Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments AOL To Buy Delta Airlines: Will Require All Passengers to Fly Naked You are sensing right, Counterglow! Welcome to the Planet! » Posted By kesmarn On December 14, 2013 @ 8:36 am Huffington Post Goes NSA on Its Members Welcome to the Planet, yankhadenuf! I think you’ll find that you can express yourself here without knee-jerk, inconsistent censorship that delays or evaporates your comments. And your privacy will be protected at the same time. Win-win. » Posted By kesmarn On January 5, 2014 @ 3:25 pm Welcome, cal! I think that’s the case with so many of us. Ariana may be wealthy enough to be immune from the consequences of putting her (ever changing) opinions out there under her (almost) real name, but most of the rest of us don’t have that luxury. » Posted By kesmarn On December 14, 2013 @ 1:29 pm Absolutely, Dude! All the advantages of a real exchange of ideas, without the loss of privacy and the relentless corporate influence. Win-win! » Posted By kesmarn On December 14, 2013 @ 1:22 pm Welcome to the Planet, Nancy! And it’s good to know that you’re seeing familiar faces already. 🙂 » Posted By kesmarn On December 14, 2013 @ 1:19 pm Welcome to the Planet, majorwiblit! “Addiction” is the word for it. It’s kinda fun to imagine Arianne the Dealer’s face when she realizes that her “clients” have all just bailed on her! » Posted By kesmarn On December 14, 2013 @ 8:54 am Welcome to the Planet, Danchi! HP was rapidly becoming the spokesmodel for any number of corporations. Enjoy the real freedom of speech here, and the security of knowing your privacy won’t be compromised. » Posted By kesmarn On December 14, 2013 @ 8:40 am Congratulations, VegasBabe. Sometimes the first step is the hardest one. » Posted By kesmarn On December 13, 2013 @ 6:29 pm Exactly, imus. It’s hard to be creative in a battle zone. » Posted By kesmarn On December 13, 2013 @ 5:54 pm We hope they find a new homeland! Preferably here. » Posted By kesmarn On December 13, 2013 @ 5:12 pm I remember having that same feeling when I first arrived here in 2009, imus. Back then, being able to say that Dick Cheney was an asshole without having it moderated into a black hole was thrilling! » Posted By kesmarn On December 13, 2013 @ 5:03 pm No, Dbos, you really don’t. It’s optional. (And you can do it later if you want, too.) If you don’t mind using the little “chess guy,” it’s totally okay to keep that indefinitely! » Posted By kesmarn On December 13, 2013 @ 4:53 pm It’s totally OK if you’re not a blogger, Rockyj. You can visit here to read only, if you want. Or you can read and comment. Or if there’s an issue that really means a lot to you, you’re welcome to submit an article you’ve written yourself for publication. Whatever is appropriate to your comfort level is fine. » Posted By kesmarn On December 13, 2013 @ 4:45 pm My pleasure. » Posted By kesmarn On December 13, 2013 @ 4:41 pm geezer56, I think that the HP people had their users so conditioned to an atmosphere of repression and bullying that they were starting to forget what civility actually feels like! Welcome! » Posted By kesmarn On December 13, 2013 @ 3:58 pm Go for it, Farmer! » Posted By kesmarn On December 13, 2013 @ 3:38 pm And we’re happy to see you here, Greta42! Enjoy the freedom from abuse! » Posted By kesmarn On December 13, 2013 @ 3:37 pm We’re very glad to see you here, Farmer General. Welcome! One of the best things about the Planet (aside from being able to keep your privacy intact!) is that you can not only read and comment on articles here. You can write em! 😀 » Posted By kesmarn On December 13, 2013 @ 2:02 pm Well done! 😀 » Posted By kesmarn On December 13, 2013 @ 1:36 pm A warm welcome to the Planet, feistyslug! Don’t know if you’re familiar with gravatar (http://en.gravatar.com/) but if you head over there they make it simple to set up your av. It can take a few hours for it to appear here, but it will happen! » Posted By kesmarn On December 13, 2013 @ 1:32 pm A warm welcome to the Planet, Trumbull Desi! If you just head on over to Gravatar — http://en.gravatar.com/ there’s a user-friendly “How to” section there, that’ll walk you right through that av process. » Posted By kesmarn On December 13, 2013 @ 1:24 pm You mean you weren’t the one who brought all these people to the party, AB? Hope you made some extra cookies, fellow SMS member. All the best to you, the Blov and all yer chirren! » Posted By kesmarn On December 13, 2013 @ 12:44 pm e’cat!! Welcome home, girl! So good to see you here. Grab an MB mug full of coffee and pull up a chair! » Posted By kesmarn On December 13, 2013 @ 12:41 pm Wow…AdLib, I had no idea that a lot of this was going on! It’s been quite a while since I even had a peek at HP, although like so many of us, I was very involved there from about 2007-2009. What if someone doesn’t even have a facebook account? Not allowed to comment at all on HP in that case? Way to drive business to Facebook, Ariana and Mr. Zuckerberg! Did you cook that one up between you? Just when you think that site couldn’t possibly get any worse… Well, all I can say is a big “WELCOME!” to all the refugees from HP. (And I’m sure there will be many.) You’re going to love being able to speak freely, without losing your rights to privacy, and without absurd levels of moderation and childish “time outs.” Enjoy being a grown up! And many, many thanks to you, AdLib, and to Kalima for all that you do to keep the Planet spinning. There’s so much that goes on behind the scenes, I know, and you both put in many hours without complaint. » Posted By kesmarn On December 11, 2013 @ 5:18 pm Hitler Descendants Sue GOP For Copyright Infringement Absolutely wonderful, AdLib! I do wish that the SHIT people would have made full disclosure, though. They really should have revealed that — due to advanced scientific techniques of the early 1940s, long kept secret — Hitler had a son who still lives! Adolph’s sperm and Ayn Rand’s ova met in a subterranean lab, some years after WWII…1970, to be exact. It was love at first sight. The product of this affection? Meet Little Teddy. Cruz, that is. » Posted By kesmarn On December 11, 2013 @ 4:44 pm The Weekend Music Thread-A Tribute To Nelson Mandela That is stunning, Sabreen. » Posted By kesmarn On December 8, 2013 @ 3:45 pm James, it’s hard to know where to begin. I share your sorrow. And yet I’m also envious. I’m envious of your experiences with having met and interviewed Dennis Brutus, and especially of your opportunity to visit the Mandela house — to actually be able to touch the things he touched. To sit on the sofa where he sat. As you know, there’s a long tradition of “relics” in the church. And I think that it has endured because of that very natural and intimate need to hold in one’s own hands something that was close to a very rare and outstanding fellow human being. It seemed that Nelson Mandela never thought of himself as a saint or a hero. But I think he was. Saints and heroes are just ordinary people who say no to fear and rage. One of those deceptively simple things that are so much easier to say than to do. I think the main thing that I learned from him is that bitterness is a choice. Almost all of us have read the quotation from him regarding his decision to renounce bitterness after his release from prison. He said that he knew he’d never be free until he did that. Bitterness would have been so easy — so understandable, so forgiveable. But he said no. I love the key words in your last paragraph: patience, dignity, decency, forgiveness and love. That was Mandela. And even though you never met him personally, I think you were his brother and co-worker when you successfully urged your university to divest. Thanks so much for sharing your recollections and thoughts. As the President said, now he belongs to the ages. » Posted By kesmarn On December 7, 2013 @ 7:41 pm Famous Movie Quotes If Republicans Had Starred in Classic Films …As you so often do, Kalima! 😉 » Posted By kesmarn On December 6, 2013 @ 2:49 pm No guts. No brains. No heart. Yup. That about sums it up, Nirek. » Posted By kesmarn On December 6, 2013 @ 2:27 pm These are brilliant! I’m still laughing about: “We’ll always have Benghazi.” 😆 » Posted By kesmarn On December 6, 2013 @ 2:17 pmComments Posted By kesmarn
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