Sep 08 - 01:45 PM (#2441152) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: GUEST,beardedbruce Hmm. I can shorten it even more... "They tell you all the appropriate news on a given subject, but only after it has been carefully filtered to remove the contaminated information of contrary viewpoints and assertions." |
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15 Sep 08 - 01:48 PM (#2441154) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Little Hawk Sounds like the sort of thing government spokesmen and political party spokesmen do... |
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15 Sep 08 - 01:52 PM (#2441159) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: GUEST,beardedbruce Amos is in practice for the Dept of Appropriate Information for the Obama Administration. |
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15 Sep 08 - 01:55 PM (#2441164) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Little Hawk And you're there for the same job if McCain wins, BB... ;-D You guys are the Yin and Yang of American politics, I swear. Put the two of you in a blender, turn it up full for 3 minutes, and you'd have a 100% American smoothie. |
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15 Sep 08 - 02:05 PM (#2441174) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Donuel My view of Wall Street http://usera.imagecave.com/donuel/bloodmoney.jpg |
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15 Sep 08 - 02:07 PM (#2441176) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: GUEST,beardedbruce Nope- I don't want the pay cut. I would rather do something useful with my time. Just think, when McCain wins, and then resigns a day before his term ends, Palin gets to be the first woman president. And run as the incumbent... Good for two terms, afetr McCain's one term. So, 12 more years of Republican Presidents, and Democratic Congresses. That should be enough to keep ANY major changes, one way or the other, limited to ones that both sides want. |
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15 Sep 08 - 02:26 PM (#2441190) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Little Hawk Why would he resign? He could just retire at the conclusion of his first term (if he makes it that long), and then Palin could take his place, couldn't she? But I guess they'd have to go through the whole bla-bla of primaries then, wouldn't they? I take some comfort in the thought that I may not live long enough to see the entirety of that 12 years of Republican administration you describe, BB. On the other hand, I might live that long. Oh woe! ;-D The travails of Earthly existence... |
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15 Sep 08 - 02:55 PM (#2441225) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Donuel If Amos and bearded bruce were truely opposite, then they would have opposite occupations. Lets do an im possible thought experiment... so lets suppose Amos is now working for a firm that depends on defense contracts, and bearded bruce is working for a publisher. Would they still be themselves or would they politically gravitate to their polar opposites? no It goes deeper than that. It goes to the parents and each person's identity as working toward some learned common good. |
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15 Sep 08 - 03:14 PM (#2441252) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: GUEST,beardedbruce Sorry, D. I am presently a subcontractor to a company that 1. Builds, launches and runs spacecraft for NASA (SMEX seris- GALEX and IBEX that I am working on) 2. Builds, launches and tests geosync spacecraft for television and communications worldwide ( Indonesia, Australia that I have worked on) 3. Builds and tests vehicles for DoD, including SDIO ( BMDO) experiments, and the present installed ABM in Alaska ( I only worked on MUBLCOM and DART) My income is actually greater when the DoD is NOT the prime user- Most is NASA money, or Commercial ( foreign) Space. Now, what does Amos work on? |
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15 Sep 08 - 03:18 PM (#2441259) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: GUEST,beardedbruce LH, If McCain did not resign, and let Palin be President, Hillary could run against her in 2012 and still try to be the first woman President. By resigning one day beore the end of his term, Palin gets to be the 1st EVEN IF HILLARY WINS! |
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15 Sep 08 - 03:28 PM (#2441270) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Little Hawk Ah, yes, I see... That is a critical distinction, isn't it? No wonder Hillary has been in such a lousy mood lately. She won't even return my calls. |
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15 Sep 08 - 03:35 PM (#2441280) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Amos I currently work for a company that invents, develops, and manufacturers sophisticated instruments for locating, tracing and identifying underground utilities, and inspecting the interior of pipes, all of which is mission-critical to keeping our basic infrastructure in place and operational. Purely peacetime applications, although they could be used as mine detectors easily, if anyone wanted to clean up the land-mines of the world. I used to work for the DoDE, too, also as a subcotnractor's employee, but the simple fact was that I got so sick of waking up thinking that the very top of my command chain was Rumsfeld that I was delighted to leave the industry. It pays less, or did originally, than my DoD job, but that's a little price to pay for the relief of getting out from the military industrial environment. A |
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15 Sep 08 - 03:51 PM (#2441306) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Amos Wall Street Journal:
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15 Sep 08 - 03:55 PM (#2441316) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Little Hawk (sigh) He's slowly sliding into a complete fantasy world, peopled with bizarre and unlikely animal characters. You'll never see me do that. |
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15 Sep 08 - 03:59 PM (#2441325) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Amos HEy, man, I just report the opinions I find in the popular press. A |
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15 Sep 08 - 04:06 PM (#2441337) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: GUEST,lox "Hmm. I can shorten it even more... "They tell you all the appropriate news on a given subject, but only after it has been carefully filtered to remove the contaminated information of contrary viewpoints and assertions." " Hey BB - you lengthened it from the previous time you quoted it - by adding the word "appropriate" ... lox ( ... whistling nonchalantly and hoping that isn't a barbed hook attached to the bait he has just swallowed ... ) |
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15 Sep 08 - 04:11 PM (#2441344) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Amos BB, Well, I am glad your sensors are subtle enough to realize the profound, decadent, self-serving hypocrisy in every singhle post in those threads. It restores my faith in humanity to know you can see through such shenanigans. A |
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15 Sep 08 - 04:42 PM (#2441374) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: GUEST,lox sensors? censors? popular census? Consensus? now I'm being pretentious |
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15 Sep 08 - 04:55 PM (#2441386) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Little Hawk Oh, heaven forfend! ;-) |
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15 Sep 08 - 05:02 PM (#2441389) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Donuel "don't shoot until you see the red in their eyes." Capt. Frenzee (when confronting a legalize pot demonstration) |
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15 Sep 08 - 05:10 PM (#2441396) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: maeve Finally a thread about which I can say, "Read it and laugh" rather than "Read it and weep". Gentlemen, I salute you! maeve |
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15 Sep 08 - 06:02 PM (#2441472) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Amos TIME Magazine: Manic Thread Fans Demand 'Man of Year' Status for Internet Unkinown!" Our editorial offices have been deluged with letters as our annual "Person of the Year" Award deadline draws closer. Our email inboxes are so full our IT personnel are working double-shifts to prevent the servers from crashing. Our Facebook, Jott, Twitter, and MySpace pages are swamped by frenzied demands. Not since Elvis hot Ed Sullivan has mass popular opinion been so heavily leveraged to try and sway our editorial decision making process. No, it's not a demand for Sarah Palin's pickled feet, nor yet a demand that we stop admiring John McCain's crusty, snowy skullcap. The subject of this unprecedented and phenomenal fervor is to name as Man of the Year an alleged person. His name (according to some) is Amos--at least that what he says--and he is the web genius behind o series of massively popular forum threads called the "Popular Views" threads, all of which have been established on an obscure internet forum called Mudcat. The threads have proven so insanely popular that te site is threatening to banish the alleged Amos for overwhelming their servers as well. All this would be well and good except for the strange fact that some people believe AMos is not a normal citizen at all, but a Bigfoot from the snowy mountains of Nepal, living in exile in a rundown 19th century British army barracks deep in the interior of India, where he allegedly composes threads and studies Kipling on a wireless laptop. ANother contingent insists he is the anti-Palin, an inspired Esquimeau warrior from just past the Arctic circle determined to fo something effective about the horrific potentials of the current aspirations of the Republican party, a lonely man tucked into a far-away igloo who only wants to defend his people and his land from the invasions of the wrinkled old white people and their moose-hunting doppelganger5s. Whoever he or she is (some say she is a young New Orleans debutante who got bored with the ruffles and white gloves of high society and decided to do somethign menaingful with her life) this "Amos" character has caused the biggest uproar of general public approbation this office has ever seen...according to some experts he or she has single-handedly tilted the scales of public opinion irrever4sibly in favor of Candidate Obama...it is a phenomenon of telling and unheard of proportions." |
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15 Sep 08 - 06:08 PM (#2441478) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Little Hawk It's actually a room full of chimpanzees at Penn State who have been typing madly on word processors 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They were put there several years ago by scientific researchers intent on seeing if the old adage about "if you put a bunch of chimps on typewriters they would eventually reproduce all the works of Shakespeare" is correct... Sadly, it isn't. |
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15 Sep 08 - 06:10 PM (#2441483) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Ed T I just had an..."out of popular views" experience. It was right after "me new spitt'in lama underwear bound me up, by cracky." |
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15 Sep 08 - 10:20 PM (#2441653) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: PoppaGator How 'bout some unpopular views? I'm sure there are plenty to be had! |
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16 Sep 08 - 02:24 PM (#2442291) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: beardedbruce Lox, 1st :""They tell you all the news on a given subject, but only after it has been carefully filtered to remove the contaminated information of contrary viewpoints and false assertions " is all you need to say. 2nd :""They tell you all the appropriate news on a given subject, but only after it has been carefully filtered to remove the contaminated information of contrary viewpoints and assertions." See? 15 charecters and 4 spaces shorter. Amos, Glad to help, anytime. |
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16 Sep 08 - 02:45 PM (#2442315) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Amos
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17 Sep 08 - 01:01 AM (#2442757) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: GUEST,Sawzaw Li'l Hawk, You are the most temperate, level headed and funny Catter. Forgive me it I tease about Canaduh occasionally. On the other end of the spectrum are two BSAs that I will not name. They are Li'l Hawk wannabes. |
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17 Sep 08 - 01:28 AM (#2442768) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Little Hawk Yeah, you really got me upset about something one time, Sawzaw...(smile) You pushed one of my buttons. Well, that can happen. No big deal in the long run. The river flows on, right? |
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17 Sep 08 - 11:01 PM (#2443667) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Amos Sawz: Kindly pull thumb out of rectum, old chap. I endorse the threads as reflecting various popular points of view on their topic. I even endorse some of those views as matching my own. Some do not. So do somewhat. Why not get real, here? Why so bitter all the time? A |
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17 Sep 08 - 11:34 PM (#2443679) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Donuel By his occupation I see Amos is more than familiar with Americium. An all american element. Probably rubs shoulders with Bechtel as well. Still he and BB are surprisingly similar being situated in highly technical endeavors while their views on econlmy and religious and social engeneering are totally divergent. In short I am a bit surprised that I was so off base in my "mudcat based" assumptions about Amos. And to you Sawz, here is a generic boot to the head:::P ;?/ oooh |
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18 Sep 08 - 12:23 AM (#2443708) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Amos Don: Nothing to do with Bechtel, and as far as I know we don't use Americium in any processes. We make high-tech instruments. Swaz: No oxymoron about it--you sound bitter ot me, frequently, and a bit savage, also. My apologies if I am wrong about it. A |
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18 Sep 08 - 08:57 PM (#2444583) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: GUEST,Sawzaw "Kindly pull thumb out of rectum, old chap." "Why not get real, here? Why so bitter all the time?" I do not tell people to pull their thumb out of their rectum and call them bitter. I politely ask them to exlpain things they post that seem to be in conflict. |
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19 Sep 08 - 01:31 AM (#2444711) Subject: RE: BS: Popular views on Popular views threads From: Amos You don't answer the question about your own bitterness, though, which is manifest in many of your posts. A |
