Maybe it's actually Todd giving me a nudge and letting me know things could use a little excitement... LOL! He was the true master of the art though!!!

Dave what kind of Blunder-Nuts would abuse html? It works fine on lots of sites that I am on. It would just add a touch more class to this site.

I like stirring the pot myself, since its the only pot I got.

I can understand why the huffpost doesn't take html with the comments coming in left and rgiht every minute.

Stir on! It makes up for being so few of us on here lol...

It would be very much appreciated. If I quote from elsewhere, I usually say so AND include the link. My mamma taught me to always give attribution for written words. (Folk music's different, but even in the folk process, it seems to be more often the tune and not the lyrics that's OK to borrow without saying so.)

Edited to say: I can't speak for others, (though in discussions, others have agreed with me on this) but I'm much more likely to follow a link than read a long, long post in here. I usually skip the longer ones because they make my eyes cross. I think it's a typography/middle-aged eyes conflict.

With me, it's the eye thing, and a good dose of attention-deficit problems...!

Sorry - too much potential for abuse... From other webmasters who decided to enable HTML:

"I had HTML on my boards, until someone decided to use the META refresh tag and direct my front page CSM to to some porn site."

"I take it nobody has every posted a picture of a guy pulling his cheeks apart showing you the inside of his ass. I pray you never have to see what I have seen stupid people do to my board. "

"If you allow html on your forum you are ganna: Spend alot of time tracking down 'bad' html tags and blocking them
Have you cookies stolen because you forgot to block a certain tag. You members are ganna do something, like mess up your postbit layout or re-direct the site to anthor one, the list gose on. At the end of the day there is no reason to allow html on forums."

Bottom line - I'd like to help out our moderators who do a wonderfull job of cleaning up around here by keeping their job as simple as possible. By the way, if you allow HTML, and DON'T block certain tags, you can count on the spread of spyware and viruses, count on it. Any forum allowing HTML is taking a risk of some type. If you wanna be creative with HTML, there are plenty of places you can go to get free web sites. We have been hacked a few times... and I don't wanna see it happen again.

Oh, and if you go find a free webspace, set up a forum, and enable HTML, let me know and I will demonstrate to you why it was a bad idea.

Oh I do understand. It seems as if there are a number of different ways to post "the screen" Ning Sites take the html in comments blogs and messages. Others like FB use the url to post the screen.

Great place you got wizard.

Is he? Or is he just an idiot. How does his outburst rise to the level of racism?

Is Kanye West a racist for grabbing the microphone from Taylor Swift and ranting about Beyonce's video?

Who knows? More likely cognac is the culprit... and being an idiot.

We do everyone the most good saving the race card for the real thing not the outbursts, tantrums and other bad manners that have come to typify our politics. Accusations of racism seldom modify behavior. They can, however, lead to ennui on the issue and then it becomes a cry of wolf.

No, not crying wolf here. He actually is a racist who was once an aide to that well-known racist, Strom Thurmond. He called out Strom Thurmond's illegitimate half-black daughter for coming forward late in his life after having kept the secret for many years so as not to ruin his career.

After Thurmond's death at the age of 100 in 2003, it was revealed that Thurmond had fathered a daughter at the age of 22 with a black maid. When the daughter came out, Wilson denounced her saying that she should have kept it a secret and saying she was smearing Thurmond's good name.

So Wilson learned at the heel of one of the great racists (it should be noted that Thurmond's racist views did somewhat moderate with age) and hypocrites of the 20th Century.

mikey

I agree that the "race card" should not be played willy nilly. However, in addition to Mikey's point above, Joe Wilson is also a member of an organization called the Sons of Confederate Veterans that favors secession from the Union and defends slavery as a "benign institution". He also is one of only seven Republicans who voted to keep the confederate flag flying over the state house in South Carolina. So yeah, in his case, Racist Idiot. And rude.

But to reiterate my earlier point--all of this is designed to distract people from the real issue, which is still health care for everyone. And while people are arguing about Wilson and death panels and illegal immigrants, American citizens who have worked all of their lives and now find themselves in the midst of a firestorm of bad news are dying because they can't get health care.

Reform cannot come too soon.
And yes, I happen to think that Kanye West is a racist idiot as well. And I'm not a fan of his music either, but that's a different topic.
hrg

Ok. Well then that's what he is. I thought he was just stupid. So stupid and a racist.

I saw one of the Sons tags in the parking lot at a restaurant today. I asked my dining partners how the owner manages to buy four new tires a day.

I'm leery of the racist tag. It was too liberally applied during the election and that can turn it into a merit badge like calling someone a witch or a red cabbage worshipper. Conserve nouns.

I agree that the tag is overused. It really made me cringe during the election because it reduced the debate to a bunch of bull instead of intelligent discussion of the issues. I'd be willing to bet that it made the President cringe as well sometimes.

But sometimes it needs to be said. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's probably a duck. Unless it's an aardvark.

hrg

All of a sudden the type here is 18 pt. or larger. Dave, if you did something to cause that because of my comment about typography and middle-aged eyes, please don't. All I meant is that BB typography (not just here but everywhere) is very different than that used on most news websites, and is a bit harder to read. Larger type just accentuates the problems.

I thought it was just me!

hrg, I think I love you! You put my thoughts into words in a way I can't seem to!

There's larger font on here for me too...