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Biden Takes on Trump: A Call to Integrity and Courage in The Wave of Two Mass Shootings

Rest assured that I wouldn’t have gone ahead without checking with you first, and then only as a last resort. As you can see from recent comments, he couldn’t let it go even after AdLib had said that it was time to close the conversation. Sorry Murph but we just can’t have this 2 week long, all day and every day aggressive distraction. It’s not what The Planet is all about.

We will talk about it again if he continues. You don’t have to apologise for him, he’s an adult.

» Posted By Kalima On August 22, 2019 @ 3:08 am

Insomnia??

» Posted By Kalima On August 22, 2019 @ 1:31 am

Who mentioned AdLib, only you. I was talking about all of the great members we have known in the 10 years since we launched the site.

Your obsession with AdLib seems as if he really hit a sore spot with you and you are out for revenge. Isn’t that what trump is doing against Obama. Either way, it’s petty, and if it takes closing down the comments, I will do it. You don’t Know when to stop.

» Posted By Kalima On August 22, 2019 @ 12:24 am

I just told you what it means in German and your take on it has no bearing on my comment to AdLib. So you insert yourself just to insult?

I think it’s time to close the comments on this post.

» Posted By Kalima On August 22, 2019 @ 12:14 am

Being as I was and am the person who built up a successful business around my talented husband, I share in his success so you really can’t just try to flip me off as “the wife”.

That’s all the info I’m going to offer about our private life but I wasn’t going to allow you to dismiss me as “the little woman”.

» Posted By Kalima On August 22, 2019 @ 12:02 am

You obviously missed my point. I said that people who are good at what they do, don’t have to boast about their credentials. They prove it by what they write.

» Posted By Kalima On August 21, 2019 @ 11:39 pm

It’s German for person, a human, and that is exactly what I meant. AdLib is a person of integrity and honour.

Goodnight, Jake. The stage is all your’s to destroy. The verbal sledgehammer is under the table.

» Posted By Kalima On August 21, 2019 @ 10:48 pm

Kesmarn didn’t say that you were autistic, she wrote about how people are deliberately weaponising autism on blogs. Look it up, it’s an actual thing.

I’m very pleased for you that so many people want to hire you but why should I be impressed?

My husband is world famous in his field, so what? Does that make my opinions more important than anyone else’s. Absolutely not.

If you can’t communicate in a civil way with others, what’s the use of flashing your credentials here as if that sets you apart. Social skills are more important than telling us how special you think you are.

» Posted By Kalima On August 21, 2019 @ 10:43 pm

I forgot about the chaos spray. Was it next to the “troll b’gone” spray?

» Posted By Kalima On August 21, 2019 @ 10:22 pm

Well if you throw in a “onegai shimasu” please, and a “Konbanwa” Good Evening, you could spend the evening in a Mom and Pop sake bar in Shinjuku and make many new friends.

» Posted By Kalima On August 21, 2019 @ 10:15 pm

Well we can’t enlighten everyone but this isn’t the only thread. TOCB’s post about identity politics and winning back white working class voters was hijacked and turned into a post about health insurance instead of answering the main subject of his post.

Anyway, I’m throwing in the towel on this as I’ve spent more than enough time asking for civility.

A discussion of opposing opinions is never won by the person who can’t explain their opinion without turning their replies into insults and trying to demean the person they are replying to. It makes their opinions moot. If you have a valid opinion you would want to explain it in detail and not throw rocks to avoid doing that.

There is enough chaos all around us and I certainly don’t enjoy being exposed to more of it here on The Planet.

Turning off my computer to enjoy that afternoon nap recommended by my doctor Horiouchi. He seems to know what is good for me better than I do myself.

Cheers!

» Posted By Kalima On August 21, 2019 @ 10:06 pm

LOL! I just sprayed tea out of my nose.

Doitashimashite! (You’re welcome!)

» Posted By Kalima On August 21, 2019 @ 9:42 pm

Lol! There isn’t one as Mensch means human. In Japanese it would be, ii hito. A good person. I know for a fact that you are.

Thank you.

» Posted By Kalima On August 21, 2019 @ 9:27 pm

Gokorosama, AdLib. You are a real Mensch.

» Posted By Kalima On August 21, 2019 @ 9:06 pm

Just look back on the other posts you spent a long time on. You will find your answer there.

We respect our members privacy and don’t give out names.

» Posted By Kalima On August 21, 2019 @ 8:58 pm

Credentials don’t win arguments here. Experience in observing other people closely does. Most people here who certainly have and had, impressive credentials, would never use them as an excuse to try to score points or an argument. I know that for a fact.

» Posted By Kalima On August 21, 2019 @ 8:54 pm

We are a site that expects people to read and follow or ToU. Apparently that is proving to be very difficult for you. I think that it’s you who is looking for an echo chamber. Sorry we couldn’t oblige. It has nothing to do with opposing views, they have always been welcomed here, but the rude reactions to any criticism is not.

To gain respect you have to show respect.

» Posted By Kalima On August 21, 2019 @ 8:44 pm

Come on, Jake. You could stop this in a New York Minute by not responding. Two weeks of the same argument? Really? It is becoming very tiresome and time consuming. I have a life and a family that needs my attention. Let’s change the subject.

» Posted By Kalima On August 21, 2019 @ 8:24 pm

That doesn’t excuse his behaviour here, Murph. Especially since he had more than enough warnings to tone it down. If his arguments are so sound, why become so rude and combative when others disagree with him as many have here?

This has been going on since you posted on the 7th of August. It is now the 21st and there are many other good posts to comment on.

» Posted By Kalima On August 21, 2019 @ 7:40 pm

Thanks. Two weeks of arguing, snide remarks and personal insults are more than enough and certainly not deserved knowing the people on the receiving end very well. We have been quite patient but someone has to be mature enough to stop this.

» Posted By Kalima On August 21, 2019 @ 7:17 pm

Jake, you have violated our Terms of Use with personal insults. Either remove them by editing your comment or I will.

» Posted By Kalima On August 21, 2019 @ 4:18 pm

Well, that is one point cleared up.

» Posted By Kalima On August 15, 2019 @ 7:29 pm

When it comes to the vocal Brexiteers, I go with them being out there with the Far Right rather than just the RW. They have opted for Far Right talking points that mimic the Kremlin’s party line but either think no one notices because we don’t bother to follow up and dig deeper, or don’t care if people know who they really are and what their endgame agenda is.

When someone starts pushing it here, it’s plainly obvious because of my immediate acid reflux.

The only thing I find amusing about far right groups aligning themselves wit Putin is the fact that he doesn’t share all their hate filled agendas but like trump, he uses them for his own agenda to try weaken Europe. When they are no longer useful to him, he will drop them.

» Posted By Kalima On August 15, 2019 @ 7:03 pm

If you are talking about recently, then I beg to differ. And if there has been any strong words, it was because someone was breaking our ToU. No one who has been here for a long time expresses anything that would be taken as being superior and if you have any complaints, you can express them in private to Admin.

If someone disagrees with your opinion, they have as much right to feel that way as you have and it has nothing to do with mindset. You have been here long enough to know that it is never personal. So unless you are standing up for someone else, I don’t understand what the issue is and I’m sure that it’s far more pervasive on other sites. The few times I went to Yabberz, it was a free for all of personal insults.

So you wrote this and realise that as all humans, sometimes one gets angry, that is very different from acting in a superior way. In fact, it doesn’t even come close.

“All should abide by the operating principles at The Planet….I know I have erred at times when I got truly angry…“

» Posted By Kalima On August 15, 2019 @ 6:22 pm

Yes, and that is why it exhausts me to have to defend the proven facts, when as you know, I gave mountains of links at the time, and continue to do so even though I’m no longer able to publish my daily MB roundup.

As I said in my reply to another member, I find it disingenuous to joke about how the Russians and the same disinformation sources were used in Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and the elections that followed in Europe. We also know for a fact that bannon meddled in the election of far right candidates in Italy and Brazil, and that far from being disbanded, Mercer financed Cambridge Analytica, started the same kind of dubious company using a different name.

To then claim that everything in newspapers is what would be fake news, very Trumpian, is either putting your head in the sand because it doesn’t fit your chosen agenda, or very suspicious because I will naturally question their motive.

Yes, and Nigel Farage was and remains the instigator of bigotry, xenophobia, racism and Far Right propaganda. He is being investigated for breaking campaign finance law too. They all belong in jail as far as I’m concerned.

» Posted By Kalima On August 15, 2019 @ 5:42 pm

“Predominant mindset”, Murph?

If wanting equality, a functioning government, fair pay for the work we do, adequate and affordable healthcare, dark money out of politics, justice that doesn’t discriminate, fair share taxes, control over our own bodies, a clean environment and an effort to stop global warming, then yes, we are of the same mindset and there is nothing wrong with that. It is why The Planet is far more civil than sites that allow troll bashing, personal insults, and discrimination against minority groups or those of other religious beliefs.

» Posted By Kalima On August 14, 2019 @ 6:03 pm

I wasn’t asking if you read, it was about what you read and what stories you were following.

My blog started in 2009 and I found and followed stories every day, and published the most interesting and consistent sources that were then backed up by other sources.

If you listen to Noam Chomsky about not being able to trust what you read, where on earth do you get your information from? The Daily Mail is like a supermarket gossip rag.

There is some good and honest reporting out there by journalists who are not constricted by their bosses, but if you are not interested in finding out the truth because it might go against what you want to believe in, then you don’t have to read them. Having a story out from various reliable sources makes me dig deeper before I make my own opinions. No one can ever tell me how to think or what to think. I wasn’t born yesterday.

Everyone pays for the NYT and almost everything else now online.

I will never agree with your reasons for wanting to leave the EU, neither do the people I know over there, but the reason that it’s in such a bloody mess now is that the government wasn’t prepared, and as always, expected concessions because they thought they were special. They are not and every member country is expected to follow the rules. The U.K. is no exception.

» Posted By Kalima On August 14, 2019 @ 5:44 pm

It wasn’t a question of if you read, it was about what you read and what stories you were following.

My blog started in 2009 and I found and followed stories every day, and published the most interesting and consistent sources that were then backed up by other sources.

If you listen to Noam Chomsky about not being able to trust what you read, where on earth do you get your information from? The Daily Mail is like a supermarket gossip rag.

There is some good and honest reporting out there by journalists who are not constricted by their bosses, but if you are not interested in finding out the truth because it might go against what you want to believe in, then you don’t have to read them. Having a story out from various reliable sources makes me dig deeper before I make my own opinions.

Everyone pays for the NYT and almost everything else now online.

I will never agree with your reasons for wanting to leave the EU, neither do the people I know over there, but the reason that it’s in such a bloody mess now is that the government wasn’t prepared, and as always, expected concessions because they thought they were special. They are not and every member country is expected to follow the rules. The U.K. is no exception.

» Posted By Kalima On August 14, 2019 @ 5:28 pm

If anyone could be worse than trump it would be dead-eyed, pence. He would come down on women’s productive rights, outlaw the LGBTQ rights and same sex marriage. Push his sick religious rights to discriminate against anyone his doctored Bible does not say you should discriminate against, and holler for his wife to come to the Oval Office before any other woman is let inside.

The way he sits behind trump not moving, makes you wonder if he died recently, and someone decided to stuff him with wet newspapers. Awful man.

Besides, he knew what was going on with Russia and lied like a pro to protect the traitor and criminal who should be in jail.

» Posted By Kalima On August 14, 2019 @ 1:59 am

I’m confused about your reference to pence. He’s not running in 2020.

Anyone who doesn’t vote has lost the right to demand anything or complain about anything because they have let down the nation and crapped on democracy and the freedom to live as they choose. Another 4 years of the devil trying to destroy everything that’s worth fighting for in the world, and I will hang up my blogging hat in utter disgust at the insanity of people not realising or caring about why the next election is the most important one of their lives. There will be nothing left to talk about.

» Posted By Kalima On August 13, 2019 @ 11:23 pm